A late afternoon wrap..

Not a full wrap— with news developing fast and furious, more information will be coming through the night..

NUKE PLANT CRISIS HAS ‘WORSENED CONSIDERABLY’…
Europe’s energy commissioner: ‘Apocalypse’…
Japan works to contain nuclear threat after quake

And as if we didn’t know:

Special report: Big California quake likely to devastate state

Can Japan go through any more hell on earth than they are?? Nuclear snow..quake near Tokyo.. Run on food and panic ensues.. It’s getting depressing, more than normal, watching news..

USS Ronald Reagan, other US Navy ships move toward Japan coast after pulling out due to radiation fears - Reuters

…and then the sun brightened the sky, and another typical day in the life of humankind began again…

Goodmorning, indeed.

WHY IS THERE NO LOOTING?

…It’s an interesting question posed by the UK TELEGRAPH..

Japan is filled with very decent, good people… but why no looting?

Why no violence? None.

Interesting readers and followers respond, I’d be interesting hearing your thoughts.

WHY IS THERE NO LOOTING?

Too early for Japan jokes?

For Gilbert Gottfried, it is.. He has been fired as the AFLAC voice for these two tweets, which may be a bit too much a bit too soon:

"Japan is really advanced. They don’t go to the beach. The beach comes to them." He also posted: "I just split up with my girlfriend, but like the Japanese say, ‘They’ll be another one floating by any minute now."

Read more: Gilbert Gottfried canned as Aflac Duck voice | Atlanta Business Chronicle

So who will take over? I’d say… Don Rickels! Take advantage of him while he’s here

Sarah McLaughlin

Angel

We need some angels on earth tonight.

The absolutely horrifying aftermath of the hell on earth Japan turned into..

A victim’s hand sticks out among the rubble after a magnitude 8.9 earthquake and tsunami struck Rikuzentakata, northern Japan March 13, 2011

REUTERS/Toru Hanai

I could cry..

Students hold candles during a prayer ceremony for victims of the Japan earthquake and tsunami inside a government school in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad March 14, 2011

REUTERS/Krishnendu Halder

Radiation levels have 'increased to levels that can impact human health' around Fukushima.. Japan is telling people around the plant to remain indoors..

This is a major amplifying up of Japan’s government’s statements. After days of calm, real warnings are finally beginning.. God bless Japan and its people… No one deserves to live through this.

Stock futures plunge 16 percent after PM radiation comments

The government finally admits.....

  Japan prime minister: Radiation leaking from damaged nuclear plant

Fourth Explosion at Nuclear Plant in Japan

URGENT: Higher radiation recorded north of Tokyo

URGENT: Higher radiation recorded north of Tokyo

Remember the Westboro Baptist Church?... they are longing for your attention

So much so that they decided now they will protest at the funeral of the death of CHILDREN who died in a fire..
Seriously..?

Westboro Baptist Church… Enough already!

Remember the Westboro Baptist Church?... they are longing for your attention

Before and afters.....

 

 

Hundreds of dead have washed ashore on Japan’s devastated northeast coast since last week’s earthquake and tsunami

## EXPLOSION HEARD AT UNIT 2.. ##

Just in.. just developing.. Just breaking.

Good luck Japan.

A second hydrogen explosion in three days rocked a Japanese nuclear reactor Monday and fuel rods were left dangerously exposed at another unit, as authorities worked to avert any catastrophic release of radiation in the tsunami zone

Latest AP urgent..

And remember, if you are not paying attention to how important this earthquake/tsunami/impending nuclear disaster is in Japan, consider this: 1.Japan’s earthquake shifted balance of the planet

And remember, if you are not paying attention to how important this earthquake/tsunami/impending nuclear disaster is in Japan, consider this: 1.Japan’s earthquake shifted balance of the planet