Sunday, June 21, 2009

…6/20-09: pay less, save more

69º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6Aformer Bernalillo City MGR accused of questionable expenses; man arrested for drug related shooting of a boy & his father; thirteen year old boy shot while at a group home in NE ABQ, a seventeen year old male is wanted as a ‘person of interest’; yesterday, boy on PM R/R asked if I had a cigarette so he could give it to his mother; Garduno’s owes $750K in back gross receipts taxes; Brad prepared a Grilled Cheese Sandwich for breakfast; women afraid to walk in SE Duke City area, one female was raped, another appears to have been stalked while she was driving, later exposing himself; Santa Fe man who was guilty of stealing Native American artifacts was found dead in IL APT; this AM, half a dozen people entered the Denny’s restaurant near Coors & I-40, and began firing their weapons: one female worker was killed, this crime made CNN News, bandits fled to a SW ABQ mobile home park; NM man guilty of fraud & money laundering $5 million in state housing authority bonds; daytime showers at The Beach; saw ‘Were the World Mine’, a very good gay movie;the number of miles driven by Americans increased in April, following an eighteen month decline; plane carrying Ar-nold made an emergency landing at a Santa Monica airport when smoke was detected in the cockpit; will Tom Brady become a daddy soon?; no report of damage or injuries in the area after a 4.6 quake shook Paso Robles, CA; more fires from foreclosed homes; Beverly Hills’ mayor, and 20% of its population, are Iranian Nationalists; Los Angeles has the largest concentration of Iranians in the US; protests also took place in DC & NYC; the ‘YUMP’s = ‘young, upwardly mobile professionals’; NM space station made CNN news; COMCAST article says NM farmers are worried than sick cows could cross the MX border, bringing their illnesses with them; ammonia leak killed one person at a NC chicken processing plant; drug manufacturers agree to allow discounts for Medicare recipients; man struck by lightning at CO golf course, loss consciousness, but survived; Sotomayor no longer a member of elite women’s club; tank cars carrying ethanol caught fire & exploded after a train derailed near Rockford, IL, forcing people to evacuate their homes;in terms of the Olympics, Beijing had the most polluted air; an American journalist, working for the NY Times, escaped the Taliban, and fled from N PAK to AFG; the defeated Iranian candidate is ready to become a martyr; the ‘Lipstick Revolution’ in Iran, as more woman participate in the protests; chaos like this has not been seen since 1979; more media restrictions in Iran, people told to ‘stay home, religious military forces subduing rioters; the power of the pen, the computer, and the Voice of America; ‘Afghan Star’, an ‘American Idol’ program held in a country where TV & music are banned, and women cannot dance in public;

No comments: