"Woulda, Coulda, Shoulda..." (from an anonymous email)

(Editors note, the enclosed is from one of those many forwards you receive in your email box, I did not write the enclosed but feel it is right on and wish I had written it.)

If you had purchased $1,000 in shares of Delta Airlines stock one year ago, you would have $49 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 in shares of AIG one year ago, you would have $33 today.

If you had purchased $1,000 in shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have absolutely nothing today.

But if you had purchased $1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminum cans for a recycling refund, you would receive $214 today.

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle. It is called the 401-Keg. A recent study found that the average American walks about 900 miles a year. Another study found that Americans drink, on average, 22 gallons of alcohol a year. That means that, on average, Americans get about 41 miles to the gallon!

Makes you damned proud to be an American

"Stay cool, don't be a fool!"

Swimming, snorkeling, surfing and an array of different water-sports are one of the many ways to stay cool and get some needed exercise in a tropical climate.

Another favorite way to cool off is to go shopping in an ice cold air-conditioned store or grab some grinds at your favorite bistro.

The recession has hit hard on the cosmic garden island of Kauai with the highest kilowatt per second charge for electricity in America. Business's are tightening their belts with either no air conditioning or run their ac units on the fan only setting.

The Kaua'i bus is a sure way to  beat the heat too, they run their air conditioners on the coldest and iciest settings which guarantee your ice cream stays frozen on the ride home from the grocery store.

If you are too tired to swim and need to cool off spend $25.00 a month for unlimited travel on da Kaua'i Bus, or buy a bus pass in whatever city you live and go for a ride to nowhere, go for a joy ride on your local bus, not much fuss, stay cool, don't be a fool, ride the bus!

"Quit whining about your weiner..!"

Weiner is a very popular Jewish name, as a child i remember Herbie Weiner, the famous local kosher caterer that catered all the Bar Mitzvah's and weddings of all the prominent Jewish families in western New York, where I was reared (no pun intended) as a child. There were also 2 Weiner brothers I played with as a child, however they always insisted there name be pronounced as Winer Although it was spelled 'weiner.'

New York Democratic Congressman Anthony Weiner a liberal has inspirations of becoming the mayor of New York city. Weiner says he’s the victim of a hacker who sent out a “gag photo...”  :D)

Weiner absolutely and positively denies allocations this past week of Tweeting the crotch photo and says he has never met or spoken with the voluptuous female who received it. The wahine (woman in Hawaiian) says the same thing.

It's somewhat ironic that a guy named Weiner is being accused of sending a photo of his Weiner out all over the social networking sites, he denies it and says somebody hacked into his account and sent the photo of the congressman's private parts.

I am sure he was teased as a kid having the last name of Weiner, imagine being called weiner as a little boy? I am sure hew was teased on a daily basis about his sir name.

If only this man was smart enough to tell people his name was pronounced Winer, just as my Weiner friends did as a child.

Imagine if Anthony (Toni) Weiner had been named Richard (Dick) or Harold (Harry)? Although the media is trying to make something out of this escapade it is to comical to be taken serious, and for Peters (Peter, that's another play on words) sake if Mr. Weiner can help New York and be a good mayor who cares what he does with his Weiner, unless of course your a Whiner? Then again if this man has not told people to call him Winer in lieu of Weiner, maybe he isn't smart enough to mayor of New York?

The moral of this story is that the congressman needs to quit whining about his 'Weiner' and be thankful his parents didn't name him Harry or Dick.

 Stay tuned for  the nex blog about Senator Michael  "Mike"  Hunt!  ;D)

"The bridge over troubled waters..."

Last Tuesday, June 2, 2011, the new Bryan Baptise bridge had a dedication ceremony during peak lunch rush hour after a three day holiday Memorial day weekend which had traffic at a standstill from Kealia beach to the new Wailua bridge. (approximately 4 miles of standstill traffic...)

We all suffered stress and headaches with major traffic jams for 4 long weeks when the Kapa'a bi-pass road was closed, now to have a bridge ceremony during peak lunch hour is some of the worst planning ever. Talk about the bridge over troubles waters, Kaua'i county wins by a landslide.

I would like to quote one of the many comments which appeared with the TGI online story;"Mayor Baptise memorial bridge dedicated."
http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/article_7ef5e2f4-8c1d-11e0-aa0b-001cc4c002e0.html

"Holding a blessing and dedication ceremony in the day when commuting is at its peak is absurd. For what? Posing, stroking of egos with government and political puppets patting each other on the back is unnecessary to say the least. Hold the dedication when traffic is less severe...even if it is at night! What's so wrong with that? Oh, that's right. No one can see the dog and pony show if its dark! That bridge has brought us nothing but headaches. Just get the darned thing over with!"

I talked to a friend who was on the bus from Friendship house to her final destination of Walmart and it took a little over 2 hours for a 11 mile bus ride that usually takes, 25 minutes.

Politicians need some sort of political education before taking office, Lawyers must pass a very difficult bar exam and Doctors must intern and serve a residency on top of 8 years of school before being set free to practice on the public.

In contrast the only requirement to be a local county council person or even run for mayor is to reside in the county for at least 2 years, be at least 18 years of age and if you ever had a felony conviction you must have received final discharge from your crime. A person can be a high school dropout, or someone with no business experience or people skills or someone who with a felony conviction that has been dropped.

This major traffic catastrophe could had been so easily avoided, one way to help avoid this type of insanity in the future is to start by changing the minimum requirements to run for public office and stop making elections a popularity contest but rather look at it as we are the employer looking for the best person to manage our company and make money.

Whoever set the schedule for the bridge dedication needs to heed the words of Donald Trump, "Your fired.!"

"Whatchamacallit, It's your turn..."

Aloha Everyone,

This is blog #301, for the first 300 I wrote about anything that came to mind.

I am hoping to change the format of this blog by encouraging all of you to submit your own  editorials and we will publish under the blog title of 'dakine talk,' 'dakine' in Hawaiian  pidgin mean anything, it's like using the word whatchamacallit.

Please submit your personal thoughts, stories, feeling or whatsoever on your mind, you never know It may be published in dakine-talk!

send all your submissions to;
jrsensei@hotmail.com

"My 300th blog..!"

This being my three hundredth (300Th) blog, it's now time to reflect on the previous 299.

I can see from my blogs administration page how many people read my blogs. The stats are staggering, it itemizes how many people access through the different social medias, such as facebook and twitter and also lets you know stats on how many people in other countries are reading your blogs.

There are folks from Australia, Malaysia, Russia, Canada, Switzerland, S. Korea, Germany, Nepal, Slovenia, Hungary,Belize,China, Thailand, Japan, Israel and almost every state in the union has logged into my blog at one time or another.

Blogging is therapy and if someone reads my blog and enjoys it, I feel accomplished, on the other hand if you don't enjoy today's blog, check back tomorrow since you never know where blog therapy may take us. It may take us to laughter or sadness, you may agree or dis-agree, however one things for sure, it  sure beats a visit to the doctors office.

Hope you enjoy the next 300!

"Hawaiian fused..."

(Editor's note, an attempt at more local humor...More 'Spam' (Spam is a canned mix of animal by products, the stuff hot-dogs are made of and worse) is consumed in Hawaii than anywhere else in the world, "Ono" means delicious, tree is pidgin for three, da is the...)

Restaurants all have their speciality these days, it's hard to make it without something new and exotic.

There are now Mexican restaurants fused with Hawaiian, there's Italian cuisine fused with a local touch.

These all sound mouth watering and delicious, however truth be told I have found 'local touch' and 'Hawaiian cuisine' to mean mixed with Hawaii's favorite meat.

Yes ,Spam is the secret ingredient for the incredible fusion and local touch, tree cheers for da spam kine dat man kine tinks is ono!