TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

[Chunkster]

Here are five things that a lot of people all over the world and I have learned about Hawaii and via the TMT fiasco: (Forgive me, respected Opihikao, for repeating some of your points, but they are damn worth repeating.)

1. The state government (note lower case) is even less competent at handling a billion dollar investment opportunity than we thought. From possible faults in the permit appeals process to the lame "let's make some new rules when the ones we already have would do fine and then only enforce them sporadically" approach, they have failed to meet our already low expectations.

2. The governor has no balls and probably isn't real smart, or he wouldn't have let this happen.

3. The TMT organization itself, despite bending over backwards to try to reach an accommodation, gets no respect or value from its efforts.

4. The Native Hawaiians, who do have legitimate grievances, are in real danger of being seen as controlled by their most radical elements . . . people who would rather throw a temper tantrum over a telescope than demand the reform of the always incompetent and occasionally corrupt OHA and DHHL.

5. Nobody, not even a non-profit, is going to make a major investment in this state any time soon, if ever. See #1 above for details.

Rant over.

Edited for typos, the rant remains the same.