Growth Spurt

Pardon the pixel dust as I finally get around to adding a few more long-talked-about bells and whistles to our little talkstory spot on the web. Now in development, HawaiiStories Fiction, HawaiiStories Gallery, and HawaiiStories Survey!

Planning on doing NaNoWriMo this year? Think you have a short story or two in you, waiting to get out? Want to attempt a playful collaborative writing project with your fellow HawaiiStories members (or your guests)? Then help me kickstart HawaiiStories Fiction! There are no rules, only the intent to create a space to tell stories rooted in imagination, and to let others read along as you write!

Have some digital photos you want to share online, but don't want to mess with HTML or ad-filled services like Yahoo? We'd be happy to host your pictures in HawaiiStories Gallery, featuring an easy-breezy web interface and the ability to create sub-albums to organize your photos. I don't think we can quite handle the Guggenheim, but if you've got up to a couple of hundred images to share, we'd love to see them, and help you share them!

Finally, there's HawaiiStories Survey, an informal, fun, open-to-everyone poll. I invite you to suggest questions, be they topical, whimsical, or purely random.

Let me know what you think, if you want to play, and what else you'd like to see around here!

Comments

If I ever get paid by a client again, I want a digicam so I can use the gallery feature. ;)

I took the suggested "poll" and noticed that the majority of those who have participated in it indicate a vote for Linda Lingle for Hawaii's Governor.

I'm a Democrat and cast my vote and my polled opinion for Hirono, based upon the issues involved and not the delusion that the personality of Lingle will somehow bring about some betterment to Hawaii.

Rather, a vote for Lingle will take the State into worse conditions, based upon the Lingle record in Maui, while Mayor there -- although Lingle did manage to provide building permits to every campaign supporter that she could while in the Mayor's office.

I've read a lot of biting, tedious and rather dreary comments about the person of M. Hirono -- like a vapid conversation in the "Advertiser"'s Boards wherein some foolish person made creepy suggestions about Hirono's "botox" treatments.

Are these the things upon which a Governor is elected, whether or not someone uses or even submits to botox treatments? Apparently, based upon some rampant Lingle supporter who has gunked up (and continues to gunk up) the "Advertiser" message boards with their proliferation of anti-Hirono comments of the most tawdry kind.

I know that the economy is soured, not only in HI, but in our greater U.S. as well, and electing a Republican Go ernor to HI will only add to the downturn, not redirect it.

It will, however, increase the profits of a margin in the economy, based upon the antiquated economic philosophy from the mad mind of Ronald Reagan: that "trickle down economics" will somehow bring about prosperity to the economy of any region, state or even, country.

It doesn't. It's a failed philosophy based upon the irrational musings of disturbed policy ("trickle down economics"), but it DOES ensure profits and economic well-being for a strata within a society, while increasing the overall suffering and depression for the majority of residents and citizens.

I get the impression, from what I've read on the Internet, that those who support Lingle think that she's "cooler" or somewhat more trendy than is Hirono; decide what you like, have whatever cultural opinions that you care to, but these are not the criteria upon which a Governor is elected -- nor the governing philosophy and administrators that that Governor brings with them to Office.

One thing that lost my faith in Lingle many years ago, while she was a Mayor of Maui, was that she was promoted as being a "graduate of UC" (in California), while she never, ever attended the University of California, not any campus of the University of California ("UC
"), but, rather, attended California State University in Northridge ("Cal State"), which has a far less strenuous and demanding admission and academic policy as does UC.

Another thing about Lingle was that she devoted a weekly "call the Mayor" telephone line, took calls, indicated sympathy for concerns, whatever, but the conditions were never, ever addressed afterward. The only condition upon which I contacted her for assistance was remedied, years afterward, BY A DEMOCRAT in the County Office. And, quickly.

I'd like to suggest that people give Hirono a chance to continue her already proven legislative abilities as HI's next Governor, and leave the trendy people at the steps outside.

Those trendy folks DO tend to be able to raise many millions of dollars (try investigating just how that's done and who the sources are who contribute to those huge amounts of campaign dollars), but, my preference is that those many millions of dollars be invested in our communities and neighborhoods, donated to the truly needy among us, and to our magnificent environment, rather than to the campaigns of the trendy, rather articifial and somewhat tenuous, Republican candidates.

Ask yourselves this: when has the country and the State of HI ever prospered under a Republican administration?

Hmm. There has been considerably more robust debate on the gubernatorial race in other threads here. This one, really, was just an administrative announcement of new features.

I would take issue with your characterization of Lingle supporters doing so for the "cool factor," though (Lingle, frankly, is about as "cool" as chartered accountancy), just as you would no doubt take issue with the characterization of Hirono supporters doing so out of fear.

FWIW, I am a born and raised and otherwise emphatically left-leaning Democrat myself. As far as party ideology goes, me and the Republicans are nearly oil and water. But I'm still voting for Lingle. Simply because while much is unknown, what is known is that where we've been for half a century doesn't work.

The best thread to continue talking gubernatorial politics is probably the most recent one, here.

Post a Comment