Navy Grabs Eight More Suspects

The courts in New York are going to be busy if our military keeps this up.

The US Navy came to the rescue of a ship being pursued by pirates, and then captured eight wannabee Blackbeards.

USS Farragut dispatched an SH-60B Seahawk helicopter to MV Barakaale 1 after it raised a distress call saying it was under attack from a gang on a skiff, the embassy said in a statement.

"The helicopter then stopped the ... skiff as it attempted to speed away, by firing warning shots across its bow," it said.

"A boarding team from USS Farragut boarded the vessel and the eight suspected pirates were taken aboard the Farragut."

You know, if the Navy keeps this up I may have to change my opinion of them.

I said may.

500 Jobs and No Stimulus Funds Used

While Obama administration officials struggle with coming up for a number to define how many jobs their full government employment act has created or saved, the Department of the Navy has actually done just that, without any of the phony baloney stimulus money. I am sure Obama lackey's will try to take credit for these jobs using some sort of Orwellian logic, the truth is no stimulus funds were used.

The shipyard plans to add about 500 workers before the end of the summer, Rella said. The first of the 103-meter vessels is taking shape in Austal's new, assembly-line style Module Manufacturing Facility that was unveiled in the fall.

In so doing these new employees will become part of the tax base helping the Mobile, AL area not only by their consumer spending but by once again paying taxes.

You see, what liberals fail to grasp, is to get your economy going you need to have workers that produce a product. A product that can then be sold. Teachers, for all of their hard work in indoctrinating the youth of this country do not return such an investment. Government agencies hiring more people to screw up the already bloated bureaucracy does not add to the economic recovery. Those are the type of jobs that the stimulus money has mainly gone to.

My message to Washington is quite simple. Stop trying to help. You are just getting in the way and delaying our recovery. Their approach is like throwing a rope to a man sinking in quicksand without attaching it to anything and walking away. It only allows the victim to drown in the muck while holding onto a rope.

Sure people will rail that this is just another example of the military industrial complex and thus the bane of society, but I would point those progressive whiners to their favorite hero FDR, who finally enabled this country to pull out of the depression after being forced to ramp up just such a thing in response to WWII. It may sound cynical and callous, but without WWII, this country may not have recovered economically for another decade because of the policies of FDR.

If the government is going to spend my tax dollars, I am glad to see it going to the one thing that our government is specifically tasked with providing, and that is our national security.

Besides, that is one bad ass boat.

26,000 Tons Of Hurt

The Navy's latest combat assault ship, the USS New York, is in New York City this week for it's commissioning on Saturday and the crew from Fox and Friends spent a very chilly morning out on the ship this morning giving us an overview of the ship and it's capabilities.

In summary it is a 26,000 ton ship with 7 1/2 tons of steel built into the bow that came from the World Trade Center. The ship was constructed in a shipyard in New Orleans, and the construction was interrupted by hurricane Katrina. It has a crew of 400 Navy personnel and can carry about 800 Marines anywhere in the world to deliver them to the fight. It has the capability to carry the latest Osprey aircraft as well as helicopters along with all the equipment the Marines would need to fight with, up to and including tanks.

In other words if this bad ass shows up in your neighborhood, I hope you have been good or else the Marines on board will be sure to punish the naughty.



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Sending A Message To Vladimir Paranoid?

As if his paranoia needs any stoking. But don't worry Putie, it's OK, paranoid people have enemies too, ya know.

U.S. Warship Visits Georgian Port
A U.S. Navy warship has arrived at the Georgian Black Sea port city of Poti on a three-day visit that is likely to anger Russia.

A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy in Tbilisi said the "USS Barry" was not carrying humanitarian supplies, as a U.S. naval warship had done in the weeks following the most intense fighting between Georgian and Russian forces over Georgia's breakaway regions of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

Russian officials signaled anger over that visit.The U.S. Embassy spokesman said it was a routine visit and not connected to tensions in the region after the conflict.

Heh. Putie and his dutiful stooge will really shit if the Barry pays a courtesy call here.

AFP reported that the U.S. crew of the Arleigh Burke-class, guided-missile destroyer was greeted by local officials at the port as the Georgian and U.S. national anthems played.

Spain Seeks Closer EU-Georgia Ties

Meanwhile, Spanish Foreign Minister Miguel Moratinos said in Tbilisi that his country will press for closer ties between the European Union and Georgia.

Moratinos also spoke out strongly in support of Georgia's territorial integrity, a topic that is at the heart of Russian forces' continued presence in Abkhazia and South Ossetia and Moscow's recognition of those republic's declarations of independence from the rest of Georgia.

Moratinos, who met with President Mikheil Saakashvili on October 17, was expected to travel to Poti with a contingent of EU monitors observing the EU-brokered cease-fire between Russia and Georgia.

Internationally sponsored talks on the aftermath of the conflict collapsed at their opening session in Geneva on October 15 due to disagreements over procedural issues, and were adjourned until November 18.

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Via RFE/RL