August 25, 2009
Raphael O'Suna
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By Raphael O’Suna
America is the great nation of sheep. Fleece us and we’ll come back for more.
It was not so long ago, that a whole community would attend church service, and then later that same day, the community would lynch a black man for no specific or valid reason.
Those same smug, complacent and smiling faces, would become in a matter of hours, the demonic and sneering faces we have seen in photographs of lynch scenes. Women and children, old and young, fathers and grandfathers, all gawking in a carnival atmosphere, beneath the strange fruit hanging from a tree.
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August 21, 2009
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 Nat’l Poets Day
Day 231 of 2009
134 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Pepe: Baby
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Pikini: Quiet
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “A burdden on the back; a babe in arms.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.” (Charles Dickens)
HAWAII ADMISSION DAY – All state and county offices closed: The third Friday of August is a state holiday celebrated each year to commemorate Hawaii’s admission to the union on August 21, 1959 as the 50th state. Statehood bills for Hawaii were introduced into the U.S. Congress as early as 1919 by Hawaii’s non-voting delegates. Additional bills were introduced in 1935, 1947 and 1950. After Congress finally approved the statehood bill in 1959, it was followed by a referendum in which Hawaii residents voted overwhelmingly in support of statehood. On August 21, 1959 (the third Friday in August), President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a proclamation making Hawaii the 50th state. Read Paul Theroux’s NYT Op-Ed, Happily a State, Forever an Island Read the rest…
August 20, 2009
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Nat’l Radio Day
Day 230 of 2009
135 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Hamau: Silence, silent
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Kwait: Quiet
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “One meets misfortune, all meet misfortune.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Silence is the mother of truth.” (Benjamin Disraeli)
TODAY: Maui County will sponsor an Energy Expo 2009, themed “Our Energy Future – Concept to Reality,” Sept. 10 to 11 at the Grand Wailea Resort Hotel & Spa.
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August 20, 2008: After almost two years of trying remove Jan Dapitan as Executive Director of Maui’s Community Work Day (CWD), the Board of Directors finally forced her out and installed her replacement, Rae Chandler. The 73-year-old Dapitan, worked with CWD since it began as the Maui branch of Keep Hawaii Beautiful in 1978.
August 19, 2009
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Nat’l Aviation Day
Day 231 of 2009
134 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Lele: To fly
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Plai: To fly
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “She lives till the sugar cane tassels.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Hawaii is not a state of moind, but a state of grace.” (Paul Theroux)
Googol: 1 followed by 100 zeros. 10,000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. The term was coined by American mathematician Milton Sirotta in 1939. Google began in January 1996, as a research project by Larry Page, who was soon joined by Sergey Brin, two Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. It went public in 2004.
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August 18, 2009
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Bad Poetry Day
Day 230 of 2009
135 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — ‘Imi loa: Explore
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Hambuk: Annoy
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “As soon as he arrived, the pig died.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “An expert is a man who has stopped thinking – he know.” (Frank Lloyd Wright)
TODAY: Liberals Press Senate Dems to move without Grassley.
Leading liberal activists are pressing Senate Democrats to forget about Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley (Iowa) and move ahead with their own plans for healthcare reform. More >
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