"Men Are Just Happier People..." Marvin Gross' (The Source)

Men Are Just Happier People -- "Marvin Gross a financial planner from Western N.Y. shares with us on why men are happier than woman..." What do you expect from such simple creatures? Your last name stays put. The garage is all yours. Wedding plans take care of themselves. Chocolate is just another snack. You can be President. You can never be pregnant. You can wear a white T-shirt to a water park. You can wear NO shirt to a water park. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You never have to drive to another gas station restroom because this one is just too icky. You don't have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Same work, more pay. Wrinkles add character. Wedding dress $5000 Tux rental-$100. People never stare at your chest when you're talking to them. New shoes don't cut, blister, or mangle your feet. One mood all the time. Phone conversations are over in 30 seconds flat. You know stuff about tanks. A five-day vacation requires only one suitcase. You can open all your own jars. You get extra credit for the slightest act of thoughtfulness. If someone forgets to invite you, He or she can still be your friend. Your underwear is $8.95 for a three-pack. Three pairs of shoes are more than enough.. You almost never have strap problems in public. You are unable to see wrinkles in your clothes.. Everything on your face stays its original color.. The same hairstyle lasts for years, maybe decades. You only have to shave your face and neck. You can play with toys all your life. One wallet and one pair of shoes -- one color for all seasons. You can wear shorts no matter how your legs look.. You can 'do' your nails with a pocket knife. You have freedom of choice concerning growing a mustache. You can do Christmas shopping for 25 relatives On December 24 in 25 minutes. No wonder men are happier. Send this to the women who can handle it And to the men who will enjoy reading it. Men Are Just Happier People NICKNAMES ·If Sheila, Candy and Sarah go out for lunch, they will call each other Sheila, Candy and Sarah. ·If Mike, Dave and John go out, they will affectionately refer to each other as Fat Boy, Bubba and Wildman . EATING OUT ·When the bill arrives, Mike, Dave and John will each throw in $20, even though it's only for $32.50. None of them will have anything smaller and none will actually admit they want change back.. ·When the girls get their bill, out come the pocket calculators. MONEY ·A man will pay $2 for a $1 item he needs. ·A woman will pay $1 for a $2 item that she doesn't need but it's on sale. BATHROOMS ·A man has six items in his bathroom: toothbrush and toothpaste, shaving cream, razor, a bar of soap, and a towel. ·The average number of items in the typical woman's bathroom is 337. A man would not be able to identify more than 20 of these items. ARGUMENTS ·A woman has the last word in any argument. ·Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument. FUTURE ·A woman worries about the future until she gets a husband. ·A man never worries about the future until he gets a wife. MARRIAGE ·A woman marries a man expecting he will change, but he doesn't. ·A man marries a woman expecting that she won't change, but she does. DRESSING UP ·A woman will dress up to go shopping, water the plants, empty the trash, answer the phone, read a book, and get the mail. ·A man will dress up for weddings and funerals. NATURAL ·Men wake up as good-looking as they went to bed.. ·Women somehow deteriorate during the night. OFFSPRING ·Ah, children. A woman knows all about her children. She knows about dentist appointments and romances, best friends, favorite foods, secret fears and hopes and dreams. ·A man is vaguely aware of some short people living in the house. THOUGHT FOR THE DAY A married man should forget his mistakes. There's no use in two people remembering the same thing! The opinions, beliefs and viewpoints expressed by the various authors and forum participants on this blog site do not necessarily reflect the opinions, beliefs and viewpoints of the Publisher of Dakinetalk the blog, but they could? ;D)

"Kama'aina, really now..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

"Kama'aina rates are often times not the best rates you can receive..." This blog was published as an opinion article in the 04-22-12 edition of the  Kaua'i Garden Island news titled;"Kama'aina get your discount."  http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-sunday-april/article_f589817a-8c6a-11e1-a3e9-001a4bcf887a.html

Many people in Hawai'i are bestowed a Kama'aina  rate for discounts to many businesses . If you can show a local driver's license or another form of local Hawai'ian ID. For those not from Hawai'i, Kama'aina is the Hawai'ian language word for long term resident, the literal translation is child of the land. Many Hawai'i based  businesses give  Kama'aina rates and many people believe this is the best rate possible and is the rate they ask for when reserving hotel rooms, theatre tickets, car rentals, etc. 

There are many rates better than kama'aina. There are many organizations that offer huge discounts  such as AARP, Costco, AAA, and for those over 55 there is usually a  senior discount available, and for those 12 and under many restaurants have huge savings.  If you own a business or are a business person you  may also  be offered a business discount  at times even  lower  than a Kama'aina rate. 

Kama'aina may sound and have the feel of  the best rate, but don't be embarrassed  to ask for an even better rate. I am betting you'll be surprised.

 Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Where Truth Lies..." 'Michael Herr' (Aloha Friday)

 Renowned author Michael Herr is back guest blogging on this awesome Aloha Friday about where truth lies within the context of the recent news story concerning the shooting of a Florida youth Trayvon Martin.

(News story from Washington Post concerning the recent shooting of Trayvon Martin)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-prosecutor-taps-experts-to-review-911-calls-in-trayvon-martin-shooting/2012/03/27/gIQAp0bWeS_story.html

Michael is happily retired and pursuing his dreams of writing and publishing books, he currently lives in Walnut Creek California.  (Michael is pictured above with his latest book,"The old Queen and the Maui Maiden." To purchase this book or any of Michael's 6 other novella's go to; http://www.michaelherr.com

ALOHA FRIDAY

March 30, 2012

It's Aloha Friday.

Where Truth Lies

Aloha folks.

It seems we have our own little version of the Japanese classic Rashomon in the news lately. Have you read the story, or seen the movie version? In brief, a bandit kills a husband and rapes the man's wife. But when the local magistrate investigates he gets three slightly different stories. One from the bandit. One from the wife. And one from the ghost of the dead man. At the end it is left up to us, the audience/reader, to determine who is telling the truth. Or what the truth there might be in each story.

Now, here's our own newest version of this classic story.

A young man down in Florida went to a store one night. On the way home another young man saw the first young man and thought he looked suspicious. The second young man called the police and voiced his suspicions. Despite being told to stay where he was he got out of his vehicle and began to follow the first young man. Minutes later the first young man lay dead. And here is where this story begins to sound like Rashomon. The second young man says the first young man jumped him, hit him in the nose, and slammed his head against the ground. He admits he shot the first young man and killed him. A girl who was on the phone with the first young man heard sounds of a scuffle. A witness, or two, now says that he saw the second young man on the ground. Others say they heard a cry, but whether it was from the young man who was shot or from the young man who shot him they can't say.

There has been talk about the second young man muttering racist comments into his phone while approaching the first young man. There has been note made of the fact that the first young man was tall and strong. That the first young man was wearing a 'hoodie' seems to figure into this whole matter in some way.

The only facts that are apparent from this whole incident are that one young man, carrying a gun, killed another young man who had done nothing wrong up to the time that the second young man confronted him and questioned his right to be walking in that neighborhood.

For now we have only the young shooter's account to go by. We have no ghost to tell us a different story.

Thus, as in Rashomon, we are left to determine where the truth lies. But truth and lies are so frequently intertwined.

Okay folks, see you next week.


Encore-Hana Hou, Please check out this you-tube of a singing dog! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PiblYasnzWE

 

For more of Michael's writings go to http://www.michaelherr.com

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/florida-prosecutor-taps-experts-to-review-911-calls-in-trayvon-martin-shooting/2012/03/27/gIQAp0bWeS_story.html

"Living obituaries..." 'Obama Da Dog'

     "Life is short, say nice things about others while they're still alive..." Don't wait to read about a friend's death in the daily obituaries, say nice things while your friends are still alive and kickin..."
I recently received in my email in-box a forwarded message from a friend, it stated;" How many flowers are sent to a person when he or she expires and how many flowers did he or she receive alive? A dead nose can't smell a rose."

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we looked at our friends and relatives and told them the stories we would tell at their funeral, but instead tell them while their still breathing?

Our lives are not video recordings, we cannot reverse and edit and make up for our mistakes and regrets.

 Write or say  something nice for a friend that is still living, instead of waiting to tell how great a person they were at their funeral. Say something nice to your friends and relatives directly, while they're still alive.

Obituaries are 99%  positive, if only we treated each other with such do respect while we're alive.

Why not pretend your best friend, partner,sibling, neighbor or co-worker just passed away and tell them to their face the thoughts you have! Living obituaries, wouldn't that be awesome!

For everyone reading this, these imaginary roses are for you.

 Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher

"Nudity..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Wednesdays)

Guest-blogger Bettejo Dux is one of Kauai's most colorful people, she has lived on the cosmic island of Kaua'i for over 40 years... She is an animal lover, people lover and enjoys life to the fullest.Today she guest blogs about nudity, enjoy... She also  publishes her own blog column.

You can check it out at ;  http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com .   Besides her blog she recently published and authored the humorous fiction book, "The Scam," check it out at(www.bettejodux.com) or  on Amazon.

NUDITY

Nudity. A pretty sounding word, rolls tripling  off the tongue. Brings to mind beautiful bodies, male and female, nude babes and babies on tiger skin rugs. 

 We have magazines, calendars, paintings, photographs, movies, all dedicated to showing off the naked body. We have boob and butt and porn mags and films and other less classy exposures. But they make some folks happy and many professionals think they’re harmless. Maybe, even, serve a healthy purpose. Better to look at pictures than rip clothes off or commit  sexual offenses.

We are reminded of that delightful Marilyn Monroe photo, the darling full length picture of John and Yoko, the gorgeous Playboy cover girls and even the beautiful butt and leg shot of a Muslim sweetie in red stiletto heels and burqa on the cover of a recent Humanist magazine.  Compared to Marilyn’s day and her  cutie pose on a plush red background, many of today’s teen age fashion magazines are beyond the pale.

I’m at the moment perusing the thirty full length nude pages in the Century of Sex, Playboy’s history of the sexual revolution 1900-1999 by James R. Petersen with a foreword by Hugh Hefner editor in chief . The section begins with some really rather funny ads from the 1900′s. A picture of Anna Held’s over clothed  ’perfect figure’ and ends with a 1999 ad for Viagra, a 1992 cover of Future Sex magazine, lead article CYBERSEX, and a priceless PETA ad  featuring supermodels Emma Sjoberg, Tatjana Patitz, Heather Stewart-Whyte, Fabienne Terwinghe and Naomi Campbell with the caption “We’d rather go naked than wear fur.”  We've come a long way, baby. Goody for us.

A stroll down this memory lane- towards the end, anyway- ends up with Elvis and William Masters and Virginia Johnson and Hair and the Graduate and Lolita and Betty Grable and Jane Russell, in no chronological order, with Timothy Leary, Mickey Spillane and Petty girls and Ziegfeld girls and even fruit crate art and, in World War Two, pin up girls as bomber art.

We had Tropic of Cancer, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, Memories of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill). That’s Henry Miller, D.H. Lawrence, John Cleland, if you recall. We had Ida Craddock, Alfred Kinsey, Betty Friedan and Germaine Greer.
Back up a bit and we had the New York Society for the Suppression  of Vice and Anthony Comstock, Secretary of the Society from 1872 until 1915. He wrote the Comstock Act, declaring it illegal to send through the mails anything about abortion, birth control or sex. That was a hoot.

Fast forward. Today we have the religious right anti-abortion bunch. Wade-Roe must go. The down with Planned Parenthood lunatics. The sexually corrupt Catholic church elbowing its noisy way into the fray. In Hawaii we had the Ed Silvoso  crowd and on Kauai we have  an uproar about nudes on beaches.  What is it with religious folks and sex and the naked body? Do you think maybe all of them are really ugly with their clothes off? Some of”em ain’t so hot with their clothes on. That’s a bad bad but methinks we’re going backwards full speed ahead.

Bettejo has a blog of her own you can check out at ; http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com  

www.bettejodux.com

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.



http://www.bettejodux.com/




"TSA, not in hospitality business..!" 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

"Many complaints have surfaced in the last few months about the security agents and their lack of courtesy at Lihue airport. Not that I condone this, but at the same time understand the mindset..." 

This blog appeared an an opinion article i the April 2, 2012 edition of th Kaua'i Garden Island news titled, "Airport Security."
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-monday-april/article_9ba560f4-7ca5-11e1-a234-0019bb2963f4.html

The last few months there have been many complaints expressed  about the TSA  security and lack of aloha  at Lihu'e airport.
The TSA website www.tsa.gov  has a complaint form you can fill out along with a toll free number, (866-289-9673) to report problems. The website also has a blog with a comments section to share your frustrations and tribulations.
 After reading the website I have come to the conclusion that  the Transportation Security Administration employee's take their jobs serious and go through hundreds of hours of training.
  TSA employees are not in the hospitality business, in fact quite the contrary, these men and woman are stressed since  according to the TSA website, seven times every day, every checkpoint in the U.S. is tested with 'fake' threats to ensure that the TSA officers and agents are on alert.
 Many people may interpret TSA employees as being rude,  everyone likes the rules bent for them, however these agents jobs are on the line every-day with fake threats, how can they determine if we are real of fake.
 Leave the Aloha to the hospitality industry and our safety to 'rude' TSA employees if it means lives being saved. We all need to  put on some thick skin. Everyone is too sensitive these days, nobody can handle criticism but everyone loves to dish it out.
 Do we really want TSA agents looking the other way? My guess is we all want TSA agents to look the other way for us, but not for  the other guy.

http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-monday-april/article_9ba560f4-7ca5-11e1-a234-0019bb2963f4.html

 Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher

"Weather has become a mystery..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Monday)

Judith Whitehead is back guest-blogging on this awesome Inspirational Monday about  real life climate change. Judy lives in Amherst N.Y. and has worked in the medical profession for over 30 years.

  Weather has become a mystery...

Living on the East coast of the United States, New Yorkers have come to take for granted that we can expect four seasons here, Fall, winter Spring and summer.  You could always set your clock on rain in March and April, snow in December and humid August weather.  What has our world come to!!

Here it is march in New York and we have had 80 degree weather all week;  it has gone from winter, such as it was this year, to summer….

Our snow plowing service came on 10 times this winter as compared to 60 times last year. I am not complaining but this weather is freaking us all out. Not to mention the $350.00 I spent to clear away the snow this year….(snow or no snow) donation to my snow plow man. I know it is like insurance but never the less….

Our flower bulbs came up in 2 days!  Our world weather is surely changing and it makes me nervous; I am a person who likes predictable things and each day of being a surprise is surely an adventure for us Buffalonians. 

Look out Hawai'i…you may see snow some day!

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Payton's, Peyton place and Peyton's Big pay day, or is it Luck?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

"Peyton place was the original American soap opera, now the National football league follows tradition with their own Peyton place, or should I say Payton place..?"

This blog also ran as an opinion article in the Kaua'i Garden Island new, this same day, Saturday 03-24-12 with the title,
"The good Luck, the bad Payton and the ugly Peyton"
http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-saturday-march/article_72102314-7598-11e1-89fb-001871e3ce6c.html (they edited the best paragraph, oh well)

Payton's, Peyton place and Peyton's big pay day, or is it Luck?

The National Football league is in the off season and although  professional hockey and basketball are currently in prime time, the NFL is still number one in the news.New Orleans head coach Sean Peyton was suspended for one year without payment  of his 7.5 million salary for  the placing monetary bounties on opposing teams quarterback's to knock them out of the game.
Defensive coach Greg Williams was also suspended indefinitely and the general manager was also suspended for 8 games, along with losing two number two draft picks and a $500,000 fine.
Not really A great day for the 2010 super bowl champion New Orleans saints!
Now let's look at the other Peyton. Peyton Manning signed a  96 million 5 year contract to play quarterback with the Denver Bronco's. Peyton's former team declined to resign the future hall of famer after Peyton sat out all last season from neck surgeries.  
Manning's former team had only two wins last season making them eligible for the number one draft pick in the upcoming NFL draft. The Colts decided to let Peyton go and will most likely depend on Luck, Andrew Luck the runner up for two consecutive years for  the Heisman trophy.
It looks like Peyton Manning relying on some Luck while Sean Payton is the true "Peyton," living in his own Peyton place of a soap opera, being the fall guy for every fan they ever yelled out, "kill that guy," (symbolic of course)

If anyone missed the news you can always with some luck TiVo it from your TV, I  said TiVo not Tebow.

http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-saturday-march/article_72102314-7598-11e1-89fb-001871e3ce6c.html

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher

"TSA personal pat down..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

"Chester "Unc" Lau a retired cinematographer living his golden years on the Island of Oahu. He is back guest-blogging about the day he misplaced his car key's..."

Several days ago, as I left a meeting, I desperately gave myself a personal TSA pat down. I was looking for my keys. They were not in my pockets. A quick search in the meeting room revealed nothing. Suddenly I realized, I must have left them in the car. Frantically I headed for the parking lot.

My girlfriend Kumiko has scolded me many times for leaving the keys in the ignition. My theory is the ignition is the best place not to lose them. Her theory is that the car will be stolen. As I burst through the doors, I came to a terrifying conclusion. Her theory was right. The parking lot was empty I immediately called the police. I gave them my location, confessed that I had left my keys in the car, and that it had been stolen. Then I made the most difficult call of all, "Honey," I stammered. I always call her "honey" in times like these. "I left my keys in the car, and it has been stolen." There was a period of silence. I thought the call had been dropped, but then I heard Kumiko's voice.

"Unc" you jackass, " she barked, "I dropped you off!" Now it was my time to be silent. Embarrassed, I said, "Well, come and get me." Kumiko retorted, "I will, as soon as I convince this cop I have not stolen your car !"I call it just another 'Senior moment'!

Encore, Hana Hou, click on the URL below to be inspired about a dog without it's front legs.
http://www.dogwork.com/kan6/

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Password..." 'Marvin Gross' (Source)

"Marvin Gross a financial planner from Western N.Y. is back sharing with us how his wife helped him install a new computer..!  Enjoy!"

A wife helps her man install a new computer.
During the installation,
she tells him(Marvin)  to select a password,
a word that he'll always remember.
As the computer asks him to enter it,
he looks at his wife and with a macho
gesture and a wink in his eye, selects
a word but he is annoyed with her reaction,
when he selects: penis.

As he hits "enter", to validate the selection,
his wife collapses with laughter and
rolls on the floor in hysteria .
The computer had replied:
TOO SHORT- ACCESS DENIED!

"Palm Sunday..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Wednesdays)

Guest-blogger Bettejo Dux is one of Kauai's most colorful people, she has lived on the cosmic island of Kaua'i for over 40 years... She is an animal lover, people lover and enjoys life to the fullest. She publishes her own blog column too, you can check it out at ;  http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com .   Besides her blog she recently published and authored the humorous fiction book, "The Scam," check it out at(www.bettejodux.com) or  on Amazon.

PALM SUNDAY

We all know the story. Some two thousand years ago a little Jewish girl was married off to an old man in another town and, when she got there, it was discovered she was pregnant.  Again, as we all know, in those days Jewish girls in such a situation could be stoned. Well, this young girl had not gone to school to carry her lunch, so she told the old carpenter that G-d did it. In  those days Gods often came down and had sex with women. They don’t do that so much anymore.

Anyhow, the old carpenter bought it and a few months later his young bride gave birth to a son who was born in a manger with great folderol and hoop de doo and wise men and stars and sheep and goats and cows and camels and angels and stuff starred in minor roles.

What’s really of interest here, it seems to me, is that the young mother taught her first-born that his father was G-d. I can almost hear her, “See that old carpenter? He’s not your daddy. Your daddy is G-d.” He was a precocious kid and raised a lot of hell in the community.

So far so good, the story hangs, but then the kid disappears. He leaves home when he’s about thirteen-about the time little boys learn about the birds and the bees- and doesn’t show up again until he’s in his late twenties and, when he does,  he shows up barefoot, in a brown robe, riding a donkey. Now his mother, delighted to see him again, rushes about telling everyone whose ear she could bend that her son, the son of G-d, was back and that he was the Messiah. These were not very healthy words to be spreading around Jerusalem in those days.  Made worse because this itinerant young Jewish rabbi, barefoot and on a donkey, was hanging  with a bad bunch. Poor guys. Sick guys. Fishermen. You know, peasants, hippies and the like.

We all remember the story of the wedding. Poor guys. No wine.  Momma bursts through the door.  ”Oh son, show them you’re G-d. Turn the water to wine,” she cries. At which time he replies, so it says in the book, “Get that woman out of here.”

Odd that he never called his mother mother. Maybe he got fed up with the silliness. Remember, in those days, it was believed the Jewish Messiah would ride triumphantly into Jerusalem on a white horse, over a red carpet  with trumpets blaring and worshippers tossing flowers and stuff and oust the Romans.

So what does this guy do? He gets himself barefoot on the donkey, gets his hippie friends to run out ahead of him strewing palm leaves and rides triumphantly into the city…

…That’s when I fell in love with the guy. What a put on. I mean he really did have a neat sense of humor. Too bad most people don’t get it and the story ends badly.

Bettejo has a blog of her own you can check out at ; http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com  

www.bettejodux.com

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.




http://www.bettejodux.com/



"Quit hiding behind screen names..."‏ 'Obama Da Dog'

Most publications have comment boards, where you can interact with any story online. Many of the commenter's hide behind screen names acting as bullies and degrading people. It's time to stop to this madness.
a similar version of this blog appeared as an opinion article in the 06-07-12 edition  of the Kaua'i Garden News;"Comments getting rough..."
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-june/article_25ede784-b079-11e1-8ff0-001a4bcf887a.html

Comment boards are a common commodity in most publications these days. 

Many comment boards have become nothing more than a major headache with the possibilities of  numerous law-suits for slander, libel, which hunts and words I never heard in the bible. Many comments would not be made if a person  had to identify themselves.

Commenter's need to quit hiding behind screen names and monikers and be held to the same high scrutiny that the Letter's to the editor writer's are accountable for. What's so hard about making your point using proper etiquette verses bullying, name calling and degrading others?  

For  most publications to consider a letter for publication you need to send along with your writings, your name, address, phone number and email. ( why not require the same for commenter's?) 

Many periodicals will verify a letter of interest with a follow up phone call. The reason is obvious, if they didn't anyone could write something and submit it with someone else's name causing all kinds of problems , legal and otherwise.

Comment boards have become so cruel and depressing, they are the cancer of publications. It's time to implement a better way to comment, let it begin, or better yet, let it end.
 Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-june/article_25ede784-b079-11e1-8ff0-001a4bcf887a.html

"Refresh and Renew..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Monday)

Judith Whitehead is back guest-blogging on this awesome Inspirational Monday about keeping your skills polished and up top date and enjoying it all at the same time!  Judy lives in Amherst N.Y. and has worked in the medical profession for over 30 years and  still enjoys and has passion in  her field of ophthalmology...

TIME TO REFRESH AND RENEW…

At least twice a year I enjoy going to a seminar that reviews the latest in technology and gives me inspiration in my field of Ophthalmology. I am fortunate enough to work for a group that values training and skills in my field and supports my desire to refresh a few times a year; tomorrow is one of those days. I will leave the house while it is still dark to drive to a nearby city with other friends that work in my field to see old friends in the field I work in, listen to inspirational speakers and converse with those that I see year after year that do the same thing I do.

Tomorrow I will drive into the sunrise and thoroughly enjoy my day away from home and return at sunset with inspiration that will carry me to the next seminar that I will attend. I try and go to at least 2- 3 seminars a year for they refresh my skills, renew my interest in the field and clear my head.

Learning never stops; when we are young, we can’t wait to finish school and when we are older we miss those days and wish we could repeat them. I am fortunate that I have found a field that continues to hold my interest and has supported me both financially and spiritually for the last 30 years. Find a field that makes you happy and stick with it; don’t settle for anything less if you can help it.

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Being kind.." (BK) 'Obama Da Dog'

BK  has a new meaning,, "Be Kind!"
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/03/burger-king-free-french-fries-for-st-patricks-day/

Public restroom's are few and far between on the cosmic island of Kaua'i, so where do visitors go when the need arises while out and about?

  I would like to publicly acknowledge Burger King-Kapa'a as ambassadors of aloha. I have witnessed many times people using the restrooms and never purchasing any food.

The staff smiles and gives friendly head nods whether you order or don't order.

'Be Kind,' should be the new signature motto and jingle for Burger King, Kapa'a. "BK," now stands for Burger King and Be Kind!

Next time your on the road and have the need to eat, or even another need, remember (BK) "Be kind," that's exactly what my friends at Kapa'a Burger King are, kind. And by  the way did you know they use local home grown tomatoes on their sandwiches, and that the french fries have zero trans-fats.

Hana Hou, Encore!  Burger King once again proved why they are number one in fast food. Today St. Patrick's Day (-3-17-12) they gave away nationwide, even in Hawai'i free french fries  with green ketchup as they teamed up with ketchup manufacturer Heinz!  Mahalo Nui Loa Burger King!
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/lifestyle/2012/03/burger-king-free-french-fries-for-st-patricks-day/

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Online payments should warrant a discount..!" James "Kimo" Rosen'

"Why is the consumer penalized for paying their bill online with the phone company..?" This blog also appeared as an opinion article in the Kaua'i Garden Island news on 03-23-12 with the title," Why online payment charges?"
http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-friday-march/article_8ebb2d30-749c-11e1-b065-001871e3ce6c.html

Hawaiian Tel-com, my local phone and Internet company charges $1.95 to pay your bill online, my cable company, Oceanic Time Warner charges nothing.
When a person pays online via a credit or debit card and receives a paperless electronic bill it saves quite a bit of money, quite a bit of time and is less work for both parties.  Why then,  would the phone company charge $1.95 to pay your bill online using their secure web-page and a pass-code? No operators would be involved, just a few simple clicks of the mouse.

There is no accountant that has to open an envelope, record a check, deposit a check and record the data on spread sheets.

People who pay electronically should not pay more than those mailing a check, or those standing in line to pay, it makes absolutely no sense.  The fact remains is those paying online should not be paying an additional fee, if anything  those paying  online and receiving paperless invoices  and not taking up an employee's time should be rewarded with a discount.
http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-friday-march/article_8ebb2d30-749c-11e1-b065-001871e3ce6c.htmlEditor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"Aloha Friday Redux.." 'Michael Herr' (Aloha Friday)

 Renowned author Michael Herr is back guest blogging on this awesome Aloha Friday about the history of Aloha Friday, read this and you will know the rest of the story!
Michael is happily retired and pursuing his dreams of writing and publishing books, he currently lives in Walnut Creek California.  (Michael is pictured above with his latest book,"The old Queen and the Maui Maiden." To purchase this book or any of Michael's 6 other novella's go to; http://www.michaelherr.com

ALOHA FRIDAY

March 16, 2012

It's Aloha Friday.

Aloha Friday Redux

Aloha folks. No, this is not an article about ducks. It's an article I should have written a long time ago. I should have started my series of Aloha Friday articles with this one. So bear with me as we go back and start over.

Aloha Friday, Hawaii's own term for TGIF, itself goes back officially only to 1966 when the Board of Directors of the Chamber of Commerce in Hawaii voted in favor of it. Shortly afterwards the spirit spread to the Mainland, but there it caught on under the guise of "Casual Friday".

But Aloha Friday's origins actually trace back to the earliest design of the Aloha shirt in the early 1930's by Ellery Chun who ran a dry good store and began sewing shirts out of old kimono material. The Honolulu Advertiser first coined the term; but Chun quickly trademarked the name. What began as an effort to promote the wearing and sales of Aloha shirts now has become a symbol of Hawaii.

Vintage Hawaiian Aloha shirts now sell for high prices on sites such as eBay. Modern ones with names such as Tori Richards and Tommy Bahama command a great deal of money. Others, manufactured in the Far East, go for much less.

Nowadays, since casual attire is generally worn as business attire throughout the week, Aloha Friday primarily refers to the last day of the work week. Aloha Friday has become the TGIF of the islands with the 1982 song by Kimo Kahoano and Paul Natto, "It's Aloha Friday, No Work 'til Monday", becoming the theme song of that day.

So, take off that tie. Hang the suit back up. Reach into your closet and pull out a truly magnificent Aloha shirt. Slip it on and feel your soul drift away to the islands.

Okay folks, see you next week.

For more of Michael's writings go to http://www.michaelherr.com

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.

"How about Kokua..?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

James "Kimo" Rosen with Mayor Bernard Carvalho, Jr. Carvalho is under the gun for placing the Chief of police on leave, the police commission is saying the mayor does not have the authority, the mayor say's he does.

Kaua'i Chief of police Darryl D. Perry at a recent Martin Luther King day rally. This blog was published an an opinion article in the Kaua'i Garden Island news on 03-17-12...
http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-saturday-march/article_fcae786e-7010-11e1-81bc-001871e3ce6c.html  

Karma-Drama should be Kauai's catch phrase, instead of live Aloha, how about live Karma-Drama?

The recent weather with flooding, mudslides, thunder and lightning storms along with hail might be the result of karma, others might say it's G-ds way of punishing Kaua'i for it's lack of Kokua? Kokua is a Hawaiian word, that translates as "extending loving, sacrificial help to others for their benefit, not for personal gain..." 

The recent drama between our Mayor and Police chief , The electric company's mandatory smart meters and the lack of aloha with TSA agents at the airport  will certainly deter visitors from vacationing on our once upon a time awesome and cosmic island.

Instead of the Mayor and Police chief having  ongoing animosity why not just really live Aloha and  be Christian-like and forgive? If we want G-d to forgive us we need to forgive others, and for those who don't believe in God it boils down to basic karma.

The mayor and police chief need to show true leadership skills and show the true  heroes and gentlemen  they both are and not take these misunderstandings into a court of law where each side fights to prove who has the biggest whatever while costing the taxpayers millions.  

It's time for each side to take no fault  and realize Hawaii indeed has something to teach the world other than the Hula, how about Kokua!

http://thegardenisland.com/promo/homepage/letters-for-saturday-march/article_fcae786e-7010-11e1-81bc-001871e3ce6c.html

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher

G-d the father on Kaua'i and elsewhere..."'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Wednesdays)

Guest-blogger Bettejo Dux is one of Kauai's most colorful people, she has lived on the cosmic island of Kaua'i for over 40 years... She is an animal lover, people lover and enjoys life to the fullest. She publishes her own blog column too, you can check it out at ;  http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com .   Besides her blog she recently published and authored the humorous fiction book, "The Scam," check it out at(www.bettejodux.com) or  on Amazon.

The old bloke is certainly all over the news, isn't he? Hope all of you read Donna Brazile's column this morning, "Belief, as in believing in God, can be a tricky thing.One's person's faith is another persons' heresy.  Some people proclaim no faith but still are strong believers. While others believe they have all the answers..." She writes simply, surely, and well and always on interesting subjects. She's one of my favorite columnists  Her title this morning on the forum page is Why should  there be a religious test for election to public office? It caught my eye. I've never understood the concept of a political god, it always sounded a bit beneath him. And, of course, I am always troubled with the gender. The patriarchal god makes me want to vomit. In our country today, he is owned outright by the Republican Party which is patriarchal to the core.

On a personal note, I used to wonder why I am so lucky to have no religious hangups, but if all of us are the product of our past- I think we are- then we can turn back the clock and find the reason.

I had a father I adored. Very handsome. He looked like Clark Gable. Very intelligent. Very wise. He strung none of the rocks of sin, guilt, and fear around my neck and he taught me I could do anything a boy could do. He solved so many of my childhood problems I lived in awe of him.

I remember once, out in the cold woods, I found a half dead cat with its head stuck in an empty can of dog food. I tried to yank its head out but couldn't. The poor little thing was so weak it couldn't fight back. No claws to scratch me with. it was a Saturday and I knew my father was home, so I grabbed the wretched thing and raced back. My father was in the kitchen sipping a glass of milk, he didn't drink. He took one look at me and the cat, grabbed the cat  and hung it can-side up on a wind- up wall can opener. The cat took a deep breath, the stinky suction wafted, leaped from my father's arms and streaked out the door. Now come on, wasn't that godlike? It was godlike enough for me.

There were no Bibles or holy books in our house but the shelves were filled with books. He bought me books about animals. He introduced me to  Mowgli and Shere Khan and Rikki Tikkie-Tavi and Bagheera. They were the animals in Rudyard Kipling's Garden of Eden, the only Garden of Eden I was taught about, and, as I grew up his stories filled me with delight.

'Witty, profound, acerbic, and occasionally savage, Kipling's poetry can be bother tender and deeply moving." My father opened up these dimensions and, oddly enough, both Bill and I shared this love, too.

So, the point is: I had a real god the father in my childhood. I didn't need a make-believe one in the sky.

Bettejo has a blog of her own you can check out at ; http://www.bettejo.wordpress.com  

www.bettejodux.com

Editor's note, Dakinetalk guest bloggers do not necessarily represent the opinions of dakinetalk. Guest bloggers are given space to express their beliefs and or opinions. We feel there are many roads and like to give people space to express their thoughts,after-all that's what dakine is...Aloha, James "Kimo" Rosen, Publisher.



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