Monthly Archives: January 2007

Sunday Book Review: The Folk of the Fringe

Orson Scott Card’s The Folk of the Fringe is an excellent collection of five short stories set in a post-nuclear-war Utah. They’re supplemented by a short essay on how Card created the stories (some at a writers’ conference!). Card’s Mormon … Continue reading

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Ker-Bloowie

The main RNS Blogstation CPU has gone to visit the Great Mainframe in the Sky and we are currently functioning off of the “Backup Laptop of Olde”. Oh, how I wish I had backed up my links on this thing, but … Continue reading

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Voluntary Gravity Testers

We got ’em by the truckload up here A bridge over Seattle is becoming hazardous to the mental health of the dot-com employees and other office workers below, who keep seeing people jump to their deaths from the span. Thirty-nine … Continue reading

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Say Goodbye to The Marshall Islands

King County Exectuive, Ron “Tax to the Max” Sims, issued a press release from his office yesterday: Members of the media are invited to join Executive Sims tomorrow morning as he meets with the President Kessai Note of the Marshall … Continue reading

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Who, What, Where, When, Why, How: Part 5

Note: Once again, I am only receiving updates from John Thomas ever four days or so and then saving them up for the weekend. Unfortunately, this is the only one I’ve gotten all week so far, so I’m hoping that … Continue reading

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The Covering of the Ass

Isn’t it just so coincidental that the Dem party symbol is an ass. Must be because they’re always have to spin half-truths to “cover” their actions? In today’s episode, Larry Ludwig, Democratic State Committeeman for Stevens County, Washington, wrote a … Continue reading

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RNS Quote of the Day: 01/26/07

RNS Reader SailorCurt of the Captain of a Crew of One Blog read Tuesday’s QotD and commented on what it said with his first hand knowledge. I can vouch for that. We have marksmanship quals in the Navy but they … Continue reading

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The Rafts Only Go One Way

Remember that when you click on this link. It will take you to a picture of America’s newest immigrants: 13 Men, 4 Women and 2 small boys who landed in Key West at 0500 yesterday morning after having floated across … Continue reading

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In A Pinch

It is often said by my fellow Washingtonians that whatever happens legislatively in California will soon make its way up here. Unfortunately, the same is usually true with our neighbor to the north, Canuckistan. Which is why this is more … Continue reading

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The Soundboard: The One Cheek Sneak

I’ve been keeping my eyes on the Washington State Senate Labor, Commerce, Research and Development Committee Schedule for when they would discuss SB 5197 (the anti-Gun Show bill),  but I have seen nothing as of yet. However, more and more often … Continue reading

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