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or should I say was out for almost12 hours. I finally cracked down and transported ALL of our frozen and refrigerated goods over to a friends house, as it was all beginning to melt and upon my return, I find that power is back on. The power company told me they were estimating that the power would be restored by 10PM!! What a kick in the ass and a pain in the ass too. Why the fuck are we not on individual fuel cells already? It's irony that yesterday morning I was just researching "pedal powered" generators and was beginning to plan building one in the next 6 months or so. I think I'm going to step that up to the next month. Anyone interested in learning how to build one or buying one let me know. These generators can easily power lights for the entire evening with just an hour of pedaling. You can directly power your television or computer and even directly power a chain saw, though someone else will have to do the cutting. Food for thought. Speaking of food, I have to go back and transport my food here now. Fun fun fun in the Oak Park Sun!

Watch Out For Falling Ice-Even in the Summer!

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Read the following article:

Are falling ice balls a product of global warming?
Wednesday, December 10, 2003By Michael Woods, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

BARCELONA, Spain -- A Spanish-American scientific team will be scanning the United States this winter for what might be one of the weirdest byproducts of global warming: great balls of ice that fall from the sky.
The baffling phenomenon was first detected in Spain three years ago and has since been reported in a number of other countries, including the United States. So scientists now plan to monitor in a systematic way what they call "megacryometeors" -- or great balls of ice that fall from the sky.
"I'm not worried that a block of ice may fall on your head," said Dr. Jesus Martinez-Frias of the Center for Astrobiology in Madrid. "I'm worried that great blocks of ice are forming where they shouldn't exist."
Ice balls, which generally weigh 25 to 35 pounds but can be much bigger, have punched holes in the roofs of houses, smashed through car windshields, and whizzed right past people's heads.
Incidents like those may be just the beginning, according to Dr. David Travis, who chairs the department of geography and geology at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.
"If megacryometeor formation is linked to global warming, as we suspect, then it is fair to assume that these events may increase in the future," Travis said.
Martinez-Frias pioneered research on megacryometeors in January 2000, after ice chunks weighing up to 6.6 pounds rained on Spain for 10 days.
At first, scientists thought the phenomenon was unique to Spain. During the past three years, however, they've accumulated strong evidence that megacryometeors are falling all around the globe.
More than 50 falls have been confirmed, and researchers believe that's a small fraction of the actual number, since others may hit unoccupied areas or melt before discovery.
Travis said most megacrymeteor falls occur in January, February and March.
Researchers were able to analyze ice samples from the 2000 incidents, thanks to witnesses who kept the material cold. Martinez's team quickly ruled out obvious explanations.
The ice balls, for instance, were not frozen water from toilets flushed on jetliners. The ice contained no human waste and none of the blue disinfectant used in airplane toilets. Air traffic control records showed that no planes flew over the areas near the ice falls, so the ice had not been shed from aircraft wings.
Chunks of debris from a comet? Again, lab tests showed that ice in megacryometeors had the distinctive chemical signature of ice in ordinary terrestrial hailstones.
Hail forms in the updrafts and downdrafts of thunderstorms. The updrafts carry droplets of super-cooled water, which freeze. More droplets hit the frozen particles as winds toss them around. The water freezes instantly and the hailstone grows, layer by layer.
Most hailstones weigh a fraction of an ounce, with 27 ounces the U. S. record.
Megacryometeors show the telltale onionskin layering seen in hailstones. They also contain dust particles and air pockets found in hail. But they are formed in cloudless skies, a notion that defies research on hail formation.
"Scientists are naturally reluctant to say something never can happen," said Charles Knight, a hail expert at the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo. "But oh, dear. I would be tempted to say 'never' on this."
Knight has reviewed scientific papers on megacryometeors, and thinks the explanation that cites unusual atmospheric conditions possibly linked to global warming, is probably wrong, although he doesn't have a better one.
Global warming involves higher temperatures on Earth's surface, but creates colder conditions in the stratosphere, the uppermost layer of the atmosphere, according to Travis.
He has linked megacryometeor events to unusual conditions in the "tropopause," the boundary between the troposphere (the lower atmosphere) and the stratosphere. Located 5 to 9 miles above the surface, the tropopause marks the limit of clouds and is important in the development of storms.
Global warming may be making the tropopause colder, moister and more turbulent, Travis said, creating conditions in which ice crystals grow like ordinary hailstones in thunderclouds.
(Michael Woods can be reached at mwoods@nationalpress.com or 1-202-662-7072.)

Yeah, so the French lost

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and because of Zardane(sp?) they did so disgracefully. What a shame. The Italians played it better, so kudos to them. But, what an intense game over all! It made me wish I was over there to see it. I'm sure the Italians whooped it up nice in celebration.

Well, that's all for now and Happpy Birthday, L.

The French over the Italians in the World cup any day!

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Will they win? I don't know, but I'm backing them all the way.

Yeah, I know. They didn't back us when we went to war with either Afghanistan or Iraq. But that was because they were both immorally wrong decisions. Allow me to explain before you lambast me for what I have just said. Afghanistan is a joke of a war. The administration (our administration) didn't even want to go to war with them in the first place. They did everything they could to pin the attacks on Iraq. The fact finders would not play ball and lie, so we had to go attack the terrorists and the country they came from. Wait, the country they came from was Saudi Arabia, with the exception of two of the highjackers. And further more Osama "Been-forgotten" was trained and financed by the U.S. for years when they were combating the Russians. Why then did we not go to Saudi Arabia? The Bush administration is great friends with all of the Binladen, so much so that during the no fly days imediately following 9/11/01, when our own congressmen couldn't fly, we flew all of the Binladens out of our country to the "safety" of thier own country(Saudi Arabia). Yes, we love the Saudis so much so that they are the only foreign embassy in the U.S. that is protected by our own secret service. Perhaps this is because the Saudi's have a 7% interest in the U.S. economy. And perhaps that is why we look the other way when 17 terrorists from thier country come and kill over 3000 of our countrymen. And, maybe that is why when our U.S. embassy in Saudi Arabia was attacked by Saudis we didn't take military action there, even though our Embassies are considered U.S. soil. Yes, that's right. It's our government's position that attacking our Embassies is equal to invading our country and rightfully so. But again, we continue to look the other way. We corner Osama in the facility that we helped plan and build and left a giant hole for him to slip through with his dialysis machine. Maybe this is because, as our president so eloquently put in one of the presidential debates against Kerry, W "don't think much about him(Osama)much". What a crock of SHIT!!! Anyway, France called it and they were right!

Iraq, now there we had to go and free a country from the opression of a madman named Sadam. Yeah, the same man we were going to kill in the first Gulf war. Yeah, that was a bullshit war as well. But now we are really going there to do the job, to root out terrorism, stop Sadam's nuclear program, help establish democracy and most importantly prop up our dollar. Our dollar is held up by the oil industry. We make everyone we can who deals in oil to use the dollar. The dollar has been so devalued that experts project the dollar to fail completely. When Sadam decided that he was going to get rid of the dollar and go to the Euro, this would have been a devestating blow to our dollar and ultimately our country, but it was his right and why would he want to support a currency that one day won't exist? But, yeah, the French knew this too. Do you know that when you go there you actually get quality news? Did you know that even when the French Government decided not to back us and our citizens decided to get even by not buying french wine, eating french foods and going to France for vacation, the majority of French felt that we are a brother country. I was told repeatedly while there that like a brother, sometimes they don't like to be told they are wrong and what to do and they get angry, but we are still brothers. If only we weren't the monkeys we are and refused to believe the our government's lies.

The Italian supported us, so we should support them right? Wrong! I don't support Yes Men, I support free thinkers who aren't afraid to tell the truth. So Viva la France! Thier people deserve it. They helped us gain our independance. Let us not forget ever that without them we would be under English rule. The Statue of Liberty was a gift from the French and has long been our symbol of freedom. Thier government imediately called after the 9/11 attacks and offered whatever support they could for our people. So, yes, again take the cup home France!

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One last thing I should mention, getting back to the oil thing. Venezuela is arming themselves to the teeth because they are anticipating a U.S. led invasion. Our Government denies any such plans, though they are attempting to block the sale of these weapons to Venezuela. The Venezuelans too are getting tired of using a failing currency. How many people can we go to war with just to support our dollar?