Saturday, February 21, 2009

…2/20-09: complex, global economy

29º in ABQ; 30% humidity at 6A…GAQ; more Duke City layoffs; wrong way driver released from jail; NM has the highest rate of postpartum depression; drug smugglers arrested at Gallup point of entry stop; stem cell debate at the Round House; teens may be allowed to work at polling sites; gas is $1.87 per gallon; Farmington tax revenue not affected by recession, yet; thrift store on Menaul is doing good business; Brad made a Cheesecake; for the past few days, I have not had much of an appetite, except when I got a whiff of Indian cooking from the Taj Palace; water main rupture collapses Alameda; another meth lab bust in Torrance CNTY; more movie crews in downtown Duke City; more people were eating out tonight; Brad & I both ache; other people say all debts should be elimination, start at Ground Zero, no debts; the empty parking lot near Mervyn’s;

comics climb; Myrna in ‘the’ Las Vegas; only as good as your last ‘victory’; speak softly, and don’t let them hear you complain; to serve, obey, and expect & accept being insulted; why is there a snake on the CPT book cover; create a brick wall of silence; Millennium hardware crash last night, IT messages appearing to indicate the system may be slower; Code Purple at 6:30A, and all day; MGR wanted the first names of our PEDS doctors, took me an hour to complete that task; finished modified Rounds by 8:15A; “I didn’t write the book…I just follow it”; Meangel readmitted; police called to GPU, abusive father would not leave; Ben is going to be a father again, but having a hard time finding a job; saw the UNMH SE Heights Clinic; walked S on Eubank, W on Lomas, and arrived home [via a faster PM R/R] by 6:30P;

snow along I-70, and N of the interstate in the Great Lakes area; very cold from New England to FL to N Plains; Cleveland snow flurries; EF2 & EF3 GA twisters, fourteen across AL & GA; snow in the Dakotas; OK, TX, FL & AL Red Flag Warnings; windy in Boston & NYC; cool New Orleans; temps from 10s to 80s; snow in parts of ME, along areas of I-81, I-90 & I-95;

second pyromaniac arrested in Philly suburb fires; TV stations would create website to air their programs, it would not be free; Wall ST does not see the light in Obama’s tunnel, do not think his plan will work; stock market, a crystal ball, future indicator; former PRES Clinton gives Obama an ‘A’ for his first month in office; auditing banking sheets; Madoff goes to court; fewer Afro American people support Burris; the 46 hour CA legislative session; did Bank of America CEO embezzle funds?; copter makes hard landing on CA beach; the yacht & mansion of the global swindler seized in Caribbean; people have to pay taxes on unemployment benefits; using laser to remove brain tumors; chimp severely maimed its victim; more authors creating online books; woman’s hair weave saves her from being injured by bullet; newspaper apologizes for monkey stimulus cartoon; George & Laura move into their Dallas home; First Lady visited DOT; who might vs. who will benefit from the stimulus package; Obama meets with 85 mayors; Celtics lose to Jazz; Burris being persuaded to resign by current IL GOV; PRES popularity slightly falling; more women robbing banks; get ready for more bank failures; taxes based on miles traveled?; the pawn shop business in Miami is booming; as the DOW dropped; suspicious letter addressed to former PRES Bush given to the Secret Service; cancer-free woman bilked thousands of dollars from people, saying she had the deadly disease; Madoff never bought any stocks for anyone, he traded money, making sure he kept ‘some’ [AKA, a lot] for himself; 14% unemployment rate in SC town; Obama does not like a mileage tax; George Mason UNIV chose a drag queen as their prom queen; spokesperson for SEN Burris resigns; three teenagers killed in Chicago’s S Side; sign of the times: empty malls, now used as places to walk, or exercise; banks, and the bad ‘N’ word; Louisville police standoff, had killed two IN officers ends with sniper killing himself;


runaway van hit parked UK vehicle, who gets a ticket for being taking two spaces; in Berlin, man left his money in a bathroom stall: when he returned to the men’s room, the cash was gone; NW Airlines his strong turbulence, many injured, not severe; Hillary in China this weekend, she pleads that N Korea resume peace talks; foreign stocks are falling; US base being may close in former Russian republic; new Israeli GOVT being formed?; is Iran ready to build a nuclear missile; the price of gold is $1,002.10, the highest value since March, 2008; Saab files for bankruptcy in Sweden;

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