…12/07-08: experience makes the difference

35º in ABQ; 54% humidity at 6A…local girl is part of Madonna’s dancing troupe; one of the men working at Manpower sounds like he could be Liberace’s son; NM GOV reduced his debt by $33K, but still owes $150K; man who caused Rio Rancho SWAT situation turned himself in last night; High Wind Warnings today until tonight; quick blast of flurries in S NM today; man tried to kill woman, fired gun at vehicle parked at Cottonwood Mall in an attempted carjacking; another person crawled underneath car with a torch to steal a catalytic converter: ask security assistance to escort customers; are budget cuts affecting City of Vision education?; children interested in becoming ABQ police; Rail Runner will be able to carry 4,500 passengers per day when it opens to Santa Fe; on Friday, Brad provided Cream cheese & olives sandwiches; registered sex offenders live near, not at, The Beach; Route 66 Casino return to the Golden Days of TV, with a version of the Ed Sullivan show; ABQ unused items being sold online, such as piano & small buses, $400K raised for the Duke City; last Special Olympics fundraiser for 2008 was held yesterday; more people like Bill with a beard; Clovis Commission rejects as euthanasia the idea of killing animals from lethal injection to carbon monoxide poison; house fire in SW ABQ; buy a Las Cruces license plate?; even items lost at airports, and never unclaimed, are being sold for NM auction; adding more life to my Blog; Brad prepared a truly delicious Puttanesca Sauce; City of Vision teachers may get 2% mandated pay raise, but some may lose their jobs, issues going into arbitration, some asked to take volunteer leave of absence, want to use unqualified staff [such as librarians, teachers aid & nurses] for temporary positions, strong words over cutbacks: marching, and picketing; Isleta BLVD finally has street lights; a good rug, one knot at a time; this is good times for local auto repair shops; NE ABQ motorcycle rally for holiday toys; started in 1981, there were 200 balloons at the Red Rock Rally;

Former Army Chief of Staff being added to Obama’s Cabinet as VA Affairs SECY; woman swept away by rogue wave when accepting a marriage proposal; Britney lit one hundred energy efficient trees with LED light; Louisiana elects the first Vietnamese – American to Congress, he will replace politician charged with bribery, and money laundering; a return to Camelot?: one big name would replace another [Clinton]; Caroline Kennedy may hold senate seat once held by Bobby Kennedy, her uncle; Pacific War Memories…theme for this year’s Pearl Harbor Day; chocolate caramel cheesecake bites?; TX girl struck & killed by holiday parade float; surgery to relieve seizures, not without its drawbacks; economy will get worse, before it gets better; NYC may no longer be the global financial capital; woman disappeared after leaving Manhattan nightclub with known sex offender; ‘Flintstones’ on Broadway?; unemployed window workers remain in Chicago factory; Boston & San Fran want to ban tobacco bars; actress Beverly Garland has died at the age of 82, after a long illness; in other divisions, the Patriots would be in first place; ‘Twilight’ came in second place this weekend; Americans expressed their opinion towards The Big Three automakers by putting a Honda in their driveways; ‘clean coal technology’; another very good ‘Sanctuary’ episode; after being in a coma for 28 years, heiress dies; Barack will not smoke in the White House; the gay marriage ban will be heard in an IA court; the emergency Big Three bailout bridge to nowhere; New England beat Seattle, 24 – 21; the Eco Eternity Forest, complete with cardboard coffin, or biodegradable urn: there are now twenty in the US; Obama sounds like a sitting PRES, saying that ‘aggressive steps’ are needed to improve the economy; condition based assistance package for The Big Three; Bush ‘executive pardon’: forgiving felons, pardoning prisoners; keeping the extra fees: NATL AVG price of gas is $1.75 a gallon, the lowest in five years: lowest in WY, while highest in AK; airlines lost between $4 – $6 billion, but they are not asking for bailouts;


Endeavour returns to Cape Canaveral; 16 year old shot & killed by Athens police, sparking riots in both the Greek capital, and the city of Thessaloniki; Mumbai terrorist’s health is failing; Ireland recalling pork products, fearing dioxin poisoning; Honda is the ‘greenest’ auto company; AFG is the biggest NATL security threat to the US; Chinese airline suddenly cancelled all flights, stranding passengers; will OPEC reduce oil production this week, price of oil closed last week at $40.81 a barrel; Hajj pilgrimage ends at Mt. Arafat; explosion outside Istanbul bank injures one person; cargo ship proves faster than pirate craft, outruns the enemy off the coast of Tanzania; ‘Quantum of Solace’ has earned $500 million worldwide;