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I just stumbled across this rather disturbing video of Goat Hunters hunting goats on the Big Island. It was just posted today, but I’m not sure when the hunt was. If you’re an animal lover, the following may disturb you:
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Andrew Cooper recently questioned why recycling was so behind the times here on the Big Island. Something that I thought might expanded upon, is in a recent blog that Hunter Bishop wrote about on the recent plastic bag ban, a quote within a comment that Council Lady Naeole’s Legislative Aide Tiffany Edwards Hunt made stated [...]
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I first blogged about Hawaii being first in the nation to switch to Digital TV Signals here. Well it turns out Big Island and Kauai might be waiting a bit longer then even I most recently reported *edit* at least for digital PBS programming. Hat tip to Leslie Wilcox as she reports on her blog [...]
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It looks like West Virginia is going to try and implement drug testing their teachers. Hawaii was suppose to start drug testing our teachers along time ago due to some shaky “hang a worm in front of a fish” tactics. Putting a pay raise in front of the teachers with a clause of drug testing [...]
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Looks like Dan Douglass has finally started his own blog up. The Hawaii Liberty Chronicles: “Hawaii Liberty Chronicles is a freedom oriented site dedicated to honest and open journalism, the exposure of truth and the submission of facts to a candid Hawaii and world. Although issue and politically oriented, Hawaii Liberty Chronicles does not serve [...]
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Andrew Cooper has an interesting blog about the “Size” of the proposed TMT project with an interesting diagram. I’ll take his word that it is true to scale in size as I always hated math. But anyone that knows me… knows I’ll try and twist the story a bit ;) I noticed from his diagram [...]
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I blogged about the possibility of Hawaii having it’s Digital TV conversions pushed up a month about 5 days ago. The Konablog followed up on it here. Finally, it get’s around to the local media in a Breaking News Item ;) Pahoa Graduate and Starbulletin Columnist confirms it in today’s breaking Starbulletin News.
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So you learn something new everyday. We have a Government Whistle blower amongst us ;) according to CNN. …”I believe the management we were under was showing favoritism to the oil industry,” (Bobby) Maxwell told CNN. Maxwell is referring to a tiny agency within the Department of the Interior called the Minerals Management Service, which [...]
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I don’t think I’ve expressed my distaste for tasers on my blog. I don’t think they belong in the hands of most many police officers. Too many times they have been used unjustly on suspects. Just last month a police officer on the mainland committed suicide because he felt bad about using a taser unwarranted. [...]
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I remember this incident last year even though I was on Oahu at the time. It stunned me as my child was the same age as the victim. A judge sentenced a Hilo man to 10 years in prison for a rock-throwing incident last year. Patrick Luk, 28, was convicted of assault, criminal property damage [...]
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Scarab, a robot developed by Carnegie Mellon University with support from NASA, is about to be tested at Hawaii’s Mauna Kea volcano to prove its fitness for the extreme conditions of space… …The dormant volcano and Hawaii’s highest mountain, Mauna Kea, is best known for its elite observatory of astronomical telescopes. But on this mission, [...]
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It looks like Malia Zimmerman from the HawaiiReporter just put this up on youtube as well as HR.
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Ok people… Lingle has officially lost it! …Gov. Linda Lingle, who leaves this week for a second round of campaigning for the Republican presidential ticket, says the economic plans of Democratic candidate Barack Obama “would devastate our economy…” Geez Lingle… who got us in the mess were in now? Can it get any worse?
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Bees are a very important part to agriculture here in Hawaii and on the Big Island in particular. If they were to be wiped out… the agriculture losses would be significant. A Hawaii company has been working on ways to protect them and they may have found a product to do that. …“We have been [...]
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On Sunday, October 26th at her restaurant in the Hilo Waiakea Villas. Miyo is hosting an afternoon buffet on behalf of Angel Pilago, Candidate for Mayor. Come eat, commune and get behind the people’s candidate. Angel Pilago has done so much for the community and the `aina. Here is your chance to show your appreciation [...]
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