Sunday, February 15, 2009

…2/14-09: dreams coming true?

27º in ABQ; 51% humidity at 6A…more bones found on the W Mesa, a possible burial ground for five people; men shot twenty-two times on the Pajarito Mesa, one year ago, could be linked to MX drug cartel, not living up to his side of his contract, kept the illegal substance; former American Idol performs in the thirtieth anniversary of Ain’t Misbehaving, that arrives in ABQ; daylong Duke City “Breakin Hearts” rap & bebop classes, fashion show & rapping contest; group wedding in Ralph Edwards park in T or C; DA charged with DUI, and carrying a loaded weapon in the front seat of her vehicle; enjoyed Valentine’s Day coffee; Extreme Fire Danger for SE NM; Santa Fe lawyer has been released from house arrest, and allowed to return to work in DC, but will return to NM to stand trial for hit & run charges; pregnant woman stabbed boyfriend’s current pregnant girlfriend with a pocket knife; former NM GOV named as the first director of NMSU Domenici Institute; chimney fire destroyed Santa Fe home; UNM coach has reached forty victories; easy bills get easily passed; plane had to make an emergency landing in Moriarty; cold across N NM, windy across the entire state; man accused of stealing $70K, charged with fraudulent use of a credit card from a local church daycare CTR, and spending it at a casino; men drove to Aztec, with the purpose of having sex with an underage teen, driving hundreds of miles to meet the child; so far in 2009, $128K spent by NM lobbyists; domestic partnership bill will be discussed again; student arrested at Robinson High for having crack cocaine in his car; NM revenue dropped by $5.4 million; exposing a child to meth will be considered as ‘child abuse’; are people the priority in the Round House, or deciding the state guitar?; hot air balloons in AM skies; natural gas deal to expand on the Jicarilla Nation; unemployment hotline will be down tomorrow AM for two hours; $1.1 billion of stimulus package targeted for NM; man tries to rob the Garcia’s in NE ABQ, stopped by a quick waitress, and several customers; the hoodlum that was caught by his hoodie; Obama wants to slash spending & upgrading at LANL & Sandia Labs, and prevent the agencies from choosing their own projects to handle; AVG price of gas in NM is $2.03: in ABQ, $1.97; Santa Fe turns four hundred years old in 2009; taxes on renting VFW halls; a Los Alamos anti-nuclear weapons activist, who owned the ‘Black Hole Surplus Store’, a store that sold local, amateur invented items, has died at the age of 85; NM may not see a surplus until 2013; ACLU pushing passage of a state domestic partnership bill; the ‘Velvet Teddy Bear’ appears in Broadway musical; eight year old boy shot in the chest; ‘in the presence of meth’; NM woman arrested for threatening to kill Obama; more Socorro CNTY copper crimes; gunfight in SW Santa Fe; 25 year old man was murdered in the Rio Rancho area of Enchanted Hills; we enjoyed the day with champagne & chocolates;

the $787 billion stimulus bill has passed, Obama’s first victory…but that money could have paid all the foreclosures across America, and still have surplus; a major milestone for the new PRES, but who will oversee how the money is spent, set standards before heading to states & agencies; Kevin Costner became a father at 53; Philly police officer killed during street fight; Judge Ginsberg has been released from the HOSP, eight days after undergoing pancreatic cancer surgery; the backwards bathrobe; 15% of women polled send themselves flowers on Valentine’s Day; a donated kidney can grow; does love fade after the first kiss?; another Madoff investor killed himself; a vote allowing DC to have equal rights [full voting representation] granted to all other states in the House; snow in NE, IL into New England; wet in New Orleans; a day to hide restaurant coupons; ice on the wings & windshield; ‘total liquidation prices’; $15 billion spent by Americans on Valentine’s Day gifts; where in the nation is it called ‘pop’ vs. ‘soda’ vs. ‘Coke’ [the choice of NM]; in spite of the bailout bill, welcome to the age of increased college tuition; another sign of the times: less demand means refineries are producing less gasoline, which means the price of that fuel will increase; how to lose billions; ‘Watchmen’ ads appearing on TV; update: there were 44 passengers on the plane that crashed near Buffalo; Phelps bong appears as EBay item, the asking price is $100K; tax cuts will add an AVG of $13 to a paycheck; is history repeating itself, reminiscent of the 1982 Air Florida crash in DC: did the Continental crew see ice on the wings?; all was calm before the crash: further investigation shows the plane landed flat, and the crash was over in thirty seconds; the jet was facing away from the airport; the color red is best served in small doses, like roses; OH thieves took entire store’s inventory of Valentine Day gifts; the ‘power house roundtable’; the Order of ‘Something or Other’; Obama, the ‘Urban PRES’ in the third largest American city; the NATL AVG price of gas is $1.97 per gallon; the stimulus package: the first step, not a quick fix; a stall & spin situation, like a weighted leaf; was the autopilot turned on inside the Continental plane, so that the crew did not have a ‘situational awareness’ it was too late; a possible problem: stimulus dollars spent in too many places; former HOSP worker killed four people in upscale NY; beware of ‘working at home’ scams; OR couple celebrated last night in a furniture store window as a publicity gimmick, they were treated to chocolates, and breakfast in bed; how to repair & reform the US financial system; banks already suffering with the burden of bad & risky loans; Valentine’s Day is the biggest & busiest twenty-four hours for cheating on spouses; ‘nothing says I love you than a GPS tracker’; ‘victory’ vs. ‘practicality’; Charlotte, called ‘Wall ST South’ also suffering financial hardships;

drone killed twenty-seven people in AFG; Hubble telescope will take a look at thirteen billion years in the past; NASA delays shuttle launch again; the first female Deputy Minister of Saudi Arabia, chosen by the king himself; space debris from the two destroyed satellites could circle the Earth for thousands of years; acid attacks on rural SE Asian women are common, females treated like commodities; Israel vs. Turkey: The Next Battleground?; in Columbia, there is a ‘red alert’, due to a volcano erupting;

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