" Dilemma of Nitpicking..." 'James Kimo" Rosen

This blog is about two frequent Kauai  Garden Island News Letter to the editor writers. One is a retired professional Baseball player, Glenn Mickens and the other Alfred Lauretta is a retired judge. Even if your not familiar with these two letter writers I believe you will still find this blog humorous, at least i hope you do...

The above photo is a re-enactment of the two Kauai Garden Island Newspaper letter writers, it is not the actual letter writers...

Glenn Mickens and Judge Lauretta have been exchanging letters in the Kaua'i Garden Island newspaper  on what  characterizes a nitpicker.  Mr. Mickens seems proud to be a nitpicker, in his recent LTE. "Badge of honor," he says, "Many years ago former TGI editorialist Sue Dixon gave this label to a group of us who were and have been trying to better Kaua‘i. Though the name was given in a very uncomplimentary way, we “nitpickers” continue to wear this title with honor."   (Glenn's letter can be viewed below)
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_e86f437e-c7c8-11e0-99c1-001cc4c002e0.html

Alfred Laureta in his recent LTE,"Clarifying Nitpickers,"states; "According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, 'nit-picking' is defined as minute and usually unjustified criticism--nit-picker.” The Judge concludes his opinion article with, "How about concentrating your efforts in the next election and elect those candidates who agree with your “nit-picking “ view and opinions."    (Alfred's letter can be viewed below)
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_429dce90-caf5-11e0-9472-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story

To settle the dilemma of 'nitpicking' I decided to conduct my own google research and would like to share with Mr. Mickens and Judge Laureta what nitpicking truly is.  According to Wikipedia  Nitpicking is the act of removing nits (the eggs of lice, generally head lice) from the host's hair.

In conclusion I hope Mr. Mickens and Judge Laureta can decide who the host is on any given day and find relief in removing nits from each other and anyone else whom may become infected including myself.

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"Prevention and Education Can Cure Eye Disease..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspirational Monday's)

   Guest blogger Judith Whitehead from Amherst, N.Y.  has  worked in  the ophthalmology field for more than 25 years...  blogs about  one of things she knows best, eye disease on this Inspirational Monday!

I spend the majority of my week working in the health field of Ophthalmology. Day after day I work on people with various eye aliments for a most prominent, dedicated, Glaucoma/Cataract specialist in Williamsville, NY. We see people of all walks of life, but the most disheartening are the ones who are going, or have gone blind from Glaucoma; Glaucoma is a disease that painlessly robs a persons vision, slowly eating

away at the peripheral vision until total vision is lost. The sad thing is that this serious eye disease is treatable and if caught in the early stages, can be halted. Glaucoma showsno economical boundaries; it will attack wealthy or poor, healthy or sick people of all ages.

There are two reasons people loose their eyesight to glaucoma, they are ignorance, or lack of money. There are thousands of people who don’t really know what glaucoma is. Although there are many types of glaucoma, the most common one is painless. There are only subtle symptoms at first, peripheral vision loss. It can go unnoticed until the optic nerve becomes damaged and peripheral vision loss becomes permanent.

There are simple tests performed on a routine eye exam that screens for these findings that only a trained eye professional can perform. Testing the eye pressure is a painless simple way to detect if the pressure is too high for the eye to tolerate. Glaucoma also runs in family lines and is very prominent among the Afro-Americans.

The second reason people go blind from glaucoma is lack of money. There are millions of people in our country that do not have health care benefits. They are not just homeless people, but people living among us that have homes and families but cannot afford health care benefits. Their first and foremost priority is to feed their families and provide for them. Just getting through the month on a fixed income is challenge enough for them.

Routine health exams are not an option for them and preventive medicine is out of the question. They may know that they have glaucoma, but they choose to ignore it, because they can’t afford the medication needed to use on a daily basis to prevent vision loss.

Glaucoma is sneaky; and drops only maintain vision from that point. Drops don’t cure the disease as medication for other illnesses may . Drops taken for a month from a sample given at the Doctors office don’t cure the disease. People with insurance plans usually pay a co-pay for these drugs at the pharmacy; if you are unfortunate enough not to have insurance, drops can range anywhere from $50.00 to $95.00 a bottle. There are also special laser treatments and surgeries that can treat the disease that are costly if there is no insurance to cover the cost.

I speak of only eye disease in this article, because I have witnessed first hand for many years how sad this can be for families; this is a huge problem in many countries. The United States of America is one of the richest countries of all but lacks provisions for the needy, homeless and poor.

 We need to find a better way to educate and provide for all walks of life. It is so very unjust that the educated and financially secure people have the upper hand on their health, when prevention can keep so many from failing health. The cost of new drugs on the market is skyrocketing; drugs cannot become generic until several years have passed after a paten. Our congressman need to make this problem a priority on their agenda and come up with new programs to provide for the needy.

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"C-Nile Virus..." "Pick-up Line" and more... (Not so serious Sunday)

Chester Lau, a.k.a (Unc) lives in Honolulu Hawaii. He is a retired cinematographer and is back as our liaison jokester guest blogger for a not so serious Sunday, 'Dis' week we learn of a new computer virus and much more...  387-391
Blog #387
Even the most advanced programs from Norton or McAfee cannot take care of this one.

It appears to affect those who were born prior to 1960.

Symptoms:
1. Causes you to send the same e-mail twice. Done that!

2. Causes you to send a blank e-mail! That too!

3. Causes you to send e-mail to the wrong person. Yep!

4. Causes you to send it back to the person who sent it to you. Aha!

5. Causes you to forget to attach the attachment. Darn it!

6. Causes you to hit "SEND" before you've finished. Oh no, not again!

7. Causes you to hit "DELETE" instead of "SEND" I hate when that happens!

8. Causes you to hit "SEND" when you should "DELETE." Aaarrrggghhh!

IT IS CALLED THE "C-NILE VIRUS."

Hmmm..... Did I send this to you already??

Blog #388 "Pick-up line..."

Blog #388 "Pick-up line..."

A guy was talking to a girl in a pub the other night, and said

" You remind me of my little toe."

"Is that because I'm small and cute?" she asked.

"No," He replied . "It's because I'll probably end up banging you on my coffee table later tonight."

Blog #389, "The Perfect date..."

A man was dining alone in a fancy restaurant and there was a gorgeous redhead sitting at the next table..He had been checking her out since he sat down, but lacked the nerve to talk with her.

Suddenly she sneezed, and her glass eye came flying out of its socket towards the man. He reflexively reached out, grabbed it out of the air, and handed it back.

'Oh my, I am so sorry,' the woman said, as she popped her eye back in place. 'Let me buy your dinner to make it up to you.'

They enjoyed a wonderful dinner together, and afterwards they went to the theatre followed by drinks... They talked, they laughed, she shared her deepest dreams and he shared his. She listened to him with interest.

After paying for everything, she asked him if he would like to come to her place for a nightcap and stay for breakfast. They had a wonderful, wonderful time.

The next morning, she cooked a gourmet meal with all the trimmings. The guy was amazed. Everything had been so incredible!

'You know,' he said, 'you are the perfect woman.. Are you this nice to every guy you meet?'

'No,' she replies. . .....

Wait for it ... ......  scroll down.

She said .... ..... :

"You just happened to catch my eye."

Blog #390 -"Political humor...."

 Cannibal was walking through the jungle and came upon a restaurant operated by fellow cannibal.

Feeling somewhat hungry, he sat down and looked over the menu....

+ Tourist: $8.00
+ Broiled Missionary: $10.00

+ Fried Explorer: $12.50

+ Baked Democrat or Grilled Republican: $100.00

The cannibal called the waiter over and asked, "Why such a high price for the Politicians?"

The cook replied, "Have you ever tried to clean one? They're so full of shit, it takes all day to clean one "

Sorry had to share the truth about Politicians these days! That's the only pleasure we had for our taxes !!!

Blog #391

A Wife asks her

Husband, How many

Women have you slept with?
Husband proudly replies, Only

You, Darling-With all the

Others, I was awake!

Hospital Visiting Hours are;

10am - 4pm.

"Hunger in America..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Shabbat Saturday's)

James "Kimo" Rosen is back doing what he does best... enjoy...

The people volunteering and handing out the food are most times leaner than the hungry recipients.

It's heartwarming to see so many churches and non profits feeding the hungry in Hawaii and America in general. 

 It's ironic to see so many of the recipients, "the alleged hungry," obese and morbidly obese. The Volunteers rationing the  food are as lean as string beans. If Martians invaded the earth and saw this scenario they would think the volunteers were the hungry ones.

Does hunger truly exist in America?

How many times have you seen people in America with their ribs protruding and flies circling them?Africa in contrast to America has an epidemic of hunger, true hunger, life and death hunger.

The only thing life threatening about the hungry people in America is thatthey may die of coronary  heart disease or heart attacks if they don't get their weight down.

Hunger in America is not about being fed food, hunger in America is about not being fed spirituality or Aloha, that's what were  really hungry for and  it shows.

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"Things That Go Bump In The Night..." 'Michael A. Herr' (Aloha Friday's)

It's always a pleasure to welcome back every Aloha Friday, guest blogger and renowned author Michael  Herr. Michael blogs about dark sacred nights....  Don't forget to check out Michael's website at; http://www.michaelherr.com/

It's Aloha Friday.

Things That Go Bump In The Night

I've never been in agreement with those writers and songwriters who talk about the "peaceful" night. Remember Louis Armstrong with his "the bright summer day, the dark sacred night"? To me the night has always held an element of uneasiness, and even, at times, complete terror.

When I was a keiki, my parents wouldn't let me have a night light. But they did agree to let me sleep with my door open just a crack so that I could have a little light from the hallway (until they went to bed and turned that light off too). The only point of negotiation then was just how wide that crack of light was going to be. Once that was settled I lay down in my bed with my eyes glue to that thin beam of light, that assurance that I was not totally at the mercy of the dark.

I played hide and seek at night when I was a little older. The dark made the game so much more intense. I still remember hiding behind a bush, my heart pounding in my ears as I tried to pierce the shadows around me with my limited night vision. And then, when one of my friends suddenly touched me in the dark, I jumped and screamed. But I liked being scared then. My friends were around with me. I didn't like being scared so much later on.

One night when I was a freshman in college, I went to see a new film — "Psycho". I went to a late-night showing alone and, since it was a school holiday, came back about midnight to an almost entirely empty dormitory. I showered in the bathroom down the hall, with the curtains left open, wrapped a towel around me when I was finished and raced back to my room. Once inside I locked the door and barricaded it. I couldn't handle the room being dark so I slept with the light on. It took me forever to feel comfortable in a shower or in a dark bedroom after that experience.

A couple of years later I took vacation trip to Maui. I had a college friend who lived there, and I had a new girlfriend from the islands. On Maui my college buddy suggested we take our girls on a trip up to Haleakala. Off we went, four o'clock in the morning, our car's headlights struggling to push back the night as we wound our way up to the top of the volcano. And as he drove, what did my good buddy do? He told story after story of the white ghost dog that lived on Haleakala. Every time we rounded a curve I expected to see that slavering beast. I pretended to hold onto my girlfriend because of the early morning chill . . . not because I was scared.

I have a vivid imagination and that led me into writing. When I write images jump from my mind onto the page. But my vivid imagination is also a curse. Even now, just shy of sixty-nine years, if my thoughts stray as I lie down to sleep I start to hear every little noise in my house. Those creaking sounds from the hallway? A werewolf padding softly upstairs to rip out my throat. A scratching at the window? A vampire seeking entry. Did I make a mistake and invite him in earlier?

But is it always just my imagination? I have had the following happen at least three times. I wake up. It's the middle of the night. And I cannot move a muscle. It feels as if someone, some entity, is sitting on my chest and holding me down. I try to move my arms; they feel pinned to the bed. I try to call out but my throat won't let a single sound escape. I lay there and finally, after a tremendous effort of willpower, I am able to raise one arm slightly. That seems to break the power of the entity on my chest, and it leaves, evaporates. Once more I am free. In Hawaii this is known as the Choking Ghost. But the strange part is that I've never been in Hawaii when I've experienced this.

See why I prefer the day? There are just too many things that go bump in the night for my comfort.

Much aloha, Michael A. Herr

I just finished Michael's 6Th book, "The Old Queens Guardians," pictured below. I must say I am disappointed that I have run out of Michael's material to read and cannot wait to see a new book soon!~

To order anyone or all of Michael's books go to; http://www.michaelherr.com/

Happy Aloha Friday!

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"Who is Jack Schitt..?" 'Rema Murphy' (Facetious Thursdays)

Guest blogger Rema Murphy a former Kauai resident is now teaching elementary school in Austin Texas, she shares with us some some very important history.... Rema is pictured above with her grandson Alex.

whose da guy in da reflection?

WHO IS JACK   SCHITT?
For some time many of us have  wondered just who is Jack Schitt?

We find ourselves at a loss  when  someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt'!  Well,  thanks to my genealogy efforts, you can now respond in an intellectual  way.

Jack Schitt is the only son of Awe Schitt.   Awe  Schitt, the fertilizer magnate, who married O. Schitt, the owner of  Needeep N. Schitt, Inc.   They had one son, Jack.

In  turn, Jack Schitt married Noe Schitt.  The deeply religious couple  produced six children: Holie Schitt, Giva Schitt, Fulla Schitt, Bull  Schitt, and the twins Deep Schitt and Dip Schitt.

Against her   parents' objections, Deep Schitt married Dumb Schitt, a high school  dropout. 
After being married 15 years, Jack and Noe Schitt  divorced.
Noe Schitt later married Ted Sherlock, and because her kids  were living with them, she wanted to keep her previous name. She was then  known as Noe Schitt Sherlock.

Meanwhile, Dip Schitt married Loda  Schitt, and they produced a son with a rather nervous disposition named  Chicken S chitt. Two of the other six children, Fulla Schitt and Giva  Schit t, were inseparable throughout childhood and subsequently married the  Happens brothers in a dual ceremony..
The wedding announcement in the  newspaper announced the Schitt-Happens nuptials. The Schitt-Happens  children were Dawg,  Byrd, and Horse..

Bull Schitt, the  prodigal son, left home to tour the  world.
He recently returned  from Italy    with his new Italian bride, Pisa Schitt.

Now when  someone says, 'You don't know Jack Schitt', you can correct  them.
Sincerely,
Crock O. Schitt

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"Monkey see, monkey do..." 'Obama Da Dog' (Harmonic or not so Harmonic Wednesdays)

Obama blogs about  the law!

Law enforcement need to set an example...

When I am out and about I have a great vantage point from a high bicycle seat to see drivers gabbing on cell phones. My own personal survey when I counted one day had approximately 1 out of 4 drivers yakking on their blueberries, blackberries and array of other electronic devices.

Parents may tell their children to not smoke or do drugs, however if the parents themselves are doing these things, it's hard for the children to take them serious. In the same respect one of the biggest perpetrators of the law is law enforcement themselves.. I pass many police cars and continually see the officers of the law talking on their cell phones when driving.

We don't have law enforcement smoking pot or snorting coke and then arresting citizens for that same violation, however in contrast we do have officers writing citations for cell phone usage when the officers themselves do not adhere to the same rules.

They say, "monkey see, monkey do," one way to curb cell phone usage while driving is for the men and woman in blue to be examples and practice what they preach. For the law to work it must be adhered to by everyone.

   Hey, you talkin to me? Yea, I'm talkin to you!

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