That’s just stupid. What good are the marshals if they’re unarmed????

Did the military get everything they asked for?

Was each request approved immediately, or did they have to keep trying pretty please?

What about the story of a Seal going on CNN as a silloutte and saying the Navy was capable of a rescue but it was a ‘political decision’?

I also love TMZ and their take on the new puppy.

http://www.tmz.com/2009/04/12/prez-barack-obama-that-damn-tmz/

– the dog was going to be “re-homed” to the Obamas from the kennel, and presented to the Obamas by the Kennedy family
– the reason it’s important that the dog was “re-homed” is because the Obamas could not accept the dog as a gift, and re-homing averts the problem.

How convenient (cough, cough) that the previous owner couldn’t keep the dog allowing it to be returned and gifted to the Obamas. Though re-homing gives a better impression than getting a brand new puppy since the Obamas originally said they would get a dog from a shelter.

If this is true about Obama, it’s shameful:

http://hotair.com/greenroom/archives/2009/04/14/staged-military-photo-ops-suddenly-awesome/

The lengths the Obama Administration will go to squelch dissent and/or prop up Obama is really starting to concern me. Someone so unable to handle criticism and so desperate for approval has got to have some serious pyschological issues.

Guess we don’t need 007 afterall.

Thanks for the vids, Susan. I understand 4 more ships [not sure what kind] were stormed by the priates today. They seem to be ratcheting up their efforts.

Over the last several months Somali pirates have alleged that European corporations are unloading toxic waste off the coast of this Horn of Africa nation. A Ukrainian ship which was held and released by the Somalis garnered a multimillion-dollar payment by the owners, which is reportedly being utilized to clean up the waste being dumped in the area.

In a statement reported by Al Jazeera on Oct. 11, Januna Ali Jama, a spokesperson for the Somali pirates, said that the ransom acquired serves as a means of “reacting to the toxic waste that has been continually dumped on the shores of our country for nearly 20 years.”

Jama, who is based in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland, continued, “The Somali coastline has been destroyed, and we believe this money is nothing compared to the devastation that we have seen on the seas.”

Further evidence of toxic waste dumping came from the United Nations envoy to Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, who told Al Jazeera in the same article that the international body has “reliable information” that both European and Asian corporations are unloading toxic chemicals, including nuclear waste, off the Somali coastline. “I must stress, however, that no government has endorsed this act and that private companies and individuals acting alone are responsible.”

In the aftermath of the tsunami in late 2004, evidence began to appear confirming such illegal dumping activity in the region. The United Nations Environment Program reported that the tsunmai washed up old, rusting containers of waste on the shores of Puntland, which was formerly part of Somalia prior to the collapse of the Western-backed government of Mohammad Siad Barre in 1991.

A UNEP spokesman, Nick Nuttall, told Al Jazeera in the same article that when the rusting barrels were opened by the force of the waves, dumping that had been occurring for many years were revealed. “Somalia has been used as a dumping ground for hazardous waste starting in the early 1990s, and continuing through the civil war there. European companies found it to be very cheap to get rid of the waste, costing as little as $2.50 a ton, where waste disposal costs in Europe are something like $1,000 a ton,” said Nuttall.

The stink of Obama’s butt on your nose is coming in from Kansas City. Muzzle it and stay with your own kind.

I think it’s an interesting twist that Shane Murphy, second in command on the Maersk Alabama, is the son of the man who teaches counter- piracy tactics at the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.

Getting started in California
A list of 57 transportation projects totaling $625 million has been adopted by Caltrans as the first in line to receive federal infrastructure money. The projects include:

$75 million to repave three miles of rough pavement on Interstate 710 in Los Angeles.

That’s only $25 million a mile. Wow, what a deal.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-transport-list14-2009apr14,0,1505152.story