Maui Cooks Own Goose
February 11, 2008 7:07 am > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays, > mEnvironment |
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Nene: Hawaiian goose PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— i gat planti samting: Rich, wealthy HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY— “The Plover eats until fat, then returns to the land from which it came.”
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Project Gutenberg WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Squirrel ala Huckabee PODCAST OF THE WEEK — TWiT.TV UPCOMING EVENTS — Feb. 22: “Give Peace a Dance” 
February 11th, 2007: Lauren Cabell of the New York Times reports that Maui has turned into Bakersfield, California, with over development, traffic, ugly box stores, etc. She muses that she is beginning to wonder why people spend so much money to come to a place which has homogenized itself for the sake of aggrandizing its properties to rich people. Seemingly unrelated, Conde-Nast publications the following year do NOT put Maui in the top five world islands to visit. After decades of local profiteers and their political puppets plundering this island paradise’s environment and Hawaiian culture, Maui has finally managed to kill the Nene that laid the golden egg.
NOTE: The Nene (Branta sandwicensis) is the Hawaii State Bird and currently on the Federal List of Endangered Species. There are currently only about 800 wild Nene remaining in Hawaii.
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — February 11th
- 1531: Henry VIII is recognized as the supreme head of the Church in England
- 1573: Francis Drake views the Pacific for the first time
- 1794: The first session of the U.S. Senate opens to the public
- 1809: Robert Fulton is granted a patent for the steamboat
- 1861: President-elect Lincoln departs Springfield Illinois to travel to Washington DC
- 1878: The first U.S. bicycle club forms (Boston Bicycle Club)
- 1878: The first weekly weather report is published
- 1945: Yalta Agreement signed during World War II
- 1963: The CIA Domestic Operations Division is created
- 1979: Followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini seize power in Iran,
- 1988: Anthony M Kennedy is appointed to the Supreme Court
- 1989: Barbara C Harris becomes the first woman consecrated as a bishop in the Episcopal Church
- 1990: Nelson Mandela is freed after serving 27 years in prison
- 1993: President Clinton announces his choice of Miami prosecutor Janet Reno to be the nation’s first female attorney general
- 2006: Madman and Vice President Dick Cheney shot and wounded a quail-hunting buddy. (The companion later apologized for being shot.)
BORN ON THIS DAY — February 11th
- 1833: Melville Weston Fuller, 8th chief justice
- 1847: Thomas Alva Edison, inventor
- 1909: Max Baer, heavyweight boxing champ
- 1912: Roy Fuller, poet/novelist
- 1921: Eva Gabor, actress
- 1921: Lloyd Bentsen, (Sen-D-Tx)
- 1922: Leslie Nielsen, actor
- 1925: Kim Stanley, actress
- 1925: Virginia E Johnson, physician/sex researcher
- 1934: Tina Louise (Tina Blacker), actress
- 1935: Gene Vincent, rock guitarist/vocalist
- 1936: Burt Reynolds, actor
- 1941: Sergio Mendes, jazz/pop musician
- 1953: Jeb Bush, Florida governor
- 1962: Sheryl Crow, singer/songwriter
- 1969: Jennifer Aniston, actress
- 1979: Brandy (Brandy Norwood), singer
- 1980: Matthew Lawrence, actor
- 1980: Natasha Bobo, actress
