…3/28-10: experience…it pays!

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Brad prepared Smothered Pork Chops; Lincoln CNTY wildfire have been contained; Ponzi schemer had $97 million in debt, and $17 million in assets; Diane Denish leads in NM GOV polls link faces to the names on the Vietnam Veterans’ Wall in DC: create a museum in the nation’s Capitol to store these photos; LANL has contaminated the surrounding land; Red Light Cameras for Rio Rancho roads?; one NM resident will be onboard the USS New Mexico, the 377 foot sub’s home port will be in CT; dead baby found on the property of a Cedar Crest home; SunPort may lose one of its runways; it’s time for all the TV series we watch to start again, including ‘Merlin’, we saw one of the season’s episodes today!; if someone has been convicted of a crime, he can be found by using ‘virtual ID’; cannot copy & paste entries directly from my Word document to my Blog, although the new WORD software can place it in a new Blog; added rainbow color to a previous Blog entry;
another construction crane struck a NYC BLDG; do smokers have lower IQs?; coal littered the tracks after an IN train derailment; vegetarian vandalized packaged meat at a supermarket;
why did S Korean ship sink?; N Korea appears not to be at fault; Obama in AFG, for a four hour visit with the troops; does anyone want to live in the 2010 Olympic Village?;

…3/29-10: only a matter of thyme
40º in ABQ; 24% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a weekend of panic attacks; full moon in the AM sky; Las Cruces man shot his sister in the head; female student attacked a school ADMIN; abandoned baby found in a box; deadly crash involving a motorcycle at Menaul & Moon; cockfighting games still take place in NM; suspect dead from midday shooting at a NW ABQ Wal-Mart; film crew in downtown Duke City?; Santa Fe teen led police on a high speed chase, with speeds reaching 90 mph: finally stopped by a spike strip, fifty officers were involved in the pursuit;
a full week at work; Code Purple since last Thursday; AM R/R broke down three times; dispute over UNM student fees;
damp along most of I-95; wet in NYC, Philly, Boston, Orlando, Pittsburgh, Raleigh, Seattle & DC; there could be some snow in the Cascades & Sierra Nevada MTN ranges; tornado watch in SL FL, from Tampa to Miami; rain for Richmond, Hartford, Providence, Portland, OR, Buffalo & Albany; New England flood warnings; nine tornadoes twisters swept through the Carolinas this weekend; temps from the 50s to 80s;
male prostitute leaves NV brothel, returning to porn movies; San Fran crime lab scandal; the era of ‘trampy’ prom dresses; the DOW ended up; [R] explain nearly $2K spent at a Los Angeles strip club as ‘Meals’; how honest are ‘cash for gold’ companies?; ‘tiny’ Americana town, located in PA; 25% of US teenagers drop out of school; FBI made arrests on Midwest Christian militia groups, planning religious wars against the US, members could face weapons charges: called Hutaree, they hate the US GOVT, and were planning to kill a police officer, then murder more cops at the funeral; dog yoga?; people in TX FEMA trailers being told to pay rent; suburban teen heroin use on the rise; nine MA teenagers arrested for bullying a student who killed herself, the school had been aware of this existing problem;two female suicide bombers, AKA ‘black widows’, struck Moscow subways, during the height of the AM rush hour, cars & platforms were destroyed; man with the huge boobs; Ricky Martin is gay?; is there a new home in Susan Boyle’s future?; …3/30-10: playing in the family tree
45º in ABQ; 27% humidity at 6A…GAQ; remark in E-mail by NM commissioner; Brad may have solved the problem on my prior PC; a Sustiva dream about ‘Dark Shadows’, the 60s soap opera; racist Extreme Fire Danger for E NM; 3–D glasses needed for YouTube video; NM juvenile jail has the most sexual assaults in the nation; body parts from ABQ found shipped to Kansas City; Brad made a variation of French Hamburgers;
work on I/P charges; more bicycles on AM R/R; have to overcome fear; former MGR will be out for a week; Jenny told me about how her I-Book works;
ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; New England floods & rain; tornado lifted a mobile home, dropped it into a pond, everyone was safely rescued; the ‘big thaw’ in MA, RI & CT; bad weather along parts of I-90 & I-95; wet in Providence, Boston, Philly, NYC, Baltimore, Sacramento, Yellowstone, DC, Richmond & Hartford; snow in the Pacific NW; temps from the 40s to the 80s; another arrest of a militia member; climber stuck on the peak of Mt. Shasta; TN man ran naked, except for a mask, because he was bored; there is a ‘moral compass’ near the right ear; French PRES at the White House; H1N1 cases on the rise in SE US; large credit & debit card number theft has been busted in FL; actress June Havoc has died at the age of 97; Saturday mail delivery: gone by 2011?: not if NALC has its way; why do reporters leave their TV stations?; beware bogus ‘Energy Star’ appliances; return of the bow tie?; the FBI ‘secret room’; OK law banned gay rights…but two other important items were then defeated; computer problems plague the 2010 Census; CO tenant was evicted in 2009 for failing to pay the rent, after being told to remove edible Easter decorations from that property; Medicare ‘drug loophole’ in prescription payments got plugged; MS girl can bring her girlfriend to a ‘private’ prom; Boy Scout Masters slept in the nude…when scouts were present?;start of Passover; Moscow in mourning; 6.4 quake off the coast of India; we are within a billionth of a second from ‘The Big Bang’; N Korean mine could have sunk a S Korean ship; Iran nuclear scientist defects to the US?; the $40K Nissan electric car makes its debut; the Sky Tree: Tokyo’s tallest tower;

…3/27-10: training, MGMT, professionalism

38º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…SE NM wildfires; it took about three hours to put together my new PC, with a keyboard that can handle large fingers; Brad prepared French Toast this AM; more cuts in ABQ school system budget may mean up to 1K layoffs to handle a $43 million shortfall; the USS New Mexico was commissioned today, a submarine that was completed earlier than scheduled; the first VP of the Navajo Nation has died; plane had to make an emergency landing in a Four Corners airport after a passenger suffered a heart attack; three guest houses will be built on Val Kilmer’s property, which is upsetting some of his neighbors; Cesar Chavez Day in ABQ; about 6P, a 4.2 quake shook remote area 18 miles WNW of Carlsbad, no damages or injuries were reported; a unique lunch, consisting of various cheeses, breads, crackers & salmon;

WA gun heist, reported as the state’s largest; there are now 41 banks that have failed across the US in 2010: two in GA, one in FL & AZ; the SECY of Transportation post is still vacant; the era of the floppy disk is ending; children like their vegetables steamed, not stir fried; 10K attended a Tea Party rally held in NV, some have called it the ‘Conservative Woodstock’;

darkness during ‘Earth Hour’; other countries have universal health care;

…3/21-10: a reason to laugh

32º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…a very bad AM, as my computer decided not to work…so I now have my old one, and Brad has my PC; Hobbs woman killed in drive by shooting; – 15º in Angel Fire at 6A; roadwork has begun on US 84/285, and should be completed by 2011;
the health care reform bill might by voted in the House today;
residents are told to evacuate as a volcanic eruption takes place under a glacier in Iceland; many people are walking today on the anniversary of the Bataan Death March;

…3/22-10: victories, one step at a time
42º in ABQ; 37% humidity at 6A…GAQ; two YDI inmates have escaped; Brad’s AM Chiro visit; NM levees are in poor condition; last night, huge fire at a NE ABQ; no red light cameras on FED roads across NM; some ski slopes will remain open longer than usual; more women are committing property crimes in the Duke City; Brad made Chicken Fricassee with Dumplings; 9% humidity at 5P; accident on I-40E, near Nine Mile Hill;
know no protection; hell or heaven upon returning to work, as Jenny returns from her vacation; Dr. Root is in New Zealand;
rain from NY to FL, as the Sunshine State may see T’storms; wet in Billings, Seattle, Boston, DC to NYC, Philly, INDY, Cleveland & Albany; snow in parts of AL, TN & GA; there was weekend warmth in Boston; temps from the 40s to the 80s;
health care reform passed, 219 – 212, but not one [R] supported passage; SEN will try to repeal the $938 billion bill, and Obama may sign it tomorrow; there is a ‘Fire Pelosi’ website; ‘some people will do anything for the INS companies’; nine vehicle pileup on TX interstate; Tiger Woods, ‘working on‘ his marriage, he has been living a lie; unemployed man makes money by building LEGO works of art; ‘Alice’ earned $34 million this past weekend; the ‘high drama’ weekend on Capitol Hill is over; Teddy Roosevelt started the process of getting NATL health care; Nancy Pelosi: the most powerful Speaker, and woman in Congress?; FDA warns of rotavirus vaccine contamination;
former US PRES Bush & Clinton visit Haiti; Israel will visit Obama this week; naked man in China tried to lift a taxi; the portable late night men’s toilet?; Botox: big business in Baghdad; ‘The Hobbit’ will be a two movie prequel to ‘Lord of the Rings’; first volcanic eruption in Iceland in 200 years; GOOGLE will run its search engine from Hong Kong, China does not approve this action;

…3/23-10: in our own little universe
46º in ABQ; 25% humidity at 6A…GAQ; a mixed reaction in NM about the health care reform bill being passed; more snow for NM?; YDI escapees have been caught; homicide at Copper & Tramway; Santa Fe teens vandalized vehicles; why did the Duke City’s giraffe end in a trash bin, after the animal was put to sleep; the ‘Creatures of the Night’ video has reappeared on YouTube, but I cannot access Annie Lennox videos from that website; Kewa Rail Runner stop cost $2.5 million to build, and the work was paid by FED stimulus funds; another day, another SWAT situation in ABQ; new downtown APTS on Lomas are being rented; Espanola bridge accident shuts down traffic;
big question: is overtime permitted; all info will go to our current & former MGR; on my way home, saw a late 1950s Chevy; no more PDI requests; most Pavilion security doors were not working; the big PICN book was not in that ward; should a two year old trauma victim be allowed to visits his parents, who are in jail?;
NM weather, and ABQ temp mentioned on the ABC AM News; wet in the Great Plains, snow in the Rockies; Denver snow; Chinese sandstorms has reached Taiwan, could be blown to the W coast of the US; rain & potential flooding in Philly, NYC, Boston & DC; warmer in the SE US: cooler in the SW US; temps from the 30s to the 70s;
chain restaurants will have to display calorie counts of their meals; the ‘plastic ship’ is sailing from CA to Sydney, Australia; Obama will now tour America, to convince people that the health care reform is good: this will occur after he signs the bill into law; the ‘Lady Gaga’, based on her clothing; all the world is Madison AVE; women commit are more guilty of ID thefts; six year old MN boy was struck & killed by a bus; VT man found nearly $10K in a bag on a street, and gave the cash to the police; states starting to sue against health care bill; Biden, and the ‘F’ word; the ‘Patty Duke Show’ cast reunion; NH thief stole jewelry while a customer & salesperson were conversing, just feet away from the robber; more medical schools are needed;
man killed eight students in E China; ten weeks ago to the day that the deadly quake shook Haiti; baby statues made from photos taken right after birth; the ‘too dark’ tan; Hillary Clinton in MX; so many Port-au-Prince parks have become tent cities; the ‘Great Firewall of China’;

…3/24-10: friends do dinner & movies
36º in ABQ; 64% humidity at 6A…GAQ; how to put problems on pause; woman stabbed man with mystical dagger, this took place in ABQ; Las Cruces girl shot multiple times with a B-B gun; people are still complaining about the never-ending train whistles from Amtrak, Rail Runner & freight trains; charges filed by candidate against current Lt. GOV; NM GOV will repeal the proposed food tax, but will increase the cigarette tax by 75¢ per pack; early AM snow, which turned into partly cloudy PM; frost on cars this AM; NM man ran an $80 million Ponzi scheme; Crime Stoppers is running out of reward money;
the debate over O/T & communication continues?; Steve Alford will remain at UNM;
NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; snow for ME, CO & KS; T’storms in OK & TX; Midwest storms, rain for Dallas & Houston, with a chance of tornadoes in the S Plains; warm & dry in the SE US; snow in Denver & OKC, rain in KC; ND levees are collapsing; wet along parts of I-35; temps from the 30s to the 70s;
C-sections, the most common procedure performed in hospitals; the first 3–D hockey game will be aired tonight; three people found dead in houseboat off Long Island; eighteen year old nerd asked, and she said yes: Maxim model went to his prom; home sales keep falling; 49% polled support the new health care bill, while other say it will ration medical care; US & Israel leaders met last night; in ‘private talks’; fewer retirees are moving to Sunbelt states, such as FL, AZ & NM; threats against politicians who supported health care reform; the DOW went down; new health bill will impose a tax on people who use tanning salons; tear down parts of Detroit, and turn them into smaller, ‘greener’ cities; no violence, say the [R], against those who supported health care reform; actor Robert Culp has died at the age of 79, from a fall hear his Hollywood home; six million homeowners are behind in their mortgage payments;
Russian genius rejects a $1 million prize for solving a complex math problem; Hillary Clinton in PAK; US & Russia will reduce their nuclear stockpiles…when?;

…3/25-10: tactile hologram
33º in ABQ; 69% humidity at 6A…GAQ; I come from a land of ‘micro MGMT’; keeping my life in control; how did a plastic glove fall off my hand while I was sleeping?; head-on crash on I-25 near Santa Fe killed two people; more illnesses may be added to the list that can qualify for legally using marijuana in NM; ‘investor’ took money from new clients to pay old debts; NM gross receipts tax will increase; the city of Bernalillo does not have a police chief; Rio Rancho meth bust; 2010 Census will visit the Indian Pueblo Cultural CTR; PC was delivered, but no one was home: next attempt: this Saturday;
what to do about overtime;
wet in Chicago, St. Louis, Cincinnati, ATL & Memphis; bad weather for the Carolinas; T’storms for TN, AR, OK, TX, MS & Louisiana; downpours in S IL; rain in Nashville, New Orleans & Houston; a mix of rain & snow in the Pacific NW US; MN floods; bad weather along parts of I-10, I-20 & I-70; temps from 30s to 80s;
CA will try to legalize marijuana; SEN attempts to block health bill; coffins appearing on property of politicians who supported the health care reform; men call a CT bank, said they were going to rob it; goose ‘lawn art’ attracts a mate; OH schools practice tornado drills on a regular basis; the price of 3–D movie theaters is going to increase; more ‘baby slings’ recalled; $100K falls out of armored car, quickly picked up by drivers; sign of the times, or some things never change…teachers caught drinking alcohol, or taking illegal drugs while at school; NC courthouse goes up in flames, it was in the process of being restored;
US – Israel peace talks fail; 6.0 quake shakes the Philippines; Russian bombers fly into British airspace;

…3/20-10: acoustic windows

28º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…from invisible snow’, to flurries at The Beach during the AM; the day the cheese cutter broke; at one point, I-40 E & W was shut down from ABQ to Santa Rosa, which is about 110 miles; there was a seven car pileup on I-25, conditions are icy on that interstate; Due City sex offender guilty of possessing child porn; some NM SEN are changing their mind about imposing a ‘food tax’; five people injured in Farmington accident; Brad prepared Peppered Beef Stroganoff; six years ago, temps in the Duke City reached the 80s; and today is the first day of …Spring?; Brad’s new computer is on its way; Stewart Udall died; Rail Runner rider number three million will board the train next week; it’s the Lobos vs. the Huskies, and NM lost; met Silver [a tenant] & Coco [her mix breed dog];

seven more US banks have failed, bringing the total in 2010 to 37, located in AL, MN, UT, OH & GA [three]; small plane crashed into WA home; C. difficile is replacing MRSA as the most contagious HOSP infection;

Obama wants to talk to Iran, but our PRES says Tehran has isolated itself from the world; British Airways is on strike; huge sandstorm has struck Beijing: China is nearly 1/3 desert; at the CERN Large Hadron Collider, scientists circulated the highest energy particle beam ever generated by human, and the test was successful on the first attempt; 5.6 quake shakes GITMO, but no injuries reported, but felt in Havana; oil is $80.63 per barrel; gold is $1,104.20 an ounce; the Catholic Church attempts to apologize for its sexual misconduct;

…3/17-10: loving life’s loves

40º in ABQ; 55% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day Three!; more Safe Ride options on St. Patrick’s Day; the 2010 Census has been completed; no need to worry about bringing diskettes to update my Blog; more use of my ‘little black book’ diary?; did not sleep well last night; YouTube will be my priority; the Kewa Rail Runner Station will open next week; without warning: Convergys’ may lay off 600 people; no charges can be filed against the ‘fake cop’?; updated version of ‘True Grit’ being filmed in N NM; the clothes went to Buffalo Exchange; is one person’s cell phone making a neighbor sick?;

redesigning PEDS meeting at 4P; UNM Rio Rancho enrollment is lower than predicted, it’s twelve miles N of the previous location; got home at 5P; will we be moved to Bradbury…time will tell; no PICU Admits; Michelle has been to Two Fools; we remain in Code Purple;

ABQ weather conditions mentioned on the Weather Channel; for the second year in a row; Fargo expects floods, also rivers are rising in NJ & New England; wet along parts of I-10, I-75 & I-95; FL rain; temps from the 40s to 80s;

ignore the 50/50 split on health reform; Pepsi pulls sugary soft drinks from school soda machines; St. Patrick’s Day!; the number of inmates in state prisons has declined; will a jobs bill be passed ‘soon’?; no matter what, health INS premiums would still increase; nude NYC art aims for the ‘uncomfortable’;

US – Israel patching up peace, piece by piece; will Osama bin Laden be arrested alive;

…3/18-10: shoes vs. footprints

41º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…GAQ; we begin Year Thirty-One!; slowly withdrawing from my blog; mountain lion captured in Santa Fe; while the numbers are declining across the country, NM prison population is on the rise; NM teen wins $100K award for the INTEL Science Talent Search;

some people keep in touch with people on vacation; I did the ‘DDD’ updates incorrectly, have the new rules now; no set lunch shifts, and overtime when necessary; disadvantaged children will watch the Lobos play in San Jose; CHC EKG & ECG sheets should be put on hold; Channel 13 TV van on UNM campus; we remain in Code Purple; no ‘senior coders’;

near Fargo, one million sandbags along the Red River; snow in the Rockies; temps from the 40s to 80s;

216: the magic health care number, will it be reached; more generations are living under one roof; safer flea & tic spray products for pets; repaired Toyotas still have ‘sudden acceleration syndrome’; Fess Parker has died at the age of 85; AFL–CIO supports health bill; ID will sue the FED GOVT if the health care reform bill is passed; spike strip fell out pf CA police car, puncturing other vehicles’ tires; jobless claims on the decline; experimental plane crashed in AZ; fourth grade NC student caught with marijuana on school property;

natural ‘road kill’ used as wedding, or fashion hats; eighty wedding guests ‘took the plunge’ when the pier collapsed while taking a bridal photo; the virtual US/MX fence project is on hold; Hillary heads to Russia; the shape of future police cars;

…3/19-10: can anyone eat just one pistachio?

53º in ABQ; 32% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Brad’s painting progresses; Red Light Cameras banned on some NM state roads; local bars seeing green during Lobos games; sexual assault at the NMSU Las Cruces campus; burnt body found in N ABQ park; new downtown APT complex is managed by Monarch Properties; winter snowstorm for NE NM?; a movie crew was filming in N ABQ yesterday; weather went from spring to winter during the day; it’s a ‘red leather jacket’ day; I am the ‘Alpha Customer’ at Trader Joe’s, I pack my own groceries;

left at 11:30A; lunch at Two Fools, followed by comic quest; PEDS takes priority, but too many cross signals & mixed messages; all PICN charges for Family Practice completed yesterday; the Lobos won, 62 – 57;

Denver will see a fifty degree drop in temperature, ending the day with snow; flurries for Fargo, Rapid City & INTL Falls; rain in Chicago; NM snow mentioned on ABC AM News; temps from 30s to 70s;

pick a state…name the scandal in ‘American Affairs: 101’; former porn star says she had an affair with Tiger Woods; countdown to health care coverage: the cost will be $940 billion over the next decade, and no favors allowed; about 100K FED workers owe billions of dollars in back taxes; the invisible cloak is becoming closer to reality; next on the Obama agenda; illegal immigration reform; a sex scandal in the Boy Scouts of America?; the DOW went down;

car hooked to truck’s bumper on British road, pushed at speeds of 60 mph; Hillary in Russia;

…3/16-10: twenty-first century love

35º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day Two!; more charges against the man who impersonated a police officer; AM house fire in NE ABQ; local bars prepare for Lobo fever; no one was injured after a house caught fire in SW ABQ; since my YouTube site may be giving me more pleasure [for now], I may just slow down this blog; Clovis man accused of biting off another man’s nose; $10K stolen from Santa Fe spa; we are ‘unmarried partners’; where is my happiness?;

‘redesigning PEDS’ meeting, out MGR had no idea that it was called, and Jenny is on vacation; doctor liked my pink shirt; compared it to a flamingo; duty of GI charges still being shared; the Lobos will play Montana in San Jose, CA; new version of WORD is not compatible with my home version;Roswell weather mentioned on the Weather Channel; flooding from the Dakotas to New England; wet for Houston, Dallas, the Twin Cities, Seattle, Eugene [OR]. San Antonio & Corpus Christi; Boston is flooded after four days of nearly constant rain; CT & RI have also declared states of emergency; temps from the 30s to the 70s;

attempt a ‘deem & pass’ tactic to pass health reform, as Obama keeps pushing the plan: rests in the hands of 37 [D]; Rockville, MD dog swallowed a $20K diamond, waiting for him to ‘naturally’ get rid of the jewel; 140K people still in the dark; liberal Supreme Court Justice Stevens considering retirement in the next three years; people are paying to watch a woman gain weight, her husband likes the chubby, new look; barge slammed into 14th Street Bridge in DC; the FBI may be your FaceBook friend; ABBA is now part of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame; the middle class has no one to help them; Honda recalls 10K cars for ‘brake issues’; foul air on a US Airways jet forced crew & passengers to leave the plane; Los Angeles shaken by a 4.4 tremor at 4:04 AM; $75 million in prescription drugs stolen: this is the world we live in!; two people are killed when a tour bus crashed in TX;it may cost $14 billion to rebuild Haiti; shrimp found under Antarctica; oil is $81.70 per barrel; gold is $1,122.50 an ounce; 6.7 & 5.5 quakes shake Chile;

…3/15-10: the power of love

34º in ABQ; 88% humidity at 6A…GAQ; Happy Anniversary, Day One!; restless sleep last night; wet at The Beach; Hobbs Juvenile Parole Office may be built near a school; Las Cruces has started to issue tickets for texting while driving; slick roads, especially I-40, E & W of ABQ; three cameras placed on Bernalillo CNTY police cars; men’s Lobos ranked third in NCAA tournament; a foot of snow in the E MTN; snow on power lines causing outages in N NM;

one Coder on vacation all week: another, for four days; as of yesterday, UNMH is in Code Purple again; patient allergic to cinnamon; the Bradbury has been struck by burglars; one MGR left her position, and returned to Compliance; and the changes continue…; missing UNM student safely found in Socorro; the UNM Men’s Lobos team will play San Jose next;

NE US storms with 70 mph gusts; bad weather along parts of I-80, I-90 & I-95; Nantucket winds, TN rockslides, Olde Towne Alexandria floods; wet along coastal MA, Gloucester, Boston, Pittsburgh, Denver, ABQ, Philly, P’town, Providence, OKC, Amarillo, Fargo, NYC, Hartford, Albany, Richmond & DC; ABQ rain & snow mentioned on the Weather Channel & ABC AM News; temps from the 30s to the 70s;

2010 Census forms should be arriving this week; the ‘Hemingway House’ in Key West, FL may become a literary landmark; was the CA Prius problem a fake?; Peter Graves has died at the age of 83; NYC police towed a vehicle with a dead body inside it: the corpse was going to a funeral parlor; Obama is ‘pumping up the volume’ on health care reform; two people died in NJ house fire; twelve year old PA boy faces life in prison for murder; the DOW ended up; social studies, as defined by conservative TX?; Detroit is banning its city employees from wearing deodorant, or cologne; IA woman attacked her sister with a toilet tank lid; car burned on the Brooklyn Bridge; states want more casinos to help balance their budgets; TN man threw his baby down a trash chute, the toddler will recover; cars programmed to go wrong once; neighbors did not want a house to have a deck, so the FL homeowner painted his house various colors, and hung underwear outside the residence; state of emergency declared in MA; former PRES of NYC bank charged with trying to defraud the FED bailout program; Red River may flood near Fargo; the new Ford ‘cop car’; Continental Airlines will no longer serve free food in its economy class on domestic flights;massive blackout across Chile, not caused by recent quakes; anti GOVT rallies in Thailand; nude hiking in Germany; WWII explosives triggered in the ocean; oil is $80.17 per barrel; gold is $1,1104.30 an ounce; snowmobiles may have caused Canadian avalanche; Socialism is alive & well in France;