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The BETTER Best of East Hawaii 2009
Today the Hawaii Tribune-Herald released its annual Best of East Hawaii list. While I agree with some of the choices, I can’t help but think a few of them are either because nobody in East Hawaii goes to the better places, or nobody in East Hawaii has any taste. Here are my selections for some of the restaurant winners:
Best Cup of Coffee: Trib readers voted Starbucks Coffee in as the best cup of coffee in East Hawaii. This, I think, is the greatest travesty in this whole list. Starbucks? They’re renowned for having about the worst cup of coffee you could ever sell. Even McDonalds has better coffee here. My choice? Kope Kope Espresso Cafe, hands down. Not only do they have excellent coffee, it’s local coffee too! The only fault I can find with Kope Kope is their customer service has gone downhill of late. A friend of mine was buying around ten pounds of local coffee, and we waited nearly an hour for the girls behind the till to get labels on them and package them up — and even then they weren’t labelled properly! If you’ve got the time to spend waiting for service, then by all means hit up Kope Kope for the best cup of coffee in town.
Best Italian Food: For some reason Pescatore Italian Restaurant keeps winning this category. I don’t know why. Serving mediocre pasta does not make for an award-winning Italian restaurant. I think nobody knows about Cafe Concerto, which blows Pescatore out of the water. The quality of the pasta at Cafe Concerto is miles above that at Pescatore. Customer service is about equal, but you’ll probably be offered an apéritif at Cafe Concerto.
Best Pizza: Honestly, I thought this was going to be a toss-up between Big Island Pizza and Pizza Hawaii. Both make awesome pizzas, and this category should have gone to both of them. So imagine my surprise (and disgust) when I found that it went to Pizza Hut! Ugh!
Best Smoothie: Another case where chain trumps local, Jamba Juice won this one, when it should have gone to What’s Shakin’, a little smoothie shack on the Onomea Bay scenic drive. Sure, the smoothies are kind of expensive, and sure, they take a bit of time, but they’re made with fresh fruits and are super delicious.
Those are the egregious offenders. There are other categories where I would have picked different winners (Best Japanese Food: Miyo’s over Nihon; Best Poke: Sack & Save over KTA; Best Hamburger: almost anybody over Burger King), but these four are the worst.
A reworking of an anti-civil union letter
Imagine if this letter were printed in a newspaper in America:
This letter is in response to “Basic Human Rights,” by Michael Ra Bauchard.
He said the celebrated tolerance of culture and religious diversity was gravely threatened in 1998 by voting against mixed race marriages. Hawaii is not a mixed race culture, and the people of Hawaii stood up and showed the radical few that make the most noise that they were against a breakdown of not only their culture, but their society. It was not because of religious extremists who deliberately mislead and manipulated the people of Hawaii. The people of Hawaii have a strong foundation of family structure and are smart enough to think on their own.
This weighs more than just “Human Rights.” It’s society that is going to pick up the bill. Do you as a “clinical raceologist” you ever stop to think about the people you affect? Or do you only think of your own selfish sexual desires?
It is also a scientific fact that not all skin colour is something you are born with, that you make that a choice. The majority of mixed race relationships are a choice, due to the excuse of past racial abuse, physical abuse, or even something fun to try.
It is also a scientific fact that the healthiest children, who will make up a healthy society, are those raised in a secure family structure of both white mother and white father. We already have so many children being raised by single parents.
By allowing mixed-race unions, we will be opening doors that will not be able to be closed. But it’s your human right, having no thought to how it affects others.
Right now, there are vicious court battles going on with mixed-race unions and children that are being torn apart because selfish adults and their human rights. It’s bad enough that this is already being done in today’s white society, but to add to it with mixed-race unions is even more destructive and confusing for children.
So I also encourage Hawaii residents to get behind our state representatives and take a courageous stand to vote “no” on civil unions. It isn’t a human right. Don’t you see? The colours don’t match! Why are you trying to make something unnatural, natural?
Colliene
Pahoa
Switch “mixed race” for “same sex” and you’ve got a letter published in today’s Hawaii Tribune-Herald.
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