I would like to know who the other unions are that are working with Sierra Club on the issue of ocean "farming" of salmon. Here in Hawaii we are told that sea farming will be a good economic engine for our depleted stocks of fish ---- and create more jobs. Our legislators in the state do not appear to be interested in hearing about any negatives either - when it came to ocean liners and dumping of waste around the islands it took years for any action on their trash practices. We have 4 major Wal-Marts on the island of Oahu - with another one being built. The Wal-Mart effect is here - and yet no word from our local press, and just some local union voices over the mega-stores. The issue of what is in the Wal-Mart - and how it remains so cheap - is a question that is VERY rarely asked by anyone who steps into the store. It should be the first question of a conscious person.

I would like to know who the other unions are that are working with Sierra Club on the issue of ocean "farming" of salmon. Here in Hawaii we are told that sea farming will be a good economic engine for our depleted stocks of fish ---- and create more jobs. Our legislators in the state do not appear to be interested in hearing about any negatives either - when it came to ocean liners and dumping of waste around the islands it took years for any action on their trash practices. We have 4 major Wal-Marts on the island of Oahu - with another one being built. The Wal-Mart effect is here - and yet no word from our local press, and just some local union voices over the mega-stores. The issue of what is in the Wal-Mart - and how it remains so cheap - is a question that is VERY rarely asked by anyone who steps into the store. It should be the first question of a conscious person.

Stories such as questioning Judge Payne's ethics - that Salon.com has done causes me to tell more people to subscribe to your internet paper. It is a shame that our traditional papers seem to have little effect on the rapacious antics of the GOP - they are either cheerleaders of the right, or shamefully under-reporting on the destruction of our civil liberties, the butchering of our national guard - and the accelerated growth of the permanent underclass. In my state we just put in a three-strikes law!!

Thank you Salon for trying to stem the tide of ignorance, by asking simple questions to power...and reporting it.

After reading what Bush said...and seeing a small visual on the Daily Show, I am more convinced that this man is on drugs. But more importantly - why is no one in his staff keeping him from a microphone? Or is this yet another distraction - when we all need to be viewing what is happening in Iraq/Afganistan? Surely the GOP could trot out another GOPer for more unintended dark humour...and save El Presidente? Or are they coming to the end of their roster of willing scapegoats, after what happened to Brownie?

When Scalia came to Honolulu, people were surprised with the smartest man on the bench. Surprised - because his general conversation was Nixonian - without the benefit of explicatives being deleted.

Well let's see - Akaka is one of the senior statesmen from Hawaii and Time Magazine disses him - while he is in a race for his seat, challenged by Republicrat (very small D here) Ed case. So let's get the sequence - Time Magazine is part of Time Warner - AOL absorbed that corporate giant and Ed's cousin is Steve Case, founder of AOL. Shall Ed Case say "Thank you Cuz?"

Stephen Colbert's address to the docile press corps was truly remarkable - not only did I howl with laughter at his speech broadcast on C-Span - but it was made all the more funny at the complete blank stares of the audience.....if you ask me, Colbert has ressurected the power of IRONY. I thought that the Bush Administration had laid waste to that weapon of mass administrative destruction.....but no the Messiah of Irony has trumpeted his message, I wait for the walls to fall down. (in the meantime, I understand that Bush is a vicious little snit, I trust that Mr. Colbert has his taxes all in order).

This story begs for people to think about their local community and ask oneself who in their local press was extolling the virtues of continuous war in the Middle East??? and decrying any criticism of the use of torture - and extolling how great things are in Guantanemo? Maybe they were paid for their good White House supporting reporting - maybe they received checks - or other ways of rewarding the behavior - and maybe they haven't been up front with the IRS on any gifts - who knows - they need to be outed.

The NYT says that there are hundreds of names listed who were part of the propaganda effort from the White House - WHY NOT PUT THAT LIST of names UP ON THE NET, with a geographical note of where these people live and work? The public has a right to know who allows themselves to be purchased - and certainly with such notice, it may be a deterrent for future behavior....at the very least a light to shine on local coverage of national news and the local journalists who are willing to be parrots.