Wednesday, December 2, 2009

…12/2-09: giving thanks…and it’s free

31º in ABQ; 52% humidity at 6A…could parts of Carlsbad collapse from underground brine well?; dense fog in SE NM; father shot his child in the head, this was not the first time he had threatened the child; two banks were robbed in NM yesterday; art seizure from Santa Fe gallery; snow caused power outages in Carlsbad; new ABQ mayor supports the film industry; at this time of the year, it’s warmer inside Carlsbad Caverns; the case of the cracked diskette; young children learning PowerPoint; HP CTR opens in Rio Rancho, creating 480 new jobs at the start, as some state workers receive pink slips; SW Airlines jet heading from SLC to ABQ collided with a FedEx plane at the UT airport, chopping off the wingtip, but causing no injuries; 70K more people in NM are receiving food stamps than in 2008, a 28% increase;

Hell Week, Day Two; there are other sides of being in MGMT, like helping out during times of excessive backlogs;

strong storms from AL to S FL to VA; wet in Charlotte, ATL, Tallahassee, JAX, Pittsburgh, OKC, DC, NYC, Dallas, St. Louis, Nashville, Miami, Tulsa, Cleveland, Detroit & INDY; T’storms along the Gulf Coast; heavy rain in TN & NC; wind, downpours & coastal flooding in FL; snow in Fargo, CO Springs & Denver; wet along parts of I-10, I-20 & I-75; temps from 20s to 80s;
Biltmore: the home with 150K holiday lights, where weather is a big factor, the mansion has 10K feet of garland, and contains 175K square feet of living space; does not on the guest list equate to being uninvited/; wrecking ball strikes van during film scene in NYC; recount to decide the next mayor of ATL; if CA wants to bay gay marriages, then another group wants to stop divorces in that state; CA town has 30% jobless rate; the DOW ended down; did the party crashers ever get anything to eat?; Ford unveils its newest small car, the Fiesta; the lowest number of jobless cuts in two years; sponsor still back Tiger Woods, as of now; NY strikes down same-sex marriages; cowboy roped escaping bovines who were roaming I-91 near Springfield, MA: the animals shut down the interstate for thirty minutes; lost Marilyn Monroe movie recovered;for real: jumbo jellyfish invade Japanese waters; venomous snake attacks itself; tiger lunges at photographer; Iran frees British sailors; Obama says that ‘our security is at stake’; we have to reverse the Taliban’s progress & momentum; mixed emotions from AFG on Obama’s speech; a surge, followed by a withdrawal; gold is $1,212 an ounce; S American town the target of lightning; will China provide the US with money to allow better health care coverage?; oil is $76.30 per barrel; NATO will send 5K troops to AFG; a gunman with explosives entered a school in Greece; the H1N1 virus is increasing in Canada, N & S Europe, Japan, and the subcontinent area of Asia; the Union of Concerned Scientists study global warming; war words: withdraw when we win?: the cost for the surge will be $30 billion [could somebody tell me how they determine this number]; the strategy will be reassessed in December, 2010;

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