Friday, February 5, 2010

…2/5-10: power to the planets

34º in ABQ; 75% humidity at 6A…GAQ; will NM domestic partnership bill get the green light from the Finance Committee?; Brad’s AM doctor visit; a late weekend storm?; higher fees for DUI offenders?; current mayor also thinking about building a sports arena in ABQ; local substitute teacher told her class that the gunman would kill them if they were not quiet during a lockdown; the next Miss NM pageant will be moved from Alamogordo to ABQ; Las Cruces bans talking & texting while driving; filming crew turned a BLDG on Menaul into a winter wonderland; this is more serious than it reads: ABQ has a ‘gay, retired nudist’…who, after 22 years, is being forced out of his APT;

left at 11:30 to eat at Two Fools; patient allergic to chicken; climb for comics; no OT for anyone; arrived home slightly after 3P;

no temps or NM notices on the Weather Channel, or ABC AM News…but, the snow will be falling in DC, up to two feet; flights are being pre-cancelled, Amtrak is shutting down routes to the mid-Atlantic, and Congress is leaving the Capitol early; blizzard warnings for VA, MD, DE, NJ & PA; snow in the Twin Cities, Spokane, Omaha, Richmond, Cincinnati, Baltimore & Philly; icy in Ashville, NC & Bristol, TN/VA; the ‘storm of the century’ across parts of WV & the OH River valley;? heavy rains & floods in AL & GA; heavy rains in Tallahassee, ATL & San Diego; deadly MX floods; ice in the Carolinas; bad driving along areas of I-70, I-71, I-75, I-80, I-81 & I-95;
America needs a ‘job agenda’; Matt Damon is from MA!; Obama says the health bill may die on the hill, that’s Capitol Hill; fifteen year old boy was shot in the head by another student at an AL middle school; TX teen saves two year old child from falling out of a second story window; VA may raise the speed limit on rural interstates to 70 mph; Sarah Palin will speak at the NATL Tea Party CONV, but her fee will be donated back to the ORG, followers say the PRES is a socialist, the GOVT is moving towards tyranny, attempting to destroy the Constitution, but there are so many subdivisions in the group itself; no one was injured after part of a plane landed in a FL parking lot; sharks on the prowl off FL coast; female director could win the Academy Award; MA man stole 75 glass bottles of skin lotion in his pants; jobless rate drops to 9.7%, and 6.3 million Americans have been unemployed six months or more; FaceBook is six years old; the DOW ended up; NYC student was handcuffed & brought to a nearby police station for doodling on her desk with an erasable marker; an eight year old boy is found dead in a NYC luxury hotel room;
the luxury Lexus hybrid also has problems, and is being recalled, is there a company cover-up?; N Korea will free a US missionary; the smoking snake?; former PRES Clinton returns to Haiti as 500K people return to their capital of Port-au-Prince; somebody agrees with me: why does the media publicize upcoming US attacks against the Taliban or al Qaeda?; Toyota leader talks ‘quality control’; Vancouver making final preparations for its upcoming Winter Olympics; is the US dumping chicken parts onto the Chinese market? [what does that mean?]; Europe gets deeper in debt; NATO expansion seen as threat to Russia; ‘Avatar’, the latest buzzword; the global fast-food market is shrinking; the ‘Hobbit House’ in Wales; gold is $1,052.80 an ounce; oil is $71.19 per barrel; ‘the enemy has a vote’; China also urges that we [as in, other nations] talk with Iran, not punish that country; ‘transnational’ forces are the biggest terrorist threat;

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