# Navy Seals rescue Cap't Phillips **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [April 12, 2009, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880 "2009-04-12T20:12:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Reply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/reply/32/15952_2.png) [@Reply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reply)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 5:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/81 "2009-04-14T17:43:32Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow. So we conservatives can’t do anything right, can we? > > Noted for future reference. Well, you _do_ do everything right. Just not correctly. (ducks) ---
**Author:** ![Equipoise](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/equipoise/32/151_2.png) [@Equipoise](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Equipoise)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/82 "2009-04-14T19:30:22Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow. So we conservatives can’t do anything right, can we? Well now, as I said in that post, at least _some_ freepers got that Limbaugh was being facetious and was actually blasting President Obama. Credit where credit’s due and all. > [@ivylass](#): > > Noted for future reference. Uh oh, what future reference? Are you keeping a list? Like that Rep. in Congress, what’s his name, Spencer Bachus? The one who went all John Yerkes Iselin on us and proclaimed there were “17 Socialists in Congress!!” but strangely enough [refuses to name them](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/04/09/spencer-bachus-socialists_n_185364.html)? Well, except for Sen. Bernie Sanders, who told us years ago he was a Socialist. Should I be scared? Freaked? Constantly looking over my shoulder for Chuck Norris? ---
**Author:** ![Lakai](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lakai](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lakai)\ **Post date:** [April 14, 2009, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/83 "2009-04-14T23:36:47Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Wow. So we conservatives can’t do anything right, can we? > > Noted for future reference. Why did you interpret “Limbaugh’s listeners” to mean all conservatives? ---
**Author:** ![Kolga](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e56c9b/32.png) [@Kolga](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kolga)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/84 "2009-04-15T01:08:03Z")
> [@msmith537](#): > > Mind bottling. Are you selling that? ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/85 "2009-04-15T01:32:33Z")
> [@ivylass](#): > > Practice practice practice. And than more practice, [18 months worth](http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2009/04/14/2009-04-14_seals_freed_phillips_with_simultaneous_shots.html) this thread is still about the rescue mission right? ---
**Author:** ![Rick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9f8e36/32.png) [@Rick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rick)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/86 "2009-04-15T01:33:24Z")
> [@Spurious\_George](#): > > It seems like the international community may have created the pirates, [by fishing in their waters and dumping nuclear waste on their shores](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/johann-hari/you-are-being-lied-to-abo_b_155147.html), since there’s effectively no Somali government to stop them. There is one thing I don’t understand about this nuclear waste “story”. With the entire ocean in which to dump this stuff, why do they move close inshore to Somalia and dump it there? Inquiring minds want to know. Until somebody can give me a valid logical reason for them to get close to the Somalia shore and not dump the stuff in the middle of the ocean closer to home, you can color me dubious. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/87 "2009-04-15T01:37:51Z")
> [@Rick](#): > > Until somebody can give me a valid logical reason for them to get close to the Somalia shore and not dump the stuff in the middle of the ocean closer to home, you can color me dubious. :dubious: I’d go for the Marianas Trench, myself. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CWN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bc79bd/32.png) [@CWN](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CWN)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/88 "2009-04-15T01:55:58Z")
**Another US ship attacked today** Looks like the SEAL teams may be busy for a while [From CNN](http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/14/somalia.pirates/index.html) The Liberty Sun, a U.S.-flagged cargo ship bound for Mombasa, Kenya, was attacked Tuesday by Somali pirates, according to a NATO source with direct knowledge of the matter. “The pirates fired rocket-propelled grenades and automatic weapons at the vessel, which sustained damage,” said a statement from New York-based Liberty Maritime Corporation, which owns the vessel. The ship was carrying U.S. food aid for African nations, the statement said. The pirates never made it onto the ship and the vessel is now being escorted by a coalition ship, still bound for Mombasa, officials said. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2009, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880/89 "2009-04-15T02:13:19Z")
> [@CWN](#): > > Looks like the SEAL teams may be busy for a while I wonder how this will turn out. Testosterone poisoning will cause an increase in attacks, but eventually NurseCarmen’s point will be obvious to the meanest mentality. Will the wealthy guys who run the priates be able to continue to encourage kids to go out and shoot AK 47s and RPGs and ships despite having the bejesus blown out of them periodically? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/navy-seals-rescue-capt-phillips/492880.md?page=4)