July 25, 2008
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 Threading Needle Day
Day 207 of 2008
159 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Hala kahiki: Pineapple
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Ananas: Pineapple
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “A misshapen gourd makes an ugly container.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Action is the proper fruit of knowledge.” (Thomas Fuller)
MAUI DROWNING IN ECONOMIC DOWNTURN - ML&P Lays Off Hundreds: Maui Land & Pineapple Co., one of the oldest Maui companies, began telling workers Thursday it is cutting its work force by 274 positions in a reorganization under pressure of higher costs and lower revenues. Many of the layoffs will take effect immediately.
This follows recent Hawaii layoffs at Aloha Airlines, ATA, and The Honolulu Advertiser. The high cost of airfare, due to record-high fuel costs, is blamed for Maui tourist industry revenues being down as much as 80% in some sectors.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 2th
1925: The “Scopes Monkey Trial” ends: after only 8 minutes of deliberation, a jury finds Dayton, TN high school teacher John T. Scopes guilty of violating state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution
1946: The first bikini is shown at a Paris fashion show
1946: The U.S. detonates the first underwater A-bomb at Bikini Island (5th atomic explosion)
1965: Folk-rock begins when Bob Dylan uses an electric guitar at the Newport Folk Festival
1978: Louise Joy Brown, the first “test-tube baby”, is born in Oldham England (conceived through in-vitro fertilization)
1984: Cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to walk in space
1997: For the first time, a member of an “untouchable” Dalits caste (K.R. Narayanan) becomes India’s president
2000: Texas Governor George W. Bush (at Dick Cheney’s urging) selects Dick Cheney to be his running mate on the Republican presidential ticket
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 25th
1894: Walter Brennan, actress
1902: Eric Hoffer, longshoreman/author
1948: Steve Goodman, singer/songwriter
1967: Matt LeBlanc, actor
1978: Louise Brown, the world’s first “test tube baby”
1982: Brad Renfro, actor
1985: James Lafferty actor
July 24, 2008
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Nat’l Drive-Thru Day
Day 206 of 2008
160 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kalai‘aina: Politics
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Politsen: Politician
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Truth comes from the night.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “POLITICS, n: The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.” (Ambrose Bierce)
YESTERDAY - Plastic Bag Ban Gets Preliminary Approval. On Wednesday, the County Council’s Public Works & Facilities Committee recommended the adoption of a bill to bar retail businesses from giving out plastic bags beginning Jan. 11, 2011.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 24th
1758: George Washington is admitted to the Virginia House of Burgess
1847: Mormon leader Brigham Young and his followers arrive in the valley of the Great Salt Lake (Utah)
1866: Tennessee becomes the first state to be re-admitted to the Union after the Civil War
1969: Muhammad Ali is convicted, on appeal, for refusing induction into the U.S. Army
1972: Jigme Singye Wangchuk becomes king of Bhutan at 16 years of age
1974: The Supreme Court rules unanimously that President Richard M. Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.
1978: “Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” premieres in NYC
1998: A gunman bursts into the U.S. Capitol, opening fire and killing two police officers before being shot and captured
2005: Lance Armstrong closes out his cycling career with a seventh consecutive Tour de France victory.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 24th
1783: Simon Bolivar, freed 6 Latin American republics from Spanish rule
1802: Alexandre Dumas, French author
1842: Ambrose Bierce, writer
1895: Robert Graves, British poet/historical novelist
1898: Amelia Earhart, aviatrix
1900: Zelda Fitzgerald, first wife of F Scott
1920: Bella Abzug, US Rep (D-NY)
1935: Pat Oliphant, political cartoonist
1949: Michael Richards, actor
1951: Lynda Carter, Miss USA/actress
1953: Claire McCaskill, US senator (D-MO)
1956: Charlie Crist, Governor of Florida
1964: Barry Bonds, baseball player
1969: Jennifer Lopez, actress/singer
1981: Summer Glau, actress
July 23, 2008
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Vanilla Ice Cream Day
Day 205 of 2008
161 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Koho: Election
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Plantesen: Plantation
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “A goose mate returns to pollute the house.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “No man should be in politics unless he would honestly rather not be there.” (Samuel Adams)
TODAY - Election Filing Deadline Passes: Now that yesterday’s filing deadline for candidates has passed, Sepember’s Primary Election slate is set. Two candidates - Danny Mateo and Mike Victorino - are running unopposed for County Council. South Maui and Lanai wilI be the most contested seats. Primary Election ballots for State Senate and Legislature races are also finalized. See
2008 Election page (from navigation bar above).
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 23rd
636: Arabs gain control of most of Palestine from the Byzantine Empire
1827: The first U.S. swim school opens (Boston Massachusetts)
1840: Workers begin the first U.S. railroad labor strike at the Baltimore & Ohio’s Mt. Clare, MD
1877: The first telephone & telegraph line in Hawaii is completed
1904: The ice cream cone, created by Charles E Menches, is introduced during the Louisiana Purchase Expo (St. Louis)
1940: The “Blitz” begins: all-night bombing of London by Nazi war planes
1958: The first four women are named to peerage in Britain’s House of Lords
1967: Race riots claiming 43 lives erupt in Detroit
1972: Eddy Merck (Belgium) wins his 4th consecutive Tour de France
2000: Tiger Woods became the youngest golfer to complete a career Grand Slam when he won the British Open at age 24
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 23rd
1892: Haile Selassie, emperor of Ethiopia
1936: Anthony M Kennedy, supreme court justice
1936: Don Drysdale, Hall of Fame baseball pitcher
1938: Ronny Cox, actor
1961: Woody Harrelson, actor
1965: Slash, rock musician
1967: Philip Seymour Hoffman, actor
1973: Omar Epps, actor
1980: Michelle Williams, singer
July 22, 2008
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Rat Catchers Day
Day 204 of 2008
163 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Iole: Rat
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Rat: Rat
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Of all the tyrants that afflict mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.” (Thomas Paine)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 22nd
1775: George Washington takes command of the troops
1933: Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in seven days, 18 1/2 hours
1934: A man identified as bank robber John Dillinger is shot to death by federal agents outside Chicago’s Biograph Theater
1967: Jimi Hendrix quits as the opening act of the Monkees’ tour
1983: Dick Smith makes the first solo helicopter flight around the world
1999: The ashes of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, are cast into the sea off Martha’s Vineyard
2003: Months after her prisoner-of-war ordeal, Pvt. 1st Class Jessica Lynch returned home to a hero’s welcome in Elizabeth, W.Va.
2004: The Sept. 11 Commission issues a report saying America’s leaders failed to grasp the gravity of terrorist threats before the 9/11 attacks.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 22nd
1822: Gregor Mendel, monk/geneticist
1849: Emma Lazarus, poet
1882: Edward Hopper, U.S. painter
1887: Gustav Hertz, German quantum physicist
1888: Raymond Chandler, mystery writer
1898: Alexander Calder, sculptor
1898: Stephen Vincent Benet, writer
1908: Amy Vanderbilt, authority on etiquette
1928: Orson Bean, actor/comedian
1932: Oscar de la Renta, designer
1934: Louise Fletcher, actress
1939: Terence Stamp, actor
1941: George Clinton, rocker
1947: Albert Brooks, actor/director
1947: Don Henley, drummer
1955: Willem Dafoe, actor
1964: David Spade, actor/comedian
1964: John Leguizamo, actor
1972: Colin Ferguson, actor
July 21, 2008
Maui Curmudgeon, U.S. Presidents
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By the Maui Curmudgeon (16th 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.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN: 1861-1865 ~ 16th U.S. President
More books have been written about Abraham Lincoln than all other presidents combined. Books have been written about single speeches he made (Gettysburg, Second Inaugural). His presidency has been called the defining moment in American history. No national poll of historians ranks him lower than 3rd all time, and most put him as the greatest president. He was certainly one of the great presidential writers. To write a few words about him here seems hardly worth the effort. So I will break the form I’ve been using and simply put forth some ideas, a few of which you may not have heard, and others which bear repeating.
Since shortly after his death, the early history of Abraham Lincoln has been questioned. Many historians now think that Lincoln was the illegitimate son of Abraham Cloe, not Thomas Lincoln. We’ll never know for sure. It sure as hell doesn’t matter.
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July 21, 2008
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Guam Independence Day
Day 203 of 2008
163 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Lioho: Algae
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Ailan: Island
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Look for the plant that stands alone.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Never confuse movement with action.” (Ernest Hemingway)
Maui Program Recycles Algae Into Compost: A $10,000 pilot project, funded by the county in cooperation with the state, scrapes often foul-smelling algae from Maui beaches, washes it with sea water, and sucks it into a large container where a screen filters the algae and returns the water to the ocean. The seaweed can then be used by local farmers for composting. Read more …
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 21st
1588: The English fleet defeats the Spanish Armada
1873: Jesse James conducts the world’s first train robbery
1898: Spain cedes Guam to the U.S.
1930: The U.S. Veterans Administration is established
1944: U.S. forces land on Guam and free it of Japanese invaders
1949: The U.S. Senate ratifies the North Atlantic Treaty by a vote of 82-13
1954: At Geneva, France agrees to the independence of North & South Vietnam,
1955: The first submarine powered by a liquid metal-cooled reactor is launched (USS Seawolf)
1976: The first outbreak of “Legionnaire’s Disease” kills 29 in Philadelphia
1980: Draft registration begins in the U.S. for 19 & 20-year-old men
1999: Navy divers find the bodies of John Kennedy Jr. his wife, Carolyn and sister-in-law Lauren Bessette in the Atlantic wreck of his plane (off Martha’s Vineyard)
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 21st
1899: Ernest Hemmingway, author
1899: Hart Crane, poet
1911: Marshall McLuhan, media writer
1920: Isaac Stern, violinist
1924: Don Knotts, actor
1926: Norman Jewison, film director
1947: Cat Stevens, aka Yusuf Islam, rock musician
1949: Gardy Trudeau, cartoonist (Doonesbury)
1952: Robin Williams, actor/comedian
1957: Jon Lovitz, actor/comedian
1978: Josh Hartnett, actor
1985: Dan Block, actor
July 20, 2008
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By Nesdon and Deena Booth
Today, we are finally at a place, technologically, economically and we’re hoping politically, to finally escape from the disaster that has become of our petroleum economy. It is no longer the pie-in-the-sky dream of some tree hugger. Virtually all scientists and policy analysts working in the renewable energy field agree that it is possible for the USA to shift production of electricity from coal, gas, oil, and nuclear energy to clean safe renewables like solar, wind and geo thermal within the next few years.
Make no mistake, such a transition will result in a shift of wealth and resources away from oil companies, coal mines and other entrenched energy providers to upstart industries and forward looking entrepreneurs. Many of our politicians and policy makers whose campaign war chests and personal fortunes are funded by these industries are understandably resistant to the change.
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July 20, 2008
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Moon Day
Day 202 of 2008
164 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Mahina: Moon
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Mun: Moon
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “She has a face as bright as the moon.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “Well, George, we knocked the bastard off.” (Edmund Hillary)
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 20th
1878: The first telephone is introduced in Hawaii
1881: Sioux Indian leader Sitting Bull, a fugitive since the Battle of the Little Big Horn surrendered to federal troops
1969: The first men land on the Moon, aboard Apollo 11 - Neil Armstrong & Edwin Aldrin - “It’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind”
1985: Divers find the wreck of Spanish galleon Atocha (contained gold and other treasure)
1987: Don Mattingly ties the first base fielding record (22 put-outs)
1990: A federal appeals court sets aside Oliver North’s Iran-Contra convictions (reversing one outright)
1992: Vaclav Havel, the playwright who led the Velvet Revolution against communism, steps down as president of Czechoslovakia
2007: President George W. Bush signs an executive order prohibiting cruel and inhuman treatment, including humiliation or denigration of religious beliefs, in the detention and interrogation of terrorism suspects
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 20th
1919: Sir Edmund Hillary, one of first 2 men to scale Mt Everest
1920: Elliot L Richardson, Attorney General/Sec of Defense
1938: Diana Rigg, actress
1938: Natalie Wood, actress
1943: John Lodge, bassist (Moody Blues)
1944: T G Sheppard, country singer
1945:Larry Craig, US senator (R-Idaho)
1946: Kim Carnes, singer
1947: Carlos Santana, musician
1954: Jay Jay French, guitarist (Twisted Sister)
1955: Michael Anthony, bassist (Van Halen)
1968: Chris Kennedy, actor
1978: Charlie Korsmo, actor
July 19, 2008
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Woodie Wagon Day
Day 201 of 2008
165 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Mo‘o: Lizard
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Palai: Lizard
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Do not bother lizards or you’ll fall off a cliff.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “We do not like those who unmask our illusions.” (Emerson)
TODAY - Democratic presidential contender Barack Obama started a campaign-season tour of combat zones and foreign capitals, visiting with U.S. forces in Kuwait and then Afghanistan — the scene of a war he says deserves more attention and more troops.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 19th
-2781: The calculated beginning of the Egyptian calendar
1877: The first Wimbledon tennis championships are held
1880: The San Francisco Library allows patrons to start borrowing books
1918: The Bolsheviks “exterminate” the family of the Czars (The Romanovs)
1957: The first rocket with a nuclear warhead is test-fired (Yucca Flat Nevada)
1961: The first in-flight movie is shown on a commercial passenger airplane (on TWA)
1969: Apollo 11, and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ”Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins, enters lunar orbit
1984: U.S. Representative Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York becomes the first woman to be selected to run for the vice presidency by a major political party (at the Democratic convention in San Francisco)
1985: Christa McAuliffe is chosen to be the first school teacher to fly aboard the Space Shuttle
1990: The Richard Nixon library opens in Yorba Linda California
1993: President Clinton announces a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity - “Don’t ask don’t tell”
2006: President George W. Bush issued his first presidential veto, rejecting a bill that would have multiplied federal money for embryonic stem cell research.
BORN ON THIS DAY — July 19th
1814: Samuel Colt, inventor of the Colt Revolver
1834: Edgar Degas, impressionist painter
1846: Charles Edward Pickering, pioneer American spectroscopist
1898: Herbert Marcuse, communist philosopher
1922: George McGovern, Senator(D-SD)/presidential candidate
1937: George Hamilton IV, actor
1954: Kathleen Turner, actress
1962: Anthony Edwards, actor
July 18, 2008
Raphael O'Suna
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People are conditioned and propagandized to love their country and God from earliest childhood.
Rather than a wise practice, it is a method of social control. God and country are used symbolically to emotionalize one’s attachment to the objectives of a higher class. God, country, the flag, religion, patriotism, and all the other abstractions, symbols and pretenses, are created for no other reason than to rob you of your freedom and to either limit or emotionalize your thought.
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