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General Discussion / no need worry if you Mayor B.
« on: Today at 03:09:17 PM »
You got your own personal security at your whim when you can't handle negotiations and things get "heated". All the while your own constituents are disarmed - by you.

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/04/28/officers-posted-outside-mayors-office-after-alleged-heated-discussion-with-ocean-safety-chief-unpaid-leave/

Officers posted outside Mayor’s office after alleged ‘heated discussion’ with Ocean Safety chief on unpaid leave
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Political Discussion / Re: Neopronouns? Really??
« on: Today at 01:39:52 PM »
Quote from: Flapp_Jackson on Today at 01:37:15 PM
Is that Crazy Mary, the one who likes to hang out at the bus stop between HQ CINCPACFLT and SUB BASE PH?  That one often has signs about government conspiracies and similar gripes.  Usually wears military fatigues but changes often.  She's supposed to be former military, medically retired due to her "mental ailments."

A co-worker said he was waiting for the bus there, and he simply said "Hi" when she walked up. 

She started screaming, "Why are you following me?  What do you want from me?  Who sent you?  Stop following me!!"

He went back to the Makalapa Gate and waited for the next bus.   

:shake: :rofl:  :crazy:

She has passed many years ago. RIP Mary.
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General Discussion / Re: Freedom Fest
« on: Today at 01:19:51 PM »
Quote from: groveler on Today at 12:55:12 PM
Could never happen in Hawaii.
Concept of freedom is alien to
the government here.
 :grrr:

Can this happen in Green Acres?
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General Discussion / Freedom Fest
« on: Today at 11:14:15 AM »
https://www.freedomfest.com/
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Political Discussion / Re: Neopronouns? Really??
« on: Today at 11:02:13 AM »
all done to divide and conquer our freedom loving society. With stupid people in charge and shouting over all others it is a lot easier. When our country is whittled down to a bunch of kindergartners it would be easy to manage. Taking money from a child. No need to conquer anyone. Gee I think we are already seeing that niao....





My dream of owning a brand new 200TREE Tacoma Leefted is over... :'( :(  I bet Zelensky already has one...
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Political Discussion / Re: Anyone planning to vote for Biden in 2024 needs to watch this over and over
« on: April 26, 2024, 06:34:04 AM »
Quote from: eyeeatingfish on April 25, 2024, 11:09:04 PM
Old and crazy vs old and senile...



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Reviews / Malkoff Devices
« on: April 25, 2024, 06:33:24 PM »
Great warranty from Malkoff. I had a 12 year old drop in head for my M951 light lense fall off after a class and they replaced it  :thumbsup:

https://malkoffdevices.com/
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Political Discussion / dumb people in charge
« on: April 25, 2024, 05:53:23 PM »
same people that deny you your 2a rights

https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/04/26/hawaii-taxpayers-will-cough-up-18m-state-workers-mistakes-misbehavior/

Hawaii taxpayers are on the hook for more than $18 million this year to settle lawsuits filed by dozens of people and companies.

Lawmakers, frustrated over repeated failures, did try to make some departments pay the cash themselves.

Altogether, the state Attorney General asked for nearly $19 million to settle claims and lawsuits over mistakes or misbehavior by government workers.

Senate Judiciary Chair Karl Rhoads has had to approve hundreds of settlements over the years.

“First of all, it’s just very frustrating, because it is taxpayers’ money, and there are significant amounts of money involved,” Rhoads said.

This year, Attorney General Anne Lopez ended up requesting payment of 40 claims, adding up to over $18 million.

The biggest settlements were both for neglect of repairs by the Department of Transportation.

The family of 21-year-old Joshua Banks will receive $3.9 million. Banks was killed instantly when he hit a guardrail on H-3 that had gone unrepaired for 18 months.

The family’s attorney, Ilana Waxman, said DOT regulations required the repair to begin within 72 hours.

“It’s a very, very tragic accident, but one that could have been prevented if the state had been doing its job and repairing the guardrail properly,” she said.

Waxman said after the accident, DOT did improve its process for expediting guardrail repairs.

The second largest settlement — $2.95 million — was for allowing a tree root to buckle and crack the road on a popular Maui bike route.

Avid bicyclist David Lawrence fell and was disabled for life, according to his attorney Michael Cruise.

“Their failure is that they didn’t do anything,” he said. “This condition appears for a number of years and for whatever reason, it just was never fixed.”

Cruise said in researching the accident, the road damage was apparent on Google Earth, but still missed by roving maintenance crews.

Rhoads said he is bothered most by repeated issues.

“It does seem like there’s a pattern with transportation and corrections that we just get claims over and over and over again,” he said.

So Rhoads’ committee sent a message about that designed to sting the departments pocketbooks.

Among the lawsuits against the prison system was a case of guards sexually assaulting inmates at the women’s facility. It led to a settlement of $2 million, but the Judiciary Committee voted to have the Department of Public Safety pay $800,000 of that out of its own budget.

In the case of DLNR Conservation Enforcement Officer Ethan Ferguson, who raped a girl at a state park, the committee said of the $1.25 million settlement, $500,000 should come out of the DLNR and Department of Human Resources budgets.

“The message obviously is please don’t get any more of these claims — do what it takes to stop getting them,” Rhoads said.

After the departments complained that they would have to cut services to pay the legal settlements and the attorney general testified that “the Department has a longstanding policy of advising agencies as to how to avoid claims,” lawmakers decided not to penalize the departments.

The bill funding claims against the state is in conference committee, but approval is certain.

Failing to fund the settlements would send many of the cases back to court, potentially costing taxpayers even more.
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Off Topic / Re: HPD made DUI arrests despite breath test showing 0.00% BAC
« on: April 25, 2024, 02:00:20 PM »
Next thing would be arresting you for stealing your own car.
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Political Discussion / Re: College protests dumb question
« on: April 25, 2024, 01:57:28 PM »
What a coincidence. Student loan forgiveness and protests
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General Discussion / Re: Broken Window = Active Shooter? Neighborhood Board
« on: April 25, 2024, 09:00:00 AM »
Grandpa taught me that if a dog bites you, bite back.
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Off Topic / Re: Walmart and other chains removing self-checkout kiosks, adding staffed registers
« on: April 24, 2024, 07:17:28 PM »
Quote from: Flapp_Jackson on April 24, 2024, 04:48:48 PM
i thought staffed checkouts were waycist.  No trust for the local shoplifters.   O0

checkouts are phobic
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Off Topic / Re: Walmart and other chains removing self-checkout kiosks, adding staffed registers
« on: April 24, 2024, 04:31:48 PM »
self checkouts were waycist
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General Discussion / Re: No need for self-defense -- Just call 911 .... *ring ring ring ring ....."
« on: April 24, 2024, 04:29:12 PM »
Quote from: groveler on April 24, 2024, 03:07:51 PM
Hawaii is full of idiots.
 :grrr:

I read that some of them started leaving for Washington
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Off Topic / Re: Bad Drivers Dashcam Video-Post It Here
« on: April 24, 2024, 07:20:16 AM »
Quote from: oldfart on April 24, 2024, 06:28:17 AM
AINOKEA BRAH---I GET BIG TRUCK

I no need traffic signs li'dat

LIFTED brah! :thumbsup:
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Political Discussion / Re: First came the Maui wildfires. Now come the land grabs: ‘Who owns the land is key to Lahaina’s f
« on: April 24, 2024, 07:09:23 AM »
its war on short term rentals because its their fault...
https://www.kitv.com/news/lahaina/maui-residents-rally-with-lawmakers-to-support-housing-bill/article_27595812-01f5-11ef-9cc1-abbd5cab90b5.html
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General Discussion / Re: When guns are banned
« on: April 23, 2024, 09:00:32 AM »
Quote from: eyeeatingfish on April 22, 2024, 09:50:27 PM
No, you miss my point. The whole reason that it is stupid to attack the statement that it would have been worse if the person had a gun is because that statement is demonstrably true. It is a fallacious position to take and it makes the person saying it look dishonest or stupid (or both) because you come of as denying something that is plainly true. A good response is not to mock the statement but to acknowledge it is true and explain why that despite the gun enabling someone to take more lives it can also enable someone to stop the life taking as well.

SWOOSH!

You offered no supporting information to demonstrate that statement as true.
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General Discussion / Re: When guns are banned
« on: April 23, 2024, 08:58:53 AM »
https://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2024/04/23/court-docs-waianae-standoff-suspect-told-authorities-there-would-be-bloodshed-if-evicted/

New court documents revealed that the suspect in the hours-long standoff with police last week in Waianae warned there would be “bloodshed” if he was ever to be forced out of his home.

Howard Abraham, 50, made his initial appearance in court Monday on multiple attempted murder charges.

He’s been charged with three counts of first-degree attempted murder and one count of causing injury to a law enforcement animal.

New court documents said Abraham’s landlord asked him to move out last summer, then a judge ordered him to move in October.

But Abraham repeatedly told authorities that if anyone tried to force him out of his home, there would be “bloodshed.”

During the standoff last Thursday, Abraham allegedly shot an arrow toward a sheriff and stabbed an police K-9 dog.
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Political Discussion / fluid gender weather
« on: April 22, 2024, 07:21:26 AM »
when you view things through a certain lense....this author is cray cray
https://www.khon2.com/local-news/this-weather-pattern-is-known-for-gender-bending/

You are probably asking yourself how on earth a weather pattern can switch genders.

Well, the easy answer is that gender (masculine, feminine, etc…) is socially constructed identities rather than the biological sex designations of male, female or intersex. We apply our socially constructed notions of gender to inanimate objects, animals and people. So, why not weather?

We are talking about the El Niño and La Niña phenomena. The Spanish names for these weather patterns indicate the masculine through the name El Niño while the name La Niña indicates the feminine.

Scientists have confirmed that El Niño is switching over to La Niña.
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Political Discussion / Re: RINOS
« on: April 22, 2024, 07:17:04 AM »
Quote from: hvybarrels on April 22, 2024, 02:31:53 AM
It's crazy looking back because that movie also predicted Lloyd Austin



that does not resemble Austin at all
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