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Letters for Wednesday, February 28, 2007
• Leave politics out of this one
• Right, let’s not dump
• Join the National Guard
• We are all slaves
• Kawananakoa’s rightful legal heirs to throne
• Speaking out
Leave politics out of this one
I would like to say that I appreciate Mr. Chaquette’s defense of Dr. Rhoades and the Humane Society. But what on earth does “G.W.” or being a Republican have to do with this situation in any context? I know of Mr. Chaquette’s political leanings as a daily reader of The Garden Island, but does he have to imply everything or everyone who has done a bad thing is a “G.W.” supporter or a Republican?
Dennis, if you read the paper daily (as I know you must), then you know I am a staunch supporter of Dr. Rhoades and her policies. Guess what, Dennis? I AM a Republican (admittedly not the easiest thing to be these days, but as Popeye said, “I yam what’s I yam”). While I admire your diligence in standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, please, can we leave the politics alone on this one?
Susan Straight
Waimea
Right, let’s not dump
Chris, Chris, Chris ... (“Gathering grounds are dumping grounds,” Letters, Feb. 22)
You are absolutely right!
No to dumping cars.
No to dumping refrigerators and mattresses.
No to dumping beer bottles (at 5 cents a pop you should be recycling anyway).
But I am not ashamed to call Anahola my home or my “gathering grounds.” I am proud of that fact.
You are wrong however when you say, “It’s more like your dumping grounds.”
If you are referring to me, or 98 percent of the Anahola residents, we don’t dump on our gathering grounds in our neighborhood.
In fact we clean up your messes and dumping on our gathering grounds; Anahola Beach Park is testimony to that.
Erik Danner
Anahola
Join the National Guard
What is all this nonsense Mr. Bill Kerbawy is trying to implement?
Ex-police allowed to carry concealed firearms when the rest of the general public is not allowed to?
The military receives far more training in weapons than our police. Shouldn’t retired military be the ones who are carrying firearms everywhere? And isn’t part of our military’s job to take care of the country’s populace in the case of an emergency such as natural disasters, etc.?
Are they going to carry some form of ID so we know that they’re not just some bozo packin’ heat to knock off a liquor store? It’s a bad idea. You want to be on a reserve force, join the National Guard.
Joseph Lavery
Kapa‘a
We are all slaves
The issue of “slavery” pertaining to a recent letter to the editor has many up in arms. (Doc Smith’s letter of 02-24-07, “Slaves serve middle class.”)
One of Webster’s online dictionary’s definition on slavery is, “The state of being under the control of another person.”
Anybody who works for another person is basically a slave if they are taking orders from another person regularly.
If an employee is told what to do, when they can eat, when they can break, when they can go home, and are told what their duties are is slavery, according to Webster.
Marriage is a form of slavery, you are under the control of another, a husband being under the control of a wife, a wife being under the control of a husband. Most people enjoy being controlled in some way.
Slavery is only a word, and like the road of life and spirit there are many paths and many meanings...
The folks who are upset over the slavery issue are most likely the ones under the control of others and feel they need to defend not being slaves, with letters to the editor.
We are all slaves, even the self-employed, wealthy entrepreneur, he/she is a slave to himself/herself and trying to please everyone. We are all slaves to ourselves, our business, or significant other.
Most people are stuck in a materialistic world that enslaves them, a mortgage, car payments, gas, insurance, taxes...
Doc goes on to say Wal-Mart employees are not slaves, According to Webster they are.
We are all slaves in some way, even good ole Doc.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Kawananakoa’s rightful legal heirs to throne
I am troubled by the ongoing false claims still circulating on some prominent Web information sites about the Kawananakoa family not all being legal heirs to our Hawaiian/Kauaiian kingdom’s exiled throne.
There is a Web site that anyone can access that has photographic documentation of the legal and witnessed documents of Prince David Kawananakoa stating on record that Kapiolani Kawananakoa is his legal child and blood heir. There are several extensive pages of these and other related documents on this site as well. Thus the late Edward K. Kawananakoa and his children, including Quentin K. Kawananakoa, join Abigail K. Kawananakoa as rightful heirs as do their descendants. I hope this letter will enable the public to find all the facts and what the real truth is involving our prsent day ali’i.
The URL/Link is:
www.freewebs.com/davidkoa/continuityofamonarchy.htm
Kenneth Kaumuali‘i Hodges
Saratoga, Calif.
Speaking out
We all have the right to our own opinion. Fortunately, The Forum lets us speak our minds. Both sides of an issue are presented by letter writers for us to read and agree with or disagree with as we see fit. We should be grateful for this chance and remember that getting a letter printed is a privilege, not a right. As someone once said, the Constitution guarantees us the right to be publisher, not to be published.
Landie Silva
Kapa‘a
• Right, let’s not dump
• Join the National Guard
• We are all slaves
• Kawananakoa’s rightful legal heirs to throne
• Speaking out
Leave politics out of this one
I would like to say that I appreciate Mr. Chaquette’s defense of Dr. Rhoades and the Humane Society. But what on earth does “G.W.” or being a Republican have to do with this situation in any context? I know of Mr. Chaquette’s political leanings as a daily reader of The Garden Island, but does he have to imply everything or everyone who has done a bad thing is a “G.W.” supporter or a Republican?
Dennis, if you read the paper daily (as I know you must), then you know I am a staunch supporter of Dr. Rhoades and her policies. Guess what, Dennis? I AM a Republican (admittedly not the easiest thing to be these days, but as Popeye said, “I yam what’s I yam”). While I admire your diligence in standing up for those who cannot stand up for themselves, please, can we leave the politics alone on this one?
Susan Straight
Waimea
Right, let’s not dump
Chris, Chris, Chris ... (“Gathering grounds are dumping grounds,” Letters, Feb. 22)
You are absolutely right!
No to dumping cars.
No to dumping refrigerators and mattresses.
No to dumping beer bottles (at 5 cents a pop you should be recycling anyway).
But I am not ashamed to call Anahola my home or my “gathering grounds.” I am proud of that fact.
You are wrong however when you say, “It’s more like your dumping grounds.”
If you are referring to me, or 98 percent of the Anahola residents, we don’t dump on our gathering grounds in our neighborhood.
In fact we clean up your messes and dumping on our gathering grounds; Anahola Beach Park is testimony to that.
Erik Danner
Anahola
Join the National Guard
What is all this nonsense Mr. Bill Kerbawy is trying to implement?
Ex-police allowed to carry concealed firearms when the rest of the general public is not allowed to?
The military receives far more training in weapons than our police. Shouldn’t retired military be the ones who are carrying firearms everywhere? And isn’t part of our military’s job to take care of the country’s populace in the case of an emergency such as natural disasters, etc.?
Are they going to carry some form of ID so we know that they’re not just some bozo packin’ heat to knock off a liquor store? It’s a bad idea. You want to be on a reserve force, join the National Guard.
Joseph Lavery
Kapa‘a
We are all slaves
The issue of “slavery” pertaining to a recent letter to the editor has many up in arms. (Doc Smith’s letter of 02-24-07, “Slaves serve middle class.”)
One of Webster’s online dictionary’s definition on slavery is, “The state of being under the control of another person.”
Anybody who works for another person is basically a slave if they are taking orders from another person regularly.
If an employee is told what to do, when they can eat, when they can break, when they can go home, and are told what their duties are is slavery, according to Webster.
Marriage is a form of slavery, you are under the control of another, a husband being under the control of a wife, a wife being under the control of a husband. Most people enjoy being controlled in some way.
Slavery is only a word, and like the road of life and spirit there are many paths and many meanings...
The folks who are upset over the slavery issue are most likely the ones under the control of others and feel they need to defend not being slaves, with letters to the editor.
We are all slaves, even the self-employed, wealthy entrepreneur, he/she is a slave to himself/herself and trying to please everyone. We are all slaves to ourselves, our business, or significant other.
Most people are stuck in a materialistic world that enslaves them, a mortgage, car payments, gas, insurance, taxes...
Doc goes on to say Wal-Mart employees are not slaves, According to Webster they are.
We are all slaves in some way, even good ole Doc.
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Kawananakoa’s rightful legal heirs to throne
I am troubled by the ongoing false claims still circulating on some prominent Web information sites about the Kawananakoa family not all being legal heirs to our Hawaiian/Kauaiian kingdom’s exiled throne.
There is a Web site that anyone can access that has photographic documentation of the legal and witnessed documents of Prince David Kawananakoa stating on record that Kapiolani Kawananakoa is his legal child and blood heir. There are several extensive pages of these and other related documents on this site as well. Thus the late Edward K. Kawananakoa and his children, including Quentin K. Kawananakoa, join Abigail K. Kawananakoa as rightful heirs as do their descendants. I hope this letter will enable the public to find all the facts and what the real truth is involving our prsent day ali’i.
The URL/Link is:
www.freewebs.com/davidkoa/continuityofamonarchy.htm
Kenneth Kaumuali‘i Hodges
Saratoga, Calif.
Speaking out
We all have the right to our own opinion. Fortunately, The Forum lets us speak our minds. Both sides of an issue are presented by letter writers for us to read and agree with or disagree with as we see fit. We should be grateful for this chance and remember that getting a letter printed is a privilege, not a right. As someone once said, the Constitution guarantees us the right to be publisher, not to be published.
Landie Silva
Kapa‘a
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HiKauai wrote on Feb 11, 2009 9:19 AM:
" Hello again TGI,
Please do not expect anyone to buy your theory of promotion or advertising and success program Waimea High School. We the former students there at one time in our lives actually do not care of local propaganda and success story with you or anyone there and their cars to show for as a success story.
Basically, I wrote to Waimea High School, and I suspect as always that this town is a ghost town. No offense but there is nothing to do there, just unemployed educators and former students.
I am not with their idea of success story, and I am not placing religion or anything like that on anyone, because as you know, this is still a free country and you can do anything you want. The whole idea of success just doesn't work well in a farm club setting and wanting to make it out or make it happen after you graduate in high school there to say the least.
Basically, some people I may know here, think some of you people still stuck there are still losers because you haven't made it happen for yourself or others, if you get my point staying home doing nothing.
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
Please do not expect anyone to buy your theory of promotion or advertising and success program Waimea High School. We the former students there at one time in our lives actually do not care of local propaganda and success story with you or anyone there and their cars to show for as a success story.
Basically, I wrote to Waimea High School, and I suspect as always that this town is a ghost town. No offense but there is nothing to do there, just unemployed educators and former students.
I am not with their idea of success story, and I am not placing religion or anything like that on anyone, because as you know, this is still a free country and you can do anything you want. The whole idea of success just doesn't work well in a farm club setting and wanting to make it out or make it happen after you graduate in high school there to say the least.
Basically, some people I may know here, think some of you people still stuck there are still losers because you haven't made it happen for yourself or others, if you get my point staying home doing nothing.
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
HiKauai wrote on Feb 11, 2009 1:45 PM:
" First of all, let this be known, that these comments here are worthless and useless considering the topic being discussed. We found this topic a useless waist of time and money. This is from any intellectual interested reader. And yes, I am not associated with any former classmates there on Kauai also, for this matter alone.
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
HiKauai wrote on Feb 11, 2009 1:50 PM:
" I have seen alot of losers being mentioned in association to Waimea High School sports at UH Manoa. Might I add they are the one's who are delerious and a debachery to any level minded reader. These names are wide and long. And they run from 1979-1990 graduates trying grace the pages of Kauai and represent that school, outrageous. I for one, right now am putting all of them down for ever contemplating fame and popularity. We actually do not understand your fame and glory at Waimea High School.
This is in regards to your articles on the Waimea High School athletics and any department there.
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
This is in regards to your articles on the Waimea High School athletics and any department there.
Sincerely,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
HiKauai wrote on Feb 11, 2009 1:55 PM:
" Losers I have mentioned that graced those pages are as follows:
Ross Kagawa 1984' UH baseball 1987' classmate of Percival Butay(cousin)
Edmond Acoba 1981'
Liko Pereira 1989 and someother school baseball?
Kui Souza 1988 Sacramento state baseball
Craig Ibara 1983' HPC of honolulu baseball
Keith Pigao - student information desk for all information here for class reunion
Lyman Lacro 1986, UH Volleyball 1987
Barry Magoay 1985, UH Volleyball 1989
These are just some of the names trying to gain popular votes via their own high School Waimea High School
even now. Unreal!
Best regards,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
Ross Kagawa 1984' UH baseball 1987' classmate of Percival Butay(cousin)
Edmond Acoba 1981'
Liko Pereira 1989 and someother school baseball?
Kui Souza 1988 Sacramento state baseball
Craig Ibara 1983' HPC of honolulu baseball
Keith Pigao - student information desk for all information here for class reunion
Lyman Lacro 1986, UH Volleyball 1987
Barry Magoay 1985, UH Volleyball 1989
These are just some of the names trying to gain popular votes via their own high School Waimea High School
even now. Unreal!
Best regards,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
HiKauai wrote on Feb 12, 2009 1:08 PM:
" Hello again TGI,
This is me, Dean Kelly Sabado. Thank you for letting me comment on your articles there on the island. I just want to thank everyone agreeing with myself on who actually I meant, calling them losers in that town. Ha! Ha! Ha! I am a personal graduate of that high school but will proudly say if they keep up the good work in academics and life, will not be too ashamed of being associated with Waimea High School as an alumni.
Sorry, but there are others who felt this way! Here on the island of Honolulu and even the mainland. These names may have one time in their lives even mine represent the epitome of failure and laughs, and not success.
best regards,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
This is me, Dean Kelly Sabado. Thank you for letting me comment on your articles there on the island. I just want to thank everyone agreeing with myself on who actually I meant, calling them losers in that town. Ha! Ha! Ha! I am a personal graduate of that high school but will proudly say if they keep up the good work in academics and life, will not be too ashamed of being associated with Waimea High School as an alumni.
Sorry, but there are others who felt this way! Here on the island of Honolulu and even the mainland. These names may have one time in their lives even mine represent the epitome of failure and laughs, and not success.
best regards,
Dean Kelly Sabado "
fvr wrote on Sep 1, 2009 9:32 AM:
" fvr wrote on Aug 31, 2009 2:12 AM:
" My heart goes out to the family for their loss. Kauai grieves with you,and your family.
Kauai still grieves for the unsolved murder of, Sandra Mendoca.
Sandy was my sons classmate, and a very sweet, honest, and genuine young lady, even as a child.
Sandy would be 31 this year.
When my son heard she was murdered, at first he could not believe it.
Then he wept. He kept saying, no she can't be dead, not like that.
He went to St.Catherines School with her, from age 5, from Kindergarten.
He said, Sandy was the best, a model student, and liked by the entire class.
Sometimes she ignored him, when he got in an impish-rascal-prankster mode. He use to say, Sandy does'nt like me mom, cause I naughty. Yet even as a small child, he respected her sincere, moral character, exemplary behavior, and demeanor.
Till this day he is in disbelief, and schocked, that anyone would hurt, this beautiful young lady.
We both still pray for Sandra.
I pray for all who suffer from, violent acts against women, and children.
I offer my deepest sympathy, to the family, and will include you in my prayers.
God bless you, in your time of grief. I pray you find some peace. " "
" My heart goes out to the family for their loss. Kauai grieves with you,and your family.
Kauai still grieves for the unsolved murder of, Sandra Mendoca.
Sandy was my sons classmate, and a very sweet, honest, and genuine young lady, even as a child.
Sandy would be 31 this year.
When my son heard she was murdered, at first he could not believe it.
Then he wept. He kept saying, no she can't be dead, not like that.
He went to St.Catherines School with her, from age 5, from Kindergarten.
He said, Sandy was the best, a model student, and liked by the entire class.
Sometimes she ignored him, when he got in an impish-rascal-prankster mode. He use to say, Sandy does'nt like me mom, cause I naughty. Yet even as a small child, he respected her sincere, moral character, exemplary behavior, and demeanor.
Till this day he is in disbelief, and schocked, that anyone would hurt, this beautiful young lady.
We both still pray for Sandra.
I pray for all who suffer from, violent acts against women, and children.
I offer my deepest sympathy, to the family, and will include you in my prayers.
God bless you, in your time of grief. I pray you find some peace. " "
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HiKauai wrote on Feb 11, 2009 9:08 AM:
RE: 2/11/2009 and the above topic
Can we cut out the "EXPLETIVE" here. Everyone knows if you are or were affiliated with high school at one time in your life in Waimea, Kauai, you would know that you do not place one of the three stooges willing to work at Kentucky fried chicken and place him at the vice principal's seat at Waimea High School. We all know that BOE and DOE played no roll in this nonsense of students being athletes then becomming success in the respected choice of degree and field like a BA degree. An example, you cannot put someone like a Pereira or even an Aaron Francisco from Kahuku High School, now former Arizona Cardinals NFL, as a BA candidtate after a prolific showing in sports. It just does not work that way. We all know that they cannot be serious placing academics after a 10 year assistant coach with a rediculous man/educator and/or coach if I might add like Tommy Rita of the 1980's and then expect him, Patrick Pereira to educate people in 2000's after being associated with dumb athletes all their life and now turn to academics. Now they educate people? Ha! What are we looking at here is basically a rediculous and dumber community than most perceived DOE standard base learning. Otherwise throw this article out already, alright?
best regards,
Dean Kelly Sabado "