Navy SEALs 3, Pirates 0

Posted by admin on April 12, 2009 under news | Comments are off for this article

Capt. Richard Phillips was rescued from Somali pirates by US Navy SEALs. The SEALs who killed 3 of the 4 pirates were given special authorization for the mission by President Obama.

The Associated Press reported that Capt. Phillips’ crew, “who said they had escaped after he offered himself as a hostage, erupted in cheers aboard their ship docked in Mombasa, Kenya. Some waved an American flag and fired flares in celebration.”(Source)

Piracy off the coast of Somalia has become epidemic, and even now the Pirates hold over 200 ships from varoius nations including China, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Taiwan and numerouis others.

Top 5 Stories NOT in Today’s BubbleMixx

Posted by admin on November 17, 2008 under Environment, Humor, Internet, news | 2 Comments to Read

With 64 days remaining until Barack Obama takes office, and no significant announcements coming from the transition team today, here are 5 stories we’re NOT covering, but apparently everyone else is.

# 5 – The vetting of Bill Clinton’s finances, regarding his foundation and international business dealings. Yes Hillary is a top contender for Secretary of State, and it’s routine that someone’s family finances etc. are scrutinized before taking such a top job but seriously, could this story be any more boring?

# 4 – The proposed bailout of GM etc., should $25B of the $700B the government is allowing AIG to blow on keggers go to Detroit so they can tap a keg too? Yeah, probably, but President Bush isn’t going to approve it, so nothing’s going to happen here for at least 65 days.

# 3 – Pirates seize control of Saudi supertanker; this is clearly an act of war, and just as soon as W figures out where Somalia is they are in for some shock and awe. Big time.

# 2 – Mark Cuban accused of insider trading, the world is shocked, shocked, to learn that billionaire douche Mark Cuban has been accused of trading on inside information. He dumped a ton of stock in Mama.com before it lost almost all value saving him $750,000 or something like that; I may have dozed off during the report.

# 1 – The U.S. economy sucks, and Japan’s is worse. Is this really a newsflash anymore? Haven’t we entered the self-fulfilling prophecy phase of reporting on bad economic times? We get it already. Now get out on the streets and start selling apples.