Sunday, November 9, 2008

…11/8-08: the gold ‘standard’

34º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…budget plans received from all state agencies; man scammed people out of $750K; another bribery charge against the METRO Detention CTR scandal; businesses in Gallup spending money to improve tourism; metal detectors in Gallup High did not disclose the boxes of ammo that were found in the school; Lincoln CNTY who sent in his letter of resignation was re-elected, so he will resume his duties; Research Rocks inspires student to become aerospace engineers; after a Duke City home has been declared ‘substandard’ for one year, it will be demolished; Los Lunas homes built recently are already crumbling & cracking; George Clooney filming movie in NM, casting call taking place in Roswell; the ‘endless beef buffet’; “the plot demands it”; Homeland Security gives grants to NM cities & counties; KOAT helicopter has a glass bottom; Bernalillo CNTY property taxes on the rise; Brad made two Peach, and one Pumpkin Pie; Coronado Mall hiring for holiday season; man drove drunk to pick up his friend who was in the Santa Fe jail; Lordsburg racing casino proposal rejected;

15K jobs lost during first week of November; Mayo Clinic is shutting down in MN, 30 jobs will be eliminated; flu shots can help prevent heart attacks; more gay marches in CA & UT; NW US storms; parents can no longer afford sending their children to daycare centers; Obama inspiring Harlem youths; 2.5 million jobs could be lost if any one of the ‘Big 3’ auto companies would close: all of them will run out of money in several months; NY may try to allow same-sex marriages; AZ eight year old boy killed two people, one of whom was his dad, in small town NE of Phoenix; ‘only one PRES at a time’; ‘First Mom’ Michelle Obama, the twenty-first century Jackie O.; ‘bio beer’ that is considered ‘healthy’; Obama, Nancy Reagan & the séance comment, PRES-Elect apologized for that comment; Mormon Church donated the most money to fund CA Prop 8; fired employee hacked into company’s server; another stimulus package is needed before or just after the next PRES is inaugurated; TX & CA banks closed, due to financial crisis; economy has seen a growth in health care jobs; FL finally starts searching for missing two year old girl?; the return of the ‘universal health care’ debate, using the FEHB program as a model?; another [D] gain on Capitol Hill: this time, from the state of MD; working in a brothel is better than being a prostitute, and walking the streets; 2009: the Year of the Bailout, Year of the Law [both Obamas have a degree in law]; KS daycare CTR shuts down, found it was also running a meth lab; the dilemma of Condoleezza Rice, an Afro-American [R] woman; the new First Family will be PC literate; IL woman living with three dead siblings, one who may have perished in the 1980s; four Marines killed fellow soldier & his wife; Oprah’s “human hankie” on Election Night was a married man; gay protestors go ‘straight’ to Mormon Church; NYC tries to preserve Tin Pan Alley; another foot of snow fell in N ND; the AVG price of gas: in the US, $2.28; in NM, $2.48; in ABQ, $2.30; in MO, $1.96;


Obama approves the missile shield in Europe; Paloma heading towards Cuba & the Bahamas, it became a CAT 5 storm with 150 mph winds, moving NE at 8 mph: as it crossed land the winds lowered to 120 mph, and the storm was moving NE at 10 mph; British pilot blinded by a stroke in midair safely lands his plane; at least eighty killed in Haiti school collapse; Italian PM reprimanded for his ‘tanned’ remark, when talking about Obama; the next US PRES wants to halt Iran’s nuclear weapons program; the ‘prehistoric hemorrhoid’; will Obama be able to maintain the planned timetable for pulling troops from Iraq?; James Bond vs. political ads;

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