OK OK Opi checking in......... Hellloooooooo?

[opihimoimoi]

anyone home????

[ewagner]

1. Yo Opi!!!!

what's for dinner tonight?

[stimbox]

2. KC Drive-in

Waffle Dogs!!!!

[opihimoimoi]

3. Shoots. gimme a holler.

Diet Coke.

[opihimoimoi]

7. Kalua pig/watercress, fish/poi, lomi salmon, chicken long rice,

sweet potato, and poki.

Come, we go eat.

[strategery blunder]

4. I'll be visiting HI in May

Hi from Missouri, the freeper hinterlands!:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

6. May is around the corner my friend

Maui, Molokai, Kauai? Oahu?

:hi:

[strategery blunder]

9. I'll be in Oahu

:hi:

[opihimoimoi]

10. Oahu, home to the Opi.

what hotel and dates so I can call, perhaps some ribs and cold ones.

Opi

[strategery blunder]

11. I'll be coming courtesy of free plane tickets

and staying in the United crew hotel.

Dates depend on what flights are reasonably open. May 13-16 I think, trying to get in before everyone else's summer break.:D

[opihimoimoi]

21. May 13 to 16?? thats a short vac.what is name of hotel? IM me

[Crewleader]

5. Hellooo my friend opihi

you're a long way from home but one of these days I see you! :hi:

[opihimoimoi]

8. CREWWWWWWW Howya been Girl?

Hope all is well with your hands. We all getting older and aches and pain creeping in. I too, is not the same, getting weaker, can't hit the golf ball past 220 any more.

Come, come, we talk, eat, drink, laugh.

[KamaAina]

12. Aloha awakea, E Opi! Pehea 'oe?

Any local issues burning you up? Here's a few of mine:

Lingle (R-Vacuum Bag) turning state-appointed boards into what, back East, we used to call "patronage mills": plums for her close cronies. She booted former (D) Gov. George Ariyoshi, who brought Hawai'i closer to Japan, off the East-West Center board -- and replaced him with (L&L) plate-lunch purveyor Eddie Flores (repuke shill)! Typical repuke: that's the kind of behavior she campaigned against!

Related: The witch hunt against UH-Manoa Pres. Dobelle, just because he tried to do the right thing by endorsing Mazie (D-Very Lifelike) that darksome fall of '02. Such politicization of a state unversity has not been seen since Raygun was Governor of Calif. during the '60s. (Strange to think, a bad B-movie actor was once Governor of California, isn't it? :-) )

The rise of the Religious Wrong. Just this Sunday, I clicked around in time to see Dr. Marocco from King's Cathedral on Maui, railing from the pulpit, on statewide TV about a bill at the Legislature that contained a gay-rights provision! Hellloo-oooo! Can you say "tax-exempt status"? Mr. KamaAina can!

Any others?

Edit: Spelling, italics -- hey, at least I wasn't a cheerleader at Andover! :dunce:

[opihimoimoi]

13. Mucho my friend, mucho

Our Econ still in the resuscitation mode.

Our School teachers can hardly earn a decent salary...I don have to tell the result.

Our Parks look like shit

Hardly any Public Graphic Arts in Honolulu.

No Fruit Parks for the needy/Schools/Institutions. Our Old can hardly taste ono kine fruits any more. Even on their last leg.

No programs to get the public Continuing education classes. in fact, they cutting back on adult ed. Shame on them.

and many more, to long to list.

When I get mo time.

Aloha,

Opi

[Quetzal]

16. Why do you call her vacuum bag?

Just wondering.

My friend who lives in Waipahu said that the filipino kids there call her Gonzo.

[KamaAina]

19. Thank our most excellent DUer hatrack for that one

I posted something about Lingle's shenanigans, and hatrack replied, "How did that vacuum bag get elected, anyway? I thought you were pretty liberal out there."

Gonzo?! Hmmm... Dr. Gonzo (Hunter S. Thompson) hasn't exactly had the best of luck out here: when he came to Kona years ago, it rained for two solid weeks (as described in "The Curse of Lono", with some nice Ralph Steadman drawings), then when he came last year to cover the Honolulu Marathon, he broke his leg.

Sooooo... Break a leg, Gonzo! :evilgrin:

[Quetzal]

17. Agghhh

talk about the resurgance of the religious right here on Maui.

Maui is one crazy island now. We have an ever increasing fundamentalist population, but also a very active Green/Liberal community here. Kucinich won a majority of the votes here on Maui for the Democratic Presidential Primaries.

I never realized this, but Kihei is like a Ultra Liberal/ Ultra Conservative place. Sure, we have the Repuke Chris Halford as our State House Representative, but there is also a sizable liberal population here as well.

Our Democratic party here on Maui needs some major reorganization. Their once liberal ideas are now moderate. The Democrats are pro-development, pro-labor, but anti-environment. In our next mayoral primary, I wouldn't be suprised if the Green candidate knocked out the Democrat for the final two slots on the general election ballot. The Green will probably go up against the Republican Arakawa.

The population here on Maui is skyrocketing. By 2020, there will be at least 250,000 people - double what it is now. We need to have a conversation here in order to see what direction our we want to take our island.

Now, I am not looking forward to having mid-rise apartment buildings in Central Maui, but it would be a lot better to have high-density housing instead of building fricking 1100 unit luxury resort development in the last untouched public areas on Maui. I am still pissed at it and hope a Judge shuts down the project. True, there was nothing that seemed shady on the part of the County Council, but hey, one can hope. A judge shut down the multi-million dollar development in Kona. This resort development will lead to economic segregation.


And true, Lingle is going after Doebelle big time. She and the Republican party are trying to intimidate and purge Key Democrats out of high places. One of my Republican aquaintences at UH even told me that this was the plan of the Republican state party. He is very involved with the internal party mechanics.

Just my perspective on things ;-)

[KamaAina]

20. I feel your pain

My job is statewide. I got to go "Maui-side" the Labor Day before last (and haven't been back since, not even for Krispy Kremes. Shame on me!). As a matter of fact, we (I got Mom to join me from back East) stayed in a condo in Kihei, right near Star Market. Heck, I might have stayed if only you guys had decent transportation.

Two of my very favorite progressive people are on Maui. One is in Kihei (Maui Meadows, actually); if you see a pretty dirty-blonde with a "Follow Your Bliss" sticker on her wheelchair, tell her Mark from O'ahu said Aloha! The other is an Englishwoman who has lived Upcountry since the '70s. She is constantly worried that the pressures of development you describe (Michael McDonald from the Doobie Brothers has a place just up the road from her) will force her off Maui, most likely to the Hilo area. This would suck majorly. This woman is Maui. She and her S.O. make wheatgrass juice up there, for Pete's sake!

While they're building 1100 more units for rich mainlanders so they can get away from their crappy homes once a year, we're finding it next to impossible to find any housing for our consumers who have disabilities. :grr: Maybe Ms. Follow-your-Bliss had the right idea. She got together with five or six of her New Age-type friends and rented this huge villa; they wanted to rent to her 'cause she's a local girl (her friends are all malihini like me).

Speaking of a discussion about where Maui is going, have you seen Maui Tomorrow?

http://www.maui-tomorrow.org/

Maui Tomorrow works with government decision makers and citizens to teach and promote growth management strategies, to implement sustainable development policies for Maui, and to preserve irreplaceable open space and natural areas

[Quetzal]

18. Letter to the Editor

Dobelle's evaluation by regents ridiculous

The tough-talking evaluation of University of Hawai'i President Evan Dobelle by the UH Board of Regents reported by Beverly Creamer on April 3 was ridiculous in its nameless, faceless nature. President Dobelle's response was well put; the evaluation was more like intermediate-school gossip than a professional appraisal of Dobelle's performance.

The board's use of anecdotal information provided by about 20 anonymous persons to portray Dobelle's leadership is an inexplicable approach. This methodology diverges from common sense. The president's leadership capacity should be judged by people who have actually worked with him. Such words as "arrogance," "disrespect," "cronyism" and "condescending" are empty accusations when the speakers don't have the backbone to identify themselves.

I am a UH graduate who believes the school must break free from a stagnant status quo, and I believe that Evan Dobelle is the maverick administrator who is accomplishing this. A while back, I left a message at his office expressing a suggestion I had to improve the school, and he actually took the time to return my call. Such is not the action of an arrogant leader; I am not a big-shot, but the man responded to my ideas as an equal.

I do not always agree with President Dobelle, but I rest assured that my alma mater has a bright future in his hands.

Stuart N. Taba
Manoa



http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/current/op/letters

[oasis]

14. Hawaii Democrats are holding a rally Sunday 4/25 at Washington Middle

school. Punahou and King. 2:00 TILL 5:OO. Niel Abercrombie will be there preaching his fire and brimstone against the mess that the repugs have gotten us into. There will be other Dem officials attending. No charge for attendance. It's a grassroots rally.

I'll be on the mainland so I hope some DUer will give us a report.:-)

[opihimoimoi]

15. If I get some time, I stay go