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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:05 PM Original message |
I had no idea the "pirates" operating in the Gulf Of Aden are out of work fishermen |
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hatrack (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:07 PM Response to Original message |
1. It was going on even back in 1991-93, when the famine was ongoing |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:08 PM Response to Original message |
2. Victims of globalization. |
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malaise (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
3. Fishermen everywhere are being kicked out of work |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:09 AM Response to Reply #3 |
15. It does have an ironic flavor to it |
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navarth (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:18 PM Response to Original message |
4. yeah that was an eye opener wasn't it?? |
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Double T (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:19 PM Response to Original message |
5. With an increase in unemployment in the US, 'pirating' sounds like a great new opportunity. |
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Inexpensive Wino (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
6. And they are damned good at it, eh? |
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Bobbieo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:40 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. Yes, they are amazingly damn good at it!!! I still do not understand how those guys can overtake a |
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Inexpensive Wino (22 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 10:45 PM Response to Reply #7 |
8. It is easy |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:00 AM Response to Reply #8 |
13. And they wait until it is night time before boarding |
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THUNDER HANDS (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:31 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. maybe they were the Oceans 11 of fishermen |
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Strelnikov_ (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:01 PM Response to Original message |
9. Somali Pirates Tell Their Side: They Want Only Money |
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bridgit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:05 PM Response to Original message |
10. Avast! - 'teach a man to fish & he'll always have something to eat' overboard!! |
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tularetom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:14 PM Response to Original message |
11. We spend a trillion bucks in Iraq and accomplish jack shit |
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Joe Fields (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Nov-18-08 11:23 PM Response to Original message |
12. So what? I've been thrown out of work before, and I didn't become a pirate. |
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shadowknows69 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Nov-19-08 07:04 AM Response to Original message |
14. I saw that, that was an interesting report |
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