…7/20-09: don’t wash away history

72º in ABQ; 36% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality, for Ozone; ‘Cookie Bandit’ had no ID on him: by PM, he had been identified…he had also killed people in CA, AZ & OR; summer session for Navajo Nation council, seeking to be less traditional, giving more authority to their PRES?; NM women has the most agile dog in America; Bernalillo CNTY worker accepted bribes while on the job; Clovis man arrested on child porn charges; YDI gang fight injures prison guard; parts of the Duke City reached 100 degrees yesterday; the Watchmen is on its way; Native Americans are 2½ times more likely to be diagnosed with diabetes than other cultures; one year ago today, floods destroyed parts of Ruidoso; the day the diskette died, plus the quick download; eleven days of excessive heat; windy evening; the stairs near our APT are being repaired; Mine That Bird return to NM;took the earlier bus today; another black widow spider bite; Jenny returned?; yes, she enjoyed DC, wants to go there again, brought me a White House magnet; the temps were mainly in the 80s, and she saw Dupont Circle, and Lambda Rising; Gazpacho used to top steak, Sam also tried it, and enjoyed the soup; finished Rounds by 7:30A; Brent & I got free UNMH bus passes; Evelyn lives in Los Ranchos de ABQ;

storms from PA to FL, in the N Plains, from KS to TX, and parts of I-35; Four Corners heat, per Weather Channel, that now links to CNBC broadcasts; wet in Baltimore & DC; temps from the 70s to 110s;

deal for a Michael Jackson documentary in the works; OH boy sells his toys to help his parent who are unemployed; Obama ratings falling in key areas; sixth ‘Harry Potter’ movie made $79 million this past weekend; many banks have misused stimulus funds; the US needs strong leaders with vision; there are five possible NATL health plans being designed; halt uranium mining near the Grand Canyon; one of the Resolute Desks is actually in the Whaling Museum, located in New Bedford, MA: when do-it-yourself plastic surgery goes wrong; GA plane crash killed one person; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.46 per gallon; the political law of gravity: Obama is more popular than his policies; the AVG American has over $10K in credit card debt, with 6.5% of these people more than thirty days past due on their payments; what do cities in the Gulf Coast states really look like, four years after Katrina; PA plumber saved four ducklings trapped in a drain; did the San Fran train driver pass out, just before the collision?; the DOW ended up; the financial bailout now costs $4.7 trillion;

buzzards attack British joggers, leaving the men bloody & bruised; it was forty years ago today: 600 million viewers watched the moon landing on their B/W TV sets; ‘magnificent desolation’; the big achievement for the human race…the next step, Mars; Apollo 11 was the apex of NASA projects; using Endeavour’s toilet, as plumbing problems persist on the INTL space station; second spacewalk today; two jets, one copter crashed in AFG this past weekend; civil war in Honduras?; oil is $63.91 per barrel; gold is $950.00 an ounce; Australian exchange student returned home to find that her family had been murdered; Britain has the highest number of swine flu victims in Europe, will not allow anyone with the H1N1 virus to board its planes; WHO has stopped counting the number of H1N1 cases; the microscopic menace; July will be the deadliest month in AFG;