Happy Independence Day! With so many emotional American issues under fire (pun intended), perhaps we can all use a brief respite from 21st century realities that (to many) seem like either a fairy tale or a horror story…
A scared skunk was captured at Honolulu Harbor two weeks ago… what can you say about this incident beyond the fact that it just stinks? And how did the variegated varmint get here in the first place? It simply doesn’t make much scents. That’s six skunks captured on Oahu and Maui over the past four years. All have tested negative for rabies, and babies, thank goodness.
This just in… with all of the head fakes, obfuscation, seeming solutions, rebuttals, estimated costs that evaporate weekly, demands from the aggrieved, and bureaucratic folderol, Red Hill will now sadly be known as Red Hell. And no, this is not simply (clean) water under the bridge.
Firefighters recently rescued a paraglider 200-feet up the face of an Oahu mountain, thus making the uninjured (stirred, but not shaken), un-airborne individual a para-sider, I guess. On the same weekend, firefighters stabilized and transported an injured hiker near Hawai`i Kai’s Lanai Lookout, which henceforth will be known as “Lanai… look out!”
Monkeypox is no joke to those who get it; nor is it funny in the simian world, which is rightfully upset at the reference to monkeys in its moniker. The disease first emanated from rodents, and was merely isolated and identified from a monkey- which led to the mis-naming of this “oh great, another one” ailment. Let’s not go ape over this indignity, but we should acknowledge that any tainting of monkeys is a slam on all of us, since humans originated from… oh, never mind, we’re avoiding controversy this week; my bad…
New funding ideas are being proposed for a nascent, East Kapolei High School, which has been proposed, discussed, committee-d, back-burnered, and revisited since 2014 as a possible solution for overcrowding at Campbell and Kapolei High Schools. Eight years just to figure out a possibly reasonable funding methodology? As we say here, that’s HART-less. Eh, what Ewa…
As we’ve recently learned that the incessant work on Oahu’s Highway Route 61 will continue for yet one more year, wary Windward-ers will continue to plod along past street-ripping machines. Pali want a cracker? Actually, we’d simply prefer smooth pavement by now.
Think about it…