Name Your Poison Day Day 160 of 2008 206 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Ai kakale: Poi cocktail
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Drinkim: To drink
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Alcohol- the liquid that snatches away the light.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.” (Fran Leibowitz)

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By the Maui Curmudgeon (2nd  in a 43-part series)

How do the U.S. Presidents stack up? I thought I’d find ou by reading biographies of all 43 presidents, in the order of their administrations. Here are briefly the pros and cons of my discoveries, the interesting bits, and how I’d rank him. For comparison, I give you the 1982 Murrary-Blessing ranking, a survey of hundreds of leading historians who ranked each president by number. This survey is the gold standard of presidential rankings and is most cited when this kind of thing needs bringing up in the media.

JOHN ADAMS: 1797-1801
~ 2nd U.S. President

From an early age he was somewhat dumpy looking, short, with a doughy middle, but there was no one either for or against him in his lifetime that did not respect John Adam’s intelligence and fortitude, and perhaps not until the recent HBO mini-series did modern America understand what a pivotal role he played in the nation’s early history.

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