Sunday, August 9, 2009

…8/9-09: stop, pause, savor

64º in ABQ; 16% humidity at 6A…retired Air Force colonel who resides in NM tells his story how he escaped from Iran; a fifty acre fire is causing smoke to spread into the Duke City; someone working for the Public Regulators Commission is a convicted felon; Azzarb was born under the sign of Cancer, which makes me a very sensitive person…I can detect people’s emotions, in what they write, and when they are face to face with me; Four Corners fire burning near oil wells; typical ABQ traffic reports take one week before they are go online; woman caught stealing $700 worth of clothes from the Cottonwood Mall, when she had $200 in her purse; Central & San Mateo: an area of drugs, prostitutes, fights & traffic; after much effort battling with Ma Belle, Benjamin Franklin & Thomas Edison, we got the upstairs phone connected; time to recycle manure from the NM State Fair; PNM wants to triple it solar energy output;CA police chase turned deadly, as seven people, three of them children, were killed; Hurricane Felicia heading towards Hilo with 75 mph winds; Hairrevival a Broadway success; shouting matches over health care reform; G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra earned $56.2 million this weekend: the film ‘Julia & Julia’ had $20.1 million in ticket sales; the latest Harry Potter movie took fourth place; by midday Felicia became a tropical storm; fly the busy skies of NYC; helicopter remains lifted from the Hudson; Boston is in second place, but 5½ games behind the Yankees, the Red Sox have lost five games in a row; parts of the prison set on fire, when a riot erupted in a jail near Chino, CA; one–third of Americans take a daily nap: the rest are walking zombies; some students in the US attend school all year;

more of the Arctic melting in the summer heat; 7.1 quake shook Tokyo, its epicenter was off the coast of Japan, bullet trains & baseball games came to a halt, but no serious injuries or damage have been reported, neither have there been any tsunami warnings; Obama traveling to MX for a three nation summit; tropical storm targeted China, eighty inches of rain eroded soil, toppled hotel into river; plane hand to turn around to AFG after Chinese were informed of a possible bomb onboard the airliner; no one reported injured after three explosions rocked Majorca, a Spanish island where the King & Queen were vacationing; deaths caused by members of MX drug cartels are on the rise; 51 US soldiers in Iraq have come down with the swine flu;

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