.    With all the tedious therefore's, motions, and grandstanding, I generally find Hawaii County Council meetings a crashing bore.  But if you squint a little, they actually get quite entertaining.

     Chairperson Heather Kimball leads the proceedings like a weary librarian who is trying not throw the rowdy kid out because -- who knows? -- he might grow up to be Bill Gates.  Waimea's Cindy Evans continually pontificates like a batty old neighbor who corners you in Malama Market to expound on her sister's bladder problems in explicit detail while blocking two aisles.

     Matty K-K looks like the last person in the world you'd want to see barging into your barracks as the new drill sergeant.  Give Kona's Dr. Holeka Inaba a popgun and tweed hat and he'd be a dead ringer for Elmer Fudd.  And Ashley K has astonishing resemblance to Natasha on The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle.  

     Jenn Kagiwada could pass as the steely Prosecuting Attorney who proves she has a heart of gold when she gets a wrongly convicted serial killer off death row and saves her marriage, all in one episode.  While Rebecca Villegas shows up looking like your mother-in-law slouching on a Sunday after stepping on a frayed vacuum cleaner cord.  And Kau's Michelle Galimba can't help but remind you of your favorite high school substitute teacher.

     I'm sure Sue Lee Loy already feels like she's unwillingly on The Maury Povich Show, so I can only empathize with her.

     Among those regularly called to testify, I always find the unflappable Housing Administrator Susan Kunz absolutely adorable in a Renee Zellweger kind of way, even when she is talking about how to assist the homeless.  And is it true that Disaster Recovery Officer Douglas Le is actually the only Roswell UFO crash survivor?  Does Planning Director Zee bring Goofy to mind?  Couldn't Mayor Roth play Mr. Magoo in the upcoming movie?

     And who's that creepy, bearded guy in a gray business suit lurking around behind the council members like a mafia enforcer?  Does the Miske Enterprise extend all the way to our County government?

     It's amazing how fun civics can be with just a little imagination!

                                               Shazam and Cowabunga!

This intent for this thread is to be the opposite of The Bicker Board.  I wanted to ask if anyone has seen Terracore and I had no idea where to post it.  So, this is a thread where you can tell a random story you may have told before.  Ask about a friend.  Buy someone a virtual beverage.  Blow off a little steam.  Share a new Haiku you wrote.  Post pictures of your cat or something you grew.  That kind of thing.  You can even show caring and concern for others.  It's a place to show your Aloha.

Has anyone seen Terracore?

First round is on me!

Punatang 

It’s best if you leave your explosive devices at home. 

Well, at least for everyone else on the plane. Preferably.



Even if they are fake ones.

https://www.bigislandvideonews.com/2024/...july-13th/

I've gone to a couple.  They're free and offer info, food, and giveaways.

Just wanted to share.

One of the bullets was found near a baby!  Why are all of these bullets flying in HPP?

https://www.kitv.com/video/puna-man-char...651d3.html


Bullets from shooters
Hawaiian Paradise Park
Where do they fly now?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/poisons-parad...21163.html

"...The dominant super cartels — Sinaloa and its rival, the Cártel Jalisco Nueva Generación, known as CJNG — run drug pipelines through California and Nevada to flood Oahu with meth and other drugs, including fentanyl, said Victor Vazquez, assistant special agent in charge of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration's operations in Hawaii..."

What a complement to this guy's talent, experience and know how! 

In addition to its historical significance, this is the plane that brought Kennedy back to DC.

https://bigislandnow.com/2024/07/02/big-...force-one/

Interesting fact:

Both current planes used as AF1 - the 747's, are hand waxed every week.

Is it just our area of mid-HPP that hasn't heard one peep of early fireworks yet? Usually, they start a week out or more, certainly as soon as the fireworks stands open. (Haven't seen any of those either.) Usually, our neighborhood is loud and celebratory all around us starting early, and then the BIG show by holiday time. Seems so odd!

Well now, what do we have here?

6-28-24 Police Initiate Homicide Investigation in Puna (hawaiipolice.com)

A 71-year-old woman dead just for robbery?

What is happening to the human race?

From spaceweather.com

"THAT NOVA YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT IS ABOUT TO EXPLODE: By the time you finish reading this story, there could be a new star in the night sky. Recurrent nova T CrB (pronounced "tee-core-bore") is poised on the knife edge of a once-in-a-lifetime explosion.

"Our best estimate for the time of eruption is close to now," says Brad Schaefer, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy at Louisiana State University.

Schaefer is a leading expert on T CrB. He's been studying the star since he was a teenager. "When I was 18 year old, I calculated when T CrB should erupt again, and I've been waiting for this moment ever since," he says.
T CrB is a "recurrent nova." That means it erupts not just once, but over and over again. Its explosion in 1866 was the first nova astronomers had ever seen in detail. "No one knew what caused it," says Schaefer. Another blast in 1946 established its period (79 or 80 years) and led researchers to the modern interpretation:

Above: The pre-eruption dip in March 2023