May 16, 2008
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 Nat’l Sea Monkey Day
Day 137 of 2008
229 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Kaaahi: Train
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Trene: Train
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The birds poise quietly in the gentle breeze.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “A critic is a gong at a railroad crossing clanging loudly and vainly as the train goes by.” (Christopher Morley)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.org
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Voter Watch
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango Podcasts
BLOG OF THE WEEK — LIVESTRONG Blog
May 16th, 1956: The last island in Hawaii to use Railroad announces that it won’t anymore. The railroad at Lihue, on Kauai, which was used to transport cane to the port, says that by summer, it will use trucks to haul all its cane.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 16th
- 1763: Samuel Johnson meets his future biographer James Boswell in London
- 1770: Marie Antoinette, age 14, marries the 15-year old future King Louis XVI of France
- 1866: Congress authorizes minting of a nickel 5¢ piece (replacing the silver half-dime)
- 1868: President Johnson is acquitted during Senate impeachment (by 1 vote)
- 1903: The first transcontinental motorcycle trip begins at San Francisco (George Wymann)
- 1920: Joan of Arc (Jean D’arc) is canonized in Rome
- 1929: Academy Awards are first presented (Roosevelt Hotel, Hollywood); the first Awards: Film-Wings, Actor-Emil Jennings, Actress-Janet Gaynor
- 1963: L Gordon Cooper becomes the first American to spend more then 24 hours in space (Mercury
completing 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury
- 1988: The U.S Supreme Court rules trash may be searched without a warrant
- 1991: Queen Elizabeth II becomes the first British monarch to address the U.S. Congress
- 1995: Japanese police arrest doomsday cult leader Shoko Asahara for the nerve-gas attack on Tokyo’s subways two months earlier
- 2001: Former FBI agent Robert Hanssen is indicted on charges of spying for Moscow
- 2002: The remains of kidnapped Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl are unearthed in Pakistan
- 2005: Army Specialist Sabrina Harman was convicted at Fort Hood, Texas, of six of the seven charges she faced for her role in the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. (She was later sentenced to six months in prison.)
- 2007: Nicolas Sarkozy took over from Jacques Chirac as France’s president.
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 16th
- 1801: William Henry Seward, U.S. Secretary of State
- 1905: Henry Fonda, actor
- 1912: “Studs” (Louis) Terkel, author/host
- 1913: Woody Herman, bandleader/composer
- 1928: Billy Martin, baseball manager/player
- 1931: Lowell Weicker, U.S. Senator (R-Conn)
- 1953: Pierce Brosnan, , actor
- 1955: Debra Winger, actress
- 1969: Tracey Gold, actress
- 1973: Tori Spelling, actress
- 1978: Vincent Larusso, actor
May 15, 2008
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Peace Officer Day
Day 136 of 2008
230 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ike: Knowledge
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Save: Know
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Knowledge is set up in the clouds.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some animals are more equal than others.”
(George Orwell)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.org
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Voter Watch
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango Podcasts
BLOG OF THE WEEK — LIVESTRONG Blog
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 15th
- 1602: Cape Cod is discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
- 1618: Johannes Kepler discovers his harmonics law
- 1911: The U.S. Supreme Court dissolves Standard Oil for violating the Sherman Antitrust Act
- 1915: AT&T becomes the first corporation to have 1 million stockholders
- 1940: The first nylon stockings are offered for sale in the United States
- 1980: The first trans-U.S. balloon crossing is made
- 1988: The Soviet Union began withdrawing its troops from Afghanistan.
- 1995: Dow Corning Corp. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy
- 2006: A defiant Saddam Hussein refuses to enter a plea at his trial, insisting he was still Iraq’s president
- 2006: The Pentagon discloses the names of everyone detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison since it opened four years earlier.
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 15th
- 1856: Frank L. Baum, writer
- 1890: Katherine Anne Porter, writer
- 1902: Richard Daley, Chicago mayor
- 1914: Tenzing Norgay, Nepalese Sherpa mountaineer
- 1921: Erroll Garner, jazz pianist
- 1923: Richard Avedon, photographer
- 1930: Jasper Johns, artist
- 1936: Anna Maria Alberghetti, actress/singer
- 1936: Wavy Gravy, psychedelic clown
- 1937: Trini Lopez, singer
- 1948: Brian Eno, singer
May 14, 2008
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LIVESTRONG Day
Day 135 of 2008
21 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hau‘oli: Joy
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Strongela: Strong
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He is ruthless with the hands of a gale.
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — Our truest life is when we are in our dreams awake. (Henry David Thoreau)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.org
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Voter Watch
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Podango Podcasts
BLOG OF THE WEEK — LIVESTRONG Blog
May 14th, 2008: LIVESTRONG DAY
Today, more than 600 cancer awareness and fundraising events take place all across the U.S. Every staff member from the Livestrong Foundation is attending a different event, and Lance Armstrong will be visiting a few of them himself. Learn more …
May 14th, 1948: Dream City comes true.
The Hawaiian Commercial & Sugar (HCS) and the Kahului Railroad announce that they are planning to build a new “model” city in Kahului. During the next ten years, more than 800 homes will be built on what was until then cane land. Most of the homes are offered to local workers from those cane fields, as well the railroad and some local shop.The first area to be constructed is the Kahului Shopping Center, which opens in 1951. (Two years ago the center had a bad fire which destroyed most of the east side of the complex, including Ah Fook’s Food Store, Del’s and the Salvation Army store).
Over the years, there have been live and movie theaters at the 19 acre site, along with magic stores and a horse riding accessories store.The houses were built simply and for low cost, keeping in mind the low pay of the cane workers. Some homes total cost was less than $4,000. Today there are homes in the Dream City area, which includes Wakea, Lono, and Kamehameha Streets, which are worth more than $1 million.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 14th
- 1804: Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for their exploration of the Louisiana Territory
- 1848: The Associated Press (AP) service begins operating
- 1856: Charles Darwin begins writing his book “The Origin of Species”
- 1903: President Theodore Roosevelt visits San Francisco
- 1904: The first Olympic games held in the United States opens in St. Louis
- 1973: United States launches its first space station, “Skylab 1” (it remains in orbit until July, 1979
- 1974: The Symbionese Liberation Army is destroyed in a shoot-out (6 killed)
- 2001: The Supreme Court rules 8-0 that there is no exception in federal law for people to use marijuana to ease their pain from cancer, AIDS or other illnesses
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 14th
- 1771: Robert Owen, factory owner/socialist
- 1787: Thomas Gainsborough, artist
- 1923: Diane Arbus, photographer
- 1944: George Lucas, film director
- 1946: Robert Jarvik, inventor
- 1952: David Byrne, rocker
- 1966: Fabrice Morvan, singer
- 1969: David William Wood, rocker
- 1969: Cate Blanchet, actresss
- 1971: Sofia Coppola, director
- 1973: Shanice Wilson, rocker
May 11, 2008
Raphael O'Suna
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If the people can be preoccupied with inessentials, the essentials can be controlled by the few. If the people can be preoccupied with the inessential differences among them, they will be further removed from their collective power.
Those in power have mastered the arts of diversion, division and the diffusion of the people’s awareness. They quickly define, defame, diminish, denounce and demean all those who threaten their power and position. Hamper-rummagers control right-wing radio.
To these spiritually challenged buffoons the appearance and personality of the messenger is all-important. They are incapable of seeing the soul or the quality of the message. Focussed on the chip of the lip of the cup, they cannot appreciate the beverage within. The true destiny of America is nowhere to be seen or heard in Republican politics.
Mischief and minutiae are constantly spewed out like a noxious gas, both engaging and fogging the critical mind of the electorate.
It is an unfortunate condition of this universe that black holes devour light.
– Raphael O’Suna, Haiku
May 10, 2008
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Birth Mothers Day
Day 131 of 2008
235 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Makuahine: Mother
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Papamama: Parents
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The crab exposes its teeth.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Sometimes when I look at my children I say to myself, ‘Lillian, you should have stayed a virgin.’” (Lillian Carter)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — BioWillie.com
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Always on My Mind
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Peace Research Institute
BLOG OF THE WEEK — Willie’s God! (Texas Monthly Feature - May, 2008)
May 10th, 2008: U.S. POSTAL SERVICE FOOD DRIVE
Leave a bag of non-perishable items by your mailbox for pickup today on Maui!There’s a small food revolution happening on the mainland that I just don’t think will make it to Maui. New York, Philadelphia and Boston have recently banned the serving of trans fat foods, because trans fat makes people fat, really really fat. And fat people are bad for society. How?
Yes, they take up too much room next to you on the bus, or the movie theater, or, perhaps the worst scenario, crushing you in the airplane seat next to you. But those are comfort issues and not really applicable to society at large.No, fat people cost us money, in at least two ways. The first is health care. Fat people have a host of health problems and if you have fat people on your health care plan, they have boosted the amount you must pay each month for your health service, even if you are healthy and don’t use it. Someone’s got to pay for all those fat visits, their inability to walk, the treatment for their purple ankles, and so forth. It is very difficult to estimate how much they cost non-fat people, but estimates on the internet range from $10 billion to $40 billion each year.
The second way fat people drain the economy is by missing work days. Fat people miss more work days because they call in “sick” than any other segment of the work force except smokers. Some people think this costs the American economy more than $100 billion in lost productivity each year.
So, since these people obviously don’t have self-control, American communities are now forcing them to exercise a little restraint - you want to eat junk food you’re going to have to eat it in the privacy of your own home.
Given what passes in Hawaii for local food (i.e. the picture), and such food’s popularity with the residential population, it is doubtful that anyone would even suggest such a ban, and frankly, I think that’s the right way to go.
What isn’t put into these calculations for money and fat and peoples’ wants is long term results. The fact is, fat people die much sooner than non-fat people, and save the economy an enormous financial burden. Not to mention thinning the genetic pool of unhealthy procreators.
So, have aN extra egg on that fatty beef, and suck it up. To hell wit the mainland.
– Maui Curmudgeon
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 10th
May 13th, 1865:
May 11th, 2000: Hawaii Senator Daniel K. Inouye joins nine other Hawaiians in receiving the Medal of Honor from President Bill Clinton. Clinton upgraded awards to 22 Asian-American heroes of various battles. The senator lost his right arm during World War II. In typically understated fashion, Inouye puts forth this decription of what happened on his site:In Italy, the 442nd (Inouye’s division) was assaulting a heavily defended hill in the closing months of the war when he was hit in his abdomen by a bullet which came out his back, barely missing his spine. He continued to lead the platoon and advanced alone against a machine gun nest which had his men pinned down. He tossed two hand grenades with devastating effect before his right arm was shattered by a German rifle grenade at close range. Inouye threw his last grenade with his left hand, attacked with a submachine gun and was finally knocked down the hill by a bullet in the leg. He spent 20 months in hospitals, and returned realizing that his dream of becoming a surgeon was gone. He became the first representative from Hawaii when it became a state, and has served in the Senate for 43 years. Truly a hero in so many ways.
May 8th, 1945: President Harry S. Truman announces the unconditional surrender of Germany, and Maui joins Hawaii in not celebrating. It was Governor Stainback’s decision not to celebrate V-E Day. He felt that with the war waging still in the Pacific, and Hawaii in the middle of it, celebrations could wait. V-J day came on August 15, 1945.
