George Bush Visits Honolulu Photo Gallery by John Brown at pbase.com

George Bush Visits Honolulu

I have been attacked by people who question whether or not these photos would be of interest to others. Some have said they have no merit and do not belong on pbase. That they are uninteresting, that people don't want to look at them, and are no big deal. I have been labeled a troll, and characterized as dumb, in personal email messages that don't appear below in the comment section, among the adjectives fit to print. Obviously, I'm no Ansel Adams or James Natchwey, although a friend of mine, renowned photographer Lou Deserio, was a close friend of Adams.

If you would like to leave a comment on the issues that convey many viewpoints, that's fine. HOWEVER, if you question my right to post these photos on pbase, GO SOMEWHERE ELSE.

I took the photos, in MY neighborhood. I created the gallery, posted the photos, and paid my 20 bucks to pbase. What YOU do with your 20 bucks is none of MY business, but what I do with MY 20 bucks is none of yours.

Alfred Neuman	Awaiting George Bush	Local 5	OHA Wahines
One Man One Woman	Anti Abortion Truck	Truth Or Lies	Three Flags
No Jihad For Jesus	Shrub Protest	Hawaiian Cowboy	People For Howard Dean
Got Bush	Patriots For Peace	Protest At Sunset	Native Opinion
Head Guy Local 5	Discussion	Over There	Resist
Family Man	Clowning Around

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Architectural Photography: Debra DiCandilo		26-Mar-2005 00:16
John, I would say you have every right too shoot and post these photos. Bush is alright, but I don't agree with him on EVERY issue. I admire your photos of Honolulu as I am an architectural photographer. I'm glad to come across the anti-abortion truck photo. You know, I do not believe that abortion is a good choice. I feel that the photos on the truck should be seen by all ADULTS. Everyone should have the freedom to make a choice based on the reality of the issue. I have a BIG problem with this truck driving around the city, for ALL to view. This means that TODDLERS and YOUNG CHILDREN are exposed to this without the chance for their parents to protect them from such gruesome images. In fact, I was driving when that truck passed me slowly in traffic. I was horrified at the thought of my two youngest children seeing such images. Luckily, I managed to distract them just in time! If they had seen those images, I would have sued that organization. If the group believes that murder is wrong, do they also feel the need to drive around the city showing gruesome rape/strangulation images of men and women? Would that be appropriate? AND, who is responsible if these troubling images cause an accident? The city streets are not the place for THIS!!!! I will call that organization and tell them so!

Bart Aldrich		26-Nov-2004 17:53
Economic Crisis a Question of When, Not If By Pedro Nicolaci da Costa Reuters Monday 22 November 2004 New York - The economic policies of President Bush have set the country on a dangerous course that will likely end in crisis, Princeton economics professor Paul Krugman told Reuters in an interview. Krugman, who may be best known for his opinion column in The New York Times, said he was concerned that Bush's electoral victory over Sen. John Kerry earlier this month would only reinforce the administration's unwillingness to listen to dissenting opinions. That, in turn, could spell serious trouble for the U.S. economy, which under Bush's first term was plagued by soaring deficits, waning investor confidence and anemic job creation. "This is a group of people who don't believe that any of the rules really apply, said Krugman. "They are utterly irresponsible." Krugman is currently taking some time off from journalism to write and promote the second installment of his latest project - economics textbooks aimed at making the science more accessible to college students. In the meantime, however, he worries the Bush administration's fiscal policies are going to push the world's largest economy into a rut. The most immediate worry for Krugman is that Bush will simultaneously push through more tax cuts and try to privatize social security, ignoring a chorus of economic thinkers who caution against such measures. "If you go back and you look at the sources of the blow-up of Argentine debt during the 1990s, one little-appreciated thing is that social security privatization was a important source of that expansion of debt," said Krugman. In 2001, Argentina finally defaulted on an estimated $100 billion in debt, the largest such event in modern economic history. Banana Republic? "So if you ask the question do we look like Argentina, the answer is a whole lot more than anyone is quite willing to admit at this point. We've become a banana republic." Crisis might take many forms, he said, but one key concern is the prospect that Asian central banks may lose their appetite for U.S. government debt, which has so far allowed the United States to finance its twin deficits. A deeper plunge in the already battered U.S. dollar is another possible route to crisis, the professor said. The absence of any mention of currencies in a communique from the Group of 20 rich and emerging market countries this past weekend only reinforced investors' perception that the United States, while saying it promotes a strong dollar, is willing to let its currency slide further. "The break can come either from the Reserve Bank of China deciding it has enough dollars, thank you, or from private investors saying 'I'm going to take a speculative bet on a dollar plunge,' which then ends up being a self-fulfilling prophecy," Krugman opined. "Both scenarios are pretty unnerving." In the longer-term, Bush's version of social security reform, which Krugman says would relegate pensions for the elderly to the whims of volatile financial markets, could have wide-ranging implications for future generations. The only bright spot in having Bush in power for another four years, said Krugman, is that further economic mismanagement might trigger some sort of popular outcry. "I do believe at some point there is going to be a popular tidal wave against what has happened," concluded Krugman. "In the meantime, you keep banging on the drum, you keep telling the truth. "And then eventually we have the great demonstrations, which I think are important to let the government know that many Americans are not happy with what is happening," he said.

bushman		05-Nov-2004 03:29
4 more years... Move to Canada? get in line now !!!

John Brown		07-Sep-2004 21:55
REGARDING YIANNIS PAVLIS who wrote in a message "my friend you look like you have problem , what you thing you doing if you act like that ,the cleaarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. ans you are not in the military anymore to give orders , any way my reastaurant its not greek its AMERICAN. thank you." Yes, I have a problem, and it's YOU trying to tell me what I should post in my galleries or what you think people should be interested in. This is not a military website. I can take the photos I want and post them. If you have a problem with that, I'll email you my address and phone number and we can arrange a meeting to discuss it further.

John Brown		07-Sep-2004 21:15
Concerning the type of imagery you think should be represented on pbase, some people take photos so their friends can see them online. Photos of cars, bathrooms, dogs, hurricane damage, new items they have purchased and the like. Others take photographs of places they live, travel to, people they see on the street, food, sporting events they attend and so forth. Some people take photographs of events that happen out on the street, car accidents, fires, sunrises, sunsets, trees etc. For YOU to judge what YOU think other people would want to look at sounds COMMUNIST to me. Do YOU do the ordering for your restaurant customers in Easton Pennsylvannia? Or do YOU ask them which items to select from the menu and serve them what THEY CHOOSE to eat. Sounds like the former. For the record, here are a few of the 500 popular keywords on pbase. Subjects relative to keywords jump, toilet, kim, sheep, dick, upload, potty, tatoo, feet, ho, wheelchair, egg, goth, and booty, to name a few. Which ones do you approve of ?, and which ones ought Slug remove as they don't meet YOUR criteria of what OTHER PEOPLE may want to view????????????????????????????

John Brown		07-Sep-2004 20:23
Like I said before, if you don't think it's a big deal, DON'T LOOK AT IT!!!!!!!!! This gallery was on the 90 day most popular list for THREE MONTHS. And let's be clear on another thing. You have no idea if I am in the military or not. Who in the HELL are you, the CIA?. As it happens, I WAS IN THE US military. So my suggestion to you is to look at the galleries of your choosing, take the photographs you want, post the galleries you want, and I'll continue to do the same. Go get into a pissing contest with one of your customers at your Greek restauraunt as to what you feel should be posted on pbase instead of me. ARE WE CLEAR???????????????????????????

Yiannis Pavlis		07-Sep-2004 12:23
clear we what , you are not in the military , the only thing clear is the water , i wrote a simple comment and you wrotte a whole story , i dont thing look at the bush is a big deal , now i ll tell you whats the big deal about my greece gallery , number one i thing its something for everybody to see , not lot of people wenr there , and i know they want to , and number two , people like that one , thats why its from the most popular in pbase.

John Brown		07-Sep-2004 03:25
The big deal is I walked out my door and took some photographs just like every other knucklehead on pbase does. I put them up on my gallery page. If you think they are crap or don't want to look at them, go to the next knucklehead's gallery, I could care less. If you don't like to see photos of people expressing their various views, I don't give a donkey's ass. What's the big deal about your recent vacation to Greece? Are we clear???????????

Yiannis Pavlis		07-Sep-2004 02:23
whats the big deal from bush visiting

Guest		26-Aug-2004 13:36
527's in Perspective [Swift Boat Vet's 527: $159,000, left-wing 527 groups: $64,120,000] "They're funded by hundreds of thousands of dollars from a Republican contributor out of Texas. They're a front for the Bush campaign. And the fact that the president won't denounce what they're up to tells you everything you need to know -- he wants them to do his dirty work." --- John Kerry on Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Perhaps the indispensible OpenSecrets.org might show us some perespective on the Swift Boat Veteran's "527": Swift Boat Veterans for Truth Receipts: $ 158,750 OpenSecrets.org Description: "SBVT represents Vietnam Swift boat veterans who are critical of Democrat John Kerry's decision to make his military service a major part of his campaign for president. The group questions Kerry's record in Vietnam and denounces his anti-war activities following his military service. The group's donors include some major Republican contributors." It sure is a good thing that Kerry doesn't have any 527's doing his dirty work. Except these, of course: Media Fund Receipts: $ 28,127,488 OpenSecrets.org Description: "One of the leading Democratic interest groups dedicated to defeating President Bush in November. Plans to raise close to $100 million for a massive issue-ad campaign to support the Democratic presidential nominee. The ads will air in 17 battleground states." America Coming Together Receipts: $26,905,450 OpenSecrets.org Description: "One of the leading Democratic interest groups dedicated to defeating President Bush in November. Run by longtime Democratic operatives and financed in part by wealthy Democratic donors, the group plans a massive voter mobilization effort in 17 battleground states." MoveOn.org Receipts: $9,086,102 OpenSecrets.org Description: "Begun in 1998 to protest the impeachment of President Clinton, the group has become a powerful political force since then. Its political action committee, the MoveOn PAC, spends millions of dollars to support the election of Democratic candidates. The MoveOn.org Voter Fund is raising soft money, which may be contributed in unlimited amounts, for TV ads in key battleground states that are critical of President Bush." (Emphasis mine) And oh yeah, these too: Service Employees International Union: $ 16,652,296 American Fedn of St/Cnty/Munic Employees: $ 13,658,207 New Democrat Network: $ 7,172,693 Voices For Working Families: $ 3,668,280 Partnership for America's Families: $ 3,071,211

John Brown		26-Aug-2004 01:07
These shots were taken last October and depict the days events. That's LOOOONG before anti Kerry and anti Bush galleries started poping up on pbase, complete with photos stolen from news organizations, photoshopped comment balloons and the like. As I stated further down the page, I am making no political comment with this gallery. It depicts the days events as they were, the photos were taken by me, and they signs depicted are unedited. Aloha

mizoleila		26-Aug-2004 00:13
Beautiful colors, shapes and expressions in "Resist" - this is a haunting picture regardless of the politics involved. Good catch.

mizoleila		26-Aug-2004 00:08
Let's keep PBase for showing pictures! There's forums in other places for discussions about politics.

John Brown		20-Aug-2004 05:59
Yes, I commented in that gallery already. That's why as a non partisan, I left quotes of prominent Democrats, including Pelosi, Byrd, William Jefferson Clinton, Hillary Clinton, Kennedy, and Kerry himself. They all agreed that Saddam and his weapons program, past, present, or future, was a threat to regional, US, and world security. I don't disagree with any of them. That's why I am having a problem reconciling their current statements and positions. Just today, Kerry denounced the swift boat group running negative ads by saying that the group is funded by a prominent Texas Republican. Kerry was outraged by this discovery. However, I did not notice the same level of outrage against George Soros funding of moveon.org. Soros is a prominent Democrat. The third thing that bothers me a bit is the change in attitude Kery has had towards the military. One usually doesn't proclaim himself a hero, and I've known a few medal honorees myself, having been attached to the USMC as a Navy corpsman back in the day. I served with Alan J. Kellogg, USMC, who was awarded a Congresional Medal of Honor for heroism in Vietnam. He lies out here in Hawaii now, but doesn't run around Honolulu talking about it. By Kerry's standards, Kellogg should be President. After seeing the David Frost interview, and Kerry's congressional testimony from April, 1971, I now understand why a complete stranger ran up to me in the San Francisco airport and spit on me as I was clad in a Marine dress green uniform. He probably though I just got through with cutting out some infants tongue or something. If I ever had the proclivity to do so however, I would only be looking for the forked ones. Aloha

W. Tracy Parnell		20-Aug-2004 04:39
For a discussion of the issues get over to: http://www.pbase.com/minoltaman/the_words_and_deeds_of_john_kerry

brian		31-Jan-2004 20:53
Nice idea too John. Don't mind those complaining. Nice to see Alfred Neuman is still around too. Some things never change.

Guest		13-Jan-2004 01:35
Nice gallery. Ethan Tweedie is Fake a phoney, he plagarizes information.

Lump		11-Jan-2004 02:05
I love how this gallery does not favor one viewpoint like many other protest galleries on pbase.

Guest		31-Dec-2003 18:41
Great pictures! Hawaii knows what time it is!

John Brown		30-Dec-2003 18:58
I am a non partisan who is not making any political statement with this gallery. The photos document a public event representative of the days activities. Further, more issues and groups than just pro Dean, pro Bush, anti Iraqi war etc. were represented. Labor groups, Native Americans, and Office of Hawaiian Affairs people awaiting passage of the Akaka bill now hung up in our U.S Congress are portrayed. Thanks for visiting. Aloha

Ethan Tweedie		30-Dec-2003 14:28

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