Monday, March 9, 2009

…3/8-09: rocket to another level

29º in ABQ; 43% humidity at 6A… ABQ NE heights killer was found in the Bosque, shot in the head, killed himself; less wind today; 12K acres have burned in Chaves CNTY blaze, fire is 80% contained, no structures are in peril; Expo NM gun show drew plenty of buyers, people fear Obama will ban the purchase of firearms; because of construction, UNM spring commencement will be held at Tingley Coliseum, not at the Pit: also, former MX PRES will not speak at the event; NM lawmakers try to increase their yearly pension plans, from $19K to $27K, if they have worked in that position for twenty years; senior citizens who help each other, provide mobility & companionship, as one elderly person gets paid to be a friend, and help another, the income used for rent, utilities, groceries & medications; elderly are the most vulnerable during bad economic times; Espanola Military Academy will not have its charter renewed; 66 dry days in 2009, 71 days without measurable moisture; people on KOAT feel the time shift; two foot python took from Santa Fe home, the snake only has a minimal value; NM survivor of Bataan Death March has died; man shot a woman in the eye, initially the crime looked like a suicide; Laguna Pueblo construction company guilty of fraud, bid falsification & kickbacks in Iraq contracts; drunk man broke into a NW ABQ beauty shop to take a nap; oil equipment explosion in Eddy CNTY killed one man; wind hampering human bone search on the W Mesa, but were these people murdered at that site; care kits being created by NM residents, will be shipped to all parts of the world; ABQ police still have a take-home car policy, should not live more than ten miles from the Duke City; there are about 1,200 total vehicles, helps provide that neighborhood safer with subtle protection feeling; more fire restriction across NM start tomorrow; Internet service for the home is considered a ‘luxury’?; woman stabbed boyfriend in her chest, while her children watched; less expensive liquor license in rural NM diners; UNM Lobos are co-champions; Red Light Camera fines could be capped at $100;

anger has a direct effect on heart problems; four family members found killed in home outside of Birmingham, AL; Annual Beer Week in Philly, sample summer brews; Daylight Savings, and it’s “time” to take a nap: AZ did not shift; 34K Circuit City workers lose their jobs today; the most successful attraction in ‘the’ Las Vegas is Siegfried & Roy; Miley Cyrus was bulled in school; ‘beatnik’ vs. ‘hippie’; what makes a ‘superhero’?; the Celtics have clinched a playoff position; five churchgoers were injured, pastor killed when gunman fires inside an IL church, murderer than slashed himself with a knife; on ‘Heroes’, Claire tries to purchase a train ticket to ABQ; ‘Watchmen’ earned $55.7 million, making it the box office hit this weekend…now the film cost $125 million to make, the fifth best opening for an R-rated movie; the ‘Food Stamp Diet’; bury big, bad banks…or break them apart; ‘Zombie’ banks, kept alive by FED GOVT funds; too much power in one place, could harm the economy; then there’s the ‘ripple’ ending the current gilded age; featuring fancy financial failures; buy a dilapidated Detroit dwelling for a dollar; gunman UNK to the congregation, has no criminal record [?], in surgery all day; three people died when small plane crashed W of ATL; the Conservative Teen; how timely: Watchmen opened on Daylight Savings Time weekend; stem cell topic: embracing the subject of death?;

man attacked & killed by a Siberian tiger when trying to find a shortcut in a wildlife park; 12K US troops will leave by late summer; a new course in foreign politics?; Obama says talks do not mean the US is surrendering, but a means to drive a wedge in the Taliban; try a different strategy, America is not winning the war in AFG; more than four million viewers have seen the ‘Watchmen’ preview; war crimes & crimes against humanity…how to handle political leaders, who have tortured their citizens, expelling aid to the Darfur region of Sudan; four tons of explosions discovered in rural Columbia; is Iraq ready for us to leave?; N Korea held parliamentary elections; cheerleading conquers, adding belly dancing steps to routines; British troops killed in N Ireland;

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