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1. Passing ship saves starving islanders. Two dozen inhabitants of Kanton island in the south Pacific were without food because of government FUBAR sending supply ship. The natives were living on only fish and coconuts. Somehow this reminds me of that old Sam Kennison line about starving Africans - “Move to where the food is!!!”

   What did they eat before the government helped them?

   Posted by Steve_in_CA       05/12/2010  at  12:21 PM  



2. Bunch of good links here, Drew. Thumbs up! Firefox 4?!?! Wow!

   Posted by cmblake6       05/12/2010  at  02:11 PM  



3. Damn good job of Instapunditing the week Drew. Heres something you might have missed though and good news to us pirate loving folk here:
   Following high level complaints about “imperfections” in international law, Russia announced Tuesday that captured Somali pirates “have all died.”
   …
   The official told Russian news agencies the pirates’ boat disappeared from Russian radar about an hour after their release.

   “They could not reach the coast and, apparently, have all died,” the official said.

   Posted by Rich K       05/12/2010  at  08:08 PM  



4. “We’ll have to do what our forefathers did when they met the pirates” until the international community comes up with a legal way of prosecuting them, Dmitry Medvedev said on the day the ship was stormed.

   The international community has had difficulty formulating an accepted policy for trying suspected pirates.

   I so totally hate to say this, but ...

   Russia, fuck yeah!

   Seems like a perfect solution if you ask me. No pirates, no ship, no witnesses. No problem.

   Posted by Drew458       05/14/2010  at  09:20 PM  

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