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Ron Paul seems to only get in the news when what he says sounds crazy. But what bothered me most about this clip, is that the Constitution is seen as outdated. The Colbert Report Mon - Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Anger's Aweigh colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Gay Marriage Commercial To disrespect the Constitution is to hold liberty cheap, and is thought common-sense in the political world. Though Colbert is a comedian, his satire pinpoints the general attitude toward our founding document. Because we ignore history, we're repeating it. Before the revolution we thought it tyranny that Britain would take our citizens and try them in foreign courts, where they had no chance of a fair trial. We have become the oppressive tyrant that is doing this same injustice to Somalis . Abdiwali Abdiqadir Muse will be tried in U.S. courts despite the pleas of his mother, who said, on Tuesday that he had been coerced into piracy by "gangsters with money" a...

Texas Straight Talk A weekly column Responses to Piracy The recent episode with the Somali pirates has brought to the forefront many questions about maritime security. What is the best way to deal with a gang of criminals, not acting on behalf of any country, when they attack private vessels? Under whose jurisdiction are these types of criminals to be prosecuted? Most importantly, how do we deter such attacks in the future? Already the administration is saber-rattling with typical big government so-called solutions, like “diplomatically” threatening the weak Somalian government, or any government of any country where pirates are thought to live, with military action if they fail to control the situation. There are calls to increase the size of the navy until it is nearly omnipresent on the seas. I was pleased to see they got one thing partially right in stating that the government should work with shippers and the insurance industry to address gaps in their sel...

From Bizarro .

Apparently Somalia is where we dump our nuclear waste. And they don't like that.

Limbaugh agreed that we shouldn't be so excited about shooting Somali pirates. His reason? They're teenagers. Apparently he thinks Iraq is full of middle-aged liberals. Limbaugh agrees with muh, muh, . . . excuse me. blorkgfek (throw up noise). Me. Unclean, unclean. Don't come near me. I'll be in the shower for the next thirty days. I also attended the SLC tea party. I'll post on it later, since I can't find the camera cord, so I can't upload the pics I took.

Not that the pirates are scary, but that our policy toward them will hurt us. Being informed always seems to damper the bliss of ignorance. Ron Paul always assumes that the American people are intelligent and informed. Maybe that's why he lost.

This nytimes article explains Somali piracy . " These pirates are fearless because they have grown up in a culture where nobody expects to live long. Pirate cells often consist of 10 men with several ratty, roach-infested skiffs. They bring along drinking water, gasoline for their single-engine outboards, grappling hooks, ladders, knives, assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and the mild narcotic qat to chew. They live on raw fish ." And this article talks about pirates in Jefferson's day : " The Barbary pirates actually had an ambassador — who met with Jefferson and Adams, no less. The pirates worked for a government. The Barbary rulers commissioned them to rob and pillage and kidnap, and the rulers got a cut. It was all official. And open. It was truly state-sponsored terrorism. And the Western nations’ response was to pay “tribute,” a fancy word for blackmail ."