• I support airline ocean safety videos • Same sex marriages a civil right? • Why not solar thermal or wood chips? • Cell phone towers are not harmful I support airline ocean safety videos I applaud the recent efforts
• I support airline ocean safety videos • Same sex marriages a civil right? • Why not solar thermal or wood chips? • Cell phone towers are not harmful
I support airline ocean safety videos
I applaud the recent efforts to require airlines to air videos regarding ocean safety.
I have never been to Secret Beach without urging some visitor to step back from the mossy rocks. I have chosen not to swing off the rope at Kipu Falls, even when others in my party did it with gusto.
I have watched young locals jump at Shipwreck, but it never entered my mind to try it because I’ve spent a lifetime trying to avoid sudden multi-story drops. And you couldn’t pay me enough to dance over the blowhole at Spouting Horn.
Despite this personal conservatism, I watched the lifeless body of a visitor being pulled from the surf this winter.
No amount of “once in a lifetime” circumstances was worth this death.
Something is needed to balance the expectations created by summer photos of gentle water in tour books and online. A short “wake up” video prior to landing presents the best opportunity to help visitors actually wake up in paradise each morning. Then they can talk about their great trip on the plane back home.
Suzan Brooks, Lihu‘e
Same sex marriages a civil right?
Who makes (and interprets) the laws we live by in the land of the free? Christians with their laws in the Bible, or mere citizens with their laws in the U.S. Constitution?
I heard a man of God on the news last night say, “The Bible says one man, one woman til death do us part, period”.
Really? Does the Bible actually say that? And even if it does, are laws in the Bible the law of the land? He may have a problem with that old separation of church and state thing.
I think that preacher was defending “marriage” as an act or process. In other words, the “union” of a man and woman to procreate God’s children. So I think his argument boils down to a defense of his personal faith and a centuries old process. But just because something has been done religiously for centuries doesn’t make it permanent. How long has it been since we’ve had two popes? It didn’t take long for Catholics to create a new process for that.
I respect one’s desire to live a Christian lifestyle, but this preacher should be advised of a time when women were forbidden to be attorneys. There are three women justices on the U.S. Supreme Court who will be involved in the decision making process regarding same sex marriages soon. Now isn’t that special!
Vince Cosner, Lihu‘e
Why not solar thermal or wood chips?
Will someone at KIUC please explain to us why here on one of the wettest spots on Earth we are not simply heating water with solar thermal, wood chips or other clean, green cost-effective means to power steam turbine generators to create electricity?
Inquiring minds want to know.
Michael Wells, Moloa‘a
Cell phone towers are not harmful
I am a resident living in the center of Kilauea town. I am in favor of the AT&T tower being put in the rural location picked for service.
It will be completely out of sight from all of Kilauea town and away from the general public.
There have been ridiculous accusations of children and adults getting sicknesses from these cell towers. Supposedly the towers emit harmful and fatal emissions.
There is no proof of these accusations.
The present tower, which is a few short blocks from KCA school, has been there at least 10 years and there have not been any cases that state children and adults have gotten sick from this tower or any other towers. The hypocrisy of the people complaining is absurd.
They all admittedly use cell phones for personal, business and emergency use but do not want the cell towers that are needed for that use.
When your kids are choking or had an accident, or someone is having a heart attack or stroke or been in a major car accident, and you need an ambulance, wouldn’t you want your cell phone working efficiently?
How many people do you suppose in a year’s time were rescued and saved by the use of a cell phone to call an ambulance or police department when no land line was available?
Cell towers save people, they don’t kill people.
Kathleen Beverly, Kilauea
