• Comparison is an insult • Mahalo for summer camp • What’s good for the Superferry… • Mann would be missed • To Ian Costa, County Planning Director Comparison is an insult Please let me respond to Morton Kondracke’s column,
• Comparison is an insult
• Mahalo for summer camp
• What’s good for the Superferry…
• Mann would be missed
• To Ian Costa, County Planning Director
Comparison is an insult
Please let me respond to Morton Kondracke’s column, Monday, Aug. 20, about the ‘good Bush/bad Bush debate and Karl Rove’s comments on same. I would like to quote Bill Moyer, a most respected, admired and well-read journalist:
….. “Karl Rove figured out a long time ago that the way to take an intellectually incurious draft-averse naughty playboy in a flight suit with chewing tobacco in his back pocket and make him governor of Texas, was to sell him as God’s anointed to a state where preachers and televangelists outnumber oil derricks and jack rabbits. Using church pews as precincts Rove turned religion into a weapon of political combat-a battering ram…
….Greed and God won four elections in a row — twice in the Lone Star state and twice again in the nation at large. But the result has been to leave Texas under the thumb of big money with huge holes ripped in its social contract, and the U.S. Government in shambles — paralyzed, polarized, and mired in war, debt and corruption.”
But for anyone to compare the illiterate lunk-headed George to the eloquent elegant Abraham Lincoln is dismal, dimwitted, disgusting and dumb. An insult to the intelligence of the American people.
I think I speak for many of us: Cheerleading drunks are not our style and an embarrassment to our beloved country.
Bettejo Dux
Kalaheo
Mahalo for summer camp
Although this is a little late in coming, it holds only the most sincere and grateful thanks to the following Kaua‘i residents and organizations.
In July, the Hawai‘i Hemophilia Foundation held its annual summer camp for youth in Anahola, Kaua‘i. We were hosted by Kanuikapono Public Charter School and were immersed in Kaua‘i culture through mele, ‘oli, pule, food preperation, huakai (fieldtrips) and in becoming one ‘ohana.
Highlights included a trip to Anahola Beach to make ‘umeke lokahi and nose flutes, and to Kamokila Hawaiian Village and a canoe/kayak venture up the Wailua River to a breathtaking waterfall.
Much mahalo to all of the ‘ohana at Kamokila, the Torio – Ka’uhane ‘ohana, the Torio-Keohokalole ‘ohana, Peggy Yoshioka, Jimmy Torio and all of the individuals that made this camp a huge success. Kaua‘i is trully a special place.
Jeanine Kam
Executive Manager
Hawai‘i Hemophilia Foundation
What’s good for the Superferry…
I have been the biggest proponent of the Hawaii Superferry for many years.
Why in the eleventh hour would the state Supreme Court single out the Superferry for an environmental impact statement and review?
What is good for the Superferry is also good for the airlines, cruise ships and cargo vessels that pollute our environment. The cruise ships dump human excrement into our waters, let’s stop the barges, they run over fishes too. Let’s stop cars becuse they pollute and cause accidents. Let’s get a grip and let free enterprise rule.
If the Superferry is required to have an environmental impact study, let’s also make the airlines, cruise ships, cargo vessels and everyone driving a car, and motorcycle be required of the same.
Last week, during the free tours of the Superferry on Kaua‘i there were 11 protestors and 9 police cars. The silent majority needs to speak up. How can we let a few protestors potentially ruin a great alternative for many.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Mann would be missed
Please, Mr. Mann, do not “retire” from the Forum. Every morning I grab my coffee and head for my computer to read TGI on line. I do not read the front page first but go directly to the Forum section to see if you have written a letter. You always make me smile! Your sense of humor is hysterical! It is sarcasm at its best. (I also look for letters from Francine Grace and “Doc” Smith).
You and Francine have different opinions but do you really have to stop writing in?
Please reconsider, Mr. Mann.
Cath Parker
Los Angeles, Calif.
To Ian Costa (County Planning Director),
In November 2006, I wrote to Senator Akaka’s office for help regarding the protection of the Salt Pans.
I just heard from Senator Akaka’s office on Monday, Aug. 20. According to Mr. Ricky Oshiro, he sent Mr. Ian Costa two letters, and of course got no response from him or his office. It shows me how corrupt this island is becoming, with people who have power. But, Mr. Ian, who are you not to respond to our Senator? What do you have to say to those letters they sent to you? I know you don’t give a hoot to what we got to say, but give me a break.
We have been put through a lot of runarounds, and it’s time that the people of Kaua‘i know what’s going on in your office. Work was done without all the permits, you looked like a complete idiot at the meeting you attended for the salt pans. The day the project got halted. Then I read The Garden Island and find out the county is fining people without permits for removing trees. How can we fine the county for starting on a project that you didn’t even have the permits approved. Whose job was that to make sure they had a demolition permit?
During the groundbreaking ceremony there was a structure that everyone was hanging under, what happened to that? The kennels were removed, there’s a construction portable on the lot, things that weren’t there before, which all requires a permit. Or is it that the county can do whatever they want, without all the permits that other island residents need.
Please respond to the letter, I also told them whenever they send other letters to you, cc: to the county council members, these are the people who really help us.
Bernadette Vea
‘Ele‘ele
