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June 22, 2008 > MAUI TODAY, > Maui Yesterdays No Comments
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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastDog to Work Day
Day 174 of 2008
192 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ilio: Dog
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pusi: Cat
 HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The gift is sounded.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘nice doggy’ until you can find a rock.” (Will Rogers)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — I’m Voting Republican
NETCASTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein Audio | Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines
Pet ThisJune 22, 2003: The state of Hawaii finally relents and joins the 20th century regarding animals. Until this date, anyone who wanted to bring to Maui a family pet had to quarantine the animal for 30 to 120 days, depending on the vaccination status. For years, a new process for rabies detection had been in place which validated an animal free or rabies within five days, but the state refused to use the process because of all the civil servants hired to work within the old system. (And yes, that’s a live puppy in the photo.)

EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1342: Bilbo Baggins returns to his home at Bag End (Shire Reckoning)
1772: Slavery outlawed in England
1808: Zebulon Pike reaches his peak, Pike’s in Colorado
1847: The doughnut is invented
1870: Congress creates the U.S. Department of Justice
1940: France falls to Nazi Germany; armistice signed, France disarmed
1941: Germany declares war on Soviet Union during WW II
1944: FDR signs G.I. Bill of Rights, benefitting  those who served in WW II
1970: President Richard Nixon signed a measure lowering the voting age to 18
1977: Former Attorney General John N. Mitchell begin sserving a sentence for his role in the Watergate cover-up
1981: Mark David Chapman pleads guilty to killing rock musician John Lennon
2004: A federal judge approves a class-action sex-discrimination lawsuit representing 1.6 million female workers against Wal-Mart 

BORN ON THIS DAY - June 22nd
1757: George Vancouver, explorer/surveyor
1856: H Rider Haggard, author
1858: Giacomo Puccini, operatic composer
1887: Julian Huxley, biologist/philosopher
1898: Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist
1906: Billy Wilder, movie director
1907: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, American aviator/author
1909: Michael Todd, producer
1921: Joseph Papp, stage producer/director
1922: Bill Blass, fashion designer
1928: Orson Bean, comedian
1933: Dianne Feinstein, (Mayor-D-SF, US Senator)
1936: Kris Kristofferson, singer/actor
1941: Ed Bradley, CBS news correspondent
1947: Don Henley, drummer/singer
1948: Todd Rundgren, rock singer
1949: Lindsay Wagner, actress
1949: Meryl Streep, actress
1954: Freddie Prinze, comedian/actor
1964: Amy Brenneman, actress
1964: Dan Brown, author

Say Nothing & Keep Moving

June 22, 2008 Raphael O'Suna No Comments

Have you ever wondered why “ghosts” almost never speak?

It is one thing to gather together enough subtle substance to materialize; it is quite another–and more difficult–task to reproduce human speech.

It can be done, but anyone who has actually heard a being from this more subtle world speak, will never forget the sound. One can gain an idea of the frightful comicality of ghostspeak, by trying to make animal sounds.

Of course, among themselves, these subtle beings use mental telepathy, which requires neither speech nor a particular language.

There is usually great urgency or significance when a materialized being makes the supreme and awkward effort to speak, and to use a language that you can understand. It is downright silly to think that a ghost is malevolent, just because he is a ghost. Or that a ghost has specifically come to haunt, or to communicate with, you. Usually we have wandered into an area, which is rich in stratified sediments–residues of human activity, thought and speech–and which are being used to construct a temporary form.

One is wise to say nothing and keep on moving.

– Raphael O’Suna