…5/3-09: thrift, quality, fun

49º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…the H1N1 flu has arrived in NM, and the KY Derby winner, and Lance Armstrong in the Tour of the Gila; ABQ is a city that many people stay for a period of time, then move onward; KOAT interviews the NM cult leader; Thornburg Mortgage officially filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy; homicide at NE ABQ APT on Indian School, man stabbed to death; Rail Runner could not run on Friday because the engineer lost the keys, and was suspended; the eighteen year old from Valencia CNTY is doing well, there are now cases in Hidalgo, Eddy & Luna counties; Wayne Bent, sex offender, or messiah, spends ten years behind bars; child died from fatal crash on I-25 on the Isleta Pueblo; TX woman died near Tatum when she avoided a deer on the road, driver had not been wearing a seatbelt; advising to postpone travel to MX unless absolutely necessary; the first educational launch took place at Spaceport yesterday, didn’t quite make it to inner space; no one knew the women buried in the W Mesa were ‘missing’; Run for the Zoo today; seven more ‘probable’ cases in NM; Robin Roberts was in the Duke City, talking about her bout with cancer; ‘Mine That Bird’ went from last, to first; Lance Armstrong remains in fourth place in the Silver City bike race; Tingley DR is closed due to AM run; was he a child molester, who predicted the end of the world?; NM H1N1 cases range from 5 to 39 years old; fourteen NM schools are closing for one week because of the ‘new flu’ outbreak; all NM extracurricular activities, and state sponsored sports will be cancelled, plus some daycare centers in infected counties; the Strong City Cult in Union CNTY; Lance Armstrong placed second; rapist arrested in Shiprock [not the same person as in ‘our Las Vegas]; High Fire Danger;
22 Chrysler plants are closed, eight will not reopen; a nod, instead of a handshake; 226 H1N1 US cases in thirty states; laws to protect against ‘predatory practices’ by credit card companies will be the primary Capitol Hill topic; Jack Kemp has died from cancer at the age of 73; new sneakers costing from $200 to $1K; ME SEN has also approved same-sex weddings; forty-eight people died from 24 twisters across OK & KS; microburst struck TX on Saturday; still thoughts of closing the US/MX border; people still spending money to see action movies; the ‘shutdown’ of society; is the Chrysler–Fiat merger a ‘good deal’, from pain to gain; Obama once taught constitutional law at UNIV of Chicago; the first $10 billion year in blockbuster movies; lousy reviews, yet making money: ‘Wolverine’ earned $87 million; RI neither allows or prohibits same-sex unions; NJ in the process of making our love legal; ‘black is the new black’; ‘Mine That Bird’ makes CNN news; several injured in Cowboys training compound collapse, film crew captures collapse; wolves living in the Great Lakes & N Rockies area are no longer on the endangered species list; swine flu jumps from person to pig; Catholic church provided good education; John Edwards says no money was transacted improperly, as he admits that FED agents are probing the management of his campaign funds, was PAC money given to his mistress’ business; more flu cases, less flu facts; will vaccines be earmarked for Native Americans?; Cowboys coach paralyzed after wind canopy collapse; by end of day, 245 cases, in 34 states; ‘thunder thighs’; GTO trademark had belonged to Ferrari; major airlines cutting flights to MX, the country who reported three more deaths, bringing the total to nineteen; Spain has twenty cases of H1N1 cases; 898 cases of H1N1 around the world; Dalai Lama spoke at Gillette Stadium, where the Patriots play; Portugal will allow same-sex civil ceremonies, but not weddings; add Columbia to the list of ailing nations; mass flu hysteria worse than the disease; avalanche in Austria claims six lives; Iraqis kill wild boar to prevent spread of swine flu, which has infected eighteen countries; police vs. pig farmers in Egypt;