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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Eu: Rogue
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Giamanim: Tell lies to
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The stars are the spies of heaven.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things!” – Niccolo Machiavelli

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — The Daily Beast - Tina Brown’s latest
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Palin Appears on SNL
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — 23/6 – “Some of the News Most of the Time”
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — FactCheck.org

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ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES – October 26, 1979:
While schoolchildren in Mainland snowbound states begin to dream of “snow days,”which offer students days off from school because of the fluffy stuff, children on Maui get 3 unscheduled days off not from being marooned by snow, but um …  because of the stink. All Maui public schools joined the 228 public schools statewide in closing because state health officials deem the schools “unsanitary.” The cause? A United Public Workers strike. School custodians are on strike and no one is cleaning the restrooms. Eventually, the stink got out of hand, and all schools had to be shut down. They reopened October 29.

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1774  1st Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia
1825 Erie Canal between Hudson River & Lake Erie opened
1863 Worldwide Red Cross organized in Geneva
1863 Football Association forms in England, standardizing soccer
1868 White terrorists kill several blacks in St Bernard Parish La
1869 1st American steeplechase horserace (Westchester, NY)
1876 President sends federal troops to SC
1881 Shootout at the OK corral, in Tombstone, Az
1887 Detroit (NL) beats St Louis (AA) 10 games to 5 in the World Series
1903 Yerba Buena is 1st Key System ferry to cross SF Bay
1905 1st Soviet (workers’ council) formed, St Petersburg, Russia
1905 Union of Sweden & Norway ends
1911 Phila A’s beat NY Giants, 4 games to 2 in 8th World Series
1916 Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
1921 Solomon Porter Hood named minister to Liberia
1941 US savings bonds go on sale
1942 US ship Hornet sunk in Battle of Santa Cruz Islands during WW II
1947 Maharajah of Jammu & Kashmir accedes to India
1949 Pres Truman increases minimum wage from 40› to 75›
1950 Branch Rickey resigns as Brooklyn Dodger president
1951 Rocky Marciano defeats Joe Louis at Madison Square Garden
1955 Ngo Dinh Diem proclaims Vietnam a republic with himself as pres
1956 UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency statute approved
1956 Vietnam promulgates its constitution
1957 USSR fires defense minister, Marshal Georgi Zhukov
1957 Vatican Radio begins broadcasting
1958 PanAm flies the 1st transatlantic jet trip-NY to Paris
1960 AL announces Minneapolis & LA to get teams in 1961
1960 AL’s Washington Senators move to become Minnesota Twins
1962 Beatles tape “Please Please Me” & “Ask Me Why”
1964 Rolling Stones appear on the Ed Sullivan Show
1965 Beatles receive MBEs at Buckingham Palace
1965 Sylvia Likens tortured by teen girl gang
1966 1st Pacific communications satellite launched, Intelsat 2
1967 Shah of Iran crowns himself after 26 years on Peacock Throne
1968 Soyuz 3 launched
1970 “Doonesbury” comic strip debuts in 28 newspapers
1971 UN votes to replace Taiwan with China
1972 Guided tours of Alcatraz (by Park Service) begin
1972 Henry Kissinger declares “Peace is at hand” in Vietnam
1973 Wings release “Helen Wheels”
1974 Cleveland Coliseum opens for NBA’s Cavaliers & MISL’s Crunch
1975 Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian president to officially visit the US
1976 Transkei gains independence, not recognized outside of South Africa
1976 Trinidad & Tobago becomes a republic
1977 5th & final test of space shuttle Enterprise
1977 Dr Clifford R Wharton Jr named chancellor of State University of NY
1980 St Louis Cards sack Balt Colt QBs an NFL record tying 12 times
1981 LA Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 4 games to 2 in 78th World Series
1982 Steve Carlton became 1st pitcher to win 4 Cy Young awards
1984 “Baby Fae” gets baboon heart transplant, lives 21 days
1985 On a poor call in 6th game, umpire Don Deckinger starts a string of events costing Cardinals the 82nd World Series
1987 Dow Jones down 156.83 points
1987 Head of Salvadoran Human Rights Comm assassinated by death squads
1988 Donald Trump bills Mike Tyson $2,000,000 for 4 month advisory service
1988 US-Soviet effort free 2 grey whales from frozen Arctic, Barrow, AK

901   King Alfred the Great, die
1868 B F Randolph SC state senator, assassinated
1909 Prince Ito of Japan is assassinated by a Korean
1962 Louise Beavers actress (Beulah-Beulah), die at 64
1979 Park Chung-hee South Korean President is assassinated
1984 Sue Randall actress (Miss Landers-Leave it to Beaver), dies at 49
1990 William Paley CEO (CBS), dies at 89 from a heart attack
1991 Lori Rae Matthews crushed to death by an artist’s 485 lb umbrella

By Maui Curmudgeon
During these final days nearing the election, is there anything more satisfying than seeing the conservatives come unglued? I doubt it.

And now the McCain-Palin ticket is showing it’s real metal. It seems that the illustrious Sarah Palin (show here in an earlier incantation) is “going rogue” according to several McCain staffers, and as reported on CNN and Time. She doesn’t clear her messages with the Big Guy (i.e. her head of ticket), nor does she stick on message.

As one staffer said, Palin is a “Diva” and all Divas are concerned only with themselves. And here’s the suspicion: Palin is sure the ticket is going to lose, and so she is working now to set herself up as a party leader, and the republican frontrunner for 2012! So, thanks Sarah, for giving up so soon and doing your part to bring to bring change to America, in the form of Obama.