"Why I am passionate about the Kavanaugh saga..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #261) (A very personal journey..)

Shirley Jones demonstrates in front of

 Pono Kai condominiums in Kapaa

while  visiting from Little Rock Arkansas.  

She wants people to start praying, 

and feels America is  in peril because of the

 division and so far away from God’s word. 

The photo above of Shirley also appeared

in the 10-05-18 edition of the Garden Island

news with an article titled, "Call for action."

Photo courtesy;

James "Kimo"Rosen

http://www.thegardenisland.com/2018/10/05/hawaii-news/call-for-action/

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 Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!

Food for thought as our Congress goes on

 fighting and our country stands in peril...

Blog #2014~Kimo's world #261-A very personal story...

 Why I am passionate about the Kavanaugh saga

All woman should be believed and all men need to shut up. Hawaii 's Senator Mazie Hirono

started this scare tactic when she said to the men of our country to,"Just shut up and step up. Do the right thing for a change." Thinking the Republicans would back down and  replace Judge Kavanaugh as their nomination for Supreme court justice. Trump is a counter puncher and doesn’t back off.  He stayed with Kavanaugh when other's would not of.  it payed off!

 All while Senator Hirono alienated a good portion of the male population in her voting district and around the country.
This is where my personal past journey  begins:

I had a best friend back when  I lived in Homer,Alaska whom was also my competition in my photography business. We ran competing photo studios.

My best friend Ken on left, along with my
ex-girl friend/fiance Linda back in
Homer Alaska back in 1985. 
 It is somewhat ironic we became the best of friends, often times referring jobs to one another.  We were like the two 'lonesome Maytag repair man.' We both had someone to talk shop with in isolated Alaska. This was before the days of digital photography when photographers still developed their own film and used dark rooms. 

I bring this up because my friends life was destroyed by a 15 year old girl who made false accusations against him. He had just landed the largest school picture contract in Alaska history for  taking senior portraits at nearly every high school in the Alaska bush communities. It was a  6 figure contract which was unheard of back in the 80's.

The sign on my portrait studio
in Homer Alaska, even back then
I sported an Aloha shirt!

This girl's word alone literally destroyed my friend. She said, "that he fondled her breasts and asked her out on a date." The school district decided even before he had any type of trial to cancel all his contracts. This was his livelihood. The local news outlets were basically judge, jury and executioner even before a trial ever happened. 

As a Professional photographer,
the photos
I am most proud of are the series
of photos
 I photographed of  Mt Augustine
erupting out
 of an open window of a Cessna
 185 back
in March of 1986.
This photo appeared on the front
cover of
National Geographic world
along with an
array of other periodicals, textbooks
and encyclopedias.

Ken hired a woman attorney who really connected and empathized for him and knew he was telling the truth thus went to bat pro-bono---since he was months behind on his mortgage and bills and could not make it on the few small local assignments he managed to obtain.

Most in the local community were not kind to Ken, they treated him like a pedophile, like  a cancer. Ken lost weight and tried acting like all was well, but you could tell otherwise.

I felt bad because I could not be there for Ken during his trial. I had taken a year sabbatical to be with my father in Florida who had taken ill and arranged for  freelance photography work there. 

My last call to Ken he was very excited. The court day was coming up and the girl had admitted in deposition that she made the whole story up since Ken would not go out with her. Ken was so relieved. Ken's attorney lived in Kenai which is 60 miles north of Homer.

Ken was so soothed after leaving the attorney's in Kenai . There was going to be a front page article in the Homer news the following day clearing him of all charges! The sad news is that the girls name was never mentioned in the article  because she was a minor and no charges were ever filed against her. Ken could had faced many years in jail and literally lost his career even though he was innocent.

The worst and ugliest part that night Ken died in a head on car wreck on his way to Anchorage to celebrate and start a new life.

 This still  haunts me to this day. It's similarity to the Brett Kavanaugh saga is uncanny.

All woman have to do is make an accusation against a man and his life can be ruined as was with my best friend.
This needs to stop. When woman make false accusations that are proven false, they should have to face the same punishment their accuser was up for.

I am passionate about what society has done to Brett Kavanaugh, it reminds me of the unforgivable witch-hunt my friend went through.  I stand behind Brett Kavanaugh, so what if he drank beer as a teenager? President Obama smoked pot and snorted cocaine. Yes I voted for Obama, but imagine if he was questioned by congress? President Clinton smoked pot too but didn't inhale. ;-) 

Society has sunk to an all time low. Brett Kavanaugh has an untarnished  record

his whole adult professional life. Watching these hypocrite senators question him like they are holier than thou was very hard to tolerate.

 If  Christine Blasey Ford  purposely lied she should not only be prosecuted for what she did but prosecuted as a sex offender for what she accuses the judge. She should be made to repay the taxpayer for the dog and pony show circus of hearings that most likely cost the taxpayers millions and nearly destroyed the judge's career.

All ends well! Mazol Tov to 'Your honor' (Judge Kavanaugh) and Big Mahalo(Thanks) to Senator Susan Collins for the speech of a lifetime explaining her reason for voting 'Aye' in favor of the Judge! 

To quote my friend Ron Kalnitz,

"I am glad Kavanaugh  “won”, it sends the clear message to the hard left that the nastier they play the less credible they are. So when will they learn that they’re alienating the entire country and that THEY are the reason Trump is president...."

James "Kimo" Rosen
as Publisher of
Alaska People Magazine
 with movie start Irene Bedard,
Disney's voice of Pocahontas

This anonymity is killing me,
who is this person?  ;-)

Hana Hou, (Encore)

I have heard a lot of this in the past week. A LOT...

However Deborah Nagano says it best!

The Kavanaugh debacle was the last straw. I am an attorney, a woman, a lifelong Democrat and the proud mother of sons. Watching these soulless beings ruin a man's life in the name of power just brought me to the edge. Dr. Ford is believable, inasmuch as I think something happened to her, but she is being used in a craven and contemptuous manner by her party. Her lawyers never even told her that all of this could have been done privately in her home. And while all of this is happening my lovely senator, Kamala Harris who got her start in politics by dating Wille Brown, is fundraising. And Dianne Feinstein, who I used to respect, has turned into a party hack who will do anything to keep her job.

So, here we have people who don't know this man calling him a predator for political reasons, and the people that have known him his whole life saying that is impossible. I choose to believe them. And if the FBI investigates and Kavanaugh comes up clean, will the Dems then vote for him? Ya think?

If this is what the Dems will sink to, I am ashamed of them and want no part of this. A man is guilty until he can prove himself innocent, and we know that proving a negative is impossible. I fear for all of our sons.

Deborah Nagano

Congress should be looking for solutions not battles...

So sad that it has come to this?

"Judge Kavanaugh's Supreme courtship-and P.S. Why the Brett Kavanaugh smear..? " 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world's #260)

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 Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!

Above photo;

The late Senator Daniel Inouye

Senator Mazie Hirono(a major player in the Kavanuagh herarings)

Ivanka Obama, James "Kimo" Rosen and a secret service dude!

(Special note, Mazie Hirono was a Congress person not a Senator

back in 2008 when this photo was taken and 'Ivanka' Obama the bipartisan dog

was known back then only as 'Obama.'

Senate to be replaced with room full

of monkeys throwing feces at each other!  ;-)

https://babylonbee.com/news/senate-to-be-replaced-with-room-full-of-monkeys-throwing-feces

Blog #2013~Kimo's world's #260

Judge Kavanaugh's Supreme courtship.

 "Let him who is without sin cast the first stone." John 8-7

  Imagine being held responsible for what someone said you did at a party 35 years ago when you were a minor. Nobody remembers the event but the accuser?   This event could break your whole life. 

Politics is a nasty game, what is happening now is nothing more than a giant partisan reality show, In some ways many say we asked for it electing a realty star as POTUS?
The left will love this viral  sarcastic humor video of the judge!
https://www.facebook.com/biancalynne/videos/10156372123091075/?t=29
Please help me understand one thing how are these women coming out now saying they are traumatized after all these years?They haven’t been traumatized to say anything about this until Kavanaugh's Supreme Court nomination!

This is the new norm, if you don't want someone elected or confirmed to the courts just do the following. Write an anonymous letter claiming they did some sexual harassment, assault, or abuse and then wait for the next false accusation to follow suit. It seems like a solid political tactic.

These women and their  allegations are making a mockery out of the 'Me Too' movement, and making it harder for women who really have been sexually assaulted, to be believed.

 This is just  one of many sarcastic comment's seen on Facebook about Judge Kavanaugh's Supreme courtship;

 "Dianne Feinstein, sexually assaulted me when I was 3...I demand the FBI waste taxpayer money to investigate this even though I can't remember where or when it happened!!(sic)"

 Finally on a serious note, women who falsely accuse are the worst . They take lives away, ruin families and make it much harder on true victims.

Dana Carvey!  ;-)

Kapaa sunrise
Monday-09-24-18
Photo courtesy;
James 'Kimo" Rosen

Hana Hou, (Encore) 
Hawaii's own Senator Mazie Hirono
has taken on a major role in the Kavanaugh hearings-
You either love her or don't...

P.S.

This article from the Powerline explains the current circus happening in Washington...

Why the Brett Kavanaugh smear? 
https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2018/09/why-the-brett-kavanaugh-smear.php

One question I have pondered over the last few weeks is, why are the Democrats so determined to block Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s nomination to the Supreme Court? Realistically, he is the most moderate nominee they are likely to see from the Trump administration. If his nomination fails, the president will most likely appoint Amy Barrett, who is secure against #MeToo allegations and is both more conservative and younger than Kavanaugh. So what is the point?

To some extent, the Democrats’ bizarre smear campaign against Kavanaugh is explicable on short-term political grounds. The Democrats’ crazed base demands that they #Resist, so resist they will, whether it does any good or not. But I think there is something deeper and more sinister at work.

Brett Kavanaugh enjoys one of the most spotless reputations of anyone in American public life. He has been enthusiastically endorsed by those who have known him all his life–by girls he knew in high school and college, by judges he has served with, by professors and students and Harvard and Yale law schools, by judges who have worked with him, by his judicial clerks–most of whom have been women–by the American Bar Association, by sitting Supreme Court justices. In short, everyone who has ever known or dealt with Brett Kavanaugh endorses him.

I think that Judge Kavanaugh’s pristine reputation is one reason why the Democrats have unleashed against him a smear campaign unparalleled in American history. This is the message they are trying to send: If we can do this to the Boy Scout Brett Kavanaugh, we can do it to anyone. Are you thinking of serving in a Republican administration? Or accepting an appointment to the federal judiciary from a Republican president? Think twice, and then think again.

Because our smear machine will reach back to middle school if necessary. If we can’t find any dirt on you, we will manufacture some. There is no depth to which we will not stoop, and your honesty, integrity and spotless reputation are no match for our control over the media and our determination to dredge up ridiculous allegations against anyone who stands in our way.

Really, the more ridiculous the better. If we can accuse Brett Kavanaugh, one of the most respected lawyers and judges in America, of gang rape, we can accuse anyone of anything! And our insane accusations will dominate the news.

That is the Democratic Party’s message. And we have learned from the Christine Ford fiasco that accusations don’t require corroborating evidence. A single wacky, false allegation will negate decades of hard work on behalf of the American people.

By smearing the ultimate Boy Scout, the Democrats signal that they are determined to go lower than anyone has ever gone in American history. They intend to deter normal people from serving in Republican administrations, or accepting appointments from Republican presidents, or, ultimately, from identifying themselves with the Republican party. Given that strategy, the fact that they are smearing a man of obviously sterling character on absurdly flimsy grounds is not a bug, it is a feature. The fact that the Democrats’ smears are so patently false is ultimately their main point.

The Democrats are telling us: Republicans, beware–if this can happen to Brett Kavanaugh, it can happen to anyone. You’d better go quietly and cede power to us.

"Politics and religion can turn vitriolic..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world's #259)

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 Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!

Above photo;
James "Kimo" Rosen
with Kauai Mayor Bernard Cervalho Jr.
at the 2017 Mayorathon
Below Photo; Mayor Carvalho with
Bipartisan Dog Ivanka Obama!

Blog #2012~Kimo's world's #259

Politics and  religion  can turn vitriolic

Letting your politics be known publicly is a cancer.  I was brought up with both parents stressing never share your political or religious beliefs with strangers.  

Fast forward many decades later... Because of my politics I have lost many friends and have been given stink eye in local business establishments. 

There is a privacy curtain in the voting booth for a reason.

I need to learn and heed the example of Kaua'i Mayor Bernard Carvalho, he will not give his public endorsement for either candidate currently running for Kaua'i Mayor.

Mayor Carvalho will be sorely missed
when his term limits expire in
December after a 10 year tenure
as Kauai Mayor. 

  He is friends with both of Kauai's Mayoral candidates

Kauai' Mayoral candidates,
Mel Rapozo and
Derek Kawakami.
Two men of integrity,
may the best man win!

as I am, (was.) He was able to keep both of them as friends, I wasn't as blessed.

 
My experience, bringing up religion or politics seems almost like a cue card for the conversation to turn vitriolic. It totally kills the party mood. They're

sensitive topics which most people tend to feel strongly about and you're definitely not going to change someone's mind about God or their least favorite politician.

 If only I could keep my mouth shut on politics and religion.

It took me 63 years to figure out my parents were right! 

Good luck and God bless to Patsy and Mel...

Good luck and God bless to Monica and Derek...

Kapa'a sunrise
Saturday, 09-22-18
Photo, James "Kimo" Rosen

Hana Hou, (Encore)

"Why Diet Coke tastes orgasmic at Micky D’s..!" 'James "Kimo" Rosen' (Kimo's world #258)

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 Ivanka-Obama, The Bipartisan Dog!

Above photo;
 James "Kimo" Rosen smiling  in front
soda fountain tap at the Kapaa Hawaii Micky D's!

Blog #2011~Kimo's world's #258

Why Diet Coke tastes orgasmic at Micky D’s!

 I guess I got older and realized everyone dies. It doesn't matter if your vegan, vegetarian or carnivore, why not live life to the fullest?'Life Tastes Good,' 'Open Happiness,' 'Catch the Wave,' ' and Taste the Feeling are some of the tag lines of the product l  am going to talk about. 

 I now crave an afternoon pick me up, and it’s not coffee or green tea, it’s not bottled or canned soda—-It has to be Micky D’s— (McDonald’s) 'Diet Coke' fresh from their fountain! "Coke is it" probably the most famous tagline form 1982!

 There’s the old stories of the original Coca Cola actually having pharmaceutical cocaine as one of the ingredients, that’s why so many people were said to be  addicted to the old  soda shops. 

 I know McDonald's doesn’t use cocaine, however after doing some do diligence research I found out I do not stand alone in my cravings for Micky D’s Diet Coke, even their regular Coke is said to posses the same qualities that make you feel euphoric, complete and ease heartburn along with basic healing powers. 

 Coke and Diet Coke in bottles and cans does not come close to the results and quality of McDonald's diet and regular coke.  Since I am dietetic I go for the Diet Coke.  
 No other restaurants taps are as good as McDonald's, no fair, ball park, or food truck tap will come close and the reasons are many.  

1: McDonald's Uses Quality Water

First of all, McDonald's invests a fair amount of money—more than most (if not all) of the competition—to ensure that each of its restaurants has a high-end water filtration system. They use the best equipment money can buy and have routine maintenance programs in place to maintain the entire system.

The fountain tap at Kapaa
Micky D's

2: Cold Water Holds More Carbonation

Second, insulated tubing is run from the back refrigeration unit all the way to the front and drive through units. The soda water is constantly recirculated though this frigid tubing system so that it can remain between 33-38 degrees at all times.
Keeping this water chilled is necessary to maintain superior C-O2 levels.

3: More Soda Sold Means a Fresher Product

Third, McDonald's sells a very high volume of soda. This means that the syrup does not sit around for very long, unlike at other restaurants.

Most McDonald's sell so much in fact, that their syrup does not come in boxes like most franchises.

Coca-Cola actually ships McDonald's syrup in stainless steel tanks.
These syrup tanks keep the product cooler and a bit fresher.

The bottom line as to why McDonald's Diet Coke—and, for that matter, the rest of their sodas, their coffee, and even their tap water—tastes better is because of the extra attention paid to the beverage systems. 

There's also the rumor about the straws at McDonald's are thicker and bigger than their competition and  drinking out of a bigger straw brings in more oxygen. Just hope your state doesn't outlaw straws as they did in California.

Now think about this: Why would you pay for a bottled water when you now know that there is a good chance the water coming from the soda fountain at Micky D's may be as good if not better? 
More Coca-Cola and McDonald's Facts
https://delishably.com/dining-out/Why-does-Diet-Coke-taste-better-at-Mcdonalds

My  lady friend says,"When my kids were sick I would ALWAYS get them a Coke from M.D. To settle their stomachs plus French Fries. It always worked for them."

"My husband would always say we have Coke at home, why do you always ask me to get a fountain Coke when we get take home? I tell him it tastes better than the canned Coke. He always tells me I am crazy a Coke is a Coke. Now I can tell him why it tastes better from the fountain. Thanks McDonald's!"

Next time your in the mood for a pick me up download the McDonald's App on your smart phone and purchase a large a diet coke for $1.00 and you can get medium fries  for free--- and if your really hungry you can also get a Big Mac, McDouble or Quarter pounder  for only $1.00 too using the most amazing App on the internet. 

"I'm Lovin it!" (McDonald's signature jingle)

A rainbow appears on the anniversary
of 911 as seen from the Kapaa switchback
pedestrian bridge in Kapaa.
Photo, James "Kimo" Rosen

Hana Hou, (Encore)