NEW MOON 09-11-07, 02:45am

		HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY Kumakaia: Betrayal, to betray				HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY “The bones of an evil chief will not be concealed, the bones of a good chief will.”
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September 11, 2001: 19 Islamic fundamentalists make a surprise terrorist attack on the United States, bringing down the Trade Towers in New York City. Life is changed forever in the U.S. On Maui, most people hear about the news well after it happens (the first plane, American Flight 11, hits the North Tower at about 2:46:40 a.m. local time), and so they awake to see replays of crashes, towers coming down, and people running for their lives.

Tourists and residential travelers are stranded for nearly three weeks, as all aircraft are grounded, including an approximate 35,000 people on Maui. Many accommodations make special deals with visitors to keep costs down. There is a run on supplies at stores. As usual, toilet paper becomes something of a rare commodity on store shelves, reducing, in a sense, the horrific to the mundane, as sometimes only island life can.

Meanwhile, the top U.S. officials whose criminal negligence and incompetence allowed this attack to occur, and who have yet failed to capture the primary perpetrator, remain at large … and in charge.

 SUPERFERRY UPDATE - Marine biologist Hannah Bernard, co-founder of the Hawai’i Wildlife Fund, testified for 6 hours in Judge Joseph Cardoza’ s Maui courtroom Monday. She  stated that  the Superferry’s policy of reducing speeds in shallow waters to 25 knots is “not enough” to prevent collisions with humpback whales. Read more …

 Don’t forget Dennis, on Maui September 14th. Read about it …

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… Let’s Pay Maui Hospital More Money if They Reduce Services.

Am I the only person confused about why the Maui Planning Commission gave Maui Land & Pine a special management area permit in Kapalua if it cut back on affordable housing? What do the “neighbors” living at Kapalua Golf Villas have against affordable homes? They don’t sound very neighborly to me.

 - Maui Curmudgeon, somewhere on Maui

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