Friday, February 6, 2009

…2/5-09: walls, and bearings

32º in ABQ; 40% humidity at 6A…Code Yellow: Moderate Air Quality; NE ABQ house fire killed one person; NM budget may be balanced by end of day; stalker in Belen is jamming police lines, usually occurs prior to a killing; a law to ban smoking in cars where children are passengers; Torrance CNTY jail has highest inmate sexual attacks, but no new guards will be hired; should sex offenders be made public after they move away from the area, or state?; Rio Rancho wants its own school bus fleet; drug addict tells her life story to students; did Second Chance vandalize property?; Brad made Italian bread; natural gas explosion in Farmington; Four Corners bank has been robbed several times during the past months; ABQ has 5.2% jobless rate;

Evelyn is supposed to be out for two days: my MGR, three; finished Rounds by 7:30A; someone decides to pay or argue speeding ticket;

coldest night for FL; temps from 10s to 80s; San Fran showers; snow, sandy NJ beaches; only 50s in Orlando, AM ice may delay early flights; feels like – 2º in DC, – 15º in Boston, – 14º in Chicago; 200K still without power in KY, storm responsible for at least two dozen deaths;

a Blackberry for children?; lung problems still exist in Ground Zero workers; Klingon sword used in CO robberies; linked to a Cambridge, MA man, the Tylenol cyanide crime scare case resurfaced, after 27 years; Obama signed children health INS package; divide, and conquer opposition forces; long night in the SEN, helping homeowners with $15K tax credit as American economy gets ‘sicker every day’; the ‘Madoff list’: 160+ pages, on single spaced, and no one listened for years; who did not lip-synch during the Inauguration?; four million more children would be insured by newly signed bill; delinquencies reach record high, except VISA, some are switching to debit cards; many misunderstandings about cancer; the best restaurants to dump a date; world’s largest manmade ski slope is currently in NYC; the stimulus is becoming bloated; the eight mega pixel camera; video phone fad was a failure; Vaseline makes it easier for guitar players; FEMA ‘disaster kits’ may contain tainted peanut butter; define ‘new’ jobs; AR lost eye during car bomb attack; Obama spoke at DEPT of Energy; highest jobless claims since 1982; Iditarod route near Mt. Redoubt; 33% of workers ‘play hooky’, but ‘mental health day’ is OK; young children with compromised immune systems; signs for ‘Zombie warnings’ appear in IL; the list of soldiers committing suicide is increasing; Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg had pancreatic cancer surgery; we have a very old US Supreme Court of Nine; more people calling their congressmen, telling them to veto the stimulus package; MI family gets mortgage relief on ‘Extreme Makeover’ home; exotic dancer set on fire outside the Los Angeles nightclub where she worked, burning 60% of her body; mortgage rates at a six week high; Estee Lauder is slashing 2K jobs; some consider the new stimulus plan, a ‘Generational Theft Bill’; Judge Souter wants to retire; flight number of the plane that landed on the Hudson kept dropping from 1549 to 1539 to 15 29; ‘Cactus’ is the codename of US Airways; January retail sales were down 1.6%; Netflix reported a fourth quarter profit; the House wrote the big, bailout bill; people like little Hershey’s kisses; “Swindler’s List” included Madoff attorney; Kellogg’s canceled Phelps contract;

Australian koala bears cool off in bucket of water, suffering from heat exhaustion; crocodiles & snakes in Australian flood waters; mixed foreign markets; American tourists phoned from inside a car’s trunk after she was kidnapped; Dr. Death injected people with gasoline as ‘anesthesia’; world’s largest snake, its fossil proves it was longer than a boss, weighed about one ton; UK bush chopped to look like a chicken, Edward Scissorshands? no, natural; oil prices are over $40 per barrel; religious parties were defeated in Iraq elections: liquor sales are up, and women need not cover their heads; Earthlike planet discovered;

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