Whale Wars Premiers Tonight

Animal Planet Channel ^ | June 4, 2010 | Animal planet

[mad_as_he$$]

I have gone around or two with at bay. Today I just decided that I would have some fun with the mentally challenged.

I could not agree more about Whale Wars. I watch it and then go watch Deadliest Catch and am so struck by the competence of commerce vs the stooges of the Sea Hippies.

[mad_as_he$$]

Are you so challenged that you cannot keep posters straight? I never said a word about Snapple bottles.

Oh and the threat of throwing a snowball can be an assault. Get over it.

Real insightful response to the facts posted there self proclaimed genius.

[at bay]

Whaddaya mean we’re out of bait?.....Let’s transfer deckhands from ship to ship-—hey did he go under the boat?....let’s light some firecrackers.... Hey who wants to slide around deck? Z z zsix weeks work and that’s it? We all quit (one boat) I swear I’m gonna punch my brother out...

You were being sarcastic, weren’t you?

No, but I do like “Dumbest Fools Risking their Lives at sea” because the guys remind of their catch— you can haul a crab up and he still won’t let go of the bait even if it means he will lose his life.

[at bay]

“Oh and the threat of throwing a snowball can be an assault.”

Every year up in Lake Tahoe the police make dozens of arrests of little kids threatening to throw snowballs. If they fake throwing at a dog it’s considered animal cruelty.

[mad_as_he$$]

Normal families laughing all the way to the bank.

Whereas Fat Watson goes around holding his had out.

You have a problem with firecrackers? Men blowing off some steam - so what?

[mad_as_he$$]

So what do you call ramming a ship in the open sea thousands of miles from the nearest land? Would that per chance be ASSAULT?

And once again you make my point. Throwing a snowball at a dog is animal cruelty - NOTICE: NOT ASSAULT!

It’s people like you who cannot understand normal thinking that are screwing this country up.

[moehoward]

The show is well put together. Some of the false suspense is pretty cheesy. Like when one of the Zodiacs can't be raised on the radio.

".....but I don't want to see them killed in a Whale sanctuary under the bogus loophole of supposed research."

The japanese have a very long history of ignoring laws regarding fishing territories. The quotas' are bogus, but it really wouldn't matter if they didn't exist at all.

While I'm fairly certain I wouldn't agree with most of the Sea Shepard crews political views, what the Jap whalers do is about as despicable as it gets.

[jonascord]

Japanese whalers, and for that matter, the entire Japanese fishing industry are probably the most blandly arrogant eco-rapers on the planet. All the whales they take are for "scientific reseach." and they like to use the meat to feed school children. They are the ones who invented the 25 mile long drift nets (gill nets, from the surface to 500 feet deep) that leave a desert in their wake. They all but wiped out North Pacific salmon. They net every thing and kill what they don't want. They are the ones who bait and gaff sharks, of any size, and type, slice off the fins and deep 6 the rest of the still alive fish.

I suspect the only way they are going to stop is when the oceans are completely barren of all life. Maybe the NorKs could sink Japanese whalers, but I think Kim is too chickens%$#.

The most amusing thing of all is that the Japanese like to use "Cultural Diversity" arguments on the tree huggers, which leaves the less commited eco-loons stuttering.

[moehoward]

I'm up in the Pacific Northwest, so I'm familiar the lengths that are taken in an effort to justify these "cultural traditions". Washington State has pretty much given away the farm on seafood quotas to the local tribes.

There's a good short book by Jun Morikawa called, Whaling in Japan: Power, Politics, and Diplomacy. Excerpt at Amazon.

Whaling whoppers debunked - The Japan Times
"The author draws our attention to the ICR-orchestrated media campaign aimed at convincing Japanese that whaling is part of their national identity. The ICR also tries to spur whale consumption, but to little avail. A major problem for whaling advocates is that Japanese consumers are not buying even heavily subsidized whale meat; one third of the meat harvested through "scientific research" remains unsold."
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"Japan's whale-eating culture was also very limited in scope and, according to Morikawa, is "an invented tradition, only lasting 20 years from the end of WWII to the early 1960s." During the U.S. occupation, whale meat became part of the national school lunch program, explaining why Japan's aging baby boomers evince a nostalgic nationalism over the issue."