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Kid-care aid cut delay urged - Hawaii News

For many, teachers are day care providers already. (Monday Dec 7 | post #11)

If you knew anything about Shriners you would know that they take patients, regardless of income, and treat them free. The only requirements are that you have a condition that they treat (scholiosis in my daughter's case) and that you be under 18 when you are first treated. They even have free lodging for parents who live from far away so they can come with their children. There is no "fortunate minority." If they can help you they will. And, while you are casting aspersions, I have volunteered time, donated money, and sewn quilts for the hospital to express my thanks for their generosity. My parents have also escorted recovered patients back and forth across the Pacific when it was time for them to return home. How I have in any way denied help to others must be a figment of your own imagination. What have you done to help? Anything? (or is it better to call people names?) (Friday Dec 4 | post #29)

Do I really need this? - Hawaii News

I do all of that yet still had stage II breast cancer at age 46. All the doctor would say was "ideopathic. " Sometimes you just can't help I guess. (Friday Dec 4 | post #23)

Kid-care aid cut delay urged - Hawaii News

I don't understand why a subsidy is paid to a relative who is watching a child. Shouldn't a grandmother or an aunt or uncle watch a child in need if they can? And the argument is that, if this subsidy goes away, then the relative will not watch the child? What has happened to the concept of ohana that is so exalted? (Friday Dec 4 | post #6)

Obamas will spend holidays in Hawaii - Hawaii News

At least Bush visited the troops one Thanksgiving. Did you see any troops at Obama's Thanksgiving or at his fancy state dinner? He doesn't care unless he can have them in a photo op. (Friday Dec 4 | post #76)

Obamas will spend holidays in Hawaii - Hawaii News

Rest assured that Obama will be plastered on the media here 24/7 just like the last time. Again with the Star-Bulletin asking for your Obama pics etc. It must be easier for them to fawn rather than report real news. You can bet there'll be no hard questions for him because "he's on vacation." (Friday Dec 4 | post #75)

Re: Football Broadcast and "Public schools for the public to watch." First, there is no right to view a game free. If you don't want to pay $29, take the bus, pay the small admission, and take the bus back home. Another option would be to listen to the radio. That's free! Second, would you have the same response regarding UH football games? Seems that there are fees to watch that publicly financed institution on t.v. Third, one of the schools is a private school so how does that fit into your statement? Fourth, if some of this money goes to help high school sports, sports that have had their budgets cut, then why not have those who appreciate the sport pay? Why is that greed? Nobody's forcing them to do so. Fifth, if cable is too pricey then cut it out. I watch my tv over the air. No monthly cost for that. (Friday Dec 4 | post #7)

There are many ways to deal with people who can't afford medical insurance than the monstrous plan that is before Congress. My daughter received an operation at Shriners, for example, and that was from a private entity for which my insurance did not pay. But you think it will be better with the government, a government you can't sue and with which you are compelled to do business, when they refuse treatment? Maybe I should be ashamed but you are naive and drinking too much Kool-Aid! (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #27)

Do I really need this? - Hawaii News

At age 46 I was diagnosed with stage II breast cancer. The 1"+ lump was deep & the doctor felt it only because "the tests told him where it was." It'd appeared after a clean mammo just one year earlier. I had no danger signs (e.g. family hist) so who knows why I received this diagnosis. Now I should've waited 'til I was 50? Tell that to my 4 kids (then 8-15...) whose mother would now be dead. If this is what govt health care 'll be like, then I don't want it. (Wednesday Nov 25 | post #14)

No, it is the fascitsts that are taking over private car companies and now want to take over the health care industry by dictating to people whether they are or not worthy of treatment. (Tuesday Nov 24 | post #20)

Gartley forgotten - Guest Editorials

That the UH would not maintain one of the few buildings on its campus with any style is disgraceful. That it has lasted this long is a testament to the quality with which it was built. These are the buildings that should be kept. (Tuesday Nov 17 | post #1)

Letters to the Editor - Letters

There needs to be a balance. People need jobs too. (Friday Nov 13 | post #14)

USS Arizona items pulled from auction - Hawaii News

I don't understand this article. In the beginning it says that the items are government property. Towards the end it prints people who hope that the family will donate the stolen property. If it's the government's property and it was stolen, why does one have to HOPE that it will be donated back to its owners? I would think that they would be compelled to do so. (Thursday Nov 12 | post #13)

As pine goes under, prep fields well on new crops - Hawaii Edit...

But they are proposing new jobs ... jobs for those who regulate the seed companies. (Nov 9, 2009 | post #14)