Category: News and Views
There is one American confirmed dead, and the reactor seems to be heating up. I worked some years ago with a young guy who was majoring in geography & minoring in Asian studies, a speaker of Japanese who apparently picked up other Asian languages. Last I heard he was teaching English in Japan, dating a young Japanese, & swore he'd never return to the U S. I hope he evacuated or was out of the country when the earthquake and tsunami occurred. I think folks who see these events as "payback" for Pearl Harbor 60 years ago are just as messed up as those who think we should continue affirmative action to redress conditions like slavery & discrimination centuries ago.
Wow hadn't heard the bit about payback for Pearl Harbor. Hmm inanimate nature as response to an act of war ... sounds like primitive thought all right.
Oh my Gods! There are actually people who think this is payback for Pearl Harbor? They must be insane! Then again, I actually heard a Japanese priest, in Japan, whom I would love to punch if I ever saw him. He basically said, during the middle of this mind you, that he thought this was God's punishment for Japan being so greedy. Okay, this is his opinion and he's intitled to it. But he's a priest! For the love of all that's sacred, people are dying, many are missing, there might be a nuclear melt down! At least wait until things have calmed down and then offer your thoughts in retrospect! The people need comfort and support not angry preachers telling them that they're evil!
Wow, what dumb ass could possibly think this disaster is retribution for Pearl Harbor? Geez, some people.
The Japanese people are simply amazing for how they have handled this whole crisis. If this had happened in the US, I'm ashamed of how we would be killing each other for a can of corn or God forbid water.
Anyway, it's terribly sad and we've been praying for those who've lost loved ones and those who are suffering. That sounds so tright but what else can one say when there really are no words?
The Japanese have honour, discipline and patriotism. They band together during times of trouble in order to help one another. That's what all of this is showing to me at any rate. They should be commended. And I hope that the workers in the nuclear plant, as well as Japan's president, are all eventually given honours and recognised as heroes. Those workers volunteered to stay, only 50 some odd people from a huge number and their president is there himself. While I think that President Papoulias would have done the same, even given his advanced age, the idea of Prime Minister Papandreou doing it is almost laughable.
Yeah, Tiffanitsa, folks like the Japanese priest are why I have grown cynical and believe in God but don't practice formally. A young man I know, a Muslim, came back from military service in Iraq & Kuwait with some health problems and "friends" of his said "It's retribution for killing your own people." Fuck them and the horses they rode on...in the first place this young man isn't Iraqi, and he drove a supply truck, he wasn't in combat, and when you join the U S Armed Forces...even if it's for college tuition...you go where you are sent. By that rationale a woman I knew or Portuguese descent got stuck with one of his problems, a treatable Bell's Palsy, because she killed Portuguese folks...absolute poppycock.
Pure dumb assed! I suppose every act of nature is God's punishment? Don't let is rain to much now. Sad, sad, sad people.
nuclear meltdown is inevitable.
what I do not understand is why such developed countries suddenly need so much aid. I can understand the need for foreign manpower and expertese, but not the need for money...
have Not read all of this Board's postings
just now sharing some my
FIRST thots..
was in bed and morning of
..before 4 am
clicked on t.v. with remore
cold NOT belei ve anything
like
rushing mud waters up and over a plank like
and words of telecast people
saying sue-nomi
raised myself up
and thought
what?!?!?!?!?
shocking the
various NEWS reports
telecast
took awhile to realize all the
SERIOUness of situation
it was later on... HOURS and hours
before I heard of the pre-sue-nomi
when an EARTHQUAKE had hit the area!!
om-good-ness
what-n-the-world-is
going on???
long many hours till
OM_Gd-ness
WHAT???!!!
WHAT???
The RUSHing waters up and over
like WALL
like
NewOrleans
only really more so in a BADawful way
FLOODSfloodsFloods
To-key-o Gone!!!
So appears
G -O-N-E
S H O C K -ing