Voter Turned Away After Illegal Voter Pretended to be Him

An impostor illegally used a New Mexico’s man vote three days before the actual person came in to vote. The incident occurred in Rio Arriba County. When the real person came to cast his ballot, he was at first turned away, being told that he had already voted.

Only when the real person contested, saying he had not in fact voted, did election officials review their files and compare the signatures they had on record with the one signed by whoever voted three days earlier.

The signatures did not match. Why the officials did not check this in the first place has not been stated, and required voter ID laws were not in place. (read more)

Bill Richardson, genius?

Well it's about time!

If the FAA approves we'll have Virgin Galactic spaceships launching from New Mexico.   The only thing sort of nearby is Whitesands, but I'm assuming they've got this figured out with the Air Force already.

Bill Richardson made a big deal about building a spaceport here (he was big on film kick-backs too) and while I'm skeptical of the economic wisdom involved I'm extra excited that maybe, just maybe, the facilities of Spaceport America aren't going to resemble one of those photo documentaries of abandoned Soviet architecture. 

Spaceport America - from above it looks slightly like a bed pan.

This is a video from a few years ago of a Spaceship Two test flight.  I believe that "feathering" is a re-entry maneuver.

Tent Rocks

I finally got some of the pictures off my phone.   These are from a field trip to Tent Rocks which is part of the Bandelier volcanic outflow... area... thing.

The path goes in there...