July 31, 2009
Raphael O'Suna
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By Raphael O’Suna
Women have interested me, because of their beauty, their energy or their sexuality. Or because of all three. On the other hand, I have never had a satisfying or long-term relationship with one.
Those three things that attract me to women, are not much of a foundation for relationship. In fact, relationship is a small container to try to hold a woman with fire, beauty or desirability in her aura, face and figure, respectively.
My choice of women has always proved too volatile for the type of man I am. Choosing a woman with my senses, imagination and feeling brought me nothing but short-term unhappiness.
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July 29, 2009
Maui Curmudgeon
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Part 6 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian
By Maui Curmudgeon
CNN and Newsweek, among other news organizations, have written about the new title for what was formerly known as The Bible Belt: the Blubber Belt. After experiencing Atlanta and Western North Carolina, I can say from first-hand experience – oh my lard!
All y’all are pigs!
Wal-mart in Asheville looks like a Kamu the Whale reunion.
Atlanta airport is chuck full of Pillsbury Doughgirl/Michelin Man offspring.
Last week an obese couple tried to drive up a hiking trail on the Blue Ridge Highway because they wanted to see the overlook but they were too fat to get out of the car. They got a ticket and a large bill for the tow out.
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July 29, 2009
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 Purchase Cheese Day
Day 210 of 2009
155 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kenekoa: Senator
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Kirapim: Begin
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “The goodness of the taro is judged by the young plant it produces.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.”
TODAY: Visitor Numbers Not So Sweet Maui island welcomed 176,455 visitors in June, which was 8,000 fewer, or 4.3 percent less, than the year before, which in turn was 48,000 fewer than in 2007, the year before that. More >
July 29th, 1835: The first sugar plantation in Hawaii begins production. Sugar takes on ever increasing economic importance, requiring a large plantation labor population that cannot be provided by the native population, seriously depleted by introduced diseases
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July 28, 2009
Maui Curmudgeon
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Part 5 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian
By Maui Curmudgeon
The Maui News reported today that for people in Maui Lani: “Drivers must wait several more months for a new mile-long roadway that will trim minutes off the commute between Wailuku and Kahului.”
One of the partners in the development, Leiane Paci, said, “I know, I know all that new paving looks very enticing to everyone,” Paci said.
Well, the fuck it does, Leiane. You’ve ruined acres of green Maui and poisoned it with more blacktop so residents of two towns WHICH SHARE A COMMON BORDER cans “shave minutes” off their commute? How stupid is that?
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July 28, 2009
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Milk Chocolatece Day
Day 209 of 2009
156 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Kenekoa: Senator
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Kirapim: Begin
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “The goodness of the taro is judged by the young plant it produces.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY
— “The superior man is modest in his speech but excels in his actions.” (Confucius)
July 28th, 1959: Hawaii’s first U.S. election sends the first Asian-Americans to Congress in Washington, DC. Hiram L. Fong is elected to the Senate, and Daniel K. Inouye is elected to the House of Representatives. Inouye was later elected to the U.S. Senate in 1962, and remains a U.S. Senator to this day.
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EVENTS ON THIS DAY — July 28th
1540: King Henry VIII’s chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, is executed (on the same day, Henry marries his fifth wife, Catherine Howard)
1586: Sir Thomas Harriot introduces potatoes to Europe
1821: Peru declares independence from Spain (National Day)
1868: The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing due process of law, is declared in effect
1943: Italian Facist dictator Benito Mussolini resigns
1976: 242,000 people die in Tientsin-Tangshan (China) in an 8.2 earthquake
1977: The first oil flows through the Alaska pipeline
1978: The price of gold tops $200 per ounce for first time
2005: The Irish Republican Army renounces the use of violence against British rule in Northern Ireland and said it would disarm.
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BORN ON THIS DAY — July 28th
1844: Gerard Manley Hopkins, poet
1866: Beatrix Potter, English children’s author
1901: Rudy Vallee, singer
1907: Vivian Vance, actress
1909: Malcolm Lowry, novelist
1922: Jacques Piccard, undersea explorer
1941: Michael Mukasey, Attorney General
1943: Bill Bradley, BBall player/ US Sen (D-NJ)
1943: Mike Bloomfield, blues musician
1945: Jim Davis, Garfield cartoonist
1945: Richard Wright, rocker
1946: Linda Kelsey, actress
1947: Sally Struthers, actress
1954: Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela
1972: Elizabeth Berkley, actress
1973: Scott Bloom, actor
July 27, 2009
Maui Curmudgeon
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Part 4 of a multi-part series: Notes From a Wayward Mauian
By Maui Curmudgeon
Summer in Colorado means many things, one of them rushing water. Everywhere you go, streams and creeks and rivers hurl down the banks, some near overflowing, as the last of the snows in the Rockies melt away.
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