Aloha Daze

Hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving! I’m sitting down at Ryan’s Grill in the Ward Center for some turkey dinner myself. And, of course, some pumpkin pie for dessert.

Like everyone else I’ll just ignore the calories until tomorrow.

RLR

A brief electrical storm was all it took to knock the power out across the Hawaiian island of Oahu tonight. (I’m posting from remaining battery life in my laptop.)

This probably wouldn’t receive any sort of national attention. Hey, it’s just that 50th state. Nevermind them.

Except…

oops… Obama is still on the island.

Think it’ll make national news now?

I’ll try and make any updates from PDA or via Qik video entries. Otherwise, we’re all OFFline on the island.

RLR

I went to a local produce market the other day, here in Honolulu, Hawaii. The open market is located on the Kapiolani Community College parking lot.

On the walk from my car to the market, I saw a person handing out some newspapers. I didn’t get a photo of her, or her publications, but they had the usual Bush Derangement Syndrome pictures and text.

I asked her what this was all about. She said that we needed to close Guantanamo Bay, and prevent the United States from attempting to conquer other countries, etc. etc. etc.

If she’d given me one of her newspapers, I’d have happily taken it and displayed it here, for easy ridicule. But she asked me if I’d like a paper; it only cost a dollar.

Um, no. I’ll not be financing a group that wants to place a failed government system here in the United States.

I did ask if she had a website. And she said yes. Revcom.us.

It doesn’t take any measure of investigative journalism to see that the website she was supporting on the sidewalk is the “Voice of the Revolutionary Communist Party, USA.”

Now, it doesn’t come as a surprise to me that a communist party has found a home on the parking lot of a college. Especially here in the liberal state of Hawaii. I just irritates me to find someone that actually believes the crap being spewed from some cheesball group that thinks that communist/socialism is the best solution. The truth of the matter is that communism hasn’t worked, doesn’t work, and will never work. It’s a failed government system. (Failed for the people that it supposedly supports. Not for the ones in charge of the government, of course.)

If I see her again when I visit the market, I’ll try and take her picture. After all, she’s in a public location. She must be so proud of the bullcrap she’s pushing. After all, it’s the freedom of living in the United States that has afforded her the ability to be clueless about living here.

Update Yes, that picture now appears in this posting. I wrote this article when my site was down, and have since taken that photo. Note just how many people are interested in the things she’s selling. Yep. They’re standing in line, alright.

RLR

In Hawaii legend, rain is considered a blessing from the gods.

On Black Friday – the Friday after Thanksgiving – the people of Hawaii celebrated the win of the University of Hawaii Warriors football team, as they won the WAC championship at Aloha Stadium for the first time since they joined the WAC twenty-nine years ago. It was, arguably, the best game in the history of the University.

Minutes later, in Honolulu, the showers that were forming came together, and the rain fell.

The blessings were well received by everyone.

RLR

Aloha everyone… just a heads-up that there will be a volleyball tournament on Saturday, May 12, 2007 at Queen’s Surf Beach [where "Sunset on the Beach" takes place, at the corner of Kapahulu and Kalakaua in Waikiki.]

Go Airlines (IFlyGo.com) is sponsoring round trip tickets to winners.

HVA (Hawaii Volleyball Association) Men’s and Women’s doubles. Open and “A” division.

Pre-registration is $20. ($25 if you wait until the day of the event.)

For more information, and to sign up, visit www.HawaiiVolleyball.net. (Temporarily down… email to WHVA@aol.com for information.)

I’ll be there at some point in the morning… and some point in the afternoon… but will be walking in the 5K MDA Jamba Juice BananaMan Chase at Magic Island for an hour or so at some point during the day.

Otherwise, I’ll be at Queen’s taking pictures of the beach volleyball tournament.

RLR