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Superferry sets off the battle of Kauai
Los Angeles Times ^
| October 9, 2007
| Tomas Alex Tizon
Posted on 10/10/2007 11:17:54 AM PDT by Lorianne
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:17:56 AM PDT
by
Lorianne
To: Lorianne
I am in full sympathy with the lady!
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:21:59 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: Lorianne
"See the natives. Watch us dance the hula. Clog up our roads. Buy up all the good land. And please, help yourselves to our beaches!" "Our beaches"? Someone can't go to "your" beach?
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:24:12 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Stop Kim Jong-Hill in 2008)
To: Lorianne
Well, if I can speak for all Alaskans - PLEASE come and visit, spend yur money (and then go home).
We could use the cash.
Since we are forbiden by the FedGov and the Greenies (via the FedGov courts) to do anything remotly related to development, we might as well pick up some extra tourist ucs.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:26:09 AM PDT
by
ASOC
(Yeah, well, maybe - but can you *prove* it?)
To: Lorianne
"The ferry would be the best thing to ever happen to this island, says one longtime resident of Kauai. From what Ive seen of the protesters, theyre like, Now that Im on this beautiful rock, lets kick the ladder off so no one else can get on. " He is right, there doesn't seem to be too many native Hawaiian people in the pictures.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:26:36 AM PDT
by
Abathar
(Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
To: Lorianne
I wonder how the folks will look at the money brought in by those nasty tourists? There are folks on the island who earn their bread and butter from tourism.
Look at it this way, the ferry brings them and takes them back. If folks find it easy to come visit, they may decide they DON'T want the expense of living there, and there may not be as big an explosion of construction of homes.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:27:37 AM PDT
by
SuziQ
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I am in full sympathy with the lady! I'm not.
She's a socialist loser of the worst description.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:28:56 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: Lorianne
Buy up all the good land. Too bad federal laws prohibit Kauai natives from buying the land on their own. < /sarcasm level 11>
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:30:05 AM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(May the heirs of Charles Martel and Jan Sobieski rise up again to defend Europe.)
To: Lorianne
I’m guessing that most of the people arriving on Kauai are there legally.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:31:18 AM PDT
by
SmithL
(I don't do Barf Alerts, you're old enough to read and decide for yourself)
To: SWAMPSNIPER
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I am in full sympathy with the lady!Why? If she wants to control the development of land there, she can buy that land and keep it undeveloped. Unless she owns the land, it's not really up to her, nor should it be.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:37:34 AM PDT
by
xjcsa
(Defenseless enemies are fun.)
To: Kaiulani Huff
"Welcome to Disneyland," she says one day while driving around the island. "See the natives. Watch us dance the hula. Clog up our roads. Buy up all the good land. And please, help yourselves to our beaches!" If you don't like it here you can go back to the Marquesas where you came from. I am on Kauai a month year. Not too crowded now but it will be soon. I don't like that but without the tourists there will be abject poverty on the island. After all who would pay for the lava slow road workers to stand around 365 days a year? They are not your beaches, every beach in the state is public. And thanks for noticing I'm rich. I'm not much about vanity but I have to admit it is nice that people recognize I've been rewarded for my success. Especially when I am contributing to the economy, right?
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To: what's up
Shes awful! Word.
Her island is extremely sparsely populated.
About 100 people per square mile.
My county is more like 1000 per square mile.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:40:02 AM PDT
by
wideawake
(Why is it that so many self-proclaimed "Constitutionalists" know so little about the Constitution?)
To: SIDENET
Here’s the problem. Once upon a time I could get off after work, launch my little boat, go scoop up a nice batch of fresh oysters, make a few throws of my net and grab some fine shrimp, or mullet, pull my crab traps, and score some great blue crabs. Can’t do that, anymore. The water is full of jetskis, flabby New York refugees, and plastic bags. The beaches are backed up with concrete condos, no more rolling dunes. The beaches are locked down at dark, no more all night fishing, with family and friends and a campfire.
It is all about lifestyle, and values, vs money. I know we need money, but it isn’t everything.
The only lifestyle now visible isn’t much different than, at best, Coney Island, and, at worst, Fire Island, and heading downhill, fast.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:43:32 AM PDT
by
SWAMPSNIPER
(THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
To: ASOC
Well, if I can speak for all Alaskans - PLEASE come and visit, spend yur money (and then go home). I'm up for touring Alaska. Couldn't live there (no IT industry), but would love to come hunt and trek up there.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:43:45 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
To: ASOC
Well, if I can speak for all Alaskans - PLEASE come and visit, spend yur money (and then go home). I'm up for touring Alaska. Couldn't live there (no IT industry), but would love to come hunt and trek up there.
If I want cold though, me and my wife will move back to her homeland.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:44:04 AM PDT
by
Centurion2000
(False modesty is as great a sin as false pride.)
To: Abathar
there doesn't seem to be too many native Hawaiian people in the pictures.
Kaiulani Huff looks like a Kanaka to me.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:45:24 AM PDT
by
Uri’el-2012
(you shall know that I, YHvH, your Savior, and your Redeemer, am the Elohim of Ya'aqob. Isaiah 60:16)
To: wideawake
She's selfish, plain and simple.
She wants to frolic in a natural wonderland of open spaces forever. So does everyone.
Too bad. If people want to sell their land to richer folks who then want to build, that's their prerogative.
Hawaii's full of selfish people who want the whole thing to themselves without paying anything.
To: SWAMPSNIPER
I understand what you're saying, but for me it comes down to freedom. If the land there is for sale, someone has a right to buy it. Just because the locals there liked their setup doesn't give them the right to close the place down to outsiders and development.
If they had wanted the island to remain as it was, they should have bought the land up and sat on it.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:50:21 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
(Stop Kim Jong-Hill in 2008)
To: ASOC
Easy to see why they are inhibiting Alaska development,
wouldn’t want the place to fill up like New York now would we?
Why? I mean it’s so large ya could put in two maybe three Mall of the Americas and still have room for a McDonalds.
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posted on
10/10/2007 11:52:29 AM PDT
by
Joe Boucher
(An enemy of Islam)
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