• The price we pay • Just go home • Religious hypocrites • Dear Gov. Lingle The price we pay It’s comforting to know that our Fire Commission is holding itself to the same high standard of deferring action established
• The price we pay • Just go home • Religious hypocrites • Dear Gov. Lingle
The price we pay
It’s comforting to know that our Fire Commission is holding itself to the same high standard of deferring action established long ago by the County (not-with-my-dog-you-won’t) Council.
The fact that three people are alive today in spite of common sense failure to provide life saving equipment on county beaches is proof that lack of integrity in the face of sleazy legal threats still counts for something on this isle.
Mr. Tyler should consider himself lucky that he hasn’t been billed for the cost of rescuing those drowning tourists. After all, but for his interference there’d have been no additional costs to the taxpayer.
Charles Looney, Lihu‘e
Just go home
Regarding the June 7 article about barking dogs, the vast majority of dog owners on Kaua‘i are responsible pet owners. It seems we have been under the gun lately for numerous issues.
The people that complain loudest about barking dogs seem to be folks that have moved from big city Mainland lifestyles seeking a more sane way of life. With a move to a rural area comes the fact that many people that live in the “country” like dogs.
We have dogs for various reasons. Some are hunters that put food on their families tables. Some are simply beloved pets while others help deter the numerous ice addicts on this island from helping themselves to our stuff to get high.
To come in cold and then start complaining about our dogs is like buying property next to an airport that has been in existence for years and then complain about the noise even though the airport was there long before you were. Kaua‘i is mostly rural and people in rural areas like dogs. Some dogs bark.
Why don’t you complain about the chickens, they make a lot more noise. Sounds like maybe the freeway noise back in that Mainland city wasn’t so loud after all! Maybe a move to the “country” was a little hasty.
Bill Chamberlain, Kapa‘a
Religious hypocrites
I’m with Rabbi Peter Schaktman (“Gov. Lingle consults with rabbis on civil unions,” The Garden Island, June 13, 2010).
I am also surprised that our governor would reveal the fact that religious advisers could influence her decision on the upcoming civil union legislation. Most political figures would consider this political suicide unless they intended to leave the game. Does she really?
Anyway, as an atheist (who has read the Bible from cover to cover), I am never surprised at how far religious zealots will go to impose their personal beliefs on others. When an argument is based exclusively on one’s religious training, how different is this behavior from extremists across the planet?
My point is, I recall a quote from Jesus that went something like, “Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone.” If you call yourself a Christian, then you are truly a sinner. So who are you to tell someone else they can’t live a life in sin (in your opinion, not mine) when you do?
A bunch of hypocrites (as I think was Jesus’ point) dressed in red, blue, or whatever color T-shirts you choose if you ask me. I’m old enough to remember when thousands of vinyl records went up in smoke when Elvis caused a stir by shaking his hips on stage and when a member of the Beatles (John Lennon) got them in trouble saying they were more popular than Jesus.
The very religion you choose to practice throughout your lifetime can be linked to some rather significant events in our history. Our ancestors were willing to die for “We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed, by their Creator, with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.” Or how about “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Civil liberties are (hopefully) for everyone to enjoy and should have nothing to do with your interpretation of sin. And if you want to harp on literal translations, then from one of the quotes above, women should have no rights. Try arguing that one to the gals in your life.
Vince Cosner, Lihu‘e
Dear Gov. Lingle
Please represent the majority that voted NO to same sex marriage. Homosexual is not a race, but an unnatural choice. Common sense will tell you , that if everyone obeyed, it would wipe out the human race!
This law would fall right into the agenda of Obama’s elected “school czar” Kevin Jennings, founder of the gay, lesbian, teacher, organization! Check out Jennings and the other czars web site where teachers and students can get books for classroom assignments. Books containing stories that promote and describe sexual acts between children and adults!
Then there’s Obama’s “science czar” John Holdren, who wrote a book ECOSCIENCE where he “imagined” a cure to over population, was forced abortions and sterilization. A “transnational Planetary Regime” to control the global economy!
I disagree with these lifestyles and don’t want them forced or influencing my children. Children entering school are still innocent and don’t need what the DOE calls “Behavior Modification, situation ethics”. Nor do we need OBE changing their values and beliefs. I do not want a lifestyle that I disagree with teaching my immature, hormone-driven teens because a certain group feels discriminated against.
I represent a group that is discriminated against shouldn’t my group be able to promote our agenda? I think the answer to that question is to cut out all the psychological indoctrination and stick to reading, writing, and math. We the parents will teach “science” and sex at home.
Bunny Kaleiohi, ‘Ele‘ele
