…6/13-09: pride...what a feeling!

62º in ABQ; 29% humidity at 6A…KOAT mentioned the Pridefest Parade this AM; motorcycle run to make people aware of child abuse; El Paso Electric will build a solar plant in S NM; 94K grass fire is burning S of Lordsburg; Four Corners fireman arrested for DUI, and resisting arrest; FED investigators probing the copter crash, to determine why two people were ejected from the chopper, one of them was a UNM grad student from Japan; a mud volleyball game for charity is being held today; Grants woman charged with animal abuse; our monsoon season will span from 6/15 to 9/30/09; S CO police officer on paid ADMIN leave, facing charges of domestic abuse; spent the first hour upstairs, taking down notes, and watching Brad prepare a Turkey, then went downstairs to work on my Blog; several adults arrested for using torture as a means to punish children when they thought the youngsters were lying; all bodies buries in the W Mesa were naked, this may be a clue; Brad baked a great Dressing;

each year, 400K Americans die from smoking caused illnesses; NY inmate throws elaborate Bar Mitzvah; no one was hurt when a plane went off the runway at a Ft. Collins, CO airport; FL man lives in a 75 sq. ft. closet; Pittsburgh Penguins won the Stanley Cup; it may take $1 trillion to help pay for health care costs; people think ‘Earth:2100’ program was propaganda for the New World Order; more CA porn stars are testing positive for HIV; dog swallows several golf balls; NM featured on Discovery Channel program; Six Flags Amusement Parks fill for bankruptcy, company says it has a $1.8 billion debt; computers: from a room to a desk to a lap;

N Korea has a ‘uranium enrichment program’, and vows it will take military action against the US; will Tetris become an Olympic sport?; 50 bodies have been recovered from Air France 447; there is more water in the earth, than on top of the planet; Tehran is under lockdown, reporters’ cameras are being confiscated: 48 million voters in Iran, did the ‘Green Movement’ lose?; 85% of the country cast ballots, with the current leader receiving 63% of the votes, fraud is suspected, riots have erupted; NASA cancels Endeavour liftoff: dangerous hydrogen gas leak detected, the launch may be moved to 7/11/09 because of numerous factors, such as the angle of the sun; there will be thirteen people in space, only one of them would be a woman; the mission should last a total of sixteen days, with more than eleven of them ‘parked’ at the space station [which is 81% completed], plus five spacewalks; the shuttle is bringing food & the final segment of a lab that was made in Japan, plus 600 lbs. of food; Venezuela bans Coke Zero, saying the drink contains an unhealthy artificial sweetener;