ZOMG!!! A Foreign, Exotic Country Won The Little League World Series!!!!!

[BlooInBloo]

http://sports.espn.go.com/sports/llws08/news/story?id=3551693



Good job kids!

[opihimoimoi]

1. Hey...das us exotic aliens in Hawaii....damn if we didn't win it...Congrats to them all

:toast:

[BlooInBloo]

2. Cheers from a haole!

:toast:


EDIT: Corrected a misspelling.

[opihimoimoi]

3. I guess we starting a trend....our 2nd Championship in 4 years....

Thanks for posting...
:beer: :toast: :bounce:

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. FYI you do know that this is a racial slur... just because people smile

when they say it, does not mean it ain't so

[BlooInBloo]

7. (a) That's just not true as a general rule, and (b) I don't much believe in "reverse racism" anyway.

http://www.answers.com/topic/haole

Haole, (pronounced: How-leh) in the Hawaiian language, means "foreign" or "foreigner"; it can be used in reference to people, plants, and animals. The origins of the word predate the 1778 arrival of Captain James Cook (which is the general accepted date of first contact with westerners), as recorded in several chants stemming from antiquity.

Haole, in its current definition, first became associated with the children of Caucasian immigrants in the early 1820s. It unified the self-identity of these Hawai'i-born children whose parents were as much culturally different as they were similar. For Haole children whose first language was Hawaiian, their parents were either religious missionaries or secular businessmen, and hailed from both sides of the Atlantic ocean, not necessarily speaking the same language or English dialect.

With the first three generations of Haole playing key roles in the rise of the economic and political power shifts that lasted through the turn of the 20th century, Haole evolved into a term that was often used in contempt. Though its first usage in such context had to do with classist origins, it has evolved further to racial meaning, erroneously replacing "malihini" (newcomer) in addressing people who move to Hawai'i from the U.S. mainland. Today it is often applied to those who are of Caucasian ancestry, or those who think or behave in a foreign manner.

In current application, Haole is often, but certainly not always, used as a racially derogatory word and can be used descriptively or derisively

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Having lived in Hawaii, I know better

:-)

I just wanted to point this out to you

[BlooInBloo]

11. (shrug) Thanks.

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Does this mean the GOP will be invading them soon? n/t

[nadinbrzezinski]

6. Nope, they don't have oil...

and that small critical base at Oahu is just a small thing...

Oh wait, that is a USN base.

I guess we did already.

:-)

[rebel with a cause]

8. Remember Pearl Harbor as you look down the barrel of your gun.

Who besides me can sing that little diddy. Well, the first line anyway. It's been a long time since I was a little kid.

[nadinbrzezinski]

10. Should have been carved at the Memorial

to be honest

:patriot: To those Sailors...

As well as the many thousands who died after them. some of them still in eternal patrol

[rebel with a cause]

12. Well, the Remember Pearl Harbor part should be.

The rest of the song might not have been good for racial relations on the island. Especially after the war.

I was born in 1945, but my family had a record collection out of this world for those times. No tv because my father didn't believe in it, but we listened to those records and the radio for our entertainment until I was almost nine years old. My sister bought us a tv then, and my dad let us keep it. Anyway, I learned most of the songs we had, including the WWII ones. I also learned the songs my parents sung to me from WWI and before. I don't know them all, and some of them I would not repeat because they do not set well even with me these days. :)

[nadinbrzezinski]

13. True, I remember talking to a lady at Starbucks after 9.11

she was scared shitless... she was Japanese American, first gen.

She ended up in one of the camps after Pearl. She was a young girl back then... in fact, not older than my dad (who went though the holocaust)

We both called the Hawaii delegation about NOT making the same damn mistake... our delegation got it... since this is a section of history that people do not forget in Hawaii. Hell, the 442 is still an honored unit, as well as the fighting 100... not that the rest of the country knows a bit about it. I know that someday soon I will use them in fiction, to try to educate kids about them. Sad... that I have to use fiction to educate people about the Nissei troops.

After we made our calls, we were in tears. Think about it, what unified us was not the language in some ways... but a common experience, even if it happened to our families in different ways. And in Hawaii people got it, fast. Some other areas in the country not so much.

And no, I would not compare the US Japanese American experience with the holocaust fully, but it was definitely a dark mark in our history. In some ways not unlike our present predicament.

(For the record the military did though and the balloon was full of lead as far as the armed forces was concerned)

[tblue]

14. They has pine-ackles tho.

[hootinholler]

17. You forgot that little landing strip on the hill too.

They got geothermal out the wazoo on the biggest island!

-Hoot

[SeattleGirl]

15. The nerve!!!!

How dare they????

:rofl:

Um, what I meant to say was congrats to the team! :bounce: :bounce:

[dkf]

16. The State of Hawaii had a crazy fantastic Olympics too!

Bryan Clay of Kane'ohe is the World's Greatest Athlete today (Decathlon) and hopes to be a Wheaties cover boy tomorrow. Kahuku's Natasha Kai sports golden bling over soccer's most-decorated body after helping her team to the 1,000th gold medal ever won by the United States in the Olympic Games.

Clay Stanley (of Hawaii Kai and Kaiser High School) won a gold medal as the U.S. men's volleyball team beat Brazil, and Brandon Brooks took home a silver medal in water polo after the U.S. men lost to Hungary. Meanwhile, the U.S. women's volleyball team — known here as the American 'ohana — tried to win its first gold medal. It came up short against a top-ranked Brazilian team that did not even drop a game its first seven matches, but every medal has a silver lining.

"We're just thrilled," said Punahou graduate Lindsey Berg, one of four players with strong Hawai'i ties on the team. "It's hard because we end with a loss. But we got a silver medal at the Olympic Games, something that nobody on our team has ever gotten. It's been a wonderful experience."

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080824/NEWS01/808240369

It was kind of tough deciding what to watch on TV. My pops watched the baseball team all the way.

[Thothmes]

18. Watched the series

great baseball. The Hawaiian team should be proud.