Tuesday, December 15, 2009

…12/15-09: the cult of fashion

26º in ABQ; 74% humidity at 6A…GAQ; – 4º in Durango this AM; Brad completed his Tamales; more Duke City students are homeless; Navajo PRES resumes his duties, while his nation votes for or against a line item veto; Brad’s Chiro visit; gas is $2.45 per gallon; another rear end collision in front of The Beach; Presbyterian would like its staff to help fund their new Rio Rancho HOSP?; assault charges dropped against Raton police officers; NM Symphony Orchestra has no PRES or CEO; missing sixty year old Dona Ana CNTY man suffers from schizophrenia; fatal wreck on I-40 near Coors, driver struck concrete barrier, killing one of the five children inside the vehicle;

PEDS DEPT Holiday party; possible UNMH furloughs?; turned in yearly review; another attack by a pit bull;

snow & avalanche warnings for WA & OR; Gulf Coast floods; fog from Chicago to ATL, and from DC to Charlotte; snow in Cleveland & Spokane; rain in Raleigh, New Orleans & Tallahassee, plus parts of I-10 & I-65; temps from –0s to 80s;
up, up & away for the Boeing 787; snow prevents the search for the remaining missing hikers on Mt. Hood; Congress has a ‘self imposed holiday’?; extremely bad NY ‘soda fat’ ad’; Medicare extension must be dropped, so says Lieberman; three RI police officers shot during a drug raid; 830 million pieces of mail began their journey yesterday; start moving GITMO detainees to unused IL prison; how does one change the role of the First Lady?; online site which automatically donates a percentage of purchases to charities; DC may allow same-sex ceremonies [former Mayor Barry opposed the law], but Congress has the final approval; 800K H1N1 vaccines for children being recalled, tests show some of the doses have lost their strength; fifty million rollup blinds being recalled, pose a strangulation risk to babies; weird: two woman and two children found dead in an upscale CA home; TX couple placed aborted fetus in holiday gift box; MA student sent home for drawing a dark man on a crucifix, parents suspect racism; the DOW ended down; Oral Roberts has died at the age of 91 from complications associated with pneumonia; the Grand Canyon could hold all the water of all the Earth’s rivers…and still be only half full; woman suffers from painful, perpetual sexual arousal syndrome, for which there is no treatment; would ‘every’ American have to buy INS, such as spouses: there is no incentive to pass the current health care bill, and how will the unemployed pay for coverage; another uninvited couple share breakfast with the Obamas; two men killed a CA student, then threw his body into a river; energy saving traffic lights do not generate enough heat to melt snow; a book that was loaned 99 years ago was returned to a New Bedford, MA library;suicide bombs terrorize those in AFG residential neighborhoods; mile long, sixty vehicle smashup in Canada caused by ice & fog; ice cubes shaped like the Titanic?; Free Hug Day in Canada; eruption of volcano in the Philippines could take place soon; octopus using coconut shells to build itself a home; oil is $70.54 per barrel; gold is $1,119 an ounce; Papua New Guinea is one of the least developed nations in the world; a new island formed off Iceland’s coast during the 1990s; the volcanoes of Iceland produce 1/3 of the Earth’s lava, due to a combination of the mid-Atlantic ridge being over a hot spot plume: 100 miles wide, and 400 miles deep; ice covers 10% of the entire country all year long; Australia driver’s car gets stuck in cruise control on a busy highway; 4.2 quake shook central Italy;

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