" The name Orrin, actually comes from the Spanish word Orina, or the verb Orinar. Which mean, respectively, Urine and To Urinate." Gus Portacolos, in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
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So much of politics is bullshit, but especially the things Republicans do.
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There was a good slate article on them. First up is Weyerhaeuser vs somebody. The timber company has a modest proposal to gut the endangered species act because the mean ol’ FWS won’t let them clear cut critical habitat for the dusky gopher frog.
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I realize this is trivial in the grand scheme of everything that’s at stake, but daphuqizup with the overbite on Sasse in that photo?
He uses it to open bottles of Pepsi.
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My suggestion is in addition to filling formal charges against Kavanaugh; Blasey-Ford along with her attorney and Hirono and one of her schoolmates do the Sunday TV circuit and answer questions. Forget Feinstein, cause all she will do is f up the whole thing with her centrist BS.
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Odd, the statement from Roberts, since most of what he’s done on the bench since being confirmed 10 years ago has had a direct impact on the perception of the court. I don’t feel the least bit sorry for him, his legacy says all we need to know about him.
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The more I read about Senator Hirono the more I like. bravo…
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So here’s the thing; as a man it would be easy to be offended by the Senator’s statement that on the surface lumps us all together as those of all talk and no action on this issue. However, as a lifelong liberal/progressive/leftist/democratic socialist I understand that her barb was not aimed at me personally but at all too many of my gender who just don’t get it.
What is instructive though, is that despite my upbringing and background, there is that initial, reflexive twinge of resentment at the generalization (ie, stereotyping) of “men in this country”. It allows me and reminds of just a little bit how it must be to be black, or LBGTQ or (in some circumstances) female and have to deal with this constantly.
Just a thought on why word choice can be so impactful, especially when uttered by a person of power in a public forum. Having said that, what I want to say to Senator Hirono is: You Go Girl !!!
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I’m in – Hawaiians are so lucky (and wise) to have both Sen. Hirono and Sen. Schatz!
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You and @beattycat just remember if we all to Hawaii we are caging our own Dem votes. And does anyone want to live on an island while there is a Trump maladministration and hurricanes?
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I love strong women who put the GOP cretins in their place…
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Pedantic n.b.: you probably mean Hawaii residents, some of whom are full or part ethnic Hawaiians.
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I really don’t think that Heitcamp will vote for Kavanaugh because she is a big beneficiary of the Native American vote like Murkowski in Alaska and thousands of N. Dakotans will lose access to their health insurance because Kav will be the fifth vote to decide that the Pre-existing conditions part of the ACA is unconstitutional. Dems are campaigning hard on supporting the ACA this go round because it’s popularity is huge now that people can see how it benefits them versus the lies of 2010 before the ACA had a chance to take effect.
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I’m hoping Hawaii will secede, and the UN will send help in the event of a hurricane. 
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The GOP quickly learned that the public will no longer allow them to simply ignore women’s accusations against their politicians (okay, Kavanaugh’s officially a jurist, but c’mon). So they have to appear to care, but they want to keep it a he said/she said situation so they can simply and dishonestly claim to “find him more credible.” A parade of witnesses confirming her account would make that very difficult, and if Mark Judge testifies, based on his book, I’d say Kavanaugh’s as good as dead.
It’s ambiguous, like much of human language. It can mean either a native or an inhabitant of the islands:
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One way I look at it is that women historically were able to use social means to keep one another from acting in their own best interests. If it worked for women to do harm, why can’t it work for men to do good? I mean, we’re not all idiots, right?
Funny thing, I was born in Honolulu. I lived in Hawaii until I was 13. I still speak HPE (pidgin). I’m a haole but I still think of myself as Hawaiian. My brother and sister (also born in Honolulu in the same Nairobi hospital as President Obama) feel the same way. You can’t spend your formative years in that culture and not be marked for life.
We refer to residents of Texas as Texans regardless of their place of birth. We refer to Kansas residents as Kansans regardless of their birthplace. The second case is particularly interesting in that there is an extant tribe of Native Americans called the Kansa, just as there are aboriginal Hawaiians. Maybe the distinction is that Hawaii is a pretty nice place to live – certainly nicer than Kansas.
Hawaiian makes the following distinctions that carried over to HPE:
- kanaka – (lit. a person, a human) an ethnic Hawaiian.
- kama’aina – (lit. child of the islands) someone born in the islands, usually extended to long-time residents.
- haole – (lit. foreigner) a non-native, but usually reserved for caucasians.
- malihini – (lit. newcomer) a tourist or resident who hasn’t lived in the islands for very long.
So, I’m kama’aina, but not kanaka. FWIW, kanaka can be heard as a disparaging term when spoken by haoles, especially malihini.
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