Today, September 19, is International Talk Like a Pirate Day!  Why have we not been hearing from TPM's resident full-time pirate?

As we're all seeing, the world is yours, Pirate Peet. 

Sing along, mateys!  Everybody, now:

ACQUIRE!  MERGE!  MARAUD!  DILUTE!  DILUTE!

AARGH!

I was watching a video clip of Sarah Palin attempting to answer a question at the Town Hall meeting about oil drilled in the U.S., and how we can be assured that oil produced in the U.S. will be sold here and not in the global market.  I had to watch the video three times, and I still could not understand what the hell she was saying.  It was f*cking baffling.  I really did try to understand.  After all, according to John McCain, Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone else in the country.

On my third viewing of the video, I recalled having seen something that seemed very, very similar....