Fun with Na in the 40’s.  Remember playing with tiny bits of this stuff in chemistry class?
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That would never happen today but would it not have been amazing to witness this?  I wonder if anyone is alive still who was there.

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Just a follow up on the Hankins story to note something most everyone who reads my rants might agree with.  It’s about accountability and the media’s role in that accountability.  It has changed in the last two centuries dramatically.  Not to slide heavily into a Net Neutrality argument (and that really isn’t my point), I have to […]

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… is tonight.

Every Tuesday, 7:00 pm onward
O’Callahans - Shilo Inn, 50 Comstock Richland Washington, Richland (map)

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[Update: The third in the series is up today along with an important blog post from Mullick on the ethics complaint.  Those of you interested in seeing the ethics complaint expanded should check it out]
It’s the proverbial TV crime scene and the investigators is just about to finish pouring the plaster casts on the tire tracks of the getaway car.  But […]

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Caren Bohan [Reuters] reports today…
In a speech delivered aboard the USS Kitty Hawk aircraft carrier at Yokosuka Navy Base near Tokyo, Cheney said: “We know that terrorist attacks are not caused by the use of strength, they are invited by the perception of weakness.”
“We know that if we leave Iraq before the mission is completed, […]

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Well, I don’t know if not having a certification will make an animal masseuse less expensive but it might…
The certification of animal massage practitioners is in the interest of the public health, safety, and welfare. While veterinarians and certain massage practitioners may perform animal massage techniques, the legislature finds that meeting all of the requirements […]

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Nothing.  It’s a good idea to have a simple majority approve school levy’s, and the issue has been bandied about in the legislature over the last decades but has never found a footing.  Perhaps it is the worry of voters that it would make it too easy to raise taxes (which in reality is already […]

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Aside from this being the worst piece of promo I have ever seen, or perhaps even the predictable Brady Bunch laugh track with a script that couldn’t even the 70’s rival ”Laugh In”.  it is also the most breathtakingly moronic effort at comedy I have ever seen!  Can I say anything good about this?  Nope.  I mean how could they:

Make funny […]

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This is cool…
SW Washington Congressman Brian Baird invites you to come skiing with him on Sunday, February 18th at White Pass. Ski from 9 am until Noon. Meet with Brian from Noon - 1 in the Talus Room for lunch, then hit the slopes in the afternoon from 1 - 3.
Brian takes time each year […]

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Short notice but hey, did you remember? 
Drinking Liberally in the Tri-Cities meets tonight and every Tuesday night! 
O’Callahans-Shilo Inn
50 Comstock Rd. 
7pm till?
 

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Ya do!  Well, while the counselors at Camp Wellstone may not be teaching you how to swim in a lake, they will teach you a little about progressive activism and how to swim in the crazy world of running for elected office. Have you ever thought about taking your activism to the next level, but not sure about how […]

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Round these parts things can get pretty dull with our relatively sleepy politics and public figures.  Once in a blue moon the 24hr news cycle spins through and about as fast as it was here it is gone again.  But when the local paper reports on a local Mayor getting “strong armed” by local politicians […]

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Imagine you are looking at a 6000 foot tall Donkey living in Central Washington peering over the Cascade Curtain.  Well… I imagine that every day.  But now a new blog called ”The Other Side” joins me as the more left leaning progressive online presence grows for us here on the proverbial ”other side”.  And they get press too!  The Yakima Herald’s Leah Beth Ward […]

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I sometimes wonder if a revengeful congress is a good thing.  Being that I enjoy it when the parties enjoy bipartisanship, I have little sympathy for Doc Hastings. 
Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., took to the House floor to complain.
“I have to ask when, when will this House have the opportunity to debate and consider the bills?” he said. […]

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Is tonight!  Here are the details…
Drinking Liberally in the Tri-Cities
O’Callahans - Shilo Inn
50 Comstock Rd.  Richland
Tuesday, 7:00 PM - Till?
Want to find out more about Drinking Liberally? Then check out Drinkingliberally.org.
And if you want to join the Tri-Cities Chapter of Drinking Liberally e-mail list? It is as simple as just clicking here.

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