Friday, January 29, 2010

…1/29-10: some can survive, beating the odds

26º in ABQ; 77% humidity at 6A…GAQ; 91 year old woman remains unconscious after she was attacked in her own home; stolen property found in a stolen vehicle; should people be allowed to carry guns into NM bars?; another ABQ school lockdown, shots may have been fired in the area; NM jobless rate jumped to 8.3% in December, reaching a 22 year high; most NM ski slopes have 100% of their trails open; I-25N from ABQ to the CO border is ‘slick’, especially near the Raton Pass; I-40E is closed from Moriarty to the TX state line, or about 150 miles: I-40W in that area remains open; current Tucumcari police chief is told to resign; we enjoyed Leftovers wrapped in Crepes; meth bust in Hobbs; 100 feet of copper wire was stolen from the roof of a Smith’s market in Rio Rancho, causing refrigerated foods to spoil: a similar incident took place in ABQ; Brad went to pick up his bus pass;

left work at noon; today, lunch at Saggio’s, then we went for comics; arrived home just after 3P;

storms & tornado threat for Houston; the ‘I-40 storm’; wet along areas of I-20; rough weather for OKC, Little Rock, Nashville, Memphis, Ft. Smith, Roanoke, Norfolk & Charlotte; OK declares a state of emergency; snow from the S Rockies to the SE US; snow, ice & sleet for KY, TN, AR & MO: seventeen states will feel the effects of this wild winter weather; high surf in HI; temps from 0s to 70s;
the cellular phone wars; the IPad becomes an obscene term, calling it the ‘Maxi IPad’; change the work to ‘slate’, or rename it the ‘E-Pad’; make it less ‘Tampon suggestive’; move 9–11 trials out of NYC: move them to Alexandria, VA or Ft. Bragg?; SEN will address the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy” soon; MA woman dies after being struck by hose on a fire truck; to prepare for the Super Bowl, retailers are offering super discounts for big size TV sets; the DOW ended down; Obama vs. [R] in Baltimore; what is the ‘recipe for continuing gridlock’?; 140K people in OKC are without power; during the last quarter of 2009, the economy had one of its biggest gains; yet people are still afraid to spend money; HI fails to pass a same-sex civil unions bill; man arrested onboard an Amtrak train, accused of making terrorist threats via his cell phone; banks fail in CA, FL, GA [2], WA & MN; 743 pounds of marijuana found in AZ septic tank; a rabies outbreak in Central Park?;
former UK PM Tony Blair in the hot seat, being questioned about England’s involvement in the Iraqi war: did he get the ‘legal green light’ to make a declaration?; crowds crush people looking for food in Haiti; pay Taliban forces to work with the Coalition?; Toyota problems go global, still have no definite answers; Haitian orphans being sold, islanders are starting to rebuild their lives, with or without foreign aid; Bill Gates donated $10 million for vaccine research to help third world countries; al Qaeda blames the America & its allies for not addressing the climate change issue; now Honda has recalled 646K vehicles for potential fire dangers; tonight is the night of the ‘Wolf Moon’ for 2010, when our satellite is nearest to Earth; CO man failed to obey the request to not make any phone calls when the cabin doors closed, so the plane had to turn around & return to Paris, and United Airlines refused to let him fly back to the US on one of their planes; gold is $1,063 an ounce; oil is$72.89 per barrel;

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