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by Larry Geller I listen or watch Democracy Now every weekday… so I thought I’d do better than I did on this ProPublica quiz: Name That President: Obama vs. Bush National Security Quiz It just reminded me that the handbasket is moving even faster than I thought.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike license.

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“[a]s a Ward of the State incarcerated in a correctional facility, you are incapable of providing the necessary emotional, financial and physical support that every marriage needs in order to succeed.” by Larry Geller The ACLU filed a lawsuit today in federal court on behalf of four women who were banned by the state from marrying their fiancés, all of whom are men incarcerated at the Saguaro

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by Henry Curtis New Electric Meters Spark Privacy, Health Fears By Sophie Cocke (Civil Beat, May 9, 2012) Maui’s Karen Chun (M.S. mechanical enginnering) wrote: “Smart meters should lead to more refined dispatching of fossil fuel plants which, in turn would allow more nonfirm renewable (solar & wind).” Kauai’s Scott Mijares noted that “KIUC has failed to prove to its member/owners specifically

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“The reactor buildings still contain large amounts of spent fuel – making them a huge safety risk and the only protection from a future tsunami, Wyden observed, is a small, makeshift sea wall erected out of bags of rock.”—Senator Ron Wyden (OR), after visit to Fukushima. . .”Scientists say that there is a 70% chance of a magnitude 7.0 earthquake hitting Fukushima this year, and a 98% chance

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by Larry Geller With all the activity at the Legislature, I missed this two-month anniversary by a couple of days. On March 1, 2012 I posted an article identifying three recent financial disclosure forms that contain rather obvious omissions that I felt the Ethics Commission should have caught. On April 4, 2012 I posted a follow-up article pointing out that the erroneous forms are still on the

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by Larry Geller New York City just posted an archive of over 870,000 images spanning 160 years on its website (hat tip to researchbuzz.com). So I thought I would take a journey on the time machine to check out some of the transportation I remember we had as a kid. Why? It worked then. New York City knows transit. It would never put a line to nowhere up in the air as Honolulu is planning. I felt

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by Larry Geller Could Tokyo be evacuated if there were another earthquake affecting the Fukushima nuclear plants? What can be said about the probability of another earthquake, and what would the consequences be for Japan, for Hawaii, and for the rest of the world? For Hawaii, would tourists come if the ocean water were too radioactive to swim in? What kind of an economy would we have without

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The news release below was distributed by the Minority Caucus this afternoon. Instead of me messing with it, here it is as sent. For the record, the memo itself is here (may contain OCR errors). REP. THIELEN DELIVERS MEMO TO MAYOR DECLARING LANDFILL CANNOT LEGALLY BE LOCATED AT AMERON QUARRY Honolulu – Hawai‘i State Representative Cynthia Thielen (R, 50th District: Kailua, Kaneohe Bay)

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“ ‘Do you take this woman to be your lawful wedded wife?” “Yes, with reservations.’ ” If you read nothing else, don’t miss the short bonus video at the end of this article. by Larry Geller The Legislature’s passage of SB2785 will have a profound impact on Hawaii’s economy. And on the hope some of us had of staying on Oahu to retire in our old age. Also, I can’t think of anything more

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“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us.”—from Walden, by Henry David Thoreau by Larry Geller I have to admit that I made it through high school English classes with the help of Classics Illustrated comics. For example, I just didn’t want to spend the time reading The Odyssey by Homer. I tried, really I did, but my true feeling was that this old literature should be respected but not

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by Larry Geller Yikes! I sometimes shop at the store pictured in Chinatown Store Owner Raided By FBI Worked as An Advocate for Asian Immigrants (Hawaii Reporter, 5/4/2012). It’s the closest general store in Chinatown to where I live. Who would think that there is more to the grocery business than is obvious to a casual shopper? Hawaii Reporter editor Malia Zimmerman and investigative reporter Jim

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“Cheryl Kakazu Park, the OIP director, described the reaction by open government advocates as ‘an emotional response, not a reasoned response.’ ” by Larry Geller I read this line, from the article Open records advocates fear information roadblocks (Star-Advertiser p. B1, 5/3/2012), a couple of times, and realized that I’m having a strong “emotional response” to Park’s statement as reported in

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by Larry Geller Nationwide, the commercial press has imposed as much of a blackout on Occupy news as it can get away with. Our own Star-Advertiser is no exception. Yesterday, May Day, was a big day for protests in many US cities and other countries, but all the S-A brought us (and I have a right to complain, I pay for a subscription!!) was one picture of a women allegedly hitting a police officer

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by Larry Geller Google already knows all about me. I don’t think that’s a good thing and am trying to avoid using Google services I can get elsewhere.  Then they release another goodie… like this one, automatic language translation of your emails. (sigh) Does grandma not speak the same language you do? Do you have (or want) friends in another country?  Check this out. Say hello (or olá or halo or

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by Larry Geller It’s been difficult watching the tweets fly by about legislative agreement to one environmental exemption bill or another. More on that later. For now, there is one bill that is not dead despite what you might have read in the newspaper, and with enough support, could still go forward. That’s SB2434 HD3, the bill that would remove voting powers from the three near-monopoly

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by Larry Geller Do you think that the Hawaii State Legislature is a democratic institution? This video may convince you otherwise. What you’ll be seeing is secret law being passed. The Senate Water, Land & Housing Committee Chair slides  a proposed amendment into HB2398 that no one has seen. And the result has stolen away the people’s power. The bill creates a Public Land Development Corporation

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by Larry Geller A Courthouse News article posted today details the charges of assault filed by Mitchell Kahle and Kevin Hughes which resulted in a $100,000 settlement now awaiting legislative approval. In the context of describing the case, reporter Purna Nemani has provided the best description of the assault as described and alleged by Kahle and Huges that I have seen in print. There is also a

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by Larry Geller Taxpayers will no doubt have to fork up more money for state misconduct in this new lawsuit, filed by activist Mitchell Kahle and videographer Kevin Hughes against then Senate President Colleen Hanabusa. In April 2010, Kahle was forcibly ejected from the Senate gallery after protesting the prayer with which the Senate opened each session (the Senate has since given up the practice

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by Larry Geller Malia Zimmerman continues her focus on human trafficking over at Hawaii Reporter. Check out this guest article, posted today: Hawaii Family Rescuing Child Trafficked Victims in Thailand Gives an Update on Their Mission Work (Hawaii Reporter, 4/30/2012). The article is a report by Ron Boyer, former head of Hawaii’s Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs, now living and working

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“To the question, ‘Have the natives been consulted?’ Mr. James replies: 'No, but were the American Indians consulted in the early days here, or the natives of Alaska in later times? The natives have proved themselves to be incapable of governing and unfitted for the condition of civilization...’ ”  from The Great Republic by the Master Historians by Larry Geller Hawaii was annexed to the

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by Larry Geller Courthouse News Service reporter Purna Nemani documents accusations of negligence against the Hale Kipa group home that should raise concerns of state supervision of the facility. While the lawsuit has yet to be tried in court, the details described in the article have clear implications of lax supervision of the facility. The family of a taxicab driver claims two teen-age boys

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by Larry Geller A New York Times op-ed, Incredible Shrinking Country (NY Times, 4/28/2012) presents a thoroughly negative view of the rapid deflation of Japan’s population now underway. The Japanese birthrate hovers around just 1.3 children per woman, far below the level required to maintain a stable population. Thanks to increasing life expectancy, by 2040 “there could almost be one centenarian

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by Larry Geller Tuesday, May 1, 2012 is the deadline for those who were affected by the UH data breach to take advantage of a settlement under which UH will provide free credit monitoring services. Information is on the website uhdatabreachlawsuit.com. A snip: If you were subject to a University of Hawai'i Data Breach, you could get free credit monitoring and fraud restoration from a settlement

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by Larry Geller Here’s the difference between a little blog like this and a real news website with paid reporters. I could not have spent the time to put together the list of bills that Civil Beat has assembled. See: Hawaii Legislature Brings 47 Bills Back to Life (Civil Beat, 4/29/2012). It’s good to see evil SB755 on the list of bills that died. That’s the double-gut-and-replace measure that

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by Larry Geller I learned to read by hiding Superman comics under my blanket, secretly reading late at night with a flashlight. For some reason I thought I could get away with it, and actually, I did. I don’t recall ever being caught. Which is strange, a kid reading comic books under the covers is so obvious. So I was imprinted with the whole Superman gestalt from thousands of images of this

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