• Impeccable hospitality • When will Americans take their country back? • Paper/plastic lifestyle change easy and overdue • Discuss ideas, don’t call names Impeccable hospitality When we evacuated Pono Kai on Thursday night we were among the first to
• Impeccable hospitality • When will
Americans take their country back? • Paper/plastic
lifestyle change easy and overdue • Discuss ideas,
don’t call names
Impeccable hospitality
When we evacuated Pono Kai on Thursday night we were among the first to arrive at Kapa‘a High School. We were greeted by both the principal and vice principal who greeted us as if they were inviting us in to their home. Two classrooms were open, and they opened additional classrooms as more people arrived.
The principal made coffee for his guests, we had televisions to keep us informed, and restrooms nearby. It was a pleasant way to make the most of an unfortunate situation.
Carl and Ginger Vertrees, Redmond, Oregon
When will Americans take their country back?
Looks like Obama is between a rock and a hard place.
Support freedom-seeking folks willing to fight and die for it or continue to support the dictators, kings and despots we always have always had in our pocket for our precious oil supply.
It seems we have chosen the latter.
While the Libyan population is outgunned and slaughtered, we tap dance around talking. It’s the hypocrisy of the man that makes me want to puke.
He promised change and yes, we can. Now all we get is why we can’t.
I wonder when, if ever, the American people will hit the streets en masse and take their country back? And by the way, what ever happened to the constitutional convention we are supposed to have in Hawai‘i? Isn’t it way overdue?
Michael Wells, Anahola
Paper/plastic lifestyle change easy and overdue
Referring to the letter of March 9, 2011, on the use of plastic bags as opposed to paper bags.
We are visitors here for the last two months and reside on the Mainland in Ohio. Our daughter and family live here permanently. We have read the paper daily and have shopped locally the entire time here, and are somewhat puzzled by all the comments on the issue of plastic vs. paper.
We are in total agreement with the banning of plastic bags at the stores and restaurants. Our landfills are getting overwhelmed with the stuff and if you drive along the roads, you see the effects of those bags being blown all over town and the mess they make not to mention getting into the waterways and making it to the precious sealife.
We have no such ban back in Ohio yet, but the effort is on to bring your re-usable bags to the store. If not, paper bags/re-usable bags are available at a cost to the customer which helps to promote teaching a better way of living. A lifestyle change.
If you just give paper bags away, you aren’t solving the problem. They should be available, but at a cost. By the way, our parents and we as children grew up with using reusable shopping bags, so this is not something that hasn’t worked before. Not all things in the past were the best ideas, but some were, and this one fits that definition.
Another idea that works is a great food store chain back home that has a European origin that has a unique system of handling their shopping carts and the results are truly amazing. There are no carts left all over the parking lot taking up spaces, and banging into your parked car. They use a simple but effective device that requires a quarter deposit into the handle of the cart when taking it, and when you return it to the outside front of the store you get your quarter back. It works wonderfully, and eliminates all the mess and hard retrieval efforts required all over the lots.
Be thankful for what you have here on Kauai and take care and respect it everyday. Keep the plastic to a minimum, it’s for everyone’s best interest after all.
Bob and Eva Safranek, Cleveland, Ohio
Discuss ideas, don’t call names
Kimo Rosen (“What’s in a name,” Letters, March 8) seems to think that if you aren’t an Obama supporter you are somehow a racist.
He suffers from “political correctness” and just because I didn’t faint at the message of “hope and change” by a slick-talking guy with no experience to be president doesn’t make me a racist.
Blindly following the “sheeple” like Mr. Rosen without questioning is dangerous. what is wrong with questioning where the president was born? I think every citizen has a “tangible interest” in where he was born.
I am not saying he was born in Hawai‘i or Kenya, I don’t know for sure where he was born because he has never released his full birth certificate, or his college records; why is he hiding this info?
It doesn’t make me a racist because I don’t like the president’s policies, higher unemployment, much more debt, a health care bill that wasn’t read because they rushed it through. How is the “hope and change” working out?
I have some advice for Mr. Rosen, “grow up.” Discussing ideas, not calling names, is an adult way to communicate about these issues.
If I follow Mr. Rosen’s logic, then all those on the “left” that don’t like Sarah Palin are sexist. By the way Mr. Rosen, you suffer from PDS, like David Letterman, you have Palin derangement syndrome. She did not say she could see Russia from her house, that was Tina Fey doing a comedy skit.
Mike Lyman, Lihu‘e
