Aloha Family and Friends,

In regards to Amala and her children.

I am sending this e-mail out because many of you were not able to go to the website. As many of you know we are asking for community support. “Every” donation makes a difference. Please send this to everyone you know that wants to support a mother’s last wish.

www.amalalove.org

Mahalo Nui Loa
Selah and Sacha Manju

Power to the People! We can do it, “Yes we Can”

Let’s keep it going folks…now that we elected Obama into office, let’s bring Bush to justice.  My friend Kristen sent this letter and link to me this morning.  All you need to do is click this link and go and sign your name to send your opinion to all your representatives in Congress:  http://www.democrats.com/pardon?source=omdeebha%40yahoo.com

Internet Activism at it’s best baby! [Warning: Disturbing photo on the link of the site above, shocking, horrific and makes you want to speak out even more!]

If you want to read a bit about how our Founding Father’s did their best to write a way to deal with heinous monsters that somehow got themselves into office, check out the letter below:

I signed “Impeach Bush To Stop Pardons”

Dear Representative and Senators,

President George Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney stand accused of 39 grave and impeachable offenses, including war crimes, torture, warrantless wiretapping, and outing a covert CIA operative.

Most of these offenses are felonies for which Bush and Cheney can be criminally prosecuted after they leave office. But prosecutions will be impossible if Bush issues blanket pre-emptive pardons for Dick Cheney, Scooter Libby, other senior officials, and even himself.

Can Bush do this? Absolutely. Gerald Ford set the precedent in 1974 when he gave Richard Nixon a blanket pre-emptive pardon for any crime he “may have committed.”

Presidential pardon power is nearly unlimited under the Constitution. We support efforts in Congress to outlaw pre-emptive or self-pardons, but even if a bill passes Congress before Bush leave office, Bush will certainly veto it. So how can we stop Bush’s pardons?

The Founding Fathers clearly anticipated a corrupt President might pardon his co-conspirators, and specified impeachment as the remedy.

George Mason, the father of the Bill of Rights, argued at the Constitutional Convention that the President might use his pardoning power to “pardon crimes which were advised by himself” or, before indictment or conviction, “to stop inquiry and prevent detection.”

James Madison, the father of the U.S. Constitution, added that “if the President be connected, in any suspicious manner, with any person, and there be grounds to believe he will shelter [pardon] him, the House of Representatives can impeach him; they can remove him if found guilty.”

As your constituent, I urge you to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney before they issue pardons. But if that fails, I urge you to impeach George Bush and Dick Cheney afterwards for issuing pardons that constitute obstruction of justice and abuse of power.

A post-inaugural impeachment would prohibit those impeached from ever holding federal office, either elected or appointed. Arguably, impeachment would also nullify pre-impeachment pardons and permit prosecutions. Finally, impeachment would tell future Presidents they cannot abuse their pardon power to put themselves above the law.

In 1776, Thomas Paine famously wrote, “in America, the law is King.” Congress must not allow a President to commit crimes with impunity, or it makes the President a King – or worse, a Dictator.

http://www.democrats.com/pardon?source=omdeebha%40yahoo.com

Thank You

This is coming a bit late, but I need to share with you all my jubiliation that the OBAMA’S ARE NOW OUR FIRST FAMILY!  Ahhhhh…what a fresh breeze of change is upon us, let this herald in a new era toward the phophesied return to a Garden-of-Eden like state of the earth.

Next up… MICHELLE OBAMA for President

Starts Sunday November 9th, 2008 at the Hilton Waikaloa Resort at 7 am – led by Chi Gong Master Sha

Go to www.DrSha.com or Call 1-888-988-7333 to register and join the amazing event.  This is an serendipidous opportunity, don’t miss it if you are in the Kona area!

xoxo Zhen

A school for the South Kona community

If you’ve got school age children between kindergarden and 4th grade, and you are looking for a better education alternative for your family, do yourself a favor and check out KPPCS.  The school recently got some press in the Big Island Weekly, thanks to a wonderful article by my friend Hadley Catalano!

http://www.bigislandweekly.com/articles/2008/10/01/read/news/news04.txt

Read and enjoy

Hi SKY ~
I hope all is well and beautiful in your worlds, despite the crumbling of society from it’s rotten cores…I wanted to share with you all a new online magazine that I personally find refreshing and informative…

Wild Child Magazine - “We share essential practical information and resources that strengthen Family Values. “

WildChild covers a lot of the issues that mainstream ignores, but we as the enlightened, uprising youth know to be some of the more ‘real’ stories of the day. Like what the heck did happen on Wall Street with the stock markets? Is the news actually giving us the real story?

Anyway, you’ll find commentary, photos and videos (some are downright hilarious) on current events, postings about new technology (a car that runs on air?!), info about UFOs, as well as a rich community of avant garde thinking people – artists, activists, techno-whizzes, musicians, and beautiful people (photos of some hawtie women). You can join the community and post your own videos, photos and discussions. For those of you in my blogging online class, this is a good way to gain additional link backs to your own blog or web site. I’ll wax some philosophy on how the internet is like Grandmother spiders web some other time, but for now let the analogy sink in – we need to connect with each other :~)

http://www.wildchildmagazine.com

Check ‘em out, enjoy and join up (don’t forget to add me as your friend when you do join) and have your own voice heard at Wild Child Magazine!

Love, love, love is STILL the answer~*

So she can “suck me”. The following is a video put out by the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund to educate viewers about Palin’s sheer insanity. I wonder if she has syphilis or something to act so wierd?

Anywayz, remember to register to vote- gotta update it all and get yourself set up by October 20th, 2008!~

Love

Bake sale this Sunday, September 21st at 8AM on Ho’omama Street in Pualani Estates
(just mauka of the park and visible from Queen Ka’ahumanu Hwy).

All proceeds will go to “Obama For America”.  In addition to baked goods, coffee and tea, we will have

Malama Obama

bumper stickers for sale.  The event begins  Feel free to spread the word . We welcome more goodies to sell and customers to purchase them.  Please call or e-mail if you can donate some yummy baked goods to the cause, and/or help with set up or clean up.

http://www.consciousmamas.com/index.php/2008/09/19/bake-sale-this-sunday/

Linda Morgan has sent me this email about the Hawaii Board of Education Candidates:

Hi friends,
I don’t mean to tell you how to vote on Saturday for our Big Island representative on the Board of Education, but I spent almost 3 hours on Monday searching for info on the 4 candidates running for this office, and it’s really hard to find information, so I want to share what I found.

Herb Watanabe has been our rep. for a very long time, and is definitely part of the disfunction of the Board of Ed., so he should only get our votes if we believe we have great schools, and I do not.

Bryant has not filed statements anywhere I could find online, so I assume if he is not competent enough to make his platform available, he cannot adequately represent us.

Walsh made some pretty silly statements about how he would improve education in Hawaii. He seems to be most concerned with “keeping order” in the classroom. The problems go way beyond poor student behavior!

Sanborn will get my vote, although with reservations. He supports decentralization, a good thing in my opinion. He also supports equal funding for charter schools, a pono idea. He sounds qualified and mostly on the right track in his statements. My reservations are about his interest in exploring vouchers.

If you haven’t had time to explore these candidates, I hope this note will help you make your decision.

Aloha,
Linda Morgan

Spread the word, yo!

Hi SKY ~ Sorry this news is reaching you almost a month late, but as they say, better late than never!

This sent to me by Dr. Rick Bennett, Co-chair

Aloha,
The Kona Kai Ea chapter of the Surfrider Foundation had its inaugural meeting last thursday night.  It was well attended and the excitement in room was amazing.  We heard about the amazingly good work of Surfrider Maui from Jan Roberson and about the threats and opportunities  to Keep it Blue from Rick.   The members of the Executive Committee all took part to make the event a Big Wave.
We announced 3 campaigns and a philosophy for our chapter
1.  Keep it Blue… water quality and watershed education, monitoring and outreach.  It is sad to see our water getting greener in some places.  The time is now to stop it and we must address the landscape scale of this issue
2.  Keep it Clean… Our beach clean up program will begin Sept 13 at Kohanaiki  Pine trees in concert with the Ladies Surfing Contest.  Come help us clean and win prizes for the most trash.
3.  Keep it Fun and Funded  … is our plan to have fun in our mission with concerts, dance, photo contests and raise money to make it all happen and central to all our programs we embrace and we are enriched by the wisdom and guidance of the Hawaiian Culture and will follow the ways of the very first surfers as we malama ka aina.

This is an invitation to join our Kona Kai Ea Surfrider  and our  Yahoo group.
This will be the best way to stay connected to us and for us to communicate with each other.
To join  send an email to the subscribe address below.
Mahalo for your kokua,

dr. rick and Hannah Springer,
Co-chairs, Kona Kai Ea
“THE RISING TIDE”
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