…6/14-09: stand up for your position

63º in ABQ; 46% humidity at 6A…the recession is being felt at YDI, a nonprofit agency to help teens get an education; double murder reported in Roswell; police brutality at the MDC caught on tape; playing in mud raises money for Carrie Tingley HOSP; a 97K fire near Lordsburg, there is a 55K blaze near Roswell, both appear to be under control; suspicious package shut down the area near Lomas & Eubank, it turned out to be a prank; a stabbing in San Juan CNTY, plus a man attacked people with a spear in that same part of the state; minor change: the Rainbow Family of Living Light Festival will be held during the first week in July; yelling & swearing near The Beach at 5A?; by the way, we are near full occupancy again; putting the ‘Q’ in ABQ; too many inmates at Valencia CNTY Detention CTR, may need up to $5 million in repairs; another chance of rain today; two UNM football players arrested in downtown Duke City on disorderly conduct charges; too much trash on the Pajarito Mesa, people use solar panels to generate electricity; Shiprock social service clients at risk for ID theft after the building which contained their personal data burned; late PM showers at The Beach;today is Flag Day; hiker falls to his death at Yosemite; NY computer whiz prevents teachers from entering grades on computerized system; in OH, a young boy was found in an APT with the body of a man who had been dead for several days; people calling with digital TV questions; people don’t want to see reality when they go to a movie; as of today, the Red Sox are in first place; contaminated water at Camp Lejeune, NC?; people sabotage railroad tracks on purpose, just to watch people die; people turn out in masses for MA ‘American Idol’ tryouts; tanker with ethanol on the I-710 near Long Beach, CA; at least two people were killed in NY plane crash; NATL AVG price of gas is $2.66 per gallon: the highest price is $2.99, in San Fran…the lowest, in Tucson, at $2.41; teen arrested in FL feline mutilations;the loser in the Iranian election did not win in his hometown, reporters can only use cell phone cameras to photograph the tensions & conditions: current leader says he cannot guarantee the survival of his opponent; age preventing a fifteen year old Japanese boy from getting a needed heart transplant; N Korea threatens nuclear war: Japan & S Korea say they are ready to fight; 50% of the world’s species can be found on 3% of its land mass; the First Lady of the US keeps in constant contact with the Queen of England; Susan Boyle will sing for you…but it will cost plenty of money to hear her perform; Israel will not continue building on the W Bank; UK reports its first H1MN1 death; not all glaciers react the same: one near Argentina is growing in size;