Credo
"Sign on, young man, and sail with me. The stature of our homeland is no more than the measure of ourselves. Our job is to keep her free. Our will is to keep the torch of freedom burning for all. To this solemn purpose we call on the young, the brave, the strong, and the free. Heed my call, Come to the sea. Come Sail with me." -- John Paul Jones
"Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature" --George Bernard Shaw, "Caesar and Cleopatra"
"And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music."--Friedrich Nietzsche
"A kind Providence has placed in our breasts a hatred of the unjust and cruel, in order that we may preserve ourselves from cruelty and injustice. They who bear cruelty, are accomplices in it. The pretended gentleness which excludes that charitable rancour, produces an indifference which is half an approbation. They never will love where they ought to love, who do not hate where they ought to hate."--Edmund Burke
“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom: when men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre; beside it, my carpenters will build a gallows. You may follow your custom. And then we will follow ours.”--General Sir Charles Napier
"Μολὼν λαβέ" -- Leonidas
"Blogito Ergo Sum" -- Neptunus Lex
I don’t have a Tivo, so I’ll just have to wait till it’s on at a better time. I’m usually fast asleep by 2200..and hopefully by 2100.
Thanks for the heads up. For those with a Tivo and an iPhone, the DirecTv app lets you schedule a recording on your home Tivo on your phone. I was able to schedule this recording from Germany. Highly recommended.
Actually, any Directv DVR can be can be scheduled by any smartphone. URL is m.directv.com. Works like a champ.
Watching it now
When the pirates realized they had an American ship they were like. “YES!”
they had been wanting to get an American ship.
Their mistake!
Watched this last nite. I have to say that the key part for me was the takeover of the ship . . . the images and the story told by the bridge watch of the initial encounter with the gun toting and threatening pirates reinforced my desire that the pirates be permanently be removed from the gene pool in ALL such situations. The worry that either they’d be shot right then, or that they’d be living for months in some Somali prisoner camp while awaiting the payment of ransom, certainly hit home while seeing the actual guys telling the story.
Bravo Zulu Navy. Job well done to the Captain and men of the Maersk Alabama.
Watching this show makes me wonder about what they think the intellegence level of their audience is? If you take out all of the times that they repeated themselves, you only had about a 20 minute show. It was almost hard for me to watch.
I agree with you Jim. OTOH, it is still amazing to me that anyone, let alone three people simultaneously, could make the shots our SEALS did. It is acutally kind of hard to believe… The three of them should enter the olympics! I wonder if this is common for SEALS or, did they send in a special sharp shooter team? In any event, what an amazing job but, the turning point was when the pirates started detoxing off khat. It appeared that they were not happy campers. Sorry fellas, let us take you out of your misery…