"Veterans day-Remembrance day..." 'Kit Ellison' (Source) (Special Thanks To All Vets)

Editor's note;

Special thanks to my Dear friend Kit Ellison for sending dakinetalk the 'Remembrance day' thoughts and another story about a special hero, her own father who rescued a Rabbi. These are all true stories
Dedicated to all vets and our other dear friend 'Unc.' May I say thank you to every vet that happens upon this blog.  Mahalo Nui Loa, (Thank you very much!)
James "Kimo" Rosen
Blogger-n-chief, dakinetalk blog

A special thanks to our friend Chester "Unc" Lau
and all others that have served in the military.
Mahalo Nui Loa and G-d bless America
above photo is Unc during the Korean war days.

Veterans day-Remembrance day
Special Thanks To All Vets

It is the VETERAN , not the preacher, who has given us freedom of religion.

 It is the VETERAN , not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press.

 It is the VETERAN , not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech.

 It is the VETERAN , not the campus organizer, who has given us freedom to assemble.

 It is the VETERAN , not the lawyer, who has given us the right to a fair trial.

 It is the VETERAN , not the politician, Who has given us the right to vote.

 It is the VETERAN , who salutes the Flag, It is the VETERAN , who serves under the Flag, ETERNAL REST GRANT UNTO THEM, O LORD, AND LET PERPETUAL LIGHT SHINE UPON THEM.

Mahalos to Unc and to all our
family and friends who have served our
great country!

  A special hero story about my Dear friend Kit Ellison's dad as told by Kit;

My father told us a story of being in WW ll. The rabbi from his division was captured. His lieutenant said to leave him as he was 1 man and the lieutenant wasn't about to lose 6 to save 1. My dad went back alone, quietly captured each German soldier and rescued the rabbi. When the rabbi saw it was my father he asked dad why? After all I am a Jew. Dad said he looked him in the eye and said, so what?  I'm an Indian! Now can we get our butts out of here? They took their prisoners back with them. 😊  Dad earned 6 more eagle feathers that day and a months KP but he said it was worth it. No matter what you call Him, God, Great Spirit, Greater Being, it all boils down to God  and my father knew it. Rabbi Rosenblat agreed as he was the one dad saved. 

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The same is true for Veterans day!

"PSYCHIATRIST Vs BARTENDER..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

Dakinetalk's 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...
"I am PRO-CHOICE ON EVERYTHING WITH RESPONSIBILITY..."

PSYCHIATRIST Vs BARTENDER 

  EVER SINCE I WAS A CHILD, I'VE ALWAYS HAD A FEAR OF SOMEONE UNDER MY BED AT NIGHT. SO, I WENT TO A SHRINK AND TOLD HIM:  
  
I've got problems.  Every time I go to bed I think there's somebody under it. I'm scared, I think I'm going crazy. 
  
 Just put yourself in my hands for one year, said the shrink.  Come talk to me three times a week and we should be able to get rid of those fears. 
  
How much do you charge?  
  
 Eighty dollars per visit,  replied the doctor.  
  
I'll sleep on it, I said.  
  
Six months later, the doctor met me on the street. Why didn't you come to see me about those fears you were having? He asked.  
  
Well, eighty bucks a visit, three times a week, for a year, is $12,480.00.  A bartender cured me for $10.00.  I was so happy to have saved all that money that I went and bought me a new Mecedes.  
  
Is that so? With a bit of an attitude, he said,  and how, may I ask, did a bartender cure you ? 
  
He told me to cut the legs off the bed.  Ain't nobody under there now.  
  
FORGET THE SHRINKS...  
HAVE A DRINK AND TALK TO A BARTENDER !  
IT'S ALWAYS BETTER TO GET A SECOND OPINION ! 
  
  

 A note to Unc from Jack Lord star of the original Hawaii Five-O,
where "Unc" worked as a cinematographer

"The ultimate way to start the day, with a Kaua'i Sunrise meme"

If you would like to see your own personal quote
on a breathtaking Kaua'i sunrise photo please contact
James "Kimo" Rosen

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"Brief Candle in the Dark..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Vintage Bettejo)

Bettejo Dux has lived on the cosmic Garden
 Island of Kaua'i for over 40 years.

Bettejo is a regular opinion writer in the Garden Island news

 and is the author of the famed novella, "The Scam." 

 Her latest fiction"Children of extinction"

 is now  released and available on Amazon!
Bettejo has a gift of mingling
 the present, the past, and the future. 

www.bettejodux.com

www.amazon.com

Brief Candle in the Dark

Bettejo with her mentor Richard Dawkins on her left

Cherish books. Be determined never to  live without them. They're difficult to keep in the tropics but try. I have books I've carted around the world for fifty years.  They've seen the world. Many are worn, many are torn, many are frayed--held together with scotch tape, paper clips and duct tape--but all sit on my shelves and are dearest friends. I'm holding a hard bound--once upon a time--Thesaurus, with pages so messed up, so strung out, so dangling,  I wonder through words like a kid lost in a fairy tale  forest.

Words. Twenty-seven letters in the English alphabet strung together into meaning. Nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs. The primary colors writers use to paint pictures with black ink on white  paper.

A recent book that found my desk is a New York bestseller, Sense of Style,  the Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century, by Steven Pinker. He claims, rightly, writing can be a form of pleasurable mastery and intellectual  fascination.  Delightful. Explosive. I recommend it to all  writers.

His incredible wife's --Rebecca Newberger Goldstein--new book 36 Arguments for the Existence of God, is beyond a must read. If  you love to laugh, enjoy wit, brilliance  and entertainment  find this 'literary miracle'. It's sad we don't have a bookstore on Kauai. We're so backwoodsy. Order it from Barnes and Noble or our very own used bookstore  in Hanapepe.

But my most priceless new possession is Richard Dawkins' Brief  Candle in the Dark. It's signed. I carry it with me wherever I go. There's always a park bench, a chair at a table,  some shade beneath a tree. Started reading it on the plane flying home.  Can't put it down. I'm trying to read all three at the same time.

Richard is 'one of the best nonfiction writers alive today', says Steven Pinker and he should know.

Bettejo  & Richard Dawkins share
 a meal and conversation...

What I loved is the earthiness of it. Richard's incredible life, his  mind, his charm.  His story telling ability. Soon you feel you know his family, his wife--the beautiful actress and artist Lala---to whom the book is dedicated and who paints all his ties.  (Queen Elizabeth complained about one of them he wore to lunch.) You fall in love with his daughter, Juliet, who became 'a fourteen- year- old hero'  when her mother died of cancer. All his friends become your friends. All his adventures become your adventures. He writes about people we all love, John Cleese, Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan. I think he knows everybody. He sounds a trumpet blast for truth. He cares.

"Richard always writes like he's telling a story, which is why so many of us non-science people understand science better than we used to. But when the story' s his own life, it's doubly compelling." BILL MAHER.

Someone  cautioned me, quoting 1 Corinthian 1:25-18 , “I will destroy the wisdom of the wise;
the intelligence of the intelligent I will frustrate.”

....blessed are the dense for they will inherit the earth?

Let us hope not.

Bettejo's new priceless possession is Richard Dawkins' "Brief  Candle in the Dark."

 You can order Richard Dawkin's book directly from Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/Brief-Candle-Dark-Life-Science/dp/0062288431

Bettejo provided the quote on 

the enclosed Kauai sunrise meme!

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---Blogger-n-chief, dakinetalk blog---

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"WHY SHARKS CIRCLE YOU BEFORE ATTACKING..." 'Robert Bitos Gandia' (Source)

Guest-blogger,Robert Bitos Gandia

.Robert is an avid cook (ono gandule rice) and always laughing!!
Robert lives in Kekaha on Kauai's west-side and loves football!!

Bitos is an avid Cheeseburger connoisseur!

WHY SHARKS CIRCLE YOU BEFORE ATTACKING...

Two great white sharks swimming in the ocean spied survivors of a sunken ship.
"Follow me son" the father shark said to the son shark and they swam to the mass of people.
"First we swim around them a few times with just the tip of our fins showing."
And they did.

"Well done, son! Now we swim around them a few times with all of our fins showing."
And they did.
"Now we eat everybody."
And they did.

When they were both gorged , the son asked, "Dad, why didn't we just eat them all at first? Why did we swim around and around them?"
His wise father replied, "Because they taste better if you scare the shit out of them first!"
No need to thank me . I just try to learn something new every day!

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"The history and truth about dog food, why feed your dog, dog food...?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #96)

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
 and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Obama Da Dog!

Kimo's world #96

The history and  truth about dog food!
Why feed your dog, dog food?

Less than 170 years ago there was no such thing as commercial dog food, you just fed your dog whatever you ate, or whatever scraps were around.

Dog food is pretty much the stuff us humans don't eat, basically garbage--except for a very few speciality dog foods that can cost more than regular human food.

I can buy a huge rotisserie chicken at Costco for $4.99 that is better for my dog than dog food and lasts a week long . She eats half and I eat half. Therefore, $2.50 a week on real food for my dog-- that's less than any commercial dog food.

Doggie Shampoo can cost $10.00 a bottle or more.  I can buy the same sized bottle of generic baby shampoo and if by accident it gets in my dogs eyes it does not make them sting or bloodshot. I bought the 32 oz bottle for $1.59 at Walmart. Boy O boy, does she smell good after giving her a bath with baby shampoo.

No, that's not Erkel,
It's Obama Da Dog!

 

Americans spent an all-time high of $55.7 billion on their pets last year--and spending will only increase in the coming years.


Dog food, dog shampoo, dog toys and all products for pets are the biggest come on in retail history, here's why;

I'd rather have a ham bone than
commercial store bought
processed stuff! 

" Jim Spratt had the idea that he could make cheap, easy-to-serve biscuits and then sell them to the growing number of urban dog owners. His  Dog Cakes came on the market in 1860, the pet food industry was born." 

"In 1922 Chappel Brothers of Rockford, Illinois, introduced Ken-L-Ration, the first canned dog food in the United States. It was horse meat. In 1930 they started sponsoring a popular radio show, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin. Ken-L-Ration became such a success that by the mid-30s they were breeding horses just for dog food and slaughtering 50,000 of them a year."
I bet you horse lovers didn't know that?

 In 1931 the National Biscuit Company (Nabisco) bought Spratt's company and renamed the biscuits Milk-bones. Then they hired 3,000 salesmen with the specific goal of getting Milk-Bones into food stores. For the first time, dog biscuits became a part of regular grocery shopping." 

By 1941, canned dog food had a 90% share of the market …until the United States entered World War II and the government started rationing tin and meat. 
Then dry dog food became popular again. 

People are now led to believe that people food is bad for their dogs? Who do you think started those rumors? That's right, commercial dog food manufacturers!

Commercial dog food, something that was not a necessity has become a multi-billion dollar industry. 

The question still remains would you eat dog food? If your answer is no, why feed it to your best friend?
I might feed my enemy dog food but not my best friend.

It's amazing how most believe because it has a label that says dog food--that this is the stuff your suppose to feed your dog.

If it's  good enough for me, it's good enough for my dog.  Pizza anyone?

James "Kimo" Rosen is a retired professional photographer
 and amongst other things lived in a tent outdoors for 7 years.
Rosen currently resides on the tropical island of Kaua'i
with his best friend and spiritual adviser Obama Da Dog!

P.S.
For reference and further reading;
http://www.neatorama.com/2013/05/20/Kibble-Me-This-The-History-of-Dog-Food/

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"Researching the Past..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst New York
( A suburb of Buffalo, N.Y.)

 and has worked in the ophthalmology
 field of medicine for over 30 years

 Editors note, Judy is  running for a scrubs and beyond model search of 2015, scrubs being the things medical pros wear. Please click on the link anytime after November 1,2015 and vote for Judy!  ;-)   http://contest.scrubsandbeyond.com/landing?id=1445372726537

Researching the Past

Recently my husband and I became more curious about our past history and where did we come from.

Since both our parents have passed away we can no longer ask questions about our family history and the past. 

Sure we spoke to them over the years about events that had happened many years ago with their parents but never any concrete details and dates of happenings in the past. 

We had heard of  ancestry.com but never really took the time to investigate. We have found that the website researches the past but also shows certificates, documents and proof of what really happened and where we came from. I find it amazing that by a click of the computer such documents can be produced for all to see. 

It has answered many questions we had wondered about
and is a website that one can return to off and on as it is a tedious task to branch off of each relative and track down details. I find this technology amazing while it lends such incite as to how we came to be.

Judy and Steve Whitehead
a few years back....

There is a small monthly fee that can be cancelled at any time, no commitment. If you have the time and patience it is well worth the effort...

P.S.
Check it out; Tell them Judy sent you!
www.ancestry.com

Judy, Judy, Judy!  ;-)

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Flying to New York with a blonde... 'Obama Da Dog' (Source)

Obama Da Dog currently resides with her best friend
and mentor James "Kimo" Rosen on the alleged
island called Paradise. (Kauai)

Obama da Dog gets a visit from
"The Great Pumpkin!"

Flying to New York with a blonde

A beautiful young model boards a plane to New York with a ticket for the economy section. She looks at the seats in economy, and then looks into the forward cabin at the first-class seats.

Seeing that the first-class seats appear to be much larger and more comfortable, she moves forward to the last empty seat in first class. The flight attendant checks her ticket and tells the woman that her seat is in economy. The blonde replies, "I'm a famous model, and have never had this problem before. I'm going to sit here all the way, until we get to New York." 

Flustered, the flight attendant goes to the cockpit and informs the Captain of the blonde problem. The captain goes back and tells the woman that her assigned seat is in economy. Again, the blonde replies: "I'm a famous model, I'm sitting here all the way to New York." . The captain doesn't want to cause a commotion, and so returns to the cockpit to discuss the blonde problem with the Co-pilot. 

Obama Da dog opening wide
for the Dentist!  ;-)

The Co-pilot says that he used to date a blond model like her, and that he can take care of the problem. He then goes back and briefly whispers something in the blonde's ear. She immediately gets up, says "ok, thank you". She hugs the Co-pilot, and rushes back to her seat in the economy section. 

Living da Good life!

The pilot and flight attendant, who were watching with rapt attention, asked  the Co-pilot what he had said to the woman. He replies, "I just told her that the first class seats aren't going to New York."

Obama Da Dog all dressed up in the car seat
waiting to go Holo Holo!  ;-)

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