0001 by Jeff Hess
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: The seven steps leading to self-unification:
Prepare a list of what you value most, your highest priorities in life.
Write each valued principle as an action statement.
See that your unifying principles are the highest truths and mutually compatible.
Write a paragraph of clarification under each unifying principle you put down.
Prioritize your unifying principles.
Evaluate your performance over the past few weeks or month with regard to each unifying principle.
Bring your performance into line with your unifying principles. p. 40
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2030 by Jeff Hess
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1200 by Jeff Hess
SANDBOX DUTY OFFICER David Stanford: NPR’s “All Things Considered” recently aired an excellent story about the Sandbox book. You can hear it in its entirety here, as well as audio clips of 1SG Troy Steward reading his post LOST INNOCENCE, and SGT Owen Powell (who writes as “Roy Batty”) reading THE KEEP…
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0800 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.
Tech Support: “I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop.”
Customer: “OK.”
Tech Support: “Did you get a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support: “OK. Right-Click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?”
Customer: “No.”
Tech Support: “OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?”
Customer: “Sure. You told me to write ‘click’ and I wrote ‘click’.”
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0646 by Jeff Hess
Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
0641 Health Care Reform
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0400 by Jeff Hess
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from A Room Of One’s Own by Virginia Wolf.
“For genius like Shakespeare”s is not born among labouring, uneducated, servile people.” p. 48
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0001 by Jeff Hess
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: Interruptions are not your worst time wasters; disunification is. p. 39
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2030 by Jeff Hess
I’m doing my best to stay on top of events in Myanmar/Burma and it’s not surprising that the best sources are not inside the United States. I’m reading The Independent, The Guardian, The BBC, Irrawaddy, New Mandala and the Asia Times. I’ll daily post a digest of headlines from stories I just couldn’t get to.
Today’s batch includes:
China beats Myanmar 7-0 in first round of World Cup Qualifier
Several firms on US Myanmar blacklist linked to Singapore
Singapore assures Gambari it will do all it can to support
China, UN Talk of Sudan, Myanmar
Myanmar lifts curfew and ban on assembly in Yangon
Myanmar lifts assembly ban, curfew
Burma cool to possible new sanctions
Douglas Alexander upsets President Bush’s officials over meeting
Bush humiliates China and Harper sticks it to Burma. Good work
Burma lifts curfew imposed after protests
Former Norwegian PM calls for coordinated action on Burma
White House Dismisses Lifting of Restrictions in Burma
And from the blogosphere:
Human Rights Activists Protest Myanmar Violence at Chinese Embassy
Myanmar is quiet, but not peaceful
Some firms on United States Myanmar blacklist linked to Singapore
Epoch Times: Human Rights Activists Protest Myanmar Violence
China, UN Talk of Sudan, Myanmar
Panties for Peace: Action For Burma
How are you, Mr. Gambari?
In Burma, Fear Is a Constant Companion
Panties for Peace uses Burmese mysogyny against junta; Flickr
Burma Update: October 21, 2007
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1400 by Jeff Hess
I’m constantly tossing interesting websites into what I call my blogpile. Some of them find their way here in the form of regular posts, but more often than not they languish and get buried deeper in the pile. The end result is that I have to go back and do a bit of shoveling. Today’s item is The 2007 Right Livelihood Awards.
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1200 by Jeff Hess
SANDBOX DUTY OFFICER David Stanford: First Sgt. Troy Steward becomes fascinated with Garry Trudeau’s pen. It writes so richly, it rolls so well! For this mission, the New York Army National Guardsman feels not as well-armed as the creator of “Doonesbury.” “If you want to know about killing people, I can tell you that,” Steward says. “When it comes to…
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0846 by Jeff Hess
This morning’s issue of The Nation contains a 3,862 word review of The Israel Lobby by John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt. As Vice President Dick Cheney tries to repeat his success in Iraq by taking us to war against Iran, it is clear that a lot of people are deeply troubled by what Mearsheimer and Walt have written.
As am I. I compiled nearly one-hundred notes from the book and now I’m working my way through The Deadliest Lies: The Israel Lobby and the Myth of Jewish Control by Abraham Foxman, national director of the Anti-Defamation League.
So far I’m not finding any substance in either The Nation piece or Foxman’s book. By substance I mean this: I have found that Mearsheimer and Walt claim A and A is clearly false because of B, C and D and here are the definitive sources for B, C and D which prove that A is false.
I need the critics to get past the idea that Mearsheimer’s and Walt’s interpretation of the facts may be anti-Semitic because after reading their book I don’t see it. I need to have those who think the book is wrong to lay it out for me; to show me where it is wrong and do so by using primary sources, not feelings.
And events are moving forward rapidly. Next week I plan to attend a community conference hosted by The Israel Project and the Jewish Community Federation of Cleveland to: Stop the threat of a Nuclear Iran..
I hope I manage to finish most of Foxman’s book before then.
(You can also read Andrew Sullivan’s thoughts on all of this here.)
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0800 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.
On another occasion, a man making heavy breathing sounds from a phone box told a worried operator:
“I haven’t got a pen, so I’m steaming up the window to write the number on.”
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0724 by Jeff Hess
Part of being a good citizen of the blogosphere is visiting, reading and, most importantly, taking the time to leave a comment on other’s blogs. It’s all about the conversation. In the interest of setting an example I’ve decided to link to those blog posts that have compelled me to leave a comment.
1742 The Purpose of Provocation
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0400 by Jeff Hess
My name is Jeff Hess and I’m a biblioholic. I own hundreds of books. Not valuable books, mostly Science Fiction paperbacks and text books, tomes rescued by the bag from library book sales. A few years ago, in the interest of not burying myself, I began reading more books from the library and taking notes. My electronic chapbook was born.
This is a passage I copied from Sacred Geometry by Robert Lawlor.
Two cannot come from two ones, but rather from the separation of the One into two. p. 23
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0001 by Jeff Hess
Today, as I go about my tasks, I’ll think about: The more you can pull performance into line with unifying principles, the more self-unification you have, the better base you have for reality testing and the better able you are to make decisions. p. 39
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2030 by Jeff Hess
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