Barking at Barca, Dissing DiPietro, Hammering Harmony, and Scouring the Bottom of the Barrel for rhetoric. Joan Conrows latest Snarkfest.

Dustin Barca Born and raised Kauai, Professional Athlete, Community leader and activist

Dustin Barca Website for Mayorhttp://www.barca4mayor.com/

This is the whole video produced for his run around the island. You can see most of the launching ceremony. People are staying to the left of the monk seal sign. You can see that the seal is not being run over by the canoe, as the entire launching going into the water is shown. You can also see that there are at least a hundred people there, not only Dustin Barca supporters, but at least several dozen visitors that had no idea what was going on. As you can see, this was locals, local people hand Hawaiians. All who have the utmost respect for Monk seals, including Barca himself.  TO try and put up a 60op second video clip, and say that Barca was "Harassing" a seal, with so many people there as witnesses is sheer stupidity.

Bernard Carvalho Website for Mayorhttps://www.facebook.com/notes/kauai-loves-mayor-carvalho/about-the-mayor/125508337470122

Bernard Carvalho, professional athlete, County Employee, and Community leader, born and raised, Kaua'i

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 WHY NOT BARCA? BERNARD DIDN'T GO TO PROFESSIONAL "MAYORS SCHOOL" TO LEARN HIS JOB> HE LEARNED IT "ON THE JOB". HE HAS HAD A STAFF TO GUIDE HIS EVERY MOVEMENT< AND HE HAS USED HIS OWN FREE WILL TO OCCUPY THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR>. HE WAS FROM A KNOWN FAMILY, A PROFESSIONAL ATHLETE< A LIKEABLE GUY< WHO HAD A STRONG CORE AND FOLLOWING< BORN AND RAISED ON KAUA'I> HE HAD A DRIVE AND A PASSION FOR THIS PLACE>HE HAS HAD A LONG TIME TO ACHIEVE WHAT HE WANTED. NOW ITS TIME FOR NEW BLOOD> THIS IS THE YEAR OF THE YOUNGBLOODS ON KAUA'I> BERNARD HAS BEEN THERE. ITS TIME TO PASS THE TORCH. DUSTIN IS YOUNG< AND JUST EXACTLY LIKE BERNARD< HE IS BORN AND RAISED HERE< AN ATHLETE< WELL SPOKEN< AND HAS A PASSION FOR KAUAI> HE MAY NOT HAVE HAD AS MANY HOURS BEHIND A DESK AS BERNARAD HAS HAD< BUT HE IS  READY AND WILLING TO DO IT> WE BELIEVE HE IS A VIABLE AND READY CANDIDATE> WE CHALLENGE BERNARD TO TAKE A WALK AROUND THE ISLAND ON THE BIKEPATH< OR Swim a few laps< as Dustin is doing> we are supposed to be an outdoor people< full of health and vigor> lets show everyone that this race can be between two local Born and raised Hawaiian sons< and it can be run with dignity do not allow outsiders to determine OUR CHOICES FOR OUR PEOPLE>  ITS TIME TO LET THE YOUNG GUYS IN!

Kauai Snarklectic Publishing Staff 

KS Staff Writer Cheston WaiWaha

 

So, lets dive in here, kids. First, lets get Joan's blog post up so you can peruse it without having to go to her site. We feel that reading it here, is a lot better then having to go over there to do it. You will just want to post, and you know how that goes over there. Better to do it here, in our warm and loving embrace. :D

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Monday, May 12, 2014

Musings: Squandered Momentum

(JOAN SHOULD TALK ABOUT SQUANDERING ANYTHING< LIKE HER DIGNITY< PRIDE< SELF RESPECT OR BRAIN CELLS)

It's election season, which means it's time for another round of fear-mongering. And Hawaii SEED/GMO Free Kauai is only too happy to oblige, this time hosting a statewide tour of anti-atrazine researcher Dr. Tyrone Hayes.

In an amazing stroke of coincidence — if you believe in such things — the tour is being held this week, when the state Department of Health is due to release the results of its statewide samplings for pesticides. I've heard that atrazine was found in Kekaha and glyphosate in Hanalei, though the exact locations and quantities have not yet been publicly disclosed.

Still, the discovery of any amount is bound to illicit fear, especially when Hayes so expertly fans the flames. I can still recall the Facebook response of a peroxided, chain-smoking “A'ole GMO” activist when I pointed out the atrazine found at Waimea Canyon School was in the parts per trillion, well below federal standards:

“There shouldn't be any amount allowed,” she snarled.

I agree completely on the desirability of a pristine planet, and understand that folks want the freedom to choose their poisons. 

Still, we must face the reality that we are all responsible for the toxins generated in delivering a lifestyle that allows people to drive diesel-powered school buses for a living, buy health food shipped in from California, fly/drive to Lihue for a “let the people decide” charter amendment rally, engage in social media on smart phones that use toxic heavy metals, and plug into electricity generated by burning oil so they can watch the well-funded Vandana Shiva utter a videotaped message on the “power of money to destroy a democracy.”

Vandana also blithely delivered this line:

There is no excuse for a birth defect rate that is 10-fold more than the national average and for cancer rates to be higher.

Except cancer rates in Hawaii are declining, as is typical across the nation, and Kauai rates are significantly lower than the statewide average. As for birth defects, the most recent report — which is definitely out of date, ending in 2005 — shows Hawaii either on par with or below the national average. It also shows there are many factors associated with birth defects, including meth use, which means it's not so easy to finger just one source, like pesticides, without extensive epidemiological studies.

I keep hearing that Kauai pediatricians have observed an elevated incidence of rare defects here. Who are these doctors? Where is their data? Has it been forwarded to the DOH? Please share it with all of us if it exists.

Of course, keeping it all shadowy makes it ideal for the fear-mongerers.

Speaking of shadowy, it seems the state Ethics Commission is checking into “grassroots” groups like Hawaii SEED, which may have violated the state law requiring “organizations that spend more than five hours lobbying in a six-month period to submit a report listing their expenditures and contributions.”

Jeri Di Pietro, president of Hawaii SEED, is one of those who has failed to submit a disclosure form, though her group certainly devoted far more than five hours to lobbying the Council for Bill 2491 last year and lobbying the Legislature on labeling and other issues this year. I guess Jeri just can't see the glaring disconnect between her actions and her group's repeated demands for disclosure and transparency by others.

Meanwhile, anti-GMO activist Dustin Barca has announced he's running against Bernard Carvalho Jr., giving us a choice between a singing mayor and a surfing-fighting mayor. If that choice is still too hard, consider this: who would you rather have as managing director, Nadine Nakamura or Fern Anuenue?

As the Hawaii Independent reports:

For Barca, this means moving towards greater economic self-reliance and regenerative agriculture especially; addressing land-use policies that have driven kama`aina families from their homes and blocked local access to important cultural and recreational areas; and developing new policies that limit growth while ensuring that dollars spent locally benefit local families.

Like any candidate, he's got some great rhetoric going. Still, in all the years we've been dealing with tourism, access, agriculture, iwi kupuna and land use issues I've never once seen or heard Dustin chime in, though he claims he's been involved in politics for his entire adult life. 

But hey, it's more media publicity for Dustin, just like the anti-GMO fight, which garnered him a few write-ups in the surfer mags. Oh, and gee, whatta ya know, he already got coverage in Surfer Today, which offers this quote:

"I see Kauai as a farming epicenter, where food production is number one. By reversing our 90% food import with 90% food production, I envision local agriculture and access to healthy foods for all of our island's residents," adds Dustin.

Visions are great, Dustin, and we all especially love that one. But what are your actual solutions for reversing that trend? Please outline how you plan to achieve this when it has eluded minds far better than yours for decades.

I'm not sure why folks are so keen to turn the election into a referendum on the GMO issue when they don't have the votes to pull it off.  But maybe it will take a stunning, crushing defeat to deflate some of the giant egos in the movement.

Unfortunately, they're squandering the movement's momentum and enthusiasm on unelectable candidates, flawed laws and unconstitutional charter amendments. Which means there won't be any juice left for actually embarking on meaningful, legal solutions to the environmental problems facing this island. Much less addressing the issue of pesticide use, as some of us would like.

And so, ironically, they perpetuate the very same status quo they seek to change.

Posted by Joan Conrow at 8:53 AM 4 comments:

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Oh, Where to start with so much epic snark? Such incredible ooey chocolaty log deliciousness. Frankly it was almost impossible to leave any areas marked as non snarky. Pretty much, this post adds up to a pile of :

GMO Corn infused chocolaty goodness coming out the other end.

Let's meet the people that Joan is dissing shall we? We can only put up pics of the ones she name dropped. Joan is as good at namedropping as she is at dropping posts like turds all over the place on the Internet, but we digress, because we can't really show you the people she merely ALLUDES to, in her so called "descriptive writing". We never knew snark and smarmy could be wrapped up in such pretty paper packaging.

Doctor Hayes, world renowned, person of distinction, and a real scientist and Doctor. Something Joan is not. Or ever will be. World renowned, we mean, except for snark, diss, rage, and smarm.

Dr. Vandana Shiva, yet another actual Doctor and scientist. Joan really hates on this woman. We figure its the GREEN QUEEN OF SNARK AND MEAN, JOAN CONROW cannot simply handle a woman that can not only wear a red dot way better then Joan ever could, but can take an international stage and be credible. Joan can barely take the stage at an IHOP on the mainland when she goes to visit her family, where Joan is from, and still has oodles of ties to, without getting booed off of it, we are certain. Or maybe that was just the bad nightmare we woke up from after eating too much gluten last night.

Fern Anuenue Rosentiel, whom Joan mocks as part of Dustin Barca's future Cabinet appointee. Well, it sure won't be Joan Conrow that's for sure. Kauai needs a fresh face in that office, and the Cabinet could use a shakeup too. Time for the lifers to go home, put their feet up and watch the circus unfold from afar. Miss Rosentiel has a fine education, a sparkling fine mind, and incredible chutzpa. Sounds like she would be a great person to appoint. Sure seems like the past administration has overlooked a lot of peoples great potential. GOGO FERN!

Jeri DIPietro Hawaii Seed

Yet ANOTHER woman, that Saint Joan of Loam reams, or tries too. Does anyone see a trend here? Her remarks about "peroxide bleached hair school bus drivers", we found extremely odd. Sounds like her advances were rebuffed, or now she has a thing against peroxide hair? Please, Joan, when you look like a turtle yourself, you should NOT be commenting on other women's personal care choices, now should you?

And here, as always is a pic of the GREEN QUEEN OF ANGST HERSELF, the lovely, non peroxide, non bus driving, non functioning, and certainly NON DISCLOSING ABOUT HER OWN NON PROFIT FUNDRAISING BUTTON ON HER BLOG, MISS JOAN CONROW

So, let's go over the MILLION SNARKIE FISTIE worth of utter and complete hypocrisy on this blogpost, shall we?

Lets go line by line, kiddies, and break it all down.

First, Joan goes after Jeri DiPietro, and Dr Hayes, calling them "fear mongers". Um, Joan, have you ever read your blog? We have never seen so many scary blogpost names in our lives! Not to mention you, yourself think you instill a lot of fear in people, like when you lambasted oh, say EVERYONE, and then call people every name in the book, and then give all of your snarky little predictions for the future, and then try to drum up fear, hatred, and racial tensions between people, and then have tghe nerve to try and wade through your past, like "What ever happened to baby Jane", and try to glom onto your old writings, like you care about people.

Our Favorite snark, and diss and rage, was going at Hawaii Seed, for some supposed no reporting of some funds, of which we are not about to get into, but the best thing about that, is that JOAN HERSELF HAS NOT REVEALED REPORTED OR DISCLOSED WHAT 501 C3 SHE IS TAKING DONATIONS FOR ON HER BLOG NOR ONE SINGLE IOTA OF INFORMATION ON THAT right Joan? now that is some brass balls bullshit. calling the kettle 50 shades of black< WHEN you yourself are guilty of it woohoo!!

that is a total smoking gun...RIGHT JOAN, RIGHT? *WINKY WINKY*

We challenge Joan HERE

:PUT UP OR SHUT UP JOAN REVEAL WHO YOU ARE TAKING DONATIONS FOR

We urge EVERYONE to RESEARCH THIS ISSUE. WHO OR WHAT OR WHY OR HOW IS JOAN CONROW ACCEPTING DONATIONS FOR A FREE BLOG AND FOR WHAT PURPOSE READ THE RULES HERE SHE MUST BE A LEGIT 501C3. WOW CALLING OUT SOMEONE ELSE FOR SOMETHING SHE IS DOING. THAT IS LIKE NUCLEAR SNARK JOAN WHERE IS THE PALAPALA? COFF IT UP WE WANNA SEE!

Joan goes on pleasantly to state that she has never heard of Dustin. That is because Joan is just a NAME DROPPER, a TRANSPLANT, and doesn't know everyone on Kaua'i. Amazing, isn't it, that the QUEEN OF SNARK didn't KNOW SOMEONE! How horrendous!. I mean, what, is she like the cool guy in The Fantastic 4, that sits in a wheelchair and has the cool computer, where he can see ALL OF THE MUTANTS AT ONE TIME? Yeah, Joan, get a grip, gurl, you are seriously losing it.

This guy is known and FAMOUS on Kaua'i. But you don't surf, you don't have kids born and raised here, you don't REALLY farm the aina, and we bet u sure as shit have never seen a good MMA cage match either. Basically, you just aren't in the loop, Joan. I mean come on, its time for you to don a bib, gets some Geritol, and retire to your rocking chair. This new Kaua'i, with its NEW BORN AND RAISED people on it, is just too much for your brain isn't it?

SHE HAS NEVER HEARD OF BARCA THUS BARCA DOES NOT EXIST! DOES NOT COMPUTE! *cue the smoke coming out of her ears, right here*

And then, of Course, she goes after Fern, and well the rest is frankly pretty predictable, an a terribly boring YAWN!!!

We will be doing more on Dustin, and the YoungBloods in our next post!

But for now, here is our moment of Zen, thanks to the Prancersize lady, as we envision what Joan Conrow probably looks like on her epic morning strolls, before she heads home, to her poisoned fingertips, as they slither across the keyboard, to her epicly wicked mirthful gleeful chuckles.

ALL HAIL THE GREEN GREEN OF SNARK, Miss *Or Ms*, we aren't sure, JOAN CONROW

Joan Conrow going incognito, or was that Joan? There is really no way to know for sure.

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