Sarah Palin, vanity plates and pirates: The Swamp
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Chicago Tribune

That was, well, a week -- and the worst of it iwas not over yet.

Posted April 11, 2009 5:00 PM
The Swamp

by Mark Silva

"Sarah Palin's fight with an 18-year-old'' - that was No. 5 in Willie Geist's week in review.

Tough competition in a week ruled by pirates.

When Levi Johnston, estranged father of Palin's grandchild, started showing up on television talking about safe sex - "most of the time'' - and calling himself a poster-boy for the hunting set on the stage of the Republican National Convention last summer, well, as Geist put it in his review: "The pitbull hockey mom barked back.''

Colorado's ban on emotive specialty license plates - "ILVTOFU'' - came next, much to the embarrassment of Mika Brezinski's delayed code-breaking.

North Korea's rocket launch.

Allen Stanford's tearful interview.

But piracy, clearly was No. 1: The failed hijacking of a U.S.-flagged container ship with an American crew, whose captain still was being held hostage in a lifeboat, serious business - but then there was Pat Buchanan's aircraft-carrier solution for the Somalian brigands.

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In Somalia, we know where the pirates' bases are... we know where many of the pirates are... and we know where their boats are. All of these things should be vaporized by Navy pilots tomorrow- this would have a substantial deterrent effect.

But it's not going to happen with this president- it's approaching the point where one has to question his motivations and loyalties, really. Like when he snubbed the British -our closest ally for decades- because of some weird personal grudge re. what they did in Kenya 50 years ago.

http://reaganiterepublicanresistance.blogspot.com/


Big feud at the Palin trailer park, you've gotta love it !!


This Levi Johnston guy is just an ordinary average kid but the Palins are a walking freak show.


Run!, Levi, Run!



But it's not going to happen with this president
Posted by: Reaganite Republican Resistance | April 11, 2009 5:23 PM


Thank God! Besides the captian of this boat, there are only 150 other hostages there. Good call there Tex....kill em all we'll sort it out later.

it's approaching the point where one has to question his motivations and loyalties, really.
Posted by: Reaganite Republican Resistance | April 11, 2009 5:23 PM

Like a true to the bone chicken hawk republican, questioning one patrionage when it is "themselves" that wish for failure.

Like when he snubbed the British -our closest ally for decades- because of some weird personal grudge re. what they did in Kenya 50 years ago.

Posted by: Reaganite Republican Resistance | April 11, 2009 5:23 PM


Have no idea what you're talking about here sport.....some sort of crazy whacko rant. Change those diapers son.


Well, well well....The Swamp and Silva just love to print all the gossip spewed from some dopey kid--with an agenda-- about the Palin's.
BUT! What about the TRUE story on the Drudge Report about Obama's brother Samson was denied entry into the Uk because he was accused of a sex attack on some young girls in Berkshire....Seems he was on his way to his brothers inauguration...tsk...tsk...tsk.
Will The Swamp and Silva print this bit of juicy gossip ????

Paulo


I don't understand the problem with the "I Love Tofu" license plate. Can someone explain why that is so bad? :)


"Paulo," do you really expect David Axelrod, The Swamp, or the DNC to want a story printed that might reflect badly on their Messiah?

The media is too busy promoting Obama to run this story. For example, the Washington Post has a "team of reporters" (Swamp phrase, not mine) trying to uncover the breed of the Obama's new pet dog, while The Swamp has run a dozen stories on the pooch!


vaporize them? how neanderthal!! what needs to happen is an intelligent response and improve the disasterous economic conditions that caused them to act out in desperation thru piracy. western nations over fished their region of the ocean and also used their region as a dumping ground for hazardous waste they did not want in their own part of the world, as a result the fishing economy these pirates relied on for generations have completely crashed. it is the fault of the west that they exist today and we need to improve their lives so they will not be so desperate. killing them all for doing what they need to live is disgusting when we caused their desperation in the first place.


reaganite moron is probably disappointed by this....
Fantastic news:
An American ship captain was freed unharmed Sunday in a swift firefight that killed three of the four Somali pirates who had been holding him for days in a lifeboat off the coast of Africa, the ship's owner said.
Kudos to Captain Phillips and the Navy SEALs.


And isn't it clever and convenient to ignore the "root" of pirates in Somali waters here in America whilst the rest of the world publishes the truth?

Here in Murk-istan we - yet again - goosestep in tandem to ignore the well-known fact Europeans are dumping barrels of nuclear waste in Somalian waters.

The EURO nuclear power "success stories" that are touted by a particular group of Murkin politicians and their minions . . . .most definitively won't discuss just how and where all that nuclear waste gets disposed of.

Yup, it gets disposed of in the unprotected waters of Somalia which are being protected by (clever semantics) so called "pirates" going after the illegal ships dumping illegal nuclear waste.
Needless to say, the dumpers don't announce what they're doing or raise a flag to separate themselves from other ships that saunter into their waters....so innocent ships will pay the price for their nuclear waste dumping brethren.

It wouldn't be typical in Murk-istan to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth regarding the "ROOT" of the acts against foreign ships since it would make our talking heads and politicians look pretty foolish whilst they push for more nuclear power here in Murk-istan.

But we all know, it is Murk-istan and only Murk-istan that are permitted to "protect" their nation against nefarious deeds of nefarious people and get prompted to be fist-pumping blood lusting ignoramus - yet again - to protect the very people who are killing others in the never ending grasp of greed.

So we'll let the world watch us again fist pump and massage the nards of blood lusting Murkins by obfuscating and accusations against people protecting themselves that we only allow for ourselves.



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