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The earthquake the world forgot? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific- Not surprising really. I don't recall any nations rushing with their armies to protect civilians when the army rulers were shooting monks in the streets in Burma a while back or preventing aid reaching tens of thousands dying in the floods there.

llama, your otherwise interesting post is diminished, unfortunately, by what I consider to be a less than sensitive invective reference to a group of people: "and take out the camel turds." love&peace.

I think that all these leaders want their own war on their resumes. Not a scabby second hand war they inherited from their predecessors, but their very own war. No, you ain’t a real leader unless you have sent your people to die and kill other people. The trick is finding a nice neat war that can have spectacular fireworks at the beginning and a quick resolution (images of Bush celebrating ‘Victory’ on some ship). I guess a shoot - ‘em - up of the Libyans looked like just the ticket.

What a freaking mess. I've seen news reports of American soldiers in open revolt to their Commander & Chief's (Obama's) policy in Libya to the tune "What the hell is the objective here?" The left and the right (among anybody paying attention) are going nuts that Obama did not inform Congress and the American people with a clearly laid out plan of going to war as The War Powers Act demands. This is a mess! Some of these "rebels" in Benghazi are indeed Al Quieda. We stopped the slaughter of innocents in Benghazi and now it's time to turn it over to the British, the French and The Arab League and let the blood be on their hands. Obama's actions in this fiasco are worrying to a large degree. Maybe he doesn't get it and maybe if the Repubs come up with non-loony ticket in 2012 he is going to get his ass kicked by a Romney/Paul ticket. MacArthur said to March on Beijing in the 50s. Looks good in retrospect. Common sense says it's time for the allies to put boots on the ground to Tripoli and take out the camel turds. It may force another issue on the matter of the Libyans having retained weapons of mass destruction. Better to find out now than when an all-out conflagration happens in the Middle East as it is clearly heading in that direction. Save American might for Yemen, the most radical terrorist state in the process of falling to the terrorists in the next six months as well as Bharain, where the 5th American naval fleet is based. Democratic change is good bot nobody said it wouldn't be scary or hazardous.

Pat Oliphant takes a swing at European leaders for not acting aggressively toward the Libyan situation, expecting Uncle Sam to "take care of it". (Yesterday's cartoon)Today, French President Nicolas Sarkozy has stepped forward to provide air support for the rebels in their effort to maintain control over the city of Benghazi and to stop Gadhafi from killing his own people. Meanwhile, conditions in Japan reveal the Japanese resilience and determination in the ugly face of natural and nuclear catastrophe, winter weather, and the disruption of food and medical supplies. Please consider financial assistance through the Red Cross, Salvation Army and Heart to Heart International, to name just a few charitable relief organizations.

Don't worry, it all good. You don't need the thyroid pills,

But perhaps apropos of not that much, I've been reminded in recent days not of Chernobyl, but of that very sick feeling I had driving home from seeing "The China Syndrome" and hearing the breaking news about Three Mile Island on the car radio (we thought at first it was some kind of "War of the Worlds"-style promo for the movie that we'd just seen). The movie scared the bejeezus out of me, and combined with the TMI news I thought we were facing the end of the world as we knew it, and I most decidedly did NOT feel fine. That feeling is back....

free live stream of NHK news in English: http://wwitv.com/tv_channels/6810.htm peace.

...Would lead one to a reasonable conclusion that more seismic activity off the Oregon coast now has a higher probability. Lets hope LA & SF aren't included. The Jappanese are now using last ditch efforts to cool the reactor cores in six power plants with two in dire danger. There have been two partial meltdowns. They are using sea water in a last ditch effort to cool the remaining reactors. Hopefully, this will kill the effort to revive the nuclear power option, though Obama is quoted as saying that we need to learn lessons from these accidents so we can move forward with this type of power production. His unflagging support of nuclear power is puzzling, to say the least.

Crescent City and Brookings,OR. both had their harbors badly damaged. Many boats destroyed or damaged and the docks washed out. Our little port came through unscathed but one wave was funneled up by the jetty and pushed logs a couple hundred feet inland. There is subduction zone about 50 miles off the coast here that hasn't ruptured in over 300 years and is expected to produce a 9.0 or greater earthquake when it does. Thoughts and prayers to the people of Japan.