Pearl Harbor Karma bullshit

There is a growing movement afoot that believes that what Japan is going through right now is karmic payback for the attack on Pearl Harbor.

Can you believe that shit?

Let's look at the numbers.

In the attack on Pearl, we lost 2,402 Military Personnel and 57 Civilians.

In the entire Pacific Campaign we lost a total of 17,861 Military Personnel.

In the entirety of WWII (Pacific Campaign and European Theater combined) we lost 416,800 Military Personnel and 1,700 Civilians.

Wow! That's a lot of people dead. Let's see the Japanese losses.

It's hard to count exactly how many they lost to us directly since they were fighting many battles with China and Southeastern Asia, but from what I can determine from the Historical documentaries and websites I can find, in the Pacific Campaign they lost 1,140,570 Military in the Pacific Campaign.

So for every Soldier, Sailor and Marine that they killed at Pearl, they lost 474.8 men in return. For every Soldier, Sailor and Marine that they killed in the Pacific Campaign, they lost 63.8 men.

So we're looking at nearly a 64-to-1 ratio.

Looking at the war in total, they lost 2,120,000 Military and between 500,000 and 1,000,000 civilians.

Crunching those numbers against our losses in the whole war on both fronts, that means that for every American man, woman and child killed in the entirety of the Second World War, they lost between 6.2 and 7.4 of their own.

So Mr. and Mrs. "Japan is finally getting payback for Pearl Harbor", They've already paid for it by the time the war ended. Even if you factor in the belief that many pagans have of "everything being returned times three" they've still paid for it at least twice over.

THIS IS NOT KARMA!

This is simply a tragic occurrence.

And before you go ahead and blather on about how smugly superior you are, think of this. Your fellow Americans when Katrina hit New Orleans decided to loot the shit out of everything. Now I know that someone is going to point out that poor family who were looting some clean clothes and telling their story in front of the news cameras, but did you notice the fuckers stealing the TV's, Gaming Consoles, Computers, and other electronics in the background? Huh? Did you?

Or how about your fellow Americans who decide that when some judge hands down a verdict that is not well received by the community that was wronged by the defendant. Ever wonder why they as "Morally superior Americans" decided that the best thing to do was to riot, loot, and pillage that same community that was wronged in a way that was a thousand times worse than the defendant ever did?

Rodney King got the shit beaten out of him. The community suffered 53 deaths, thousands of injuries, and roughly One Billion dollars in property damage thanks to a six-day riot.

Or how about all the times that the fans after a major win at a sporting event will pour out of the stadiums and start tear-assing through the streets looting, rioting, and carrying on cranky in general.

Now let's look at "Japan the evil collection of heathens". Huh? Look at that. No riots. Grocery stores reduce prices, people are orderly, vending machine owners are giving away free drinks, and everyone is doing their part to help out in what is a horrific situation.

Gee! Not so morally superior anymore are we?

As someone said on a CNN blog...

"Two words: National pride. The people of Japan love their country and do what is best for the nation, unlike the United States where we love our country and do what is best for ourselves."

I think that covers it pretty well.

So if you still think that Japan is suffering this because of Karma over Pearl Harbor, you go and keep thinking that. Your words are making it easier to tell who the fools are.

Yahoo! Answers needs to be shut down.

I'm through playing the game.

What's my beef with Y!A? Simple. They have no structure in place to properly report violations to their Terms of Service and Community Guidelines that in any way shape or form could even begin to be considered "Fair".

Recently I received three violation notices. One of them was someone reporting me for telling them to stop asking the same question over and over ad-infinitum every 30 seconds.At first it was a question about someone who was a little freaked out over Spontaneousness Human Combustion. They wanted people to give examples of how it couldn't happen.

I did...the FIRST time.

Three days. Three days of it popping up every few hours, sometimes every few minutes. I reported it as Spam which is clearly marked on the report page as a violation of Community Guidelines. Nothing. None of her posts were removed and they didn't stop coming in every few hours.

And it's word for freaking word. It's a cut and paste job.

So I post in frustration that they need to stop and that people have answered the question already. That *I* had answered the question.

I got the notice that they pulled my question and deducted 10 points from my account.

The second violation was more of the same. It was someone asking who is getting their tax refund on such and such date. Every 10 minutes. I did the same thing. I reported it and nothing happened. I reported them ALL...nothing happened. I answered to tell them to stop and let people answer the question instead of violating the Community Guidelines and spamming people.

Guess who lost another 10 points and got the finger waggled at? I'll give you a hint. It wasn't the other guy.

This last time REALLY pissed me off. Yet another person freaking out about 2012 and the supposed end of the world.

There are times I almost wish it would end just so I could spend my last moments flipping off the dregs of humanity and telling them what I really think of the pathetic little cock-stains.

I have a cut and paste answer explaining the Mayan Long Count calendar. I've used it several times. This time I got the message from the Y!A thought police saying that I was spamming and thus in violation of the Community Guidelines.

I thought to myself that they have GOT to be kidding. So I contest that one...and lost. It seems that using a cut and paste answer is in violation of some passage hidden in the rules and regulations by some esoteric DaVinci Code like method that only the Illuminati know. Yet the cut and paste questions are not.

And even the ones that I didn't answer and just flat out reported. None of them were EVER pulled.

• What is the best blunt instrument to bash in a cat's skull?
• I just chased down my dog with my car and ran it over. It's still alive. What do I do now?
• What is the best lubricant for anally mastering a 12-year boy?
• That one was on long enough to have had a "Best Answer" selected by the asker when someone stated that Astroglide or other water based lubes were too thin and would cause chaffing.
• Best ways to hack someone's World of Warcraft (or Xbox Live, PS3 or other gaming) account.
• How to hire a hooker and not get nailed by the police.
• What's the best lighting to use to grow pot indoors.

Basically, if it was ever mentioned in the Community Guidelines as being a no-no...I've rarely seen them pulled and certainly none of the ones I've reported.

Or how about the flipside to this. All the questions I wasted my time and effort to give a good and honest answer, only to have the question pulled because someone ELSE reported it.

• How to properly cycle an aquarium
• My car is making a thump-thump-thump noise that's shaking the car.
• Having been through that recently I gave a good answer starting with the simple fix of "Check your tires for a busted belt"
• What is the best gaming PC?
• Why is my cat doing [insert crazy yet normal cat behavior here]?

And many many more. 

There is no rhyme nor reason to what gets pulled and what doesn't. This is why I think it's time for Yahoo! Answers to go the way that Google Answers did. It's time to end the failed experiment called Y!A.

So I say to you that if you are using it, perhaps it's time to stop. Spread the word around. Pass this to your friends and have them pass it to their friends. Let's try to get people to stop using it. Grass roots style. 

Let's see how Yahoo! likes having a service that has been reduced to a haven for the "My 6-year old daughter walked in on me while I was anally raping her kitten to death. How much do you think the therapy bills will be?" questions.