June 26, 2009
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Let Them Fail or Take Them Over
By Maui Curmudgeon
The Curmudgeon has been quiet of late, letting events work their way out, at least to some degree. Paul Krugman, the Nobel prize winner for economics last year, has written that the government’s response to the current economic crisis brings him to despair, and I feel his pain.
In a recent economic round-table in New York City, Krugman said, “This crisis has been so large and the political response so sluggish that the difficulties have been greater than expected. Things are getting worse more slowly, but we have not managed to head-off a crisis that could turn out to be self-reinforcing, and leave us in this trap for many, many years.”
I would go further.
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June 26, 2009
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 Forgiveness Day
Day 177 of 2009
188 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ho’okani: To make music
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Renbo: Rainbow
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Life is in the mouth; death is in the mouth.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my word and, second, to never insult anyone unintentionally. If I insult you. you can be goddamn sure I intend to.” (John Wayne)
June 26, 1997: A GIANT DIES — Hawaiian musician Israel Kamakawiwo’ole dies at the age of 38. At 758 pounds, he dies of complications from obesity, and instantly becomes a beloved singer and ukulele player nationwide. A gentle giant in the true sense of the word, Israel has many times the number of albums since his death than before. Perhaps his most well-known song is his version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” which you can hear/see on YouTube.
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June 25, 2009
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Ya Gotta Luv It
By Maui Curmudgeon
I have long said that the United States has two political parties, the Democrats and the Hypocrits. The legion of evidence for the conservative hypocrisy is startling and pathetic. Recent events have just tickled me.
The party of “family values”, of “ethics”, and rabid attacks on Bill Clinton when he had his fling with Monica Lewinsky – the Republican party (I have to wash my keyboard whenever I type those disgusting words) – is being bludgeoned by hypocrisy this week.
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June 25, 2009
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Log Cabin Day
Day 176 of 2009
189 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pu‘ali: Army
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Ami: Army
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Fish poison should be used in the daytime.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Some animals are more equal than others.” (George Orwell, Animal Farm)
June 25th, 1876: George Armstrong Custer and more than 200 soldiers of the 7th Calvary were defeated and killed at the Battle of the Little Bighorn against a coalition of Native American tribes composed almost exclusively of Sioux, Cheyenne, and Arapaho warriors, and led by the Sioux warrior Crazy Horse and the Sioux leaders Gall and Sitting Bull. This confrontation has come to be popularly known in American history as Custer’s Last Stand. More >
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June 24, 2009
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Swim Day
Day 175 of 2009
190 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Ho’okui: Hit
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Boskru bilong balus: Crew of a plane
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One can enjoy a canoe ride when the paddler is skilled.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music…and of aviation.” (Tom Stoppard)
June 24th, 1941: Haleakala proves deadly to three Navy planes piloted by Marines who were making a routine night flight over Maui about six months before the U.S. entered World War II. In what is still today a somewhat inexplicable occurrence, all three planes hit the west side of the volcano at about 8,000 feet and all the pilots died.
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June 23, 2009
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UN Public Service Day
Day 174 of 2009
191 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DY — Kolohe: Comic
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Paniman: Funnyman, clown
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Observe the horizon clouds of the land.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” (George Carlin)
TODAY: Sunday’s Maalaea Fire Closed Pali Highway Stranding Hundreds. More >
EVENTS ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 1784: First U.S. balloon flight (13 year old Edward Warren)
- 1947: Truman’s veto of Taft-Hartley Act overridden by congress
- 1949: First 12 women graduate from Harvard Medical School
- 1956: Gamal Abdel Nasser elected president of Egypt
- 1969: Warren E. Burger was sworn in as chief justice of the United States.
- 1972: Nixon & Haldeman agree to use CIA to cover up Watergate
- 1972: President Nixon signs act barring sex discrimination in college sports
- 1993: Lorena Bobbitt mutilates the genitalia of her husband, John, after he allegedly rapes her
- 2005: Former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen was sentenced to 60 years in prison for the
- 1964 Mississippi slayings of three civil rights workers.
BORN ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 1910: Jean Anouilh, dramatist
- 1912: Alan Turing, mathematician/pioneer in computer theory
1927: Bob Fosse, choreographer/director
- 1929: June Carter Cash, country singer
- 1940: Diana Trask, singer
- 1947: Bryan Brown, actor
- 1948: Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice/perjurer/pornographer
- 1956: Randy Jackson, TV personality
- 1957: Frances McDormand, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY – June 23rd
- 79: Vespasian, Roman Emperor (b. 9)
- 1222: Constance of Aragon, Aragonese princess
- 1832: James Hall, Scottish geologist (b. 1761)
- 1995: Jonas Salk, American biologist and physician (b. 1914)
- 1996: Andreas Papandreou, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1919)
- 1997: Betty Shabazz, wife of Malcolm X (b. 1936)
- 1998: Maureen O’Sullivan, Irish actress (b. 1911)
- 2005: Shana Alexander, American columnist (b. 1926)
- 2006: Aaron Spelling, American television producer (b. 1923)
- 2009: Ed McMahon, American television personality (b. 1923)
