It’s been a little more than a week since the state Emergency Management Agency zapped most Hawaii residents with a false ballistic missile alert. While it took about a day for everything to return to our normal state of bliss, I’ve lately become fixated on the large corporate-like boxes at the top of Lipoa Parkway in Kihei. It all started a few days after the alert, when … [Read more...] about We ask two nuclear weapons experts if Kihei would be a target in a possible nuclear war
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NOTW: Trump-shaped ecstasy pills, Buddhist robots and China’s military recruit problems
By the Editors at Andrews McMeel WAIT WHAT? The People’s Liberation Army Daily, a Chinese state-run military newspaper, has declared on its WeChat account that fewer Chinese youth are passing fitness tests to join the army because they are too fat and masturbate too much, resulting in abnormally large testicular veins. The web article cited one town’s statistics, where 56.9 … [Read more...] about NOTW: Trump-shaped ecstasy pills, Buddhist robots and China’s military recruit problems
A brief report on U.S. Senator Brian Schatz’s recent Maui town hall meeting
U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, D–Hawaii, held a town hall meeting at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 22 at the Binhi At Ani Filipino Community Center in Kahului. About 150 people showed up, including Maui County Mayor Alan Arakawa and Councilmembers Stacy Crivello and Kelly King. The air was humid with only an occasional breeze when Schatz stepped forward to the microphone. Before he even … [Read more...] about A brief report on U.S. Senator Brian Schatz’s recent Maui town hall meeting
NOTW: Snot troubles, drunk cops and great washing machine tunes
IT’S SNOT HYGIENIC The manager of the agency in Louisville, Kentucky, responsible for, among other things, development planning, zoning changes and historic landmarks revealed in November that his headquarters has a “boogers” problem and ordered users of the third-floor men’s room to stop hocking them onto the walls adjacent to the urinals. According to an internal memo cited … [Read more...] about NOTW: Snot troubles, drunk cops and great washing machine tunes
Hawaii US Senator Brian Schatz weighs in on US-China carbon emissions deal
Today, the U.S. and China have agreed to an historic cap-and-trade deal on carbon emissions. It's yet another foreign policy victory for President Barack Obama, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz, D–Hawaii, wasted no time patting him on the back with this statement his office sent out today: “The momentum is palpable. People, governments, companies, and institutions are beginning … [Read more...] about Hawaii US Senator Brian Schatz weighs in on US-China carbon emissions deal