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Tuesday, March 24, 2009

The Unluckiest Man in the World

Tsutomu Yamaguchi has to be the unluckiest man in the world. It seems he received burns to half his body when Hiroshima was nuked on August 6th, 1945, while he was on a business trip to the city. So, he immediately went home.......to Nagasaki.....and three days later.....

Kyodo: 93-Year-Old Man Recognized as 'Double Hibakusha' Nagasaki, March 24 Kyodo -- The Nagasaki municipal government has officially recognized a 93-year-old man as a double sufferer of radiation from the U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945, city officials said Tuesday. Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a resident of Nagasaki, was earlier recognized to have suffered from the atomic bombing of Nagasaki on Aug. 9, 1945. Three days earlier, he was exposed to radiation in the first atomic bomb blast in Hiroshima. The fresh recognition was inserted into the official certificate for an atomic bomb sufferer, or hibakusha, provided to Yamaguchi, the officials said. Yamaguchi is probably the first double hibakusha whose certificate carries official recognition of his exposure to radiation both in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, they said. The municipal government has found that Yamaguchi sustained serious burns to the upper half of his body in Hiroshima when he was exposed to radiation on Aug. 6, 1945 at a point some 3 kilometers from ground zero while he was staying in the western Japanese city on a business trip from Nagasaki. Yamaguchi was again exposed to radiation the following day when he entered a point about 2 km from ground zero in Hiroshima to take a train back to Nagasaki, the findings showed. After returning to Nagasaki, Yamaguchi was exposed to radiation in the atomic blast on Aug. 9 and also entered an area near ground zero in the southwestern city on Aug. 13. In January this year, Yamaguchi asked the Nagasaki city government to add his exposure in Hiroshima to his hibakusha certificate. Acting upon the request, the municipal government added the fresh description to his certificate on Monday, the officials said. Those carrying a hibakusha certificate are eligible to receive various allowances and medical treatment free of charge at designated hospitals.

3 comments:

Jim O said...: Two A-Bombs, ans he's still here at age 93! I'd like to know his diet and exercize regimen.; 8:14 AM
Mark said...: And I thought I was the unluckiest man in the world. Just goes to show, there's always someone worse off than yourself.

That's why I always remind myself of an old saying, "I cried because I had no shoes, until I met a man who had no feet."; 7:34 AM
Anonymous said...: I'm wondering how long ago he got his original certificate, and why so long for him to be recognized as a double? I guess you can't really give him double benefits, hmm?; 9:08 AM

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1. Hate makes people stoopid.

2. There is nothing so impenetrable as a closed mind.

3. A stupid person is not someone who can't learn, but someone who refuses to learn.

4. It is a small mind that has no room for God.

5. You can take Stalin out of the gene pool, but you can't take Stalinism out of liberals.

6. The best way to sabotage a bad plan is to follow it to the letter.

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12. Profanity is ignorance made audible.

13. An open mind is a liberal's worst enemy.

14. Paternalism is the purest form of racism.

15. People who bend the truth, usually bend it in their favor.

16. If you always stand in opposition to liberalism, you will never be wrong.

18. Life is simple. People who make it complicated usually have an agenda.

19. Getting your news from the corrupt, liberal media is like sticking your head in the sand, except you don't get grit in your teeth.

20. Liberals' emotional development stops at the age of 16.

21. To anger a conservative, lie to him. To anger a liberal, tell the truth.

22. Idealism seldom matches up with reality.

23. Those who don't hate communism have never lived it.

24. This was a much more civil country when men walked about heavily armed.

25. This economy will never heal as long as Obama keeps picking at the scab.

26. Liberals don't think outside the box; they ARE the box.

27. You cannot change the hearts and minds of liberals, because they possess neither.

28. There is no such thing as a kind liberal.

29. Reading Democratic Party platforms is like reading the history of human rights abuses and crimes against humanity in this country.

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Over the years I've been writing this blog, I've been throwing out little self-evident truths that seem to have no exceptions that prove the rule. I've made a list of some of them and will add to it as I remember them or make up more. Most of this list I've come up with myself. A few I've borrowed from others.

1. Always expect the worst from a liberal and you will never be surprised.

2. Never try to reason with a liberal. They disregard any evidence that conflicts with their beliefs.

3. You can always tell what liberals are up to by what they accuse conservatives of doing.

4. Liberals don't debate, they argue.

5. The only standards liberals have are double standards.

6. Liberals feel, conservatives think.

7. Whenever you don't understand a liberal's motives, just look for the money.

8. Liberals cannot be embarrassed. They lack the gene to blush.

9. The Liberal Golden Rule is, "Do unto others but scream bloody murder if they do unto you."

10. Liberals don't have leaders, they have demi-gods.

11. There are no honest liberals. If they were honest -- especially to themselves -- they would be conservatives.

12. A liberal's business is nobody's business, but everyone's business is a liberal's business.

13. Liberals have an inflated sense of self-worth. They are like house flies that criticize the air-worthiness of a Stealth fighter. (Sarah Palin, George W. Bush, ad infinitum are morons.)

14. Liberals lack a sixth sense that conservatives have in abundance -- common sense.

15. Liberals never stop hating.

16. There are only two types of liberals -- the deceivers and the deceived. The difficulty is telling them apart.

17. Every time liberals get on their high horse, they get bucked off.

18. Liberal programs are so wonderful that they have to be forced on people.

19. Liberals always choke on their own medicine.

20. When given a moral choice, liberals always come down on the wrong side of the fence.

21. The only way liberals can build themselves up is by tearing others down.

22. Liberals not only refuse to learn from their mistakes, they refuse to admit them.

23. Liberals have only two political positions -- blind devotion and blind hatred.

24. Liberals are incapable of attacking the message, so they always attack the messenger.

25. Liberal diversity is only skin deep.