Hawaii

“At the time, my life just seemed too complete, and maybe we have to break everything to make something better out of ourselves.” 

-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

I am still trying to interpret and integrate all that I experienced and learned about disintermediation, about myself, and about y'all at last week's First ZeroHedge Symposium and Live Fight Club in Marfa, Texas. I hope that writing this after-action report will help me to better assimilate it.

Instead of spending his last year in high school, Tim graduated early and spent that year building a 37’ wooden trimaran, and sailed all throughout the Pacific on it, eventually landing on the Big Island.  That’s the traditional way of arriving here. One had to envision this place, and then plan for it, and then strive for it, without any degree of certainty of success. 

-Susanne Friend, speaking of her husband and business partner, Tim Mann

Hawaii lawmakers want state officials to update plans for coping with a nuclear attack as North Korea develops nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that can reach the islands.

The United States Army gave up its jungle training school in Panama in 1999 when the U.S. returned land there to the Panamanian government.  A couple years later jungle training was all but phased out in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks as the Army focused money and manpower on preparing soldiers to fight in the mountainous desert terrains of Afghanistan and Iraq. 

If Trump was harboring any hopes that his "new and revised" travel ban would sneak through unopposed, they were just dashed by the state in which Trump's ex-presidential nemesis was born. 

Just as the federal government said Washington state and Minnesota had consented to dismiss their cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals in San Francisco, Hawaii announced it plans to challenge Trump's new travel ban, according to legal documents as well as tweets from one of the lawyers involved.