•Big hearts prevail • Mahalo, Health Department • A digital world •Reciprocal rights for all! • Alcohol vs. marijuana •Lucky you live Hawai‘i Big hearts prevail Several days ago, I lost my wallet while bicycling home after work. Almost immediately,
•Big hearts prevail
• Mahalo, Health Department
• A digital world
•Reciprocal rights for all!
• Alcohol vs. marijuana
•Lucky you live Hawai‘i
Big hearts prevail
Several days ago, I lost my wallet while bicycling home after work. Almost immediately, I was surprised to receive a call that my wallet had been found.
Thanks to an anonymous person living at the homeless shelter, my wallet was returned intact. God bless those who may be down on their luck, but have a big heart.
Sherwood Conant, Kilauea
Mahalo, Health Department
My wife and I returned from the Mainland a short while ago. Imagine our surprise when we received a call from the Lihu‘e office of the Department of Health.
Unbeknownst to us, someone on our plane had contacted the swine flu virus and was ill. Our Department of Health has epidemiologists who researched all the passengers who were on the flight and made an effort to contact them to let them know that they had been exposed to this virus.
This is a lot of work behind the scenes that we never know about and rarely hear.
I would like to publicly thank this department and commend the superb efforts of these dedicated public employees. Much mahalo.
Monroe Richman, Koloa
A digital world
It used to be taking a photo was fun, now you need to be a computer geek to take photos.
I made my career at photography for over 20 years and being out of the business over 10 years has turned me into a dinosaur. You now need a computer, printer and a Ph.D. to get results in taking a simple photo.
Last year while visiting our friends at Costco one of the employees gave me a crash course in digital photography before purchasing my first digital camera. Like anything else, once you do it a few times it becomes second nature.
I can now post video’s to Youtube, send files to be printed at almost any store that prints photos and can send my digital photo files by e-mail to any periodical including the cosmic Garden Island paper for possible publication.
Film is no longer needed to take photos, and all the harsh abusive chemicals are not needed to process the film which in turn helps planet earth.
Next time you tell someone to smile and say cheese, know that digital photography is actually a breeze.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
Reciprocal rights for all!
Yes, Triaka Smith, Kaua‘i needs the Constitution of United Diversity. (“Sovereigns vs. slaveholders,” Letters, May 19)
This little island suggests utopia. Your Constitution would create a social utopia here by controlling dominance and privilege on Kaua‘i. Reciprocal (not “equal”) rights and powers could destroy slave-driving overnight.
Let the slave take the whip out of the hand of the slave-driver. Let’s reciprocate! Let’s take turns!
Working people here are certainly feeling the lash as there is an ongoing renaissance of slave-driving. Ask the slaves with two jobs living on the beach.
Employees here are being ground into the dirt under the lash. Meanwhile the slave-drivers plant more trees to beautify their estates and the Garden Island. The Kaua‘i Alliance for Peace and Social Justice will soon launch their own Tree Planting Project!
“Reciprocal” is a better word than “equal.” Let the person living at the Lihu‘e Shelter “take her turn” in an ‘Anini Beach house. It is not the house itself nor the private property but the social position, the privilege, that “reciprocal” is all about.
Let the slave-driver from Po‘ipu “take a turn” living at the Shelter. Kaua‘i could become a utopia overnight.
Reciprocal human relations could be derived from your use of “balanced” to qualify “equal.” Equal rights needs some modification; reciprocal turns the trick. Why can’t all of us on Kaua‘i enjoy this utopia with reciprocal rights and powers?
Dwight de Armas, Kapa‘a
Alcohol vs. marijuana
First off, I will say I don’t smoke marijuana nor do I judge the people that do, there’s only one who can judge, and that’s God.
If people want to smoke, it’s up to them. Marijuana does not make people violent and abusive toward their family members or friends. Alcohol sure does, why is it legal is my question?
Alcohol has a long-term effect on our body, just as much as marijuana, but yet it’s looked at as the norm to go out and get drunk, but the minute there’s marijuana involved, it’s the world’s biggest sin.
Our prisons are overpopulated with marijuana possession charges, and the taxpayers are paying for it. I’d rather see my money go somewhere productive, like the Boys and Girls Club.
We spend millions on trying to eradicate the plants and dealers with the FBI and local law enforcement, but yet “ice” rules the streets. All because it’s a federal law.
Marijuana doesn’t make our world a dangerous place. Yea, it can make it a unproductive one, but if people want to smoke and it makes them feel better, then so be it.
I’d rather see that then all the money wasted on trying to eradicate it, money that could go to rehab programs to keep people drug-free, or programs for the youth of today, so they don’t feel the need to go and get high.
People are going to smoke no matter what, so legalize it and tax it, but that’s only my opinion.
Zeenice Roja, Kapa‘a
Lucky you live Hawai‘i
In an attempt to stop driver’s license fraud, four states — Arkansas, Indiana, Nevada and Virginia — are ordering people not to smile in their license photos.
Shouldn’t be too difficult to enforce, there isn’t much to smile about if you live in those states anyway.
Johnny Robish, Kapa‘a