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		<title>By: Clint Salica</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-8844</link>
		<dc:creator>Clint Salica</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:09:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Alright after reading this very long post I am come to a very good idea of what is going on here, I really think as a culture we all just need to chill and enjoy life.  This life is way to short to hold life long anger against any person, I love all and love Mother Earth, I started surfing in Japan about 4 years ago and found a new vision of life, there is a strong respect for the earth and what she gives us! As far as Legos says I will agree with him to a point just because I have seen it being that I have been living in Northern Japan for the last 5 years and seen alot of White Amaricans making jackass&#039;s of them selfs and now looking at what locals in HI dont like mainlanders.  I am getting ready to move to Oahu in about 4 months and really keeping an open mind on all of this, after being the minority here in Japan and finding such a strong love for the culture and the life style, I am seeing things thru a larger view and cant wait to live the life style of the great culture that is in HI.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Alright after reading this very long post I am come to a very good idea of what is going on here, I really think as a culture we all just need to chill and enjoy life.  This life is way to short to hold life long anger against any person, I love all and love Mother Earth, I started surfing in Japan about 4 years ago and found a new vision of life, there is a strong respect for the earth and what she gives us! As far as Legos says I will agree with him to a point just because I have seen it being that I have been living in Northern Japan for the last 5 years and seen alot of White Amaricans making jackass&#8217;s of them selfs and now looking at what locals in HI dont like mainlanders.  I am getting ready to move to Oahu in about 4 months and really keeping an open mind on all of this, after being the minority here in Japan and finding such a strong love for the culture and the life style, I am seeing things thru a larger view and cant wait to live the life style of the great culture that is in HI.</p>
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		<title>By: Christian Vetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6848</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Vetter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 22:06:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Feelin&#039; da love.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Feelin&#8217; da love.</p>
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		<title>By: Mike Richard</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6728</link>
		<dc:creator>Mike Richard</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:29:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;strong&gt;TravelDude&lt;/strong&gt;: Couldn&#039;t agree more.  Don&#039;t be surprised if you just reopened a can of worms though. =P</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><strong>TravelDude</strong>: Couldn&#8217;t agree more.  Don&#8217;t be surprised if you just reopened a can of worms though. =P</p>
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		<title>By: TravelDude</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6727</link>
		<dc:creator>TravelDude</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 16:11:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow.  I can feel the love on this page.  Some people just need to relax a little more and enjoy life, and not take things to seriously.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow.  I can feel the love on this page.  Some people just need to relax a little more and enjoy life, and not take things to seriously.</p>
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		<title>By: Christian Vetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6284</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Vetter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 20:13:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>If you want to continue the discussion, email me at vettercj@notes.udayton.edu.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>If you want to continue the discussion, email me at <a href="mailto:vettercj@notes.udayton.edu">vettercj@notes.udayton.edu</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: Legos</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6282</link>
		<dc:creator>Legos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 15:15:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lol.  I love it.  If you Hawaiians don&#039;t like it, you can leave!!! You&#039;re such racists not being happy to be an American colony!!

Also, the Japanese and the Aussies were riding the same colonial wave.  The criticism isn&#039;t America-centric but rather aimed at this broader colonial culture and it&#039;s perpetuation today.  

You don&#039;t Lose your cool that often cause you probably don&#039;t hang out with people that  will call you on this stuff.  But now that you&#039;ve been called, and it&#039;s obviously a sore point.  Are you going to think about your role in colonization and try to do something about it, or are you going to duck your head and pretend this never happened?

I&#039;m being serious here, are you going to look at why you got so angry and lost it?  What it is about the buttons that got pushed?  Or are you just going to chock it up to &quot;Internet flame war&quot;  Cause there was a lot more gong on than that.  You&#039;re living in a colony, and people are becoming increasingly aware of the situation, and starting to work against it.  So are you going to work for colonization or against it?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lol.  I love it.  If you Hawaiians don&#8217;t like it, you can leave!!! You&#8217;re such racists not being happy to be an American colony!!</p>
<p>Also, the Japanese and the Aussies were riding the same colonial wave.  The criticism isn&#8217;t America-centric but rather aimed at this broader colonial culture and it&#8217;s perpetuation today.  </p>
<p>You don&#8217;t Lose your cool that often cause you probably don&#8217;t hang out with people that  will call you on this stuff.  But now that you&#8217;ve been called, and it&#8217;s obviously a sore point.  Are you going to think about your role in colonization and try to do something about it, or are you going to duck your head and pretend this never happened?</p>
<p>I&#8217;m being serious here, are you going to look at why you got so angry and lost it?  What it is about the buttons that got pushed?  Or are you just going to chock it up to &#8220;Internet flame war&#8221;  Cause there was a lot more gong on than that.  You&#8217;re living in a colony, and people are becoming increasingly aware of the situation, and starting to work against it.  So are you going to work for colonization or against it?</p>
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		<title>By: Christian Vetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6281</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Vetter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 08:58:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Upon rereading this outrageous flame war, I realize that I lost my cool and would like to apologize to anyone it may have offended.  I wasn&#039;t expecting my first published article to receive such a *warm welcome*.  It&#039;s rare for me to get my buttons pushed in such a way that I&#039;ll fall into the ranks of internet wars you read at the bottom of every blog or youtube post.

That said, I&#039;m not going to change my writing style, so if you&#039;ve read this and don&#039;t like what you see, please avoid my articles in the future.  We&#039;ll all be that much less offended for it.  There.  Now I feel better!

-Christian</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Upon rereading this outrageous flame war, I realize that I lost my cool and would like to apologize to anyone it may have offended.  I wasn&#8217;t expecting my first published article to receive such a *warm welcome*.  It&#8217;s rare for me to get my buttons pushed in such a way that I&#8217;ll fall into the ranks of internet wars you read at the bottom of every blog or youtube post.</p>
<p>That said, I&#8217;m not going to change my writing style, so if you&#8217;ve read this and don&#8217;t like what you see, please avoid my articles in the future.  We&#8217;ll all be that much less offended for it.  There.  Now I feel better!</p>
<p>-Christian</p>
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		<title>By: Christian Vetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6279</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Vetter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:37:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>You&#039;re just a silly human being, aren&#039;t you?  If my presence is so upsetting to you, you should hop on a double-hulled canoe and cruise to new lands like your ancestors did.  That&#039;s what happened when resources ran low!  The fresh water lens is estimated to run dry in the next decade.  You&#039;ve got time to find some trees and make it happen!

That theory is just as realistic as assuming that if Americans hadn&#039;t shown up, the Aussies or Japanese wouldn&#039;t have dominated these islands just as quickly.

Now.  This discussion is over.  I&#039;m not going to fuel the flame any longer.  You can take your racist aggression out on someone else&#039;s blog now.  I&#039;m sorry I fail at being a colonial douche.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re just a silly human being, aren&#8217;t you?  If my presence is so upsetting to you, you should hop on a double-hulled canoe and cruise to new lands like your ancestors did.  That&#8217;s what happened when resources ran low!  The fresh water lens is estimated to run dry in the next decade.  You&#8217;ve got time to find some trees and make it happen!</p>
<p>That theory is just as realistic as assuming that if Americans hadn&#8217;t shown up, the Aussies or Japanese wouldn&#8217;t have dominated these islands just as quickly.</p>
<p>Now.  This discussion is over.  I&#8217;m not going to fuel the flame any longer.  You can take your racist aggression out on someone else&#8217;s blog now.  I&#8217;m sorry I fail at being a colonial douche.</p>
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		<title>By: Legos</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6278</link>
		<dc:creator>Legos</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 04:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hmmmm, if you couldn&#039;t figure out that Palpatine&#039;s human superiority policies were modeled after Hitler, then you probably take the slow bus to class.  Stormtroopers?  The uniforms?  The methed out look?  You not only fail at not being a colonial douche, you fail at pop culture referencing too.

What school do you go to then? Because unless you&#039;re taking night classes at one of the On-base schools, they&#039;ll tell you your analysis sucks too. It also makes it that much lamer that you tried to use that as a way to promote your authority.  

I also note that the only points you can respond too are the Palpatine reference and what school you go to, not the absolute lack of understanding about the colonial situation you are stewing in at this very moment.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hmmmm, if you couldn&#8217;t figure out that Palpatine&#8217;s human superiority policies were modeled after Hitler, then you probably take the slow bus to class.  Stormtroopers?  The uniforms?  The methed out look?  You not only fail at not being a colonial douche, you fail at pop culture referencing too.</p>
<p>What school do you go to then? Because unless you&#8217;re taking night classes at one of the On-base schools, they&#8217;ll tell you your analysis sucks too. It also makes it that much lamer that you tried to use that as a way to promote your authority.  </p>
<p>I also note that the only points you can respond too are the Palpatine reference and what school you go to, not the absolute lack of understanding about the colonial situation you are stewing in at this very moment.</p>
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		<title>By: Christian Vetter</title>
		<link>http://www.vagabondish.com/oahu/comment-page-1/#comment-6277</link>
		<dc:creator>Christian Vetter</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2008 03:46:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think your entire history lesson was just undermined by the fact that you confused a Star Wars reference with Adolf Hitler.  Sorry, bro.  That&#039;s a strike out.  I had no idea Emperor Palpatine was fighting for the Nazi Army.  Did you know that Captain America and Wolverine were there too?  Yeah, lesser known fact.  I think my reading materials are just fine.  Mahalo.

I don&#039;t go to UH either.  I don&#039;t know those professors you&#039;re making all these witty remarks about.  I can walk over there and ask them to dance for me, though, but only if that will make you feel better.  Adieu, good sir.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think your entire history lesson was just undermined by the fact that you confused a Star Wars reference with Adolf Hitler.  Sorry, bro.  That&#8217;s a strike out.  I had no idea Emperor Palpatine was fighting for the Nazi Army.  Did you know that Captain America and Wolverine were there too?  Yeah, lesser known fact.  I think my reading materials are just fine.  Mahalo.</p>
<p>I don&#8217;t go to UH either.  I don&#8217;t know those professors you&#8217;re making all these witty remarks about.  I can walk over there and ask them to dance for me, though, but only if that will make you feel better.  Adieu, good sir.</p>
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