"Senior moment, we're all getting there..." '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..."

Editor's note, Two 'Unc' Jokes in one day since "Dog owners
Predicament," (Blog #1671) was not allowed to post on Facebook where
dakinetalk blog gets it most exposure... I still love
Zuckenberg!  ;-)

Senior moment, we're all getting there.

Unc,Armed and Dangerous
 in basic training 1946.
Thanks for your service Unc!
Happy Veterans day!

Sitting on the edge of the highway waiting to catch speeders, a state police officer saw a car driving along at 22 mph. He thinks to himself, that car is just as dangerous as a speeder. So, he turns his lights on and pulls the car over. Approaching the car, he notices there are 5 old ladies, two at the front and 3 at the back, wide eyed and looking like ghosts.

The driver, obviously confused, said, "Officer, I don?t understand, I wasn?t doing over the speed limit! What did you pull me over for?" "Ma?am," the officer said, "You should know that driving slower than the speed limit can also be dangerous". 

"Slower than the speed limit? No sir! I was doing exactly 22 miles an hour", the old woman said proudly.

The officer, trying not to laugh, explains that 22 is the route number, not the speed limit. A little embarrassed, the woman smiled and thanked the officer for pointing out her error.

"Before I go Ma?am, I have to ask, is everyone ok? These women seem badly shaken and haven?t said a word since I pulled you over."

"Oh! they?ll be all right in a minute, officer. We just got off Route 142".

 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!

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"A dog owner's predicament resolved..." '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..."

A dog owner's predicament resolved

A lady dog owner, whose dog was a female and "in heat', agreed to look after her neighbor's male dog while the neighbors were on vacation. 

She had a large house and believed that she could keep the two dogs apart. However, as she was drifting off to sleep she heard awful howling and moaning sounds, rushed downstairs and found the dogs locked together in obvious pain and unable to disengage, as so frequently happens when dogs mate. 

Unable to separate them, and perplexed as to what to do next, although it was late, she called the vet, who answered in a very grumpy voice.Having explained the problem to him, the vet said,"Hang up the phone and place it down alongside the dogs.  I will then call you back and the noise of the ringing will make the male lose his erection and he will be able to withdraw."Do you really think that will work?" she asked. "Just worked for me," the vet replied. :-}

P.S. 
Check out Kimo Rosen's Youtube video of ;
Rat terrier & springer spaniel making love. This Youtube is 7 years old and has received to date 10,872 hits. Both dogs have since passed on to Doggie Heaven. RIP Toby and Dylan;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WunIDyXuMSQ

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A rainy sunrise, 12-03-15~Kaua'i Hawai'i....

"The Winter Solstice..." '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

The Winter Solstice

The winter solstice is an astrological  event visible in the Northern hemisphere in December.  It's the shortest day of the year. It's been noted  in the sky and celebrated by our ancestors for thousands of  years. A long long time ago the night sky was a wondrous, mysterious celestial map, studied and wondered and worried and talked about.

Today, sadly, with so many lights on earth, so many cities lit up like a jillion, multi-colored  jittery light bulbs, there are people in those cities who've never seen the stars. I think those ancients--certainly the great Hawaiian navigators-- would think them ignorant,  I'll bet they'd love the Observatories on Mauna Kea.  I'll bet they'd embrace astronomy. There's much to be learned from the past, but billions and billions more  to be learned from the present.

Remember, in the past, most men  feared  darkness--fear came  in as handy yesterday as it comes in handy today--and ancient wise men knew, because they'd measured this event for centuries, that the days would grow longer as the sun seemingly changed its direction. In three days the dark--the night sky--  would begin growing shorter.

Today we've advanced our scientific knowledge of what goes on--in our solar system as well as the cosmos--so vastly we make them look ignorant.  Today we are all,  potentially, brilliant human beings. All of us wise men capable of taking  a voyage of discovery as far back into the past and forward into the future as our curiosity sends us. Do you know, with your fingers on the keyboard of a computer, you have more access to knowledge than Cleopatra had stored in  the Library in Alexandria?   Wowwowwow. I hope  parents and teachers share these exciting times  with the kids. Telescopes are wonderful Christmas presents.

We're so lucky on Kauai, there are many places where the night sky is visible in all its splendor.  So take your kid to one of these places  on December  21st' .   Step outside. For three nights  you'll experience  the longest nights of the year. For three days, the Sun which had been traveling south, descends until it reaches a point where it stops--solstice actually mean 'sun standing still'-- and  on Kauai this event  begins on December 21st at 6:49PM.

Of course we now know the Sun doesn't stand still.  Neither is it colder or hotter because of our distance from the sun. The tilt--and wobble-- of the Earth's axis in our hemisphere, the Northern Hemisphere, is leaning furthest away from the sun,  so the Sun is low in the sky and the rays strike the Earth at a shallow angle.  These rays are longer and therefore colder.   The entire planet has seasons because of the tilt and wobble, and we in Hawaii will begin the journey back to spring and  summer.  Spring and summer on Kauai is No Ka Oi. Sorry Maui.

Whatever you call it--Christmas, Yule, Chanukah, Saturnalia or Chaomos--enjoy.

Have a super solstice.

Bettejo breaking bread and
 discussing life with her friend
and mentor, Richard Dawkins.

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

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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Woman will love this!

"Why Syria, Why now?..." 'Brian Gray' (Special to Dakinetalk)

We are delighted to feature our newest guest-blogger Mr. Brian Gray.The enclosed is one  of the best essays I have ever seen on the current Syrian  refugee situation! 

Brian Gray has been a Kauai resident for nearly 20 years.  He supervises an adolescent substance abuse treatment program by day and runs an inmate transition / re-integration program called Live Again the Walk Inc. and Gray Hope Productions a local grassroots video production company with his wife Cathy.  Other interests include hiking Kauai trails and supporting The City of Refuge, a self sustaining prototype orphanage located in Comayagua Honduras.

Why Syria, Why now? 

There has been a lot of talk recently about the Syrian Refugee Crisis specifically revolving around comments made by Governor Ige's willingness to welcome Syrian refugees.  The public is clearly divided on this issue and myths and logical fallacies abound.  I thought I’d address a few of the frequently recurring motifs I’ve encountered personally.

1.     The Syrian refugee situation is a mirror of what happened to Jews during the Holocaust.  The fact that two things share something in common does not make them the same. Elephants have four legs and dogs have four legs.  That does not mean that all dogs are elephants. The Jews were a minority persecuted in a foreign land.  There were no Jewish countries to which they could flee. The Syrians are predominantly Muslim and there are multiple Islamic nations one of which, namely Saudi Arabia, borders Syria and has somewhere in the neighborhood of 100,000 empty Air-conditioned tents ready to go.  In addition there was an unholy alliance between the Third Reich and Radical Jihadists during WWII. Correct me if I am wrong  but the majority of people who have and do want the Jews and Israel expunged from the earth are Muslim.   I also never heard of a Jewish person threatening to overwhelm western society via mass murder, mass immigration and an exponential birth rate.

2.     Steve Jobs's father was Syrian. Barring Syrian refugees could deprive our nation of the next Steve Jobs.  There were a lot of factors that culminated in Steve Jobs becoming the founder of Apple. Steve Jobs also did not finish college.  According to this line of reasoning quitting school might be a key to success as well.  The argument is absurd.

3.     The Syrian refugee crisis is the worst crisis since WWII.  Really?  What about the Genocide in Rawanda, the Congo and Sudan and now Kenya and Nigeria?  What about the million plus people we killed in Iraq because 19 Saudi Arabians flew a plane into the World Trade Center?  What about the Afghan women, Yazidis, Kurds and Christians? What about the line in the sand when Assad  allegedly used nerve gas on his own people.  How about the women and girls kidnapped and forced into to sexual slavery on a daily basis by the Boko Haram? 

4.     The refugees are pre-dominantly Muslim because Muslims are the ones being persecuted. 
Christians are by far the most persecuted group of people in the Middle East and the world yet they are given last priority by our president under the guise of avoiding discrimination. Christians are even persecuted within refugee camps provided they are not murdered like the 12 recently thrown overboard and drowned by their Muslim counterparts allegedly because they were not praying to Allah. Are the 15 Muslims involved in this murder representative of all Muslims?  Or were there 15 radical Jihadists mixed in with the majority of moderates who apparently did nothing to stop their brethren?  Forgive me. That comment was patently sexist.  Radical Muslim women kill people too. 

5.     Our strict immigration laws will protect us and any refugees that come here will be thoroughly vetted. Really?  How do you explain what is happening on our southern border?  The FBI says it is currently impossible to vet the Syrians since we have no access to records and documents they do have are often forged.   “But the president said they are using bio-metrics.” Yippee!.  Now we can identify the nut jobs regardless of how many pieces are left after the bomb goes off.

Let’s face it. Daily life is rooted in probabilities not absolutes.  This is true whether you are crossing the street, trading a stock or deciding if you should bring a Syrian Refugee into your home. All we can really do is weigh the risks versus the rewards and make decisions based on the highest probability of success. 

Here is what we know.
1.    We know the refugees need help.  We know there are radical jihadists embedded with the refugees.  We know they kill people. We know they repeatedly say want to kill us.  We don’t know how many there are. Some say it’s probably around 4000.  Actually we don’t know how many.
2.     We know multiple radical clerics have publicly stated goals to dominate the west via the aforementioned radical means. 
3.     We know that current and former generals and heads of agencies like the FBI and DHS are saying we are in danger.  We don’t know how serious that threat is but if past performance is indicative of future results the risk just might be a little higher than they think.
4.     Some statistics show the majority of refugees as being widows and orphans.  Others show 80% are men between the ages of 18-25. People argue the point along partisan lines and have faith in corresponding partisan sources.  Having faith in a given source is called believing.  Believing and knowing are not the same. It is impossible to know which if any statistic is correct.
5.     The first responsibility we have as adults making decisions that affect our island(s) is to ask ourselves if those decisions improve, preserve and ensure the safety and well-being of our community.  Our elected officials are supposed to make decisions that reflect the sentiments of the communities that elected them to office. Tulsi Gabbard is doing just that.  President Obama not so much.

Maybe you think the risk of radical Syrian Jihadists detonating themselves in Kukui Grove on a Friday night is nil.  Maybe I think your analysis is jaded by normalcy and confirmation bias. Only an idiot or a truly intellectually dishonest person would say there is no risk at all. To which I say, given the fact that those within  and those associated with the Radical Syrian Muslim demographic have killed scores of people in Europe, have plans to kill people now and have threatened to kill us in the future; how  exactly do we determine the risk? Assuming we can, then just how much risk is acceptable?  Finally what exactly is the payoff that justifies the risk that we as a community agree to assume?  Call me crazy but I think we should keep that risk as close to zero as possible then work from a position of strength to help the Syrians where they are.  The last time I checked Kauai doesn’t even have a Mosque and Saudi Arabia recently offered to build thousands. The whole situation as it stands makes no sense to me.  That's why I ask; Why Syria?  Why now?

P.S.
Check out  James "Kimo" Rosen's  opinion article (LTE) in today's (12-01-15) 'The Garden Island News;"
"This a different world now..."
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-dec/article_6a4a2cbc-97f2-11e5-8df1-07d2f6a6ce1c.html

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Showing both sides;

eBay and Amazon, Such a DeaL..!" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #100)

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!

eBay and Amazon, Such a Deal

Happy Holidays to all!

I don't care if out of frustration you utter one of the many words  that are politically incorrect.

I don't care what stores are opened or closed on Thanksgiving or Christmas.

I don't care if you say Merry Christmas or Happy Holidays.

Who cares about Black Friday or Cyber Monday?

Shopping is now  available 24-7. You can buy any item from toilet paper to diamond rings on eBay and Amazon. The prices are great year round.  You don't need to leave home. No gas, no wear and tear on your vehicle, no traffic--bargain shopping right  from your couch while watching anything from  reality TV to Football.

I recently bought a selfie stick of eBay for $3.89 including freight delivered to my door on the remote island of Kauai. That is the normal everyday price. Just freight alone on most items would cost more than that. 

Here's the link for the selfie stick should you need one. I highly recommend it to anyone with  an iPhone type device;
http://www.ebay.com/itm/361363911369

 I do care for bargains and everyday has become  a shoppers paradise.
I do care that my friends do not get ripped off, therefore let me say;
"So long Black Friday, Cyber Monday and Green Tuesday." 

Many stores have extended Black Friday to Saturday, give me a break.

 eBay and Amazon, such a deal!

http://www.ebay.com/
http://www.amazon.com/

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"Two Nuns a painting..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)~ Please note Judith Whitehead is off today~

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..."

Two Nuns a painting

Two nuns are ordered to paint a room in the convent, with a warning from the Mother Superior not to get even a drop of paint on their habits, which are costly to replace.

"Unc" as a young man
serving our great nation
in the Korean war...

After conferring about this, the two nuns decide to lock the door of the room, strip off their habits, and paint naked.

In the middle of the project, there's a knock at the door."Who is it ?" calls one of the nuns.

"Blind man," replies a voice from the other side of the door.

The two nuns look at each other and shrug, both deciding that no harm can come from letting a blind man into the room. They open the door.


"Nice boobs," says the man. "Where do you want the blinds ?"

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"Reflections and a Happy Thanksgiving " 'Judith Whitehead' (P.S. Shirili Green remembered...)

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

Reflections and a Happy Thanksgiving

 I reflect on the past year and what we are thankful for.

 This will be the first Thanksgiving that we will not celebrate with my dear dad that passed away this past Spring.  He loved a good plate of stuffing and fresh turkey and leftovers for the next day. 

We still will spend our feast with dear family and friends that are our family and enjoy the fact that we will be together once again as we have celebrated for longer than I can remember.

Judy  with friends and family
being thankful for the food and
each other...

Once again we are all fortunate that we have our health and good fortune to be together and will eat turkey and fixings until we can hardly move, it's the gathering that counts even more than the turkey.

WISHING EVERYONE A HAPPY HEALTHY  HOLIDAY SEASON FILLED WITH GOOD HEALTH AND HAPPINESS FOR THE COMING YEAR!!!

P.S.
It was Thanksgiving day 2011 dakinetalk blog originally ran the enclosed heartwarming story of my friend Shirili Green whom was dying of cancer. Shrirli has since passed away, however  every Thanksgiving I like to remember this beautiful and brave soul with her touching blog.Please note that  that Shirili passed away on June 17,2013.
What a beautiful soul and spirit. She will be sorely missed.
G-d bless and Rest In Peace my friend....
http://dakinetalk.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-have-shirili-green-re-posted-in.html

Shirili, Mia and Derrick Green

http://dakinetalk.blogspot.com/2013/11/what-i-have-shirili-green-re-posted-in.html

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