Sarah Palin Sucks Day Day 273 of 2009 92 days left in this year

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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Ku: Deity

PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Scoops: News
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Ao no Ho’i.” – A terrible thing
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we’ve been charged with and automatically throw them out.” –Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist.

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK —Palin Sucks
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Palin is a Fascist
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate Podcasts
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK —  Hole in the Wall Camps

Gov’t Bailout  Day Day 272 of 2009 93 days left in this year

HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY — Kaikamahine: Daughter
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY — Turtles: Thirty, as in time.
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY — “Hana `i`o ka haole! – The Foreigner does it in earnest.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY — “Genius is born, not paid.” - Oscar Wilde

WEB SURF SPOT OF THE WEEK — Truthdig.com
WEB VIDEO OF THE WEEK — Funny
NETCAST OF THE WEEK — Slate Podcasts
GOOD DEED SITE OF THE WEEK —  Hole in the Wall Camps

It’s nothing new, of course, but there is a severe disconnect between what is moving ahead on the mainland, versus what is going on in Hawaii. I am speaking specifically about education.

By now you’ve no doubt heard about the forced furlough of students for 17 consecutive Fridays beginning October 23. This affects every student in Hawaii. Already among the lowest ranked public education systems in the country, Hawaii now will not education students 20% of each week for more than four months.

This flies in the face of recent efforts nationally to actually increase the amount of education students are receiving. “Our school calendar is based upon the agrarian economy and not too many of our kids are working the fields today,” Education Secretary Arne Duncan said recently. President Oabama and Duncan want to shorten the summer break, and put kids in school for up to 28 more days a year.

This furlough has many facets. Those parents that are lucky enough to still have jobs after this Great Recession are often working two or three jobs at a time, and have no way to cover Fridays with their younger children. And they certainly cannot afford day care. The Maui News, among other local publications, have received a common lament from parents – they simply don’t know what they are going to do.

Still, the serious and long term damage this will cause is to the kids. It will be part of Governor Linda Lingle’s legacy that Hawaiian school children will be even further behind the educational curve, of this country, indeed of the world. Obama’s push for more education is based on the fact that dozens of countries are now outshining America in education. Hawaiian school schildren haven’t a chance.

Let’s call him “Jay.”

Jay is a local boy, Maui born and raised.

At 16, he left high school. He was “bored”, he said, and it annoyed him that people were always telling him what to do.

At 18 his mother, tired of his whining and his inability to hold a job, “forced” him to get his GED, which he did.

At 19, his mother got him a decent job, with benefits. It wasn’t an “important job,” and it didn’t pay much, but it was a start. Driving a truck, stocking.

Soon after, Jay impregnated a girl not quite 16.

His mother forced Jay to “do the right thing by her,” and they got married. She promptly left her sophomore year in high school. She was about to engage in the most important job in the history of man, that of being a mother, a job for which she was incredibly unprepared. As might be expected, Jay was completely unable to help her, as he hadn’t a clue either.

Comes Fall that very year. Jay is married, in trouble in his job. He keeps screwing up, reprimanded, and people are getting on his nerves, especially the people trying to tell him what to do, like his boss.

Jay comes up with a fix for his problems. He buys a brand new truck, back in the day when anyone with a pulse could get a loan for just about anything. Jay gets a $600/month, six year loan and buys a Ford 350, with raised suspension. With gas at $4 a galloon, and his monthly payment, a significant portion of Jay’s salary is going into the vehicle, and not, just to take one example, his new son.

Surprisingly, the truck doesn’t solve his problems, so three days before Christmas he quits his job, quite unprofessionally too. He leaves for lunch and phones in his resignation and never returns.

He’s 20, broke, in debt, unemployed, uneducated, with a poor, 16-year-old, unemployed, uneducated wife and a hungry son. Flash forward to today. How’s Jay doing?

Great. See, Jay’s a Maui cop.

The questions this raises are significant and disturbing.

How does an uneducated boy who has demonstrated mind-boggling bad judgment in his life, someone who has show a disregard for civilized behavior, a boy who would be in prison for statutory rape in 46 states, how does a cretin like this become a Maui cop, and in less than two years?

To become an associate accountant takes two years of college, the same for a licensed practical nurse. It takes four years of college to even think about becoming a teacher. The list of examples are endless.

How does a community which demands so much education from pencil pushers and people who use nothing more deadly than a thermometer give a gun and a badge to a social misfit who despises authority and can’t keep his dick in his pants?

Evidently on Maui it’s easy.

If anyone is wondering why two national news organizations have declared the Maui Police Force among the most corrupt and incompetent in the United states, as documented on this site a few weeks ago, or why the vast majority of crimes here are never solved, and in fact so many are committed by cops themselves, maybe a good place to start would be reviewing the practice of hiring stupid, ignorant, willfully belligerent semi-psychopaths like Jay.

Just a thought.

By Raphael O’Suna

Were you given a terrible diagnosis and prognosis, would you share the news with friends and family? One would think that one must tell one’s spouse. Telling children would depend on age. Telling elderly parents would be contingent on many things.

First of all, one must tell oneself. One must express to oneself one’s understanding of the medical report. I was once fired, but didn’t know it. Either my boss did not make it clear, or I didn’t hear it. When I continued to arrive at work, a very confused, emotional and dramatic scene occurred.

My immediate boss kept excusing herself, disappearing into her private bathroom, where I could hear her talking to her immediate boss, who was “hiding” from me.

It is therefore necessary to repeat to oneself what the doctor has said, and what you understand by it.

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