Monday, November 24, 2008

…11/23-08: what I hope vs. what I think

32º in ABQ; 61% humidity at 6A…the Wii workout warrior; Warning! Cleaning your oven can be hazardous to your health & breath; two car critical crash followed a truck rollover, the roof collapsed, and its wheel flew off; shut down I-25 near Paseo; two cars & a truck struck a bear on I-25 in San Miguel CNTY, killing the animal; Duke City meth lab busted; on the state level, NM spends per capita on higher education than any other state; many new customers seen at thrift stores; ‘our’ Las Vegas needs to cut its budgets, reduce use of the town’s cell phones, and stop workers taking city cars home; some people spend 20% of their income on heating their homes; teen arrested for Santa Fe mall shooting; ABQ man has a $25K credit card debt; VISA would not lower its interest rate; one woman reduced her rate from 10.9% to 1.9%; charitable volunteer time asked by Duke City Police to patrol holiday events; internal & structural flaws allowed eight inmates to escape Curry CNTY jail; LANL physicist suing police, claiming physical abuse, suffering serious injuries, asking $320K in damages; Extreme Makeover owner asking for 150 turkeys to help feed the poor on Thanksgiving; NMMI cadets anxious to see their family during the holiday; third time someone has struck a bear who wandered on a highway; Santa Fe homeless man hit woman who was carrying her four month old daughter, took three construction workers to subdue the attacker; people associated with crooks may provide anonymous police tips, get money for be a tattler; Santa Fe man stabbed ten times in his own home, and survived; money raised at the Festival of Trees would help low income families pay rent or utility bills; the ‘after effects’ of a DWI; the day Brad cleaned the oven; Obama has offered the position of Commerce SECY to Bill, which would add an Hispanic to the PRES Elect’s cabinet; enjoyed a very good ‘no name’ pizza; combating graffiti problems in the Five Points area; AVG price of gas in ABQ is $1.88 per gallon; NATL wildlife habitat at ABQ church; a ‘living classroom’;

firefighter died in his own home on Staten Island; randomized control trial; twenty-five minutes per pound for cooking a turkey, add sea or Kosher salt, stuffing is added just before putting the bird in the oven, take the dressing out when the turkey is removed from the stove, roast on a rack, baste every five minutes for the first thirty minutes, after that, every half-hour, the temp should be 170º: deep frying is an old style that has become the ‘nouveau’ way to cook; couple is suing AR McDonald’s after nude photos on a cell phone that was accidentally left at an appeared online; “I think I’ve been a good customer, can you help me?”, the question to ask a credit card company; wildfire’s fumes filter into homes; Obama’s has self confidence, will his economic plan is the twenty-first century ‘New Deal’; rebuild schools, seek alternative sources of energy, build better cars & repair roads; is Obama looking for ‘perfect’ workers, without any flaws?; PRES Elect chosen his press SECY; carrying a little debt is OK; $21K Turkish rug bought for the home of the NY GOV John Travolta held meal for the opening of his new animated movie, amount collected would be donated to Boys & Girls Clubs of America; NM has the fifth least liked new quarter, ID has the worst looking, others have the opposite opinion; NATL AVG prices of gas is $1.929 per gallon; 36 states have AVG prices less than $2, and AK AVG cost is less than $3 per gallon: MO has the cheapest costs; NATL AVG cost of diesel fuel has dropped to $2.848 per gallon; a film & TV studio in Plymouth, MA?, would not be completed until 2011; the ‘evil’ credit card; Sara Palin is getting a book deal: that means Wasilla will get a book store; HI beaches closed, because of a jellyfish invasion; ‘racial deliciousness’?; ‘Twilight’ sucking in the big bucks; ninety neglected puppies found in squalid FL home; the number of bankruptcies are increasing; good news!: the unbeaten TN Titans are in the same division as the Colts, but the NY Jets gave them their first loss; as of today, the Boston Celtics are in first place; undamaged piano found in the woods near Harwich, MA; three people are killed as plane crashes into WI backyard; New England beat Miami, in Miami, 48 – 28; ‘Twilight’ took in $70+ million, with ‘Quantum’ in second place, its total earnings have exceeded $100 million, quicker than any other ‘Bond’ film; three people shot outside NJ church; tanker truck explodes in NJ Turnpike crash; man carrying a sword was shot & killed by a security guard outside a Scientology BLDG in Los Angeles; cofounder of SLINKY has died at the age of 90; the ‘big if’; raising gas prices should be considered ‘patriotic’; US unemployment rate is 6.5%; the man with the ‘buttermilk voice’?; KKK hate crimes on the rise, more membership rallies since Obama took office; gas is $1 lower than this same time, last year; the NATL AVG cost is $1.93 per gallon;

astronauts still working on ‘urine machine’; landslides caused by volcanic eruptions killed four in SW Columbia; how to rescue hijacked Saudi tanker; fire in the Canadian sky?; is Syria a safe have for terrorists?; Argentine officials commit suicide on TV; 6.8 quake rocked W Indonesia; gunshots fired at Georgian & Polish leaders; countdown: Asian leaders say it will be eighteen month before the global economic crisis is over; Citigroup: ‘world’s financial supermarket’, is too big to fail; three Icelandic banks have collapsed; no new global tariffs during this financial tsunami; Japanese man calling MX City Airport his home;

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