0930 by Jeff Hess
From the BBC:
A web hosting company has said it shut down a blogging platform that was home to over 70,000 bloggers because a “link to terrorist material” and an al-Qaeda “hit list” was posted to the site.
BurstNet said Blogetery.com also posted “bomb-making instructions”.
The company said it acted after receiving “a notice of a critical nature from law enforcement officials”.
But the move has angered bloggers who use the platform and say they were given no notice of the shutdown.
In response Blogetery.com said its server had been “terminated without any notification or explanation.”
The site added that it is trying to resolve the situation.
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BurstNet defended its position.
“The posted material, in addition to potentially inciting dangerous activities, specifically violated the BurstNet acceptable use policy” said the web host firm.
BurstNet also claimed that the site had a history of previous abuse.
Back up early, back up often, the Government is not your friend.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
In the winter he went down before the sun
came up, and when he rose, it had sunk,
a world of darkness down in the damp,
then up in the cold where the stars burned
like the sparks you see on squinted eyes. p. 90
Available Light by Marge Piercy
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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1406 by Jeff Hess
From a Lee Fisher campaign email (I couldn’t find a copy on Lee’s website) received this morning:
I’m running for the Senate because I believe Washington is broken. I believe Ohio’s middle class families can’t afford to go back to the same failed policies and the same failed politics that got us into this economic mess in the first place.
Huh?
Am I the only one that sees a disconnect between the first and second sentences?
We have a Democratic majority in Congress and a Democratic President. If Washington is broken, then Lee seems to be saying that one or both of those institutions are broken.
I honestly don’t believe that is what he meant to say, but I won’t put words in his mouth.
Gawd, I miss Jennifer.
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0732 by Jeff Hess
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Do infants enjoy infancy as much as adults enjoy adultery?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
I mourn in grey, grey as the sleeted
wind, the bled shades of twilight,
gunmetal, battleships, industrial paint,
the uniforms of trustees, the grey of proper
business suits and bankers’ hearts,
the color of ash. Death comes in a fog. p. 89
Available Light by Marge Piercy
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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1412 by Jeff Hess
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0630 by Jeff Hess
Why do we say something is out of whack? What’s a whack?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
Sometimes happy in bed I think
of black radishes, round, hefty,
full of juice and hot within,
just like our love. p. 80
Available Light by Marge Piercy
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
If people from Poland are called Poles, why aren’t people from Holland called Holes
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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0030 by Jeff Hess
These: the whistling row of raccoons
mating, diesel locomotives in heat
leveling the bushes and snorting leaves. p. 75
Available Light by Marge Piercy
Found in my electronic chapbook.
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0630 by Jeff Hess
If 4 out of 5 people SUFFER from diarrhea…does that mean that one enjoys it?
I could never bring myself to forward all the email jokes, cartoons and other Internet comedy that land in my inbox. But then I started posting the ones my dad sends me. Judging from my comments and emails, my dad has become one of my greatest blogging assets. So for your morning blog chuckle I present: From My Dad.
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