…8/23-09: partners in peace

67º in ABQ; 65% humidity at 6A…heated debate at yesterday’s ‘town hall meeting’ on health care reform; overnight rain at The Beach, accompanied by thunder & lightning; NATL High School Rodeo in Farmington faces animal cruelty charges; Duke City rapist arrested; the strange document received last week from the NLP; whooping cough outbreak in La Plata CNTY, CO; NM Medicaid facing budget cuts; police vehicle accident at Unser & Northern; no red or blue blinking lights allowed on vehicles; stabbing at Central & Second in downtown Duke City; SWAT situation at San Jose & Broadway; drugs found in a room housing a seven year old child; testing Wi-Fi on the Rail Runner; $7K in building supplies stolen from a local storage area; NM Vietnam Vet is now a beekeeper; Brad prepared a delicious Coquilles St. Jacques; prescriptions filled via a vending machine: only the co-pay & service fee are charged; storms at The Beach, about an inch of rain across parts of the Duke City;

Social Security checks will not include a COLA increase; the unpopular public health INS option; yesterday it was uranium, today a FedEx box in OH contained boa constrictors, ‘hidden’ in pillowcases; baby scorpion found in takeout bag at Chandler, AZ McDonald’s restaurant; 110 housing sex offenders found in FL area; ‘nearsighted bison on a flavor stampede’; Lynda Carter resides in a plus Potomac, MD home; CA parolee kills a mother & son, then himself; as of today, Boston is in second place, still 6½ games behind the Yankees; Hurricane Bill caused beaches closed on Martha’s Vineyard; Brad Pitt’s movie was the top weekend moneymaker, earning $37.6 million: ‘District 9’ made second place, taking in $18.9 million; the end of the road for car sales, as the Cash for Clunkers programs comes to a close; a dozen people were swept out to see while watching the waves at Acadia NATL Park in ME, some have been rescued; 23% of expectant mothers suffer from depression; universal health care is lost in space; plane struck by three cars after landing on a CA freeway; the media treats Martha’s Vineyard like it was a town; What!: two teens were killed while driving through Death Valley when the driver fell asleep; only 5% of US churches are multiracial; Oakwood, TX, pop. 471, has the smallest bank in America, has only senior citizens employed, and still use ‘antique, manual’ machines; CT Wal-Mart worker hit an ASST MGR about a dozen times with an aluminum baseball bat;fires are closing in on Athens suburbs; Fidel Castro looks in better health; Hurricane Bill is now a CAT storm, with 85 mph winds, moving NE at 31 mph; hopefully, the first MX astronaut will be launched into space this week; has the global recession hit rock bottom; ocean temperature keeps getting higher;