10 January 2011
10 January 2011
TIDES GO IN, TIDES GO OUT, I’M STILL IGNORANT…
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10 January 2011
MY DAD IS REALLY GOOD AT THIS…
0630 by Jeff HessFrom my dad, of course…
This is for all of the engineers out there.
There always seems to be a guy or gal who can look at something and tell you that a line or an angle is off. Now you can try your skill at using ‘the eye’. This is tougher than it looks.
It is not timed so, take your time.
It is fun to test your eyeball accuracy.
10 January 2011
10 January 2011
CUT, CUT AND CUT AGAIN…
0030 by Jeff HessEditing is everything. Cut until you can cut no more. What is left often springs into life. Esther Freud
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
9 January 2011
BROKEN RICE FROM A BROKEN ECONOMY…
2130 by Jeff HessMYANMAR/BURMA — To give the leavings, the garbage, the spoiled to the poor is despicable. To attempt to sell it to them is beyond criminal.
From The Irrawaddy:
A ship carrying Burmese rice was ordered to return to Burma in December after being refused docking permission in the Ivory Cost due to the unacceptable quality of the rice on board, according to a rice trader in Rangoon. Approximately 25 percent of the exported rice was apparently broken.
This was not the first time that Burmese rice has been judged unacceptable, even to a continent as poverty-stricken as Africa.
Throughout 2010, Burmese rice exports were frequently held up at African ports, pronounced “unqualified,” and sent back to their port of origin. Sacks of rice from Burma were routinely dismissed as being wet, moldy, infested by weevils or containing too many grains that were broken to dust.
In November, some 6,000 tons of rice exported to a country (which country?) in the Middle East were sent back, disqualified as “broken grains,” according to another rice trader in Rangoon.
Traders have said that due to an increase in the price of rice in Burma, many farmers or wholesalers mix the “good” rice with broken grains.
Lest anyone think this is an evil found only in dictatorships, during our own Civil War, northern coffee merchants attempted to step on their ground coffee sold to the military with sawdust, forcing the Federal Government to buy only whole roasted beans.
Do what you can to make this a good morning, Myanmar.
9 January 2011
9 January 2011
FROM MY TWITTER ACCOUNT…
1137 by Jeff Hess@limbaugh @glennbeck @oreillyfactor @sarahpalinusa @karlrove @tppartriots @foxnews
How many more must die for you?
9 January 2011
WE ARE EATING OUR CHILDREN… CHOOSE LOVE…
1013 by Jeff Hess
Ralph adds:
Evil does exist but we have the ability to fight back and not stick out heads in the sand. The rhetoric of hate commingled with guns is deadly.
9 January 2011
9 January 2011
PEOPLE WORSHIP HIM (O’RELLY, NOT GAWD)…
0716 by Jeff Hess“There must be a gawd because I don’t know how things work.” Steven Colbert in explaining Bill O’Reilly’s philosophy for the existance of a gawd.
Via Mano Singham…
9 January 2011
9 January 2011
I REMEMBER WHEN THIS HAPPENED TO COACH…
0630 by Jeff HessFrom my dad, of course…
A woman came home, screeching her car into the driveway, and ran into the house. She slammed the door and shouted at the top of her lungs, “Honey, Pack your bags! I won the damn lottery!”
The husband said, “Oh my God! What should I pack, beach stuff or mountain s tuff?”
It doesn’t matter,” she said, “just get the hell out!”
9 January 2011
9 January 2011
9 January 2011
HOW TO SPIN MAGIC…
0030 by Jeff HessA story needs rhythm. Read it aloud to yourself. If it doesn’t spin a bit of magic, it’s missing something. Esther Freud
Ten rules for writing fiction from The Guardian.
Found in my electronic chapbook.
8 January 2011
8 January 2011
CHINA…? MYANMAR DEMOCRACY…? HUH?
2130 by Jeff HessMYANMAR/BURMA — Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi was in the United States this week and spoke with officials at both the United Nations and the U.S. State Department. Myanmar was mentioned, but to what good effect I can’t discern.
From The Irrawaddy:
The UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, on Thursday discussed the current situation in Burma with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi.
No Burma-specific readout of the meeting held at the UN headquarters in New York was available. Diplomatic sources, however, said the UN Secretary-General sought China’s help in restoring true democracy in the country and the release of all political prisoners.
Given that Secretary General is not a mental deficient, why in the world would he think that discussing true democracy with China’s foreign minister would be anything but joke?
Meanwhile, at the State Department:
The United States has a two-track approach in Burma, the State Department Deputy spokesman, Mark Toner, said.
“We do have a relationship [with the junta],” Toner said in response to a question. “And at the same time we’re seeking engagement, which admittedly hasn’t shown much progress and borne much fruit. But we’re also pushing them hard to release political prisoners and to take clear democratic steps.”
Again, just what does pushing them hard mean? Nudging them every other day with cables?
Do what you can to make this a good morning, Myanmar.
