Pirates!

[280plus]

Pirate skiff to Russian ship, "Pardon me while I smoke." 

[HankB]

One of the commentors posted a good question, what do they do about entering a port while armed?

Can't find the article now but the security companies have their own heavily armed mother-ships in Int'l waters where the weapons are stored when the ship heads into port.

I recently saw an article where some left-leaning mouth breathers were asserting that there needed to be "strict international regulation" of the security firms' "arsenal ships" (that's what they called them) that provide small arms storage in international waters for the security teams on commercial vessels . . .

Made me wonder if they were getting a "cut" of the pirates' booty . . .

[just Warren]

They cannot abide anyone doing anything without getting their permission.

Their whole psychotic philosophy is about subverting the individual into the collective and to get people into the collective means making them subject to all manner of rules.

The more folks operating outside the collective both succeeding and doing better than the collective cannot be tolerated for it undermines support for the ideal. People will start thinking about how valuable to their lives the collective is and maybe, just maybe start opting out. And if that happens what becomes of the putative masters?

They would have to content themselves with being assistant shift managers at Target or the like. And for folks that just know that they are the chosen ones due all manner of subservience and rewards commensurate with their brilliance that is a world cannot be allowed.

[230RN]

^ Socialism in a nutshell.

[zxcvbob]

They cannot abide anyone doing anything without getting their permission.

Their whole psychotic philosophy is about subverting the individual into the collective and to get people into the collective means making them subject to all manner of rules.

The more folks operating outside the collective both succeeding and doing better than the collective cannot be tolerated for it undermines support for the ideal. People will start thinking about how valuable to their lives the collective is and maybe, just maybe start opting out. And if that happens what becomes of the putative masters?

They would have to content themselves with being assistant shift managers at Target or the like. And for folks that just know that they are the chosen ones due all manner of subservience and rewards commensurate with their brilliance that is a world cannot be allowed.

When did we start talking about Home Owner Associations?

[MrsSmith]

Oh.

I thought he was talking about California.

[230RN]

If the nutshell fits....

Nah, I can't make that one work, forget it.

Where's Tallpine when you need him?

[MrsSmith]

No! Don't get him started again! He's mostly settled down!

But the nutshell thing - that did work. Perfectly as a matter of fact.

[230RN]

The above remarks about California and Homeonwer's Associations points up that there seem to be enough "groupings" of people with the same affliction that I wonder when the American Psychiatric Association will include socialism in their Diagnostic Manual as a genuine mental disorder.

They could even use Warren's post above verbatim.

Terry, 230RN

REF:

http://www.psychiatry.org/practice/dsm

[Tallpine]

I'm trying not to think about Califreakia any more