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I’m on vacation until Monday, which is when regular blogging will commence.

In the meantime, lets open up the BON 5 Words Collaborative Story Game again.

The Rules:

I start off creating a sentence with five words.

Each comment should contain exactly five words, and those five words should help to build a collaborative story.  Feel free to throw punctuation anywhere you desire.

Post any number of comments you wish, just don’t post two comments in a row.

And a new rule . . .

If there is a violation of any of the rules, just ignore the comment in which the rule is broken and I’ll delete it sometime later.

So let’s begin . . .

Keith found a deadly spider . . .

Telling soldiers’ stories from the frontlines is dangerous work that few do as well as Michael Yon. Risking combat injury, intense heat, sand and dust storms, and jarring explosions: the cost is crushing. Most major news organizations can’t afford to keep a footprint here, yet Michael Yon does it without corporate sponsors or advertisers. He receives no funding or financial support from Fox News, or any movie, book or television deal. He is entirely reader supported.

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A survey carried out in June by Harris Research for the Financial Times shows that 32 per cent of respondents in five European countries regard the US as a bigger threat than any other state.

The level of European concern about the US has remained broadly consistent over the past year. In 11 previous polls dating back to July 2006 the proportion of respondents considering the US a threat to stability has ranged between 28 per cent and 38 per cent.

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