Monday, February 2, 2009

…2/1-09: politics end at the water’s edge

29º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…Duke City father with a shotgun to kill a student who had fought with the man’s son; NM resident could win a Cardinals victory ring at Super Bowl XLIII; to help the flow of traffic, build a $2 million pedestrian bridge that would span Cerillos RD at St. Francis Drive in Santa Fe; Red Light Cameras are a topic of discussion at ABQ City Council meeting; officers at the MDC staff attacked; some people find it hard to ask people for financial help; NM is the seventh highest state in the number of car thefts, traffic vs. criminal court: burglary should be determined by the value of the vehicle, equating the offense to the amount of money stolen from a bank; the ninth warmest January on record; five of the warmest months have occurred during the past decade; I have to solve my inner demons by myself; homes sale prices have dropped by 9%, not by double digits as previously reported; Tucumcari is still trying to set up a racing casino; ABQ woman charged with shooting her boyfriend, thought it was not loaded; NM bought a used plane for $2.5 million, will be used to fly GOVT worker: $300K less than originally planned; higher than AVG levels of plutonium from LANL runoff; people protesting the blue Mustang at Denver’s airport, its eyes turn red as the sun sets: the NM artist died when the statue fell on the man, crushing him…took fifteen years to design & create this piece of art; chance of snow in N NM; Brad made Chocolate Drop Cookies;

US banks seeking thousands of foreigners to work in the US, making AVG salaries of $91K in this country, while these same financial institutions were also seeking financial aid from the US GOVT, this was determined by the amount of visas sought by domestic banks, immigrants usually accept lower pay; Blue Star Mothers, who send food & supplies to soldiers, are running low on certain items; none carbon monoxide deaths in KY, power could be out for at least two more weeks, but who can hear these safety concern, when there is no electricity; hole in the AK mountain that could erupt has doubled in size: dust masks & eyewear are being bought, plus filters for car engines, the particles from an eruption can easily pierce skin: the last eruption took place in 1990, producing thick clouds of ash; millions for 30 second Super Bowl ads, the highest prices ever; cheerleaders vs. couch potatoes halftime show; Hillary Clinton remains $6 million in debt from her political campaign; AM Tampa temps in the 30s; economy may mean smaller Super Bowl parties, or total cancellations; a trillion dollars is a terrible thing to waste; another TX prison riot; Palin & Obama dine together; Michael Phelps caught smoking pot?: extra large photos, and extra large headlines, the Gold Medals winner faced a DUI charge when he was nineteen, have moral clauses been breached in his contracts?; 5K NATL Guard providing help to KY; the Religious Right has gone too far?: when it comes to politics be more moderate; ‘look at humanity realistically’; more obesity during hard economic times?; [R] want to rewrite the stimulus package, giving more money to repair the infrastructure of America, but less [if any] to the NATL Endowment of the Arts, think of it as ‘pork plays’; a ‘middle class Task Force?’; Tampa Stadium holds 72,500 fans; sign of the times: big companies & big people cancelled big football parties; Jennifer Hudson sang the NATL Anthem; 2009: Year of the ‘Super Recession Bowl’; the Big Three US automakers did not buy halftime ads; the sterling silver Super Bowl Trophy, created by Tiffany, and valued at $12,500; who won Super Bowl XLIII?; STEELERS, 27 – 23;

It won’t be for several delays until all Iraqi ballots are counted, but fraud & flawed election results are already being claimed; gasoline blaze killed 113 in Kenya, started by a cigarette; having served in its Parliament for thirty ears; Iceland now has a lesbian leader; the purple finger proof of participants; fifteen killed, 22 others injured in Chinese nightclub, started by fireworks; foreign leaders both blame, and look to, America for answers to the global economic crisis;

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