…2/8-09: don’t delay the dream

50º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…officer involved shooting in NW ABQ; AM canyon winds, snow warnings until tomorrow morning, the first in a series of storms; Japanese gangs in the Duke City; ‘even crooks have standards’; body found behind a Blake’s near Atrisco in SW ABQ; ‘back to reality’ weather; “look, dog walking human”; NM GOV still being investigated in a pay-for-play scheme: FED investigators requesting documents dating back to 2002; tattoos & graffiti used to track down gangs; people have the right to pullover in lit areas when a police car flags them down; a new strategy, focus on local residents, as the Inn of the Mountain Gods has noticed their revenue shrinking; NM is an ‘equine state’; chance of severe T’storms in SE NM; jail employee arrested for bringing drugs to prisoners; snow in Farmington today: in ABQ, strong winds blew tumbleweeds down Central; Nancy wants Brad’s painting to appear on my blog; to avoid layoffs, Media News group is telling its workers at its seven worksites to take a week off without pay; no birth certificates for stillborn babies in NM;

the first case of the rare Marburg rheumatic fever, which has an incubation period of 5 – 10 days, has been reported in CO, patient has recovered, but hospital staff has been tested for the virus; Whitney Houston makes a comeback; Woods Hole, MA home burns to the ground, formerly used by actors to improve their skills; high jobless rate until 2010?; biggest credit card security breach in history, one of the biggest electronic heist, no one can determine who was affected, and at which stores or restaurants, no system is foolproof; VP Biden says the US wants to have dialogue with Iran; “I’m bi-curious”; how to handle when couples both lose their jobs; billion dollar Navy missile cruiser has grounded on HI shores, fuel being unloaded from the vessel; improper insulin injections at a W TX MED CTR, used the same needle multiple times; restoring the stimulus spending…is $800 billion not enough; how to catapult the economy…‘need to prime the pump’: the imperfect, trillion dollar deal: still debating to raise taxes or cut spending, debated at a rare Saturday session of the Senate, bill is still bloated; panic in paradise: after several years of monetary losses, in which workers’ health INS has been reduced, the Greenbrier in WV may add a casino; Mardi Gras, a NATL holiday?; MI boy attacked by pit bull which attacked the child while he was on a school bus; good movie revenue this weekend; Madison AVE high-end boutiques are closing, the wealthy are not flaunting their wealth; Dakota Fanning has two movies making their debut this weekend; more people attending community colleges; standoff that started in a Sparks, NV, traffic stop, continued with a police chase, and ended with the driver committing suicide which shut down exit at I-80 & US 395 in Reno; the ‘Denver Airport mustang’ still making NATL news; NATL AVG price of gas has reached $1.92 per gallon: AK & WY have the highest & lowest fuel costs;


the world runs on plastic; over one hundred deaths from Australian wildfires, it will take days to control, and has burnt more than 700 structures, plus a golf course, the worst blaze in that continent’s history, entire towns have been destroyed, people killed in their vehicles, as hot ash falls from the sky; Gaza missiles strike Israel; pessimism, corruption & violence in AFG, called ‘the ignored war’: political graft & drug money buys mansions; whale hunters attacked by boat, fishing crew being pelted with raw meat; German chancellor telephoned the Pope, outraged that bishop denies Holocaust happened, and that the Holy Father accepted him welcomed him back into the Catholic Church;