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Shopping Reminder Day Day 331 of 2008 35 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Mahu: Homosexual
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —Like Beef?: Want to fight?
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Dark lips hold fast.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “There are two kinds of man who never amount to much, those who cannot do what they are told, and those who can do nothing else.” - Cyrus Curtis

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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

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As noted in our events section below, two items of interest happened on this day for Maui. The first was the “discovery” of Maui by Captain James Cook. I bristle when I read things like that. No doubt the “discovery” came as a surprise to the hundreds of residents already well-established here. The event suggests that the place really didn’t exist until a white man knew it existed. Right.

The second, which is of more interest, says that the Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association was formed. How about that? The rich men who stole the land from the natives and made millions off the poorly paid labor needed an association. Why do you suppose they felt they needed one? Were they somehow being picked on?

Anyway, as long as we’re in a questioning mood this day before Thanksgiving, We’ll throw out a few more:

1. Was Wayne Nishiki set up? Sure smells like it, but like most other such things on Maui, no one will find out. Wayne has no money (that’s why he borrowed some). Only people with money have a good number of their mysteries investigated.

2. Why can’t anyone do visitor math? The Maui News reports that visitors were down 20% in October, and the trend continues. You don’t suppose that this is due, in part, to the outrageously greedy hotel owners who are converting their hotel rooms to time shares, and firing the hotel support staff because they are not needed anymore?

3. Is Mayor Charmaine Tavares gay? Not that there’s anything wrong with that. And what is it about Maui voters putting gay women in the mayor’s office anyway? Oh right, Linda Lingle isn’t gay. Uh huh. A republican governor gay, why that’s unthinkable. Conservatives hate gays, they can’t support one. That would be hypocritical. Oh wait, nevermind. We answered our own question.

4. Seriously though, Tavares is gay, right?

1703 Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 1st lion exhibited in America (Boston)
1778 Capt Cook discovers Maui (Sandwich Islands)
1789 1st national thanksgiving
1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating (NYC) (12« fare)
1861 At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia
1865 Alice in Wonderland published
1868 1st baseball game played in enclosed field in San Francisco, at 25th & Folsom
1885 1st meteor photograph
1895 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association formed
1896 1st large indoor football game, U of Chicago beats U of Michigan 7-6
1896 A.A. Stagg of U Chicago creates the football huddle
1924 Mongolian People’s Republic proclaimed
1940 Nazis force 500,000 Warsaw Jews to live in walled ghetto
1941 Lebanon gains independence from France
1949 India adopts a constitution as a British Commonwealth Republic
1950 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1962 1st recording session under the name “Beatles”
1973 Nixon’s personal sec, Rose Mary Woods, tells a federal court she accidentally caused part of 18-minute gap in a key Watergate tape
1975 Fed jury found Lynette Fromme guilty of attempted assassination
1976 Ringo releases “Hey Baby” single
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7 million
1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 Pioneer 6’s closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students

1607   John Harvard England, clergyman/scholar, major benefactor to Harvard University (library & half his estate)
1912 Eric Sevareid Velva ND, newscaster (CBS Weekend News)
1912 Eugene Ionesco France, dramatist (Rhinoceros)
1913 Foy Draper US, relay runner (Olympic-gold-1936)
1915 Earl Wild Pittsburgh PA, pianist (Caesar’s Hour, NBC Symphony 1942)
1922 Adele Jergens Brooklyn NY, actress (Dark Past, Fuller Brush Man)
1922 Charles M Schulz cartoonist (Peanuts)
1924 George Segal NY, sculptor lifelike mixed-media figures (Bus Driver)
1933 Robert Goulet Lawrence MA, singer/actor (Camelot, Naked Gun 2«)
1934 Ludmila Shevtsova USSR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1960)
1935 Marian Mercer Akron Ohio, actress/singer (Dean Martin Show)
1937 Boris Yegorov cosmonaut (Voskhod 1)
1937 Leo Lacroix France, skier (Olympic-silver-1964)
1938 Rich Little Ottawa Canada, impressionist/actor (Love on a Rooftop)
1938 Tina Turner [Anna Mae Bullock], Brownsville TX, singer (Proud Mary)
1942 Olivia Cole Memphis TN, actress (Roots, Szysznyk)
1943 Jan Stenerud Norway, NFL place kicker (Kansas City Chiefs)
1945 John McVie rocker (Fleetwood Mac-Rumours, Tusk)

1883   Sojourner Truth abolitionist, women’s rights advocate, dies
1939 James Naismith Basketball inventor, dies
1970 B O Davis Sr 1st black general, dies at 93 in Chicago
1973 Albert DiSalvo Boston strangler, stabbed
1980 Rachael Roberts actress, dies at age 53
1982 Dan Tobin actor (I Married Joan, My Favorite Martian), dies at 73
1982 Robert Coote actor (Timmy-Rogues, Theodore-Nero Wolfe), dies at 73
1985 Ransom Sherman comedian (Father of the Bride), dies at 87
1986 Scatman Crothers actor (Louie-Chico & the Man), dies at 76