…12/27-09: you can’t put a price on fun

17º in ABQ; 57% humidity at 6A…fatal family fight in Santa Fe; seventeen year old killed in front of a Farmington TARGET; the rich in NM [those earning more than $395K] pay only 5% in taxes, while the poor shell out 11% of their income; home invasions also on the rise in the 98th & Central area of the Duke City; drunk driver caused a collision at Zuni & Florida, the other vehicle was a police car; man caught with cocaine on his moustache; hot air balloons in the AM sky; purse stolen at SunPort, then hidden under the blanket of her grandchild who was in a wheelchair, but the thief was apprehended; YouTube allowed me to use ‘poppers’ in a comments; fatal shooting in Las Cruces; hot air balloons seen in the AM sky; Brad prepared a tasty Cream Cheese & Olives; 1/5/10: the date the S Valley votes to become its own town; a deadly hit-and-run in Dona Ana CNTY;

the ‘checkpoint challenge’: laptops may no longer be allowed as carryon luggage; freezing rain in parts of MN; case of drug resistant TB has been found in FL; from snow to floods across America; toning down the terrorist threat; twenty-two suspicious fires across Houston; ‘NCIS’ is one of the top TV shows; get ready for the smaller office cubicle; gain weight, lose wrinkles?; temps from the 20s to 60s; more US prisons filled with the old, and the ill; New England is in the playoffs; the Patriots & the Steelers won; the Colts & the Saints lost; two deaths from nine suspicious fires in Northampton, MA; old car showrooms are becoming new restaurants, schools or daycare centers; ‘Avatar’ only saw a 3% drop in earnings this weekend, while ‘Sherlock Holmes’ earned $65.4 million, and was in second place;

the lifeline to emergency information: eight grams of explosives, called PETN, was in a six inch packet sewn into the material in Yemen, a country where America provides money for military aid; the man is now known as the ‘underwear bomber’, but he has stated ‘there are more just like me’; another Nigerian locked himself inside of a bathroom of the same ‘terrorist’ plane today, Flight 253, and remained for an hour: but he was confirmed to be suffering from food poisoning; what are security measures in foreign airports?; passengers tackled the Holiday bomber, plus put out the fire inside the plane; airline terrorism had its origins during the 1970s; 82 million hits on the original Susan Boyle YouTube video; Iran violence captured on video; people could be heard saying ‘death to the dictator’; will cell phones be confiscated in that country?;