"AIRCRAFT HITS FOUR BUILDINGS ..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

Dakinetalks favorite Uncle (Chester Lau)

Unc talks  about a smelly  aviation accident

"Unc" is a retired cinematographer currently living 

on the Hawai'ian Island of Oahu & giving the politicians a bad time...

AIRCRAFT HITS FOUR BUILDINGS  

This is tough to see. It just shows the dangers of attending these events. 

Amazing photo below shows great detail. 

The pilot, flying at low altitude, had no control over his aircraft. 

It narrowly misses a crowd gathered for the air show and slams into four buildings occupied by the GOP strategists,NRA honchos ,Taliban big wigs & TSA Gropers.

One can only imagine the horror of the occupants inside those buildings now doubling their output to power their political agendas . 

Dats funny!

" Are You James Rosen?" 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

Having the same name as Fox news Journalist James Rosen has had me
on pins and needles...

Are You James Rosen?

The other day I received a phone call asking me if I was James Rosen, I replied ,"yes that's me," the caller yelled traitor from an unknown number on  the caller ID and hung up.

 Should I be worried my emails and phone calls  are being monitored by the state department since I have the same name as Fox news journalist James Rosen?  I am paranoid by nature but having the same name as the journalist who is accused of  espionage  has me jumping every-time the telephone rings or there's a knock on my door.

Rosen  made international headlines as  an aider and abettor in violating the Espionage act of 1917 since he spoke with and exchanged emails with Jin Woo Kim for a story on North Korea's nuclear program. Rosen allegedly disclosed national confidential security information in a story that could had jeopardized America's safety.

 I freaked out the other day when my Facebook account was temporarily closed?I tried logging onto Facebook and it read,"Your account is currently unavailable due to a site issue. We expect this to be resolved shortly. Please try again in a few minutes."

For a moment, I thought I would never be able to use Facebook again, this is huge since I am a Facebook junkie. Fifteen  minutes later a notice came on and said Facebook had been shutdown for a routine maintenance and everything now worked perfect.

This lesson has taught me to be careful what I post on social media sites especially when I have the same name as one of the most famous journalists in the world.

 The Name James Rosen among Jews is the popularity equivalent of having the name John Smith among non-Jews.  Please for now,  just call me Kimo.

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"Fathers Day Approaches..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst New York and has worked in the
ophthalmology field of medicine over 30 years.
Today she talks about remembering dad not only on fathers day
but everyday.  Happy Fathers day!

Fathers Day Approaches

Another Fathers Day is soon upon us; a time to celebrate our dads, husbands, children’s dads and  dad-like men. 

 Over the years we have celebrated our father in many different ways. When we were young it was always a picnic with the family or a nice dinner somewhere and as our dad grew older we began to think of different ways to honor him.  This year will be a little different for our celebration as our dad is more confined this year and we will be bringing Fathers Day to him. 

QUICKLY  approaching his mid nineties   he is no longer as mobile as he once was  with  his mobility much more limited than ever before.  He is still our special dad and we will all be joining him with a dinner and celebration of his many years as our dad.  

 It becomes more than difficult to see our parents age and live a more confined lifestyle.  Their  quality of life changes drastically  in many cases and they spend many days in their super senior years morphing one day to the next. How I wish I could turn back the clock to once again watch my dad in his more glorious days golfing and traveling and enjoying his life to the fullest. 

Now so much more frail as age has taken its toll on him as it does for many others in their 90’s; still able to muster up a smile now and then  enjoying simple pleasures as the daily newspaper or a magazine.

All the fathers days in the past surrounded by gifts of ties or shirts or things that we thought he may enjoy are meaningless now;  the best gift that now fits this occasion is good company and an enjoyable meal  with the family gathered around at the table swapping our stories or remember when…..

There are few things that people need in their 90’s; they have seen and had it all and although at the time seemed important to them,  seem insignificant at this time of life when just “being”  is enough.

Take some time this Fathers day to enjoy the day remembering the good times and reminiscing about the past.  Memories can be comforting at times and can be a relief from the present which is not always  the best of situations.  Let  him  know how much you care about your dad while he is still on this earth; don’t wait for another occasion because it may never come.

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"A Divine memory on Memorial day..!" 'Richard Spacer' (A True Story)

Guest-blogger Richard Spacer is a free spirit who  lives 
on the cosmic Garden Island  island of Kaua'i
and advocates for the naturist lifestyle, he is President of Kaua'i Naturists, was recently appointed an Area Representative of the Naturist Action Committee. He also publishes a blog
about the legal hurdles concerning the naturist lifestyle on the cosmic Garden Island.
http://kauainaturists.blogspot.com/

The enclosed blog is a true story that transpired this past Monday on Memorial day. Enjoy...

A Divine Memory On Memorial Day, A True Story

This past Monday, Memorial Day, I walked to the bus shelter in front of the Kapa'a Neighborhood Center to hitch up north to Kilauea. It was after 6 PM, the sun setting fast in the west. An old man was seated at the bus shelter, apparently waiting for the bus. I recognized him as a man I rode with on the bus many months earlier. His name was Gordon, and he served in the US Marine Corps in World War Two.

As I approached the shelter, I asked Gordon if he was waiting for the bus north. He said he was. I broke the news to him the last bus had already left. Being a holiday, Memorial Day, the last northbound bus left Kapaa at 5:07 PM.

I said to him the only thing we can do is to hitch. I was going to Kilauea, and Gordon was going as far as Princeville. I started hitching, and he stood by my side. Us two guys, me 52 and he 80-something, waited one and a half hours for a ride. At least a couple of hundred cars must have passed us. Night fell, and the street lights came on. We were getting tired.

Finally, a pick up truck stopped and the younger man driving asked me where I was headed. By this time Gordon had sat down, and was just out of the light from the street light so the driver could see only me.

I told him I was headed to Kilauea, but that my friend over there was going all the way to Princeville, and there was no way I was going to leave him by himself waiting in the night here in Kapa'a. I added that he is a veteran, and this is HIS day, Memorial Day.

The young man said he was not planning on going as far as Princeville, but for a veteran on Memorial Day, he would drive him anywhere he needed to go!

We strapped Gordon in the passenger seat, and I got situated in the back. The driver said he needed to make a brief stop to pick up some tools for his job tomorrow, and we would then continue on our way.

When we stopped in Anahola for the tools, we briefly talked story. I said that Gordon served our country during World War Two in the First Division of the US Marines in the Pacific. I added that my father also served in the US Marines in the Pacific during that war, but in the Third Division.

And the driver? Surprise, surprise, his father was a US Marine, and like my father, served in the Third Division, but in Vietnam many years later.

You see, US Marines have this tradition and duty of never leaving people behind the enemy lines, and apparently, lots of other places too.

We have a lot to be thankful for to all of our service men and women, including the US Marines. Service and duty and honor are not just things for war, but for life.

Those of us who hitch hike from time to time on Kaua'i have a saying that when you wait a long time for a ride, the one that comes eventually is a REALLY good one. This past Monday did not disappoint.

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"Retirement and things to do..." 'Chester "Unc" Lau' (Source)

There are many ways to have fun in retirement....

Dakinetalks favorite Uncle (Chester Lau)

Unc talks  about ways to have fun in your retirement years...

"Unc" is a retired cinematographer currently living 

on the Hawai'ian Island of Oahu & giving the politicians a bad time...

Retirement and things to do

Working people frequently ask retired people what they 
do to make their days interesting. 

Well, for example, the other day, Kate, my wife and I
went into town and visited a shop. 

When we came out, there was a cop writing out a parking 
ticket on car with a "vote Mitt Romney"bumper sticker .

We went up to him and I said, 'Come on, man, how about giving a 
senior citizen a break?' 

He ignored us and continued writing the ticket. 

I called him an "asshole". 

He glared at me and started writing another ticket
for having worn-out tires.

So Kate called him a "shit head". 

He finished the second ticket and put it on the windshield with the first.

Then he started writing more tickets.

This went on for about 20 minutes. 

The more we abused him, the more tickets he wrote. 

Just then our bus arrived, and we got 
on it and went home! 

We always look for cars with "Mitt Romney
2012" stickers! 

We try to have a little fun each day 
now that we're retired............

It's important at our age!

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"Boots..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Wednesday)

Bettejo  has lived on Kaua'i over 30 years and is a people lover,

animal lover, lover of life and strikes a dashing yoga pose...

Today Bettejo blogs about  man and woman's best friend...

Enjoy...

www.bettejodux.com

BOOTS


Did you know all dogs are related to the gray wolf? Canis familiaris is a direct descendant of canis lupus. All dogs are domesticated wolves.

What’s interesting is that the transformation of wolves to dogs happened about 130,000 years ago, long before humans settled down. So, it seems, humans didn't domesticate the wolf, the wolf outsmarted us. They are very successful free loader. They found a way to get us to take them in out of the cold. Feed and love them. I tell this to Boots everyday.

Boots is the new puppy. Properly named, she loves to chew on boots, socks and shoes. Her favorite toy is one of pair of new $60.00 boots she stole from a man working on my land. He’d taken them off to put on his work boots and she made off with them. I think she buried one. The other she plays with like a hunting dog plays with a chicken. Shake.  Toss. Chase. Drop. Start all over.

I am one who could never be happy without a zoo to tend. Back to ‘we are all the end product of our past’, my father raised me to love and take care of animals. I was happy in the barn with a pitchfork, my faithful pack of friendly dogs beside me in the stall. I still am. I’m happiest  in the barn with a pitch fork. Turn me loose with a vacuum cleaner in the house and watch the wicked old witch of the west emerge triumphant.

On a local Kauai note: I’m sure glad the oath takers, they who swear to god they will never read me, never read me. I’d never hear the end of that confession.

Boots came home from the Humane Society the day after my beloved Shepherd /Rottweiler, Brooks was buried in the garden with his bowl, his favorite toy and a stick he loved to chase. This is another trick my father taught me-he was an incredibly wise and good father-when a beloved dog dies replace him/her immediately.

Brooks was a him. Boots is a her.

She was the largest puppy up for adoption. Also the oldest. She’d been classified as Pit-bull type but I think she’s probably more Boxer with maybe some Ridge-back somewhere in the hay stack. She has that wonderful energy. That joy. That bounce. The soft eyes. The great sense of humor.  She, as I constantly remind her,  is all the dogs the world has ever know rolled up in one.

One of the most dangerous things you can do with an animal is introduce it to a new environment. Boots had to learn how to live with and around a huge sacred dog-that’s what the Indians called the horse. This end bites. That end kicks and it’s not to safe to take shelter in the middle. She had to learn to play with the kids, they were all the same size. No nipping, no chasing, no stealing food. She learned from them how to climb trees.

She had to learn that the big bird with the long tail was not to be messed with either, and cats have claws.

She’s fast learner. And a joyful presence in my life.

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GMO's are not the anti-Christ..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

I believe GMO foods should be labeled as Kosher and Organic foods
are now appropriately marked for the consumer. GMO's may not be
as bad as so many believe, time will tell...
For those interested there is a Pro-GMO Facebook Page, Check it out!
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Pro-GMO/159455097419168?hc_location=stream

With all the negativity against GMO technology I decided to do some research.  My findings were GMO's are not the anti-Christ so many seem to believe. GMO should stand for Great Meal Offering!

Chances are many have enjoyed a dinner full of GMO's, from your fresh farmed Salmon to grilled corn on the cob along with the delicious tasting rainbow papaya.

Did you know, many cosmetics, the soaps we bathe with and the detergents we wash our clothes with are likely GMO derived.

 Your neighbor may be a GMO product themselves,maybe they were  the product of In vitro fertilization (IVF) or even a  test tube baby.Five million IVF babies have been born since the era of assisted GMO, DNA reproduction dawned in 1978. Many protested that IVF babies would be monsters born without souls. GMO's have made it possible for many people to conceive babies that weren't able to on their own. 

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/07/02/health-ivf-five-million-babies-1978_n_1642231.html

Even your local stoner that shows up at Anti'GMO protests has probably smoked GMO enhanced marijuana. What protesters have missed is that today’s potent varieties of marijuana were created  by genetic modification.  The University of Central Florida  has a pending US Patent for a cannabis sativa genetic modification.

http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/9027/US-Patent-Pending-for-Genetically-Modified-Marijuana.aspx 

The founder of the anti GMO movement  Mark Lynas used to be the kind of fire-breathing activist who sneaked onto test farms and wreaked havoc on genetically modified (GM) crops.  He has totally changed sides and is one of the biggest advocates for GMO's, with the world's population  expected to grow from today's 6 billion to about 8 billion by 2030. Feeding all of these people and eliminating hunger will require advances in food production and distribution.

http://www2.macleans.ca/2013/03/18/a-founder-of-the-anti-gm-food-movement-explains-how-he-got-it-wrong-all-wrong/

GMO technology has gone one step further with Japanese scientists now making beef from Human feces that will be on the market soon. This is no shit, actually it is shit.

http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2011/06/friday-free-for-all-japanese-scientists-invent-poop-steaks

http://dakinetalk.blogspot.com/2011/06/no-shit-edible-beef-from-human-feces.html

The University of Hawaii developed a genetic modified papaya  back In the late 1980's because the Papaya industry almost died because of  the Papaya Ring-spot virus. GMO technology basically rescued and saved the Papaya industry in Hawaii with the birth of the rainbow papaya.

 http://www.gmocompass.org/eng/grocery_shopping/fruit_vegetables/14.genetically_modified_papayas_virus_resistance.html

Imagine, a world where you can raise a disease-free child with three or four genetic parents, engineered to be hyper-intelligent with superhuman strength. Imagine an abundance of  fresh disease free produce to feed the worlds population into the next century and beyond.

Technology has changed, we now have smart phones, laptop computers with WiFi,  tablets and  microwave ovens creating radio waves all around us that many once protested and thought to be harmful.

I believe GMO foods should be labeled just as Kosher and Organic foods are now appropriately marked for the consumer, however I believe GMO technology has already created and saved human as well as plant and animal life.  

GMO's can't live with them, can't live without them.

The Honolulu Staradvertiser asked me to come up with a 150 word edit, down from 502 words. Enclosed below  is the shortened edited version;

The below Opinion article appeared in the 06-10-13 edition of the Kaua'i Garden Island News page A-4,titled, GMO's=Great Meal Offering;
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/mailbag/letters-for-monday-june/article_66ae5600-d184-11e2-8614-001a4bcf887a.html

Chances are many have enjoyed a dinner  of GMO's, from your fresh farmed Salmon to grilled corn on the cob along with the delicious rainbow papaya .GMO should stand for Great Meal Offering!

Did you know, many cosmetics, the soaps we bathe with and the detergents we wash our clothes with are likely GMO derived.

Your neighbor may be a GMO product themselves,maybe they were  the product of In vitro fertilization (IVF) or even a  test tube baby.

 What anti GMO protesters have missed is that today’s potent varieties of marijuana were created  by genetic modification.

The world's population is  expected to grow from today's 6 billion to about 8 billion by 2030. Feeding all of these people will require advances.

GMO technology rescued the Papaya industry in Hawaii with the birth of the Rainbow papaya.

I believe GMO foods should be labeled just as Kosher and Organic foods.

GMO's, can't live with them, can't live without them.

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Unless that poop was genetically modified
 into beef from human feces...