{"id":31006,"date":"2008-11-25T01:01:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:12","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2011-05-19T03:05:12","modified_gmt":"2011-05-19T03:05:12","slug":"somali_pirates_thrive_amuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2008\/11\/25\/somali_pirates_thrive_amuse\/","title":{"rendered":"Somali Pirates Thrive, Amuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<section>\n<p>RUSH: AP, you have to love the headline: &#8216;Pirate Economy Thriving.\u2019 (laughing) What, should we all join the Somali pirates? Somali pirates, by the way, hijacked another ship, folks, a Yemeni ship. They were mad that they were aced out in the Citibank bailout. They wanted to join Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, being investor in Citibank and they didn\u2019t get a chance. They\u2019ve done everything they can to cooperate. They started out with a $10 million ransom on the $100 million dollars of oil they hijacked from the Saudis. Then they heard me make fun of them so they upped their ransom to $25 million; now they\u2019ve cut the ransom by 10%. They\u2019re doing everything they can here to be friends. <\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Somalia\u2019s increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women &#8212; even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages. And in an impoverished country where every public institution has crumbled, they have become heroes in the steamy coastal dens they operate from because they are the only real business in town. Sahra Sheik Dahir, a shop owner in the nearest village to Mogadishu, where the hijacked Saudi Arabian supertanker is anchored, &#8216;The pirates depend on us, and we benefit from them.\u2019 These are boom towns.\u2019 So the pirate economy is thriving. What are we to make of this? We know where the ships are. They\u2019re bringing in catered meals. I\u2019m sure a lot of it\u2019s Allen Brothers. We know that the pirates are listening to me because I made fun of them for their ransom being so low, and they raised it the next day. We know the pirates are listening. They have to be. And if they\u2019re bringing in chefs to cater &#8216;Western-style\u2019 meals, there\u2019s no doubt in my mind that they, too, have gone to <a href=\"http:\/\/ABSteaks.com\">ABSteaks.com<\/a> and seen the website and said, &#8216;Whoa, not only would this be good for us but it would be good for our prisoners!\u2019 <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.89380.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"alignright\"\/>So what are we to make of this? Luxury stone houses! They\u2019re driving luxury cars. Let me read you the exact line. This is AP-Obama: &#8216;Increasingly brazen pirates are building sprawling stone houses, cruising in luxury cars, marrying beautiful women.\u2019 Marrying beautiful women. &#8216;Even hiring caterers to prepare Western-style food for their hostages.\u2019 And here: &#8216;Somali Pirates Cut Ransom Demands by $10 million &#8212; Somali pirates that hijacked a Saudi supertanker have reduced their ransom demand to $15 million.\u2019 So it was ten million, then it went to 25, and now it\u2019s down to 15. Now, ladies and gentlemen, incorporating my fertile memory, my very active little gray cells, this would be a perfect business for Obama\u2019s brother, George Onyango Hussein Obama &#8212; who, last we heard, was still holed up in a six-by-nine-foot hut outside Nairobi, and Obama, during all of his speeches, &#8216;I am my brother\u2019s keeper\u2019 and so forth. Twenty bucks would double this guy\u2019s annual income, almost. Here\u2019s a chance for George Obama to get out of the hut and into a stone house. All he\u2019s gotta do is find his way from the hut outside Nairobi over to Somalia. Join up, get a pretty wife or two, a stone house; get himself a luxury car, catered meals, running water. All of it without any bailout money.<\/p>\n<p>BREAK TRANSCRIPT<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: John in Bloomington, Illinois, welcome to the EIB Network. Hello.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: Rush, dittos, thanks for taking my call.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Yes, sir.<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: One problem we have with the pirates is nobody wants to look for them, apparently, but I think if they get tired of waiting to get the ransom for this tanker and they sink it in the ocean and the oil leaks out, that the environmentalists will be all over them and the problem will be solved, we\u2019ll be rid of them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/live-rush-limbaugh.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/01125113.Par.4584.ImageFile.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"194\" class=\"alignright\"\/>RUSH: Well, it will be a tough one for the environmentalists. The environmentalists will side with the people like the pirates. They think the pirates are doing the Lord\u2019s work. They\u2019re keeping the oil off the market. The pirates are a disadvantaged mob anyway and they\u2019re just trying to make their way in an unfair world. The best way to stop the pirates &#8212; and I frankly hope we don\u2019t. There is very little out there that\u2019s entertaining us. I\u2019m getting the biggest kick out of these pirates. You said nobody knows where they are. Everybody knows where they are!<\/p>\n<p>CALLER: But nobody wants to get them, apparently.<\/p>\n<p>RUSH: Nobody wants to get them for whatever reason. Well, there\u2019s only one outfit that really can and we don\u2019t have the gonads to do it right now. We\u2019re in the midst all of presidential transition. But I mean, if you really want to harm the pirates, unionize \u2019em! Just somehow finagle card check among the pirate ships and make \u2019em members of the United Auto Workers or the teachers unions and then they\u2019ll go to their bosses and they\u2019ll say, &#8216;We\u2019re not hijacking more than one ship a week,\u2019 and then they\u2019ll want to reduce it from that point, want a bigger share of the spoils. I\u2019m actually being entertained by the pirates. (laughing) I think this is amazing. They are roaming around; everybody knows where they are; they keep hijacking ships. The people that apparently own these ships refuse to arm their crews, and these guys with nothing but ropes and little dinghies are hijacking their little tankers. It\u2019s cute. &#8216;But, Rush, this is high crime on the high seas!\u2019 I know, folks, but isn\u2019t it sort of illustrative of how impotent we are in a whole lot of areas here? Pirates are running roughshod and nobody, apparently, wants to stop them. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RUSH: AP, you have to love the headline: &#8216;Pirate Economy Thriving.\u2019 (laughing) What, should we all join the Somali pirates? Somali pirates, by the way, hijacked another ship, folks, a Yemeni ship. They were mad that they were aced out in the Citibank bailout. 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