In professional courtesty to those who don't extend same.....

Larry;

We are not aware that your blog is copyright protected by the Library of Congress, as is TheOlympian.com. However, since no text contained on “Thurston Blog” is meaningful discussion related to our stories, we attempt to delete all references to said blog, anyway. If you do not want text from your blog copied and pasted to our website, it might be helpful if you refrain from promoting your blog in our comment threads.

In the meantime, please note our “Terms of Service.” Perhaps you might consider these terms of service each time you copy and paste text from our comment threads to your blog.

Tammy McGee
The Olympian Newspaper
tmcgee@theolympian.com
360-754-5447


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