Going Overboard

By lex, on April 13th, 2009

Obviously your host is pleased that a heroic mariner such as Captain Richard Phillips has been liberated from his captivity. I am not displeased that those who wrongly held him have shuffled off their mortal coils. I’m very proud of the SEAL snipers whose precise application of firepower – 25-35 yards is no great distance for a marksman, but the shooters were on a moving platform, shooting at mobile targets who were themselves bobbing around in a lifeboat – eased the pirates into the next life without harming Captain Phillips.

Credo

"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me."

— John Paul Jones

"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature"

— George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra

"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."

— Friedrich Nietzsche

"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."

— Edmund Burke

"Μολὼν λαβέ"

— Leonidas

"Blogito Ergo Sum"

— Neptunus Lex