Housing squeeze on Kauai
Thank you, Allan Parachini, for examining the houseless problem from a new angle. I noticed that in the same issue of The Garden Island was an article titled “Venice ready to turn back tourists if too many come.” Like Venice, we will have to use all available tools to improve the housing problem and our deteriorating living conditions. Be it seasonal worker housing, caps on rental car numbers, tighter VRBO restrictions, rent control housing or a big “No Vacancy” sign at the airport.
Respectfully, Katie and I offer one small correction to Mr. Parachini’s article. Of our current roster of 40 we have 26 full-time employees. The Kilauea Bakery is proud to employ and insure as many full-time employees as our schedule can handle. Insurance and full-time employment is one of our more fulfilling expenses and an intentional strategy for attracting and keeping people.
By closing on Tuesdays, after 27 years, you can be assured we will strengthen our dedicated crew, many who have been with us for 10 to 20 years and often are the inspiration to keep us going.
Thomas Pickett, Kilauea
Know island history before weighing in on mayor race
Ms. Dux, I’m pretty sure the North Shore area received considerable damage during both hurricanes Iwa and Iniki. Keep in mind that a lot of the structures that were recently damaged weren’t around back then and neither was the volume of vehicles. So I don’t know where you’re coming from with the comment “history of history.” You may want to conduct more research prior to making such a bold statement, as the island also received considerable damage by two tidal waves in 1946 and 1957.
As for Ms. Davis’ recent article in regards to Mayor Yukimura not being in charge of the military personnel who deployed here to “help and assist,” but instead either sat on their hands or tossed a football around. As mayor of this county she’s responsible for everything that happens or fails to happen under her direct or indirect control. So yes she was in charge, and should have worked more with military leaders to mobilize troops to get out and into the neighborhoods to assist in whatever way possible, instead of two weeks later.
So, unfortunately for Ms. Yukimura, I think that scenario will rear its ugly head in the voters’ booth. But last time I checked Hawaii is still a part of the United States of America (as controversial as that is). So everyone can vote for the candidate that they feel is the most deserving of their vote. Kawakami 2018!
Ka‘aona Kipuka, Lawai
Teachers shouldn’t teach their own views
We have all seen how Fresno State University’s Randa Jarrar can make all manner of repugnant remarks and be protected bythe First Amendment. No matter that many others in various occupations have lost their jobs for social media posts.
Here’s a wild idea. I think that all social science teachers and professors who lecture on history, society, economics andpolitics should have a good enough grasp and working knowledge of Left, Center and Right that they could completely anddispassionately articulate those ideas and educate the kids without propagandizing to them.
Ideally the kids should receive an understanding of the different viewpoints to make their own decisions and if this was donesuccessfully, they wouldn’t have a clue as to which way their teachers leaned.
The way it is now, kids are being force-fed indoctrination by teachers according to the teacher’s beliefs. Kids think theslanted education is so completely truthful that they think it’s not only perfectly normal, they think any contravening thoughtto be irrational and evil.
They are not being taught to think critically, only to react against any thoughts not in alignment with what they believe.Sometimes those reactions are to become “triggered” and have emotional meltdowns requiring safe spaces, other timesdivergent views are met with vitriol but never understanding much less acceptance that there are other valid viewpoints in theworld.
It’s OK for teachers and professors to have personal convictions right or left but being in a position of power, control andinfluence over kids, they should leave those political leanings outside the classroom.
Teach kids to think for themselves, encourage logic, reasoning and critical thinking. It’s said the children are our future.Compare them with the Greatest Generation. Are we on the right path?
Stan Lake, Kalaheo
Mindless Indoctrination of the Left Winged Loons! MAGA,Donald J.Trump,he’s our Man! Draining the Swamp in Washington D.C!
Tom, this has gotten to the point of no return. Every illegal vacation rental could be shut down and rented to locals, then what? Businesses like yours cater to tourists occupying the vacation rentals.
Very few landlords like to rent long term anymore. their investments get trashed.
Building shopping centers, like the one across the street from you, without housing for the employees and infrastructure is a major part of the problem. It’s called Return On Investment.
Tom you are a business man, pencil out the cost of building a new apartment complex for your employees, then figure what the cost of rent will be for them. Can you afford to pay them this wage?
My wife and I did our part to ” improve ” your problem. We moved. We rent one side of our condo to a full time resident at a rate so that they can afford to work for you, the other side is rented to tourists ( legally ),
who can afford to eat at your store.
The problem squarely falls on the shoulders of the city/county planners. The residents of Kauai need professional people with experience dealing with your problems. You don’t need local lifetime ” politicians ” who have failed year after year. Either way there will continue to be a bigger gap between ” us and them “.
Best of success, remember though, it’s all good, no worries brah.
I am a former resident who has been frustrated during my last few trips to Kauai by, for example, not even being able to get anywhere near Ke`e Beach. I can only imagine how frustrating this must be for you living there.
Quoting from Allan Parachinni’s article: “the owner wanted $3,600 per month. Pickett was incredulous, he said. But the owner’s rejoinder, he recalled, was: “That’s how much I can get renting this through Airbnb.”
For better or worse, that says it all, doesn’t it?
If it’s any consolation, Kauaians, you are not alone facing this problem. It’s happening everywhere that’s desirable and people want to visit.
I don’t have the answer except for agreeing on a community decision to say STOP — NO MORE! and then let the legal system sort through the mess to see who wins. I doubt if that owner who would rather maximize his profits than rent to his neighbors (and supposed friends) will give up without a fight.
Sincerely, good luck!
Great letter Stan! Unfortunately, the educational system of the United States, in many areas beginning in Middle School, has been taken over by left leaning propagandists who just can’t help themselves. But please keep working hard to spread your common sense and intelligent approach to education in the face of those with their selfish, ulterior motives who are doing their best to lead our country to hell.
Fifty years ago, the John Birch Society equivalent of today’s Gordon Oswald said nearly the identical thing about all the teachers being communists. As you now know, it was true! That’s why the communists won!
@Just Saying — The John Birch Society was never accurate in its interpretations of what was going on in our country. As J. Edgar Hoover and senior FBI officials concluded in FBI internal memos, the JBS was a “right wing extremist” organization that was “irrational” and “irresponsible”.
ernie1241 … I can’t read Just Saying’s mind, but when he writes “it was true! That’s why the communists won,” I’m pretty sure he was employing satire.
Absolutely correct Ernie! Now look up “ironic sarcasm” in the dictionary and you’ll see my message again!
I understand — but numerous Birchers and their supporters post messages online which are NOT “ironic sarcasm” — so I just wanted to clarify the historical record.
middle and H.S. will be made charter home schooling with weekly face to face meetings and for sports purposes. Campuses will be turned into Trade schools as well as testing for every Thing that needs credentials, operating licenses, contractor, plumbing in conjunction with U.H. and H.S. Mid school campuses turned college prep satellite. Parents and sibling participation is essential, but if can not be, then always individual face to face meetings can be more support until it is no longer requred. TRULY not left behind. my inspiration, me myself and i
That pretty much sums you up, Debra: “me, myself and i.”
Lenny has got this guys!! All hail the next mayor!!
If Stan Lake had actually spent any time on a US University campus in the past 30 years. or knew anything about academic issues, he would know that an almost unanimous collection of professors care very deeply about being “fair and balanced” not just as an ignored slogan. They are challenged to demonstrate it on a daily basis and do an outstanding job.
A Fresno State prof makes a statement about Stan’s fatuous, vulgar, unfaithful, racist, temporary president and suddenly it’s like some Fresno hick climbs off his tractor and says: “Ya’ll see this here? They all be like this ya’hear? I been a tellin’ ya’ll! They be poisoning the brains of our children who are too dumb to think for themselves!”
Of course this then generalizes into geezer blather about university teaching methods that deny critical thinking. Such a conclusion cannot even be made about this one single prof in Fresno; let alone, all others. If you’re gonna prove that everyone is doing the opposite of every university’s mission statement (promote critical thinking) you’re gonna need more than one truthful statement from one person who could no longer contain her contempt for a vile scumbag!
It’s always nice to hear from Peter Antonson, the perpetually offended troll of TGI. Thank you for making my point about how education has been replaced with indoctrination leaving a wake of victims rabidly foaming at the mouth when triggered. When you have no facts to support your position you must resort to attacking one’s character. I tried not to make this a Left versus Right matter but look at the facts. Do a Google search for Liberal Bias in Academia and you will get hundreds of thousands of hits. Now type in Conservative Bias in Academia and none of the articles are about that, they all point back to liberal bias. This should come as no surprise as liberals have overwhelmed the education system in this country. Good job liberals, you can proudly take full credit or responsibility for the quality of education today as it is a reflection of your mindset.
I don’t care what a teacher’s beliefs are, my only point was they should be able to teach without spewing propaganda and using their tenure as a sword, not a shield as in the case of Professor Randa Jarrar who taunted her critics by saying she could say anything she wants and never be fired. Don’t confuse a person’s right to free speech with a parent’s right their children not be subjected to indoctrination and this goes for either side of the political spectrum. I don’t think the histories of either of our two reigning parties are devoid of merit or deserving of all-out adulation but a good teacher should be able to articulate the differences between Left and Right, how they have evolved and point to where their philosophies have been implemented and the results. Instead of thoughtful debate we are reduced to impugning character and wrestling in the mud. Then again, you can’t debate someone devoid of facts. It wasn’t anything Randa Jarrar said about Trump that riled anyone up; her vile statements were leveled at Barbara Bush, a recently deceased private citizen who has never held office yet was praised by President Clinton as “a remarkable woman” with “grit and grace, brains and beauty.” Barack Obama said she had “humility and decency that reflects the very best of the American spirit.” Professor Jarrar wrote “I’m happy the witch is dead.” For people that do not see this train of thought in a teacher to be a problem then no amount of discussion will change their minds. We can only pray for and have pity for them.
The reason you get thousands of hits for “Liberal Bias in Academia,” Stan, is because your little right wing extremist friends put them there. Speaking of an education, you need one on how the internet works.
Just for example, the 5th article on the first page of a google search on “Liberal Bias in Academia,” is from the New York Post Newspaper. Who owns the NY Post, Stan? Why Rupert Murdoch, the owner of FOX News and an entire array of other nazi propaganda vehicles you like to hear from!
Here’s the funny part, Stan, You guys think you’re actually fooling everybody with this closed loop of right wing TV, radio, newspaper and magazines that all quote each other and nobody else. Hey, the elite sees through it in a New York minute! You make fools of yourselves with biased references. It’s the very opposite of critical thinking!
Stan, I’m pretty sure you don’t know any teachers on Kauai. After bad mouthing them since you recently arrived from Fresno, you’re not likely to get to know any either! Just so you know what you’re getting into, teachers are held in high regard on Kauai!
One thing is completely clear: Mr. Kipuka has never been in the military.
1. “Hurry up and wait” is a military way of life. What do you do while you’re waiting? (besides smoking and throwing footballs) You bring up grandiose conspiracy theories as to why you’re waiting!
2. The military troop numbers are based on reinforcements to those active. That means half of the troops have to wait. What do you do while you’re waiting? You bring up grandiose conspiracy theories as to why you’re waiting!
3. Waiting troops are never given useful, truthful information as to why they’re inactive. Why? Because every commander knows that no troop believes the grandiose conspiracy theories made up about why you’re waiting!
4. Who does believe these theories? Those who never served!
Dear TGI editors:
I don’t expect you to correct spelling, grammar or punctuation in an opinion column but don’t make it worse but running words together that weren’t submitted that way to you. But even if they were, it would increase the clarity for your readers to separate words that were not meant to be conjoined.
Stan, Great letter. But I doubt too many teachers can resist using their forum to proselytize students with their own views. Many textbooks are created by the far left, so it is easy for left-wing teachers to go with the propaganda flow.
I believe this editing problem of joining words together comes from TGI’s online program. I submit letters by email instead, which seems to help. Aloha
Mark, you need to take a hard look at the Texas Textbook Industry which monopolizes the market. oh, and it’s far, far from being “leftist” (a concept I don’t think you personally can any longer define).
Once you’ve researched the Texas Textbook Industry, I think you’ll agree with me that when you’re wrong, you are spectacularly wrong!
Yes.. I have had conversation with Mr. Buley and I too advise letter writing and commenting works the best e-mailed . This form program has a miiiind of it’s own. And the best part you have a copy of what you sent.
i think that enterprising sole proprietor (safe) businesses work with all inventory from all the different area hotel. There are enough hotel rooms that the corporate owners must be mandated to open to all your people with jobs, even our homeless could be given some hard earned Dignity, Wherever there are Employees or other victims awaiting as in the bakery, this activity would show humanity at its greatest moments. That idea just needs a few bold or courageous approach spokesperson…its sorta like panhandling…Or lease Kumu Camp Dannerhola Robin may give you a good dhhl lease as she has for Uturnforchrist from california, AND KIUC lease, but didnt put one PV sys on any existing homes? We installed Yurts pv water gas systems, like our DHHL beach houses, all places saved but currently choke full free! Except generator gas, hot shower and cooking gas tank the new ohana earlier left behind. In fact, since WE the PEOPLE have been taxed to drowned stages, I believe that this catastrophic event must include all political corporate, nonprofit corporates, LLC, six agri biz gmo corporates, corporate federal PMRF, Billionaire et al be turned Profit-sharing. Sole proprietory businesses are safe. All corporates will be assessed a certain percentage that combined, will restore heavily monitored population vehicle Moratorium, collect repair ALL roads, infrastructure, islandwide recycle mandated. A new Disposal Dump on or near to airport current recycle center, where old Barreto councilman Auto Aid lands will be the new kekaha dump replacement site, NEVER Kalepa. ALL Water diversion will be forever returned back to where God put it to begin with, and we will be like it was fifty years ago, when we could breath AND knew who was your ohana. I believe and thus vote for Debra Kekaualua 2018 Kauai Mayor, I have every skill set USAF brat warrior
Regarding your “I have every skill set” statement, Debra: I would have to agree with you—that is, if by “skill set,” you mean convoluted thinking and obfuscation.
For example, the very first sentence: “i think that enterprising sole proprietor (safe) businesses work with all inventory from all the different area hotel.”
If you can’t even construct a simple sentence that readers would understand, how do you expect anyone to vote for you for Mayor? But take solace: since it’s legal to vote for yourself, you’re guaranteed one vote anyway.
A very good consideration besides left right and middle opinions while teaching is the much important issue of teaching the very young and upper ages as well as to all the parts of their body (anatomy),the functions of their body (Physiology), the internal workings of the many different cells of the body (histology), and the interaction of food becoming body parts and food used for producing energy, etc., is a objective study of a child’s and young adult’s very own self, being an integral part of ones own health care (education) and is the primary building blocks of maintaining ones health and restoring ones own health as well in times of ones need.
Taking care of ones own health is easier when one knows their own body; it is the very process of the prevention of disease.
Relying on others for the care of ones sicknesses and diseases is turning ones own self over to the disease care system and the reliance, for the most part, on drugs and surgery, when obviously prevention is the better choice.
The old saying…”prevention is the cure” is as true today as it was when these words of wisdom were first uttered…over and over and over the ages.
Many people ignore words of wisdom and for example prefer a red hot dog over a fresh salad.
And that is why our youth should be educated about their bodies so that they are able to partake in their own health care (prevention) and decisions; and with human body health education, with that knowledge let them then choose the red hot dog or the fresh salad. All bets are on the fresh salad.
Mahalo,
Charles
Hey Charlie, the CDC just told us not to eat lettuce! Wow, they don’t say that about hot dogs!!!!
This Debra character is crazy as a loon!! Lenny will hire her in some capacity as
Court jester, it will be perfect!!!
Put a 55% tax on all legal vacation rentals and then make all the other
Illegal rentals subject to forfeiture if found guilty. I know it sounds harsh but drastic times call for drastic measures. Hit the issue head on and watch everything fall into place the way it should be….mahalo
McCrackenmacken, you gonna get that drive through the cane field yet! The sound you hear is a giant flush, whoosh. DK for mayor God help us all.
I hear they’re very pretty this time of year.
DK’s cane ride vehicle blew up for lack of oil. Of course DK thinks a Seal Team from PMRF did it; because nothing is ever DK’s fault!
Aloha Just Saying,
The CDC (Center for Disease Control) No longer carries the respect it used to having been “caught with its fingers in the cookie jar”.
You see some of its top officials have been connected to corporations that have, to say the least, disrespected the environment and the health of the very people they are meant to protect…us.
So relying on the CDC is becoming a thing of the past for many inquiring minds.
Note the CDC did not say all “lettuce” needs throwing out or not purchased, because it is not the actual lettuce itself that is the issue for the warning, but the man made contamination the lettuce encountered somewhere from on the farm to your table.
That contamination is too often manmade carcinogenic petrochemicals in the form of Agricultural poisons the use of which is irresponsibly over used on Kauai at the expense of our health, and our keiki and even the unborn as they now know these chemicals are severely harmful for all people and “pre-people”.
Other food contamination is from human waste, sewage, which is another manmade error polluting our food production that should be monitored by the CDC to prevent that from happening, but sadly this form of pollution gets overlooked, and all we get is an after the fact warning.
And that is why my comment above yours emphasizes self monitoring of our own health. Health Care is personal, no one but your self can direct and monitor your actual Health Care, because as soon as you go to the doctor or hospital, take blood tests, etc., you are undergoing Disease Care and moving further from health due to not only the dependency on, but the side effects and surgical mutilations provided by Disease Care.
Remember actual Health Care is something you must do everyday, as in a routine, starting with the basics such as SWARE, doing this acronym every day. Sun-Water-Air-Rest-Exercise. From there be very careful to not put foolish things in your body like chemicals and the many manufactured sugars used today to cut the food production cost down by replacing actual food by bulking up packages of food with sugars (there are now 60 forms of manufactured sugars that are put in our foods disguised with lenghty names).
Of course some of the other poisons we put foolishly and immaturely into our bodies on a daily basis are alcohol, tobacco, and drugs; all of which become for many, regrettable later in life.
If all farmers and corporate farmers, corporate food manufacturers, and corporate restaurants were fully responsible for the foods they provided us, things would be a lot easier and better for our health.
You see this would amount to additional actual Health Care for all of us. Clean, safe, unpolluted, poison-free, non-chemical FOOD guaranteed before we eat it.
And if that was the case, Mr. Just Saying, Red Hot Dogs would not be on the market for consumption if people read the ingredients and knew what the ingredients are, what they are made from and what they can do to your health. You see the least of the chemicals in the hot dog is the Red Dye #5, or #50 or whatever patented pseudo science chemical configuration is being poured into the hot dog. We can assure you the RED color is not from natural beet juice, as that would raise the competitive cost of the food or lower the profit margin for the manufacturer.
An interesting concept is that all people both sick and healthy, all do the same thing, that one common denominator is that is they all eat food. But wait, the people are different. And what is the difference? The difference is that healthy people eat healthy food and stick people eat food that makes you sick. Contaminated lettuce makes you sick, natural safe lettuce does not. The job of the CDC is to keep all food safe and not contaminated; yet most food in America is contaminated with chemicals of every description and not only is it allowed because of corporate profit but it goes against our health and human values leading innocent, but ignorant, people to trust these foods and ingest today what will make them sick tomorrow, sick from a combination of things:
1.) lack of Plant Based Nutrition
2.) accumulation of decades of eating foods with petrochemicals in the food used for artificial flavors and colors, and preservatives, antibiotics, vaccines, pesticide, insecticide, hormones, food from animals who have disease, tumors, infections in their flesh that you are eating, processed and refined grains, genetically modified food…the list is goes on and on.
Hey people, do you prefer your food grown or manufactured ? Plastic is manufactured, truck tires are manufactured…you want your food manufactured ?
When you are sick, Do you want to be cured ? Or if knew better would you prefer your inborn healing process controlled by your nervous system to restore your health as it is genetically intended to do.
With all the King’s Horses and all the King’s Men…etc., and same rhyme, so far the prominent hospital based Disease Care System, with all the hospitals and drugs and surgeries has not won the War on Cancer, Obesity, Diabetes, Heart and Vascular Disease and all the rest, because CURING humans is not part of our body’s normal physiology. Curing is possible with leather, resin, beef jerky, and corned beef ! But not humans.
All disease statistics are getting worse, and people born after the 1950’s when Disease Technology rapidly began increasing, and so did
the inceease in manufactured foods, people are dying younger than those born before, look at the Kaua’i longevity of the elderly. The War on Disease is turning out like Vietnam, it made a lot of money for some war corporations, but too many lives lost and injured and maimed…and for what? While petrochemical drug corporations are raking in $4 Trillion dollars a year along with their Diseae Care counterparts, the Insurance Companies, Hospitals, and doctors. But we can’t blame the doctors because their education, like ours, is extremely limited. They study only 2 years about the body (our children can learn that in 12 years of elementary and high school)’ and another 2 years studying disease and then are an M.D., medical doctor. In that time they do not study health or nutrition, our foods, nor howto restore and maintain Health. And that is what 95% of the public relies on…Disease Care and no Health Care. It sure is true…
Old Ruts wear Deep… ! ! !
There are many people on earth who live healthy into their 10th and 11th decades (read the GARDEN ISLAND obituaries), and some who have never been to a doctor, and many people on earth who at different ages have never returned to a doctor or hospital or the Disease Care System because they changed their diet to chemical free and sugar free (read the ingredients on your food labels) and converted to a predominately Plant Based Nutrition (PBN) diet and lifestyle.
You know people, especially men, who rely on PBN, DO NOT HAVE those too popular today enormous bulging bellies hanging out over their belts. Do you ever wonder what is in those bellies? Well it ain’t male pregnancy ! If you had elementary and high school anatomy , physiology, histology, and biochemistry you would know…and it ain’t pretty…in fact it is disgusting !
And you wonder why having a Big Belly is not considered a disease in itself, especially since it is a curtain hiding more than 1 disease inside your body.
And why is no one telling those with Big Belly that they are sick? Because the disease system relies on Mr. Big Belly being sick and leading Big Belly to become dependent on the Disease Care System and their drugs and surgery. This perpetuates the Big 4 components of the Disease Care System, mentioned above, to maintain their $4 Trillion a year income ( that’s 4,000 Billions). Is there a good enough reason that the road to Health is not taught in our public and private school systems.
“An ounce of PREVENTION is worth a pound of CURE”.
Take care of yourself, otherwise you will have to leave it up to the same chemical companies that put all those chemicals in your food, all those chemicals in the over-the-counter drugs, and in the prescription drugs, and all the chemicals now finally being restricted a little that are being sprayed on the food, the farms, the land, and the waterways; and even the LETTUCE.
Mahalo,
Charles
Poor Charlie has confused the CDC for the EPA and it’s current controversies, but, hey, when you’re part of the ignorant antiscience, antivax crowd it’s all like horseshoes anyway and “close counts,” what sounds good is good, and every conspiracy is true!