"Why not just enjoy the fresh air?.."

Before I moved to Hawaii and used to visit every February from Alaska, I was always fascinated when exiting and arriving inside the opened walled terminals at Honolulu International airport, with the wonderful smells of the plumeria flowers mixed with fresh air.

Now that I am a resident of 12 years in Hawaii, I still enjoy the fresh ocean air with the smell of tropical flowers.

Ironically most restaurants, retail stores, public transportation and office buildings all run air conditioning at the coldest possible settings. We have some of the freshest and best smelling air in the world and most people choose to breathe recycled cold air.

When I lived in Alaska everyone always wanted to have the heat on high and in Hawai'i everyone wants the air conditioning on the coldest possible setting.

People always want want what they don't have, why not just enjoy the fresh air...

"Soar like an Eagle and wing it..."

My friend's have given up asking me do to things with them, since I always make excuses and say thanks but no thanks.

There is nothing more enjoyable than a day of just winging it.

There is no stress, you start out with one goal, you may want to go swimming, from there your serotonin kicks in and you go for a 5 mile bike ride in search of a ripe papaya, mango or avocado tree to pick from. You find a few coconut's instead and are happy with your lot, so you head back towards home...

The above is a true to life scenario of a day in my life.

When I lived in Japan my girlfriend and I would plan to go out to dinner, we would walk the streets until there was a good smell or a good vibe and we walked into the place, if we walked in and got a bad vibe we walked out and found another place.

If you do not work and do not have to be somewhere everyday at a certain time, try winging it, even if you have a job wing with a dinner date.

A scheduled date will never be the same after you soar like an eagle and wing it...

"What is a TIP?.."

What is a TIP.


A tip is something you give a waitress or waiter (or excuse me should I say server,) for providing excellent service and promptness.

I find service is overall poor in most restaurants and despise giving a tip.

In Japan where restaurant service is the best in the world, tipping is non-existent. The servers are polite and act as if they care, and if you leave money on the table they come running after you, thinking you accidentally left it behind.

Recently I was in a video store where there was a tip jar at the checkout center, I have seen tip jars are at many coffee shops and short order restaurants.

Where is tipping going to stop? Imagine tip jars at the grocery store and the convenient stores?

The people who deserve tips, never get them, that's the person emptying bedpans in the hospital.

I have a tip for everyone reading this blog, if you like this letter blog you can send me a tip through pay-pal. After all at least I am on time, and TIP means (to insure promptness.)

"Stupid humor by me..."

"Stupid humor by me..."

Since there is now a thing called Turkey ham, I am waiting for the invention of Ham turkey, there is in fact smoked turkey which does taste a lot like ham, but no such thing as Ham turkey. I want to see "them" (whoever them is) make a ham out of a turkey.

I have many friends who boast of being vegetarian, they say," I'm a vegetarian but I eat fish and chicken, my reply is always, I'm a vegetarian but eat meat.

These people are crazy, they believe they are vegetarian, I guess we are all vegetarian's, even cannibals can be vegatarians, with the above method of thinking.

My Vegan friends  say they do not eat anything with a face, I say it depends on how pretty her face is.

The easiest place in the world to be a police sketch artist, that is taking information from victims of crime of what their perpetrators look like is Japan since everyone in Japan looks alike, being a police sketch artist is a very easy job, because whoever you draw will look like the criminal.

Imagine if gay marriage were legal in Hawaii and let's say a homosexual couple got into a fight, would it be a cockfight?

I was skyping a friend of mine whose in his mid 70's, he was using his daughters webcam on her laptop and he thought if he moved in closer he would see me better, all I saw was his right eyeball, and he kept asking how he looked, I said eye eye eye...

I am 55 years old and nerver made it to the stage, as my father used to say, next one leaves in 20 minutes...

"Mobile lunch wagons..."

Better get extra scoop with that plate lunch

The price of food in restaurants on Kauai is representative of a tourist economy within an oil crisis. For the most part, heavily overpriced with small portions and poor service.

Everyone likes a good deal and with the advent of a couple of new lunch wagons in the Kapaa area I became excited since I thought great deals, local grinds. To my surprise, these mobile lunch wagons are charging as much and more as sit-down diners with full service. Burgers for $10, plate lunches for $14 and $15. These wagons are supposed to be an alternative, they do not have all the expenses of a full-service restaurant, they don't even have restrooms, this implies savings to the consumer, right? Wrong.

These wagons never seem to have any business. May I recommend a $5 plate lunch special, get people to try your grinds, get some business get established, do the math, sell 100 plates for $5, that's better than selling three plates for $14.

Until such time as these mobile lunch wagons change their ways, I'm sticking with Costco hot dogs and Burger King.

p.s. in Hawaii, the "Plate lunch" is  isusually, an entree, rice,  chow mein, macaroni salad, or green salad and or kim chee, the pl;ate lunch itself will be a future blog...

" What do you do?..."

What do you do is the number one social question in our society. What do you do refers to what you do for money, to earn a living. Many people ask this question as a prerequisite to see if you meet their expectations and standards. If you are not a doctor or lawyer, they move on...

When I am asked what I do, I say, "a lot, I get up, brush my teeth, stretch, pray, have coffee and breakfast, shower, and then I watch the View,  do a little gardening, go for a bike ride with my dog, have lunch, go to the public pool, look for deals at the grocery store, and then I stop at the chinese restaurant  to garbage pick my dogs dinner on my way home."

The list is endless of what I do.

Please do not ask what I do, ask my name, tell me your name  and say Aloha, everything else will fall in place and divinity will rein.

"Human power..."

If one cannot afford solar power another great alternative never really brought up is human power.


I was recently speaking with a former Kauai county employee and he has an idea he does not mind me sharing...

Human power like solar or wind would be another great alternative. This is how it works. The county, state or any private enterprise could set up a a beautiful state of the art gym, with stationary life-cycle bicycles, stair steppers, running machines, rowing machines, etc... collecting the energy from everyone's workout. Cards would be issued after your workout to show the amount of energy you contributed, the people stay in shape, after all without our health life is much more difficult.

With the energies being collected from the persons workout one could get a free health club membership, the business, state or county gets energy to be converted to electric. The islands have one one of the highest per capita diabetes and obesity among the young. This concept would be a win win for everybody.

"Twenty years..."

Have you ever seen the photo's woman columnists have posted, they are usually from a time much earlier in their careers?

I was recently looking at my women friends photo's on facebook and thought to myself, man she looks great, she hasn't aged in twenty years.

The fact of the matter is that many women , maybe even a few men post photo's of themselves many years younger than their current situation.

I am hoping to get a computer enhanced image of how I would look twenty years from now. I am going to post my photo as I will look twenty years from now, in this way when people meet me in person after actually viewing my photo they will say, "You look so young."

Well ladies, what do you think?

"Blog #100! Rush is a danger..."

The other day I happened upon Rush Lmbaugh's talk radio show, I am not a Rush fan but was interested in listening to what he had to say.


The whole show is basically Obama bashing, Rush going on to say that Obama needs to take responsibility and quit blaming everything on the previous administration. No matter what Obama does Rush plays the devils advocate. Rush does this for ratings,I actually believe Rsh doesn't believe half of what he says.

Rush is a showman in there for ratings and a big paycheck, many Americans believe what Rush makes up on the radio for ratings. Rush is an entertainer, and although I disagree with almost everything he says, he has a charismatic manner about his talk that is fun and easy to listen to.

During these days of recession, the country needs to stand together as one, Rush needs to stop his propaganda before he destroys America.

"Furlough the Pork..."

                                                            HAWAII POLITICS!  
Instead of furloughing the bread and butter, (teachers, librarians, lifeguards and human service workers,) furlough the pork, (all politician's.) If they are such great public servants, they all need to take a voluntary pay-cut or work pro bono.

Kauai County council members currently make $53,066 a year, the Council chair makes $59,699 a year, plus great health insurance for all council members.

There is only one requirement that they attend one weekly county council meeting, besides that they can manage their time however they wish. they have assigned offices but can work from anywhere they wish. No required hour's are required, their time is all self managed.

Politicians need to step up by example and show what a public servant really is.

If any person in political office were to take a voluntary pay-cut, or work as a volunteer, it would all but guarantee their re-election.

I challenge any politician from the Governor to the Island's Mayor's, to the State Senate, to the State Congress and all Hawaii Island's council members to step up to the plate and be the first to volunteer for a pay-cut, or work pro-bono, any volunteers?

If there are no volunteers, I say furlough all politicians.

"Try generic windex..."

There is a cockroach and mosquito overpopulation where I reside on the cosmic garden Island.

Bug sprays and insect repellents are ultra expensive, even for generic brands your looking at five or more dollars for a 16 oz or smaller can.

I have made a discovery that i would like to share with my blog friends...

I ran out of ant & cockroach spray, so I tried using generic window cleaner that costs around 1.29 at Wal-Marts. Streak free Glass cleaner,a generic windex look alike killed all my cockroaches on contact and when sprayed into the air kept the mosquitoes away and got rid of the flies too.

My conclusion is that ants, mosquitoes and cockroaches can't read anyhow, so try generic windex and save some money!

"They run the craziest classified ads..."

Kaua'i is home to many far out people. They run the craziest classified ads...


Anything from rooms for rent to men looking for men, men looking for women, and me looking to write another blog...

Here's one of my favorite classified ads that runs frequently, I wonder why?

Enjoy, this is actually a real ad with the exact wording. I left out the name and phone number to protect the innocent...

"Available Room is 9 x 14 with full closet.
Share with a friendly, respectful, cooperative man who sometimes plays
acoustic guitar. Lots of books.
No alcohol, smoking, or drugs. If you must have a TV please use it in
your room with earplugs.
You do not need to be vegetarian, but I am looking for someone who
will be happy not to bring any meat, chicken or fish into the home.

$400/month plus modest utilities & refundable deposit. Available Now."\

Well, was I right?

"A blog about nothing.."

Remember the sitcom comedy Seinfeld? It is in syndication and still runs in almost every major us city. It's been eleven years since the final episode was filmed, the show is still funny and relevant.

Seinfeld was a show according to executive producer Jerry Seinfeld, "a show about nothing."

My blog is similar to the Seinfeld sitcom in that it is a blog about nothing. It's just my thoughts on a daily basis.

Today I am out of idea's to write about, so here I am writing about nothing, in hopes of reaching my one hundredth blog in four more days.

The countdown begins...

"Now let's put racism aside..."

"Now let's put racism aside..."

Now that we have elected an intelligent man to run our country, let's try to put race aside, especially in our racist state of Hawaii where everyone is labeled by their ethnicity.

Barack Obama said, "There are those who are preparing to divide us, the spin masters and negative ad peddlers who embrace the politics of anything goes. Well, I say to them tonight, there's not a liberal America and a conservative America there's the United States of America. There's not a black America and white America and Latino America and Asian America; there's the United States of America."

We are the United States of America and we are Americans even on this land of "aloha."





James "Kimo" Rosen

Kapaa, Kauai

"Plastic bags are useful and help save trees..."

Plastic bags are useful and help save trees

Now the Kauai contrarians and so-called environmentalists are pushing for a plastic bag ban on our island.

Plastic bags can be used time and time again. I re-use supermarket plastic bags for garbage bags, storing leftovers, harvesting fruits and vegetables and carrying things on my bicycle, since the bags have handles.

The need is not in banning plastic bags, but educating the public on the many uses for them.

Another irony is a few health food stores have stopped using plastic bags but will bag your groceries with paper bags; remember, you need to cut down trees to make paper bags.

Banning plastic bags will be costly and a headache we cannot afford.

"A joke I wrote myself..."

"A joke I wrote myself..."
I am over my friends house and tell my friends I need to leave because my dog is home alone and afraid of separation anxiety. They said, don't worry your dog will be fine. I said it's not the dog i am worried about, it's me suffering the anxiety. :D)

"The wrong people and things are being furloughed..."

The wrong government workers are being furloughed and schools never should had been furloughed.


The government workers that need to be furloughed are the majority of our politicians.

Furlough county council, senate, congress, Mayors and the Governor. Nobody will even know these people are not working. All they do is try to get re-elected anyway.

Why furlough the bread and butter, the people that are needed, furlough the pork, the politicians. Start at the top with the people who do the least.

If our politicians gave a rats behind on the state of the economy they would all take a volunteer pay cut. In fact if any politician comes out openly and takes a pay cut during this recession, they are 99% guaranteed of re-election.

Please someone in politics step forward, others will follow.

"People in glass houses should not throw stones..."

"People in glass houses should not throw stones..."

The chicken is the one animal that is used in more cooking recipes recipe's than any other.

Why do people think cockfighting is cruelty to animals? The same people eat chicken on a regular basis. There are a few Vegetarian and Vegans that can stand their ground, but the vast majority of people are just so full of chicken manure.

If it's ok to butcher a chicken, chop of it's head, let it run around in agony, then continue to bleed it and pull it's out it's guts in preparation for a meal, whats the big deal about a chicken fight?

If I were a chicken I would rather be in a fight with another chicken than be beheaded by a human being.

The cruelty is in not letting people enjoy themselves, if a cockfight can be entertaining why not enjoy it? Remember the old expression, people in glass houses should not throw stones...

"When I first heard of cockfighting I thought it was an X rated video."

When I first heard of cockfighting I thought it was an X rated video, but have come to terms that it is a past time and sport.

Seriously, most people eat chickens, but feel cockfighting is cruelty to the chicken, so is chopping of it's head, butchering it and making soup.

Legalize cockfighting, marijuana and prostitution, and tax the hell out of it. Then maybe we could get our keiki back in school and not have to shut down 50 branches of the department of Human services.

"New Wine for Seniors..."

"New wine for Seniors.."

I kid you not.... New Wine for Seniors

California vintners in the Napa Valley area, which primarily produce Pinot Blanc, Pinot Noir and Pinot Grigio wines, have developed a new hybrid grape that acts as an anti-diuretic.

It is expected to reduce the number of trips older people have to make to the bathroom during the night.

The new wine will be marketed as

PINO MORE

I HEARD IT THROUGH THE GRAPEVINE...

Sorry, I did not write this one, it was actually a joke I received by email, just had a little writers block.

"If you don't know how to cook..."

Recipes are a great guide when learning to cook, however any good chef can use a pinch of this and pinch of that and what's ever laying around and make it taste good.

Religion is good if you do not know how to pray, just as a recipe is good if you don't know how to cook, but nothing is better than one on one with the divine one.

In conclusion, God is great, religion is another story...

" A mental disorder..."

Orthodox Judaism is a mental disorder, maybe that's why for so many years I enjoyed hanging out with them, now that I am trying to get better I find them crazier than loons.

Can't do this can't do that, the Rabbi's tell everyone not to work on the sabbath, because if we worked they would be out of a job.

Since I am Jewish I can make light of Jewish stuff, it's the same as a black person being able to use the "N" word.

Orthodox Judaism is a mental dis-order, similar to obsessive compulsive disorder. The practitioners think they are the most sane people in the world. They won't use phone or drive on sabbath or light fires. They unscrew refrigerator lights, won't carry key's, but if there on their neck, on a string it's OK?

People who are not orthodox have obsessive disorders like,  "if you step on a a crack you break your mothers back."  The orthodox Jews have a rule for everything. Don't do this don't do that, but ironically are always trying to find a spiritual loophole?

Playing attorney with G-d is not a good idea, since he will always win. In fact you can't even spell God, G-d forbid.

I have seen food needing to be heated up and if you forget to leave your stove on and forget to have a flame already burning you are not allowed to light the stove. If you leave your bedroom light on before sabbath and it is still on after sabbath starts,  you need to sleep with the light on.

Men dance with men, women dance with woman, and men are not allowed to shake hands or hug woman unless that woman is his wife. The rumor of the orthodox making love through a whole in a sheet is a false hood. Thank G-d Snopes verified that for me.

Look I know a good psychiatrist who will  prescribe something for this, only thing is, it is the sabbath and since he is Jewish cannot write the prescription until after sabbath ends.

"Driving is stressful..."

Driving is stressful

http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-saturday-january/article_dcb5595b-c44e-5cb0-aba5-688c1a532fa9.html


I have lived in two countries, many states and Kaua‘i is the tailgating capitol of the world.

 I was taught for every 10 mph to give one-car length distance, so at 50 mph there should be at least a five-car distance between vehicles.

Every time I venture out to drive I can see with detail in my rear view mirror people’s birthmarks on their faces at speeds of 40 to 50 mph. I am always sticking my hand out with the sign language of thumb and forefinger spread open to give me more space. Nobody seems to acknowledge this since they are so wrapped up in their narcissistic acts of cell phone conversation, texting and eating.

I feel tailgating is a Freudian thing. People who tailgate suffer what Sigmund Freud termed a certain type of envy. Hopefully, these people can get over their envy and help create safer roads by giving us a little space.

Kauai is a wonderful place but to understand, you never will.

Kauai is a wonderful place but to understand, you never will.


The Kuhio highway in Kapa'a town on the Island of Kauai is not a hwy, it's called a highway but in reality is a two lane road with speed limit's of 25 mph.

 This will help explain the reason for so many contrarians  living on Kaua'i. When someone believes a two lane road as a highway, they also believe that Big Box stores are ma and pa enterprises, they believe that a vacational rental should be a tent on the beach, they believe a bike trail should be the trail a bike leaves and believe the superferry to be a gay man. because of this mis-understanding of words, and the pidgin english everything is misconstrude.

When ordering at a restaurant one may say, "give me dakine with dakine on dakine." which of course means give me a bacon, spam lettuce and tomotaoe sandwhich with poi on Taro bread.

To make things more complicated at the local gym, they do not let you shower nude, even in an  enclosed men and womens seperate quarters, they say it's only a rinse shower and  being naked in a shower is forbidden.

Even though it's in the locker room, there explanation is if they wanted to see nakedness they would go online and look it up. Kauai is a wonderful place but to understand, you never will.

Bratty children will become bad adults...

Bratty children will become bad adults


Everything centers around children; my timing in life is off. When I was a child we were taught to respect our elders, older people went first in buffet lines, young people were taught to give up their seat on the bus to someone older. There used to be an unwritten common courtesy in honor of older adults.

Now everything is for the kids, putting adults in a secondary position. Swimming at the  YMCA is geared around children, and adults must schedule themselves around the kids. When I was a kid the children were scheduled around the adults.

Children cannot be spanked by their parents since everyone is afraid their kids will report them to human services.

All children have to do is say that some adult touched them inappropriately and that is enough to indict. The adult may be innocent but in the meantime his or her reputation has been tarnished.

Adults no longer have control over their children, bestowing upon them angel status.

Recently on an airplane trip a child was kicking my seat, and I said something and the father said give the kid a break. My father would have told me it is not polite to kick seats and made me stop.

Most kids are not angels in fact quite the contrary. The world has let children take control. My timing is off. When I was a kid adults had the control, and now that I am an adult children have control. Until things are turned around society will continue to produce spoiled brats who become selfish, crooked adults

"Every day is Thanksgiving..."

A day of Thanks and Giving


Thanksgiving is my favorite holiday since it is not a religious holiday but an American holiday.

It is a holiday for all religions and ethnic groups that call themselves American. No special church, synagogues or mosques involved, in fact even agnostics and atheists can celebrate Thanksgiving and feel the spirit.

The editorial and letters to the editor pages are usually filled with controversy and arguments about religion, politics and the many things humans vent. Thanksgiving requires no venting, only thanks, I only wish that retailers would wait until after Thanksgiving to start on all the commercialism of Christmas.

Thanksgiving has lost its appeal with the supremacy of Christmas overshadowing one of the most stupendous days of thanks.

Thanksgiving started out as a feast meal between the Native Americans and the pilgrims, opposites coming together to break bread to give and be thankful.

May this Thanksgiving be a lesson. Life is short and although we may have opposing views, one thing is for certain. Thanksgiving is the one day for just that — thanks and giving.

The most wonderful thing about Thanksgiving is that food has no calories on this special American holiday. Enjoy this untroubled tranquil day which comes but only once a year, although it would be romantically utopian having Thanksgiving everyday.

"On airport incidents..."

On airport incidents

The last week has brought chaos to Kaua‘i’s Lihu‘e Airport. The first was when a 55-year-old man assaulted two flight attendants.

The second incident was an entire family letting their children run wild during a flight, believing their little ones were just so cute, but disturbing everyone else.

It was a real life incident of “kids gone wild.”

And the third and most recent is a 22-year-old male taking his aggressions out on a kiosk and having to be restrained.

The reason everyone is going crazy at Lihu‘e Airport is we have no other way to travel long distance in or out of Kaua‘i.

Residents and visitors are traumatized by having to rely on air travel for all off island travel.

These problems will only get worse until such time as an alternative means of travel is introduced. Airports are stressful places with security checks, arriving early, not being able to carry bottled water, or even a nail clipper.

I know a sure way to ease the tensions at the airport: Bring back da Superferry!

"Color blindness is wonderful..,"

Color blindness is wonderful


When someone asks, “Are you haole?” I respond, “Why what I did?”

When someone says, “What comes after two?” I respond, “Tree.”

I now say “da” instead of “the” and always great people with a friendly “howzit.”

I use the work "dakine' often as a word to mean anything..

I legally changed my name from James to “Kimo.”

President Obama says there is not a White American or an Asian American or a Black America, there is only the United States of America.

Color blindness sure is a wonderful thing, or should I say “ting?”