Stuck on Maui

March 30, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays No Comments
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Day 90 of 2008
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Olo Hana: Strike
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Slekim: Strike
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “It is work that causes red, hot eyes.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —  “When work is a pleasure, life is a joy.” (Gorky) 

 WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — MauiCulinary Academy – Class Act
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Iraq War Veterans Speak Out
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Tekzilla.com
 BLOG OF THE WEEK —  Daily.Mahalo.com


Uniate Airlines

TODAY – Merrie Monarch Festival begins on the Big Island: While tickets for the hula competitions have been sold out long ago, this weeklong festival offers many free concerts and fairs for everyone to enjoy. Check the local newspapers and posters for the up-to-date schedule of events, including the big Merrie Monarch parade, which winds through downtown Hilo beginning at 10:30 a.m. Saturday. Learn more …

March 30th, 1979: United Airlines, which at this time was the only airline to serve Hawaii from the United States mainland, is hit by a massive machinists strike.  It grounds all aircraft for several weeks.  Tourists in Hawaii are stranded and many become strapped for cash.  Vacationers from the mainland fail to take holiday here.  The tourist industry calls the strike a disaster, and it becomes one of the prime motivators to opening the air channel to several other airlines.

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — March 30th

  •  1822: Florida becomes a territory 
  • 1842: Dr Crawford Long becomes the first physician to use ether as anesthetic 
  • 1867: U.S. purchases Alaska from Russia for $7,200,000 (Seward’s Folly) 
  • 1870: Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union 
  • 1889: John T Reid opens first U.S. golf course (Yonkers, NY) 
  • 1932: Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to make a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean 
  • 1950: Invention of the Phototransistor is announced at Murray Hill, NJ 
  • 1953: Albert Einstein announces his revised Unified Field Theory 
  • 1980: People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) is founded      
  • 1981: John W Hinckley Jr attempts to assassinate President Ronald Reagan as he walks to his limousine 
  • 1999: A jury in Portland Oregon orders Philip Morris to pay $81 million to the family of a man who died of lung cancer after smoking Marlboros for four decades 
  • 2006 American reporter Jill Carroll, a freelancer for The Christian Science Monitor, was released after 82 days as a hostage in Iraq.

BORN ON THIS DAY — March 30th

  • 1135: Maimonides, (Moses Ben Maimon),  philosopher/physician  
  • 1719: Sir John Hawkins, wrote first history of music in English  
  • 1853: Vincent van Gogh, artist
  • 1864: Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist/politician
  • 1880: Sean O’Casey, playwright
  • 1913: Richard Helms, CIA head
  • 1914: Sonny Boy Williamson, blues musician
  • 1937: Warren Beatty,  actor
  • 1944: Graeme Edge, drummer
  • 1945: Eric Clapton, guitarist/vocalist 
  • 1948: Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist
  • 1957: Paul Reiser, actor
  • 1957: Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, cosmonaut
  • 1963: M.C. Hammer, rapper/actor
  • 1968: Céline Dion, singer
  • 1979: Norah Jones, singer

Disguised Racism Prevails

March 30, 2008 Raphael O'Suna No Comments

A number of right wing radio ignoramuses have been faulting African-Americans for not yet forgiving white people, even though white people have already moved on. But this is like a boot, that has crushed a wildflower, wondering why the flower has not yet bounced back, even after it has moved on. Even more than this, however, there are people in America, who, in their roles as boots, would want the flower to scent the boot that crushed it.

I don’t think there has ever been so much disguised racism on our radio waves. It is true that the right wing now realizes the ugliness of its prejudices, because it tries to disguise it, or hide it behind linguistic projections and reversals and other psychological  gymnastics, but this is not real improvement; it is coating with cowardice the ignorance.

For the third time in eight years, I warn you: If you vote for people whose psyches are like meat lockers, lumber rooms or caves, you will get a society that is violent, chaotic and dark. On the other hand, if right wing radio and Fox Broadcasting speak for you — if you think that news should be entertaining, sensational and divisive — then please, by all means, remain aboard the sinking ship of State.

– Raphael O’Suna,   Haiku