Friday, June 7, 2013

Musings: Disturbing

It's been a week of disturbing news.....

Jake Delaplane — the former first deputy prosecutor distinguished by his secret tape recordings, bungled prosecution of Councilman Tim Bynum, failure to meet the charter-specified requirements for his job and fierce loyalty to boss-lady Shaylene Iseri-Carvalho — has applied to become a Kauai police officer.

The U.S. government is indiscriminately stockpiling vast quantities of personal data on Americans, including phone records, emails and Internet use, with the National Security Administration National Security Agency "obtaining direct access to the systems of Google, Facebook, Apple and other US Internet giants,” the Guardian reports. What's more, it's been going on for years, Democracy Now! reports. And it's not just Verizon customers, everybody is being targeted.

The Kauai Planning Department revealed to the County Council that its entire office virtually shuts down for two months each year to process the 600 or so vacation rental renewals that arrive primarily in July. Yet the Finance Department somehow manages to process more than 70,000 motor vehicle renewals annually without falling apart.

Genes “can pass not only from a [genetically] altered plant to its natural brother, but to less close relatives in the wild,” reports The New York TimesThat's why scientists worry about GMO wheat transferring to wild grasses, creating herbicide resistant varieties that will require more potent chemicals to control.  Problem is, it's tough to keep the altered stuff contained, which should be of interest to those of us living in the GMO experimental zones. Monsanto's experimental GMO wheat, which was tested in Hawaii, was mysteriously found growing on an Oregon farm recently. David E. Ervin, an environmental management professor at Portland State University in Oregon, urges caution: 

"All bets are off when you start introducing new kinds of crops. That we haven’t had any serious events to this point doesn’t mean we won’t have significant risk of them occurring in the future.”

Trash isn't just collecting in the great garbage patches floating on the surface of the sea, but also on the deep sea floor, where [i]t's completely changing the natural environment, in a way that we don't know what it's going to do," said Susan von Thun, a study co-author and senior research technician at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (MBARI) in Monterey, Calif., in a report on LiveScience.com.

And the planning department gave us visual affirmation of the proliferation of vacation rentals on the rural, isolated North Shore. Approved TVRs are depicted in red — the purple is the visitor destination area in Princeville, where resort uses are supposed to go. Click on the map to enlarge:
Btw, thanks, Planning Director Mike Dahilig, for acknowledging that you are aware of the significant community and environmental impacts imposed by these TVRs. 

35 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello - the permitting department is suppose to have addressed the significant community and environmental impacts, especially within the SMA.

But they didn't before the permits were issued and now what? are they going to address them? How?

Elaine Albertson said...

...applied for a position as a police officer? I'm VERY curious to see if (assuming a valid instrument is given...no one has ever said if that is done, or what the instrument may be) he can pass the psych profile exam.

Anonymous said...

Jake Delaplane...a once attorney, ruined for life as a lawyer. Why not apply to KPD? What's he got to loose?

He'll be forever stapped to Kauai due to his misconduct--never to be able to step back into decent society, again.

Anonymous said...

Legit psych eval?

Maybe one reason KPD can't get accredited, even though for over 6 years KPD Chief Perry keeps informing the public that KPD is about to be accredited.

Why would anyone who has spent years in college to gain a degree and pass bar examinations, leave his profession, and apply at the local police department?

I guess Kauai greed and power comes at a price as Anonymous 2:26 pm wrote: barred from decent society.

Anonymous said...

watch out you guys... he'll be coming after you.

Anonymous said...

Disturbing...but not surprising...

Anonymous said...

Beautiful is endless.

Anonymous said...

Jake, you still on this island bro? Ah...WHY?

Anonymous said...

Well one must admit, he's in the same department.

The Department of Citizen Harassment and Revenue Generation.... no way justice or protect and serve.

Well let's see if he can run, at least they'd be one officer closer to accreditation.

Anonymous said...

I hope Jake's parents are'nt the ones who paid for Jake's college education to earn a law degree.

Hopefully, this pile of money came out of Jake's own pockets...but, the way he is screwing around, my guess is his college education was not paid by his own hard earned money.

No need run, no need write one report. Who's your auntie.

Jake, the crooked deputy attorney, is certain enough to apply at KPD after what he did? Something is fishy, and it's not Ahi.

Anonymous said...

joan you are incredibly small minded and petty and your commenters are mindless. Elaine, what the fuck do you know? You think you get a fair enough picture of someone from Joan's hateful writings about them to opine about whether they would pass a psych exam? I'm sure you all think you are open minded right thinkers but you people are mindless.

Anonymous said...

6/8 10:53am....is that you Jake and/or Shay?

Anonymous said...

I've worked with Jake closely...ask around the police department - he's one of the most highly regarded and intelligent deputies that we've ever had. Even the Shay haters will tell you the same.

Anonymous said...

Kauai's New version of "Baretta".

Billy Truman: ?
Rooster: I think the Pimp flew the coop ?
Inspector Shiller: you choose the syndicate supervisor
Detective Foley: You know who this studdering new LT
Fats: probably a blogger/DPA
Det Nopke: Jake
Little Moe: The Eastside Pilliger
Mr Muncie: Every drug dealing bar owner

Remember that this is just a show and nothing will be solved in an hour or less. It is not real.

Evan said...

@ Anonymous 10:53, Just so you know.....Petty; Characterized by an undue concern for trivial matters, esp. in a small-minded or spiteful way.

Where do you get off calling a concern for allowing criminals on our Police force, or allowing millionaires to have their own set of rules "petty"? How exactly does a "small minded" person expose one of the largest corruption scandals in County History, or do enough research to know we are about to allow a criminal on our Police Force? Joan has been doing the job our Police and County should have been doing all along, seems you are just upset because the "Good Ol Boy" system is falling apart, and reverse racism and using public office for personal gain is not as accepted as it once was. Thank you Joan, and Elaine, and the rest who have the dignity to actually attach a name to their opinion, no matter what that opinion is. We live in America, and the very definition of FREEDOM means that EVERYONE is entitled to their OWN opinion, and your intolerant attack on that right without offering a better solution than the one being presented closely resembles Facism. Also, using "anonymous" to attack a persons opinion without offering a better solution or comment, is a Small Minded and Spiteful act......wow......that is the definition of PETTY.

Anonymous said...

Is no one else disturbed that Joan knew that some specific person had applied for a county job? It's illegal to give out info like that. By definition, only a criminal would have told her. I guess you are only concerned about certain county criminals, not the ones who commit crimes that benefit your online gossip rag.

Dawson said...

"Thank you Joan, and Elaine, and the rest who have the dignity to actually attach a name to their opinion, no matter what that opinion is. We live in America, and the very definition of FREEDOM means that EVERYONE is entitled to their OWN opinion, and your intolerant attack on that right without offering a better solution than the one being presented closely resembles Facism. Also, using "anonymous" to attack a persons opinion without offering a better solution or comment, is a Small Minded and Spiteful act......wow......that is the definition of PETTY."

Very well said.


"Is no one else disturbed that Joan knew that some specific person had applied for a county job? It's illegal to give out info like that. By definition, only a criminal would have told her. I guess you are only concerned about certain county criminals, not the ones who commit crimes that benefit your online gossip rag."

A false set of assumptions which, to no surprise, lead to a false conclusion.

Anonymous said...

June 8, 2013 at 2:04 PM - spare me! How do you know....maybe Jake told Joan....now who is the ciminal?

Anonymous said...

oh yes! Jake told her! It's true! you are mindless

Anonymous said...

ah you poor thing! Waaaahhhhhhh!

Anonymous said...

Say, didn't they hire jake and put him at the bottom position until he qualified under the code? Even though he has prosecuted numerous murders? I don't think Joan knows what she's talking about.

Anonymous said...

Since TGi won't allow comments I thought this was a better place than most to ask why are Kauai's fishers so ignorant about monk seals?

And speaking of questions why do haoles lie? Is that dude waiting for someone to take offense or what?

What kind of response would someone get with a sign asking the same questions about another race? Or do we just give a pass to racism when it flows from brown to white? I do remember someone once saying it was "justifiable racism" which is truly morally bankrupt thinking.

No surprise all the discrimination law suits against employees in County government. They just don't get it.


Anonymous said...

“Our Hawaiian ancestors, who were wayfarers between Aotearoa (New Zealand) and Hawaii might have seen seals around the seas of Aotearoa and their head looks like a dog’s head,” Samu wrote in a recent email. “There are three subspecies of seals living there, but none of them are Hawaiian monk seals.”

"Our?" Hawaiian ancestors. Janos Samu is not Hawaiian.

Joan Conrow said...

Dear 6:38 -- Yes, I know what I'm talking about. County charter says prosecutor must be licensed in Hawaii for 3 YEARS. Shay made Jake first deputy - to be the prosecutor if she could not serve - after he had been licensed for 3 MONTHS.
Whether he prosecuted murders back in Alabama, which is doubtful, has no bearing on whether he was qualified to become first deputy on Kauai. He wasn't.

Anonymous said...

Sorry Joan. There is no requirement that the first deputy be licensed for three years. No such qualification exists. Also, your ignorance of Jake's past work record is inexcusable for someone who holds herself out as a journalist. Just google his name. Finally, your uncharitable assessment of his abilities is based not on anything real but on the biased claims of his political enemies (that would include you).

Joan Conrow said...

The charter says: The prosecuting attorney shall be
an attorney licensed to practice and in good standing before the Supreme Court of the State of Hawaii and shall have engaged in the practice of law in the State for at least three years.

Since he was named to a position where he would serve if the prosecutor could not serve then he needs to meet the requirements of that job.

Anonymous said...

Joan, what you are saying isn't even logical. The charter saysThe deputy who is designated as first deputy shall, during the temporary absence or disability of the prosecuting attorney, assume the power and perform the duties of the prosecuting attorney. It does not say the first deptuty BECOMES the prosecuting attorney.

There is no 3 year qualification for deputies and the prosecutor may designate a first deputy. Period.

Joan Conrow said...

We obviously have a difference of opinion.

Anonymous said...

It ain't opinion, honey.

Joan Conrow said...

In law, it's all opinion until it goes to the Supreme Court. But I can understand, Shay, why you're trying to defend your poor choice of first deputy.

Btw, if you want to continue this "discussion," quit hiding behind Anonymous.

Anonymous said...

Please post a link showing Delaplane as having handled murder cases in Alabama (sure he may have carried a briefcase or a power point projector). Remember, he graduated from law school in 2008.

Shaylene made Jake First Deputy in early 2011, just THREE MONTHS after he got his Hawaii license to practice law.

The other deputies thought it was a joke when he was named First Deputy. A downright joke. The deputies suspected he was promoted because Shaylene sensed he had a weak moral compass.

Dawson said...

The five stages of Shay:

1. Denial
2. Anger
3. Bargaining
4. Depression
5. Acceptance

She's at #3.

Anonymous said...

No way Jake prosecuted murder cases in Alabama unless they let rookies handle the serious cases right out of law school. I saw Jake do Bynum's hearing. No way he could or should prosecute serious cases.

Anonymous said...

He drove when she needed a ride. What other qualification mattered?

Anonymous said...

Boom!