"Occupy Wall Street..." 'Obama Da Dog'

 Laughter is sometimes the best therapy say's Obama Dog....  This blog also appeared as an opinion article in the Kauai Garden Island News on 10-16-11; "Dazzling hypocrisy;
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_b7aa3dcc-f7d7-11e0-820b-001cc4c002e0.html   

From the Internet, a viral poster... http://tal9000.tumblr.com/post/11346882337/image-a-group-of-protesters-presumably-at

Wall street seems to be America's current scapegoat for all our problems. There is a new movement called 'Occupy Wall street' that is just starting to come into it''s own with protests all over the country even including Kauai island in the middle of the south Pacific.

America is all about free speech and like the sixties many things were changed through protests. Whether you agree or dis-agree on the current movement, the one thing we can all agree on is that America is the greatest country on earth where we can all speak our mind.

 I am here-fore  enclosing my favorite words of a recent poster entitled, 'Occupy Wall street,' I feel it says's quite a bit. Enjoy...

"Here is one of the many fun ways to enjoy the dazzling hypocrisy of the Occupy Wall Streeters. “Join us as we organize against corporations, using social networking (by corporations), smart-phones (by corporations) serviced by wireless carriers (that are corporations), wearing clothes (made by corporations), capturing it all with cameras (made by corporations), and getting there via cars, buses, bicycles, and shoes (made by corporations). We deserve more from these greedy corporations. Join us afterwards at Starbucks!”

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"The Green thing.." 'Marvin Gross'

Marvin Gross a financial advisor from Western N.Y. tells us about keeping the environment clean...

 

The environment responds graciously with a rainbow when we treat the Aina (Land) with respect

The Green Thing

 In the queue at the store, the cashier told an older woman that she should bring her own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

 The woman apologized to him and explained, "We didn't have the green thing back in my day."

 The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment."

He was right -- our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So they really were recycled.

 But we didn't have the green thing back in our day.We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks.

But she was right. We didn't have the green thing in our day.  We washed the baby's nappys because we didn't have the throw-away-kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy gobbling machine burning up 220 volts -- wind and solar power really did dry the clothes. Kids got hand-me down clothes from their brothers or sisters,not always brand-new clothing.

 But that old lady is right; we didn't have the green thing back in our day.Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house -- not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the whole wall. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us.

 When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used a wadded up old newspaper to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap.

 Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on
 treadmills that operate on electricity.

 But she's right; we didn't have the green thing back then. We drank from a tap when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water.

We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got blunt.

 But we didn't have the green thing back then. Back then, people took the tram or a bus and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service driving huge four wheel drives.

 We had one power point in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were just because we didn't have the green thing back then?

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"Detritus...." 'Michael Herr' (Aloha Friday)

Renowned author Michael Herr is back on this awesome Aloha Friday talking about 'Detritus,' a word I needed to look up!(any disintegrated material; debris)
 Make sure and check out Michael's website at; http://www.michaelherr.com/

'Detritus,' can be many things to many people, "remember one mans (kids)meat is another mans poison..."

ALOHA FRIDAY

October 14

It's Aloha Friday.

Detritus

Detritus — the remains of something broken down or destroyed, or something discarded as in rubbish.

I began thinking about the detritus of my own house, my own life, the other day. In a moody sort of way I began looking around at how my life is reflected in the things that I have accumulated. I thought back to when I had to clean out my parents' house after their deaths. I filled a dumpster with their collected dreams, hopes and memories. I filled only the front seat of my car with their things that still seemed to matter.

I wonder if my son will go through the same experience when he has to clean out the current home of my wife and I. What will he make of all the little ceramic knickknacks that my wife has collected over the years? She remembers where she picked up each of them. The tiny porcelain acorn from Heathrow's Duty Free shop. The many Winnie-the-Pooh pieces from our visit to Hartfield in Sussex. Her collection of egg-boxes — ceramic, wooden, metal, plastic and even actual eggs. Hundreds and hundreds of egg-boxes (including one signed by a great-great-great granddaughter of Faberge).

What will my son do with my collection of Japanese netsuke? Some modern, some very old, some erotic, some strange. Made from either wood or ivory. Collected over the past forty-plus years. Will he sell them? Will he give them to some museum?

What will become of my collection of billy clubs and blackjacks? Again, some very old. Some from other countries. Since they're mostly illegal to carry, and mostly difficult to sell, my son will probably trash most of them.

The artwork that has meant so much to us? Again, collected over the years to remind us of where we've traveled and who we were at that time. The hula dancer lamp from Kona? The ceremonial boomerang? The didgeridoo that I've never been able to play? Will they find new homes on eBay?

Books? What will become of our books? Nearly four thousand books fill our house. Books that have carried my wife and I to lands far and near, fanciful and real. With electronic books taking over the world, I hold out little hope that our massive library will go anyplace but to the nearest landfill.

I see all of our collections as detritus. Rubbish that no one else will want. But to us . . . this is all the repository of beautiful, wonderful, treasured memories. And after we are gone, our memories will be gone too.

Detritus. Just detritus.

Much aloha.

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"Loco Moco..."chopsticks or fork..?" 'Obama Da Dog'

Obama da dog blogs about her favorite plate lunch, da loco moco...

Loco Moco, Hawaii's favorite plate lunch! This photo was shared through Google chrome.

This blog also appeared as an opinion article in the Kaua'i Garden Island news on 10-15-11. http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_98db46b2-f6f5-11e0-8c35-001cc4c002e0.html?mode=story

Hawaii is  famous for their plate lunches. Plate lunches are served at many restaurants and food trucks. Plate lunches usually come with rice, or chow mein, macaroni salad, kimchi, or green salad and a Sumo wrestler portion of an array of entrees inclusive of but not limited to shoyu chicken,  shoyu pork, curried stews, steak and hundreds of other mouth watering entrees.

One of the most popular comfort plate lunches in Hawaii  is a dish called a 'Loco Moco.' Loco moco  is a "mountainous meal consisting of a heap of white rice topped with  one or two  hamburger patties and topped with one or two sunny-side-up eggs, and then smothered in gravy. This dish is popular anytime of the day and is a candidate for the Cholesterol Hall of Fame.  As you eat, break the egg - then blend the burger, egg, rice, and gravy on your fork or chopsticks for each bite for a real taste of paradise."

There are many  who claim to have invented the  Loco Moco, however  it is generally agreed that around 1949, either the Lincoln Grill or the Cafe 100 (both in Hilo, Hawaii) created the first mouth watering plate dish of Loco Moco. According to the locals, the dish was invented for teenagers who wanted something different from typical American sandwiches and less time-consuming than Asian food. The nickname of the first boy to consume this concoction was Loco ("crazy" in Portuguese and Hawaiian pidgin). Moco rhymed with loco and sounded great,Therefore history was made  and  'Loco Moco' became the name of the dish.

'Loco Moco' is also famous for takeout along with many other scrumptious plate lunch choices. With all this said I still find it ironic that every-time I go to order a plate lunch to go, the servers give me a fork and my Asian friends chopsticks just because of my looks. This used to bother me because I am an  avid user of chopsticks and believe food tastes better against  wooden chopsticks than a plastic fork. Normally I would correct the server and ask for chopsticks, however when 'Loco Moco' is concerned  a fork, spoon and preferably a shovel would be most practical....

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"Follow in the county's carbon footprints." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

I am a critic of the county of Kaua'i however I am pleased when they do good things and I would like to share a recent opinion article I wrote  that the Kaua'i Garden Island News published ....
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_f7fa19b4-f3d2-11e0-8604-001cc4c002e0.html

Douglas Dunn with his New Nissan Leaf, total Electric car. The county of Kauai just purchased five Nissan Leafs! Hallelujah! Read Doug's LTE, "Kicking the habit," in yesterdays Kaua'i Garden Island news  for more insight into the Nissan Leaf.  Go to; http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_c8550d90-f30f-11e0-8161-001cc4c03286.html

Follow the county’s carbon footprints

I am proud of the County of Kaua‘i. Yes, you heard it right, I am proud of the mayor since, according to The Garden Island news, some Kaua‘i county employees will soon be driving Nissan’s electric Leaf car.

The county purchased five Nissan Leafs through a grant by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The cars have arrived and a few county employees are being trained on their operation.

The county will be installing 10 charging stations at various county facilities. The Nissan Leaf has excellent reviews and, according to my friend in San Diego, it is the quietest car he ever drove. It’s no hybrid; it’s 100 percent electric.

This all translates to savings for the taxpayer since these vehicles never need gas, oil changes, tune-ups, valves, rings, pistons, timing belts, transmissions, transmission fluids or shifting gears to interrupt acceleration, carburetor or air filters, radiator or coolant or hoses to maintain regular power-train maintenance and last but not least no smog checks ever.

Congratulations (Ho‘omaika‘i ‘ana and Mazol Tov) for one of the best investments aside from the pedestrian trail that the county has ever made. We need to follow in the county’s footprints.

http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/article_f7fa19b4-f3d2-11e0-8604-001cc4c002e0.html

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"Why do people work when financially they are set for life...? James "Kimo" Rosen

The real reason many people work is to get them away from their spouses.....

Going to work relaxes many people who otherwise have a stressful life....

Diabetes took it's toll on my father in his later years, three open heart surgeries, ,2 leg amputations and  degenerative eye disease.  With all his medical problems and complications he still wanted to work everyday. He had a desk job in his latter years so he could sit and do mind work.
My father could had opted for the easy way out, he was a veteran, yet never used his veterans insurance, he never had public assistance or any of the many  programs available for seniors and disabled.


I know people on public assistance that get  car insurance, cleaning help, all their doctors and medications paid for, food-stamps (EBT)... My father could had taken the easy way out, he opted work until his dying day.

He worked until his  dying day for one main reason, a nagging wife that made his life miserable, no this was not my mom... He re-married after my mother passed away.


I asked my father why he chose to work, he said, "it relaxed him, got him out of the house and gave him a feeling of self worth..." I know the real reason he chose to work...

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"What does the word “Bullied” Mean..?" 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspirational Monday)

Judith Whitehead is back guest-blogging on this Inspirational Monday talking about Bullies in the 21st century...Judith lives in Amherst N.Y. has worked in the ophthalmology field of medicine for almost 30 years...

Bullies  come from all walks of life...

What does the word “Bullied” Mean??

Recently there has been a lot of discussion about bullies at school. Here in Buffalo New York, a huge campaign has sprung up against them since a young boy who had been bullied all his life suddenly decided to take his own life this past week. Having endured constant harassment since his young elementary school days, he could no longer take the abuse any longer. His idol, Lady Gaga, became aware of his plight and has taken a stance against bullies and the pain they have caused these young adults for many years.

Being bullied is not a new thing; bullies in school dates back to the beginning of time. Always, the different, the weak, and individuals, that did not conform have always been picked on. There is one big difference from the bullies from the past and the modern age bully; now the group of bullies have the biggest platform, the world wide web! Back in the day when a student was harassed in school, it stayed in the school. In some ways it could be handled differently and if it got to be unbearable, the student could always transfer to another school or fight back. Now there is no escaping the constant harassing and embarrassment that follows someone everywhere. Somehow, knowing that the whole world can join in on the act can become overwhelming for some people to endure. There is no escaping the mean and indifference of some people any longer.

I think the Internet super highway has opened up the world of knowledge to many and has been a useful tool in amazing ways but it has also opened the door to predators and unsavory people out there as well. A little too much knowledge can become a scary thing sometimes if abused and in the case of those bullies out there, we need to find a way to take a much more serious stance against them or this problem will escalate to gigantic proportions. If you are a bully out there…get a life and stop being a follower, a bully will not act out if they don’t have an audience!!

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