Events

Th, Jun 23, 2011, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm - Gov. Abercrombie & Lt. Gov. Schatz community conversation at Washington Middle School cafeteria.

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. Click here for more information.

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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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Elect an Engineer for Mayor!

Submitted by Guest on Wed, 07/28/2010 - 16:40

Panos Prevedouros

by Panos Prevedouros

Candidate for nonpartisan office of mayor of Honolulu

Yesterday the Star Advertiser published a very informative article by Sean Hao titled Repairs Tab May Top $32 Billion. Let's just add the Rail in the mix along with its generous cost overruns, for a round and even $40 Billion Dollars of infrastructure debt. NOT!

Politicians cannot prioritize this colossal list of projects and can never do them right. We need to limit our infrastructure fixes to those we need and afford. We are only about one million people. $32 billion to $40 billion means that everyone owes $32,000 to $40,000 of State and City government debt. Plus interest.

That's over $150,000 for a family of four. That's crazy!

Elect an engineer to control the costs and ensure proper planning and priorities for our City.

Read the article:

Honolulu Star Advertiser

Repairs tab may top $32B

Past spending decisions and priorities led to the list, economists say, and it is mostly necessities

by Sean Hao

Monday, July 26, 2010

Hawaii taxpayers are on the hook for billions of dollars in construction projects over the next few decades, ranging from sewer upgrades to undersea power cables.

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