Souki Torpedoes Ferry Bill
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Dentists’ Day
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kumakaia: Traitor PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Lo: Law HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —“A law can be removed with an offering of cooked taro leaves.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The more laws, the less justice.”
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March 6th, 2007: The Maui News reports that Maui legislator Joe Souki, 8th representational district of Hawaii, says he will kill the Superferry EIS bill now in the State House. This is the same bill supported by the mayor, the majority of Mauians and most of the environmental groups in Hawaii. Souki does kill the bill, which begins a flurry of lawsuits and protests, and sham hearings by traveling house representatives, who spend hours listening to Mauians at Baldwin High School denounce the Ferry, and then turn around and vote for it anway.
The backroom money that must have flowed …
HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 6th
- 1521: Magellan discovers Guam
- 1810: Illinois passes the first state vaccination legislation in the U.S.
- 1831: Edgar Allan Poe is expelled from West Point
- 1886: The first U.S. alternating current power plant begins operating
- 1964: Elijah Muhammad renames Cassius Clay as Muhammad Ali
- 1978: “Hustler” publisher Larry Flynt is shot and crippled by a sniper in Georgia
- 1981: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the teaching of evolution in Calfornia public schools
- 1997: Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II launches the first official royal Web site
- 2000: Three white New York police officers are convicted of a cover-up in a brutal police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima
- 2007: Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, is convicted of lying and obstructing an investigation into the 2003 leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s identity.
BORN ON THIS DAY — March 6th
- 1475: Michelangelo, painter/sculptor
- 1619: Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist
- 1756: Aaron Burr, 3rd U.S. vice president/dualist
- 1806: Elizabeth Barrett Browning, poet
- 1844: Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer
- 1885: Ring Lardner, writer
- 1906: Lou Costello, comedian/actor
- 1923: Ed McMahon, TV host
- 1926: Alan Greenspan, economist/presidential
- 1927: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, novelist
- 1929: Thomas S Foley, (D-WA) Speaker of the House
- 1937: Ivan Boesky, stockbroker inside trading
- 1937: Merle Haggard, country singer
- 1945: Rob Reiner, actor/director
- 1959: Tom Arnold, comedian/acto
- 1964: D.L. Hughley, comedian/actor
- 1972: Shaquille O’Neal, basketball player
