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Trai_Dep
11/18/09

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...The pirates in Goonies were a lot more adorable.
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The One
11/18/09

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The pirates are slow learners, no?

Too bad none of them were killed.
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AzureTexan
11/18/09

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You just wonder how Johnny Depp can find the time.
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katekate is squared
11/18/09

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I've never seen a bond company stooge stick his neck out like that.
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Edited by katekate is squared at 11/18/09 9:23 AM

Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/18/09

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Evidently the Sweet Ship Alabama has gotten better at playing hard to get.
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mainesqueeze
11/18/09

@Oy Veh (Informality Reigns): Having guys with guns on board makes that a lot easier to do.

Personally, I would have liked to see another beer-bottle defense:

[www.timesonline.co.uk]
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Oy Veh (Informality Reigns)
11/18/09

@mainesqueeze: Well, that is certainly one way to deal with your recycling.
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Mediahohoho
04/13/09

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I'm glad the cap'n is all right. He's got a lot of guts and did himself proud (contrasted, say, with other captains in recent years who have been the first off their boats. And it's good to know our special forces guys can get the job done.

As for the pirates, well, it's the life and death you chose, ain't it.
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DoctorEcks
04/12/09

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Mr. Thomas on Friday....

"Yes, pirates are dangerous criminals, blah blah blah. And yet in their home movies, they come off as kind of charming!"

Mr. Thomas on Sunday....

"Now that the merchants are giving way to the marines and the pirates are turning tail, they just don't seem that hip anymore. Somali pirates: so over."

Hey!! Wait a minute. I thought you wanted me to like the pirates. Oh well....everyone loves a winner.
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Ensconced
04/12/09

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I don't know, you guys. This chest-thumping is pretty gross. A country with one of the highest (if not the highest, although I don't have the numbers in front of me) military budgets in the world is able to kill a ragtag team of pirates from one of the poorest and most rundown (vis-a-vis government, infrastructure, et al.) countries on earth and there's celebration?

The U.S. has fallen hard.
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Baroness
04/12/09

@Ensconced: You're right, you don't know. We're happy the captain's life was saved from the thuggish bandits that held him hostage for five days in a life boat. Is that okay with you?

Killing the bandits wasn't the hard part, rescuing the captain from their clutches alive was. It took skill and tactical brilliance.

That Somalia is a hellhole isn't an excuse for violent muggery and hostage-taking.

The man's life was saved, speaking of poverty and "infrastructure" is to excuse violent crime on the high seas, extortion, and hostage-taking, and I am heartily sick of hearing this grotesque rationalization.

Saying happiness at the captain's rescue is an example of the US "fallen hard"-

ridiculous. There still is such a thing as valor, and right and wrong, and I'll cry no tears for those mercenary hostage-takers. How petty to disrespect the incredible

Navy men who pulled this off, budgets have nothing to do with it.

I'm liberal, not quite American, and I'm thrilled at this rescue. What's your problem? Go explain to a hostage's family about "infrastructure" and Western guilt as a reason their loved one is being held at gunpoint at sea.
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Ensconced
04/12/09

@Baroness: That is so incredibly full of shit that it's not worth a response.

"We killed some poors to save some guy I don't know! W00000T America!"

Fuck you, lady.
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Baroness
04/12/09

@Ensconced: No, you can't, and you won't get far with personal invective like that. It's not "worth (your) response" because your petty bitch-sesh was content-free, moaning about poverty and military budgets, rather than the amazing human drama of what happened.

What on earth was your point- "The US has fallen hard" because of what happened today? How sour and pointless.

I won't return the "fuck you", because if you had to say it, clearly you lost. I'd be embarrassed too. But I accept your apology.
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lobstr
04/12/09

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We tried to warn 'em with Steve Vissou clips .. c'est la vie..
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Baroness
04/12/09

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Dare I say, "America- Fuck Yeah" ?

I shall, enthusiastically. Suck it, scoundrels.
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El Matardillo
04/12/09

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The Stars and Stripes rule the waves.
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lolgreg
04/12/09

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Thank you, Bill Murray! Saved the day, once again.
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iplaudius
04/12/09

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Wow, I’m impressed. I thought stuff like that could only happen in those Matt Damon movies.
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rdecredico
04/12/09

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I suspect not too many ultra-libs will be commenting here.

Successful efforts by US Military are just not hip enough to generate positive buzz.
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DorothyBarker
04/12/09

@rdecredico: hardly. as an 'ultra-lib' i'm perfectly delighted when the US Military is successful. it's the giant, wasteful, unnecessary wars, started by 'ultra-conservative' politicians who never stepped foot on a battlefield themselves, which then have to be fought endlessly by fine young men and women that piss us off.
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ChillbearLatrigue
04/12/09

@rdecredico: Let's be fair and give them a chance. We don't want to turn this US achievement into a source of partisan bickering. Owen did a good job of being hip and positive about the victory.
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naugahydeinplainsight
04/12/09

@rdecredico: Oh, I don't know. Military got a defined mission and carried it out wonderfully, under the administration of our progressive/muslin/appeasing Commander in Chief, Barack Hussein Obama. Boo-yahs all around!
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momo
04/12/09

@rdecredico: Seriously? Who's minding the fort these days at Gawker? How does this comment get through?
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Baroness
04/12/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: @rdecredico: You both can kiss my ass. Conflating liberals with being "against the troops" is a tired libel, and it takes a tiny mind to imagine anyone is anything but thrilled the captain is rescued and safe, thanks to the valiant efforts of the Navy SEALs. I'm ecstatic, actually.

Happy Easter, thanks for the wretchedly gratuitous partisanship at a happy moment.

This is why you right-wing sorts suck. And why civilized people shake their heads at such petty spitefulness.
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ChillbearLatrigue
04/12/09

@Baroness: Why don't you re-read my post without imagining a snarky tone. I even complimented Owen.

As far as kissing your ass goes, we'll have to have a look at it first now won't we? You know with classy talk like that, I'm starting to think that you may not even be a real baroness.
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Niko Bellic
04/12/09

@rdecredico: And I suspect you will not be commenting here anymore.
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skahammer
04/12/09

@rdecredico: You know what, the clumsy, cartoonish reasoning behind your comment seems to me like the work of an immature, attention-starved 17-year-old -- but Gawker has supported so many disparate and singular fantasies in its virtual pages, I figure there's room as well for your fantasies of persecution by whiny, decadent, America-hating liberals who don't really exist. So please, carry on.
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Baroness
04/12/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: "let's be fair and give them a chance", you said, referring to "ultra-libs". As if you were being magnaminous, as if you agreed that "ultra-libs" would have preferred a disaster or the loss of the captain's life. As if there were some sort of petty partisan angle here. I don't care if you (weirdly) thanked Owen for not doing what your prejudiced imagination had him doing- how would he not be positive about it?

Again, happy Easter, boor.
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jasonelias
04/12/09

@rdecredico: What a crybaby post. You've actually done the triumphant outcome a disservice by tacking on your flame-baiting and divisive post.
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ChillbearLatrigue
04/12/09

@Baroness: Did you mean "Bohr?" It's really not what I meant. Just trying to temper a fellow conservative. I felt he was wrong for vollying a shot off the bow like that. Happy Easter to you too.
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Baroness
04/12/09

@ChillbearLatrigue: Oh, peace. Rascal.
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belltolls
04/12/09

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I think Sully would agree that Phillips who jumped in the water to escape the pirates TWICE, knowing that he would be shot at and likely killed, is in a class by himself.
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