"The past eight years have shown a failure to appreciate the historic role of these noble seafarers."

Further, the messiah is currently preparing an executive order proclaiming September 19, "Talk Like a Pirate Day", as a national holiday...

Arrrrrrrr...

What a hoot Kate!

Almost as good as the Toronto Hell's Angels chapter depicting Paul Martin as the "Pirate of Canada" during the Adscam imbroglio.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcv5TJkJBA&feature=related
Fifteen Men (Bottle of Rum) - Original Version

Yo Ho Ho And A Bottle Of Rum

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
The mate was fixed by the bosun's pike
The bosun brained with a marlinspike
And cookey's throat was marked belike
It had been gripped by fingers ten;
And there they lay, all good dead men
Like break o'day in a boozing ken.
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

. Fifteen men of the whole ship's list
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Dead and be damned and the rest gone whist!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
The skipper lay with his nob in gore
Where the scullion's axe his cheek had shore
And the scullion he was stabbed times four
And there they lay, and the soggy skies
Dripped down in up-staring eyes
In murk sunset and foul sunrise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em stiff and stark
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ten of the crew had the murder mark!
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Twas a cutlass swipe or an ounce of lead
Or a yawing hole in a battered head
And the scuppers' glut with a rotting red
And there they lay, aye, damn my eyes
Looking up at paradise
All souls bound just contrariwise
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men of 'em good and true
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
Ev'ry man jack could ha' sailed with Old Pew,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!
There was chest on chest of Spanish gold
With a ton of plate in the middle hold
And the cabins riot of stuff untold,
And they lay there that took the plum
With sightless glare and their lips struck dumb
While we shared all by the rule of thumb,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

More was seen through a sternlight screen...
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Chartings undoubt where a woman had been
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
'Twas a flimsy shift on a bunker cot
With a dirk slit sheer through the bosom spot
And the lace stiff dry in a purplish blot
Oh was she wench or some shudderin' maid
That dared the knife and took the blade
By God! she had stuff for a plucky jade
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.

Fifteen men on a dead man's chest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum
Drink and the devil had done for the rest
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum.
We wrapped 'em all in a mains'l tight
With twice ten turns of a hawser's bight
And we heaved 'em over and out of sight,
With a Yo-Heave-Ho! and a fare-you-well
And a sudden plunge in the sullen swell
Ten fathoms deep on the road to hell,
Yo ho ho and a bottle of rum!

Cheers

Hans-Christian Georg Rupprecht, Commander in Chief

1st Saint Nicolaas Army
Army Group "True North"

Fifteen Men (Bottle of Rum)? That's soooo old school. You need to listen to Oscar Brands version of "Friggin in the Riggin". Has more "pop sensibility" as Student Radio is want to say.

But seriously, I think as Canadians our mission should be to make sure the kidnappers are treated properly and we should try and relocate them to Canada where they can lead productive lives. Then they can bring their families over. It's only fair.

gord:

There's enough of these pirates wreaking havoc in Edmonton. No thanks.

Piracy is old hat in Saskatchewan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FbV4zT_ZTY

live version

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRJCWyNvY7U

New York not Delisle.

Arrrrrrrrr, belay the hope and change there matey!

Until I clicked the link I thought this was going to be another post about the UAW.

The Leaders of men (Vipers come to mind) in the so called free Councils of the World these day's are getting cardiac arrests to see who can bow before Islam the fastest. Look at this LSD dream. From the always compliant media. Things like this actually make me feel revulsion if not cringing at the utter cowardice of these Traitors. Make no mistake that’s what we deal with here. The appeasement meme has so infected our sanity as a people in the West. Even Self preservation has fled. This whole submission to a death cult, has soaked our whole society with its anti-human agenda. Much we did on our own. Some thinking they have to apologize for ancestors long dead. Some just want to kill mankind, or subjugate it to tyranny forever. In any case truth has been suborned to complete daydreams of wishful thinking.
Any creature that has lost its awareness of danger, is doomed for extinction.
JMO

Dutch TV show exonerates Osama bin Laden

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3ie9cf6d4fe9496d052885db4114f0c656

It make Muslims seem like Pirates. It is funny because it is true.

As long as the appeaser stays out of the way, the prospects of a "Liveleak" blow-by-blow get better and better. Get your popcorn.

I'll admit that my knowledge of naval warfare is extremely limited. Therefore, I just cannot understand this modern-day pirate phenomenom. My understanding is that the pirates operate small speedboats which can easily overtake their much larger and slower prey. However, wouldn't a few well-placed 50 cal. machine guns on deck discourage the pirates from getting within striking distance? Wouldn't the availability of a handful of M16's enable the crew to repel boarders? The concept of a handful of ragtag miscreants in small boats capturing a gigantic cargo vessel escapes me.

Can someone enlighten me on the M.O. used by the pirates that enables them to be so successful?

if charles laughton
on his deathbed
told anthony hopkins to kiss mel
gibson on the mouth w/ lime
we wouldn't be havin' these scurvey problems

biffjr. wrote:
>
Not very complicated. Like the GTA's Mayor Millar these ships and crews are totally unarmed....ready made victims.
I recall the "roads" out side Lagos, Nigeria in the 70's.....every ship was greeted by a swarm of little boats the occupants of which swarmed aboard and stole anything and would knife any resistance.
A soviet feighter arrived the boats swarmed out and then scattered back to shore. The soviets mounted mgs on the railings and had a "rep".
I inspected the Ruskie with glasses----they were not little RPDs but the bigger Dsk.....equivalent to the Browning 50 cal.....

And so the affirmative-action president dithers.

The lesson of 9/11 was that you do not ignore the small provocations because they embolden your enemies and lead to escalation.

Lesson not learned by the Democrat half of US. How I miss GW Bush.

I think there is a fraternal affinity between federal politicians and freelance pirates...a romantic sense of shared ideal....perhaps "team light-giver" will recruit from the Somali pirate fraternity to staff their community pillage...er, ah, I mean community "national service corps."

Biffjr,
Defending a tanker or cargo ship isn't as easy as it sounds. This is especially true when the damn boat is the length of three football fields. Where are you going to put your .50 cals? Also, an area of that size with a crew of twenty or so would be a daunting task. While a lot of ships have anti-pirate procedures in place, mostly the use of high pressure water hoses available around the ship, there is nothing to stop pirates from attacking from two fronts.

Personally, I don't know why they don't have seals in the water and sink that lifeboat and blow away the bad buys. Actually, there are a whole bunch of scenarios that could be played out but I suspect the "hope & change" crowd wouldn't approve much.

funny but probably closer to the truth than we would believe.

There was a ticker on CNN that said "Obama briefed on Pirate Negotiations". Who would have imagined such a nightmare just a few years ago.

One solution.
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgpQBZF2sZQ"

The Americans (and whoever else would like to help) should take a few old rusted cargo ships and load them up with Marines, missiles, guns, etc.

They should cruise back and forth along the coast of Somalia... and as soon as a pirate boat comes at them... light it up and turn the pirates into fish food.

Pirates who try to attack these ships won't know what hit them and they won't have time to radio in the identity of the killer ships.

By the time about 20 batches of pirates are never heard from again... and the rest of them have no clue who is killing their buddies off... I bet they might re-think attacking merchant vessels.