Posted on 01/07/2010 6:52:08 PM PST by myknowledge
So: You haven’t answered ONE of my direct challenges to your rhetoric and hearsay, and you find it acceptable to SPAM me with some link to yet another unknown (to all but the GREENIES) author’s diatribe against the Japanese whale hunt.
As I asked the previous “whaling expert”, Learn what you’re talking about, get a grip on reality, and leave ME the dickens ALONE!
If you knew HALF what you think you do, you’d be dangerous! If you knew 2/3rds what you think you do, you’d have a clue! If you knew 3/4 what you think you do, you’d know more than the NOAA!
Good heavens, if you knew 1/16 what you’re claiming, you’d be the reigning Know-It-All of the entire environmental movement!
A few years ago, a nature program showed an 14-inch baby Blue Whale "harvested" from Japanese "scientific study" of a Blue Whale hauled on board. It was an exact miniature of the mother whale, and quite sad to see—dead.
Is this the same trimaran that attempted a circumnavigation using only bio-fuels?
You frame your responses as if we hate whales or have no regard for suffering etc
Hate? No. No respect & no regard for their suffering? Absolutely!
You point to the fact that there is some footage of a ship taking whales illegally...
I did not.
I reject the morally superior verbiage you hurl...
...and I reject your justification, that it is ok to kill whales or whatever as long as it is someone's culture that is 'requiring' them to do that...it was the culture of cannibals and head-hunters to shrink heads and consume humans, but, somewhere all the line it became rather uncool and unacceptable to do that. Simply practicing that 'culture' would likely be frowned upon today.
Please, look up definitions of POACHING and LEGAL HUNTING. They are two separate actions. While you are researching your lame position, please note what “is” and “is not” endangered.
Native Americans killing bald eagles and slaughtering whales should neither one be legal...
The whaling occurs in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, an internationally ordained preserve that covers the waters surrounding Antarctica as far north as 40º S and protects 11 of the planet’s 13 species of great whales. Research is permitted in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, commercial whaling is explicitly forbidden.
I guess thy renamed it. It broke the world record for circumnavigating the globe in a motorized boat. It set the record in 60 days 23 hours and 49 minutes. On Friday June 27, 2008 Earthrace set a new powered circumnavigation of the globe world record when it crossed the finish line at 14:24 CET at Sagunto, Spain.
http://www.popularmechanics.co.za/content/outside/singlepage.asp?fid=871&pno=1
Well there ya go.
It's common knowledge that it's bad luck to remane a boat. :-P
thanks for the data! Do you have the name of the two legally accepted whales?
Hard wading through your emotion based responses. You equate hunting and eating whales to cannibalistic head hunters shrinking heads and consuming human flesh? Uh...yeah....I can see why we won’t agree on this.
Indeed, as the Earthrace, back in ‘08.
You know that, I, in no way equated hunting to head-hunting/cannibalism. You used Japanese culture to justify their slaughter of whales...I used the example of head-hunting to point out there are cultural practices that are no longer acceptable.
There are multiple reasons why we won't agree on this, twisting my words to try and validate your argument is but one of the reasons.
That may be. But they are following the laws, the treaties.
The crew of the Ady Gil were violating the laws of the sea, especially the one about ramming another ship.
And ramming a ship much larger than yours while you have a camera crew on another ship, which is also crossing their bow, in an attempt to cause them to 'hit' the smaller (but much more maneuverable) craft is just dumb, and deadly.
So who is the criminal, in this case?
This isn't about saving whales. It's about well-funded liberals who got a flashy boat and are making TV shows playing James Bond.
They have some effective equipment for driving whales away from the area, so why do they insist on damaging the whaling vessels, risking the lives of those on board?
Answer: Because, it's all about fame and fortune, and bragging rights.
Proof: They risk polluting the ocean with their own ship's fuel, just to make a point.
They would never have taken damage, had they not insisted on getting within 50 feet of the nose of the whaling ship. The water the whaling ship was spraying at them was a BIG RED SIGN that says, DON'T COME ANY CLOSER.
I guess you don't know where hamburger comes from.
This is the true law of the waterways.
Size is not important, especially these days.
The concept that it applied to 'smaller craft' is more valid when applied to wind-powered craft (sailboats) vs. runabouts.
You do understand that the whales they are taking are not endangered?
No more endangered than the cows they take to slaughterhouses and hang from a hook.
Is your grocery store a market for the scum of the Earth?
OK. First, you don't even know what species of whale these are, nor what the established hunting limits are for them, nor who is , and who is not following the treaty for the allowed hunting of them. Nor do you know their population size, and whether they are at the top or bottom of their population limit.
Prove me wrong.
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