Oops.
Guess we didn’t think about the loss of $900M in visitor spending or the loss of 1900 jobs or the loss of $60M in tax revenue
Uncertain Outcomes Raised In Phasing Out Maui Short Term Rentals
https://t.co/CMoVjom5Hk
Website project!
The federal government has over 6,500 public-facing websites, many of which are obsolete or unused. For ~10%, there were fewer than 10 views in the past month. Each website costs the taxpayer between $100k and $6M per year.
An initial audit suggests ~20% can be deleted or consolidated. Thus far, 5 have been deleted, saving $1M/year.
As an example, https://t.co/fMgdyJmLEz was used to allocate recycling revenue to agencies based on occupancy; this has been replaced by a spreadsheet and saved $120k/year.
Will post monthly progress updates.
Federal agents have arrested more than 100 people in Hawaii so far this year for alleged violations of immigration law, but information on exactly how many over 100, where they were arrested and for what was not made public.
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On Oahu, Hawaii, which has not in the near past ever had neither a Peruvian or Venezuelan community suddenly has their staple goods in the stores for the first time. Yesterday in Costco there were palettes of huge sacks of Peruvian frijoles. In Walmart tonight they have stocked Harina Pan, a Venezuelan staple for making arepas. How do I know? There used to be only one place in the state to buy these goods. A tiny market on Beretania St. that specializes in Latin American food products. Now there must be a considerable population for these staples to be found in the regular stores in mass quantities. @DHSgov@RealTomHoman @Sec_Noem @DNIGabbard
Must read!
The 9/11 mastermind was a Qatar employee, housed and protected by Qatar, and escaped capture by the FBI when he was tipped off by Qatar and provided with a fake passport by Qatar.
https://t.co/BXUMv1HYy8
Seriously, has anyone listened to the whole Hur audio? The establishment takeout that this is just about Joe Biden having pudding for brains is lazy and misses the deeper point, which is that the prosecutors had him cold on possessing classified documents he had no right to keep.
Biden lies and dissembles and filibusters and goes vague and mumbly at all the crucial points, with the help of lawyer Bob Bauer, who interrupts every time Joe might incriminate himself and laughs like a hyena when Joe gets feisty or cracks a sarcastic joke at the prosecutors' expense.
It is vintage Biden, nasty, smarmy, and self aggrandizing. He tries to impress the lawyers in the room with exaggerated highlights of his subpar legal career. At one point he boasts about spending Thanksgiving in Nantucket handwriting a memo about Afghanistan to Obama to try to "save his ass". Delusions of grandeur.
You can hear the prosecutors' frustration - they're in a straitjacket and with a strict time limit. He reminds them out of the gate that he has just been on the phone to Bibi Netanyahu talking about the Oct. 7 attack - the previous day -- just so they know they are keeping him from more important business.
Bottom line is he absurdly lies throughout. He denies having kept classified material for his personal use. It is not something he would ever do because he's so upright and honorable.
And yet the prosecutors found reams of it tucked away everywhere in his house, garage, and Penn Center office, along with Biden's recorded admission to his ghostwriter that he had found classified material in his basement he could use for his memoir.
So they had a dilemma. Do they charge the sitting president and label him a pathological liar, causing a massive scandal and constitutional crisis? Or do they use his age and mental fog as an excuse not to charge him? Pretty clear which was the easier path.
Blaming federal cuts for the DHHL housing failures is a tired excuse when the agency has been sitting on millions in unspent federal funds ($75.9 million), while nearly 30,000 Native Hawaiians remain stuck on the waitlist. This isn’t a new problem: the Obama administration threatened funding cuts because DHHL’s chronic underspending and its inability to move money where it’s desperately needed. Meanwhile, the state Legislature handed DHHL a historic $600 million in 2022, yet lawmakers and beneficiaries are still left wondering when, or if, those funds will actually deliver homes. Hawaiians deserve more than excuses and shifting blame, they deserve real action and accountability from their own state agency.
McDonald’s Price Increases from 2019 to 2024
Medium French Fry $1.79 -> $4.19
McChicken $1.29 -> $3.89
Big Mac $3.99 -> $7.49
10 McNuggets $4.49 -> $7.58
Cheeseburger $1.00 -> $3.15
Some of this is over a 200% increase in price. This isn’t inflation, it’s robbery.
"That priest than raped him, too, and went on to become the bishop of Hawaii’s Catholic Church."
"He apparently remained in the good graces of both the Dioceses of Erie and Hawaii at the time of his death."
WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK?!!
GARY SECOR is on the board of
-Catholic Charities Hawaii
-Catholic Charities Housing Development
-Augustine Educational Foundation
-Hawaii Family Forum
Hawaii’s current Vicar General, the Very Reverent Gary Secor, is not only on the board of 4 ngos in Hawaii but also NO DOUBT knew about the sexual abuse of children of many priests who worked, visited, took vacatioins here or "retired" in Hawaii..
I found a bunch of articles about this and copied and pasted some parts that show for sure that HE KNEW!
"Details from several cases have been reported in the media, including Mark Pinkosh, a man who claimed two priests abused him as a child at St. Anthony Church in Kailua. Pinkosh filed his lawsuit in 2012. According to Pinkosh, he was raped by a priest and reported the incident to another priest, who told him to keep the rape secret. That priest than raped him, too, and went on to become the bishop of Hawaii’s Catholic Church."
"These eight are only the known victims of Father Hannon. Hannon admitted to abusing at least twenty victims, which leads the Grand Jury to conclude that there were many more, as yet unknown, victims, both in the Diocese of Erie and in Hawaii. The investigation was unable to uncover the identities and experiences of these additional victims. This is due, in part, to the fact that the Grand Jury did not have access to the pertinent files from the Diocese of Hawaii. Hannon passed away on January 16, 2006, while in residence at the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace in the Diocese of Hawaii. He apparently remained in the good graces of both the Dioceses of Erie and Hawaii at the time of his death."
"as early as 1986 the Diocese of Hawaii [sic], and possibly the Diocese of Erie as well, knew that Father Hannon admitted to sexually abusing at least 20 youths between 12 and 19 years of age. The admission came to light while Hannon was receiving treatment for his behavior at Foundation House"
"Victim #1 testified that Martin was friends with several other priests that were known pedophiles. He said that on a number of occasions, Martin's friend, Father Gary Ketcham (see Father. Gary Ketcham narrative), invited him to play racquetball or took him to nice dinners. When he did play racquetball with Ketcham, he would always be instructed to bring a towel because Ketcham would insist on taking a shower with Victim #1 and the other boys he took to the racquetball court. Another known pedophile priest with whom Martin would often associate was Father Robert Hannon (see Rev. Robert Hannon narrative). Victim #1 testified that Hannon retired early and relocated to Hawaii. Victim #1 reported that Hannon retired early due to inappropriate behavior with children and he would often return to the Erie area to visit with Martin. Victim #1 told the Grand Jury that Hannon' s way of befriending the altar boys was to hand out cash. Victim #1 testified that he personally experienced Hannon handing out money. He said Hannon would call it "green" and give it to any boy working the rectory. He added that Hannon and Martin were old friends from when they both worked in Oil City."