…11/22-08: when good becomes great

31º in ABQ; 66% humidity at 6A…Bank of America robbery on Carlisle; three separate robberies within an hour in Santa Fe; NM GOV, as executor of a state, still has a place in the Obama Cabinet as Commerce SECY?; would not change for a couple of months, Lieu. GOV Denish is ready to assume his post, would be the first female NM GOV; will have to choose a successor to her former position; new Rio Rancho high school may not open, because of budget cuts; Hatch police justified for firing his gun during a confrontation; Winter Superblitz starts this weekend; how did bison escape through an electrified fence in the S Valley; NM/MX border fence reduces the number of undocumented immigrants; Valencia CNTY also has budget deficit; century old Duke City schools need repairs; quality standards need to improve: Sandia Labs cut corners for crucial part, outsourced to business that were not familiar in building nuclear warheads; Brad made an Omelet for breakfast, using the new Feta cheese he bought; ‘window of health’ program, providing health care by UNM to low income Hispanics, plus it’s good PR; Brad is adding more nature [and color] to the upstairs powder room; more ski resorts opening across the state; told Brandi to bring me sand from Phoenix; man threw rock at woman who was carrying a child; ABQ Police provide ‘tip line’, by using an ad in the Alibi, this idea dates back to the 1980s, but it makes NATL news; rollover wreck killed Rio Rancho woman; Farmington has a budget surplus; AVG price of gas…in the US, it’s $1.95 per gallon: in NM, it’s $2.10: in ABQ, it’s $1.91;

Obama will put lots of money into repairing the infrastructure of America; Paul Newman wills his race cars to the highest bidder; forty-five years ago, JFK was assassinated; avoiding peanuts as a child may result in an allergy to that food; Jamie Lee Curtis is fifty years old!; two feet of snow has fallen in the Great Lakes area; actors’ strike on the horizon?; three banks, two in CA, and one in GA forced to close; teen kills himself in front of Internet audience; GA campus shooter caught; extension benefits have been extended by Bush, ten million Americans are looking for work; has Hillary accepted the SECY of State position?; DOW did end down this week; even [R] are ready to see Bush leave DC; online prices better than those at a mall; US ATTY GEN suffered a syncope; inauguration attendees need to be prepared for the chance of cold and snowy weather in DC; biggest travel week of the year; right wing of fly contains more bacteria than its left; ‘Twilight’ vampire stories written by a Mormon woman; ‘Sanctuary’ is a very good Sci-Fi series; billions needed by Citicorp to be salvaged; has $2 trillion in assets, and interests in over one hundred countries; five million have their mortgages, 187 million people have their credit cards; but nine of their investments have recently failed; the 196 year old firm cannot raise money from outside investors, looking to the FED GOVT for more monetary aid; the best thing to do: ‘become more liquid’, and reduce debt; nutritional benefits in breast feeding; beauty: the ugly side of the abnormal world; man kills one person, injures another in a WA shopping mall; OH man used chloroform to subdue girls, then sexually assaulted them; stray bullet by MI hunter wounds two children at daycare CTR;

an American ‘surge’ in AFG; is Hugh Jackson gay?; pirates attack fishing boats; $150 million paid to criminals for oil tanker; Zimbabwe refuses entrance of Carter & Annan; another spacewalk, making more difficult repairs to the INTL Space Station; Iraqis burn Bush effigy; US missile has struck NW PAK; Taco Bell goes global;