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Dear Girl Scouts, I have supported you for many decades now, even though my dingbat troop leader slammed my ant farm in a large pickle jar down on a table and killed all my ants, thus causing me to take a hike.

I have, over the decades, bought close to a pick up truck load of cookies. Yes, most of them were Thin Mints, but I've noticed, in recent years, that I haven't found them as satisfying as i remember from previous decades.

So, this year, I bought a box of my second favorites: Lemon Chalet Creme, even though I noticed, with disappointment, that they're no longer "Cream," meaning they're probably lard or plastic or silicone caulk or something. They weren't very lemony; there wasn't very much "creme," which is probably just as well, when you think about it. I didn't bother to read the ingredients; I assume they were pretty poisonous, but that wasn't the point of my purchase, anyway.

And I would have bought more than one box, but they're very small for the new price of $3.50. So, who ever is baking your cookies is baking you, too, and me, as your supporter.

I realize you're risking arrest even selling these anymore. I read about the town cops somewhere that rousted your moms for not having a peddler's license! And I appreciate that there's a recession and that you have to buy your uniforms, badges and lots of other stuff from the Girl Scout Cartel, and that a lot of low income troops really struggle with this.

But I want you to know that, until and unless you decide to contract with a MUCH better baker, with MUCH better ingredients at more reasonable prices for junk food I could pick up for a third the cost at a dollar store, I won't be buying any more Girl Scout cookies in the future.

Thank you for teaching young women self-sufficiency and confidence. Thank you for not taking an anti-Lesbian policy, similar to those sissy Boy Scouts, who should be ashamed of themselves. Thank you for teaching me how to make s'mores, ride a horse, sew a badge on my sash and sing "A Hundred Bottles of Beer on the Wall."

And I forgive you for the ant farm. The ants do not.

I think that's my slumlord! You know, me, with no heat, plumbing or sewage? He won some insurance settlement and bought a shiny, new truck. Then went to jail for nearly a year for failure to appear warrants on speeding citations, so lost his license and now, only his girlfriend can drive him around in it! But, with all that $, he couldn't fix the heat, which is why the pipes all burst. Yeah, Asshole's the right word. I'd SWEAR that's his truck! What part of town? Find him! I want that truck so I can pull this travel trailer I'm living in, in the driveway outside that dilapidated, dangerous house he rented me! Raw sewage in the carpets = black mold, mushrooms. How hard is it to grow a mushroom in New Mexico?! gees.

before it'll let you turn the MUSIC down! scared my cats to death! But it's a LOT of fun, if a bit nervous-making. Better than coffee for waking up! Thanks! good find.

This is a "landlord friendly" state. And you wonder why there's no affordable housing and dang near everything is substandard, not up to code? yeah

Martinez releases list of inauguration donors

By Heath Haussamen

“Contributing $25,000 to Martinez’s inaugural was Allsup’s, which runs convenience stores across New Mexico; United Healthcare; a political committee of Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest electric utility; Coca-Cola Refreshments; Devon Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas company based in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Apache Corp., a Houston-based oil and gas company; and the Albuquerque law firm of Turner Branch; Pinnacle West Capital Corp. the parent company of utility Arizona Public Service Co.; and Vanessa Bartoo, a Truth or Consequences businesswoman and racehorse owner.

“Among those giving $10,000 was Chevron, ConocoPhillips, El Paso Electric, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Union Pacific and Urenco USA, which operates an uranium enrichment plant in southeastern New Mexico.”

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Martinez releases list of inauguration donors By Heath Haussamen “Contributing $25,000 to Martinez’s inaugural was Allsup’s, which runs convenience stores across New Mexico; United Healthcare; a political committee of Public Service Company of New Mexico, the state’s largest electric utility; Coca-Cola Refreshments; Devon Energy Corp., an Oklahoma City-based oil and natural gas company based in Oklahoma City, Okla.; Apache Corp., a Houston-based oil and gas company; and the Albuquerque law firm of Turner Branch; Pinnacle West Capital Corp. the parent company of utility Arizona Public Service Co.; and Vanessa Bartoo, a Truth or Consequences businesswoman and racehorse owner. “Among those giving $10,000 was Chevron, ConocoPhillips, El Paso Electric, Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway, the Nuclear Energy Institute, Union Pacific and Urenco USA, which operates an uranium enrichment plant in southeastern New Mexico.”