Wednesday, October 15, 2008

…10/14-08: rock the vote

47º in ABQ; 68% humidity at 6A…GAQ; déjà vu? Brad going to the Food Bank; found my hoodie; Duke City could see downpours; WA girl starved for years, kept locked in room, had not seen a doctor in years, emaciated, grandfather in Bosque Farms, NM; storm is forming slower than predicted; Santa Fe shooting range may be moved, as City Different expands in size; arson the cause of Chimayo restaurant blaze; Christmas on the Pecos worried about tourist attraction; E MTN residents & restaurants complain about long-term power outage; Farmington rally for McCain; heavy downpours, T’storms & heavy snow; boy’s body found near railroad tracks near Carlsbad; more Rottweiler attacks in S Valley; abuse charges against man who killed the child’s mother, prisoner is on suicide watch; to improve education, NM needs more schools; save energy, save money at Duke City schools, keep 1/3 of energy savings; so far, 1.33 inches of rain has fallen at SunPort; freeze warning for ABQ Valley; this evening, still snowing in parts of N NM; vehicle strikes gas main, shuts down Gibson near I-25;

JoAnn being my friend?; ‘gangs are for people who don’t have families’; AM teaching lesson by Jackie; Linda & Debbie riding on my bus: Brandi is modeling, voted Homecoming Queen, with a disco theme; when MGR speaks, so does JoAnn; windy at UNM; saw Stan from ABQ; suddenly there were fifteen O/P HEM/ONC edits in my TES files, all missing the doctor’s name: phoned, then E-mailed MGR, who wrote to the Data Entry MGR, Supervisor, Susan & Candace; Debbie had worked at NMAS;

per Weather Channel, low pressure forming over NM; rain: parts of I-35, I-70, KS, OK, TX, S FL, Houston; temps from 40s – 80s [90s]; frost in Dakotas, MN, CO, NE; KY CNTY needs moisture; blinding smoke, 10K acres on fire across the Los Angeles basin, another day of Santa Ana winds; N NM snow mentioned in ABC AM News, only high of 54 in ABQº;

FL man used to pay McDonald’s with pot; Obama emphasizes J-O-B-S; FED GOVT rescue state & local GOVT; IL SEN leads in OH; 7–11 has color coded PRES coffee cup; small businesses need the ability to get money; US will spend $250 billion to buy into banks; high is unpredicted, the world ‘is not coming into an end’, flooding banks with money, what about inflation?; America needs a ‘fighter’: John McCain?; he needs ‘good news’; [R] have the media just here we want them; banks have to ‘clean up their books’; biggest stock increase since 1933; rose by 11%; Bush addressed the public this AM; give time for confidence, have patience; GM will shut down WI & MI plants; tough times for the poor; people may be unaware they are eating salty foods; McCain will offer voters another ‘new’ economic plan; TX teacher offered good grades for good sex; violence & fear as financial worries increase; during the past two week, $65 billion taken from mutual funds; talking on ‘hands free’ cell phones while driving can still be dangerous; 84% of people use these devices, celebrating their twentieth B’day; husband of Palin’s unwed daughter speaks; TX student with Down’s Syndrome becomes homecoming queen; stock market got stuck at one point gain; graphic depictions of US society: campaign pins; historical artifacts, a sign of the times; filter into the ‘real’ economy; we will ‘essentially’ be able to borrow; some people ‘think’ we are moving in the right direction; on the second day of ‘relief’, investors taking one step backwards, as DOW finds it hard to duplicate the rally on Monday…headed into negative territory by the PM; some say the economic bottom has been reached: others say, we are heading towards a recession; NATL AVG price of gas is $3.163 per gallon; in the end, the short run will end in the long run; settlement met on tainted food that killed pets; as property values go down, property taxes don’t: cities may not change amounts owed on homes in order to provide a ‘stable’ budget base; when dead people rise to do their duty, and vote; thanks to ACORN, there are 1.3 million new voters: a group ‘trained’ by Obama; in AZ, car slams into bus stop, injuring two people; the battle for the suburban, female voters; nationalize nine banks: equity stakes, or steaks, bought by the FED GOVT, for a limited & temporary period; thirty-three cents: the largest gas price drop in one week; drivers are saving $125 million per day, as consumers put the brakes, and some fuel surcharges are being lifted; senility vs. race; the problem with podiums in posh places; FED budget deficit is $438 billion;

Australian daughter, Sumo wrestler, only eats sushi; optimism in foreign stock markets; UK loans will be paid, if British banks go under; near records reached in point gains; diplomatic ties between Syria & Lebanon; oil at $80.87 per barrel; gold has dropped to $840 an ounce; zero star rated hotel located in Switzerland, former nuclear bunker; melamine found in Thai cookies;

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