Who Is Wally Lau?

[TomK]

"I was going to include lack of education and experience however that doesn't seem to apply."

Of course you were, Punatic007.

Are you aware of logical fallacies, especially the straw man and argumentum ad hominem?

[Guest]

Who is Wally Lau?

He is apparently a big spender who gets more off island campaign money than all of our other Mayor candidate's combined.

http://westhawaiitoday.com/news/local-ne...tributions

Mr, Lau was really Born-n-raised on Oahu?

He has so many signs up around Naalehu to Kona, many put on large parcels of vacant land or property. I would have guessed he was from someplace like H.O.V.E.

If the most signs on the highway are a strong indicator of who will win some of these elections. Mr, Illagan and Mr, Lau are almost sure winners thus far. large amounts of off-island money may be a good influencing factor for our islands largest portion of registered voters, the ones who usually don't vote. The many or Larger signs may encourage the ones that haven't really cared or been persuaded enough to vote in the past. With so much money apparently being spent on this years campaign signs. Our island may experience a record turnout of voters this year at the election polls, That also may be problematic for some. Jmo.

[pahoated]

quote:

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Originally posted by Punatic007
Do your research

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Seems like you need to take your own orders. What good is my research going to do if it isn't comprehensible to some people that have the intelligence of a wild pig? I don't try to teach algebra to a pig because it only makes me frustrated and makes the pig really angry.

"Aloha also means goodbye. Aloha!"

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I don't try to teach algebra to a pig because it only makes me frustrated and makes the pig really angry.

But still, I would pay a dollar or two to watch you try.

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
-Joseph Brodsky

[leilanidude]

Not calling it fracking is a LIE.
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punatic007 - I guess you are also unable to understand what "fracking" actually is?
Seems like old cranky pahoated is right about you.

[Punatic007]

It's been a long time and I don't remember it all other than being at a meeting and learning there was reinjection of water with toxic chemical residue into the land instead of the previous venting into the air. Someone in the audience asked about the underground "swiss cheese" lava tube effect going on all through out Puna and how it toxins would be going everywhere and the speaker could not comment on it.

There was a good deal of chatter that it's fracking by another name but still as potentially dangerous in the long run. Maybe not right away but the keiki here will experience the destruction.

All of my friends living in the surrounding communities consider the geothermal a danger. Including a previous president of faculty at UH Hilo, a retired MD with a Phd who supplied emergency personnel to heavy industry sites all over the world. This guy is brilliant and very concerned his land and air will be affected adversely by this industry.

I've witnessed accidents which can happen regardless of where the toxins are vented or injected, and the sound and vibrations of 24/7 drilling making surrounding homes completely uninhabitable for long periods of time. WTF? Who in their right mind would support that type of abuse to others?

Ok that's all I know. Someone enlighten me as to why reinjection is not as dangerous as fracking in our active and highly fragile volcanic rift zone with a large population in a 10 mile radius?

[leilanidude]

Someone enlighten me as to why reinjection is not as dangerous as fracking in our active and highly fragile volcanic rift zone with a large population in a 10 mile radius?
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It would be dangerous not to re-inject the steam back. Putting it back maintains the same volume that was there to begin with. It is why it is called a "closed-loop system".

[kalakoa]

All of my friends living in the surrounding communities consider the geothermal a danger.

Then they should move.

[Frankie Stapleton]

gypsy69, Wally Lau was born on Oahu but his parents were from Naalehu and Keauhou, as I recall him saying at the Pahoa forum last Saturday.
BTW, for anyone wanting to see video of the two Democratic Party forums held the past 2 Saturdays, the first at Hwn Shores and the second at Pahoa community center, they are posted on bigislandvideonews.com. Includes Prosecutors race, Dist. 4 and Dist. 5 council races, Mayoral race (2 hours in length but BIVN breaks it into topical segments), and the State Senate race.

[Frank]

bigislandvedionews!!!Thank you folks for posting the discussions...u 2 frankie