…1/24-10: virtual hug

30º in ABQ; 58% humidity at 6A…SAG Award went to ‘Crazy Heat’, a movie made in NM; more educators accused of having sex with students; man beat & shot during a party in Aztec; officer involved crash at I-25 & Paseo del Norte; former UNM soccer player was killed when his vehicle when his vehicle crossed the median, and was struck by two semis on US 84, just outside of Santa Rosa; family of seven denied the necessary propane fuel to heat their home; drug bust at ‘our’ Las Vegas; use stimulus money to keep the Rail Runner running on weekends after mid-February?; a Las Cruces sex offender was living in the same home as his four year old cousin, whom he then raped; yesterday’s bad weather resulted in fewer people attending the Alamogordo ‘tea party’ rally; snow: 35” fell in Chama, 19” in Cloudcroft, 17” in Gallup and 1½ inches fell across ABQ; laughing & talking about what has changed during the past fifty years, and what has basically remained the same; Blue Star Mothers starting to put together Valentine’s Day care packages for soldiers in Iraq & AFG; Edgewood Fire DEPT equipment recovered; a ‘leave no child inside’ incentive to help fight obesity in youngsters; great comics: Crisis on Infinite Earths, Identity Crisis, V for Vendetta, and Camelot 3000;

another small plane crash outside Chicago killed two people; FEMA ‘flood maps’ full of errors; TX oil spill fully contained; the Long Island Expressway was shut down yesterday after a fuel truck flipped over & exploded, killing the driver, and melted the supports of a road sign, which fell and block all lanes of that roadway; sixteen year old CA girl starts a solo sailing trip around the world; ‘Inglorious Basterds’ wins SAG movie award; another tragedy as five people perished in TN house fire; Obama notified Cook CNTY Circuit Court in Chicago that he cannot serve on jury duty; a friendship between J. Edgar Hoover & Paul Harvey…now you know the rest of the story!; Sunset Beach, CA residents ‘excited’ when filming a twister that struck their neighborhood; Wal-Mart cutting 11,200 Sam’s Club workers; scientists creating a ‘super storm scenario’ to strike CA; the Colts won; a second term for Bernanke?; vehicles don’t stop when they see a school bus dropping off children; for the sixth time in a row, ‘Avatar’ is the weekend box office hit; person accidentally damages Picasso painting in NYC Mo Ma; a coyote captured in the Big Apple?;

will it ever end?: N Korea threatens war against S Korea if there are signs of a preemptive strike against the Communist nation; ‘salvaging hope’ in Haiti; an audio tape by Osama bin Laden stating that al Qaeda was responsible for the attempted holiday terrorist threat?; insects motif on English tableware; the Haitian quake is fading into the background news, but these people still need aid & medical help to recover, please donate whatever you can; people are still afraid to enter structures on the island, such as churches, and instead hold outdoor ceremonies; the death toll from the Haitian quake has reached 150K; Haiti radio station back on the air; see previous Blog entry to donate food, money or other types of aid to Haitians; US drone crashed in PAK;