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Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« on: December 17, 2012, 06:56:34 PM »
Democrat Daniel Inouye, the U.S. Senate's most senior member and a Medal of Honor recipient for his bravery during World War II, has died. He was 88.

He died of respiratory complications and had been at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center since earlier this month. His office said his last word was "Aloha," the traditional Hawaiian word for "hello" and "goodbye."

Under Hawaii law, Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie will appoint a successor to Inouye until a special election can be held.

Perhaps more than any other politician, Inouye has been a dominating presence in Hawaii's history. He has represented Hawaii continuously since it achieved statehood in 1959, first in the U.S. House and then in the U.S. Senate, where he used his seat on the powerful Appropriations Committee to send federal dollars back home for a host of projects. Inouye has served on the committee since 1971, and became chairman in 2009.

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #1 on: December 17, 2012, 08:29:59 PM »
RIP.

Honestly, I did not realize he was still in the Senate. For some reason, I thought he had retired...
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #2 on: December 17, 2012, 08:38:15 PM »
RIP.

Honestly, I did not realize he was still in the Senate. For some reason, I thought he had retired...
Democrats don't retire.  They leave feet first.
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #3 on: December 17, 2012, 08:45:14 PM »
Democrats don't retire.  They leave feet first.

They keep voting though.  :-)

I may not lock my doors while sitting at a red light and a black man is near, but I sure as hell grab on tight to my wallet when any democrats are close by.

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #4 on: December 17, 2012, 08:46:52 PM »
They keep voting though.  :-)



LOL. H5 to you for the chuckle.
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #5 on: December 17, 2012, 08:48:09 PM »
LOL. H5 to you for the chuckle.

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Someone does read my jokes after all.  :-)
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #6 on: December 17, 2012, 10:12:27 PM »
I remember talking about him in high school in the 70's.

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #7 on: December 17, 2012, 10:17:32 PM »
RIP. Any recipiant of the Medal Of Honor deserves respect.

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« Reply #8 on: December 17, 2012, 10:27:44 PM »
RIP. Any recipiant of the Medal Of Honor deserves respect.

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #9 on: December 17, 2012, 11:11:14 PM »
RIP. Any recipiant of the Medal Of Honor deserves respect.
I agree.  I had no idea what a literal badass he was.  He served our military well. RIP fine sir.   :killemall:

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #10 on: December 18, 2012, 01:15:00 AM »
RIP. Any recipiant of the Medal Of Honor deserves respect.
Except ...

The man went to the Dark Side years ago.

The web has been scrub of most information but I did manage to find this.

Accusations Against Hawaii Senator Meet a Silence in His Seat of Power

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Behind the stage set of fragrant flowers, balmy trade winds and turquoise lagoons, there is another Hawaii: a world of bare-knuckle, one-party politics where the Democrats dominate and one formidable man, Senator Daniel K. Inouye, reigns supreme.

And so when this war hero, this influential committee leader who brings home the bacon, this icon in Hawaii's powerful Japanese-American community was hit with allegations of sexual misconduct shortly before his November re-election, Senator Inouye's colleagues and constituents were confounded by what to say and do.

The accusations, which the 68-year-old Senator has called "unmitigated lies," were made by his hairdresser of the last two decades, when she was led by an opposition campaign worker with a hidden tape recorder into telling a story of nonconsensual intercourse 17 years ago and persistent gropings in years since.

While few public figures here impugned the 40-year-old hairdresser, Lenore Kwock, neither did they raise their voices in curiosity or censure of Mr. Inouye. In large measure, political, civic and business leaders chose guarded silence, which some of them attribute to fear that the party machine, which controls nearly all state and Federal positions and programs here, might derail their careers or strip their projects of government money.

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http://www.nytimes.com/1992/12/14/us/accusations-against-hawaii-senator-meet-a-silence-in-his-seat-of-power.html?pagewanted=all
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #11 on: December 18, 2012, 01:26:49 AM »
Found another 'old' but interesting article.

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Sen. Dan Inouye of Hawaii, who managed to survive allegations of sexual harassment during his campaign for reelection last year, suffers from a severe case of post-modern male syndrome - PMS. With craven arrogance, he defended his vote to compel Sen. Packwood to turn over all of his diaries to the ethics committee and demanded that he resign.

"I think it would be in his best interest," he told reporters in Honolulu. "I think it would be in the best interest of the institution."

He might have added: "I think it would be in my best interest.

"He conceded that he voted the way he did so that voters (i.e. feminists) wouldn't think he was trying to cover up revelations the diaries might contain about him.
There may be honor among thieves, but not among bounders, at least in the U.S. Senate.

http://articles.sun-sentinel.com/1993-11-16/news/9311150346_1_sen-packwood-man-male-syndrome
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #12 on: December 18, 2012, 11:22:48 AM »
Inouye's war record is admirable and worthy of respect.

But like most professional politicians, he being one of them, he would not have stayed in politics for as long as he did if he weren't ruthless, cutthroat, and utterly plastic.

This is the type of politician that we should always be most distrustful of. These pukes serve themselves first and have gotten so good at it that even the idea of running against these dinosaurs is laughable on its face.
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #13 on: December 18, 2012, 12:03:48 PM »
A good example of why we need term limits.
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« Reply #14 on: December 18, 2012, 01:24:18 PM »
A good example of why we need term limits.

We've got them.  They're called elections.

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #15 on: December 18, 2012, 01:51:56 PM »
We've got them.  They're called elections.


Yup. But that would mean we'd have to have an informed electorate. And, as has been most recently demonstrated, the American electorate is the laughingstock of the world due to its idiocy in electing the biggest empty suit in modern times.

The American electorate failed to hold him and his ilk accountable for their tax cheating, their reckless spending of taxpayer money on frivolous trips to the far corners of the planet, for their all-too-often ruling by executive fiat, and by lying through their teeth with every breath they take.

Failure of economic policy, failure of energy policy, failure of foreign/apology policy, failure to exhibit leadership in a world that demands American leadership.

In short, we're ****ed. We've got shitheads for voters who want free shit and completely fail to see how and where and why they're responsible for themselves.
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #16 on: December 18, 2012, 08:41:04 PM »
RIP. Any recipiant of the Medal Of Honor deserves respect.

Wholeheartedly concur....other than that, I will shut-up.
              

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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #17 on: December 19, 2012, 06:25:26 AM »
Wholeheartedly concur....other than that, I will shut-up.
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Re: Hawaii Sen. Daniel Inouye, 88, dies
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2012, 02:54:34 AM »
He did a great job at staying under the radar. He deserves respect for his service, even if he wasn't a medal of honor winner obviously. However, speaking of his political career and decisions only (which is what we most always are speaking of when we refer to somebody) he sucked. When he stepped into the political arena he has to be judged for his actions just as our actions are weighed, equally and comparatively by individual issue. For instance, Micheal Jordan was a lousy baseball player, but a great basketball player. Inouye was a great soldier, but... and so on.