Saturday, December 27, 2008

…12/26-08: the truth behind the eye

42º in ABQ; 70% humidity at 6A…GAQ; ‘save the best for last’ sales; from warm to cold, in wind & weather; could see 80 mph winds in S CO; District Court sees 2.5% budget cuts; Red Light Cameras at four Las Cruces intersections; $1.7 billion not used in NM during the past six years?; another woman charged with child abuse, leaving her five year old alone; domestic partners in NM may be allowed to have civil unions, with ‘equal rights’ as married couples; E MTN house fire; weather: from mild to wild; on 1/1/09, $7.50 per hour minimum wage in NM; a dumping ground for inmates?: Second Chance housed violent criminals, violating its purpose; Bank of the West on Eubank was robbed today;

maybe declare defeat, and let the MGR win; empty AM R/R; made it to the bus, with one minute to spare, not on a Saturday schedule; Mole for Myrna; finished Rounds by 8:30A; together with Myrna & Evelyn; blast of snow at 11A, 1P & 3P; took PM Central; home of CTI nurse burglarized twice this week; marriage for Evelyn, a black diamond ring?; Myrna’s family arrived in several groups, not all at one time; man on crutches walking across the campus; left at 3P; at first, very warm office, then cooled down; ice & snow when leaving work; Myrna calls where we live ‘the country club area’; someone had hangover from too much rum;

five snowplows slid off I-55 near Chicago; EF – 0 twister; reported in AL; Orlando fog; icy on parts of I-80, I-88, I-90 surrounding Chicago; temps from 0s to 80s; freezing rain in Benton Harbor; 600 fights cancelled in Chicago; squall line from Houston to Chicago to San Antonio to St. Louis; record highs in the Central Plains, and SE US; downpours in S CA, make cities vulnerable to mudslides; wet in NW US; blizzard conditions force CA interstates to shut down; Olympia school roof collapsed from snow;

‘the best savings after the holiday’; nine people have died after ex-husband interrupted a holiday party, spread fire accelerant, guests hid under furniture; IL GOV wants transcripts & tapes from Obama team; a second ‘Black Friday’?; online sales also dropped; TN coal sludge harmful to health, worse than Exxon Valdez?; contains toxic heavy metals that may be flowing to the TN River, is drinking water safe; no profits for retailers; revenge after a divorce; people still afraid to spend money; beware of shoplifters & ID theft, on the increase during desperate times; lower disk spinal surgery, recovery time from days to hours; 40% polled get most of their news online, but everyone still watches TV to get informed; another plane slid off the runway, this time at Midway in Chicago, nobody was injured; double the AVG AMT of snow fell in Chicago; the ‘retail nightmare’; consumers have spent 8% less this holiday season, fear gift cards could become worthless; DC waitress get a diamond wedding ring, as a tip from one of her regular customers; who has ‘disposable income’ these days?; the DOW ended up; CA killer had booby trapped his rental car to explode, the Santa suit he tried to remove melted to his skin; mercury & arsenic in TN sludge; Eisenhower was the last PRES Elect who was the country’s most admired man; this time of the year is when retailers make 50% of their profits, maybe it is a buyers’ market for now; boy killed at NY skating rink party; lawsuit may prevent March, 2009 release of ‘Watchmen; Bush: divided, not united; can money buy PRES pardons: Truman ‘forgave’ 1,900 people; CA, the eighth largest economy in the world, is going broke: the state will be out of money by early 2009, should there be a new thirteen cents gas tax?; 75% of those polled are ready for Bush to leave; FL woman faked missing five month old baby to reunite with ex-husband; people not using credit cards as much this holiday season; Obama needs to choose a CIA director; TN sludge has doubled in size; PRES now has a 27% approval rate; Palin, the Polarizer, was the second most admired woman in the US; big stores want bailout bucks; Amazon.com did OK this season;

Australian cat fell 34 stories, and survived; text messaging elephants?; foreign markets closed for holidays; tiny Chinese electrical car company was making cell phones, only started building autos in the twenty-first century; Pope prayed from those affected by the global recession; oil has risen to $37.71 per barrel; vehicle production in Japan is 20% lower than same time, last year; now, 27 dead in Ukraine APT house blast; PAK forces approaching Indian border; CIA giving Viagra to AFG men for info; at the brink of war?; PAK will act if attacked; cruise passenger missing, disappeared when the line was off the coast of MX;

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