LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER!!!
Where are those Japanese mini-subs when you really need them?
Pan, can you hit up the people who were recently added to the Whale Wars Ping List???
And if anyone has video or pictures of the batmobile boat getting smashed in half, please post them, I need some comic relief tonight, it has been a very stressful week.
And South Park pictures :D
Isn’t there a law of the seas regarding the destruction of those ships that fly the “Jolly Roger/Skull and Crossbones”?
Captains log: "Lesson learned, let the fools drown and carry on.........
Translation:
"When someone else fooishly puts their ass at risk and gets thrown in a Japanese slammer for no telling how long, that's a good deal so long as it generates some publicity and income for me."
Welcome aboard, Poundstone.
Please let me know if you want on or off the Whale Wars ping list.
I want the Japanese to put the National Skeet Shooting Team on one of their ships. When the hippies start throwing bottles of acid at them just blast them out of the sky.
He's coming home and the Hamilton father of anti-whaling skipper Pete Bethune says it's a ''terrific relief''.
Mr Bethune has been in Japanese custody since February after boarding a Japanese whaling ship in the Southern Ocean but yesterday he received a two-year suspended sentence in a Tokyo court. He is expected home on Saturday morning.
Don Bethune has not spoken to his son since he was first detained, but today said he was likely to give him a couple of days' grace to deal with media and well-wishers. They have had only limited contact through letters and Mr Bethune has not been allowed telephone contact since his arrest.
The suspended sentence appears to be the result of a deal struck between anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd and Japanese officials banning Mr Bethune from future expeditions. The suspended sentence means he will not go to jail unless he commits another crime on Japanese soil in the next five years.
Sea Shepherd captain Paul Watson said last night that the organisation knew what the sentence was several days ago, ''because we'd already arranged for Pete Bethune's air ticket''. He did not elaborate on the deal.
Mr Bethune's wife, Sharyn Bethune, suspected a deal had been done. ''I've heard that rumour too. Good if they did - it got him home.''
Japanese prosecutors and prowhalers had pushed for a jail term for the former Hamilton sailor, who pleaded guilty in May to four charges of illegally boarding the Shonan Maru II - which earlier had been involved in a collision with his boat Ady Gil. But he denied a charge of assault. After the sentencing, Mr Bethune said he was ''very relieved and thankful at the decision from the Japanese court''.
''I am truly sorry for all the trouble and worry this has caused my family and am desperate to get back home to see them.''
Good work Captain Komura. Thank you for your service.
Well, if this Bethune is caught a second time, I very much doubt that the Japanese government will show such leniency again. And Japanese prison time is very hard time.