Defend Mother Maui
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Human Rights Week
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pale: Defend, defense HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Watch out for the fish with a sharp tail.”
December 11th, 1912: The War Department (Those were the days eh? Back when some honesty was found in government and people called things what they were. Today, of course, it’s the Department of Defense, though what we’re defending in places like Iraq is anyone’s guess. Without a doubt we are making war.)
Anyway, the War Department makes several recommendations to upgrade the defense of Hawaii, including the installation of pill boxes along the Maui coast. Though none are built for years, today you can see the remnants of one such box - a rumored machine guns nest - as a derelict concrete bunker on Paia beach.In the proposals, Hawaii Army General Leo Wood says, “The defense of the Hawaiian Islands is the defense of San Francisco.”
Today, such a merely stupid statement has expanded to the ludicrous – like the defense of Sunnis in Bagdad is the defense of Washington, DC — or the Hawaii Superferry represents a means of defending Maui from terrorists.
Defending Mother Maui these days means protecting her from real estate development that is destroying native plants, animals, habitat and culture. Volunteer organizations are listed under the top navigation menu items. Join in.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY – December 11th
1620: 103 Mayflower pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock
1719: The first aurora borealis in America Is observed and recorded in the U.S.
1792: France’s King Louis XVI goes on trial before the Convention
1816: Indiana becomes the 19th state of the Union
1882: Boston’s Bijou Theatre, the first American playhouse lit exclusively by electricity
1909: Color moving pictures are demonstrated at Madison Square Garden
1932: Snow falls in San Francisco
1936: Britain’s King Edward VIII abdicates the throne in order to marry a commoner
1937: Italy withdraws from the League of Nations
1957: Jerry Lee Lewis weds Myra
1960: Singer Aretha Franklin makes her New York debut
1961: Adolf Eichman is found guilty of war crimes in Israel
1961: Elvis Presley’s “Blue Hawaii,” album goes to #1 & stays for 20 weeks
1981: Muhammad Ali fights his 61st & final fight, losing to Trevor Berbick
1997: Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams confers with Prime Minister Tony Blair in London
1997: More than 150 countries agree at a global warming conference in Kyoto Japan
1998: Majority Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee pass 3 articles of impeachment against President Clinton
BORN ON THIS DAY – December 11th
1781: Sir David Brewster, Scottish physicist/inventor
1792: Joseph Mohr, vicar/hymn co-author Silent Night
1803: Hector Berlioz, composer (Manque)
1810: Alfred de Musset, Paris France, writer
1843: Robert Koch, German bacteriologist
1882: Fiorello La Guardia, NYC Mayor
1882: Max Born, Nobel physicist
1892: Leo Ornstein, composer
1905: Gilbert Roland, actor
1913: Carlo Ponti, producer,
1918: Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
1926: Big Mama Thornton, blues singer
1930: Jean-Louis Trintignant, actor/director
1931: Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, guru
1931: Rita Moreno, actress/dancer
1934: Ron Carey, actor
1937: Anne Heywood, English actress
1939: Tom Hayden, activist/CA legislator
1940: David Gates, rocker
1941: Max Baucus, U.S. Senator (D-Montana)
1943: Donna Mills, actress
1944: Brenda Lee, singer
1946: Teri Garr, actress
1954: Jermaine Jackson, singer
1958: Nicki Sixx, rock guitarist
