…8/17-09: …and watch what develops

64º in ABQ; 39% humidity at 6A…new bus schedule begins today; children of the W Mesa victims who needed back to school clothes were treated to a free wardrobe at JC Penney; GAQ; ABQ school employees will get plastic instead of paper paychecks; new Rio Rancho high school opens; more police patrols at town hall meetings across NM, especially at UNM, both the Duke City & UNIV will be on alert to prevent any violence, the presence is not meant to scare people away; Luna Mansion in Los Lunas has reopened; Catholic Church in NM needs priests; on the other hands, rave parties can have more than 30K people per event, have been held in Israel & Ibiza; NM prohibits guns in restaurants that serve alcohol…check weapons at the door?; bank robbery at the Smith’s on Coors & Montano; ground broken for Duke City High tech school; Brad made Beef with Black Bean Chili & Red Bell Pepper plus Jalapeño Pepper; overturned truck blocked entrance ramp from Cerillos RD to I-25S;

Nora wants Sleep Study to produce spreadsheets, which will bypass Coders; why does MGMT strive to make workers miserable?; finished Rounds by 7:30A; mother drove patient from Minot, ND to UNMH; Evelyn brought in her granddaughter; Code Purple by 11A; red, green & blue balloons along Central R/R bus stops: waited several minutes at Yale & Central until a R/R arrived [this stop is on all three routes] nine year old boy with gunshot wound to the leg;

wet along I-70, and in MO, IL, IN & OH; Claudette made landfall, with 50 mph winds, moving NW at 12 mph, high waves, some downpours in AL, an inch of rain an hour, wet along parts of I-10, but not a major storm; Bill is a hurricane, with 75 mph winds, moving WNW at 22 mph; N Dakota showers; flooding in Charlotte; rain from St. Louis to Cleveland, Chicago, the Quad Cities & KC; temps from 70s to 100s;

liberals alone will not be able to pass a health care reform bill; BART strike on hold, workers have tentative contract; wildfires in both N & S CA are more than 50% contained, 84K acre blaze blamed on marijuana plant farm; man arrested for attacking Milwaukee mayor; man placed on paid ADMIN leave after he was found drunk at his post: controlling a drawbridge in Boston, and failing to raise the structure when a ship approached the span; voluntary co-op enrollment, not GOVT controlled health plan: is this a ‘major compromise’ for Obama?; ‘District 9’ playing to SRO audiences, with applause at the end of the film; SC GOV ‘addicted’ to his mistress; doctors say forget INS, charge them a yearly fee, and they will see a patient at any time, at any place; small amounts of cocaine found on US currency; from 2006 to 2008, 130 million credit & debit card numbers were stolen by three men; the end of the line for Saturday mail delivery draws nearer; man threw money onto I-210 at Glendora, CA; banks still don’t want to lend money; the DOW went down; will Obama legalize gay marriage?; public INS plan option fading out of the picture?; consumers are still not spending; bottom line: businesses are still selling less; cost savings being removed from a watered down health bill; the NATL AVG price of gas is $2.64 per gallon; 2/3 of the economy is based on people buying items; only 1/3, or 45 million doses, of the H1N1 vaccine will be ready by October;

1,400 people taking advantage of the one Euro room rate at hotel near Venice; the ‘color bubble’ developed by a British scientist that won’t wash off, permanently staining clothes; accident shuts down Russian’s largest hydroelectric plant; has Japan emerged from its recession?; Iraq is torturing or killing gay males; the first Asian to win a PGA title; oil is $65.83 per barrel; gold is $932 an ounce; another 6.7 quake off the coast of Japan; Tiesto will be appearing in DC…tickets are $35; across the world, stocks fell; British girl jumps to safety after she disengaged the brake, and the vehicle fell 250 feet off a cliff;