As 2009 approaches, do not waste your wishes on peace or happiness. Each is a false issue. Peace cannot come until all men are free. Until opportunity exists for all, and not until basic necessities are everywhere provided for.
Happiness, by most, is manifested when desires are gratified. Gratification and satisfaction are fairly low vibrations. Hardly worth a wish.
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Leka: Letter, missive PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY —Pas: Letter HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The silent messenger.” (A letter) HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “The most important thing to do in your life, is to not interfere with somebody else’s life.” - Frank Zappa
WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Think Green Hawaii WEB GAME OF THE WEEK — Sock & Awed – TRY IT! NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate’s Podcasts GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK — Recycle HawaiiWINTER SOLSTICE: 2:04am
Shortest day of the year. First day of Winter in the Northern Hemisphere.
Today thru December 30th: Maui Film Festival’s First Light Screenings 
December 21st, 1850: By Royal decree, the Hawaiian Post Office opens its doors, and it costs 42 cents to mail a letter to the mainland – one more penny than it does today.
Until the decree, postal delivery was handled by business or private people — and it wasn’t that private. Nothing really stopped people from reading your mail – not unlike the current administration’s war against privacy. For your money, you got the postmaster’s word that he’d give it to the first reliable sea captain he could, a captain who promised to deliver the letter to the San Francisco Post Office as soon as possible. Only one letter with the opening day postmark is known to exist today.
If you wanted to mail a letter within the Kingdom, it cost you ten cents.Truthfully, both amounts sound low, but for the times, they weren’t. For example, using the consumer price index, 42 cents in 1850 would be worth $11.19 cents, and 10 cents is $2.66.
World Underdog Day