The Professor in Africa..." 'Obama da dog) (From somewhere on Facebook)

Obama Da Dog shares another one of her Facebook words of wisdom!

The Professor in Africa

A professor is sent to darkest Africa to live with a primitive tribe. He spends years with them, teaching them reading, writing, math and science.

One day the wife of the tribe's chief gives birth to a white child. The tribe is shocked, and the chief pulls the professor aside and says, "Look here! You're the only white man we've ever seen and this woman gives birth to a white child. It doesn't take a genius to figure out what happened!"

The professor replied, "No, Chief. You're mistaken. What you have here is a natural occurrence, what we in the civilized world call an albino! Look at that field over there. All of the sheep are white except for one black one. Nature does this on occasion."

The chief was silent for a moment, then said, "Tell you what. You don't say anything more about that sheep and I won't say anything more about that white child."

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"The most enjoyable time of the year..." 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

Judith Whitehead has worked in the ophthalmology field of medicine
for almost 35 years. She currently resides  in Amherst N.Y.

The most enjoyable time of the year

 December is one of the most enjoyable times of the year; not because it's my birthday or Chanukah or Christmas or New years, although they all keep the spirits bright but because it is the holiday time of giving...sharing...and celebrating the year that has gone by.

  It's the time to reconnect with family and friends that we haven't seen for a  while, show others that we appreciate them and celebrate with good food and conversation. 

This weekend, as last I will connect with friends, eat and be "merry" - thank all those that have inspired me and shared in my year and remember how  lucky I am to have all those people in my life. Here's to good friends, good company and good food to share and here's to a new year 2014 as being a healthy and happy one for all. 

P.S. Check out this YouTube-Huffingtonpost video on opening a can without a can opener; 
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/open-can-without-can-opener-video_n_4372906.html


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"Your fired..." 'James "Kimo" Rosen'

James "Kimo" Rose pictured above with Obama Da Dog in 2008,
the day Obama adopted him. A hard subject for anyone
 to talk about is firing a nice guy. Enjoy!

Your fired

Why is it that the local sports media is being so tame concerning  UH head football coach Norm Chow after having a terrible first two seasons.  This past season the Rainbow Warriors  were 1-11.

Chow  is being given a free pass by local media since everyone is gun shy since he is the first Asian coach to coach UH football  in a predominately white mans  coaching league. There are only two Asian head coaches in the college ranks,Ken Niumatalolo (Naval Academy) and  Chow . There are no Asian head coaches in the NFL.

Norm Chow may be a nice guy and gentleman however as the states highest paid employee at $550,000 ,  nearly 4 times what the Governor makes.

 It's time for Chow to step down or as Donald Trump might say, "Your fired!'

P.S.Google maps is so cool. type in the address of your childhood home and you can see what it looks like now! unreal! https://maps.google.com/

P.S.S. Check out this great YouTube;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_gOZDWQj3Q

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"The Honeymoon, 20 years later..." 'Obama da Dog' (Source)

Obama Da Dog is a lifelong Hawa'iian, born and raised on the cosmic Garden
Island of Kaua'i. Obama and her master have a regular column it the Garden Island news
every other Monday.

The Honeymoon, 20 years later

A Minneapolis couple decided to go to Florida to thaw out during particularly icy winter. They planned to stay at the same hotel where they spent their honeymoon 20 years earlier.

Because of hectic schedules, it was difficult to coordinate their travel schedules, so the husband left Minnesota and flew to Florida on Thursday, with his wife flying down the following day.

The husband checked into the hotel. There was a computer in his room, so he decided to send an email to his wife. However, he accidentally left out one letter in her email address, and without realizing his error, sent the email.

Meanwhile, somewhere in Houston, a widow had just returned home from her husband’s funeral. He was a minister who was called home to glory following a heart attack. The widow decided to check her email expecting messages from relatives and friends. After reading the first message, she screamed and fainted. The widow’s son rushed into the room, found his mother on the floor, and saw the computer screen which read:

To: My Loving Wife Subject: I've Arrived Date: November, 24th; 2013
I know you’re surprised to hear from me. They have computers here now and you are allowed to send emails to your loved ones. I’ve just arrived and have been checked in. I see that everything has been prepared for your arrival tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing you then! Hope your journey is as uneventful as mine was.
P.S. Sure is freaking hot down here.

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"SELF HEALERS..." 'Bettejo Dux' (Classic Monday)

Bettejo Dux a self proclaimed self healer, she talks about her journey of self healing
in today's blog.  Bettejo has lived on the Cosmic garden Island of Kauai for over 40 years.
Bettejo has a weekly column in the Kauai garden island news
and is the author of the famed Novella "The Scam."
www.bettejodux.com

SELF HEALERS

“Do you know,” she set the stage, “there are people who’ve learned  to heal themselves?

“Not.”

“Yep.”

“How can you possibly know that?”

“‘Because I’m one.”

The silence was deafening.

“That’s’cause you’re never sick.”

“That’s half the answer,” she replied. “But I had to learn  to get well and stay well before I learned the art of self-healing.”

“Art. Bah.”

“Nope. It is an art and it was years in the making. Paid off, too.”

“Might’s well  sit down. She’s gonna expound like it or not.”

“You can leave.”

“Nope. Food and wine and goofy conversation are  too good to miss.”

“Especially the food and wine part.”

She fluffed her hair and took center stage. “Do you know there are very few people who've ever experienced good health? They chug along with aches and pains and ailments. It’s kind’a what they become. One big ache, pain and ailment. Symptoms galore. Ignored until they run to  the pill pushers to relieve them.”

“Pill pushers. She means the doctor.”

“Yep. They treat the symptoms. Out’a sight, out’a mind. Ignore what caused ‘em. To learn the art of self-healing you go for the gold. Why do I have this dam headache anyway…”

“Have another glass of wine.”

“…well certainly not because I lack aspirin.”

” We’ll give you that one.”

“When the self-healer sets out on her long lonely scary journey, she stops labeling symptoms and focuses on what happened to her body that caused the symptoms to appear in the first place.”

“How does she do that?” This skeptic crunched a noisy cracker.

“That’s the kind’a talk got witches burned in the Dark Ages.”

“True. But understand, I’m not a healer. I can’t heal you, you have to learn  to heal yourself. We’re not gingerbread men. What keeps me healthy is not gonna be what keeps you healthy. And what keeps me healthy will change as the situation changes. I try nutrition first, that’s the number one rule. A fast is often good. Clean out the toxins. You gotta learn how to do that. At first it’s kind’a scary. Since I started this life lesson I've had to ‘pull’ myself through three nasties and every time I said, “This is the time I ain’t gonna make it.”

“Guess we can discount a ‘positive thinking’ attitude.”

“Religion and spiritual dimensions too. I  just had a bout with a really fierce scary. I knew I was gonna croak. I dressed up in a pair of two hundred-dollar cashmere sweats, had ‘em for ages. My husband bought ‘em for me years ago-pass me some of the good smelling stuff-and I've been  really good about not wearing them out to clean the barn. You know what else? I hauled out my new manuscript Children of the Extinction and my red pencil-I love to edit- figured I’d go out in style. Prob’ly look a mess but a classy mess. Drama is my style and it’s almost as good as dying with my boots on don’cha think?”

Resounding ‘yes’.

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"Reading newspapers like our ancestors did..." 'James "kimo" Rosen'

Obama Da Dog enjoying the newspaper! 

This blog also appeared
as my column in the Kaua'i Garden Island news on 12-02-13"
with the title "Please, hand me the paper so I can relax..."  

Please click on link and  then click on recommend in the upper left column.  It helps show the editors that people are reading my articles....
http://thegardenisland.com/news/opinion/guest/please-hand-me-the-paper-so-i-can-relax/article_3f481ed4-5afa-11e3-b695-001a4bcf887a.html

Reading  newspapers like our ancestors did

By the way, (BTW)can you imagine your grandparents having  read the newspaper and seeing abbreviated  comments like,"IMHO , LOL, and WTF?" Let me start by saying that "WTF" does not stand for Wednesday,Thursday and Friday, and In my honest opinion (IMHO) I have never told anyone I am Laughing out loud (LOL) except maybe my BFF (Best friend forever)

For your information (FYI)a  recent survey  stated more people get their news from the Internet than from newspapers — and more ad dollars went to online outlets than to newspapers. This trend is growing  toward electronic journalism and in the near future  we may not have the luxury of choosing to read a real hard copied newspaper which in itself would be a 
travesty.

I have been reading the Garden Island News online for almost ten years now. I use to comment to the stories I found interesting and after a few years quit commenting because of the venomous hate from other commenters should you disagree with them. To quote Paul Simon,"there was slander, libel and words I never heard in the bible" These were the commenters that preached aloha, that's if you agreed with them, if you didn't agree with them, they were out to get you.

A few months ago I decided to subscribe to the Garden Island newspaper, the real thing, the hard copy. The way I read the paper in my youth and as a young man. I forget how wonderful reading the newspaper can be.  I was not tempted to comment to a story with the potential of being verbally abused  by another commenter that may had disagreed with me.  I do not have to worry about spilling my coffee on my computer and having an expensive repair or having a virus stop me from reading a particular article.

Just relaxing with the Garden island News with my morning coffee, in my favorite recliner, dog at my side, is a comfort and luxury of life  I had forgotten. 

Reading the hard copy, I do not see all the varied opinions expressed through the comments board. It is comforting reading the newspaper without  other readers chiming in.  I just read the paper without talking back. It's relaxing and feels wonderful to just read the paper like our ancestors did many years ago.

For anyone trying to save a few bucks by reading online, there is still nothing like the Sunday paper.  There are many inserts not available online that are only available with a real hard copied  newspaper that  can save you enough money to pay for the subscription itself. I  found  coupons  for  free taco's  and  two for one dinners that I never would had found reading online. I was also able to read the comic section in color on Sunday, Charlie, Lucy and Snoopy are still around  to make me laugh, sometimes even out loud.

With all the political hate and social media hoopla out there--along locally on Kaua'i  with bill 2491 which has torn a community apart. It  finally  feels awesome to read a newspaper uninterrupted again, without commenters chiming in and  ruining the  experience and enjoyment. With all said, there are still those that enjoy commenting with one another, to each their own.


I had forgotten the beauty and  fun of asking  others in the living room or coffee bistro ,"could someone please pass me the sports section, or better yet  please hand me the forum page.

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"Thanksgivingkah…a new word in our vocabulary…" 'Judith Whitehead' (Inspiration Sunday)

Some call it Thanksgivekkah, some call  it Chanukah, others call it Hanukkah
 and still others call it Thanksgiving. On Kaua'i  we call it Chanukaua'i.
Judith calls it Thanksgivingkah. No matter what you call it, the bottom is  we
all have  something (s) to be thankful for. Gobble Tov!
Judith Whitehead lives in Amherst N.Y. and has work in the ophthalmology
field of medicine. for almost 35 years.

Thanksgivingkah…a new word in our vocabular

This will be the first and last time we will see such a word that has been going around the universe this week; the clashing of the two holidays, Thanksgiving and Chanukah happened many thousand years ago and will not again happen in our lifetime .  

Our unusual celebration with family and friends started with lighting the Chanukah candles and enjoying the traditional turkey festivities.  Along with our turkey, stuffing and squash came latkas and Chanukah foods.   Both joyous  celebrations to enjoy!

So for this year and this year only…Happy Chanukah, Thanksgiving and Thanksgivingkah to all our friends Jewish and non Jew alike …enjoying the Festival of Lights.

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