Int’l Aura Awareness Day Day 327 of 2008 39 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘A‘a: Volunteer
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Dripman: Vagrant
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A mudhen cries because it has water.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The easiest solutions are tried last” - Anon

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WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Democracy Now!
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Barack Obama is Irish
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Left Wing Conspiracy
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Media Matters

HAWAII NEWS ARCHIVES – November 22, 1922
The Hawaiian Homes Commission, the parent of the Hawaiian Homelands organization, offers lots to Molokai residents which combine residential use with farmland, answering a request of some residents. Few residents, however, end up with any land.

Many Molokai residents are understandably not thrilled with the arrangement offered. Their ancestors, going back hundreds of years, had not “owned” anything. The concept of owning land was anathema to the old Hawaiian ways. Several old timers, especially those who remembered the Great Mahele of 1848, when the Christians offered land to every Hawaiian, if only they would sign away the rights to that land first. The Hawaiians expected the Christians to be true to their word, a disappointment that many in history have had to learn. Hawaiians ended up with little of the land to call their own. Now, this new commission. More than 86 years later, it’s not any better. The average wait for two acres of land from Hawaiian Homelands, if you are of Hawaiian descent, is 15 years. Most of the land given out lies unused. It’s unclear why the wait is so long.

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Long ago, five men sat around a camp fire. We had hiked in along the “Lost Coast” of California. As was our custom, we spent such occurrences discussing philosophical questions. On that particular night, we tackled the subject of Evil’s greatest creation. One of us called it “the Devil’s Masterpiece of Deception.”

The oldest camper took the easy way out: he suggested that Evil’s greatest deception was the creation of doubt about its existence. Many humans no longer believe in a Devil, a Fallen Angel, a Black Lodge or in Conscious Evil itself.

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