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I was listening to Beth an Bill this morning and you mentioned that Bill is from New Mexico or spent some time there.  I would like to know where.  I lived in ALbuquerque for so many years I consider it my home town now.  I also have a tip about the beans.  My brother used to make pretty good beans by soaking them in lukewarm water and baking powder.  He kept the water just over the top of the beans for 24 hours prior to cooking.  This has the effect of softening and moistening the dried beans and reducing the gas.  Then you cook the beans until tender and hot through and add whatever spices you like. 

Dear Sirs

I must say that today the News team looked pretty good.  But frankly it looked like they were all in uniform.  They all wore the same black.  The men were in black suits, white shirts, and blue ties.  The women were in the same black dress.  It honestly looked like they were in mourning because it was Monday.  How about lightening things up a little with a bright cherry red or a nice royal blue.  I mean, is mourning really the note that we want to start the week off with.

I have a serious question for your investigatgive reporters and would appreciate a serious answer.  Is it possible that PayPal and other online payment systems could be used by the mob to launder money?

Thank-you.

Thisw is a small comment on the same program about the Cyber Millionaire.  He actually had his mother on for a short time.  She had something to say in a coupld of minutes that I think we Americans nood to look into more.  She talked about her fear in leaving her extyended family in Tibet.  The thing is the way this econ omy is going, I think the extended family may have to come beck into voque.  She said that the was afraid, leaving all that child raising experience behind.  She would not have anyone to go to if there were problems with any of her children. 

For years people have complained that parenthood came without an owners manuel.  Well it turns out that tne extgended family might have been it.  It might well be that throughout most of the generations of humsn kind young parents did not need an owners manuel for raising children.  They had the inlaws to go to.  That is the same woman who raised your husband helped you raise his children.  And you did the same for your daughter- in-law. 

Well I guess this comment got a little longer then I thought it would.

Dear Mr. Hoon,

I haven't seen you for the last couple of days because I am following the Olympics.  But the last time I did see you I must say that you looked great in a dark blue or black suit a white shirt and a somewhat darker blue tie.  I really think that dark blue is very much your color.  You look like the sharp newsman I know you to be.  Note to Rick D'amico:  You and the Hooner should be the dark blue suit twins.  You both look great in that color.  You might also add cherry red ties.  As far as appearance goes you would be the envy of every other newscaster on TV.  Might I suggest that dark blue pinstripe would be great too.  Note to Alexis:  She should burn every thing she has that is beige.  It kille her complexion. 

Well this will probably be my last post for the day.  I saw a program on Channel 8 the other day called "Wide Angle."  This one featured a Cyber millionaire of Tibetan descent from Australia.  His issue was the environment and trying to save the rainforests of Indoneasia.  That is a country of islands about where the Pacific Ocean meets the Indian Ocean. 

He had a few things to say which made a lot of sense and which we should think about.  First of all, he stated honestly that the United States and China were sometimes refered to as the 'Bonnie and Clyde', of the environmental movement.  This came from a fellow who likes America and acts like it.  I think that ought to get us thinking and trying to get rededicated to doing something.  A lot of people do not know that we originally came up with the solar and wind technology that other nations are now putting to good use.  Why we didn't use them was because of congress blocking their development.  There were tax incentives at one time, but they seem to be gone now. 

The other thing I would say about what he was trying to do is this.  He seems to have understood computers and logic very well.  But people don't do things because of computers and logic.  They do things emotionally.  He wants to try to save the rainforest in his part of the world without using an emotional resource that might work very well for him.  People react far better to saving animals then they do plants.  And if it is an animal that looks a lot like them so much the better.  I think the fellow, whose name I don't remember, should use the idea of Save the Orangutang. 

I saw T Boone Pickens on a commercial on TV lately and I wonder if anyone else saw it.  He was suggesting that America get into wind farms and creat energy that way.  I would say to him if I can, that he should invest his own money in it.  I think, with a little luck, it just might work at least as well as the wind farms I saw in California.  If I did have any money to invest, I just might try it here in Arizona too. 

But I really think that people have to believe that someone like Mr. Pickens is really dedicated to the proposal.  And that won't happen until he puts some of his own money on the table. 

This might just have been a funny slip, but I would like to congradulate Americans for driving 9.2 trillion miles less last month.  In fact I think the number is closer to 9.2 million or 9.2 billion.  But the fact is that we are driving less and experiencing thebenefits of it.  Air pollution has actually gone down a measur -able amount.  The price of gas has come down by several cents, and over all health of Americans has improved slightly because we are getting more exercise.  I hope and pray that we keep it up and make that 9.2 trillion dollar figure a reality.