…10/5-08: resurrections make strange reunions

53º in ABQ; 93% humidity at 6A…try to download my AOL website; because of rain & high winds, all AM Fiesta events cancelled; hoping for better weather & fireworks tonight; 46 year old man accused of sexually abusing a twelve year old family member; heavy rain fell last night; drivers have six months to get NM plates after they move into the state; an inch of rain has fallen at SunPort; more video games are being stolen at from homes; mistrial declared against Clovis charged with sexual abuse; in spite of the rain & wind, wood carving contest continues at the Fiesta; Vendor Row is empty; nothing is open at the park, except umbrellas; snow is falling this AM in N NM; New Mexicans feel there is no direction for the economy to go but up; heavy rain is starting to collapse vendor tents; when weather was supposed to be getter better, it began to rain harder; more undecided voters in NM; Obama is popular with the well educated & the under educated; the “World’s Fair of Ballooning”; maximum of 621 balloons, capped at 700; Pete Domenici got the air space for balloon flights; there are rules to determine if a street is a road, alley, boulevard, loop or lane; no campaigning at the Fiesta; rain: from 1.25 inches at SunPort: to 2.10 inches, at Lomas & Eubank; there should be a Balloon Glow tonight;

the NATL Debt clock in NYC was created in the 1980s’: it started increasing in speed in 2002; tax & spend vs. borrow & spend; George the First called it ‘voodoo economics’; copter shot by drug dealers near Atlanta, people getting braver, growing plants in city, state or NATL park areas; Wells Fargo deal to buy Wachovia has been stopped; Chicago Cubs curse continued; Bruce Springsteen performed in Philly for Obama; Palin links Obama to terrorism; use soda to unclog a drain; older gay activists team up with AARP to provide better treatment & respect for seniors; Americans feel that bailout won’t work, still won’t spend; number one box office movie took in $29 million during the weekend; FL baby safely caught after falling forty feet from amusement ride; Blessing of the Animals took place today; salmonella outbreak caused by chicken TV dinners that were not fully cooked; Pittsburgh is 250 years old; the trail of the Sara Palin; Obama, and the [D] Vietnam Radical Group, the Weathermen; McCain is out of touch, ideas, and time; too risky vs. too old; is the ‘pork plan’ too overdone?; how do we price ‘bad assets’, and who determines their values; more ‘job destruction’ in our future; Denver, Dallas & New England all won on the gridiron;

al Qaeda feels the economic crisis is a sign of the American defeat; economic hard times reach Iceland; Europe may have to rescue its banking system; more GOVT control of the countries’ checking & savings accounts, as a German property lender [AKA, real estate company] in financial trouble; there are similarities between human & pig teeth; so far, European bailout are not solving their money crunch; is the US trying to undermine Russia; 6.3 quake in Central Asia, in an area that was once the Soviet Union;