freecounterpoint: Ricains go after the pirates

Sunday, April 12, 2009

Ricains go after the pirates

Seethe, Pepe, seethe. Finally, a spark from the old embers.

REGURGE for a conflicted Planet Pepe. [-- Rot]

23 comments:

Tecumseh said...: It was the Navy Seals who did it. Seethe, Mr "Boots on the ground" Rot, seethe.; 4/12/2009 2:45 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Nice, Decatur style and all. I was hoping for this outcome.; 4/12/2009 2:52 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Good job. I assume it was dark or near dark when they carried this out.
Very glad to sse they did not waste time, and their lives, in trying to do the Pepe "Miranda & Habeas Corpus" shuffle.; 4/12/2009 2:54 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: And with the Seals: we could thank them for this, but they'd probably respond with, "Why the thanks? It's our job."

Much the same way that it'd be superfluous to thank Tecumseh for being a mathematician, or Pepe for being a freak: "Why, mft? It's our job."; 4/12/2009 2:55 PM
Tecumseh said...: Right, MFT. And yes, AA, good conjecture: the Seals waited till just after dark set in. One of the pirates got the jitters, jumped out, and swam to the destroyer. Pepe can have the time of his life now cajoling the guy, and showering with tender, pinko love. As for the other 3 dudes, they decided to tough it out. Tough. The captain apparently just jumped in the water (again), and before the 3 pirates could go after him, the Seals jumped them. Good move.; 4/12/2009 2:59 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: While the Somali pirates spend their afternoons lounging around chewing khat, the Seals spend there afternoons, evenings, nights, and mornings in other ways.; 4/12/2009 3:03 PM
Tecumseh said...: One technical point I don't understand is: how do these guys keep their powder dry in the water? I mean, they do have guns, do they -- not just knives. How do you swim underwater with a gun?; 4/12/2009 3:22 PM
Mr roT said...: Tecs, it's a new development called the cartridge. Look it up.; 4/12/2009 3:24 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Well, it takes more than that in general, Rot. Plenty of rifles muck up, even though the bullets are cartridges, when water gets into the barrel. The M-16 A1, which was the standard rifle issued back yonder times when young enough to have yonder times, was a bitch in this regard. The better equipped units, then, such as Recon, never mind Seals had special weapons designed for robustness in really extreme environments. A typical technical gizmo along these lines you can see in this patent.

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5639982.html; 4/12/2009 4:50 PM
Mr roT said...: A buttplug?; 4/12/2009 4:53 PM
Tecumseh said...: Ah, I see -- sort of like those pneumatic guns for fishing underwater? But how much punch can these gizmos carry when you pop back to the surface? There must be a trick in here somewhere. Maybe like this Russian contraption?; 4/12/2009 4:56 PM
Mr roT said...: Tecs was musing on how to keep powder dry. He seems to believe that guys in scuba gear keep an antique powder horn in their belts and pour the charny charny kroovy into their hand-rifled muskets, then shove a bit of wadding and a minie ball in after.

Then they carefully, and quietly take a swig of bourbon from their pewter flasks, take slow aim, and fire off a .54 cal ball at the pirates, all while treading water.

Seems the tsuica's flowing early this Easter.; 4/12/2009 5:07 PM
Arelcao Akleos said...: Hmmmm, so it was you who told the Carib Pirates how to have an effective musket after the underwater walk? Depponair, is Rot.; 4/12/2009 5:12 PM
Mr roT said...: keeps the musket shiny; 4/12/2009 5:19 PM
Tecumseh said...: Good plan of action, Rot. Ah, the good ole' days of muskets and powder horns! How I pine for them... (Not only that, but they didn't have those infernal cell phones around at the time.)

But the reality seems to have been much more prosaic: the SEALs were armed with sniper guns on the ship, and they simply took potshots at the pirates. Duhhh.... What took them so long, then?; 4/12/2009 6:29 PM
Pepe le Pew said...: Of course they did the right thing under the circumstances. You should know better than taking your caricatures for reality.; 4/12/2009 6:59 PM
Mr roT said...: Pepe, yesterday the news reported that Obama was ringing up village elders.; 4/12/2009 7:23 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: Abdullahi Lami, one of the pirates holding the Greek ship anchored in the Somali town of Gaan said: 'Every country will be treated the way it treats us. In the future, America will be the one mourning and crying,' he told The Associated Press. 'We will retaliate (for) the killings of our men.'"

I guess we'll have to wait and see how it plays out, Abdullahi. We may have had a bit more practice than you, though.; 4/12/2009 8:02 PM
My Frontier Thesis said...: President Obama had issued a standing order that the military was to act if the captain's life was in immediate danger, Gortney said.

This is a much better approach than having some politico try to snipe from D.C. I have to give Obama that.; 4/12/2009 8:08 PM
Tecumseh said...: Pepe, you're mistaking you for us. Shrinks call it "projection". Do you remember all those long years when you reflexively blamed W for everything under the sun, and never gave him credit for anything? That doesn't happen here. We give credit when credit is due, and only criticize when criticism is called for, all in a measured, wizened tone.; 4/12/2009 9:07 PM
The Darkroom said...: oh, right. and when did you ever, pray tell?; 4/12/2009 9:11 PM
The Darkroom said...: by anti-freedom you mean he's continuing the programs of unwarranted surveillance, the "patriot" act and arbitrary detentions?; 4/12/2009 9:28 PM
Mr roT said...: No, ``arbitrary detentions'' is what you mean, Pepe.; 4/12/2009 10:12 PM