1 December 2009
1 December 2009
1 December 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff Hess
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.
An Irishman in a wheelchair entered a restaurant one afternoon and asked the waitress for a cup of coffee.
The Irishman looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus sitting over there?”
The waitress nodded “yes,” so the Irishman told her to give Jesus a cup of coffee on him.
The next patron to come in was an Englishman with a hunched back.
He shuffled over to a booth, painfully sat down, and asked the waitress for a cup of hot tea.
He also glanced across the restaurant and asked, “Is that Jesus over there?”
The waitress nodded, so the Englishman said to give Jesus a cup of hot tea, “My treat.”
The third patron to come into the restaurant was a Redneck on crutches. He hobbled over to a booth, sat down and hollered,
“Hey there, sweet thang. How’s about gettin’ me a cold glass of Coke!”
He, too, looked across the restaurant and asked, “Is that God’s boy over there?”
The waitress once more nodded, so the Redneck said to give Jesus a cold glass of Coke, “On my bill.”
As Jesus got up to leave, he passed by the Irishman,touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.”
The Irishman felt the strength come back into his legs, got up, and danced a jig out the door.
Jesus also passed by the Englishman, touched him and said, “For your kindness, you are healed.”
The Englishman felt his back straightening up, and he raised his hands, praised the Lord and did a series of back flips out the door.
Then Jesus walked towards the Redneck.
The Redneck jumped up and yelled, .
“Don’t touch me…I’m drawin’ disability!”
1 December 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
[Block] seemed amused by the question. “So what if someone else does well? That doesn”t affect me or my work. p. 10
-from the introduction by Sue Grafton
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
I took the morning off yesterday and so my total word count remains at 13,598.
30 November 2009
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff Hess
While news from Myanmar flows much more freely than the country’s military dictators would like, there is a surfeit of photographs and video. That’s one reason I’m looking forward to the return of Bangkok-based photographer Andrei Pistolesi in two weeks when he returns from Myanmar.
From Pistolesi’s blog:
Time to head to Myanmar. Two weeks in the beloved land of smiles, of shadows, of fear. My travel plans there are not clear, and even if they were it would be better not to announce them on line. They will change daily anyway, given the punctual obstacles created. Just to say that I’ll be back in Bangkok around December 13th.
I wish his a safe and fruitful journey.
30 November 2009
30 November 2009
MY COMMENTS…
1639 by Jeff Hess30 November 2009
30 November 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI 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.
If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it’s free! — P.J. O’Rourke
Warning: never trust an Internet quote without checking something other than Google. I’m willing to bet that less than 10 percent of these are real or accurate.
30 November 2009
ROLDO RIGHTS…
0330 by Jeff HessJoe Cimperman started his campaign to be the first Cuyahoga County Executive today. If you don”t think so, you don”t know the ambitious Joe Cimperman.
Cimperman at a meeting with MMPI”s Mark Falanga a week ago asked Falanga if he would commit to having four meeting on the Medical Mart and Convention Center. Cimperman asked at a Council meeting. It appeared to me that he meant Falanga would appear before Council for more questioning. Of course, Falanga – holding on to a deal valued at $425 million – said, why sure, Mr. Councilman.
It was a mutual admiration society.
Anyone listening would have considered the offer and acceptance meant a meeting before City Council members. It was at such a meeting that the two exchanged agreement. And it made some sense since Falanga had determined the shortness of the meeting by scheduling an early flight back to Chicago.
Now, however, the scheduling of the four meetings appears to be outside the boundaries of City Council. The structure of four meetings has one each on planning, economic impact, architecture and the Mall site. Each meeting will have an already chosen facilitator, none Council members.
So Council is left OUT. Cimperman”s campaign, however, is indeed very much IN.
Cimperman has four meeting in which Cimperman can play the leading part. Council has been iced out.
The County Executive job opening was created by the vote for Issue 6, a constitutional amendment that calls for Cuyahoga County to dump its three commissioners for an elected chief and 11-member elected district county council.
Cimperman came to Council in 1997 playing a young sincere activist with energy to make change. He quickly became a young man on the make, taking as much money as he could from downtown movers and shakers.
“This project has to move forward. It”s too critical for the region, for the economy. We just gotta put our heads down and get this thing done,” Cimperman told the Plain Dealer.
And I need a platform from which to run for higher office, something I”ve always wanted. Cimperman didn”t have to utter those words.
You may remember that Cimperman”s ambitions caused him to run against the sitting Democratic Congressman Dennis Kucinich in 2007. Cimperman got some 35 percent of the vote in the 10th Congressional District race. Kucinich got 52 percent.
Cimperman would like to be Mayor but that seems out of the question. He likely would have run for County Commissioner had Issue 6 failed. Now, he”s left with the one opening.
So Cimperman is about to scratch that ambition itch again. Never too early to start. The $175,000 position begins in January 2011. Here we go!
30 November 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
I made a point of reading Telling Lies For Fun And Profit before beginning each new book. p. 9
-from the introduction by Sue Grafton
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
I took the morning off yesterday and so my total word count remains at 13,598.
29 November 2009
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff HessMany people, both citizens and those visiting the country, took extraordinary steps to help those oppressed by Myanmar’s military dictators during the 2007 Saffron Revolution and the 2008 Cyclone Nargis, often at their own peril. At least one such person has sought and received aid in New Zealand.
From Radio New Zealand News:
A woman who co-ordinated disaster relief work in Myanmar and helped monks flee Government crackdowns there has won refugee status in New Zealand.
The businesswoman from Yangon, who has not been named, took part in large-scale demonstrations and facilitated meetings between foreign activists and the pro-democracy opposition, including its leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
The woman changed money on the black market to help monks during their protests in 2007 and so they could buy and transport food rations for victims of last year’s cyclone.
And that would be one woman from how many thousands?
29 November 2009
29 November 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI 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.
A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have. — Thomas Jefferson
Warning: never trust an Internet quote without checking something other than Google. I’m willing to bet that less than 10 percent of these are real or accurate.
29 November 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
I sat up, amazed to find that in the chapter called “Opening Remarks,” Lawrence Block had written about the very frustration I was experiencing with K Is For Killer. Furthermore, his advice about openings was right on the money. I set the book aside and went back to my word processor, looking at my problem with renewed interest and a tiny flicker of hope. I began to pick my way through the rubble, and suddenly I found myself in business again. p. 9
-from the introduction by Sue Grafton
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
I wrote 1,595 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 13,598.
28 November 2009
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff HessClearly Myanmar’s Senior General Than Shwe has an attitude in line with that of Faux News head Rupert Murdoch, the complete misunderstanding of the English word fair. In the case of Faux News it is misuse in that network’s Fair And Balanced tag. For the senior general the abuse of the word comes in regards to his country’s 2010 elections.
From China View:
Myanmar top leader Senior General Than Shwe said that a free and fair election would be held in 2010 in accordance with the publicly approved constitution, according to the official newspaper The New Light of Myanmar on Saturday.
Sigh.
28 November 2009
FROM MY DAD…
0630 by Jeff HessI 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.
What this country needs are more unemployed politicians. — Edward Langley, Artist (1928-1995)
Warning: never trust an Internet quote without checking something other than Google. I’m willing to bet that less than 10 percent of these are real or accurate.
28 November 2009
FROM MY CHAPBOOK…
0030 by Jeff HessFound in my electronic chapbook.
I tried an opening or two, but I couldn”t hit a vein. p. 9
–from the introduction by Sue Grafton
From Telling Lies for Fun and Profit: A Manual for Fiction Writers by Lawrence Block.
I wrote 1,505 words yesterday morning and my total word count is now 12,003.
27 November 2009
GOOD MORNING MYANMAR…
2130 by Jeff HessOne of the tactics to control dissent in Stalin’s Soviet Union was the institutionalization of political dissidents in mental hospitals. Clearly the State Peace and Development Council has taken notes on Uncle Joe’s methods as hidden camera video from one of Myanmar’s prisons mental hospitals shows.
From the Australia Network News:
Many observers have long suspected that Burma’s junta has confined political monks to mental institutions to treat what the regime claims is a sickness.
Bo Kyi, of the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners, told Australia Network’s NewsHour:
“After the September revolution, some monks were sent to mental hospitals, also other activists.“The military regime regard them as the crazy man or something.”
The video of monks in the mental institution appears to be confirm of reports that opposition groups have been receiving for years.
Bo Kyi says: “Because we cannot go to mental hospitals, it’s really difficult to collect information.
“But definitely we knew that monks were in hospital because of their participation in the monk struggle and the other sorts of protests.”
In recent months the world’s focus has been drawn to Aung San Suu Kyi, but the nameless, and nearly faceless, monks must not be forgotten.
