• A fowl predicament • Nuclear reaction • Some counsel for the Council • Respect for marine life A fowl predicament I have been amused by the responses to my letter (Kaua‘i and its roosters…), three of which essentially told
• A fowl predicament • Nuclear reaction • Some counsel for the Council • Respect for marine life
A fowl predicament
I have been amused by the responses to my letter (Kaua‘i and its roosters…), three of which essentially told me not to come back to Kaua‘i. All I said was that roosters screeching outside your bedroom is noisier than Downtown LA. Obviously, people go to LA for entertainment, and to Kaua‘i for peace and beauty.
If local people enjoy the screeching, then hotel managers need to do a better job in ridding their grounds of roosters for visitors who come to Kaua‘i for peace. They could also help by introducing Kaua‘i chicken into restaurants as a niche local item. The suggestion by one reader to cook them with green papaya was superb. Most visitors, at least, would prefer to eat them rather than to be woken up by them.
One respondent referred to me as a tourist who wants to “change the island.” But, what about the changes caused by the chicken since they were released by the hurricane, so that Kaua‘i has become less of a peaceful haven? To at least move the birds into enclosed areas, as they were pre-hurricane, is not a “change” but a restoration. This is the issue that needs to be discussed, rather than reacting defensively to visitors’ comments.
Philip Stevens, La Canada, Calif.
Nuclear reaction
Even in the face of the catastrophe in Japan, President Obama is still insisting that America needs nuclear power. OK, perhaps he is right. If construction, management, and operation remains outside of the control of a ‘for profit’ corporation, I may support his position.
If Obama insists that the “free market” will provide the best nuclear option — like BP was the best option in the Gulf of Mexico — there is no way I will be able to support him. (Not that I support the traitor in other arenas now.)
Corporations have shown over and over again, that their main reason for existence is to concentrate wealth in the hands of fewer and fewer people no matter what the consequences to the rest of us.
John Zwiebel, Kalaheo
Some counsel for the Council
Kaua’i county council meetings are now available via live-streaming on your computer every Wednesday morning commencing at 9 a.m. What a great asset being able to observe council meetings live! This saves gas and time for anyone interested in local politics.
The only thing missing is being able to testify from home, with the price of gas and most people do not have a $500 a month car allowance as do the council members.
There is a simple solution, the county could download “Skype” so people from home could testify. It would be an added asset to the live streaming process. Skype is free computer to computer and would actually be more controlled than live testimony, since the chair could easily enforce the three-minute limit by use of Skype, people would have to stay within the three-minute limit or be cut off.
Please consider adding Skype to council live-streams.
One more question for the county council, does public testimony really matter? Has anyone’s public testimony ever changed the mind of any council member on anything? My guess is not.
James “Kimo” Rosen, Kapa‘a
