January 17, 2005
Headline News
transportation Hawaii style. Barge and Plane over Hilo Bay.. WE have a transport strike going on but it doesnt seem to be getting much press. Perhaps the people at the paper have enough toilet paper and rice to last a while...
A few news stories that I wanted to comment on...
As Woody and I struggle with our own housing issues we are adding, by our indecision, to the desperate housing problems being experienced by would be home buyers in Hilo. It would be easy if you could rent but there are no rentals available here. When you hear 18 year olds in Taco Bell discussing college classes, and buying a peice of land out in Eden Rock so they can build a lean to to live in while going to school...(I kid you not)this is really bad...There are also no homes for the aged or infirm among us...if you want Section 8 forget about it... the wating list is years long and the units... well, read this story...
housing problems
Vacant Housing Frustration
"For local events, you do not look at the phone book and find a map, you run," he said. Mayor Harry Kim remarking at a meeting of the county council...Remember he felt that we were unprepared for a tsunami and wanted the route redone... WEll our council in their wisdom have come up with this plan... Good thing I am moving I guess, I dont think I would make it as I am getting to old and slow to run....
Its scary... I suppose these will become "Famous Last Words". This seems to be the final word after the two week old debate on Tsunami Preparedness. The escape maps were out dated then but now they are OK... I dont think so and
here is that article read it then plan your trip to paradise, like those poor souls that went to Phukett...
Now about the Tsunami...
There is more and more coverage on the Tsunami as the body counts rise to above 300,000. But are any of you wondering about the billions of dollars of aid, where is it going, and to whom? Is it just me or when you hear that the Indonesian government wants our troops, ships, and help out of their country in 60 days...does that bug you? many of these places are under corrupt regimes and governments...Doctors Without Borders has said "enough already" with regards to donations...Do you wonder that we are neglecting our own needful in this winter of mudslides, flooding, continued hurricane homelessness (where is the world relief efforts for our record four hurricanes in 6 weeks?... no great outpouring of world grief on that)...
Hat tip to
SmoothStone for turning me on to the site
badeagle.com and this article regarding the ripping off and
mechandising of the Tsunami Relief Effort and how money will not help but rather a changein pervese lifestyles and governments... for those of us of a conservative mindset you will find the Professor David Yeagley's writings very interesting. Get a load of the photo leading the story, it blew me away.
