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| 01-25-12 01:19pm - 4677 days | Original Post - #1 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Off Topics: Thanks to the Navy Seals and the US of A What our small nation could not achieve, the USA and the Navy Seals could. Free two hostages, one US citizen and one Danish citizen - from those f....... Somalian pirates, who seem to do whatever they want, whenever they want... http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/25/world/...d-workers/index.html So on behalf of the small country - another big thanks - some distance relatives know the Danish guy in question... Maybe I'm a bit on the booze tonight - but anyway I'm still very fond of that ol' Donna Fargo song...This not very good quality is from the great ol' Billy Bobs in Texas: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85RFj3TwcAw Be proud of your country, guys...you keep the western world free. "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 01-25-12 05:59pm - 4677 days | #2 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User  Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
I thought that was great news. If you click on the link then you can see a picure of President Obama speaking to the father of the rescued young woman telling her that she was safe. The call was made just after the State of the Union address. http://gawker.com/5879421/seal-team-6-also-does-pirates Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-26-12 05:51am - 4676 days | #3 | |
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Denner (0)
Active User Posts: 1,217 Registered: Mar 03, '07 Location: Denmark |
Yes, for sure, pat.. And a lot of Danes praise the Seals and the USA for that tremendous rescue - in several medias over here. Like this Danish newspaper blog: (You'll not understand most of it, but the headline is pretty clear): http://ekstrabladet.dk/nationen/article1697348.ece ...and like most here says: What the EU cannot get rolling because of political bullshit and sissy behavior, the US got the balls to... "I don't drink anymore - I freeze it, and eat it like a popcicle" | |
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| 01-26-12 07:11am - 4676 days | #4 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't know if people realise just how much money those pirates make with all these hostage taking and so forth. It's a major plague on the entire planet's economy because the money being paid out has to come from somewhere and it's you and I that pay. The pirates refused 1.5 millions because they wanted more money. So that means that the SEAL would not have been used if the pirates had accepted that amount. That's 1.5 millions for 2 people. Negotiations is no longer an option with pirates because they keep asking for huge amounts of money on a regular basis and we can no longer afford these amounts. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-26-12 09:09am - 4676 days | #5 | |
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jberryl69 (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,000 Registered: Nov 27, '10 Location: neverland |
From an article I read today, this type of action might become the norm of US intervention going forward. No more Bush screwing with personal agendas. Now it's surgical in & outs to cripple the enemy. Oh, and since we're  I thought you might also find some interest in this video lecture (about 72 mins divided into 8 parts) regarding Arithmetic, Population & Energy. I found it quite compelling math and kind of makes me glad I'm not young and starting out.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-QA2rkpBSY&feature=BFa&list=PL6A1FD147A45EF50D&lf=plpp_video If it ain't grits, it must be a Yankee. If you're going to lay her head over the pool table and fuck her throat, get your fucking hand off her throat! Edited on Jan 26, 2012, 09:13am | |
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| 01-26-12 02:21pm - 4676 days | #6 | |
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messmer (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 2,582 Registered: Sep 12, '07 Location: Canada |
I am very impressed with the accomplishments of the U.S. Navy Seals. I think that's how many of the conflicts of the future will be fought, by drones and by small units of highly trained commandos. Three cheers to the Seals for their brilliant rescue of two civilians! | |
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| 01-26-12 03:09pm - 4676 days | #7 | |
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Capn (0)
Active User  Posts: 1,740 Registered: Sep 05, '09 Location: Near the Beer! |
It has to beat the 'sledgehammer / collateral damage' approach.  Cap'n.  Admiral of the PU Hindenburg. 2009 PU AwardHilarious Post of the Year 2010 PU Award ( I would have preferred it to be Helpful Post of the Year for Guys who Hate 'Retail Therapy' ) :0/ Sanity is in the eye of the Beholder! | |
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| 01-26-12 07:40pm - 4676 days | #8 | |
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graymane (0)
Suspended  Posts: 1,411 Registered: Feb 20, '10 Location: Virginia |
Thanks for the kind remarks befitting this great country, Denner. All the credit for this, as well as other outstanding accomplishments -- ie., the taking-out of bin laden, ending a catastrophically costly and senseless Iraq war, as well as a myriad of priceless other actions of salvation benefiting the U.S, which, for now, will be fought fiercely to stifle by a Republican majority -- is solely the result of a gargantuan, successful effort by our current President. Heaven help us if another cloned Bush-whacker had got-hold of another four years.  Hail Obama! | |
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| 01-27-12 02:44am - 4675 days | #9 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Not to burst your bubble, but our military isn't free either (though woe to the politician who dares to even suggest cutting a single penny from our sacred defense budget). I just thought we (the U.S. I'm speaking of) didn't negotiate with these types of people--officially at least. The thinking is that you give them an inch and they will literally try and take a mile.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 01-27-12 09:14am - 4675 days | #10 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^Your's and every other Countries military is expensive but the US was already paying them a salary whether they were seeing any action or were in a base. The difference here is that they saved at least 1.5 millions in hostage money. It's not really advertised but I think every Country pays hostage money. If they didn't then the pirates wouldn't be taking hostages on a regular basis. Mind you if more Countries start to take the hard approach then we may see a serious decline in pirate activity Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-27-12 11:22pm - 4674 days | #11 | |
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Drooler (0)
Disabled User  Posts: 1,831 Registered: Mar 11, '07 Location: USA |
I think about that sometimes, and my blood runs cold. Another "deficits don't matter unless there's a Democrat president" clown would be enough, I think, to lower ratings on US Treasury securities. Another turkey with an acute case of historical amnesia to cut regulations such that we have another staggering round of financial crisis. Don't they understand what happened in 1929? And that it has a hell of a lot to do with what happened between 1939 and 1945? We've certainly had ENOUGH of the Republican "message," haven't we???? I wanted something new, so I left England for New England. | |
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| 01-28-12 04:24pm - 4674 days | #12 | ||
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Yes we saved $1.5 m in hostage money, but probably spent more on the rescue mission itself. Hell, it supposedly cost $4 m just for Obama's 2011 Christmas vacation (and I'm assuming no one was even being held hostage). But it's probably a lot cheaper than invading Somalia (again) and then waiting until we had another Black Hawk Down incident. It isn't about the money so much as the PR of not paying off hostage takers--in public of course, because like you said...
Wealthy individuals, not just governments, can pay ransoms too. And who governments pay off/sell arms to in secret is quite unsettling. Some of the achievements in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars have probably come about just because the U.S. threw enough money at people to promise to not try and attack our forces anymore. And it also made the more greedy and adequately armed simply grab and turn in civilians as "terrorists" so they could collect reward money from us. Sometimes I don't think this stuff would even be believable as the plot of a cheap thriller novel, yet somehow we made it a reality.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | ||
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| 01-28-12 04:38pm - 4674 days | #13 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
One wouldn't think so with the 10,000 or so debates the GOP are currently having in the run-up to their eventual nomination.  Does it really take this long to let people know how much you hate gays, the poor, unions, and of course our secret-Muslim, Kenyan-born, do-nothing, tyrannical president?  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 01-28-12 05:59pm - 4674 days | #14 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^No but I think this is what it takes to prove to every American that you have to be an old white rich guy to even consider making a bid for the Republican Party. In a time when The US is still suffering from one of their worst recession. You can still get a few white guys to spend discusting amounts of money on a nomination. I would have been seriously impressed if I'd seen a single one of the candidates give as much money to help their Country as they spent on their campaign. As it is you get to watch a couple of guys throw insults at each other on network television. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-28-12 07:09pm - 4674 days | #15 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
And then there's the prediction that Obama could raise as much as a billion dollars for his 2012 campaign. A billion! To be fair that's never been mentioned as an actual goal from anybody in his camp, but according to the FEC's website he raised $780 m in his 2008 campaign. So it doesn't sound impossible, even if it does make it seem like you need to be able to afford to simply buy your own country with the amount of cash you raise running for U.S. president (which has got to be more fun than having to win an election  ). "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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| 01-29-12 09:40am - 4673 days | #16 | |
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pat362 (0)
Active User Posts: 3,575 Registered: Jan 23, '07 Location: canada |
^I don't remember the exact number but I do know that Obama has a lot of money for his re-election campaign. I don't think he's any better than the Republican in that regard and I think that is too bad. There are some great things to apprecciate when it comes to the US political system but I too often find that they are over shadowed by all the waste of money. Canadian politics may not be the greatest thing on the planet but a 30 day campaign doesn't leave a lot of space for the parties to waste money on negative advertising. Long live the Brown Coats. | |
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| 01-30-12 11:21pm - 4671 days | #17 | ||
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
The New York Times' website is saying Obama has raised just under $100 m, while Romney has raised about $32 m (which, considering his personal fortune, could probably be done just by looking for loose change in the couch). Hey, California's 2010 governor election supposedly pissed away around $250 m in fundraising money so really the presidential race isn't even lukewarm as this point. I mean c'mon, until a candidate starts dealing in the hundreds of millions of dollars how can we even know he's really serious? 
30 days?! Pffft, lightweights.  "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove Edited on Jan 30, 2012, 11:24pm | ||
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| 01-30-12 11:22pm - 4671 days | #18 | |
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turboshaft (0)
Active User Posts: 1,958 Registered: Apr 01, '08 |
Some would say the "great things" include our success at wasting money. "It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hardcore Commie works." - Gen. Jack D. Rippper, Dr. Stranglove | |
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