Sorry for the combo, I've been working and testing and essaying. But now that that's all done, I am blogging. Again.
And I want to address an interesting little fight between the human rights activists and the animal rights activists. (I know, mistake number one that they make is to think that you have to choose one of the causes only.) They're getting hot and steamy on peoples' walls, throwing irrational conclusions at one another and generally creating a war against those who think the Japanese community got what they deserved.
Call me a purist but I think that no matter how much you don't like someone, or someones, they do not deserve to suffer the loss of thousands upon thousands of lives. They are not "getting what's coming to them" nor is it "karma". I hereby dub it A Natural Disaster, with disaster having the nasty connotation of being the ruining and altering of lives, land, luxury and lotssofmoney.
So if you haven't heard, someone brought the phrase "The Cove" into an earthquake/tsunami/radioactive Japan. The Cove is a documentary on the massacre of over 23 000 dolphins off Japan's coast each year. It is not legal and is underhand. This meat is sold as whale meat and in which toxic levels of mercury are found.
(This video is ohkay for the squeemish.)
Basically, due to this immoral act, outspoken nobody's are saying that Japan deserved the Natural Disaster. I love dolphins, and am strongly for the protest against dolphin slaughter. And I love people. The key issue in this argument is that people want you choose a side: either the dolphins or the people. People choosing the dolphins generally are the ones saying that they will not pray for Japan and Japan and its people deserved it. People for Japan, are more open-minded.
To settle this argument, take The Most Famous Dr. Seuss's words, "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Use these words and get involved in these two worthy causes!
Here's the link to help the Japanese Red Cross Relief: http://www.jrc.or.jp/english/relief/l4/Vcms4_00002070.html
And here's the link to The Cove's page: www.ecojoia.com
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