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quick hazardous waste disposal PSA for Big Island residents

Every six months, on Saturday, from 7:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m., there is a hazardous waste collection available at the Hilo transfer station on Leilani Street. (Some examples of items: spray paint cans, dead batteries (backup power supplies, etc.), mercury-laden lightbulbs from mosquito zappers, etc.).

HAZARDOUS WASTE DISPOSAL ONLY HAPPENS EVERY SIX MONTHS. Call 808.961.8270 for dates and further info.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2009.07.10, 6:53 a.m. Hawaii time]

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Here's the button for that:

More than wind in sails

How can we reduce our dependence on foreign oil?

The Pickens Plan video, 4 mins. 49 secs.

In part:

"This can all be accomplished in less than ten years, if you have the right leadership. And everybody in this country has to cooperate. We have to get on the same team, we have to march in the same direction."

Which is basically the recipe for revolution. As Marvin Harris states in "Return of the Witch" (an essay from his book, Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches: The Riddles of Culture (1974), "You can't make a revolution if everybody does his own thing. To make a revolution, everybody has to do the same thing."

So we have to find a way to make this revolution patriotic. As all-American as BOWLING, perhaps! Seriously. Having the right leadership will help, but we all have to cooperate with the switch to cleaner, increasingly domestic fuel sources. In our minds, many of us are using outdated models from the 1970s when we hear the word "revolution." So, instead of thinking, "scary, big, different," please note that this energy revolution is pro-culture, not counter-culture. I mean, c'mon, folks, at the video link above, we're watching T. Boone Pickens at a chalkboard.

We're all the culture now. There is no us versus them. We can't afford the tab for that.

For further info, check out this easy-to-follow analysis.

[backup link]

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.07.27, 5:40 p.m. Hawaii time]

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Life imitates art.

Dang. Start by clicking HERE, for the first search-engine hit on MICHELLE OBAMA, as of the time of this posting.

Now look at the photo at Yahoo, where Michelle is with husband Barack. You can click on it to make it larger. Her expression bears an uncanny resemblance to another famous Michelle, IMHO:

Twin Michelles, both Married to the Mob?

Ha ha ha.

Seriously, READ THE ARTICLE. They're gonna shred poor Michelle Obama a new one. The paranoid power elitists really do want to control any independent-thinking person in a position of power, especially if she's a woman or a minority. Hey, do you think they'll make her swear allegiance to SKULL AND BONES, now that they've opened it up to women and minorities?

Welcome back to post-911 politics. Everything is up for grabs, including ethics. And, of course, the so-called right to free speech. Especially for candidates' wives who might have more than a few brain cells to rub together.

I mean, heck, wouldn't it be nice just to have a First Lady who didn't look like an also-ran for Annette Bening's "Real Estate Lady" role in American Beauty?

BTW, I called the Dems' race back on March 2. CLICK HERE for my commentary.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.06.12, 7:35 p.m. Hawaii time]

keywords: Michelle Obama, Michelle Pfeiffer, Democratic Party, Republican Party, mob rule, Presidential race, 2008 campaign, Laura Bush, Hillary Clinton, Tipper Gore, gangster

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Not quite blogging about the weather.

Checkout time is, um, yesterday.

No golf today, either.

So far we've been spared; generally, the winds blow away from here. Likewise, this area is rated as the highest risk zone on the island for lava flow, but the lava ain't flowing this way, either.

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Wishing you a beautiful [koff, koff] day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.04.24, 11:10 p.m. Hawaii time]

LitBoy.com is a professional blog. Keeping it online costs me $200 per year. That's before paying me for my writing, photography, or anything else I do here. If you enjoy this blog, please use the Tip Jar at the top of this page. Your two-dollar minimum donation helps keep this banner-free site alive. It's quick and easy!

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But why bother with the coins...

...when they could just build the pawn shops right into the gas stations?

It's so much more efficient.

To view this video, you must: CLICK HERE.

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Wishing you a beautiful day,

Bill Brent

[this page last updated: 2008.04.16, 8:50 p.m. Hawaii time]

LitBoy.com is a professional blog. Keeping it online costs me $200 per year. That's before paying me for my writing, photography, or anything else I do here. If you enjoy this blog, please use the Tip Jar at the top of this page. Your two-dollar minimum donation helps keep this banner-free site alive. It's quick and easy!

20.00 / $199.90 (10.0%)

This meter displays this year's contributions to date in U.S. dollars (after the funds processor takes its cut). Make a donation, watch the meter rise! Usually I post your contribution on my next blog post.

All original materials here on LitBoy.com (writing, photos, drawings, graphics, etc.) belong to Bill Brent. If you want to re-use something here, please ask. Higher resolution images are available.