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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Papeka: Puppet
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Krosum: Scold
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The stars are the spies of heaven.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” – HD Thoreau

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — The Daily Beast - Tina Brown’s latest
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Wassup 2008
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 27, 1940:
An estimated 2,000 Maui men join the nearly 60,000 men who register in the selective service (draft), a nearly 100 percent compliance record for the state of Hawaii. This is no small accomplishment given that the action which caused a flood of enlistments – the Japaneses attack on Pearl Harbor – came more than a year later.

625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1775 US Navy established
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1886 Musical fantasy “Night on Bald Mountain,” performed in Russia
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1904 World’s 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
1916 1st published reference to “jazz” appears (Variety)
1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1924 The Uzbek SSR forms
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26′ 2¬”
1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called “nylon”
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1947 “You Bet Your Life”, with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 Walt Disney’s 1st TV show, “Disneyland,” premieres on ABC
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo ‘67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader’s Raiders
1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Za‹re
1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers-3-2
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 St Vincent & the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat’l Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 Wash State’s Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet’s & 2 Renoir’s
1986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 Paul McCartney release “Pretty Little Head”
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 “ET” released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1991 Minn Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win the 8th World Series in 7

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1449 Ulugh Beg a USSR astronomer, dies at 56
1553 Michael Servetus Spanish physician burns at stake for heresy
1955 Clark Griffith baseball player/manager (NY Yankees), dies at 85
1962 Fatso Marco comedian (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1964 Sammee Tong actor (Bachelor Father, Mickey), dies at 63
1972 Lew Parker actor (Lou Marie-That Girl), dies a day before turning 65
1987 Jean H‚lion artist/author, dies at 83
1988 S.B. Fuller founder of Fuller products, dies at 83
1990 Elliott Roosevelt son of FDR, dies at 80
1990 Xavier Cugart bandlander, dies from heart failure at 90
1996 Morey Amsterdam actor/comedian (Dick Van Dyke Show) at 74

Deeply stung by the criticism that she is wearing $150,000 of clothes bought by staffers of the Republican National Committee, Republican Vice-Presidential candidate Sarah Palin went severely “off-script” yesterday at a rally in Tampa, Florida. Referring to the clothes, she said, “Those clothes, they are not my property. Just like the lighting and the staging and everything else that the RNC purchased, I’m not taking them with me.”

Of course, the hypocrisy lies in the fact that since the first day John McCain picked her as running mate, Palin has

been happy to wear all the nice shiny gifts, including the cream-colored Channel jacket she wore at RNC Convention two months ago (that little fabric cost $2,500). It’s only now that the ridiculous expenditures have been made public that she’s upset.

(It’s funny that tens of millions of Americans swallow the conservative stink about how the party really does relate to ‘common folk’. Palin’s jacket is sad enough – Cindy McCain’s dress on the podium cost $300,000. On the other hand, here’s a guy who can relate:)

Where is John McCain in all this Palin mess, still getting his clock cleaned by Joy Behar on The View?