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Total number of comments: 4 (since 2015-11-16 18:07:59)

Steve MacIntyre

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  • Disgraced Wasserman Schultz Resigns as DNC Chair, Gets Hired by Clinton
    • Steve MacIntyre 07/25/2016 at 7:03 pm

      Agreed that the optics are terrible. But Wasserman Schultz did not get hired by Clinton:

      link to dailykos.com

  • The real Threat to Peace? Marco Rubio Is Winning the Neocon Primary
    • Steve MacIntyre 12/10/2015 at 3:17 pm

      From the New York Times, December 8, 2015: "Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act"

      Link: link to nytimes.com

  • Is Daesh/ ISIL a modern Raiding Pirate state?
    • Steve MacIntyre 11/17/2015 at 11:58 am

      Well, if you do want to try "Black Sails" from the beginning, starting with Episode One, Season One, and you don't mind paying $2.00 per episode, Amazon offers the program as streaming video for computer and television.

      That is a one-time-only payment. Once you've given Amazon your two dollars, you can watch an episode is often as you like.

      But the library is a better idea.

    • Steve MacIntyre 11/16/2015 at 12:57 pm with 2 replies

      I recently read Colin Woodward's "The Republic of Pirates" and so know just enough to be dangerous. According to Woodward, during the "Golden Age of Pirates", even though established authorities did all in their power to portray them as such, pirate strongholds were by no means "dens of iniquity" .

      This was a time when European navies were horribly brutal to sailors, treating them virtually as slaves. By contrast, pirates elected the captains of their ships, split loot equitably, and avoided violent confrontation whenever possible, preferring intimidation to outright violence. And though Europeans and Americans were engaged in the wholesale enslavement of Africans, pirates accepted blacks into their crews as equals.

      Though it treats St. Mary's in Madagascar, the pirate stronghold Woodward's book principally focuses on is Nassau in the Bahamas. Both, being beyond the pale of colonial authority, were major smuggling centers, but neither was an especially violent place.

      Nassau during this period is the world depicted in the television series, "Black Sails", which I have quite enjoyed and highly recommend.

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