Hawaii baseball offers great time for fans

A great big “;Mahalo”; is due the Duane Kurisu ohana for their efforts on behalf of Hawaii baseball fans (”;HWB benched for '09,”; Star-Bulletin, Dec. 17). I wore with pride my Honolulu Sharks 1993 inaugural season T-shirt when I attended Hawaii Winter Baseball games at Hans L'Orange these past three seasons. Where else could you see and interact with up-and-coming American, Latin, Japanese and Korean ballplayers?

It was a pure joy and I hope and pray that HWB can be born again.

Mayor should keep rail within the city

The more testimony I hear, the more it seems the mayor's rail transit project is half-baked. We should direct him to confine his passions to his core domain, inside Honolulu's incorporated boarders. If this effort turns out to be the transportation marvel we've needed for the past decade, we can ask him to consider extending the line into the unincorporated areas of Honolulu county.

Don't be insensitive about traffic fatalities

I would like to voice my heartfelt feelings of sadness and condolences to the motorist and motorcyclist who were killed on Wednesday morning in a collision on Nimitz Highway.

Speeding, reckless driving or whatever, lives were lost and I would like to mourn them and pray for their families and friends, not supply words of sarcasm and put those words in blog form, as some do, for all to read and become desensitized at the loss of life.

Come on folks, it's a time for healing, helping and being grateful for what we have. Have we become so critical of each other and our actions that we cannot sympathize with people who don't use sound judgment and pay the ultimate price?

Let us continue to show aloha on the roads when we drive, on the streets that we walk and in all the areas that we interact.

Slow down, take a breath, give a smile, and say and show aloha and really mean it.

Happy holidays to all, peace on Earth and good will to all humans.

Elderly people should stay out of marathon

The Honolulu Marathon is the only marathon in the world with no time limit. Thus it is here where old people like Gladys Burrill have got the opportunity to run for their lives (Star-Bulletin, Dec. 15). In Berlin, for instance, where it is “;over”; after six hours, such ridiculous performances cannot take place.

This lack of quality — one possibly is assuming that more quantity can be used instead — might even be introduced in other fields: What about an American Football Conference for seniors (ages 85-90) or a NBA for children (0-5)? As as malihini I naturally cannot know everything: Maybe therefore such an 'Elemakule football league already has been created somewhere between Honolulu and Boston.

If you impeach Bush, then get Congress, too

Richard Lucero (Letters, Dec. 16) claims President Bush should be tried for alleged war crimes in Iraq. Evidently, Lucero does not realize Bush acted on a U.S. law titled “;HR 4655 — Iraq Liberation Act of 1998,”; which “;Declares that it should be the policy of the United States to seek to remove the Saddam Hussein regime from power in Iraq and to replace it with a democratic government.”; If Bush should be tried, so should Congress, which legalized the war.

Ironically, President Clinton was the primary advocate for encouraging Congress to pass the bill.

I suggest Lucero Google this law to see the entire bill.