"The audacity..."

The audacity of a few gas stations on our cosmic island, charging for radiator water and air for inflation of tires.

I do not drive often, therefore I have not been to a gas station in quite a while. Most the time I take a bus or ride my bike for transportation.

This past week I was horrified after going to a local gas station with a friend and seeing the water and air pumps connected up to a change machine, charging seventy five cents for air, and another seventy five cents for water.

When I was a young man, they had service stations, you would drive into a gas station, they filled you up, washed your windshield, checked your tire pressure, checked your oil levels and said thank you, come again.

Now you go to a self service station, no mechanics anywhere, making you fill up your gas tank on your own and when finished having to walk into a quick save store where they hope to gouge you five dollars for a bag of chips.

Filling a gas tank can cost fifty dollars or more, is it to much to ask for a little air for a flat tire?

What's next charging to use the squeegee to wash your windshield, wait they didn't even provide a squeegee.

"Running for public office in 2012!..."

With the 2010 elections just around the corner excitement is at an all time low, I for one am not excited about any candidate. I am pushing for all the new people to create change, otherwise we have more of the same.

How many of these people running for public servants would be a council member, Governor,senator, congressman,or mayor without a salary, car allowance and health benefits?

If my health prevails I am thinking of running for county council in 2012. I am constantly criticizing government and like the old expression goes, "if you want a job done right, do it yourself."

The first thing our county and most cities need to do is privatize local government by contracting out to the private sector the jobs of fixing potholes and sewers, trimming trees, construction of and sidewalk repair, street cleaning and synchronizing traffic lights, just to mention a few.

Mayor Eva Galambos of Sandy Springs Georgia did exactly that. It was discovered that the private sector worked faster, cost the taxpayers less and had a 90% approval rating by it's residents. Imagine that the private sector working harder than government employees. She is being hailed a hero.

My first goal for the county of Kauai would be to privatize local government and use the city of Sandy Springs Georgia as a role model.

I look forward to the 2012 elections and look forward to many new faces this coming election. Remember the best way of change is to re-elect nobody, otherwise we have more of the same. Vote for the new people!

"A simple solution..."

It's all in the words. 'Marriage' is defined in the Oxford Dictionary Thesaurus as;"The Legal union of a man and woman."

Therefore there can be no gay marriage according to that definition.

Simple solution, make up a new word for gay marriage, may I suggest "Garriage," replacing the "M" in "Marriage," with the "G" from "Gay," hence "Garriage."

Give "Garriage" the same respect as Marriage, by having a new word, 'Marriage' remains the same holy bond between man and woman and "Garriage" becomes a new institution with a definition all it's own.

Get rid of comment boards.

One of the things I used to find most fascinating was the comments boards when reading the Garden island paper or any periodical  online.

I thought it was modern science, interacting and commenting to any story along with your fellow neighbors.

The comments boards have become nothing more than people fighting, threatening and being rude to one another.

There are a few who actually stay on topic and are humane, but they are few and far between.

I for one would prefer the comments section suspended enabling to let people read the paper in peace.

"A peanut coated marshmellow bank roll..."

What do all the recent sexual harassment settlements on Kauai teach us?

What is sexual harassment? Back in the 20Th century one could tell a person of the opposite sex they looked hot, now if you tell someone they look hot, or whistle at them it's sexual harassment.

I am constantly being hit on by older women, if i was a middle aged women being hit on by older men, this would be sexual harassment.

The question remains,where does harassment begin and flirting end?

Payday is a marshmellow peanut coated chocolate candy bar, but on Kauai it seems a way of life with the payday being a peanut coated marshmellow bank roll.

"The beauty of Kaua'i..."

The beauty of Kaua'i is like that of a beauty queen, beautiful, breathtaking and gorgeous on the outside.

From a distance or as a spectator one is in awe, but once you get to know most of them, you find huge ego's and much distress on the inside.

They always said, "find a girl with a good personality," which meant, not really good looking, but will treat you like a king.

Do you want awesome eye candy beauty or do you want to be treated like a king.

I opt for the latter.

"Students talk about local elections..."

When I taught English a s a second language in Japan, I always enjoyed having the students talk about local elections.

Since the Japanese pronounce L's to sound like R's, they just have a hard time pronouncing R's.

'Election day,' became 'Erection day.'

I would laugh to myself internally but in essence the Japanese have it spot on.

What is an erection? To erect means to build or construct., erect, means big, and all the politicians I have met have big ego's, and love to construct anything with their name in bold print.

What did you think I meant?

May the best sign waiver win!