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Of course this is propoganda... he spends a 1/3 of the editorial on imagery before he even gets to his issue... this is purely propoganda and I can’t on the face of it accept anything in it as fact.
If Hawaii had the quality of representation in Washington as does Alaska, they could get federal funding to build bridges between the islands. So what if it cost billions of dollars a mile and would be unsafe. It’s only taxpayer money.
Ah -- the future for all mankind if the "progressives" get their way.
Genius lies in making a long story short — not in making a short story interminable and therefore unreadable — no matter how “brilliant” one thinks he is. That’s for other people to decide for themselves.
If a person can’t say what they mean in 500 words or less, nobody is going to bother going past that — so it really doesn’t matter what they have to say.
People read to get as much information as quickly and efficiently as possible — and not because they don’t have anything better to do with their time.
That’s what the old media writers haven’t figured out yet — mainly because they get paid by the word.
That is the difference of the new media paradigm.
Learn something new on FR everyday.
Mamalahoe, or law of the splintered paddle, is a precept in Hawaiian law, originating with King Kamehameha I in 1797. The law, "Let every elderly person, woman and child lie by the roadside in safety," is enshrined in the state constitution, Article 9, Section 10, and has become a model for modern human rights law regarding the treatment of civilians and other non-combatants during battle. It was created when Kamehameha was fighting in Puna. While chasing two fishermen (presumably with the intention to kill them), his leg was caught in the reef, and one of the fisherman, Kaleleiki, hit him mightily on the head with a paddle in defense, which broke into pieces. Luckily, Kamehameha was able to escape. Years later, the same fisherman was brought before Kamehameha. Instead of ordering for him to be killed Kamehameha ruled that he had only been protecting his land and family, and so the Law of the Splintered Paddle was formed.
Oahu doesn’t have room for additional highways. Even if it did, the new highways would soon be just as congested as the existing ones, so you’re not going to go ‘warp’ speed anywhere, pay or no pay.
However, I agree with the author about the “panel of experts” being summoned by the mayor. It’s more like a “panel of people who lick the mayor’s shoes”.