We should nuke Japan. Then we'd be even. Too bad this earthquake happened instead.

If only a tsunami was a payback for Pearl Harbor, I would hate to see what happens to the United States.

Seriously incredulous at those facebook responses. Unbelievable. No mention whatsoever of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. We need better history education in this country.

It doesn't even matter, the fact that Pearl Harbor was mentioned at all shows a distinct lack of critical thinking skills. If you teach them history without the thinking then they'll just learn the wrong lessons from it anyway.

/America, Fuck yeah

People are idiots.

For any still interested in the nuclear issue, this is a really good editorial by an MIT nuclear engineer/physicist.

http://mitnse.com/

I posted it on facebook, but anyone concerned about the alleged 'map of fallout' from Japan to the US. It's bunk. See snopes.com. Just forestalling that.

I had to google the map. had to roll my eyes.

OMG DEATH AND TERROR

So, madmax is just EW when he doesn't get enough attention on his on sn, right?

^^ No, it's what happens when you have a culture that values others before themselves.

Or, just a culture that is prepared for earthquakes.

:rolleyes:

It's not Black History Month anymore. It's WOMEN's History Month. But the only Wimminz that don't value human life are the ones getting abortions, amirite?

Ignoring that this is madmax
 

I guess you also watched the morning news.

It bothers me when news agencies say things like "the people in Japan are so calm which is contrast to the looting, etc. after Hurricane Katrina and Haiti...this is a testament to the Japanese as a people and Japan as a country."

The other side of that "compliment" (which, as far as I'm concerned is just as much of a compliment as tokenism comments like "Asian students are so great at math") is exactly whom are the Japanese people being compared to right now? And why? Is that comparison even necessary? And to say that the Japanese are so calm and this is a testament to something, you are really implying that they are the opposite of what America is. That's problematic and stupid particularly coming from the American news agencies.

The calm in Japan is a combination of a number of factors, including:
1. The quick response to this tragedy on the part of the Japanese emergency agencies.
2. The quick response from America and other industrialized nations such that people are wondering why the hell the response on the part of America didn't seem so quick during Hurricane Katrina. I don't know why but I know global economy and America's debt to Japan is probably a component of that.
3. Cultural differences that can translate to an emphasis on meditation during disasters rather than acting out. This is also connected to Japan and similar industrialized nations having a lower homicide rate than the United States, but having higher rates of suicide. This relationship is correlated with culture for a number of reasons including how some consider meditation and self-reflection to be more conducive to harming oneself (suicide and self-harm, alcohol, drug use) rather than harming others (looting, killing, raping).

All people see is a sense of calm and order. The implications of that remains to be seen.

I was wondering why you typed such a lengthy response -- then I saw the heading for your post :)