U.S. ship captain held by pirates off Somalia, has been freed,

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[Ladycalif]

U.S. ship captain held by pirates off Somalia, has been freed, senior U.S. official says. Three of four pirates killed.

[Syncro]

I don't think it's worth it to do any of that.

I don't play the newbie game.

If posts are reasoned and clear, and not hypocritical or personal attacks and furthers the purpose of Free Republic it doesn't matter when you signed up.

Some people like to denigrate anyone that signed up after them, and it is usually because they don't have facts to back up there statements and they hope to intimidate more intelligent posters with the sign-on date dig.

I have no desire to look up all of dirtboys nasty putdowns and lies, I'm just glad he backed away and let the thread continue without his histrionics.

My best to you.

[HardStarboard]

>>>You just don't have SEALs on every ship in the Navy. <<<

I read on one of the "Milblogs" that the Seal Team parachuted onto the Bainbridge at night about 3 days after Phillips was taken hostage.

Go U.S. Seals - simply the best!!!

[FTL]

AH_LiveRight wrote: "I further contend that FTL is a disruptor from the left, by the tactics used".



You wouldn't know a sarc remark if it was a 2x4 that hit you square between the eyes.

Lets see, where to begin. First you quote the lyrics of "Cult of Personality" to me in some inane babbling previous post. So you dig the band “Living Colour” eh? Why am I not surprised?

"Living Colour is a prominent all-African American band of the late 1980s. Stylistically, the band's music focuses on lyrics that attack the Eurocentrism and racism of America."

= Libtard Pro-Obama, Pro-Left "Blame America" Music by a metrosexual has-been Leftist band from the 80s.

LOL I can just picture this guy, a baggy pants chain-bling wearing wannabe “hip-hopping” in trendy Liberal night clubs to the sounds of “great” tunes like “Cult of Personality”.

You don't like my "tactics" or what I have to say about your "Dear Leader"? Don't read - period. Or is your DOLT switch set on permanent stupid?

I suggest you secure one 20 ft section of fine hemp rope, throw it over the nearest tree branch and attempt to urinate up said rope – into the wind.

Oh, and enjoy the Obama bashing - especially since you can't do a thing to stop it on the internet or anywhere else. Millions of us will be giving Zero the full "Alinsky Treatment" 24/7 - pretty much because we feel ornery and just plain feel like it. Take your hand wringing, concern trolling to someone who gives a flip what you think. Don't attempt to dish it out - if you can't take it - newb.

[Stoat]

• “but I suspect that this information ‘may’ not be released”

  For that reason probably any story we hear from the Navy concerning this incident is suspect, and not that giving us a bogus story is a bad thing. I prefer them to have the advantage of secrecy versus satisfying my curiosity.

I agree completely.  My great hope is that they would tell us that the Moon is made of green cheese, if doing so was important to keeping our nation or our national assets safe and there was no real way around the matter other than to tell us that.  The 'public's right to know' is all well and nice up to a point, but considering that a former 'President' gave nuclear secrets to the Chinese and our current "President" looks like he may damage us far, far worse, I want us to maintain every single tactical and strategic advantage against America's enemies that we can, and if that means that we, the public, might not have an exact handle on precisely what type of cheese the Moon is made of, well, I can live with that.

[STARWISE]

Finslly found those comments from the crew about the president.... he said it all.

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Freed U.S. captain’s crew jump for joy at release

*snip*

“We are very happy. He’s a hero,” a crew member of the Maersk Alabama shouted at journalists amid raucous celebrations aboard the vessel, which docked in Kenya’s Mombasa port after a failed attempt to hijack it earlier in the week.

“We made it!” shouted one colleague, punching the air as a red emergency flare screeched into the night sky. Others hung a large Stars and Stripes flag from a rail high up the ship.

***Another crewman said the pirates had hunted them for days***

before the attack on Wednesday, and he urged Barack Obama’s administration to send more military forces to the region to stamp out the threat to shipping.

“Tell the president to get these guys. It shouldn’t come to that,” he said, referring to their pursuit. Like other elated crewmen who spoke to journalists, he declined to be named.

http://uk.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUKLC335299

[STARWISE]

Ooops

Finslly = finally

[Stoat]

• Thanks for your reply.

  You're quite welcome, and I'm delighted if it may have been of some help or interest.

  Someone else here posted this link.

  http://www.blackfive.net/

  The follow-up comments are as educational as the story coverage.

  Great stuff, thank you so much.  Dumb me, I subscribe to Blackfive's YouTube channel but I hadn't checked their web page yet.  Interesting and informative as always, thank you!  :-)

[Miss Didi]

Joe the Sailor is Shane Murphy who was second in command of the Maersk Alabama. The Friends have been playing his statements all morning. He is telling America to wake up!

[CodeToad]

Totally agree. Our military suffers under these pinheads and they need every advantage they can get.

[lilycicero]

I better go watch...thanks!!!

[rodguy911]

Sorry don’t get it, that’s a journalistic type of comment,usually when you quote something,either on the air or in print, and you have a source, its just good journalism to mention who your source is....it’s not an ego thing.

[dirtboy]

I read on one of the "Milblogs" that the Seal Team parachuted onto the Bainbridge at night about 3 days after Phillips was taken hostage.

Gee, imagine that. I said it could have taken three days to get the SEAL team there. I was savagely attacked. If that is true, then it did take three days. I cheerfully admit I was estimating. But everyone told me how stupid I was and that the SEALs would have been there early on when the the escape attempt happened and were held back. Turns out they were not there, but I don't expect the FR armchair general squadron to retract some of their attacks against me.

[dirtboy]

I have no desire to look up all of dirtboys nasty putdowns and lies,

This from someone who attacked me up and down the thread and doesn't have enough class to ping me when he is mentinoning me. Typical of you. And from another post on this block, on a milblog it said the Seals did not arrive on the destroyer for three days. You get after me for not wording a speculative post properly (it was clearly meant as a 'what-if' scenario). And then you turn around and authoritatively claim the SEALs were held back from rescuing the captain after the first attack, when it now looks like they were not even there. So who is the one making up facts out of whole cloth now? YOU.

[dirtboy]

I don’t know if he would classify me as a “useless newbie”.

I got after the poster in question for trying to label me, someone who has been here for 10 years with over 60,000 posts, as a DU plant or troll when he has been here all of three months and has a pattern of doing such. I did not rip him as a newb for his opinions regarding the subject of the thread.

And thanks for having the class to ping me when you are discussing me. Some folks have been here over a year and still can't bother to do that.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Gotta love our Seals!

[Grampa Dave]

Yep good news.

Wonder when the Navy got the authorization to allow the SEALS to do their job.

I’m not an Obama fan, but LBJ would have turned his back like with the Puelbo, Liberty and other undocumented instances.

Carter would have micromanaged the op into a total disaster.

Clintoon would have had a camel destroyed by missiles while being consoled by a Lewinski.

[Finny]

What you "don't get" is that Rush and Levin aren't journalists. Take it from a journalism major and a working journalist/reporter/feature writer for many years.

Rush, Levin, et al are commentators. When journalists get facts from or quotes posters (not linked news stories, but FReepers themselves)from Free Republic, they should source FR in their stories. If Rush, Levin, Hannity, Ingraham, or any other commentator or radio talk show host or editorial writer uses Free Republic for show prep, that is a totally different thing because they are not journalists.

If Rush gets the idea for a rant from folks he overheard at a dinner party the night before, there is no moral or professional obligation AT ALL for him to mention that bit of trivia on his show, just as there is no moral or professional obligation for him to mention it if he gets inspired to do a rant from reading a thread on Free Republic. The only thing they might have to "source" is the original news source, so a Free Republic discussion that starts from a link to a newspaper story published in some newspaper, the newspaper is what the commentator would source or refer to, NOT Free Republic.

IF Rush and Levin and the rest are lurkers or assign staff to monitor Free Republic, as we suspect, we'd all better be DAMNED WELL GLAD that they keep it to themselves, otherwise this site would be inundated with posters and new sign-ups who are here for the WRONG reason. We'd have windbag loudmouths from here to Christmas yammering not because they're in love with Free Republic, but in order to be noticed by Rush and Levin and Hannity et al.

I am very glad that IF Rush, etc., lurk on Free Republic, they keep it to themselves. You should be, too, and you really should understand the fundamental difference between a political commentator and a journalist.

[rodguy911]

If "you" will pay a little closer attention to how Limbaugh and some of the other top broadcasters cover top stories they are "almost always" well sourced.

I could care less if we get credit or not only if Rush leaves himself open to DBM criticism.

Rush has the ability to almost single handedly destroy the msm as long as he doesn't leave them any openings for criticism,which they will make up true or not anyway.

[Finny]

I don't understand your point. Can you try to explain it a little more clearly? As for your idea that Rush has the ability to almost single handedly destroy the msm, that is absurd, and Rush would probably be the first to say so. You put WAY too much on Rush. Top stories on Free Republic are here because some poster linked a source and discussion followed. If Free Republic has a great and lively thread going on a story that originated in an obscure paper in Podunk, Iowa, and Rush brings up on his show a news item that was reported from the same obscure paper, that's good and correct -- Free Republic is not the source -- the paper in Podunk IS. It doesn't matter whether Rush found the link through Free Republic or from an email sent by a resident of Podunk. It matters NOT AT ALL.

Rush isn't a journalist. How would his citing and sourcing Free Republic do anything at all to prevent the MSM from finding "any openings for criticism"?

Sincerely, I really don't get what it is you're trying to say or why you think political commentators who get inspiration and topic leads off of Free Republic are obligated to say so.

[trisham]

Obama refuses to allow the U.S military to make a first move. Cpt. Phillips dives off boat first time and the attempt fails. Navy SEALS are pissed. They know that if they'd at least been in the water in the vicinity, they could have taken advantage of the situation. They request having guys in the water. Obama says no, or maybe even says "Yes, but don't make the first move." SEALS are in the water regardless, and those guys aren't just going to wait around for Obama to make up his mind. They go in, grab the captain, kill three of the guys and take the other to the ship where he was supposedly negotating. The official story that the captain jumped again to protect the SEALS.

Push is going to come to shove with our military with Obama in office.

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I agree that this or some variation may very well be what happened.