Happy 75th Birthday, Willie

April 30, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastNational Honesty Day
Day 121 of 2008
245 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —  Kaulikie ‘Ole: Injustice
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Welman: Squatter
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Let the old men, the old women, and the children go and sleep on the wayside; let them not be molested.”
  HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —  “A litte sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a greatl deal of it is absolutely fatal.”  (Oscar Wilde)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — BioWillie.com
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Always on My Mind
 PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Peace Research Institute
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — Willie’s God!  (Texas Monthly Feature - May, 2008)

April 30th, 1900:   Hawaii Becomes a U.S. territory 
Maui's beloved Willie Nelson turns 75 todayPresident William McKinley signs the Organic Act. The Organic Act, established by Congress in the 19th Century, incorporates territory into the U.S. Incorporated territory of the United States is a specific area under the jurisdiction of the United States, over which the Congress has determined that the Constitution is to be applied to the territory’s local government and inhabitants in its entirety (e. g. citizenship, trial by jury), in the same manner as it applies to the local governments and residents of the States. Incorporated territories are considered an integral part of the United States, as opposed to being merely possessions. This motion, on this day, solidifies the crime committed by Sanford Dole and the small contingent of Marines who overthrew  the legitimate Hawaiian Government in 1893.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 30th

  • 1006: The brightest supernova in recorded history is observed 
  • 1789: George Washington is inaugurated as the first President of the United States 
  • 1798: The Department of the Navy established by the U.S. second President, John Adams 
  • 1803: The United States more than doubles its size through the Louisiana Purchase 
  • 1808: First practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri 
  • 1812: Louisiana becomes the 18th state 
  • 1900: Hawaii becomes a U.S. territory 
  • 1900: Train engineer Casey Jones is killed while trying to save the Cannonball Express as it highballed through Vaughn, MS 
  • 1939: Lou Gehrig plays his last game with the New York Yankees 
  • 1947: Boulder Dam reverts to its original name in honor of Herbert Hoover 
  • 1948: Organization of American States (OAS) charter signed in Bogota, Colombia 
  • 1955: Scientists announce the discovery of element 101, Mendelevium 
  • 1973: President Nixon announces that top White House aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman, along with Attorney General Richard Kleindienst and White House counsel John Dean, have resigned amidst the controversies surrounding the investigation of the Watergate break-in 
  • 1975: U.S. forces evacuate from Vietnam - Saigon surrenders 
  • 2003: Mahmoud Abbas took office as the first Palestinian prime minister.  
  • 2003: The U.S. Navy withdrew from its disputed Vieques bombing range in Puerto Rico.
  •   2007: A British judge sentenced five al-Qaida-linked men, all British citizens, to life in prison for plotting to attack London targets, including a nightclub, power plants and shopping mall, with bombs.

BOR ON THIS DAY — April 30th

  • 1888: John Crowe Ransom, American poet/critic 
  • 1916: Robert Shaw,  chorale conductor
  • 1925: Cloris Leachman,  actress
  • 1933: Willie Nelson,  singer/songwriter/humanitarian
  • 1938: Gary Collins,  actor
  • 1940: Burt Young, actor
  • 1943: Bobby Vee, singer 
  • 1944: Jill Clayburgh, actress 
  • 1945: Annie Dillard, writer
  • 1956: Richard Farina, folk singer/novelist
  • 1982: Kirsten Dunst, actress
  • 1984: Tyler Wilkinson, country singer

Good News Travels …

April 29, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastGreenery  Day
Day 120 of 2008
246 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaua kuloko: Civil War
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Pait: War
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Distance is ignored by love.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —  “The art of war is simple enough.” (U.S.Grant)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — 2008 Auto Show Review
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Maui TV News
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — Politico.com

April 29th, 1865:  Three weeks after the end of Civil War, the news of its completion finally reaches Hawaii on the steamer Archer.  We have little to say about this except that the mirage of freedom for blacks at the end of the Civil War predates the U.S. overthrow of the Hawaiian nation by 30 years.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 29th

  • 1429: Joan of Arc leads Orleans France to victory over English forces 
  • 1813: Rubber is first patented 
  • 1852: The first edition of Peter Roget’s Thesaurus is published 
  • 1913: Zipper patented
  • 1916: Irish nationalists surrender to British in Dublin 
  • 1945: U.S. troops liberate prisoners from the Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany 
  • 1946: 28 former Japanese leaders are indicted in Tokyo as war criminals 
  • 1971: Bill Graham closes down the Fillmore & Fillmore East 
  • 1990: Wrecking cranes begin tearing down the Berlin Wall at Brandenburg Gate 
  • 1991: A cyclone hits Bangladesh killing 139,000 people and leaving 10 million homeless 
  • 1992: A California jury acquits Los Angeles police officers of wrong-doing in the beating of Rodney King (riots begin in Los Angeles) 
  • 1996: Former CIA Director William Colby goes missing and is presumed drowned after an apparent boating accident in Maryland 
  • 1997: A worldwide treaty to ban chemical weapons goes into effect
  • 2004: A national monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington DC

BOR ON THIS DAY — April 29th

  • 1854: Henri Poincare, mathematician/astronomer/philosopher
  • 1863: William Randolph Hearst, newspaper editor/puglisher
  • 1899: Duke Ellington,   bandleader
  • 1909: Tom Ewell, actor
  • 1919: Celeste Holm, NYC, actress
  • 1923: Irvin Kershner, film director 
  • 1933: Rod McKuen, singer/composer
  • 1936: April Stevens,  rock vocalist  
  • 1936: Zubin Meta, conductor
  • 1947: Tommy James, singer
  • 1954: Jerry Seinfeld, comedian
  • 1958: Daniel Day-Lewis, actor,
  • 1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, actress 
  • 1968: Carnie Wilson, singer
  • 1970: Andre Agassi, tennis player
  • 1970: Uma (Karuna) Thurman,  actress 

Share Your Ideas with GPAC

April 28, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastKiss Your Mate Day
Day 119 of 2008
247 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Palemo: Sink
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Mauspas: Dumb
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The rain follows the forest.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”
(E.J.Smith, Captain, HMS Titanic, 1907)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — 2008 Auto Show Review
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Maui TV News
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — Politico.com

MAUI GENERAL PLAN UPDATE
Maui Island Plan - Draft : The GPAC will be studying the draft plan and will  make its recommendations over the next 6 months. Share your ideas with them.
E-mail: generalplan2030@mauicounty.gov | Phone: (808) 270-7214

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 28th

  • 1686: The first volume of Isaac Newton’s “Principia” published 
  • 1754: The mutiny is staged on the HMS Bounty 
  • 1788: Maryland becomes the 7th state to ratify the Constitution 
  • 1937: The first commercial flight is made across the Pacific (by Pan Am) 
  • 1947: A six-man expedition, led by anthropologist Thor Heyerdahl, sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named the Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific Ocean to Polynesia to prove Heyerdahl’s theory that Polynesia, including Hawaii, could have been colonized from South America.
  • 1967: Muhammad Ali refuses induction into the U.S. armed forces (he is sentenced to five years in prison, but remains out on appeal, effectively banned from boxing) 
  • 1988: Aloha Airlines’ Boeing 737 roof tears off in flight (killing a stewardess) 
  • 1994: Former CIA official Aldrich Ames, who betrayed U.S. secrets to the Soviet Union pleads guilty to espionage and tax evasion (he is sentenced to life in prison without parole) 
  • 2001: 60-year old millionaire Dennis Tito blasts off on board a Russian supply ship to begin his week-long, $20 million trip to the International Space Station to become the world’s first civilian who has paid to travel into space - a “space tourist” (he returns to Earth on May 8th) 
  • 2004: The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS’ “60 Minutes II.”

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 28th

  • 1442: Edward IV, king of England
  • 1758: James Monroe, 5th US president 
  • 1878: Lionel Barrymore actor
  • 1906: Kurt Godel, mathematician  
  • 1926: Harper Lee, author
  • 1929: Carolyn Jones, actress 
  • 1930: James Baker 3, Sec of Treasury
  • 1937: Saddam Hussein, former “president” of Iraq 
  • 1950: Jay Leno,  comedian/talk show host
  • 1954: Ellen Barkin,  actress
  • 1955: Eddie Jobson, rock violinist
  • 1958: Michelle Pfeiffer, actress
  • 1971: Chris Young, PA, actor
  • 1973: Jorge Garcia, actress
  • 1973: Elisabeth Rohm, actress
  • 1974: Penelope Cruz, actress

Lend A Hand

April 27, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastNat’l Volunteer Week
Day 118 of 2008
248 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘A‘a: Volunteer
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Halivim: Help
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The eel is a fish that moves skyward.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.” (Vauvenargues)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog


Molokai mule whisperers

April 27th, 1898:  Mantanzas Mule Day - In one of the first naval actions of the Spanish-American War, US Naval forces bombarded the Cuban village of Mantanzas. It was widely reported that the only casualty of the bombardment was one mule. The Mantanzas Mule became instantly famous and remains a footnote in the history of the Spanish-American war.

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 27th

  • 1521: Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan is killed by natives in the Philippines 
  • 1565: The first Spanish settlement in Phillipines is founded (Cebu City) 
  • 1773: British Parliament passes the Tea Act (Boston won’t like this) 
  • 1861: President Abe Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus 
  • 1871: The American Museum of Natural History first opens to the public in New York City 
  • 1874: P.T. Barnum opens his Barnum’s Monster Classical and Geological Hippodrome 
  •  1947: “Babe Ruth Day” is held at Yankee Stadium to honor the ailing baseball star  
  • 1978: The Afghanistan revolution (National Day) 
  • 1982: The trial of John W Hinckley Jr, attempted assassin of President Reagan, begins 
  • 1983: Nolan Ryan becomes the strikeout king (3509), surpassing Walter Johnson 
  • 1986: The video hacker Captain Midnight (John R MacDougall) interrupts cable network HBO’s broadcast  
  •  1992 Russia and 12 other former Soviet republics won entry into the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
  •  2006: Construction began on the 1,776-foot Freedom Tower on the site of the World Trade Center in New York City.

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 27th

  • 1819: Julia Ward Howe, U.S., author/lecturer
  • 1820: Herbert Spencer,  Victorian philosopher
  • 1822: Ulysses Simpson Grant, 18th U.S. president (R) 
  • 1900: Walter Lantz, animator (Woody Woodpecker’s creator)
  • 1922: Jack Klugman, actor
  • 1927: Coretta Scott King, civil rights activist 
  • 1932: Casey Kasem, radio personality
  • 1947: Ann Peebles, oul singer
  • 1947: Pete Ham, rock guitarist/pianist/vocalist
  • 1948: Katie Pierson, vocals/guitarist
  • 1959: Sheena Easton, singer/actress
  • 1969: Mica Paris, rocker
  • 1975: Chris Carpenter, baseball player
  • 1979: Travis Meeks, rock musician

Work Toward Perfection

April 27, 2008 Raphael O'Suna No Comments

Mother-love is not necessary for a soul to fulfill its destiny. But mother-love can carry a child toward its destiny, as on the back of a great white, furry tiger. A teacher once told me that one had five things to be thankful for: the heat of the earth (not the sun), the love of the mother, the sting of the scorpion (the positive effects of enemies and obstacles), the ability to think and beauty.

Unfortunately, life has its disturbing aspects, as well. There is death of loved ones and ourselves, illness, aging, incapacity, illusion, the ill-regulated, unrestrained and negative emotions of ourselves and others, and the mystery of sexuality. At present, many people also suffer from the injustices, inequalities and iniquities of an economic system created by thieves.

And yet, nothing on earth can prevent a soul from fulfilling its destiny, as long as the person expands and expresses the affections of the heart and obeys its calling.

The call to many people is simply this: Regardless of what you do, work more toward perfection than completion.

– Raphael O’Suna   Haiku

Molokai Pitches In

April 26, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastRubber Eraser Day
Day 117 of 2008
249 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Luna kanawai: Judge
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Lektrik: Electric
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A coral reef hardens into land.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Computers are useless. They can only give you answers.” (Pablo Picasso)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
April 26th, 2008: The county of Maui is running an ecycling event on the island of Molokai today from 9 am to noon. It’s located at the landfill, just outside of town. Look for the 20-foot container just inside the entrance.  There will be volunteers there to help you unload your stuff.The event takes anything with a circuit board - computers, printers, televisions, anything you don’t want. Such items cannot go into the landfill.Last year’s event recycled more than 4 tons of stuff. Kudos to the people of Molokai for  helping out!

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 26th

  • 1607: An expedition of English colonists went ashore at Cape Henry, VA, to establish the first permanent English settlement in the Western Hemisphere.
  • 1865: John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of President Abraham Lincoln, was surrounded and killed by federal troops near Bowling Green, VA.
  • 1937: Planes from Nazi Germany raided the Basque town of Guernica during the Spanish Civil War.
  • 2000: Vermont Gov. Howard Dean signed the nation’s first bill allowing same-sex couples to form civil unions.
  • 2004: The government unveiled the new colorized $50 bill.
  • 2005: Syria’s 29-year military presence in Lebanon ended as Syrian soldiers completed a withdrawal brought about by international pressure and Lebanese street protests.

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 26th

  • 1785: John James Audubon, ornithologist, artist and naturalist
  • 1822: Frederick Law Olmsted, landscape architect
  • 1886: Ma Rainey, American singer
  • 1889: Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
  • 1914:Bernard Malamud, novelist and short-story writer
  • 1916: Morris West,Australian novelist
  • 1934: Carol Burnett, actress
  • 1939: Duane Eddy, rock musician
  • 1943: Bobby Rydel, Singer
  • 1944: Gary Wright rock singer
  • 1962: Joan Chen, actress
  • 1964: Jet Li, actor
  • 1966: Kevin James, actor/comedian
  • 1968: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, actress

Plant a Tree!

April 25, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > mEnvironment No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastNational Arbor Day
Day 116 of 2008
250 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — La‘au: Tree
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Diwai: Tree
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The branches grow because of the trunk.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “You can always tell a Dogwood by its bark.” (Anon)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
Phto by Erin Cute

ARBOR DAY April 25th: National Arbor Day is the last Friday of April making it on April 25, 2008. But some U.S. States celebrate this tree-planting holiday on other days of the year. The first Arbor Day took place on April 10, 1872 in Nebraska. It was the brainchild of Julius Sterling Morton (1832-1902), a Nebraska journalist and politician originally from Michigan.  Throughout his long and productive career, Morton worked to improve agricultural techniques in his adopted state and throughout the United States when he served as President Grover Cleveland’s Secretary of Agriculture. His most important legacy is Arbor Day, originally celebrated on his birthday, April 22.

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 25th

  • 1507: America got its name from German cartographer Martin Waldseemueller, who first used the term on a world map  
  • 1792: Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine.
  • 1859: Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
  • 1898: The United States declared war on Spain.
  • 1901: New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.
  • 1959: The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
  • 1990: The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.
  • 1992: Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
  • 1998: Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for a failed savings and loan.
  • 2003: Georgia lawmakers voted to scrap the Dixie cross from the state’s flag.

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 25th

  • 1599: Oliver Cromwell, soldier and statesman
  • 1840: Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer
  • 1874:  Guglielmo Marconi, Nobel physicist and inventor
  • 1908: Edward R. Murrow, radio and television broadcaster
  • 1917: Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer
  • 1931:  Paul Mazursky, actor/director
  • 1941:  Al Pacino, actor
  • 1970: Renee Zellweger, actress
  • 1946: Stu Cook, rock musician
  • 1948: Jeffrey DeMunn, actor
  • 1965:  Hank Azaria, actor
  • 1965: Andy Bell, rock singer
  • 1971: Jason Lee, actor

Preliminary Injunction Issued

April 24, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > mEnvironment No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastScoop the Poop Week
Day 115 of 2008
251 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Luna kanawai: Judge
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Jas: Judge
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One cannot tell by his crowing what the cock’s spur can do.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I don’t want to know what the law is. I want to know who the judge is.” (Roy Cohn)
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog
YESTERDAY - April 23rd: Maui District court Judge Joseph Cardoza issued a preliminary injunction against Honua‘ula development project (formerly called Wailea 670). Read more in the Maui News … Save Makena …

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 24th

  • 1800: The Library of Congress is founded with a $5000 allocation 
  • 1877: Last federal occupying troops withdraw from south (New Orleans) 
  • 1897: The first reporter, William Price, is assigned to the White House 
  • 1898: Spain declares war on the U.S., rejecting the ultimatum to withdraw from Cuba 
  • 1961: JFK accepts “sole responsibility” following the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs incursion into Cuba 
  • 1969: Paul McCartney says their is no truth to the rumors that he is dead 
  • 1989: 10’s of thousands of students strikes in Beijing China 
  • 1991: Calling it “simply not enough”, an Alaskan judge rejects the agreement reached with Exxon on March 13th of $1 billion for the Valdeze Oil Spill 
  • 2005: Pope Benedict XVI was installed as leader of the Roman Catholic Church in cermonies at the Vatican.

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 24th

  • 1815: Anthony Trollope, novelist/poet 
  • 1904: Willem De Kooning, artist
  • 1905: Robert Penn Warren, first U.S. poet laureate
  • 1934: Shirley MacLaine,  actress/mystic
  • 1936: Jill Ireland, actress
  • 1941: John Williams,  guitarist
  • 1942: Barbra Streisand,  singer/actress
  • 1963: Joey Vera, heavy metal rocker
  • 1971: Colleen Quinn, actress 
  • 1976: Shane McDermott, actor
  • 1979: Rebecca Lynn Howard, country singer
  • 1979: Rebecca Mader, actress
  • 1983: Kelly Clarkson, singer

A Plane Wreck That’s Already Happened

April 24, 2008 Maui Curmudgeon No Comments

Isolated on Maui as we are, we can read about the “horror” stories of air travel, and we see the tired tourists come and go, but how bad is it? Well, after six flights and four airports I can say, really really bad.

One example: A flight one morning from Houston to Cleveland was overbooked, people were on standby and then told they had to wait nine hours for standby on the next flight. All I could think was, wait, who the hell is going to Cleveland in the first place? That many people the airlines can’t handle it? (Have they ever BEEN to Cleveland?)

Every flight I took was late taking off and late landing. What little food was served was atrocious. People were grumpy, the attendants angry, and even the pilots short tempered. The flight from Honolulu to Houston had the pilot say at one point, “Sit Down! We’re trying to take off!”

Hawaiian Airlines, perhaps in reaction to the collapse of Aloha Air, now assigns seats - no more general boarding. Aloha seems to have gone in more ways than one.

This is how bad American air travel has become. In the New York Times Monday, the recently retired CEO of American Airlines - Bob Crandall - wrote an op-ed piece saying it straight - the ONLY thing to save American air travel is government intervention. How bad is it when businesses beg for regulation, and from a bankrupt entity like the U.S. Government at that?

I say American air travel, because the rest of the world is not having this problem. I sat next to one person who had recently had a delightful flight from New Delhi to Calcutta, the food was “cuisine”, the service pleasant and the flight arrived early. In Britian, Ryanair is flying people for as little as $19 and making a profit. No American arline has made the top five airlines list in any industry publication for the last seven years. The best airline in the world? Singapore Airlines, which was until last decade classified as a third-world country.

It is a wonder to me why we can no longer do much of anything successfully in this country. 20 years ago, the thought of Calcutta brought images of starving people, poverty and the stone age to American minds. Now they serve fine dining at 30,000 feet.

Hijacking airplanes and running them into towers did not do this to us. We have done it to ourselves, through massively incompetent leadership, stubbornly ignorant communities and lack of vision.

The former Republican Strategist Kevin Phillips says it’s too late to recover any of these abilities. He calls America “the inevitable slow-moving train wreck”.

I think he was just being kind not mentioning airplanes.

– Maui Curmudgeon, somewhere over the U.S.

The Bard’s Birthday

April 23, 2008 > MAUI TODAY No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastNat’l Secretary’s  Day
Day 114 of 2008
252 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Haku mele: Poet
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY—  Pawa: Power
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Our leader is a staff that breaks easily.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The quality of mercy is not strain’d. It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes.” (Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice)

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — “The Green Issue” - NYT Magazine
 WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — National Geographic
PODCAST OF THE WEEK — Earth News
 BLOG OF THE WEEK — The Environmental Blog

 Will Shakespeare

William Shakesepare

HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — April 23rd

  • 1348: The first English order of knighthood is founded (the Order of the Garter) 
  • 1951: The Associated Press begins the first teletypsetting service
  • 1969: Sirhan Sirhan is sentenced to death for assassinating New York Sen. Robert F. Kennedy (the sentence is later reduced to life imprisonment) 
  • 1980: Artifical skin for burn victims is created 
  • 1989: Students in Beijing China announce class boycotts 
  • 1998: James Earl Ray, who confessed to assassinating the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968 and then insisted he was framed, dies at a Nashville hospital at age 70 
  • 2002: American cardinals open their meeting with top Vatican officials to discuss the sex abuse scandal rocking the Roman Catholic Church in the United States 

BORN ON THIS DAY — April 23rd

  • 1547: Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Spanish writer 
  • 1564: William Shakespeare, bard  
  • 1775: M.W. Turner English landscape painter
    1791: James Buchanan, 15th U.S. president 
  • 1813: Stephen Arnold Douglas,  U.S. senator
  • 1858: Max Planck, Nobel physist
  • 1891: Sergey Prokofiev, composer
  • 1899: Vladimir Nabokov,  novelist
  • 1916: Bud Wilkinson, college football coach
  • 1926: J P Donleavy, novelist  
  • 1928: Shirley Temple Black, child actress/ambassador
  • 1936: Roy Orbison, singer
  • 1940: Lee Majors, actor 
  • 1942: Sandra Dee, actress
  • 1949: Blair Brown, tress
  • 1949: John Miles, vocal/guitar/keyboards
  • 1954: Michael Moore, filmmaker
  • 1955: Judy Davis, actress
  • 1957: Jan Hooks, actress
  • 1960: Steve Clark, rock guitarist 
  • 1960: Valerie Bertinelli, actress 
  • 1968: Tim Womack, country musician

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