…10/11-08: dynamically electric

63º in ABQ; 60% humidity at 6A…the Balloon Fiesta tragedy is featured on many news sources; Saturday AM cable problems; two healthy, black widow spiders killed outside our doorway; pilot ‘blowing his burner’; no flying events today; PM rain: numerous tornado, T’storm & flood warnings throughout the PM; 1.6 million NM voters will be able to cast their ballots in November elections; cable restored by noon;

more tributes for gay WY student who was beaten & killed ten years ago today; McCain booed by his supporters; Manhattan APT house fire kills five people; naked female driver arrested after CA police chase; ten year old TN boy flips over van after reaching speeds of 90 mph: five other people were in the vehicle, some of them drunk; there are McCain & Obama comic books; will GM go bankrupt, or absorb Chrysler; Napa Valley on fire; OH verifying valid voters; squirm, baby squirm!: Palin [who denies abusing her power] in Johnston, PA; two small banks: one in MI, the other in IL, close their doors; while daughter was missing, mother was shopping for lingerie; force investor protection; no details, just actions; pinball vs. a roller coaster ride; NATL AVG price of gas is $3.291 per gallon; AIG wanted to throw another lavish party; AK & HI charge the highest amount: KS, the lowest; overall, the stock market has lost about 2,400 points; Red Sox beat the Rays in their first playoff game; finance ministers meeting in DC; convicted ally of Obama, helped the IL SEN get his first job, funded his early career in law; Palin & the Pussycats?; GE saw a 22% drop during the third quarter; an ancient CT law may be used to repeal gay marriages IN CT; should doctors be allowed to prescribed lethal medications to terminally ill patients; money is ‘gone’ from the mind; the ‘robust’ sound spots for cell phones; ‘Wild Friday’; HI hotel occupancy has seen a decline in reservations, figures not this low since 1998; REV Billy Graham tripped and fell, admitted into HOSP; algae as fuel?; ABQ rain mentioned on Weather Channel;

pirates may blow up captured ship; N Korea will be ‘dropped’ from terrorist list; Hurricane Norbert: CAT 2 storm with 105 mph winds, moving NE at 15 mph; N Korean leader, in pictures, did he undergo brain surgery?; this Asian country, plus Iran, Cuba, Sudan & Syria will not receive US vaccines against the bird flu, for fear of turning them into a biological weapon; oil is $77.49 per barrel; pirates are now in control of tanker, incident occurred off the coast of Somali; devil in the details; IMF warns of monetary meltdown; no new ideas or strategies to solve global economic crisis; hemorrhagic disease has killed three in Africa; OPEC is not a ‘nation’; 6.1 earthquake in the Puerto Rico – Virgin Islands area;