…11/16-08: the look of luxurious lines

32º in ABQ; 47% humidity at 6A…a new gaming system in the NM Lottery, with bigger & bolder print; Duke City businesses want consumers to spend money at local businesses; UNM, a smoke free campus?; Santa Fe increased living wage increase may be delayed; no problems at porn festival; slot machines, poker & Bingo will be games at the new Navajo Fire Rock Casino; flights begin between the Duke City & Chihuahua City, MX; brother of beaten security guard [who died from the attack] upset over judge’s decision of a minor sentence, four years sentences, another on nine month’s house arrest; ABQ man sexually abuse six year old girl: if she told anyone, the child would die; teens charged with throwing rocks on cars traveling along I-25; yesterday, cup got stuck on microwave plate; welder’s torch caused blaze at Las Cruces nursery; Film Making Channel website created by NM citizen; woman missing after fire destroyed her Dona Ana home; KOAT says hundreds attended gay rally in Civic Plaza, which is now a prominent, but secondary news item; took Sunday PM nap;

headaches know when your body is stressed; snow in the Great Lakes region; there were gay PROP 8 protests in ND; smaller pretzels given to Delta passengers, saves money & calories; former employee suspected in N CA business shooting is arrested; snow & storms in New England; people say they are proud to be gay; MO HOSP allowing mothers who just gave birth to donate stem cells blood from umbilical cord; young woman should receive the HPV vaccine, get a pap smear, there is still a 30% chance to get cervical cancer; jewelry robbery at NYC Waldorf-Astoria, security guard wounded, but no guests injured; street signs melted from fire; only three power lines not damaged by wildfire; another fire ignited this morning; 40K have been evacuated; Red Flag Warnings in S CA, being called ‘Firestorm’; flames reaching Camp Pendleton; but Santa Ana winds should decrease in speed today, yet most fires circling Los Angeles are only 20% contained, 1K structures destroyed, smoky air in Los Angeles Basin; ash from the blaze falls 25 feet from the actual fire; rolling blackouts could occur; more protests by gays, blacks & white across the country; Los Angeles mayor does not agree with PROP 8; allow ‘equal’, not ‘more’ rights for gays & lesbians, allow same-sex marriages; new ‘Watchman’ trailers, smoking allowed again in Atlantic City casinos; MA police have found abandoned safe with $178K; ‘Quantum of Solace’ took in $70.4 million; next year, Portland, OR will have an openly gay mayor; ‘we hold these truths to be self evident…’; the PRES believes in the ‘free enterprise’ system, but during his two terms, more regulations & restrictions were added; Obama has exposed us to the world; Obama cannot keep his Blackberry, for reasons of NATL security; 50% of the residents in Huntington, WV are obese, including the mayor; Burlington, VT is the healthiest city in the US; US Airways jet skidded down Philly runway, when its front landing gear refused to open; by end of day, 20K acres had burned in S CA; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.105 per gallon: AK & HI have the highest prices, with MO at the lowest;

4.8 quake shook China; attacks resume along the Gaza Strip; new security pact between Iraq & the US, American troops should be completely withdrawn from 12/31/11; Endeavour has arrived at the INTL Space Station today, there ‘appears’ to be no ‘obvious’ damage; MX City: the third largest city in the world; a 7.5 & 5.6 quake rocked Indonesia; Bush does not want another GOVT stimulus package; ‘declaration of principals’ created at G-20 Summit, and more oversight on economic adaptations; they will reconvene in April, 2009…more reforms are needed, responsibilities taken; Air France pilot strike; three people have been killed, as subway collapsed in China, many people missing, roadway above the tunnels caved in; add Japan, the world’s second largest economy, to the list of countries in a recession; pirates seize another ship near Somalia;