Kaua`i says "NO!" to HI Superferry - Repub Governor forcing eco-disaster business on us at gunpoint!

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Saturday September 22, 2007 · 3:17 PM PDT

2007/09/22 · 15:17

I stood proudly with my people Thursday night, the people of Kaua`i, and yelled “Liar!” at my Republican Governor, and her minions, for over 3 hours. What a great feeling! She stood at the podium and smiled as she let the crowd blast her, calmly telling us that the state is shoving a business down our throats at the point of a gun, and that we’ll like it or they’ll arrest us. Not just any business, but one that will likely cause environmental disaster, kill whales, and cause social upheaval in most of the state. And that if we allow our children to protest this invasion, and exercise their own constitutional right to free speech, the government will not only arrest them, but will take our children awayfrom us and charge us with child abuse.

hulagirl

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Wednesday August 01, 2007 · 2:59 AM PDT

2007/08/01 · 02:59

I am hooked on Internet news and blogs. I admit it freely. I live in a very rural area, so rural that I don't get TV reception.....

This is an unmitigated blessing, and I have never missed it. In fact, when I visit my relatives on the Mainland, I am ever more shocked and amazed by the raw squalor, displayed right in their living rooms by the ever-larger, and ever-louder, TV screens. What a miracle it has been for me, the last couple of years and especially now that I have a Mac and a high-speed connection, to get what are now my favorite "TV" shows on my computer: Democracy Now!, the Daily Show, Bill Moyer's Journal, and the Colbert Report. These are just the gravy atop the solid fare of blogs like Daily Kos, Americablog, Firedoglake, and Truthout.org.

So imagine my dismay when I received an increasing number of rightwing propaganda emails from my older brother, who just (in his 63rd year) got his first computer and internet connection. You must bear in mind that my brother, Bob, is not a reader - but he does like to watch the "news" on TV.

Here's the latest example of outrageousness that he has somehow come to espouse:

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What do you say to the "Brother Bob" Fox viewer in your circle of family/friends?

117 votes Vote Now!

What do you say to the "Brother Bob" Fox viewer in your circle of family/friends?

Educate yourself!

58 votes

Fuck yourself!

22 votes

Turn off the TV!

14 votes

It's ok, Bob's just an old fart... don't worry about it.

6 votes

Have some Pie!

17 votes

Peace on Earth (TM), and Goodwill toward Men (except Saddam)!

hulagirl

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Saturday December 30, 2006 · 3:36 AM PST

2006/12/30 · 03:36

Saddam's execution is complete (though rushed), and although Bush "slept through it," he nevertheless put out a self-satisfied statement about the death of his arch-enemy. How cold! At the same time, we are warned to be on "heightened alert" for terror attacks.

Meanwhile, an ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields is found to have broken off, but gets barely if any coverage in the mainstream media. Polar bears are drowning, and the river in my Hawaiian front yard is already six inches higher than it has ever been this time of year. In this time of "peace and renewal," I find myself glued to the death and destruction splayed across the internet, so angry and frustrated I can barely communicate with relatives and friends who see none of it on TV. What, as a teacher, should I tell my students I did during winter break? I'm supposed to be teaching world culture. Is there any such thing left? I'm supposed to be teaching science, but our "leaders" deny the overwhelming scientific evidence that our planet is becoming uninhabitable. Instead, they feed us bread and circuses - celebrity gossip and public hangings.

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Kaua`i says "NO!" to HI Superferry - Repub Governor forcing eco-disaster business on us at gunpoint!

A letter to my right-wing brother...with poll

Peace on Earth (TM), and Goodwill toward Men (except Saddam)!