"Sign wavers, guilty by association..." (Kimo's World #33)

James Kimo Rosen is a retired professional photographer living in Kapa'a
 with his best friend Obama Da Dog, Rosen also blogs as a hobby...
This blog also ran as an opinion article in the 09-24-14
edition of the Kauai garden Island newspaper;
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-sept/article_76b9e0bc-43a4-11e4-a50e-dfcbc0286b8f.html

Kimo's world #33
Sign wavers, guilty by association

Politicians must be aware of who they let sign wave on their behalf.

Each sign waver is a direct reflection of the candidate they represent. The candidate is guilty by association if he or she let's a loose cannon sign wave on their behalf.

 I was recently riding my bicycle through beautiful Kapa'a town when I came upon many sign wavers. One sign waver was very rude to me and purposely blocked me on the sidewalk and said a few choice words to me. 

I said nothing and just proceeded on my way.  I am not going to say who this person was sign waving for, however because of this one person, that candidate has no chance in eternal torment of getting my vote.

Candidates, be careful who sign waves for you. There are times that a sign waver can cause more harm than good!

How about a good old fashioned debate amongst the candidates in lieu of waving to people in traffic?


P.S.
On October 18, 2014 an edited version of this blog was published in the Honolulu Staradvertiser. I will copy and paste below, since the Staradvertiser has a paywall for subscribers only;
http://staradvertiser.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Politicians must be aware of whom they let sign wave on their behalf. Each sign waver is a direct reflection of the candidate they represent.
I was recently riding my bicycle through Kapaa town when I came upon many sign wavers. One sign waver was very rude to me and purposely blocked me on the sidewalk and said a few choice words.
I said nothing and proceeded on my way. I am not going to say who this person was sign waving for. However, because of this one person, that candidate has no chance of getting my vote.
Candidates, be careful who sign-waves for you. There are times that a sign waver can cause more harm
than good.
James “Kimo” Rosen

Kapaa, Kauai


The Garden Island news version; http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-sept/article_76b9e0bc-43a4-11e4-a50e-dfcbc0286b8f.html

Kaua'i Mayor Bernard Carvalho Jr,
Obama Da Dog  & James "Kimo" Rosen

Those were da days!

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"It can’t be Fall already..!" 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

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in the  medical field of Ophthalmology for close to 35 years...

 It can’t be Fall already

After our horrendous winter last year,  we so enjoyed the beautiful summer with great warm temperatures and sunny days but I guess it’s back to reality…

September is turning out to be a very cold one.  This week the temps dropped into the 50’s with Fall in the Air.  The weather guides are predicting the same terrible winter this year with cold and snow as much as last year.  

I can’t be more depressed about that fact.  Our winters have been so mild for the last several years it’s hard to deal with that depressing  forecast…to remedy that thought I think it’s time to take a quick trip out to the west coast again to catch some sun before the dark clouds approach. Of course it’s still in the 90’s there every day reaching 100 degrees.   

Does make on ponder why we continue to live in this area with North Pole conditions….

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"Giving birth..." 'Robert Bitos Gandia' (Source)

Guest-blogger,Robert Bitos Gandia.
Robert is an avid cook (ono gandule rice) and always laughing!!
He works at Syngenta as a Research Associate.
Robert lives in Kekaha on Kauai's west-side and loves football!!

Giving birth

I mowed the lawn today, and after doing so I sat down and had a cold beer.

The day was really quite beautiful, and the drink facilitated some really deep thinking on my part and on various topics.

Finally I thought about an age old question:
'Is giving birth more painful than getting kicked in the nuts.’

Women always maintain that giving birth is way more painful than a guy getting kicked in the nuts.
Well, after another beer, and some heavy deductive thinking, I have come up with the answer to that question.

Getting kicked in the nuts is definitely more painful than having a baby; and here is the reason for my conclusion;
A year or so after giving birth, certain women are very often heard to say, "It might be nice to have another baby..."

On the other hand, you never ever hear a guy say, "You know, I think I would really love to have another kick in the nuts."

I rest my case.

P.S.
YouTube, How to open wine with a house key;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LsjX9sYTTvA#t=103

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"CVS spins end to tobacco...‏.‏" 'James "Kimo" Rosen

James “Kimo” Rosen is a retired professional photographer living in
 Kapa'a with his best friend Obama Da Dog, Rosen also blogs as a hobby...

Above photo, Rosen at Rocky River Alaska 1984

CVS spins end to tobacco

Headlines similar to  this are  appearing in almost every major newspaper in the country," "CVS Renames Itself CVS Health as It Ends Sale of Tobacco ..."

If CVS and Longs are so concerned about health, why are shelves still stocked with alcohol and pharmacies still dispensing addictive prescription drugs? And do I dare mention the rows of high calorie snack food and sugary candy?

Cigarettes are one of the most heavily taxed consumer products in the United States. Federal, state and local governments collect more money from the sale of cigarettes than retailers, wholesalers, farmers and manufacturers combined. 

 By eliminating tobacco sales in 8,000 stores CVS is getting free editorial space in nearly every newspaper from The New York Times to the Garden Island, ad space that would've cost a bloody fortune. 

 My spin is that CVS has found a way to look good at the tail end of statistics already in free fall. And we fell for it.

 According to Gallop trends annual Consumption Habits poll, cigarette smoking has gone from a high of 45% percent of our nation smoking in 1955 to 20% in 2011. And it is still dropping. The promotional itself states that 18 million people smoke. 

Despite the millions of research compilations proving the deadly health effects of tobacco use, CVS continued pushing the product until now, with tobacco sales so low shelf space can be better used by more popular consumer purchases. 

P.S.  This blog was also  featured as an opinion article in 09-18-14 edition of the Honolulu Staradvertiser

Check out my opinion article in the 09-18-14 edition of the  Honolulu Star-Advertiser; I copy and pasted it below for those who do not have a subscription;  http://staradvertiser.newspaperdirect.com/epaper/viewer.aspx

Tobacco ban at CVS a cynical maneuver

If CVS and Longs are so concerned about health, why are their shelves still stocked with alcohol and pharmacies still dispensing addictive prescription drugs?

And do I dare mention the rows of high-calorie snack food and sugary candy?

Cigarettes are one of the most heavily taxed consumer products in the United States. Federal, state and local governments collect more money from the sale of cigarettes than retailers, wholesalers, farmers and manufacturers combined.

By eliminating tobacco sales in 8,000 stores, CVS is getting free editorial space in nearly every newspaper, from The New York Times to the Star-Advertiser — ad space that would have cost a fortune.

Despite the millions of research compilations proving the deadly health effects of tobacco use, CVS continued pushing the product until now, with tobacco sales so low that shelf space can be better used by

more popular consumer purchases. James “Kimo” Rosen

Kapaa, Kauai

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"Time sure flies..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's World #32)

James Kimo Rosen back at his portrait studio in Homer Alaska,1987.
Rosen is a retired professional photographer living in Kapa'a
with his best friend Obama Da Dog, Rosen also blogs as a hobby

Kimo's world #32
Time sure flies

The old expression, "Time sure flies," is as true today as it was  when my parents used to say it. Remember back when you were a kid time went relatively slow.

I remember being in grade school and the time from September until school was out for the summer in June, seemed like an eternity.

My ex recently sent me some photos of my past, one of the most  fun times in my life. Ironically I have no photos from that era or prior era's since all my belongings got lost in storage, long story, sore subject, especially having been a professional photographer for over 25 years and the keeper of family heirlooms.

Looking back seems like a lifetime ago and on the other hand it feels like it's still that same time in space.

We  have all gone through different phases in our lives. As you get older you realize how fast life passes us by. Our teens with acne. Our twenties alive with youth. Our thirties making us look mature. Our forties giving us that first gray hair.  Our fifties when we realize our mortality and  our sixties where most of us  realize  the winter of our lives is upon us...

Physically  every thing changes with age. Most of us get fatter, grayer, slower, more forgetful and until the invention of the great blue pill (Viagra) had very little libido left.

I recently spoke with a few friends from my past that I hadn't heard from in close to  40 years. We were talking on the phone and the thing I realized is that our voices were  pretty much the same as they were in our late teens. Although most of us get grayer and  fatter, one thing that remains the same is The human voice.

Now if some doctor or scientist could figure a way for our physical bodies to remain like our voices, we'd all be around  for another 100 years!   How cool being able  to share our meals on Facebook for another century!

Channeling Hawai'i in Alaska, 1987

P.S.

YouTube, Dramamine, a way to control drama;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hEUbezqd88

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"Last Will and Testament..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

Dakinetalks favorite Uncle (Chester Lau)

"Unc"  is really passionate about creating a national Caregivers day.

Any help , support or ideas would be greatly appreciated...

'Unc' currently resides on the Hawai'ian Island of Oahu. 
He is a retired cinematographer,
 and  enjoys giving the politicians a bad time...

Last Will and Testament

Doug Smith is on his deathbed and knows the end is near.  His nurse, his wife, his daughter and 2 sons, are with him.  He  asks for 2 witnesses to be present and a camcorder be in place to record his last wishes, and when all is ready he begins to speak:

My son, "Bernie, I want you to take the  Mayfair houses."
                   
My daughter "Sybil, you take the apartments over in the east end."
My son, "Jamie, I want you to take the offices over in the City Centre."

"Sarah, my dear wife, please take all the residential buildings on the banks of the river."

The nurse  and witnesses are  blown away as they did not realize his extensive holdings,  and as Doug slips away,  the nurse says, "Mrs. Smith, your husband must have been such a hard-working man to have accumulated all this property".
                    
Sarah replies, "Property ? .... The  #%@&* had a paper route !!!

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"Chattel‏... 'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Wednesday)

Bettejo Dux, a resident of Kauai for over forty years, is an award winning writer, columnist, novelist, peace and environmental 
activist who knows, and loves Kauai with a passion that shows up in her work.

Above photo; Bettejo signs her novella for a fan at her recent book signing

and 84th birthday bash at Birdies in Kalaheo.

Chattel

It’s kind of a silly sounding word, isn’t it? It does not roll trippingly off my tongue. There’s a sense of darkness about it. It means possession of something. Cars, cattle, or women…

…Today is such a wonderful time for women, at least in the West.  I would not care to be a Muslim woman in a long black robe- in which she can vote with a green thumb if she can see through the slits. A little less disturbing Sharia law, her hair must be covered and you shouldn’t see her feet.  Allah commands. Ever wonder what the guy’s got against hair and feet?

In our country today, many women are speaking out. I think they are more concerned about the future-the children, the environment, the health of the planet-than men. What do you think?

Women on Kauai are quite vocal in complaining about GMOs, air borne toxins, over-crowded, wrongly sited milk factories, and mass extermination of what ever’s in style to mass exterminate today.

I appreciate what articulate, intelligent, out spoken women have-or had- to say. I love their involvement in the goings on. “This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from affairs, things today might have been different.” That’s a quote from Alice Paul before the passage of the 19th Amendment, which gave us the right to vote. I strongly suggest you find the film Iron Jawed Angels and watch it. Share it. We owe so much to this courageous young woman. We certainly need more like her. If you must identify with a female figure, identify with Alice.

Today, of course, women often play important roles in politics and law.  Think of Sarah Palin- EEEEKKK-an example of a female evangelist who tried her hand at public office. Failed, thank goodness. Hope you watched her exorcism ritual on the tube. It was an insult to human intelligence.

Which brings us back to chattel.

Some biblical quotes will work here. Here’s one: Ecclesiasticus 25:18, 19 &33. “And a man will choose…any wickedness, but the wickedness of a woman…Sin began with a woman and thanks to her we all must die.” 

Really?

The history of women as chattel is woven into many legal codes and cultures. In the Old and New Testament as well as the Quran.  Women are property. There’s a world- wide dominion over women by men. In fundamental patriarchal religious societies that live by the word women are valued as objects. A husband owns his wife...

…and she better shut up and do as told.

A quote from Thomas Aquinas is enlightening: in Summa Theologica, he wrote,  “As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex, while the production of a woman comes from the defect in the active power…”

Thomas is a Catholic Saint so I assume he resides in a Catholic heaven. As a devout nonbeliever, who does not believe in either heaven or hell, I might pen a brief note:

“Dear Saint Augustine, to spend all eternity with you would be hell.”

What do you think?


P.S.
Go to www.hoike.org   scroll down and on the right of your screen click on Arts and Entertainment-

Bettejo  speaking on her weekly TV show
on local public access TV.
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