In its story on marriages in Sandoval Country today, Reuters identifies Sandoval as “a New Mexico county next to Santa Fe” and “rural Sandoval County, which is southwest of Santa Fe.”
Excuse me, most of the people in Sandoval Country live in the Albuquerque suburbs of Rio Rancho, Placitas and Bernalillo.
From The Coyote’s Bark….. Not the wedding ones. They’re nice enough, but scroll down the page to the photos from White Sands and others. Remarkable!
From the Los Angeles Times, the story of the real life Hoosiers, the 1954 Milan Indiana state champions. Good article if you like the movie.
From the Associated Press (don’t miss the part about the pink newlywed bags)№
BERNALILLO, N.M. — Gay and lesbian couples lined up Friday outside the courthouse to tie the knot after the county clerk said she would grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
At least 15 couples had been granted licenses by late morning, the Sandoval County clerk’s office said. A sign-up list had grown to 20 couples, with some waiting in line for applications in the hall outside the clerk’s office in this sleepy New Mexico town.
Among the first to get their license were two women who got married in a brief ceremony in front of the courthouse.
“When we heard the news this morning, we knew we couldn’t wait. We had to come down here,” Jenifer Albright said after she and Anne Schultz, 34, both of Albuquerque, exchanged vows in front of the courthouse.
James Walker and Michael Palmer took extended lunch breaks from work for a moment they said they’d waited 26 years for. The men were married in Toronto last year, but that didn’t give them rights in the United States.
Walker said a marriage certificate from Sandoval County “would give us a lot of rights and benefits that have been denied us as a couple, including the rights associated with property ownership and the rights associated with medical decisions.”
Bernalillo is a few miles north of Albuquerque, New Mexico’s largest city.
Victoria Dunlap, the county’s clerk, said Thursday that she was unaware of any laws prohibiting licenses from being issued for same-sex couples.
“This has nothing to do with politics or morals,” she told the Albuquerque Journal. “If there are no legal grounds that say this should be prohibited, I can’t withhold it . . . This office won’t say no until shown it’s not permissible.”
She said she made the decision after asking for an opinion from David Mathews, the county’s attorney, who said New Mexico law is unclear on the issue.
Melinda Foster, a clerk’s administrative assistant, said people have been calling from across New Mexico, interested in filing. Dunlap was not immeditately available for comment Friday.
To get an application, would-be married couples had to show up with a photo ID, social security card and $25 to receive an application. In getting their stamped licenses, they were handed pink “newlywed bags” with coupons and other items.
Meanwhile, two state senators — one Democrat and one Republican — asked for an opinion Friday from state Attorney General Patricia Madrid. A spokeswoman for Madrid said an opinion could be issued next week.
Madrid “does realize that this is of great public interest and so has asked her staff to address this as thoroughly and promptly as possible,” spokeswoman Sam Thompson said.
Wow! NewMexiKen bets his Bernalillo T-shirt is worth something on eBay now!
Costco’s rebate check for TurboTax arrived yesterday, 19 days after the purchase. Nice work Costco.
Better yet, the IRS deposited my refund into my checking account today, just 10 days after the return was filed electronically. Nice work IRS.
Now we’ll see how Intuit does.
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NewMexiKen got nine correct out of ten this week. Who cares which Enron executive is currently serving time? They all should be.
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Colorado Luis tells us about a paradigm shift for automobiles — a hybrid Lexus. Check out the whole post, but here’s some highlights:
So what’s your image of a hybrid car? I’ve thought “small, underpowered, the kind of car you would get if you were, well, more committed to good gas mileage than I am.” ….
I just found out that Lexus is coming out this year with the Lexus h, the first luxury hybrid car. It even uses the energy generated during breaking to power the car! And don’t worry, they say, it will have all the power of a Lexus V-8. Damn I should have seen this coming. After all, Lexus is owned by Toyota, and Toyota is the world leader in hybrid technology.
Maybe I’m just showing my weakness for really nice cars, but seems to me this is going to change everything.
Colorado Luis describes his blog as “Political and social commentary with altitude.”
is 77 today.
American Masters from PBS sums it up nicely:
More than an actor (and Academy-Award winner), Sidney Poitier is an artist. A writer and director, a thinker and critic, a humanitarian and diplomat, his presence as a cultural icon has long been one of protest and humanity. His career defined and documented the modern history of blacks in American film, and his depiction of proud and powerful characters was and remains revolutionary.
Lilies of the Field — with Poitier’s Oscar winning performance — has been one of NewMexiKen’s favorites since it was released more than 40 years ago. If you don’t know the film, you should.
Take The BookBlog Quiz. Ten quotations from Shakespeare; you name the play.
From Andrew Sullivan:
Bored of red and blue states? How about states where people say “Grammy Hall” as opposed to “Grandma Hall”? Or states where students call an easy course a “gut”? It’s all here, if it’s a very slow day in the office. Bonus fun: use the results to find out if you’re more Yankee or Dixie! Believe it or not, I came out marginally Dixie. It’s the residue of my English accent, I suppose.
The first three sites listed by Sullivan are the Harvard Dialect Survey; it’s informative and quite interesting. The last, the Yankee/Dixie quiz, is interactive. It takes just a few minutes and is fun.
NewMexiKen was a Yankee (barely) but a lot of the individual answers revealed my Great Lakes childhood.
To be complete, the quiz should have included — green chili or red?
was born on this date in 1902.
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