55 Flash Fiction: Barrel
For my fifty-sixth 55 (Ohmigosh, did she just say “55″?! You mean there will be one?!) is really just a conversation I had with someone. It made me giggle…
“The Navy has six warships on their way. How is that nothing?”
“Well, Obama personally isn’t out there fighting the pirates.”
“While proclaiming ‘Mission Accomplished’?”
“Well, you know what they say about W… he can barrel-roll with the best of them.”
“I think you mean keg-stand.”
“I just knew some kind of barrel was involved.”
Story behind the story:
Some Somali pirates boarded a US-flagged cargo ship off the coast of Africa earlier this week. The ship’s crew regained control of their vessel, but not before the pirates kidnapped the captain, and are now holding him hostage on a lifeboat which is apparently dead in the water. Somali reinforcements are on their way to help out their pirate comrades. Meanwhile, a US Navy destroyer, the USS Bainbridge, is on location, with additional US “assets” on their way (*waves* Hi, asset!). But a diehard conservative I know is dissatisfied with Obama’s response, and wrote “[Diehard Conservative] is thinking Obama should learn his history lesson about the Muslim pirates before doing nothing about it: link.” The above exchange is where I was blowing off steam with another friend… it is not an exchange with the diehard conservative.
Click here to read more about this story in the news.
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April 9th, 2009 at 8:01 pm
Welcome Back Smoofie!!!
Current event 55’s are great.
This was and IS a strange saga…
Thank You so much for for very informative and political story.
Thanks for visiting, and have a Happy Easter…G
April 9th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Am I first?…hehehehe
RINGER!!!!!!
April 9th, 2009 at 10:33 pm
*sigh* The more things change… I guess the McCain response would have been to drop a nuke on Mogadishu which would have been so much better.
‘Cause he’s just a maverick that way.
April 10th, 2009 at 4:09 am
A current event.!!!! Love it. And I like the idea it’s all in conversation.
M 55 is posted. You’ll need to scroll down below my bunny rabbits to find it.
HAPPY EASTER WEEKEND.
April 10th, 2009 at 5:25 am
Hehehe..I like the barrel connection here!
Its sad about those pirate though…they held some of the Indians hostage on a Japanese ship too some time ago. Something ought to be done about them!
April 10th, 2009 at 10:57 am
welcome back, smarmy…great 55. it’s always easier for someone to say that someone isn’t doing something when they probably didn’t like that person to begin with. it’s the way of the world *sigh*.
April 11th, 2009 at 8:48 pm
Cool 55!
I’ve had a couple of similar conversations. International maritime law can be such a nuisance!
May 16th, 2009 at 11:14 pm
On our way…
=)
November 13th, 2009 at 12:02 am
[...] And I dwelled on it. And I almost, almost unfriended him. I mean, this is the same guy who criticized Obama for “ignoring” the Somali pirate situation when we had six Navy warships on their way to the region. So this was not my first political [...]