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Political Discussion / Re: DOGE Thread
« on: February 11, 2025, 09:34:20 PM »
You want a long discussion about each individual action that DOGE is taking and the potential future negative consequences of each of them?

Re: DOGE Thread


Goes to a McDonalds and asks if they/them can actually, really order a Big Mac...doesn't believe the cashier and asks for regional manager...
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Political Discussion / Re: CA preventing residents from rebuilding
« on: February 11, 2025, 06:43:27 PM »
Why would I drive west in Kapolei if I was headed to Kaneohe?

good job officer
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General Discussion / Re: be careful with your construction tools
« on: February 11, 2025, 06:38:15 PM »
Do you have law enforcement experience?
for having such a long career at HPD,

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Political Discussion / Re: N Shore farmer no criminal history?
« on: February 10, 2025, 09:39:45 PM »
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/02/11/laie-farmers-arrest-part-work-support-fair-orderly-immigration-process/

“If there are criminals who are illegal immigrants, we want them out of here,” said Green.

“I think that people should not be threatened. There’s a lot of Filipinos for instance and a lot of Hispanics who work in agriculture, who are just good families and who are doing good work that no one else is doing,” he added.


WAYCIST!
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Political Discussion / big fat pay raises for everyone!
« on: February 10, 2025, 07:03:25 PM »
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/state-officials-could-see-big-pay-raises-soon/

Currently, Gov. Green’s salary is $189,480; and would increase 32% to $250,116 in 2026, and then Governor’s would see a 4% increase over the next five years through 2031.

He wouldn’t be the highest paid person in the state though.

The Chief Justice of Hawaii currently makes $248,124, and would increase 32% to $327,528, and then a 4% increase over the next five years through 2031.
Find more Hawaii, Oahu, Maui and Kauai news here

Lawmakers currently make $74,160, and would see a 40% pay increase on the third year (2028), to $103,824, and up to $121,284 in 2031.
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Political Discussion / Re: CA preventing residents from rebuilding
« on: February 10, 2025, 12:33:32 PM »
what is the definition of being wrong? is it a literal translation? words can have many meanings. He is an artist of the law.
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General Discussion / Re: be careful with your construction tools
« on: February 10, 2025, 12:13:56 PM »
Based on the facts reported, the Cops that made the arrest are idiots.

If no firearm was present and there was no evidence other than a custodian thinking he saw a gun, there should have been no arrests, because there was only one person's statement to provide probable cause.  Even the witness said the gun wasn't being pointed at anyone, so how is that terroristic threatening?

Idiots with badges.

just arrest and let the courts sort em all out. no investigation needed.
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Political Discussion / Re: CA preventing residents from rebuilding
« on: February 10, 2025, 12:11:04 PM »
You want to win an argument with an overly literal and unrealistic reading of the law? Ok, you win.

Regardless, my initial comment about having a gun in a to go bag is not a violation of the law no matter how you try to read the statute because I would in fact head to a relatives house to stay.

so if your relatives that you were "in fact" headed to live in Kaneohe and you were stopped H1 headed west in Kapolei, how would you explain that to the officer?
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General Discussion / Re: be careful with your construction tools
« on: February 10, 2025, 11:29:47 AM »
Not really, if the custodian was certain he/she saw a gun and he positively identified the people he saw with a gun then police are justified in making the arrest because they have probable cause to do so and they are acting on good faith.

It is not uncommon for witnesses to make incorrect reports, not out of malice but out of misunderstanding or fabrications the brain makes subconsciously.

Are you somehow related to Kamala Harris either subconsciously or biologically? What is your expertise with the subconscious mind? Mind meld?
In other words a person can be arrested for stealing their own car?
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Political Discussion / Re: HNN finds criminals "fascinating"
« on: February 10, 2025, 11:27:19 AM »
Why is the sky blue?
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General Discussion / HI Fed judge say not old enough to protect yourself
« on: February 09, 2025, 06:10:38 PM »
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/02/10/federal-court-upholds-hawaiis-age-based-firearms-acquisition-law/

On Friday, a federal judge has upheld Hawaii’s law banning those under 21 from buying a gun.

The Hawaii’s Department of the Office of the Attorney General said the opposition comes after a national pro-gun group led a lawsuit against the state claiming Hawaii’s age-restriction violates the Second Amendment.

In a statement from Hawaii’s Attorney General’s office, U.S. District Judge Jill Otake said the plaintiffs failed to demonstrate that they could succeed on their constitutional challenge and failed to show that ending the law would benefit public interests.

Deputy Solicitors General Ewan Rayner and Thomas Hughes represented the state in the case, officials said.

“Hawaii’s gun laws protect public safety and save lives,” said Rayner. “Today’s decision confirms that the state’s age limit on acquiring a firearm, which has been in effect for over 30 years, is consistent with a long history of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of our youths.”

Officials say both the state and federal government can impose age restrictions for the purchase or possession of a gun, and many have been set at 21-years-old.


but you can run for office and sue the State for climate change :thumbsup:
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Political Discussion / we need local DOGE
« on: February 09, 2025, 05:53:58 PM »
everytime there is a "crisis" our local officials jsutify more positions and more money. The CR beetle? need millions more. In comes DelaCruz who is worth more now than before he was in office.

https://www.khon2.com/local-news/hawaiis-growing-pest-crisis-is-a-stronger-plan-needed/

Some even say a biosecurity chief position is needed. The Hawaii Department of Agriculture said working with the community to combat invasive species will be critical in 2025 since $10 million was approved for 2025.

“[Ten million dollars] is more money than the Department of Agriculture has ever had dedicated to biosecurity efforts,” said HDOA chair Sharon Hurd. “We’re going to say, ‘We have a statewide plan for public property, but for the private properties in the communities, maybe you guys can help us with this funding and decide what you’re going to do for coconut rhinoceros beetles.”
More than 900 CRB found in Hawaii’s first-of-its-kind hunting tournament

Coconut rhinoceros beetles are widespread on Oahu and has also been found on Kauai, Maui and Hawaii Island. Invasive Species Committees on each county respond to reports, but some legislators hope to cut through red tape by establishing a chief of biosecurity.

“So that it becomes a priority so that someone actually owns the issue and can follow through,” said Senate Ways and Means Committee Chair Donovan Dela Cruz. “We need a much more tight strategic plan that we know can get implemented.”
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Political Discussion / Re: Super Bowl National Anthem
« on: February 08, 2025, 06:34:31 PM »
So what your really saying is, KokoHead is going to be busy tomorrow. :shaka:
usually isn't on SUperBowls
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if you have the opportunity and the price is right.
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Political Discussion / Re: punishment doesn't stop crime
« on: February 08, 2025, 01:44:31 PM »
they argue that childhood doesn't end at 18 but goes on in 30s. I see their agenda almost interlocking with another group.
https://caphawaii.wordpress.com/

Who’s a Kid?
Science — and law enforcement — are rethinking young adults.
Dana Goldstein, The Marshall Project, Oct. 27, 2016

Excerpt:
“Consider three young people: An 18-year old who can vote, but can’t legally buy a beer; a 21-year old who can drink, but is charged extra to rent a car; and a 25-year old who can rent a car at the typical rate, but remains eligible for his parents’ health insurance.

“Which one is an adult? All of them? None of them? Some of them? Or does it depend on the individual?

“These questions are newly salient in the criminal justice system. Over the past year, several states—including Vermont, Illinois, New York, and Connecticut—have debated laws that would change how the justice system treats offenders in their late teens and early twenties. It remains the case that in 22 states, children of any age—even those under 10—can be prosecuted as adults for certain crimes. “Raise the Age” campaigns across the country are pushing for legal changes in order to treat all offenders under 18 as juveniles. But some advocates and policymakers are citing research to argue 18 is still too young, and that people up to the age of 25 remain less than fully grown up.

“Some of the most compelling evidence comes via magnetic resonance imaging, or MRI. In 2011, brain researchers Catherine Lebel and Christian Beaulieu published a study of 103 people between the ages of 5 and 32, each of whom received multiple brain scans over the course of six years. The researchers were looking for changes in white brain matter, a material that supports impulse control and many other types of cognitive functioning. The majority of participants in the study, including those as old as 32, experienced increases in white matter connectivity between scans. In some parts of the brain, this connectivity increased by as much as 4 percent between the ages of 20 and 30, compared to as much as a 6 percent change between the ages of 10 and 20. In a separate study of 403 children and adults, the same researchers and a group of collaborators found that the volume of white brain matter peaks around age 37. Altogether, the research suggests that brain maturation continues into one’s twenties and even thirties.

(…)

“If people in their twenties are a lot like adolescents socially and biologically, should they really be considered full adults under the law? Many advocates who work directly with this population say no. “For many years, the idea of how to achieve public safety with this group was you want to lock them up, protect the community by not having them around,” said Yotam Zeira, director of external affairs for Roca, a Massachusetts organization that provides counseling, education, and job training to 17 to 24-year old male offenders. “The sad reality is that after you lock them up, nothing gets better. Public safety is not really improved. Prosecutors know they are prosecuting, again and again, the same people.”

“Zeira, the coauthor of a report on justice alternatives for this age group, sees three possible reforms: reclassifying young adults in their early twenties as juveniles, as is the case in Germany and the Netherlands; providing judges, attorneys, and probation programs more tools within the adult system to treat younger defendants with leniency and rehabilitation; or creating an entirely new young adult justice system “in between” the family and criminal court, with specially trained prosecutors and judges and less of a mandate to incarcerate. …”

Does childhood end at 18?
Jessica Pishko, writer at Fair Punishment Project, In Justice Today, August 17, 2017

Excerpt:
“If someone commits a crime days after turning 18, should he be treated like an adult or a child?

“In two recent cases — Miller v. Alabama and Montgomery v. Louisiana — the U.S. Supreme Court held that life-without-parole should be reserved for the rare kid (defined as someone under 18) “whose crime reflects irreparable corruption,” citing the ability of youth to evolve and scientific discoveries about young adult brain development. “Children are different,” Justice Kagan wrote, neatly summarizing modern-day medical understanding and common sense attributable to anyone who knows a teenager.

“But does 18 makes sense as an arbitrary cut-off? More courts across the country are saying no. After all, people under 18 cannot drink or rent a car. Experts say that the brain continues to develop profoundly between the ages of 18 to 22. And anyone with common sense who knows someone between 18 and 22 cannot reasonably argue that they are able to make the same judgments an adult would make.

(…)
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Political Discussion / USAID and our taxes
« on: February 08, 2025, 11:44:36 AM »
Since its tax season, I wonder how much of our paychecks go towards waste and stupid crap. I'm guessing 20-25% of our Fed taxes taken out of our paycheck every month is going to crap.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/02/at-usaid-waste-and-abuse-runs-deep/
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General Discussion / Re: be careful with your construction tools
« on: February 08, 2025, 10:33:25 AM »
the bigger issue is that innocent people were arrested based on a false claim.
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Political Discussion / punishment doesn't stop crime
« on: February 08, 2025, 10:31:51 AM »
I think this statement strengthens the need for citizen self defense..or maybe our State loves criminals..

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/02/08/new-report-shows-concepts-new-occc-prison-system-reforms/

Oahu Community Correctional Center was built in 1916, when the focus of jail was incarceration.

The concepts for a new facility to replace it lean heavily on something it can’t do as much -- rehabilitation.

What have we learned from a hundred years of punishment? It hasn’t stopped crime,” said Kat Brady, coordinator of the Community Alliance on Prisons.

OCCC is the state’s largest jail with an original design capacity of 628 beds and an operational capacity of 950 beds. It has rehabilitation programs, but it’s also overcrowded and deteriorating.

As the state prepares to build a massive new jail in Halawa at the current animal quarantine station, leaders contracted the University of Hawaii Community Design Center to come up with ideas to help prepare inmates to re-enter the community.

“Ninety-eight percent of them exit prison, and has we have to do something to freshen things up, make these individuals into much better citizens,” said state Sen. Glenn Wakai, the vice chair of the senate’s Public Safety and Military Affairs Committee.

U.H. students spent two years getting input from the community, officials, cultural practitioners and even some inmates. The resulting design concepts are radically different from the current jail, with a focus on self-improvement and larger areas for wellness.

“Most of it was outdoors,” said Brady. “It was cultural spaces, it was gardens, it was lots of greenery -- you know, it was things that we don’t have in our facilities.”

“We’re going to have all these little modules next to it as people go through the various mental health services, drug rehab services -- so it’s not going to be granddaddy’s OCCC,” said Wakai.

The design also creates spaces for staff and corrections officers, including a gym, a courtyard and a dining room.

The big hurdle, of course, is the cost -- upwards of $1 billion.
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