Nah. She had the guts to turn herself in. Crybaby would have been in here blaming it on somebody else.
I'm no fan of the SPLC. Morris "Mo' Money" Dees is the white Al Sharpton. He's nothing but a shyster lawyer who figured out a way to get rich off of racism, whether it exists or not.
Some people have to live in Hawaii for their jobs. I was almost out of money when I took a job in Hawaii. Stayed for 2 years because they were paying me a butt-ton. But even a butt-ton of money wasn't enough to keep me in Hawaii when my next chance to leave came up. The place is a shithole with 10 hour long traffic jams, stuck in the middle of nowhere. (Well, Oahu is, anyway.)
What's a butt-ton of money? And are there still a lot of these jobs still around for a soon-to-be former Navy E-4?
I don't actually know. Enough to pay cash for a new Ford Mustang and $500 a month for a room for a year while I was unemployed and still have some left over (although I also sold some land during that time). I went there as a Captain (USMCR). So Unless you went to college and went back in, probably not that particular job.
Eh, guess it wasn't meant to be...there weren't any orders to HI when my time rolled around to leave Japan so I just asked for a precomm in San Diego to be sure I got outta Yokosuka, and an LPD at that. This command was like landing double zeroes on the PCS Roulette--all four hundred of us lost out.
You don't want to come here. Pretty much anyone who has ever lived here will tell you that. I'm convinced that if this place ever got the sovereignty so many seem to want and the mainland business all pulled out, it would turn into a third world shithole almost over night. Even to many Hawaiians there is this fantasy that if all the white people leave this place will go back to some simple time of lounging on the beach and surfing all day. If Hawaii was actually independent, and not a lame territory like Guam (where you get all the benefits of being a state without paying your admission price) it would lose it's one big cash cow, tourism. Like I said above, their are far better tropical vacations where the locals don't have a huge chip on their soldiers. As to why I'm still here, my return rights were to here when I left Japan last year. I had all of the arrangements in place to go to WA though in spite of my return rights. Then sequestration and hiring freezes hit, and the people I was working with in WA couldn't create a spot for me. I could have waived my return rights, but without knowing how long the budget clusterfuck was going to last...no. SO I cam back here, bought a house and a car, and actually ended up in a different division than I expected. I may wait a few years then try to go to WA again, one great thing about Hawaii...house prices don't go down...like ever. So, according to the state, my house is already worth more than I paid for it. And I've made improvements that will only make it's value go up.
That woman needs to have her drivers license permanently revoked. Also, Child Services should probably peek in on her.
I was reading the reader comments and someone found her husband. Apparently bat-shit insane applies to him as well. I recommend a very late term abortion for the kid. He's already screwed up.
I do love however how she guns the engine of that minivan. I would have been laughing. OHHHHHHH SCARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@Archangel ... if it's any comfort, the volcanoes that created the Hawaiian Islands will one day erupt again and destroy all life there.
WOW!! The internet is amazing. She's a Captain in the Army as a nurse. Maybe she hates Hawaii like Archangel. Hate to piss her off in the hospital..... Of course her career might take a slight downturn now that the video has gone viral.
Unfortunately no they won't. The Hawaii island chain was created as lava bubbled up through the crust and new islands were formed as the previous ones moved off of the vent. The vent is currently working on the The Big Island, which is why it has active volcanoes on it.
Speaking of road rage, no one knows how to drive there. Not that it matters, what with the constant traffic jams, but the speed limit is usually 10mph slower than it should be--with people driving another 5mph below that. Which is probably good because they're all terrible, terrible drivers. The best example I can think of is the concept of a "merge lane": Islanders think you drive completely to the end of a merge lane before attempting to merge. Luckily I drove a junker out there, so I had pleasure in cutting off the occasional nice car that didn't understand merging. There was a spot on my morning commute where the H1 dumped me onto a secondary street that had a speed limit of, say, 40mph. There was an ample merge lane. However about twice a week I'd come around the curve and start to accelerate to merge, only to see a car, parked at the very end of the merge lane with his left turn signal on. At that point you were hosed, because if you decided "screw this chowderhead" and tried to merge ahead of them they'd think "well, he's got enough space to merge with traffic, so I must too!" and pull out in front of you--at 0mph when you're gong 38. After 2 years I'd forgotten how terrible Hawaii drivers were until I moved back to Portland and was like, "Damn! These people know how to drive!" (Truth be told, Portland drivers are terrible drivers. They just look good by comparison to Hawaii drivers.)
The Fox speaks the truth, they drivers here are horrible. Six lanes wide on the H1 and they are all well below the speed limit. Also, apparently Hawaii drivers hate having people in front ot them. Daily someone will change lanes in front of me as I'm trying to pass because they don't want to be behind the car in front of them. They don't actually go any faster after changing lanes, often, they go slower. There are several lanes that everyone knows end or turn into turn lanes where assholes on t daily basis will stay in them until the last second and then try to jump back in front of you...so they can slow down. Also...I think bumper stickers that say "Slow down brudda, dis aint da mainland" should be grounds for driving someone into the guard rail. (yes, that is a real bumper sticker here)
No, sir. It is YOU who doesn't understand merging. If traffic is light, you should merge as soon as convenient. If it's bumper-to-bumper traffic, you should go to the end of the merge lane. It's called the zipper merge and it actually improves traffic flow. But go ahead. Be a dick and cause a traffic jam. Real drivers know what to do.
Tell us again, how things work in Canadia. Sure, traffic is probably a lot different when you are in a place with a population of like, 350 people, and everyone is driving dogsleds and is relentlessly polite. It is a bit different on a tiny volcanic rock populated by 3/4 of a million people, with 1/2 million tourists at all times. You wind up getting the traffic jams because people don't merge at the first chance. They drive all the way to the end of the lane and then cut in, forcing everyone behind them to stop. If people would merge instead of tooling along the merge lane as far as they can before cutting into traffic, the traffic would move slowly, but it would move instead of getting choked to a standstill at every on ramp.
Of course, I recognize that the problem with the zipper merge is that you have to rely on other drivers understanding what to do. That's problematic when you have people like Volpone who, god forbid, just can't let other people get in front of him.
That zipper merge, as illustrated, regards a completely different circumstance than what Archangel has described. And it doesn't require Volpone's hyperbole to see it. It's showing a local street situation, not any kind of expressway.
Then you clearly don't understand. The zipper merge does regard expressways. It explicitly states it's for slow or stop-and-go traffic. You're from Boston. You know there's no such as an "expressway"; just giant parking lots for rush hour traffic.
It doesn't help that making a signal to change lanes is a challenge for the driver in the other lane to try to stop you. So again, until you've driven here for any length of time, your opinions on driving here mean less than nothing.
No they don't. People do not know how to merge. I see the same thing here in Florida. On the highway if two lanes becomes one because of an accident all the cars in the left lane zoom to the front and then come to a complete stop and then try and merge into the right lane. I have had people in the right lane behind me get back into the left lane, zoom to the merge point and then try to force their way into the right lane simply because they can't wait. On top of that people in the right lane knowing a merge is happening get bumper to bumper like NASCAR. They're not letting anyone merge in front of them. No sir. Fuck you and your merger desires is their motto! Thankfully there are enough drivers that will let people in front of them because we would have even more road rage then we do now if we didn't.
