MisterForensic

And whose laws might we be talking about? Are we talkin' International Maritime Law? What the hell. Good old Queen Bess is gonna be givin' a fit. Get out the Red coats. Too bad we do not have a truly international court and a truly international police force. But why do we need this when we have Dick Cheney? By the way. Does anybody really know who this guy is? I'm watching the series MadMen. Hamm's charcter shows up at the home of his wife's family and her Dad says, "How can you trust this man. He has no people." He had suffered a stroke. From the mouthes of babes... So who are Dick Cheney's People? How did we get into this mess? Who have we let squander our hard won savings?

This is this their biggest prize. These are people who think they are fighting for their culture. Do you really think they will let our conventions govern their actions? What good would it do? What have they got to lose? If there is a suicide bomber/martys hall of fame somewhere, where do you think these guys with their big ass tanker might fit in? It's 9/11 redux. A big fat cow ready for the slaughter. We are a big dumb fat assed society like Hollywood used to make fun of in the movies. The lean cow is devouring the fat cow. We have forgotten who we are, where we came from. and what we stood for, and these people are eating our lunch.

No ma'am!

So my guess is that the pirates are ... 1) threatening to kill the crew 2) threatening to sink the ship releasing all of the oil. The horse has left the barn, ladies and gents. This was a big fat plum on a low-hanging branch. Once again terrorists find our loopholes. Imagine: there was not a single security presence on board. There was no helicopter gunship. There was no automatic weapopn lookout prowling the gunn'ls. There were just a bunch of navvies thinking about supper. Once again, a bunch of friggin shareholders trying to shave a one hundredth of a cent off their share value... Look at the value of this prize. Who in the name of hell dropped this ball? That's where the real culprit lies. Once again, the poor and the desperate show up the rich and the penny pinching.... It's gonna get ugly. More ugly than it ever had to be. No surpise. Can anybody be surpised that the world's economy is in the hands of idiots? Sell ladies and gents. Go to cash. The world economy is in the hands of morons.

New here. My first post. Assets? What assets? I saw the CN Tower mentioned. Really? How about Tunney's pasture? Why not the Centre Block (or should that be Blocq)? Why not the Sudbury Tax Processing Centre? Why don't we just sell the CPP to a hedge fund? If the feds have any assets worth selling that even come close to their current needs, I'd be bloody surprised. Maybe Russia wants to buy Ellesmere Island? I say we see what we can get for Flaherty. I'll wager it won't be much.