"Everyone hates everyone..."

I live in a retirement community with 38 units, mostly adults over 55. Everyone is always calling management to report something on their neighbor, they may report you planted a flower an inch to close to your unit, or that you sneezed to loud while someone was sleeping, or even that your car door closes to loud.

Just watch out if you ever have bad gas, neighbors will probably call the police.

Calling the police is another problem, I have one neighbor who looks like hell washed over and always thinks someone is peeping in on her? The cops come and ask questions. She makes stories up about every guy in the neighborhood. The cops asked me what the story was, I said do you think if any one of us guys were going to take a chance on being arrested as a peeping Tom, we would peep on her?

After-all when most men look at this women their private part acts as if it is a frightened turtle.

Where I live everyone hates everyone equal and there is no such word as aloha, unless of course aloha means hate?

"Monster trucks..."

How many people driving pick-up trucks actually need pick-up trucks? The island of Kauai sports many monster pickup trucks, you know the ones with the big wheels like on the old TV show, "Dukes of hazard."

The younger generation seems to find more to live for in driving a $40,000 truck than spending that money as a down payment on a home.

Many young people in their 20's, 30's and 40's still live with their parents, they drive brand new pickup trucks even though they live in 4 -plex apartments with three generations.

These trucks are used to go surfing, to church and to the supermarket. These trucks have too much power on an island where the average speed limit is 25mph.

I own a Hyundai economy sedan and dread driving since most vehicles are these monster trucks that have a need to tailgate even if one gets up to 40mph there is a monster truck one car length behind.

May I suggest to the younger generation quit tailgating and go to therapy, it's cheaper than your truck payments and gas.

Remember big trucks are a substitute for something else.

"World Champs..?"

How can the "Superbowl be the "World championship? There are 32 teams in the NFL. There are no foreign countries invited to compete and only 22 states have NFL franchises, 28 states do not have a franchise.

You have to either love it, or pull your hair out. Overpaid jocks playing for what they believe is a worlds championship...

For the land of the free and the home of the Superbowl.

"Plastic more polluting than paper..."

(Editors note, The island of Kauai voted against Ferry service to neighboring islands in 2008. Now in 2011 our county council decides to outlaw plastic bags and bring back paper bags in lieu of)

There where those who believed the Super-ferry needed an EIS, myself and many others feel that an EIS would had been in order before the county council adopted and voted into the law, the new current plastic
bag ban. This ban was decided by seven people who won a popularity contest and should had been put out for the people of Kaua'i to vote on.

If proper research had been employed, we could had learned from a  Los Angeles county EIR In 2009 that paper is actually more polluting than plastic, best thing to had done would had been to outlaw plastic and paper and require everyone to bring cloth bags.

I am publicly asking for the new members of county council to study Los Angeles counties EIS and what was discovered and to do what is pono(righteous) and reverse this totally ridiculous plastic ban.

Enclosed is a link to the studies confirming paper is far worse for the environment.

http://www.savetheplasticbag.com/

Environmentally yours,

"The Best job for a Bachelor..!"

I have been contemplating running for Kauai county council in 2012.

Many people have encouraged me, but in lieu of running for county council I have decided to make a run as Mayor of the cosmic garden island.

This decision was an easy one. My bucket list includes a run for mayor somewhere in the United States and on Kauai there is not a better job for a bachelor since the mayor of Kauai gets lei'd almost everyday and some-days he is lei'd multiple times.

See you in 2012!

"Kaua'i Poetry..."

A coach who uses profanity, an electric company that charges extraordinary prices, a local council that is over paid, drugs and murders.

Kauai is my kine of place! Paradise!

"Please remember this in 2 years... "

(Editor's note, Coach Borrero was recently fired from Kauai High school for using swear words during football practice, this will help you understand the statement i injected about the coach.)

The county of Kauai never had to implement furloughs, "the county budget soared 31 percent to $43.1 million in 2010.

"Kauai county had surplus money, all the other Hawaii county's were broke.

Instead our politicians played poker with our taxpaying dollars, pretended to be broke because we could possibly lose approximately 12 million dollars in hotel taxes the state wanted. The Mayor gambled with our money, and last time I checked all forms of gambling are illegal on Kaua'i.

The furloughs effected everyone with the simple concept of trickle down economics. Everyone on Kauai suffered, many business's shut their doors. If we had evaded the furloughs who knows how many business might had survived and how many people might had avoided bad credit or even bankruptcy?

I think coach Borrero might say "WTF?" I know I did!

Please remember this in 2 years at the next local election and re-elect nobody.