18 June: Go Fishing Day

Today is Go Fishing Day. Here are 10 quotes about fishing.

1. The only time a fisherman tells the truth is when he calls another fisherman a liar. Anon
2. There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot. Steven Wright
3. I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour - or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing. George Eliot
4. Angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other. Samuel Johnson
5. There are a million-and-one ways to enjoy a day’s angling. Catching fish is but one of them. Fennel Hudson
6. There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon. Jack Nicklaus
7. The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. John Buchan
8. The fun of fishing is catching 'em, not killing 'em. Norman Schwarzkopf
9. You know when they have a fishing show on TV? They catch the fish and then let it go. They don't want to eat the fish, they just want to make it late for something. Mitch Hedberg
10. I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do. Matt Lauer

The Raiders Trilogy

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Power Blaster is a superhero who lives in a dimension not unlike our own, in the mega-nation of Innovia. No-one knows who he is or where his powers come from. 
After saving the life of the President several times, Power Blaster learns that a test of a nuclear warhead to defend the planet against asteroid strikes will have devastating consequences for his world and sets out to prevent it.

Power Blaster's actions lead to an unexpected result - a wormhole opens between his dimension and our own. Anyone in the vicinity is pulled through. People from diverse backgrounds and cultures must co-operate to survive and learn to live with the powers travel through the wormhole has bestowed on some of them.

A stable wormhole is established between the two dimensions. Power Blaster is determined to bring Desi Troyes, the person responsible for the bomb, to justice. Help comes from some rather unexpected sources. Meanwhile, Shanna Douglas sets out on a mission of her own, to find out if there is a cure for the life altering condition the wormhole gave her friend, Benedict Cole. Little does she know that she will stumble upon the secret of Power Blaster's mysterious origins.