tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post8824713823341243319..comments2023-10-17T04:51:08.765-10:00Comments on KauaiEclectic: Musings: Our Own BackyardJoan Conrowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00172330100788007499noreply@blogger.comBlogger35125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-79868004927954895972009-08-03T09:00:05.621-10:002009-08-03T09:00:05.621-10:00That has always been my consulting mantra:
"...That has always been my consulting mantra:<br /><br />"You will know the truth, and the truth will set my fee"Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-45851236201753543192009-08-03T08:54:22.757-10:002009-08-03T08:54:22.757-10:00Now I'm off to a place where they understand a...Now I'm off to a place where they understand and accept me (for a hefty fee)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-55682488842061002672009-08-02T22:16:23.878-10:002009-08-02T22:16:23.878-10:00Aw...too bad those last 2 comments were deleted. ...Aw...too bad those last 2 comments were deleted. I love hearing from my most ardent fans.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-51822329440426825932009-08-02T20:11:29.181-10:002009-08-02T20:11:29.181-10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-77354306193849067372009-08-02T19:27:09.592-10:002009-08-02T19:27:09.592-10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-20646640143512201122009-08-02T12:59:45.969-10:002009-08-02T12:59:45.969-10:00Sure...sure...you can't defend your position w...Sure...sure...you can't defend your position with anything more than "hope springs eternal" so you resort to ad hom attacks at me.<br /><br />That's OK. Knowing my position on the issue is correct is sufficient.<br /><br />The comment by dwps on August 1, 2009 8:39 AM backs me up.<br /><br />I'd never bet against it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-46797013232848856042009-08-01T20:37:11.693-10:002009-08-01T20:37:11.693-10:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-25477477035920620912009-08-01T19:39:34.206-10:002009-08-01T19:39:34.206-10:00...I'll just continue to enjoy the high life 1...<i>...I'll just continue to enjoy the high life 10 years into my 3.5 decades of retirement and poke sticks into the anthill that is Hawaiian separatism and other weird cultural practices as it amuses me.</i><br /><br />Some boys are similarly amused by pouring salt on snails, pulling wings off flies, and other demonstrations of incipient cultural sociopathy. Most grow out of it. Some carry it to their graves.Dawsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-76462450266877617342009-08-01T17:11:44.069-10:002009-08-01T17:11:44.069-10:00And some of you rail against govn't keeping ta...And some of you rail against govn't keeping tabs on protests and anti-establishment organizations.<br /><br />==========<br />Report: Al Qaeda May Have Infiltrated British Secret Service<br /><br />MI5 (UK's version of our FBI) is facing allegations that it mistakenly recruited Al Qaeda sympathizers who were trying to infiltrate the British secret service.<br /><br />http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536081,00.html<br /><br />=========<br />"They" (you too?) are trying to infiltrate govnt orgs and data (Freedom of Info Act; ACLU; clandestine measures).<br /><br />We need to continue to do the same.<br /><br />I'm 110% behind MI5/FBI; MI6/CIA; thousands of CCTV's in all public spaces...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-38514029110805808092009-08-01T12:10:48.966-10:002009-08-01T12:10:48.966-10:00And now, for something completely different (but c...And now, for something completely different (but connected):<br /><br />Score another one for the good guys:<br /><br />Kauai County, Coconut Beach Development LLC and Canyon Capital Realty Advisors win directed verdict against 1000 Friends-Native Hawaiian Legal Corp.<br /><br />http://planetkauai.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-61710964262534888402009-08-01T11:55:26.819-10:002009-08-01T11:55:26.819-10:00Then you can consider yourself a happy person. Yo...Then you can consider yourself a happy person. You (in the plural sense encompassing all like-minded people) have and still provide me with endless entertainment.<br /><br />Come on now...one more verse..."Dream the Impossible Dream..."<br /><br />Tomorrow...Tomorrow...You'll still be whining about independence....Tomorrow...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-64802004085956300852009-08-01T11:25:01.612-10:002009-08-01T11:25:01.612-10:00"We all have our different beliefs...none of ..."We all have our different beliefs...none of which will come to an end in our lifetimes...so I'll just continue to enjoy the high life 10 years into my 3.5 decades of retirement and poke sticks into the anthill that is Hawaiian separatism and other weird cultural practices as it amuses me."<br /><br />If I can amuse just one self-satisfied jerk its all been worth it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-91000276477416165672009-08-01T08:39:15.316-10:002009-08-01T08:39:15.316-10:00among people with a good understanding of these th...among people with a good understanding of these things, it is pretty well known that the US is likely to acquire more states by unsolicited request / petition. the probability of states leaving is not even a serious question. being a US state, an affiliated of the US, is desirable. an notice how persons worldwide seek US citizenship. similar dynamics. not hard to grasp <br /><br /><br />dwpsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47767539047643678122009-08-01T06:46:50.921-10:002009-08-01T06:46:50.921-10:00OK...I've goaded this ox as much I can and ext...OK...I've goaded this ox as much I can and extracted sufficient humor to sustain me until the next windmill to be tilted at.<br /><br />We all have our different beliefs...none of which will come to an end in our lifetimes...so I'll just continue to enjoy the high life 10 years into my 3.5 decades of retirement and poke sticks into the anthill that is Hawaiian separatism and other weird cultural practices as it amuses me.<br /><br />Disneyland ought to buy Kauai...at least then development would be controlled!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-33985880921115779902009-08-01T01:00:55.018-10:002009-08-01T01:00:55.018-10:00If it can't be won in my lifetime, it's lo...<i>If it can't be won in my lifetime, it's lost to me...therefore, I move on.</i><br /><br /><i>Ah, the hope of the hopeless...dreaming that the USA would actually let one of its states go. We'll have Starbucks on Mars before that happens.</i><br /><br />There's that Western mindset again: "if it exists outside my personal [life, family, culture, commerce, religion, political party, nation], it is of [little, no, sub-] importance."<br /><br />The fight against Western cultural imperialism is long term. The fighting is in rounds -- there have been many, and will be many more. <br /><br />Not that anything ElseWhen from "Me, Mine and Now" matters much to the Western mindset. Which is, of course, its greatest weakness.Dawsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-7874552562025359332009-07-31T23:14:05.979-10:002009-07-31T23:14:05.979-10:00Ah, the hope of the hopeless...dreaming that the U...Ah, the hope of the hopeless...dreaming that the USA would actually let one of its states go.<br /><br />We'll have Starbucks on Mars before that happens.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47300174499111723312009-07-31T22:58:20.326-10:002009-07-31T22:58:20.326-10:00If it can't be won in my lifetime, it's lo...If it can't be won in my lifetime, it's lost to me...therefore, I move on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-47087435922673984392009-07-31T20:10:08.875-10:002009-07-31T20:10:08.875-10:00The smart person gives up fights that cannot be wo...<i>The smart person gives up fights that cannot be won.</i><br /><br />The smarter person knows when the fight is longer than his lifetime, and that no one knows if it cannot be won.Dawsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-36776478166506959292009-07-31T19:32:36.958-10:002009-07-31T19:32:36.958-10:00"Many of my relatives - grandparents, uncles,..."Many of my relatives - grandparents, uncles, aunts - were faced with the "get over it" option. They came out of war-torn Europe with no going back.<br /><br />It wasn't "fair"...they didn't "deserve it"...but they moved on. Their melancholy never fully left them, but it did subside as they made their way in their "new world".<br /><br />So, don't tell me it can't be done!"<br /><br />Hawaiians don't need to "move on". They're here and their land is intact. Its the colonizers that need to move on, like they've already done in many places throughout the world. So don't tell me it can't be done!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-67157675022093318242009-07-31T19:15:04.380-10:002009-07-31T19:15:04.380-10:00This BS reminds me of southerners who still nash t...This BS reminds me of southerners who still nash their teeth over "the war of northern aggression" and fly their confederate flag and swear that "the south will rise again!"<br /><br />Hawaii will get it's independence from America the day after the confederate flag flies over the White House and "Dixie" is the tune to herald the arrival of the President.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-14786029971978063662009-07-31T18:38:12.131-10:002009-07-31T18:38:12.131-10:00Many of my relatives - grandparents, uncles, aunts...Many of my relatives - grandparents, uncles, aunts - were faced with the "get over it" option. They came out of war-torn Europe with no going back.<br /><br />It wasn't "fair"...they didn't "deserve it"...but they moved on. Their melancholy never fully left them, but it did subside as they made their way in their "new world".<br /><br />So, don't tell me it can't be done!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-38774969823715627162009-07-31T18:35:34.308-10:002009-07-31T18:35:34.308-10:00But the Akaka Bill "treatee" is what you...But the Akaka Bill "treatee" is what you're going to get, most likely.<br /><br />That will end any hope of any "international jurisdiction" forcing (HA!) the US to abandon Hawaii.<br /><br />If it lives, it lives only in your minds. It will never live again on the earth.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-39134418101199839842009-07-31T18:32:56.297-10:002009-07-31T18:32:56.297-10:00The smart person gives up fights that cannot be wo...The smart person gives up fights that cannot be won.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-51036652663939433942009-07-31T17:26:22.732-10:002009-07-31T17:26:22.732-10:00Mahalo Joan for sharing the conversation you had w...Mahalo Joan for sharing the conversation you had with your last caller. He speaks with his na'au, coming from a lifetime of experience for himself and his elders. For the very reasons he expressed, is why I and many other Kanaka Maoli support independence.<br /><br />It isn't out of the realm of possibilities...it actually already exists. The Hawaiian Kingdom never ceceded anything, and for Hawaii Nationals our sovereignty is very real, it never left. No treaty of annexation exsists, a domestic law such as the Newland's Resolution has no jurisdiction over another sovereign nation, making it null & void. <br /><br />The U.S. is infamous for breaking it's treaties with other nations as they did countless times with Native Americans. Treaties with the U.S. aren't worth the paper they are written on. Hawaii Nationals don't want or need the Secretary of Interior of the U.S. telling us what is best for us. SELF-DETERMINATIOM is exactly that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7875069982976812251.post-90579418148845835162009-07-31T16:56:59.548-10:002009-07-31T16:56:59.548-10:00Like losing a loved one...one can grieve forever a...<i>Like losing a loved one...one can grieve forever and ruin one's one life (spend one's life?) in the vain pursuit of past joy, or one can eventually move on.</i><br /><br />It is not like losing a loved one, and grieving, and moving on. It is like fighting a battle against constant assault. Like combating a disease that will never completely go away. <br /><br />It is not about getting over it, nor about getting on with it.<br /><br />It is about not giving up.Dawsonnoreply@blogger.com