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Dolphin Jumps Again with Artificial Fin
Ant writes "This Yahoo! News story mentions Fuji, a mother dolphin that lost 75 percent of her tail due to a mysterious disease, being able to jump again with the help of what is believed to be the world's first artificial fin. The 34-year-old dolphin held at Japan's largest aquarium in the southern island of Okinawa wears the rubber fin for about 20 minutes a day allowing her to jump and to swim at the same speed of other dolphins."
The Vietnam vet is still sitting by the side of the road singing about how he has no legs.
Not to rag on a veteran, but what obligation do the Japanese have to make prosthetics for Americans? If you want to rail against our misplaced priorities, this is probably not the place.
"We returned the General to El Salvador, or maybe Guatemala, it's difficult to tell from 10,000 feet"
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dolphins r your friends, you shoudl not shit them
Hey, not a problem! Being able to give people such as yourself an outlet for their blinding sarcasm is what it's all about, right? You truly deserve a clap on the back for your zing in my direction! I believe that you deserve the "good work" more than I.
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Soylent Tuna is made of dolphins!! DOLPHINS I tell you!!
If life is a waste of time and time is a waste of life, let's all get wasted and have the time of our lives.
The point isn't that Japan should be giving our veterans prosthetics. The point is that in Japan, a dolphin has a prosthetic, while in America, vietnam veterans still lack prosthetics.
I dare you to spent 2 hours with a vietnam veteran. Ask him to tell you what it was like over there, and what it was like when he got back.
I for one am glad that we now make a distinction between supporting the soldier and supporting the war, and that the former does not require the latter, in fact if may preclude it (in the case of an unjust war).
Most of the time I hear conservatives liberal bashing, it's just a load of crap. But people really screwed up by hating vietnam vets; most of them didn't want to be there, they had to serve. And we, the country screwed them double - in what we put them through, and in how we have treated them since.
Those who came back with their psyches relatively intact at least had a chance to try to live the rest of their life - however haunted it may be. But MOST people who are in an extended war - I think it's 6 months - fall into one of two categories: 1) mentally scarred by the experience (this is around 90%) and 2) not affected heavily, but these people are predisposed to anger, violence, killing, etc anyway.
Oh, but it got moderated flamebait, so I'll just forget about all that... yeah, screw that guy on the side of the road who's short an arm or leg or both, who can't see or hear, who spends every night of his life in nightmares running from through dark paddies with a legion of hidden pursuers on his heels; yeah, screw that guy who can't speak full sentences because he's so screwed up from booby trapped bodies and following orders to machine gun 8 year olds. Yeah, he's lived through more than you and I will probably ever suffer in ten of our lifetimes, but it's his fault right? He was drafted, but so what? He was under duress and direct orders in a war zone, but he had a choice right? He's PTSD and schizo now, but hey, he should just "snap out of it" right? It doesn't work that way.
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