Comments on: Blowback’s a B*tch: Somali Piracy Edition

By: SanderO

SanderO — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:32:55 +0000

The ship owners deal with risk by paying insurance. Pirates want ransom and the risk of losing the ship entirely in a firefight is much higher than the cost of insurance especially when you consider all the costs of having to guard these immense ships. This would be an enormous expense to protect them in only a few thousand square miles of ocean.

By: prostratedragon

prostratedragon — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:26:09 +0000

Between the schoolmarmish response of the Congress to the automaker situation and this, the word for today has got to be “Stupidity,” or one of its many synonyms.

The facts-CW gap is getting oceanic.

By: Hairhead

Hairhead — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:54:55 +0000

Look, this is merely the inevitable and easily foreseeable consequence of strangling government and doing away with the idea of the Common Good (in this case the Common Good being safe sea lanes).

By: Teddy Partridge

Teddy Partridge — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:40:31 +0000

Thanks, Jhaorge Boosh.

By: KayInMaine

KayInMaine — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:37:28 +0000

LOL You ain’t kidding!

By: Twain

Twain — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:21:01 +0000

They are truly delicious.

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:17:36 +0000

eewww slugs

By: Elliott

Elliott — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:17:10 +0000

Captain Blood

Rayne’s up
she wrote the story I wanted to see on the scumbag Lieberman

By: eCAHNomics

eCAHNomics — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:53 +0000

A garlic butter delivery system.

By: Twain

Twain — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 00:15:53 +0000

Yuuuuuuuuuuummmmm. Love them