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Honolulu Lite
GOT a lot of ground to cover today so let's get to it. A mixed plate
with Freddie RiceEating crow with a side of Freddie Rice. My analysis several weeks ago of how the U.S. Supreme Court would rule in the Freddie Rice vs. the Office of Hawaiian Affairs case proved more daft then deft. I predicted wrongly that the state would win the case and the Hawaiian community would thank the haole Big Island rancher for so quickly bringing the issue to the highest court in the land.
Munch, munch, munch. That crow tastes good. Pass the shoyu. In order to redeem myself I now will predict that the current OHA board of trustees will refuse to be removed by Gov. Ben Cayetano and the governor will have to bring in the National Guard and force the trustees out of OHA offices with tear gas and rubber bullets. Then again, I could be be wrong.
The McCain wave. I received an email from former Hawaii congressional candidate Orson Swindle, who is working on the presidential campaign of John McCain. Swindle and staff are elated at McCain's primary win in Michigan, especially because of the large number of new voters Sen. McCain is inspiring to join the political process.
Texas Gov. George W. Bush's people pooh-pooh McCain's win as being engineered by Michigan Democrats using the open primary system to make hanky-panky for the Republican party. They believe the natural order (meaning the supremacy of big money and machine politics) will be restored in states like California, where only Republicans' votes count.
I don't know. It seems to me that a McCain wave is forming and it is sweeping up a lot of people who have been turned off by traditional politicians for a long time. And I suspect a lot of Republicans hoodwinked into supporting Bush early on are looking for a back doorway to catch the McCain wave before it turns into a tsunami. If they wait, they'll just look like unfaithful opportunists. In case you can't tell, I like McCain, which hopefully won't be the kiss of death for his chances.
Who CARES who wants to marry a multimillionaire? Poor little gold digger Darva Conger married on television a sorta multimillionaire she'd never met. It's a case of a Conger Eel meeting a well-heeled heel. After allegations that the groom smacked around a previous girlfriend, the marriage is off, which is what about 20 million televisions should have been when they aired this turkey.
Critics complain the spectacle of women throwing themselves at a guy just to marry rich is demeaning, not to mention, possibly prostitution. Please. Who cares what two consenting adult morons do? No one complained when downright Rev. Sun Myung Moon married HUNDREDS of couples who had never met. And trust me, money was the motive there, too.
I'm not as picky as Conger. For a couple hundred grand, I'll hang out with the disgraced multimillionaire. As long as he doesn't smack me. OK, he can smack me. But that'll cost extra.
Protecting your asterisk. I got a kick out of a recent Sears newspaper ad, which said in type as big as a house: "10% Off Everything -- Even Sale Prices."
Everything? Yes. Except "Maytag, Neptune or Gemini products, Esquire and Swiss Army watches, Bose and Krups products, cosmetics, fragrances, hearing aids ..." You get the idea. The exceptions were listed elsewhere in the ad in type so small it would make a gnat bug-eyed.
Charles Memminger, winner of
National Society of Newspaper Columnists
awards in 1994 and 1992, writes "Honolulu Lite"
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