Jesse Ventura (Navy Seal, Wrestler, and Minnesota Governor from 1999-2003) was on Larry King last Monday night giving commentary on the White House Correspondence Dinner, the disputed Minnesota Senate election, and other things. It appeared Ventura wanted to say his quip of poetry very badly, as he mentioned it three times during his interview.

On the night that Jesus Christ supposedly rose from the dead,
The Navy SEALS shot three pirates straight through the head.

(In reference to the Somalian pirates that held Captain Richard Phillips captive)

Youtube link here, starts at 1:50. Larry King Transcript here.

From the Huffington Post

***UPDATE 9:32AM EST***
Adm. William Gortney said Monday that it took only three shots for Navy snipers to kill the trio of pirates holding captain Richard Phillips hostage on a lifeboat drifting on the high seas.

Interviewed from Bahrain, Gortney said the takedown happened shortly after the hostage-takers were observed by sailors aboard the USS Bainbridge “with their heads and shoulders exposed.”

***UPDATE 6:36PM*** CNN is reporting that Navy sharpshooters were secretly parachuted onto the fantail of the USS Bainbridge and hid there, out of view of the pirates. When their commanders determined that Captain Phillips was “in imminent danger,” the snipers went into action. At the moment that two of the pirates came into view with one aiming an AK-47 at Phillips, the sharpshooters shot each of them in the head.

Epitaph on an Army of Mercenaries
by A.E. Housman

These, in the day when heaven was falling,
     The hour when earth’s foundations fled,
Followed their mercenary calling
     And took their wages and are dead.

Their shoulders held the sky suspended;      
     They stood, and earth’s foundations stay;
What God abandoned, these defended,         
     And saved the sum of things for pay.

(1922)

This poem was a tribute to the British Regular Army in the First Battle of Ypres (1914) by A.E. Housman