| Our Chanukah gift guide for the weird odd special people in your life
Chanukah is less than two weeks away and Black Friday, the shopping day after Thanksgiving, is upon us. If you've been racking your brain trying to come up with gift ideas or putting off writing up your gift list, consider some suggestions from our inaugural gift guide. For the. . . .
. . . Saba and Savta Who Have Everything
Not another T-shirt from Acapulco, my closet is already overflowing, I beg my children and grandchildren. Not another book, I have a dozen stacked up that I haven't gotten around to reading.
So what can you give saba and savta, grandpa and grandma, who've been living in the same place for 35 years, have a house full of tchotchkes and every conceivable kitchen gadget?
I don't want the latest iPhone, videogame or computer attachment.
Art calendar
World Art Bazaar, art, clothing, jewelry, textiles and more for sale; through Dec. 9; the Art Center at Linekona; 532-8700. Kailua Second Sunday Art Walk, art openings and events, demonstrations and wine-tasting; 2-5 p.m.; Dec. 9; downtown Kailua; 263-4434. Fifth-anniversary celebration, discounts and new artwork; through Dec. 11; Bethel Street Gallery; 524-3552. Architectural lecture, with Metropolis Magazine editor-in-chief Susan S. Szenasy and documentary screening; 5:30 p.m.; Dec. 12; University of Hawai'i-Manoa School of Architecture, Room 205; free; 956-7225. Holoholo Holiday Party, book signings, artist receptions, sales and more at various Downtown stores and art galleries; 6-8 p.m.; Dec. 13; Downtown arts district; free passport available at venues; 398-7990.
Christian Democrat Cunek example of modern Czech segregator-press
I think that an unemployed person should get money for three months, but then he/she should come and apply for public benefiting work. Who does not want to work, must die of hunger." Nemecek says that not even Miroslav Kalousek, party former chairman who is considered a right-winger, would have dared say something like this. This year, Cunek moved a majority of rent non-payers, most of them Romanies, to "indestructible" container-like flats with washable plaster and transferred the others during the night far away from Vsetin from where they will not return because they do not have money for bus, Nemecek writes. Svehla writes in Respekt that the situation of the Romany minority, which is about 400,000 strong in the 10 million country according to estimates, has been worse and worse in the Czech Republic since the change of regime in 1989.
On Your Mind
Readers, if an unsubstantiated rumor is OYM, please do not share it until you have done some basic research. As I listen to the would-be presidential candidates, I cannot forget that John Kerry was expected to win in 2004. He lost because of his penchant for flip-flopping. Are Democrats about to ignore the past? Hillary Clinton makes John Kerry look like a piker when it comes to flip-flopping. Voters inherently distrust flip-floppers. The Herald’s Nov. 21 editorial, "Protest outside the fort," struck me as condescending. Of course, the anti-fort people had every right to protest. But this protest would have been nothing more than a trivial event if the Herald had placed it in a few paragraphs on Page 8 where it belonged. Instead, the Herald sensationalized it for three days on its front page.
Anglos to speak out
Quebec needs more English-language health and social services because seniors are one segment of Quebec's anglophone community that is growing. That will be the message delivered tomorrow as Quebec's public commission on seniors' living conditions reconvenes in Montreal for another session of hearings. For the first time since the commission began its work Aug. 26, several anglophone organizations will present briefs to the commission headed by Marguerite Blais, Quebec's minister responsible for seniors. .
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