I went looking this morning for a list of Hawaii delegates to the Republican National Convention, but came up empty handed. I went to the convention web site and then clicked on the “Delegates” tab, which seemed hopeful. No list of delegates there. I tried searching for things like “delegate list”, but no luck. Why should this be so difficult?

Aha. I had to visit the Hawaii Republic Party site to find a list.

GOP Hawaii Delegates:

National Committeeman:
Travis O. Thompson

National Committeewoman:
Miriam Hellreich

Hawaii Party Chairman:
Willes K. Lee

Delegates:

CD 1
Governor Linda Lingle
Rep. Kym Pine
Rep. Gene Ward

CD 2
Lt. Governor Duke Aiona
Vivian Aiona
William Paupe

At-Large
Capt. Jerry Coffee
Dr. Marlene Hapai
Adrienne King
Lenny Klompus
Julie Lee
Rep. Barbara Marumoto
Susan Page
Fritz Rohlfing
Marcia Klompus
Kathi Thomason
Timon Tran

That seems to be a delegation that is extremely tightly controlled by the Governor’s office.

There’s been bad news coming from the GOP convention regarding the crushing of protests, such as this report by Glenn Greenwald writing for Salon.com. This is scary stuff.

A video featuring a POW held at the same time as John McCain was released today. It questions whether the POW experience is the basis for becoming president, and warns that McCain’s temper makes him ill suited for the position.

Tucked away in the photos I took last week was one of a man wearing a “Free Cindy McCain” t-shirt. I asked about it, and he referred me to his web site of the same name.

Now here is a great project. George Orwell’s diaries are being reprinted as a blog, “real time” except for the 70 year delay.

The Orwell Prize, Britain’s pre-eminent prize for political writing, is publishing George Orwell’s diaries as a blog. From 9th August 2008, Orwell’s domestic and political diaries (from 9th August 1938 until October 1942) will be posted in real-time, exactly 70 years after the entries were written.

Orwell’s ‘domestic’ diaries begin on 9th August 1938/2008; his ‘political’ diaries (which are further categorised as ‘Morocco’, ‘Pre-war’ and ‘Wartime’) begin on 7th September 1938/2008.

The diaries are exactly as Orwell wrote them. Where there are original spelling errors, they are indicated by a ° following the offending word.

We’re still in the first month of this four year project, so jump on board and put the Orwell Diaries on your list of daily bookmarks.