"One Tsunami, two Tsunami, tree Tsunami more..."

 "editors note, tree is suppose to be tree, please do not correct to three, tree is Hawaiian Pidgin for three." 

One Tsunami, two Tsunami, tree Tsunami more, within the last two years.

This past dress rehearsal was less dramatic than the one in February 2010.

One of these times it will be the real thing and we will need to ask ourselves, "would we take supplies airdropped in plastic bags, or accept assistance from a ferry-boat?

One Tsunami, two Tsunami, tree Tsunami more....

This may sound silly, however now that I have your attention please remember to voice your opinion and testify to amend county bill #2400 that bans supermarket plastic bags. You can testify by email at; counciltestimony@kauai.gov  if you cannot make it to county chambers this coming Wednesday.

We may have weathered the Tsunami weather, however we still face the political Tsunamis on a daily basis.

Please do not continue to allow 7 overpaid public servants to make all our important choices, let your voice be heard now!

"Thankful to sleep through tsunami warning..."

Hawaii Public Housing authority(HPHA) worked tirelessly through the evening of the states most recent tsunami warning.

The expensive emergency generators and power tools were moved to higher ground from their Kapa'a office to their safe and high ground housing project "Hale' Nana Kei' O' Kea" locate behind 'Mahelona' hospital.

The public housing in Kapa'a had all the gas turned off for safety should the tsunami had moved him full force this would prevent fires.

The gas heaters at the higher ground housing did not need to be turned off.

I am thankful I was able to sleep through the tsunami warning this time, earplugs really work!

Pictured are Davis Shima and Norvin Manuel packing up generators and tools after a sleepless night in Kapa'a.

"Councilmembers hypocrites over plastic bag ban..."

The Garden Island newspaper recently published an article titled, “Residents torn over plastic bag ban.” This article tells it all, the story of a dysfunctional county council. This whole plastic bag ban mess should had been decided by the people of our great cosmic island, not seven overpaid narcissists who won a popularity contest.

The County of Kaua‘i in association with the Kaua‘i Humane society supplies free plastic bags at approximately six dispensers along the beautiful pedestrian trail. It’s ironic our dogs are allowed plastic for their feces, but we can’t use plastic for groceries or food items.

Trees are used to make paper bags. I thought we originally switched to plastics because we didn’t want to destroy the rain-forests.

We went 100 giant steps backward, the grocery stores are now using paper bags, 1,000 paper bags piled high, or 1,000 plastic piled high, guess which is smaller and costs less to freight?

If council is so concerned about the environment quit being hypocrites and ride a bike, walk, or bus to the next county council meeting, and donate your $500 a month car allowance toward the state budget crisis

note this blog appeared an an opinion article on 03-09-11 in the Kaua'i garden island news!
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_984b1cae-4a11-11e0-b53c-001cc4c002e0.html

"Duh, winning..!"

The recent media blitz showing Charlie Sheen In his numerous rants and meltdowns has created huge ratings for network and cable news shows, along with many parodies on comedy and talk shows.

Charlie Sheen was fired from his sit-com, "Two and a Half men" he was the highest paid actor in sit-com history at 2 million a show, most of us don't make that kind of money in a lifetime. I watched his show one time, and really did not see any reason to watch again.

Charlie is melting down before America's eyes, sure his rants are entertaining and actually think his real life drama is more funny than his award winning sit-com.

http://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-live/video/duh-winning-cold-open/1311305/
(recent SNL skit)

The fun is over, if we maintain putting all this attention on Charlie and keep being drawn into this para social phenomena, not only will Charley Sheen self destruct but we as American people are on our way to much of the same.

Call it an Obsession by the American people, call it a meltdown, call it what ever you wish, we are encouraging his rants and laugh. I am guitly myslef, but when Charlie is six feet under who will have the last laugh?

"Duh, winning...."

"There's a law for everything..."

It seems everyday there's a host of new laws being approved, locally and nationally.

There are laws against possessing toy guns in some states, laws against smoking even in ones home, laws to protect  seals whales, seabirds, fruit flies and many other animals, there's even laws against oral sex in some states.

What's next, a law to say  one  cannot fart in ones own home? ;D)

"The perfect diet food, or is it..?"

Why do people believe salads to be the ideal and perfect diet food?

Believe it or not Burger King offers a side salad for only $1.49, it's rated as having only 40 calories. The clincher is that the Caesar, Ranch, Honey mustard dressings that come with the salad have 270 calories per 2 ounce serving.

Looking further into the the menu I noticed the value french fries made in non trans-fat oils have only 220 calories.

There is a reason 'french fries' are referred to as 'freedom fires!' Freedom to eat what you want!

This brings to  mind one of my favorite geometric theories; reasoning based upon observation is not very sound!

All Together 1-2-3- FREEDOM FRIES!

"There has been talk of a soda pop tax which in reality already exists..."

Recycling centers in the state of Hawaii are poorly located and are open limited hours intentionally.

There has been talk of a soda pop tax which in reality already exists, because most cans and bottles are never returned, thus the state does not return the money but keeps it as revenue.

The Government is trying to fool us again, do you really think they care about recycling?  If the state cared, or even if our local county really cared there would be an user friendly way to return your bottles and cans.

The store you bought your bottles and cans needs to start accepoting returns. It then  becomes a win win for everyone, more bottles and cans out of the landfill and people vsiting their local stores more often. This is already done in many states.

The only problem is that the state would be retuning more deposits, which really isn't a problem unless your an overpaid politician with  a large monthly car allowance and health insurance most would sacrifice  their mother-in-law for.