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Th, Jun 30, 2011, 9:30 a.m. - Land Use Commission hearing for approval of Ho'opili residential project, permanently destroying prime agricultural land. At State Office Building on Beretania St., across from St. Andrew's Cathedral.

Sa, Jul 23, 2011, 11 a.m.-12 noon - Waialua Public Library, 67-068 Kealohanui St., Waialua (Oahu north shore). Lorrin Pang, M.D., on risks of our mono crop diets & present agricultural methods in Hawaii. More info.

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If our economy of freedom fails to distribute wealth as ably as it has created it, the road to dictatorship will be open to any man who can persuasively promise security to all; and a martial government, under whatever charming phrases, will engulf the democratic world.

Will & Ariel Durant, The Lessons of History, pp. 79-80.

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A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within. The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle, her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars.

Will Durant, historian, on why Rome fell

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I know you won’t believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others

Socrates, who was sentenced to death by drinking hemlock by an Athenian court

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I am the governor. I'm not your pal.

Hawaii governor Neil Abercrombie, in a soundbite that has reverberated around the state.

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Government is not the solution to our problem. Government is the problem.

Ronald Reagan Click for audio

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In a war, while one side may ultimately be able to claim victory, both sides lose.

Anonymous

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We are not going to war over a bunch of dead [American] sailors.

Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, ordering Admiral Lawrence Geis to recall Sixth Fleet aircraft that were on their way to drive off Israeli military forces who were attempting to murder the entire crew of the minimally armed surveillance ship USS Liberty in the Mediterranean Sea during the 1967 Six-Day War.

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America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher to freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.

John Quincy Adams (1767 - 1848), 6th President of the United States

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

George Bernard Shaw

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Send an email, make a call, write a letter. We [Hawaii state legislators] need to know what you think and the system works much better if you are involved.

Hawaii state representative Karl Rhoads, District 28 (Palama, Downtown, Chinatown, Sheridan)

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I'd rather be in jail in America than free anywhere else.

Former communist & Black Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver shortly after he voluntarily returned to the U.S. as a prisoner from seven years as a free man, but an exile, abroad

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Educate and inform the whole mass of the people. . . . They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

Thomas Jefferson

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Civil Unions Champion Rep. Blake Oshiro Exits the Closet

Submitted by Kawika Young on Mon, 05/17/2010 - 21:48

Blake Oshiro

Hawaii House Majority Leader Rep. Blake Oshiro (D) acknowledged publicly that he was gay as he ramrodded HB 444, the same-sex Civil Unions bill, through the House at the eleventh hour on the legislature’s closing day last month. The bill is now on Governor Linda Lingle’s desk. The PC Hawaii mass media largely bypassed covering Blake's coming out.

Bill 444, euphemistically calling for same-sex “civil unions,” legalizes homosexual marriage, with the chief difference for homosexuals being the use of the name “civil unions.” The LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transsexual) community is expected to work to get the name "civil union" changed to “marriage” if the bill is passed, based on the fact that the difference between the two is merely the name, a minor consideration once the bill becomes law.

Oshiro represents District 33: Red Hill, Aiea, Halawa Valley, Halawa Heights and Aiea Heights. He is an associate attorney at the law firm of Alston, Hunt, Floyd, & Ing. His community activities include the Young Democrats, the Sierra Club, Oahu Group (Executive Director), Young Okinawans of Hawaii and the Aiea Community Association. He is a volunteer at legal clinics and legal telephone lines and is a youth camp counselor/facilitator for children of all ages around the state.

Blake will be running against fellow Democrat Gary Okino, a Catholic and strong same-sex civil unions opponent, for the September primary election. Okino is presently a Honolulu city councilman.

A magazine for gays, “On Top,” writes about Oshiro and is up front that the civil unions bill he champions grants “all the rights and obligations of marriage.”
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Hawaii Civil Unions Author Blake Oshiro Is Openly Gay

By On Top Magazine Staff

May 8, 2010

The author of Hawaii's civil unions bill, House Majority Leader Blake Oshiro, is openly gay.

The bill that grants both gay and straight couples all the rights and obligations of marriage was left for dead last January when lawmakers voted to shelve it after senators had overwhelmingly approved the measure, but on the last day of the legislative session Oshiro made a motion to bring it back.

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