October 31, 2009
Raphael O'Suna
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By Raphael O’Suna
I was glad to read in the Gospel of Judas, which was unearthed twenty years ago,* that Jesus had a sense of humor.
Like myself, he seems to have been a trickster. A sly coyote. A Jack of Diamonds, as well as a profoundly accomplished soul.
In a number of places, in the Gospel, he teases the apostles, after they ask a silly or stupid question. In this Gospel, he is also more Saturnine and honest. He is forthright, when it comes to commenting on the probability that many souls will be saved. They will not.
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October 31, 2009
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 Celtic Samhain
Day 304 of 2009
61 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Apiki: Treachery, treason
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Hul: Grave
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “It’s a pig strangling.” (the act of a traitor)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“Here lies one whose name was writ in water.” – Keats
CELTIC SAMHAIN: “Summer’s End” in the Wicken year marks the death of the Sun-God, who then awaits his re-brith from the Mother Goddess at Yule (Winter Solstice). Among the traditional Celts, Samhain was celebrated as New Year’s Eve because their calendar year began on November 1st. More >
ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES – October 31, 1889
A Honolulu jury acquits Robert W. Wilcox on the charges of treason for the 1889 rebellion which he led against the “reform government” in his attempt to restore the Hawaiian monarchy to power. Wilcox was born in 1855 on Maui. His parents sent him to Haleakala Boarding School in Makawao. After graduation, Wilcox became a teacher upcountry. In 1880, Wilcox was elected to the Royal Legislature in Honolulu. He represented the citizens of Wailuku and surrounding area.
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October 29, 2009
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Hermit Day
Day 302 of 2009
63 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Ele‘ele: Black
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Blakpela: Black
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “The black fluid of the learned.” (ink)
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. To tell the truth, there’s hardly any difference.” – Harry Truman
ISLAND NEWS – Archives
October 29, 1929: Inter-Island Airways (now Hawaiian Airlines) begins service between Oahu and Maui, with its first scheduled flight on the very day that the stock market in New York City collapses (“Black Tuesday”), heralding the beginning of the Great Depression. A ticket from Maui to Oahu cost $7.00.
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NATIONAL NEWS – Archives
October 29, 1969: The Internet is born when bits of data flow between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Institute. Funded by the US Defense Department and called ARAPNET, it eventually became the Internet. (Just one more waste of tax payer dollars.)
October 28, 2009
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Nat’l Chocolate Day
Day 301 of 2009
64 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Ho’okalakupua: Magic
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Garans: Guaranteed
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “Only the wind can speak my true name.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“The world makes you into a bitch, no matter how quietly you go, so you may as well go kicking and screaming.” – Roseanne Barr
ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES - October 28, 1989:
Air Tragedy strikes Maui County - An Island Air commuter flight from Maui heading to Molokai crashes into a cliff near the Halawa Valley on Molokai, killing all 20 passengers and crew aboard. Eight of the passengers were the Molokai High School volleyball team The plane crashed into a cliff just below the ridgeline, spreading debris more than 300 feet away.
Molokai has the world’s steepest sea cliffs, rising vertically more than 3,000 feet from sea level. They have proved deadly a number of times, more recently in 1996, when another commuter plane, this one carrying State Democratic chair Robert McCarthy and Maui County Councilman Tom Morrow crashed into those same cliffs, killing all eight aboard.
October 27, 2009
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Navy Day
Day 300 of 2009
65 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
Papeka: Puppet
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Krosum: Scold
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “I
t is never too late to change, to learn, to grow.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.” -
ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES - October 27, 1940:
An estimated 2,000 Maui men join the nearly 60,000 men who register in the selective service (draft), a nearly 100 percent compliance record for the state of Hawaii. This is no small accomplishment given that the action which caused a flood of enlistments – the Japaneses attack on Pearl Harbor – came more than a year later.
According to records, 405,399 American men died in World War II. According to the National Archives, Military Resources section, World War II, 580 men born in Hawaii perished while members of the U.S. military during the war.
October 26, 2009
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Mother-in-law Day
Day 299 of 2009
66 days left in this year
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HAWAIIAN WORD OF THE DAY —
‘Eu: Rogue
PIDGIN WORD OF THE DAY
— Giamanim: Tell lies to
HAWAIIAN PROVERB OF THE DAY
— “In life, there is no end of possibilities.”
HAOLE SAYING OF THE DAY —
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things!” – Niccolo Machiavelli
ISLAND NEWS ARCHIVES – October 26, 1979:
While schoolchildren in Mainland snowbound states begin to dream of “snow days,”which offer students days off from school because of the fluffy stuff, children on Maui get 3 unscheduled days off not from being marooned by snow, but um … because of the stink. All Maui public schools joined the 228 public schools statewide in closing because state health officials deem the schools “unsanitary.” The cause? A United Public Workers strike. School custodians are on strike and no one is cleaning the restrooms. Eventually, the stink got out of hand, and all schools had to be shut down. They reopened October 29.
This year in 2009, public schools are closed on October 23 and 30 due to furloughs ordered by Governor Lingle. In all, students and teachers will be furloughed for 17 Fridays, unless the courts intervene due to pending pending lawsuits .
