Thursday, June 9, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Funny Stuff: Somali Pirates Cut Ransoms To Clear Hijacked Ships
This is a little old and I am surprised I missed this. But better late than never. I think this speaks volumes as to how bad this piracy thing really is. We have all the navies of the world, expending millions of dollars every day in hunting pirates and trying to put a stop to this thing–and these pirates are more successful than ever. This is an example of how effective an Offense Industry can be. These pirates have an incentive to attack commerce, and despite all the threats to their operations, they continue to thrive.
Also, to clarify here, I despise these criminals. I do not think that hostage taking/killing/torturing or piracy itself is funny. If anything, I am laughing at our pathetic response to this scourge. I would like to cheer on the modern nations of the world in eradicating this problem, but it’s hard to do that when the pirates are this successful. Ridiculously successful matter of fact. They are achieving results with their ever evolving offense industry, and the rest of the modern world just falters. In this case, you just have to laugh at this one. –Matt
Somali pirates cut ransoms to clear hijacked ships
By Mohamed Ahmed and Abdi sheikh
Sunday March 13, 2011
Somali pirates said on Sunday they would lower some of their ransom demands to get a faster turnover of ships they hijack in the Indian Ocean.
Armed pirate gangs, who have made millions of dollars capturing ships as far south as the Seychelles and eastwards towards India, said they were holding too many vessels and needed a quicker handover to generate more income.
“I believe there is no excuse for taking high ransoms. At least each of our groups holds ships now,” pirate Hussein told Reuters from Hobyo on the Somalian coast. He said the pirates were holding more than 30 ships at the moment.
Friday, May 13, 2011
Funny Stuff: Pornography Found In Usama Bin Laden’s Hideout
Now this is funny! So I wonder what kind of stuff he had….or I mean…his ‘sons’ had? (wink, wink….) Either way, there was pornography found at the UBL mansion and that is hilarious. Al Qaeda’s head honcho was a smut peddler!!!
Here is the other angle on this. Because like with the whole controversy about the ‘gun’ used to kill UBL and all that attention brought to the manufacturers, the favorite porn of UBL and family would probably increase the sales of whatever company produced it and make the actors equally famous (or infamous). lol –Matt
Exclusive: Pornography found in bin Laden hideout: officials
May 13, 2011
By Mark Hosenball and Tabassum Zakaria
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A stash of pornography was found in the hideout of Osama bin Laden by the U.S. commandos who killed him, current and former U.S. officials said on Friday.
The pornography recovered in bin Laden’s compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan, consists of modern, electronically recorded video and is fairly extensive, according to the officials, who discussed the discovery with Reuters on condition of anonymity.
The officials said they were not yet sure precisely where in the compound the pornography was discovered or who had been viewing it. Specifically, the officials said they did not know if bin Laden himself had acquired or viewed the materials.
Reports from Abbottabad have said that bin Laden’s compound was cut off from the Internet or other hard-wired communications networks. It is unclear how compound residents would have acquired the pornography.
But a video released by the Obama administration confiscated from the compound showed bin Laden watching pictures of himself on a TV screen, indicating that the compound was equipped with video playback equipment.
Materials carted away from the compound by the U.S. commandos included digital thumb drives, which U.S. officials believe may have been a principal means by which couriers carried electronic messages to and from the late al Qaeda leader.
Three other U.S. officials familiar with evidence gathered during investigations of other Islamic militants said the discovery of pornography is not uncommon in such cases.
Story here.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Funny Stuff: Feral Jundi Had Some ‘Potential’ Viewers In Abbottabad, Pakistan
This is funny. Over the course of this blog’s history, I have had five visits from Abbottabad Pakistan according to my Google Analytics. They found the site through Google, and these are the dates they visited.
Sept 28, 2010
August 16, 2010
June 30, 2010
April 7, 2010
October 8, 2009
Now what I did was to go back to each of these dates and see what stories they were attracted to. Well what I found out was that it wasn’t a story they clicked on, but a Funny Stuff poster I posted a long time ago called Potential. I posted this poster to show how ridiculous our enemy was, and how little regard they had for human life. So did Bin Laden or any of his clowns check out the poster? It is a good possibility because on those dates, there wasn’t anything of significance interest to their efforts, and the Potential Poster had top viewing. lol
The reason for that is because it reached the first page of Google Images for the search ‘funny stuff’. Thousands of people over the course of the image’s history have viewed the thing because of it’s placement in the image search. And it looks like I was able to piss off five folks with that ultra-offensive poster. Score!!! The best part is that thing will continue to do it’s damage to the psyche of booger eaters world wide. hee hee –Matt
Edit: Just so folks know, I was not the original creator of this poster. I just found it floating around out there on the internet and thought it was pretty funny.
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Funny Stuff: Taliban Promise Never To Use Ambulances Again For Suicide Bombings…..Liars!!!!
This has to be the funniest thing I have read in a week. The Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid promised IRIN that this will ‘not happen again’. Now that is funny. The Taliban are liars, and of course they will use ambulances for assaults or for transporting drugs and weapons again. They also burned ten Qurans and have yet to be punished for that. Either way, I think this song below spells out exactly what kind of folks the Taliban and Al Qaeda are……Enjoy. –Matt
AFGHANISTAN: Taliban rue ambulance attack
12 April 2011 (IRIN) – The use of an ambulance by Taliban suicide attackers in a raid on a police training centre in the southern province of Kandahar on 7 April has been acknowledged as a violation of war laws and the insurgents have promised investigations.
“This will not happen again,” Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, told IRIN.
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) strongly condemned the use of a clearly-marked ambulance by the attackers.
“Using an ambulance for the purpose of deceiving the adversary in carrying out an attack constitutes perfidy. This is strictly prohibited by international humanitarian law and is totally unacceptable,” said Jacques de Maio, the ICRC’s head of operations for South Asia, in a 7 April press statement.
Several people, almost all of them security forces, were killed and wounded in the attack, according to provincial officials. (more…)