Nat’l Self Awareness Day Day 328 of 2008 38 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Makakau: Awareness
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaikaim: Bite
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “What is gone is gone.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If voting changed anything it would be illegal” - Anon

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MAUI NEWS TODAY – November 23, 2008
MAUI ALMANAC JOINS THE MAUI NEWS in calling for Wayne Nishiki to resign his 12th-term seat on the Maui County Council, to which he was unfairly elected November 4. This comes after it was revealed this week that Nishiki violated the law by filing a financial disclosure form more than a month after it was due. This kept  voters from knowing before the election, that he had borrowed $100,000 from developer Everett Dowling.

Nishiki, whose  reputation as an anti-development lawmaker, was widely supported by Maui environmental groups, During his campaign for the South Maui County Council seat, he attacked his opponent Don Couch for accepting campaign donations from developers. At the same time, Nishiki still owed developer Dowling $100,000 from a loan he received in 2005 while a private citizen. Details of the loan, or whether any of it had been repaid, have not yet been made available. Read today’s editorial >

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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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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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World Hello Day Day 326 of 2008 40 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Awa: Harbor
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pasis: Harbor
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A heron that watches the harbor.” (a spy)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I do not agree with what you have to say, but I’ll defend to the death your right to say it.” - Voltaire

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HAWAII NEWS ARCHIVES – November 21, 1794
Honolulu Harbor (aka Kulolia) is entered by the first foreigner, Captain William Brown, of the English ship Butterworth. While he names the harbor Fair Haven, and other foreign captains refer to it as Brown’s Harbor, it soon becomes known as Honolulu.

MAUI NEWS ARCHIVES – November 21, 2004
Under the heading of “A Project That No One Needs” (how portentous!), the Maui News runs a story about pier 2C, a controversial expansion of pier 2C at Kahului Harbor which, the paper reports, no one wants – not Matson, not Goodfellows, not the canoe clubs, not the cruise ships, not even the proposed Superferry (of course, they changed their mind). “If nobody wants 2C,” said then-Mayor Alan Arakawa, “then how did we get to this point?” More >

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Absurdity Day Day 325 of 2008 41 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Haumia ea: Air pollution
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Sit bilong paia: Ash(es)
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Observe with the eyes; listen with the ears; shut the mouth.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Much smoking kills live men and cures dead swine.” - George D. Prentice

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HAWAII NEWS ARCHIVES – November 20, 1928

The Oahu newspaper Pacific Commercial Advertiser reports that there seems to be an eruption at Kilauea on the Big Island. This may come as news to Honolulu, but not to Maui, which suffers the worst attack of VOG since Westerners arrived more than a century ago. Of course, no one calls it VOG, as the word had not been invented yet.VOG is an amalgam of Smoke and Fog, as it references volcanoes. Its first use was as SMOG, of course, which appeared in English for the first time in 1905, to describe the haze which hung over London.In the past several years, several meteorologists have claimed that there is no such thing as VOG, that in fact what Maui experiences is car pollution, and they say they have the air chemical analysis to prove it. We can only say that indeed that might be true, but then, what were people complaining about back in 1893: horse exhaust? The painting above depicts the Kilauea Volcano eruption of 1893. It hangs in the Volcano Museum at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Big Island of Hawaii.

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Gettysburg Address Day Day 324 of 2008 42 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Kao keiki: Kid
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Glaman: Kid
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A fy isn’t made to depart by children.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Here’s looking at you, kid.” -Bogie

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MAUI NEWS ARCHIVES – November 18, 1928
Humphrey Bogart visits Maui with his wife, Lauren Bacall. The visit was sparked by Bogart’s location shooting earlier in the year for The Caine Mutiny, a movie that garnered seven Academy Award nominations, including Bogart’s third best-actor nomination (he won for The African Queen two years earlier.) Bogart has been called the greatest film star ever, according the American Film Institute’s “100 greatest stars.” He spent 27 years acting in films, from 1930 to his death from cancer, in 1957. More > Read the rest…

Occult Day Day 323 of 2008 43 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Lole: Mouse, rat
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Lilik rat: Mouse
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A rat eats, then leaves its droppings.“
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — Arithmetic is being able to count up to twenty without taking off your shoes.” – Mickey Mouse

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NATIONAL NEWS ARCHIVES – November 18, 1928

Mickey Mouse’s birthday. Mickey Mouse was created 80 years ago by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks (voiced by Walt Disney). The Walt Disney Company celebrates his birth as November 18, 1928 upon the release of Steamboat Willie. The anthropomorphic mouse has evolved from being simply a character in animated cartoons and comic strips to become one of the most recognizable symbols in the world.

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Great Expectations

By Maui Curmudgeon

For several months I tracked the European thoughts of the American Election through Europe’s most well-known news publication – The Economist. I thought I’d catch up with the magazine for their thoughts on the results:

1. Barack Obama’s election is the cover, with the heading, “Great Expectations.” Inside, coverage is massive. They have an entire column of summaries devoted to the election, a page and a half editorial, a page on worldwide reaction, three full pages on his challenges, two full pages on the economic problems he faces, three full pages and a sidebar on the mechanics of the election, and a full page on the “unhappy warrior” John McCain. All this is besides the pages of coverage on the other elections, Congress and local.

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