Of baboons and humans
Of baboons and humans
It is reported a radio station in Zimbabwe recently went off the air suddenly, and since there was no power failure, engineers were dispatched up a mountain to check on the equipment. They found a fiber optic cable had been chewed through, presumably by a group of baboons who were hanging around nearby.
Here on Mauna Kea, there was a malfunction of a fiber optic cable serving all the telescopes on the summit, and it was discovered the cable had been chewed up and then hidden, evidently to sabotage the telescopes.
Since there are no baboons on Mauna Kea, we have to assume human hands were involved in the property damage.
This cable malfunction happened the same day when certain humans placed large boulders and stone walls in the access road to the summit of Mauna Kea.
(In a letter to the editor), Moanikeala Akaka, aka Mrs. Tomas Belsky, accused me of demeaning the Hawaiian culture.
She is wrong.
It is her troops who are reported to have engaged in a whole laundry list of rude, malicious and dangerous behavior on the mountain during this past year … accomplishing this all on their own and giving the whole state a bad name around the world.
Adrienne S. Dey
Hilo
Dishonoring the fallen
Donald Trump keeps hitting Jeb Bush about 9/11 and that his brother did not keep America safe, since 9/11 happened on his watch.
Jeb Bush keeps saying George W. Bush did keep us safe. Jeb Bush was asked why G.W. Bush was not responsible for 9/11, but we need eight investigations to look into Benghazi.
It is a double standard to say one high-ranking political person should be investigated for an attack against America, while another high-ranking political person should not. Jeb Bush replies that in one case, a call for help or more security might have been ignored.
But the one fact we all know about is that in the six months leading up to 9/11, G.W. Bush got six warnings about an impending 9/11, all of which were ignored, including “attack is imminent.”
Maybe Trump should remind Jeb Bush about those warnings that were ignored by then-President George Bush — unless we all want to be hypocrites, and dishonor the fallen.
Dennis Chaquette
Kapaa