August 31, 2009
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 Nat’l Waffle Day
Day 243 of 2009
122 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Makani pahili: Hurricane
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Hariap: Hurry
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Watch until the black tapa cloth covers Maui.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “If hypocricy were gold, the Capitol would be Fort Knox.” (John McCain)
TODAY: More than 30 firefighters worked over the weekend battling 17 different sections of the Molokai wildfire. Firefighters used five bulldozers, two loaders and three water tankers from the county’s Department of Public Works, state agencies and private companies.
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August 31, 2008: Hurricane Gustav threatens the Louisana coast exactly 3 years after the criminal disregard and incompetence of the Bush/Cheney administration. Category 4 Gustav is also diverting attention from the Republican National Convention starting tomorrow. Bush, Cheney and coast governors say they will not attend the event in Minnesota’s Twin Cities.
August 30, 2009
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According to Hoyle Day
Day 242 of 2009
123 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Huhu: Anger
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kros: Angry
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He grasped the eyeless fish by mistake.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.” (George Clemenceau)
TODAY: Inspector layoffs may mean near shutdown of imports. Plant quarantine officials said last week that laying off more than half the state’s agricultural inspectors would create such a logjam at Hawaii ports that it could cause shortages similar to those seen during shipping strikes. More >
August 30th, 2008: Hawaiian Decathlon Champ Bryan Clay to appear on Wheaties box. Wheaties unveiled two new special edition boxes the previous week including one with Hawaii decathlon champion Bryan Clay. The Castle High School graduate and Olympic gold medalist is on the box of the breakfast of champions.
EVENTS ON THIS DAY — August 30th
- -30: (B.C.) Cleopatra, the seventh queen of ancient Egypt, commits suicide
- 1842: The Congress passes the first U.S. law against the importation of obscene material into the country
- 1850: Honolulu Hawaii becomes a city
- 1945: Hong Kong is liberated from Japan
- 1961: The first African American judge of a U.S. District Court is confirmed (J.B. Parsons)
- 1963: The “Hot Line” communications link between Washington DC & Moscow begins operation
- 1964: President Johnson signs into law the Economic Opportunity Act, which also the creates the Job Corps
- 1967: The U.S. Senate confirms Thurgood Marshall as the first African American justice
- 1999: Citizens of East Timor vote for independence from Indonesia in a U.N.-sponsored ballot
- 2005: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, levees in New Orleans break, flooding the city and stranding tens of thousands of predominantly poor residents in up to 15 feet of water.
BORN ON THIS DAY — August 30th
- 1749: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, social philosopher 1871: Ernest Lord Rutherford, physicist
- 1893: Huey P Long, Governor/US Senator (D-La)
- 1901: Roy Wilkins, civil rights director (NAACP)
- 1907: Fred MacMurray, actor
- 1919: Kitty Wells, country singer
- 1930: Warren Buffett, investor
- 1931: John L Swigert Jr, astronaut
- 1935: John Phillips, singer
- 1943: R. Crumb, cartoonist
- 1948: Lewis Black, comedian
- 1950: John Landis, actor/director
- 1951: Timothy Bottoms, actor
- 1972: Cameron Diaz, actress
DIED ON THIS DAY — August 30th
- 526: Theodoric the Great (b. 454)
- 1938: Max Factor, make-up artist and cosmetic manufacturer (b. 1877)
- 1940: J.J. Thomson, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1856)
- 1963: Guy Burgess, English-born Soviet spy (b. 1911)
- 2000: David Haskell, American Actor (b. 1948)
- 2004: Indian Larry, American motorcycle builder and stuntman (b. 1949)
- 2006: Glenn Ford, Canadian-born American actor (b. 1916)
- 2006: Naguib Mahfouz, Egyptian writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
- 2007: Michael Jackson, British beer and whiskey author/expert. (b. 1942)
August 29, 2009
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According to Hoyle Day
Day 241 of 2009
124 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Elemakula: Old man
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Lapun: Old man
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “He is like a wrinkled dog in the sunlight.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Knaves imagine nothing can be done without knavery.” (Thomas Fuller)
TODAY: Teddy Kennedy (Dem Senator, MA) is buried in Massachusetts. It’s also the 4th anniversary of Katrina’s New Orleans landfall, John, McCain’s 73rd birthday and the anniversary of his selecting Sarah Palin as his Republican VP running mate last year. It’s also Michael Jackson’s 51st birthday.
August 29, 2008: Could this woman really be president? Septuagenarian Senator John McCain turned 72 today, and in an obvious pander to women & right-wingnut voters, announced his VP choice as Sarah Palin, the inexperienced governor of Alaska. The 44 year-old first term governor is an ardent opponent of abortion, lifetime member of the NRA, mooseburger afficianado and mother of five. McCain would have been the oldest person ever elected to the US presidency had voters been foolish or fearful enough to elect him. Palin would have replaced him in the event of his demise. More >x
August 29, 2009
Raphael O'Suna
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By Raphael O’Suna
Today I carved a great big heart in an ancient sycamore tree.
I put an arrow through it, but did not disturb the letters. While I was carving, a small child named Sienna sat down by me and watched. Next to her sat Tooky the dog and Miso the cat.
I could hear Minnie the minor bird away in the distance in its cage, trying to repeat the words that DeWitt had taught him.
Flowers scented the air and bees murmured their immemorial tunes. Way off in the distance, I could hear the waves breaking and rumoring around the cove.
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August 28, 2009
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I Have a Dream Day
Day 240 of 2009
125 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Moe‘uhane: Dream
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kundu: Drum
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “The smoke seen in the dream now rises.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.” (Kahil Gibran)
August 28, 1963: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr gives his “I Have a Dream” speech at the Lincoln Memorial to a crowd of 200,000 marchers, in Washington DC, peacefully demonstrating for civil rights.
xAugust 28, 2008: Barack Obama accepts the Democratic Party nomination for the 44th U.S. president in Denver, Colorado. He speaks to a crowd of 80,000 at Invesco Field where the Denver Broncos play. Obama is preceded by singers Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and John Legend, then former VP, winner of the 2000 presidential popular vote & Nobel Peace Prize recipient Al Gore. Read more in the Denvert Post >
TODAY: New forecasts predicting slower population growth on Maui over the next 20 years have led the county Planning Department to reduce its recommendation for new housing units in the Maui Island Plan.
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August 26, 2009
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Women’s Equality Day
Day 238 of 2009
127 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Wahine: Woman
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Meri: Woman
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “This woman made a circuit of the islands.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “One is not born, but rather becomes a woman.” (Simone de Beauvior)
August 26, 1920: 19th Amendment to the US Constitution is certified, establishing women’s right to vote.
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To those hysterical conservatives — especially women — who amidst the current health care reform debate, decry US descent into socialism and demand a return to the “founders’ original constitutional intent,” we can only conclude that you wish to have your right to vote rescinded and slavery reinstituted. As for the former issue, we wholeheartedly concur. But alas, even loud-mouthed, mean-spirited ignoramuses are included in universal suffrage.
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