That too kind introduction. I am happy to be back here. I thought i might not go home. I know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. If i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. We will talk about the hawaiian language. The first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. Reviewsever gotten so such memorable reviews, im used to getting reviews, but what i got from wall street all the way to honolulu magazine were extraordinary, really wonderful reviews, which did not prepare me for the anger i saw in the native independ
The university of Mary Washington in fredericksburg, Virginia Held this illustrated talk as part of the crawly great lives lecture series. So thank you dr. Crawley for that too kind introduction. I am delighted to be back here. Was here ad when i year ago that i might not go home. I know when you do this kind of lecture, it is customary to warm the audience up with a few funny stories. If i had known 14 months ago i was coming back, i would not have told you all of my funny stories. [laughter] james haley it is probably best that we move forward with our talk about liliuokalani. I am anglo. Actually i am partly cherokee native, but i am in mainland writer, so the times i will have to speak in hawaiian, it is sick. We will talk about the hawaiian language. The first thing i need to do is make some disclaimer of utility, because captive paradise is intended to explain the essentials of how the United States, how we got our hands on the place. I have never gotten so reviews such memorable
The temperatures are really not too bad. We have plenty of 60s and to go or around. In fact, it is plenty of clouds to go wrong. If we are working to low clouds. Here is a closer look at the temperatures. Daly city right now is sitting at 57 degrees. We still have all of this cloud cover that is pushing through. We will be having a great start for the morning. As we head into the afternoon you can expect mostly cloudy skies. Sunnyvale will be talking of the pet 79 degrees. Your extended forecast highlights major changes. Next two days will be very sundasunny and mild. By wednesdy and thursday we will start to warm things up. We may see 90s for some of the endless pause. We will wait the basically to fog three mornings. We will pick up a 20 chance of showers. Most of those showers will be north of the Golden Gate Bridge. The traffic around the bay area has no hot spots. Here is a live look at the approach to the bay bridge toll plaza. There are no problems getting to the bridge. The met
We have the privilege of serving in the United States senate. Lets do our job for the people all across our country who, like all these people who wrote to me and who wrote to all my other colleagues, expect nothing less of us. Lets reopen the government. Speaker boehner, let the house vote on the bill that the senate sent to you and lets get back to working on what we can do better to better serve the people, families, and communities that gave us the privilege to be here. I yield the floor. A senator mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from florida. Mr. Nelson mr. President , i want to thank the senator from hawaii for her comments and say that on the basis of what this senator just discovered, having gone down to the other end of capitol, senator hirono, its going to take a lot of loud voices to get the speaker to hear us because they have shut down. They have gone home. Theyre not even coming back until next monday. And i was just wandering through this deserted capit
Foreign forces. When we became overseas empire by taking islands in various parts of the world, and then after the 2nd world war, we became a global empire. Now we are playing on the whole billiard ah, the United States has always had a variety of tools to use. And its a tax on other countries economic sanctions are, are often just the beginning. Another thing you like to do is place some military pressure on the countries that youre talking about. And there has to be an effort to demonize that country and the leader of that country, particularly in our own press. And in the press of that leaders own country. Americans loved to think there were intervening in other countries to overthrow evil people. And if thats true, you have to make the person look evil. In 1951, ottomans came to power in guatemala, after being elected by the people in washington, the u. S. President received all but with all the usual courtesies of a state visit. Years ago, i wrote a book about how the United State