On Sep 27, 12:54*pm, hpeer wrote:
wrote:
On Sep 26, 5:56 pm, hpeer wrote:
...............The Russian patrol ship Neustrashimy, which left
Wednesday for the coast off Somalia, may help crack down on pirates, a
source in the Russian Baltic Fleet headquarters told Interfax-AVN on Friday.
...

Trust those pinkos to interfere with the Free Market! *Freedom loving,
entrepreneurial Somalian fishermen have devised an innovative new
financial instrument that converts a small investment in boats and
RPGs into T-35 tanks and now the Regulators from Big Government are
using Taxpayer Money to butt in. *They're Socializing the Sea!
Government isn't the solution, it's the problem!

--Tom.

Yeah, but if they put their economy on the rocks will they ask for a
BAILOUT? *(sorry)

First they need to devise a method of selling off parts of the tanks
(actually T-72's I notice) since the international language is French,
let's call them tranches... Oh hell...

More OT, the article in the NY Times is interesting
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/27/wo...irates.html?em.

The report says the pirates are operating with virtual impunity from
mother ships hundreds of miles off the coast. That seems to pretty
much close the horn of Africa to cruisers. I guess Cape Town is going
to be a really popular place.

-- Tom.