Paddle Sunday

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastStand Up Paddling Day
Day 181 of 2008
185 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hoe: Paddle
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pul long: Paddle
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Put forward the paddle and draw it back.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “For Haoles, paddle means “spank” not “row.” (Anon)
WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Stand Up Paddle Surfing Maui
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — You Look Nice Today
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in MoveOn New Video
M<aui Stand Up Paddling
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — June 29th
1776:    Mission Dolores founded by San Francisco Bay
1927:    First flight from the West Coast arrives in Hawaii
1929:    First high-speed jet wind tunnel completed Langley Field, CA
1966:    Bombing of Hanoi, North Vietnam begins
1992:    A divided U.S. Supreme Court rules that women have a constitutional right to abortion
1995:    A department store in Seoul South Korea collapses and kills 501 people
2007:     The first Apple iPhones went on sale.
BORN ON THIS DAY — June 29th
1900:    Antoine Saint-Exupery, aviator/writer
1919:    Slim Pickens, actor
1933:    Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, actor
1934:    Carl Levin, (Sen-D-MI) (74 years ago)
1944:    Gary Busey,  actor
1947:    Richard Lewis, comedian/actor
1972:    Samantha Smith, actress

U.S. Presidents - William Henry Harrison

June 28, 2008 Maui Curmudgeon, U.S. Presidents No Comments

By the Maui Curmudgeon (9th in a 43-part series)

How do the U.S. Presidents stack up? I thought I’d find out 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 media.

WILLIAM HENRY HARRISON: 1841 ~ 9th U.S. President

Wiulliam Henry Harrison, 9th US presidentStop me if this sounds familiar:

A man who was Senator, who had a storied military career, but who was old by current standards, spends most of his campaign running around trying to convince everyone he isn’t too old to be President of the United States, that his health was good and modern medicine had come a long way.

Nope, not John McCain, the current Republican candidate, but William Henry Harrison. Mr. Harrison took the oath of office on March 4, 1841, caught a cold, which developed into pneumonia, and on April 4, just 31 days later, he died. He was 68 years old, four years younger than McCain is today.

Harrison barely filled most of his cabinet, and there is nothing in his administration on which to judge him.

One can hope that McCain picks a nice, young, healthy running mate.

Harrison’s term is so short and inconsequential that he holds no rank in any historical Presidential poll. You are best finding a biography of him in a used book store sometime. It will be a thin text. He was not photographed in office.

INTERESTING BITS

  • He delivered the longest innaugural address.
  • He served the shortest time in office.
  • He was the first U.S. President to die in office.

 

Remember “Compassionate Conservatism”?

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Click for Kahului, Hawaii ForecastPaul Bunyan  Day
Day 150 of 2008
186 days left in this year
HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho‘omana‘o‘ana: Memory
 PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Holim long tingting: Remember
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “High flies the cloud in the sky lifted by the wind.”
 HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Nothing is so much strengthened by practice, nor weakened by neglect, as memory.” (Quintillian)

WEB SURF SPOTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein’s Website
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — John Cusack in Move On’s New Video
NETCASTS OF THE WEEK — Naomi Klein Audio | Gore Vidal’s Article of Impeachment
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Hawaii Canines
BORN ON THIS DAY - June 28th
1491: Henry VIII, of England
1577: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish Baroque painter
1712: Jean Jacques Rousseau, social commentator
1867: Luigi Pirandello, writer
1909: Eric Ambler, suspense author
1926: Mel Brooks, comedic actor/director/playwright
1933: Pat (Noriyuki) Morita, actor
1945: David Knights, bassist
1946: Gilda Radner, comedienne
1948: Kathy Bates, actress
1960: John Elway, NFL QB
1966: John Cusack, actor
1966: Mary Stuart Masterson, actress
1973: Alessandro Nivola, actor
1986: Kellie Pickler, country singer
EVENTS ON THIS DAY - June 28th
1838: Britain’s Queen Victoria is crowned in Westminster Abbey
1938: The National Minimum Wage Act is passed by Congress
1951: The radio program “Amos ‘n Andy” premieres on television (CBS) to become the first TV series with an all-African American cast (also negatively stereotyping African Americans)
1956: The first atomic reactor is built for private research (Chicago Illinois)
1965: The first U.S. ground combat forces in Vietnam are authorized by President Johnson
1967: Israel formally declares that Jerusalem is reunified under its sovereignty (the Arab sector was captured in June)
1977: The U.S. Supreme Court rules to allow Federal control of the Nixon tapes and transcripts
2000: Elian Gonzalez is returned to Cuba, seven months after he was cast adrift in the Florida Straits
2000: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders
2001: Former Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic was handed over by Serbia to the U.N. war crimes tribunal.
2004: The United States resumed direct diplomatic ties with Libya after a 24-year break.

Becoming Fearless

June 28, 2008 Raphael O'Suna No Comments

Fear and negativity are the King and Queen of America at present. There are numerous reasons for this, both real and imagined.

There are so many fears, in fact, that it is pointless to deal with them individually. One must deal with fear itself. One must gain a perspective which raises one above fear. Otherwise one will use all of his energy and time dealing with fears one at a time.

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