…2/19-10: no shortage of Americans

37º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad feeling much better; he has been testing the bottled waters; Pete Domenici JR admits to having used ‘recreational’ drugs; gunshots at a Rio Rancho barber shop; the ‘High Country Bandits’ have been hitting rural banks in AZ, CO & NM just as they close for the day; a Marine from the Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ, has been killed in duty in AFG; it is the first time in 26 years that the lawmakers have not finalized a budget; $198 flights from Farmington to ‘the’ Las Vegas; more unemployed workers are going back to college;

cold AM R/R; left at 11:30, to eat at the Owl Café; climbed for comics, went to Trader Joe’s, and arrived home slightly after 3P;

snow for Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Denver, Great Falls, Omaha & Des Moines; S TX rain; rain & snow for KC, and along parts of I-35; NE US flurries; rain along the CA coast; snow across the Rockies; temps from the 20s to the 70s;

two people have been reported killed in the Austin suicide flight which resulted in an explosion at an IRS BLDG; runaway zebra brings rush hour traffic to a halt in ATL; the head of Toyota will testify on Capitol Hill; too much zinc in some dental pastes?; more sweatshirts recalled because of drawstrings; CA frat party mocks Black History Month; FBI probing a PA school district that spied on students without their knowledge when they were at home; Tiger Woods gave a ‘small speech’, said he was sorry, will he return to rehab, where he was flirting with the females?; after IRS blast, more gaps found in air security; an increase in Medicare INS premiums; the DOW ended up; the PRES may reveal his health plan idea soon; three men in Miami accused of funding Hezbollah?; new jobs bill may come to a halt in the SEN; 30% of Americans do not use the Internet; guns will be allowed in NATL Parks?; KY man arrested for writing & posting a threatening note against PRES & Mrs. Obama; the end of the road for the rock band Who; choose your weapon: sex vs. smoking;the US leads in medals & gold awards in the Winter Olympics; woman had two heart attacks, was pronounced ‘dead’, but came to life just before the embalming fluid entered her body; foot long piece of surgical equipment was found inside the abdomen of a Czech woman; Russia is ‘very alarmed’ about Iran’s nuclear position; Obama renames the Iraqi war Operation: New Dawn; Endeavour undocks from the INTL Space Station; US Marines take Taliban HQ; PCB levels in dolphins on the rise; a 400 year old minaret collapsed in Morocco, killing at least thirty people; 1979-81 Fiat Spider models are considered classic cars; name a plane: get one million miles of flying; oil is $79.81 a barrel; gold is $1,122 an ounce;