A beginning...

Labor Day and very little going on. Used to be this day was the kick off for the next election. Unions put on big luaus for the troops and the politicos came to talk story. Now they skip the luaus and just send money to buy their favorite legislators.

Hot topics around Maui--

If you run an illegal B & B, HOT UNDER THE COLLAR about the County of Maui deciding to actually enforce the laws regarding unlicensed B & B's. The whiny letters to the editor are really funny especially from those New Yorkers who are spending $10,000 a week while living their two weeks in an illegal B & B--which they claim is their right! What about the neighborhood rights, buster? Or how did you like the letter writer who claimed they based their mortgage on income they would get from operating an illegal B & B. Their mortgage lender must be really special--dumber than dirt. No sympathy for this cause. These illegal hoteliers should get legal or shut up and shut down. Maybe they should have to do an EIS........

HOT POTATO AWARD--To Mayor Charmaine Tavares for hanging on to the B & B issue and not letting go! She's proving to be a refreshing change from the County same old same old. Lots of substance.

HOT TO TROT BUT MAYBE NOT is another topic du jour, da Superferry....Judges become traffic engineers, the dirty dozen (bet you can't name more than 12 members of Maui Tomorrow!) win a round in the courts while the people who want the Superferry get zero. Maybe a group should be formed called Maui Today that will ask Young Brothers to stop shipping cars and other stuffs until they have a tough invasive species inspection program, do a traffic study on what happens when the huge Jean Ann arrives with 400 cars on board to unload, and stops mushing through whale rich waters without a whale avoidance policy. Do you think that the big environmental attorney who is representing little Maui Tomorrow might be getting paid some vigorous from YB not to raise those same questions? Heard that whispered around for weeks.
And what's with these people who think Maui is only for Maui? They need to get a life or promise never ever ever to leave their cave in Haiku.

NOT SO HOT--the behavior of the hoodlums on Kauai that greeted the Superferry arrival there. Reports from the front lines say the beer was flowing and the behavior was badddddddd. Takes real guts to beat on a car going into the port with a family inside. SHAME! First night the cops were a no show. Second night the cops showed up and watched the Coast Guard do absolutely nothing to protect the "security zone". SHAME! Those aloha filled film clips showed up on TV news across the country--sure to give a whole new meaning to aloha. Just wait till tourists get a whiff of Kauai's skyrocketing crime rate for crimes against tourist--and that's not counting the Superferry "parties". Also on the pier was the law breaking members of the Kingdom of Attui--which said they were not subject to the laws of the State of Hawaii. And we are encouraged to support the Akaka Bill which would grant the same exemption to all Hawaiians. No thanks--

SO KOOL THEY'RE HOT--the OBon dances across Maui. They're over but there is always next year to see this lovely Japanese tradition. It honors ancestors in a elegant way.

NOT HOT ENOUGH ...YET. Will he or won't he be a candidate for something in the next election cycle? Alan Arakawa is said to be undecided ....unless he gets mad enough.

Always leave them laughing---Kimo got in a fight this morning. He rear ended a car. Other driver, a dwarf, gets out and says to Kimo, "I'm not happy." "Which one are you then?" Kimo replied. That's when the fight broke out.......