Missionaries Poison Hawaii
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Cinco de Mayo
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mo’olelo o ka wa kahilo: Myth PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY— Still: Theft HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “To smite with evil.” HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “We are all athiests about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.” (Richard Dawkins)
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) 
May 5th, 1839: The first edition of the Hawaiian Bible goes to press. It finishes its run May 10th and is for sale on Maui the following week – though most are distributed free.
It’s such a pleasant day that we won’t return to the horror stories about how the Christians used the Great Mahele to steal the land from the Hawaiians in 1848, nor how Hawaiians were deprived of rights, sustenance and liberty in the name of a nonexistent god.
We will simply remind readers that no more true an aphorism can be said of Hawaiian history than this: When the missionaries came, they had all the bibles and the Hawaiians had all the land. Now the Hawaiians have the bibles, and the Christians have the land.HISTORICAL EVENTS ON THIS DAY — May 5th
- 1816: The American Bible Society is organized (NY)
- 1821: Napoleon Bonaparte dies in exile on the island of St. Helena
- 1847: The American Medical Association (AMA) is organized (Philadelphia)
- 1891: Carnegie Hall opens in NYC with Tchaikovsky as guest conductor
- 1925: John T Scopes arrested for teaching evolution in Tennessee
- 1926: Sinclair Lewis refuses his Pulitzer Prize for “Arrowsmith”
- 1955: West Germany is granted full sovereignty by its three occupying powers
- 1961: Alan B Shepard becomes the second human and first American in space aboard the Freedom 7
- 1965: The first large-scale U.S. Army ground units arrive in South Vietnam
- 1985 President Ronald Reagan attended a wreath-laying ceremony at a military cemetery in Bitburg, West Germany. The visit drew worldwide condemnation because 49 members of the Waffen SS were buried there.
- 1987: Congress begins the Iran-Contra hearings
- 2000: The rare conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn & the Moon
- 2000: Reformers sweep Iran’s run-off elections, winning control of the legislature from conservatives for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution
BORN ON THIS DAY — May 5th
- 1813: Soren Kierkegaard, philosophe
- 1818: Karl Marx, philosopher
- 1867: Nellie Bly, female star reporter
- 1900: Adlai Stevenson, politician
- 1900: Spencer Tracy, actor
- 1903: James Beard, culinary expert/author
- 1908: Rex Harrison, actor
- 1912: Alice Faye, actress
- 1913: Tyrone Power, actor
- 1942: Tammy Wynette, country singer
- 1943: Michael Palin, comedian
- 1944: John Rhys Davies, actor
- 1945: Kurt Loder, music journalist
- 1959: Brian Williams, TV newscaster
