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SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Authorities are looking for three men who robbed a licensed medical marijuana distributor in Santa Fe on Friday.

Lt. William Pacheco with the Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office says three men armed with handguns entered the New Mexico Top Organics dispensary around 10:45 a.m. and tied up the two employees who were working at the time.

The men then took an undisclosed amount of marijuana and fled in one of the employee's vehicles.

Deputies are asking for the public's help in finding the vehicle. It's a 2003 silver Honda CRV with New Mexico license plate 863-PCN.

Pacheco says no one was hurt during the robbery, but the suspects should be considered armed and dangerous. He says this is the first time a dispensary in the county has been robbed.

There’s an old joke about a linguistics professor lecturing on the similarities of grammar and math.  The professor says, “In English, as in math, two negatives make a positive.  And in English, again just like in math, two positives never make a negative.”

 A student quips back, “Yeah. Right.”

 One of the great strengths of the English language is its ability to convey meaning even when it misused, abused, and diffused.  Even the most educated tongue occasionally trips over the rules of grammar.

 I myself, and sometimes me, gets lost among the trees that define proper speech.

 See how I discretely included me, myself and I as among the most educated?  Well, nothing could be farther from the truth.

“Is Islam the antichrist?”—Steve

First, the term “antichrist”: there is a particular eschatological or “end times” set of beliefs drawn from several biblical passages (which include, among others, II Thess. 2:3-9; Rev. 13:4-8; see Ezek. 38-39; Dan. 7:23-26; 8:23-25). 

This perspective purports that one day, prior to the Second Coming of Christ, a political figure will appear on the world stage. 

He will gain immense popularity and wield vast power. 

As the Memorial Day Holiday signals the unofficial start to the summer vacation season, fire danger remains high and the New Mexico State Forestry Division is urging all residents and visitors to be cautious with any use of fire as well as follow all fire restrictions while enjoying the state’s abundant natural resources.

“We’re still extremely dry in many areas, and all it takes is one careless mistake for a wildfire to endanger our lives and communities,” said Forestry Division Fire Prevention and Outreach Program Manager Dan Ware. “With so many of us traveling this weekend and throughout the summer, it is crucial that we all be responsible and do our part to prevent wildfires.” 

This year, 139 fires have burned 1,071 acres across New Mexico on State or private land.