[ RadSafe ] OFF TOPIC, BUT .... --Re: Marine safety and whaling

[Maury Siskel]

Please forgive this deviation, but to help lighten the tense discourse 
on this Friday evening, consider this profound observation:

Save the Bears!  According to a news story, if global warming continues, 
in 20 years the only chance we'll have to see a polar bear is in a zoo. 
So in other words, nothing is going to change.
G'nite all,
Maury&Dog  (MaurySiskel  maurysis at peoplepc.com)

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Dan wrote:

> Dear Juan:
>
> It's Friday night and the boys are a little wild.
> Dan W McCarn
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> On Mar 12, 2010, at 7:15 PM, juan Stevens <kc5twe at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree with you both and my heart goes out to you and your very  
>> justified concern about saving the whales.  I am a member of the 
>> ASPCA and love  animals BUT WHAT  THE HECK DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH 
>> RADIATION??  IS THIS A RAD-SAFE  FORUM or NOT??
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>> From: Doug Huffman <doug.huffman at wildblue.net>
>> Subject: Re: [ RadSafe ] Marine safety and whaling
>>
>> Forcing moral equivalency between beasts and men is waay above my pay 
>> grade.  Racism stems from a false premise.  Culture-ism will out. 
>> Species-ism is death.
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>> On 3/12/2010 19:37, Jess L. Addis III wrote:
>>
>>> I watched as a big Japanese "research" commercial whaling vessel  
>>> ran over a protestor vessel (ecological terrorist?) and I have a 
>>> question  that's been on my mind a lot lately. Yes, I am an 
>>> omnivore, but: I know this is a safety list, but soooo many things 
>>> have come and  gone as of
>>> late that have stood up to scrutiny and were not strictly safety  
>>> related, I  want to ask a question.
>>>
>>> How many here think it's OK to harvest/kill/murder, whales?  Pick  
>>> the word that makes you most  comfortable/uncomfortable?
>>>
>>> Some "first world" industrialized nations that are high tech,  
>>> generally very well educated nations, the Japanese and maybe Norway 
>>> come to mind,  think it's good, as in good to eat whales, to 
>>> kill/harvest whales.
>>>
>>> It has dawned on me over time that whales have huge brains, big  
>>> eyes that see very well (day or night under water or above) and 
>>> their species  have been around much, much longer than bipedal 
>>> primates (humans) of any  stripe.
>>>
>>> These mammals, air breathers,  have been on the planet and have  
>>> watched the sun and moon go up and go down and watched the night sky 
>>> with all  its stars for millions of years longer than our species 
>>> have, may be really  "smart"
>>> and self aware, much (just) like we humans are.
>>>
>>> They sing their songs and may exchange stories and pass on history 
>>> to successive generations just like we do and may have been doing it 
>>> for millions of years longer.
>>>
>>> Most of their species didn't kill each other for any reason and  
>>> make war,  much less cut hearts out and throw people down steps of 
>>> pyramids  and such,   to make the sun come up and make rain fall.
>>>
>>> Just sayn'
>>> What do ya'll think?
>>>
>>> I'll understand if you guys want to throw me down the steps for  
>>> asking.
>>>
>>> LA
>>>
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