Thursday, December 1, 2022

                       A RISING TIDE LIFTS ALL LAME DUCKS


 "WHAT SEA LEVEL RISE ?"
 MAR A LAGO REOPENS AS SAIL-IN CRAB SHACK            
Dread Pirate Trump's Guests of Honor Include Cannibal King & Admiral Fuentes
Hearing Fuentes call America "a vast mideastern bazaar with nothing on sale but cockroaches on sticks', Trump asked Ye, the performance artist formerly known as Skull Island Chief Executive King Kangye, if he'd brought Fuentes along as his apprentice or his lunch?
       
                             THE  PIRATE  SHIPPING  NEWS
Many an Aarrrgh!  has been heard  in  the Port O'New York of  late, as the  China Trade be run hard Aground by bo'suns too poxy with Covid to swing a cat and Shanghai able-bodied  Heathens to man the container ship yards. 

Pilots' Club sources say the Great Wall  & Kraken Moat Trump erected to extirpate the Palm Beach Bath & Tennis Club has amplified the coastwise shortage of seamen from Commodore Biden's ban on trans-shipping Gulf Coast washashores to Martha's Vineyard, as  Trump's policy  prevents Barbarees, Levanters & Lascaradoes  from coming ashore to be Shanghaid. A Port of New York bilge-barrister is scanning Ye Black Book of Admiralty to see if  this be contrary to the Code, as idle press gangs mean whaling 



ships lie idle as whale oil inflation soars!
New-Captured Logs 
  FOREIGN  PIRACY   
Al Qaeda's been Codswalloped , but ISIS has come ashore in Sinai
The Council On Foreign Pirations reports some  Sallee marabouts have landed their poxy Sinbad  Jihad  in Sharm El Sheikh, to help the Corsair caliphate hold the UN hostage for Alternative Energy subsidies on xebec careenage & peg-leg repair.

Ye Pyrate Law Review

 Former  Harvard Law Review President interviews  Bofun Watts
 USE IT TO READ THE SCIENCE  LITERATURE ?  SINK ME, NO !
IT BE ME THERMOMETER  READING EYE.

    THE PIRACY WARMING POLICY FOUNDATION    
      Avast, Ye  Warmin'  Earthers! 
No loss of gross dubloon product can be found to justify the squally monsoon' n'mega-drought  scuttlebutt abroad in Davos.
Vice Admiral  Monckton sayeth that if it be hot in Madagascar, juft, wear ship, tack through  the Northwest Passage and plunder the sea otter harvest to sell to the Siberian fur trade
  

 AND  STOP YER  PRESSES!
Cap'n Ken Haapala the Flying Finn wants Coverin Climate Now to keelhaul, draw & quarter all those found guilty of disinforming Tucker Carlson's audience with videos of his beach house going under like Port Royal during Hurricane Ian, as he was safely inland in Maine at the time and the waters will recede completely in time for him to winter in Florida.

Piracy Has A Long & Brutal Ahoystory. 
 Admiralty   law   contains   useful precedents  for counterterrorism. Due  process  is  paramount, as in how  it  deals with Somali sea  dogs: 
If  they  wear  the  Red  Sea  rig,
We make'em dance th'hempen jig

Pirate Equity & Democracy Continue To Evolve  
That chase be  making full sail, but good  Governance  before the  mast now  includes write-in votes for the Black Spot»   











Essays & Affadavys


The Institute for Advanced Filibustering 
suggests sensitivity training could help reduce the carbon footprint. of corsair coastal raids.


JOURNAL OF  THE  MODERN  
PIRACY  ASSOCIATION

A  double blind study using Tunis arrack as a Demerara rum placebo revealeth  hands whats  given  extra  grog  tend  to  Rape, Pillage  & Loot  all  the  more, and sure as perdition are thus difposed to Burn  less in the Infernal Regions in the Long Run



The Paris Pirate Review

Them Frenchy Anthropocene Semioticians be askin' if quotation marks around Obituaries for Admiral Latour  be the new boldface?

 Arrh, and  Cap'n Koonin's WSJ op-ed  be old & lame as  the smoked rats in  the  lobscouse  o'a  grog  shop  what  runs up  a  "Fine Food" burgee.  Don’t expect such usage to overhaul Bristol fashion English ... more» 
Available in better grog shops coastwise
























Th’ doxy was dazzled  by Cap'n  Sartre’s  brilliance  as  a scuttlebut  philosopher.  For Simone  de Beauvoir, smart as paint  terms  like 'essence' , or  'contin'ency'  were like a  chest  O’gold pistoles' or a  carton  of  Habana  Disque Bleu  segarilloes ... 

Booty can’t buy happiness.
 Yet there be a strong correlation between the clime o' a country 'n its general level o' happiness, accordin to  Captain Morano O' the K-Street pirate fleet.  But it's hard to believe hotter is better when the tar on yer hat starts to run…more»






NEW GEAR FOR DAVY"S LOCKER:
GUNNERS  RAVE OVER REVOLUTIONARY  METALLIC HYDROGEN CANNONBALLS 

“ Sink me, n'I have felt it meself,” Freeman Dyson said
“The glitter o' nuclear weapons.  It be  irresistible if ye come t' 'em as a scientist: an illusion o' illimitable   power.” Arrrh, Tis time for another broadside-- hail the powder monkey  to fetch 10 more kilotons from the magazine ..more»  



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