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Biden goes to Maui – August 21, 2023

Posted on 08.22.23 6:11PM under Uncategorized

President Biden came to Maui on August 21, 2023 the day and time we were scheduled to fly out from Kahului, so we changed our flight to the evening of Aug 20. The morning of the Aug 21, we saw this rainbow from the Ala Moana Hotel that pointed directly to the spot that Jack Yoshitami Tasaka‘s ashes were scattered off of the jetty at Magic Island in 2014.

The jetty

Magic Island

He died just a four months short of 100 years in 2014. Jack Tasaka was a Japanese in Hawaii historian, the first Japanese radio announcer in America, hobnobbed with the Japanese sumo, baseball, singers and actors of the 50s and 60s and was also Junko’s step father. August 21, 2023 would have been Jack’s 110 birthday.

Later that day, Junko’s kumu, Hokulani Holt led President Biden and other Hawaiian Cultural leaders in a purification ceremony at Moku’ula, the original capital of the Kingdom of Hawaii.

Kumu Hokulani Holt is to the left of Biden in the yellow kihei

It’s interesting to see how the news of Biden’s trip to Maui has been covered by pro and anti-Biden media. The New York Post covered the protesters’ complaints about the government response and the jokes and stories that made the story about Biden and the $700 one-time payment to the survivors. The pro-Biden (never Trumpsters) covered the talking points in the speech. There are no winners, obviously. It seems that there is very little objective news coverage — there’s always a spin on it. Why can’t the news be “Just the facts, ma’am, just the facts.”

We’ll see how it all plays out in a year or two…

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