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Hawaiian English is like kahiko, the ancient dance, the kanaka dance of tradition, she says, harsh moves, slaps, and full of pounding force.

Hawai'i is the most isolated population center on Earth, with the nearest points being between Hilo on the Big Island and San Francisco in CA 2,315 miles away.

Hawai'i is the only place in the fifty states where you can see the stars of the entire northern and southern hemispheres. Here, stars that can't be seen from the mainland are visible, along with stars that aren't visible from Australia.

Hawaii is still the single most frequent fantasy destination, not because of political stability or conveniences, but because Hawaii seduces the imagination. It's the perfect postcard, no props, no fillers.

Hawaii once had a rat problem. Then, somebody hit upon a brilliant solution. import mongooses from India. Mongooses would kill the rats. It worked. Mongooses did kill the rats. Mongooses also killed chickens, young pigs, birds, cats, dogs, and small children. There have been reports of mongooses attacking motorbikes, power lawn mowers, golf carts, and James Michener. in Hawaii now, there are as many mongooses as there once were rats. Hawaii had traded its rat problem for a mongoose problem. Hawaii was determined nothing like that would ever happen again. How could Leigh-Cheri draw for Gulietta the appropriate analogy between Hawaii's rodents and society at large? Society had a crime problem. It hired cops to attack crime. Now society has a cop problem.

Hawaii was defined by its isolation. Its first settlers, probably Polynesians from islands to the south, are thought to have arrived roughly around the time of Christ. Over the centuries, Hawaiians had little contact with anyone else because almost no one could cross the vast expanse of ocean that surrounded their islands. Thousands of unique plants and animal species evolved, more than almost anywhere else on earth.

Her dark eyes sparkled in the sunlight as she stared up at me. "You are a moon child. She calls to you.

He rested his head on top of mine and whispered, "I'm warning you now. I'm a horrible patient." I smiled in spite of myself and pulled back. "Of course you are. That's why you're a doctor.

Her soft lips met mine over and over, scorching my soul as she gradually pulled back. "If I had known werewolves were such great kissers, I would've found one much sooner.

I am at one with the Hawaiian spirits of Mauna Kea.

High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) is an inconvenient truth that is being ignored by the toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.

I am at one with #WeAreMaunaKea.

I asked if you'd rather me keep my shirt on." "No. Why?" "Should we throw a tarp over the statue of David while we're at it?

I am on a mission from the Hawaiian spirits.

If you are looking for a career that may induce a myriad of health conditions into you, I can recommend working at the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea, Hawaii, USA.

I did not think much about working at the 13,796 feet high summit of Mauna Kea until I started working there. Every day atop the mountain was spent feeling really crappy and taking company supplied drugs so that I could do my job. My love of Hawaii kept me working there for five years until my health started to fail.

If you are not crazy before working atop the very high altitude Mauna Kea mountain, you may well be by the time you leave.

I feel very honored that the Hawaiian spirits chose to contact me.

If in doubt, cheese has been always the answer..

I have no respect for Governor David Ige of Hawaii.

If you want to know what corporate fraud looks like, just watch the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.

Ignorant people build toxic projects on sacred sites.

I make this promise to the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea: I will do everything within the law to shut your toxic enterprise down.

I regard putting a sea level adapted human into a car and driving them to the very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea on a daily basis to be a form of workplace abuse.

In Hawaii, family showed itself in the way that my siblings never dared to call one another "half" anything. We were fully brothers and sisters. Family appeared in the pile of rubber slippers and sandals that crowded the entrance to everyone's home; in the kisses we gave when we greeted one another and said good-bye; in the graceful choreography of Grandma hanging the laundry on the clothesline; in the inclusiveness of calling anyone older auntie or uncle whether or not they were relatives.

I realize we can't turn back the hands of time, and sometimes it doesn't help to dwell on things we can't control. However, there are still many wonderful aspects of Hawai'i that we tend to neglect. It's a matter of priorities. I guess. But when we don't give these islands a chance. I think we really lose out. ("Mele Mele" Mango Memorie WITH SAM CHOY: COOKING FROM THE HEART)

I'm enjoying two beautiful visions tonight. Watching you stand there against a marvelous background has to be the most intriguing sunset I have ever experienced.

Inside the terminal at Keahole, they sat waiting to board, watching husky Hawaiians load luggage onto baggage ramps. Arriving tourists smiled at their dark, muscled bodies, handsome full-featured faces, the ease with which they lifted things of bulk and weight. Departing tourists took snapshots of them. 'That's how they see us', Pono whispered. 'Porters, servants. Hula Dancers, clowns. They never see us as we are, complex, ambiguous, inspired humans.' 'Not all haole see us that way...'Jess argued. Vanya stared at her. 'Yes, all Haole and every foreigner who comes here puts us in one of two categories: The malignant stereotype of vicious, drunken, do-nothing kanaka and their loose-hipped, whoring wahine. Or, the benign stereotype of the childlike, tourist-loving, bare-foot, aloha-spirit natives.

Intriguing. Illuminating. An investing primer on some of the most notable role on Maui. Anyone who has been on the island 24 hours will find this a handy guide. Maui Time Weekly I could not put it down. John T., Maui Friends of the Library.

I see Hawaiian spirits atop Mauna Kea.

I regard taking healthy sea level adapted children to the 13,796 feet very high altitude summit of Mauna Kea as a form of child abuse.

It is important to realize that having Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) on your resume is not a good thing.

I thought I was the crazy one," she continued. "I mean, who the hell falls in love in one day?" "We the hell do.

It is important that Hawaii visitors are aware that most forms of radiation are much higher atop the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea.

It was astronomical science that that built the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO) and I have every expectation that it will be biological science that demolishes them.

It is my expectation that a wide range of construction workers will lose their long term health to High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) from working on the Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.

It is my estimation that all workers on the 1.4 billion dollar Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea, Hawaii, will develop some form of biological damage that will reveal itself years after the first exposure to the very high altitude mountain occurred.

I will use the truth to shut down the biologically toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) atop Mauna Kea.

Living in L.A., you couldn't help picking up tidbits of the surf culture, almost through osmosis... it was in the air, like vitamin D and the odd Brad Pitt sighting.

My extensive knowledge of High Altitude Observatory Disease (HAOD) required me to become a critic of the biologically toxic Thirty Meter Telescope (TMT) project atop Mauna Kea.

My advice to Hawaii visitors is to not venture to the biologically toxic summit of Mauna Kea to prevent permanent biological damage from occurring in the human mind and body.

Look, Neal, Hawaii is not some magical pixie wonderland; it’s an American state populated by atomic weapons, a remnant native population and people too stupid to spell their way out of a paper bag. Most of them came here to escape pathetic lives in the forty nine other states, so in some sense, Hawaii is a scenic cul-de-sac filled with people who want to drink themselves to death without feeling judged.

Mauna Kea Sickness (MKS) in the summit workers is the inconvenient truth of the Mauna Kea Observatories (MKO).

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but one, no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides me; other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of it surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garland crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the woodland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. -MARK TWAIN in an 1889 Dinner Speech at Delmonico's in New York to honor two baseball teams that had just returned from touring the Pacific, including Honolulu.

New land formed by lava flows belongings to the state, not to abutting property owners. So ruled the Hawai'i Supreme Court in 1977.

Never harass a person that can shut you down through scientific discovery.

N matter how stressed Claire became, the tropical trees and exotic island flowers decorating the lobby always managed to take her breath away and put her mind at ease. Nature had always been a good de-stressor for her coming in close behind having her hand held by Mr. Sam Stewart

Nothing like a bit of flattery to grease the wheels.

No one has family in Hawaii. Everyone is family in Hawaii.

Over time, wonder replaced fear of the Hawaiian visions.