Perseid Meteor Showers Day 222 of 2008 144 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kapuna wahine: Grandmother
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Tutu: Grandma
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY —  “It show that the child has a grandparent.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The freedom of all is essentail to my freedom.”
(Michael Bakunin)

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — War Profiteers

WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Obama Comes Home to Hawaii
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — TruthDig.com Podcast
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — End Slavery

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YESTERDAY: Barack Obama returns to Honolulu, his childhood home. The 1979 Punahou School graduate,  with his wife Michelle and their two children are vacationing in Hawaii during the Olympic Games being held in Bejing, China.  He will also be working on his acceptance speech for the Democratic Convention at the end of the month.

“I’m going to see my tutu, my grandma, and I’m going to watch my girls play on the beach and maybe once in a while, I’ll go into the water. But mostly I’m just going to sit there and watch them,” he told a crowd of 3,000 who welcomed him at Keehi Lagoon. “I’m going to have a plate lunch, some shave ice and do some body surfing,” he added.  Read  more …

EVENTS ON THIS DAY — August 9th
-480: (BCE) Persia defeats Spartan king Leonidas at Thermopylae
1642: Harvard conducts its first commencement ceremonies
1778: Captain Cook passes through the Bering Straits
1803: The first horses arrive in Hawaii
1854: “Walden,” by Henry David Thoreau is published

1930: Betty Boop debuts in Max Fleischer’s animated cartoon “Dizzy Dishes”
1936: Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the Berlin Olympics

1945: U.S. drops the atomic bomb on Naghasaki, Japan

1964: Bob Dylan and Joan Baez perform on stage together for the first time
1974: Richard M Nixon resigns the presidency and appointed Vice President Gerald Ford is sworn in as the 38th U.S. President
1985: A federal judge in Norfolk VA finds retired Navy officer Arthur J. Walker guilty of 7 counts of spying for the USSR
1995: Jerry Garcia, lead guitarist of the Grateful Dead, dies in San Francisco of a heart attack at age 53

BORN ON THIS DAY — August 9th
1593: Izaak Walton, biographer/fisherman/writer
1927: Marvin Minsky, Artifical intelligence computer scientist
1944: Sam Elliot, actor
1957: Melanie Griffith, actress
1963: Whitney Houston, singer
1967: Deion Sanders, NFL All-Pro/TV broadcaster
1964: Chris Cuomo, TV host
1968: Eric Bana, actor
1968: Gillian Anderson, actress