• Patience appreciated • Mahalo to Kaua‘i voters and volunteers • Invasive economies Patience appreciated Kaua‘i Democrats voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama for the presidential nomination in Tuesday’s caucuses. At the Lihu‘e caucus at HGEA, the registration table opened two
• Patience appreciated
• Mahalo to Kaua‘i voters and volunteers
• Invasive economies
Patience appreciated
Kaua‘i Democrats voted overwhelmingly for Barack Obama for the presidential nomination in Tuesday’s caucuses. At the Lihu‘e caucus at HGEA, the registration table opened two hours earlier than scheduled to accommodate the unprecedented number of voters. The line extended through HGEA’s parking lot onto Akahi Street and up toward Ahukini Road. Despite that, some voters waited almost three hours to register and cast their votes. No one was turned away.
To those who voted, the Democratic Party applauds your commitment, your patience and your perseverance. We also apologize for the inconvenience that many of you endured in order to vote. You have shown that you are emissaries of democratic values and principles. You can make a difference.
The Democratic Party also thanks the many officers and volunteers who stepped up to the plate to help with the caucuses. You performed above and beyond the call of duty. We will be forever grateful.
Linda Estes
Chair, Kauai Democratic Party
Mahalo to Kaua‘i voters and volunteers
Thank you so much to those who came out to participate in the Presidential Preference Caucus on Tuesday. It was an awesome sight to see at the HGEA polling site for District 15 which covered five precincts. No one in their wildest imagination could have conceived the numbers that would turn out.
My appreciation to all my volunteers who manned the registration table, the site workers who directed traffic, the precinct officers who took attendance and explained to their precinct voters the process and took care of precinct business.
To the HGEA staff who were on site, thank you for making voter registration and party card copies as well as additional ballots. We thank you for the use of your meeting room. Many know how I tried to change the venue, but was denied. Without their standby, many would not have been able to vote.
I thank all the businesses and non-profits along Akahi Street, Kuhio Highway and Ahukini Road who allowed parking on their sites.
There were many who assisted those disabled to fill out forms and assisted them inside the building. We had people who were blind, in wheelchairs, canes and other disabilities made known to us so we could assist. However, the handicap parking lot became difficult to be accessed because of the lines of people wanting to come in. No one was turned away to vote. Thank you for your patience and calm in such a chaotic situation. You made everything much easier for us.
Mahalo to those who donated refreshments, who stayed to clean up the HGEA room, put away tables and chairs, sweep and pack up. You all are so appreciated.
Janice Bond
District 15 Chair
Invasive economies
Today, I read this article with great amusement, especially the part that mentioned vacation rental properties destroyed neighborhoods (“Bill bans new vacation rentals,” A1, Feb. 21).
Today, there is a related article in the Honolulu Advertiser on B3 about the invasive species destroying the coastal eco-system, and the front page story about access to sacred sites denied by the military, also in the Advertiser. And then there is the reader who complained about the barking dogs and crowing roosters in your own paper, to which I have noticed reader response every day since I read the letter.
In Charles Darwin’s work, such as “On the Origin of Species,” and “The Descent of Man,” Mr. Darwin noted how invasive foreign species always alter the environment to sustain themselves, always (and I emphasize always) displacing and destroying the indigenous species of any given habitat. Adam Smith made a similar observation in Wealth of Nations in regard to human beings, noting that any foreign trade a nation engages in detroys the importing nation’s ability to sustain its own industry and self-sufficiency, leaving that society’s culture and economy devastated and destroyed in the process. Now, be alarmed, because as a society’s economy declines, the profits the shippers make off their trade goods increase; and it is always (and again I emphasize always) in the interest of big business to destroy a country’s self-sufficiency, culture and economy. Another book I read by Jacqueta Hawkes about the first three great civilizations (Mesopotamia, the Indus, and Egypt) revealed how foreign influence and trade destroyed all three cultures, although Ms. Hawkes herself never made the connection, although she presented all the facts necessary to draw the proper conclusion.
In successful manipulation of the mind, the trainer seeks to have the subject think the opposite of what is true, rather than say the opposite of what he thinks. Diversity within a single society does not produce clarity and serenity, rather confusion and disorder. And competition only increases choices in the short term; the very nature of competition itself destroys choice, removing from the society any options other than the competitive course it has chosen to pursue. In Mr. Darwin’s work, the main, underlying theme of his work is that human beings are the children of monkeys destined to perpetual struggle leading to conflict leading only to extermination and extinction.
Derral Fuller
Princeville
