• This is ‘our’ beach • Health care remedy • Unprecedented fabrication • Public funding Health care remedy Since the health care insurance lobbyists bought the Senate there is still talk about health care reform. In my opinion, it isn’t
• This is ‘our’ beach
• Health care remedy
• Unprecedented fabrication
• Public funding
Health care remedy
Since the health care insurance lobbyists bought the Senate there is still talk about health care reform.
In my opinion, it isn’t going to happen. Nothing that Speaker Pelosi and the House do will be relevant. Lobby money cannot buy the senate permanently, but on an issue by issue basis, it is a formidable force. It will continue to be so until the amount of money that lobbyists can give to individual senators is limited to reasonable campaign contributions. Until then, this system of legalized bribery of the senate will continue.
Speaker Pelosi and the members of the house should be fighting this situation tooth and nail, but they seem to just sit back and take it.
The only hope, as I see it, is for the Congress to pass something; any kind of health care measure, which can be amended into a more favorable bill in a future session.
There may be other ways to remedy this situation, but I for one, can’t think of one.
Harry Boranian, Lihu‘e
This is ‘our’ beach
In response to the letter “Guns on Xmas,” I feel I had to write this letter. We should be thankful for our law enforcement, security personnel and armed forces of this country.
Because of them we can enjoy our freedom of surfing and enjoying our beaches. Remember Dec. 7, 1941, when Pearl Harbor was bombed on a holiday. Maybe you were too young to know that. I also need to inform you that the rifle range was there in the 1950s and doubt that you were here then.
There is about three miles of beach from Inters to what the surfers calls Targets. Let me tell you that there is a heck of a lot of places on this island where you can enjoy the beach but only one rifle and pistol range most of us use. Let the name Targets that the surfer’s name that spot speak for itself.
I know that the beach fronting Kekaha has disappeared but it happens time and again every winter when the current change and the large winter swell roll in. Let me say also that the range is not in use everyday and when it is use, notices are published in the paper and broadcast on the radio stations for interest of public safety.
It is also illegal to drive your vehicle on the beach if you’re not fishing. I also find it down right irresponsible when people speed on the beach with their 4-wheel drive vehicles and ATVs.
Let me say also that security personnel are training for their jobs that it is a requirement for their profession. To say “come on” is a bit selfish when we here are surrounded by water.
I think you need to get a grip on what is good for you. We are here on this beautiful great island and most of us are family and friends and the need to work and play together and especially respect one another is truly the local spirit. The idea of saying this is my beach is not right but saying this is our beach is correct. We all share the beach.
David Ayabe, Waimea
Unprecedented fabrication
In the Dec. 28 letter “Climategate” Robin Clark quotes climatologist Michael Oppenheimer, “The Earth has warmed more than 1 degree Celsius over the last century. Global sea level has risen 7 inches. Both major ice sheets are losing ice rapidly.”
Actually, the Earth has only warmed 1/2 a degree Celsius above the historical mean, actual observed sea levels have not risen, as opposed to simulated models, and total global ice mass has not been significantly lost when the full annual cycles are measured and compared.
This is why Climategate is important, because data and facts have been manipulated by those scientists and some politicians with vested interests toward an outcome of not to actually solve environmental problems, such as pollution and resource depletion, but for the furtherance of a global tax regime and government for wealth redistribution across national borders.
There are some climate changes taking place on Earth, we as humans are using up depletable resources at an alarming rate, and we as humans are introducing too much non-biodegradable waste into the environment, but it has not been scientifically shown that humans are causing “global warming” with the introduction of too much CO2 (a safe, necessary compound for biologic function) into the atmosphere.
The tenets of the “global warming” theory are patently false, and the years ahead will reveal this to be an unprecedented fabrication attempted on the human race.
Thank heaven for Climategate.
Brad Parsons, Hanalei
Public funding
In the Leading Voices section of the Dec. 29 edition of The Garden Island, Sen. Gary Hooser indicated that his leading legislative priority will be “Education first and the rest will follow.”
On Jan. 15, TGI reported that, in his run for the office of lieutenant governor, he will accept public funding to the tune of $86,300 in state funds. Given the current dire economic condition of the State of Hawai‘i, just how many books and computers for students could $86,300 buy?
R. Sina, Lihu‘e
