HAARP

The High Frequency Active Auroral Reseach Program or HAARP is designed to study electromagnetic frequencies in the earth's ionosphere. Ionosphere contains free electrons and ions charged by solar ultraviolet radiation. Beginning in 1993 and located in Gakona, Alaska the data collected from the HAARP research facility's system of transmitters and antennas was designed to enhance civillian and military communications. The idea that HAARP can channel energy via the weather is still subject to much public conjecture as presented in an online video news piece by the Canada Broadcasting Centre:

Lights Out

Hurricane Ike has come and gone however in its aftermath a big part of the area is without electricity. My brother's friend suggested a trip to Louisiana, but we all stayed in town and played cards by the light of a wind up flashlight. Strange enough, life without electronics is refreshing. The humidity is down and Mom is frying up anything and everything on the stove that is thawing from her two freezers. I purchased a head lamp and plan on diving into a couple of big titles that I have been saving up for a rainy day. Right now, my brother and I type on laptops from a nearby Burger King that has a free Wi Fi Lounge with the Saturday night football game playing on a flat screen. When we return to camp, we put up enough battery powered paper lanterns to have a lights show. It could be fun but the lights won't be back on for at least another two weeks. Hopefully the ghosts and whatever that might go bump in the dark will be gone by then too.

The Front Porch Astronomer

My mother mailed away for a high powered telescope that she earned with her Coke points last year. We used it to view the heavens from our inauspicious vantage point, however I've discovered that you can view the light and shadows of celestial bodies with your very own eyes and without leaving the neighborhood. For example, walking the dog yesterday unearthed a peculiar sight. The shadow cast from an upright patio table made it look as if the object had been levitating off of the ground on its side. I took extra photographs. The shadows of the home's iron grate and nearby lamppost did not bend at the same impossible angle.




Of other strange sightings, is a single street sign that houses an enormously long stalk of grass jutting from the top of the post. Could it be a sunflower, a corn stalk, or alfalfa sprouting from the edge of the curb?



Of course when the outside world gets too chaotic, it is always nice to retreat to the confines of your home sweet home. No it's not central air conditioning, it's tin foil shingle for the roof.

Egoiste

The former first lady of France, Cecilia Sarkozy, went from the "the mayor's whore" to his confidante and "Air Traffic Controller" to Nicolas Sarkozy's second wife wading the tumultous tide of the couple's relationship with the public. After a very public affair, Cecilia has been eclipsed by Italian model Carla Bruni, a supermodel once enmeshed in a love triangle between Eric Clapton and Mick Jagger and whose nude photographs have now surfaced on the internet.

Assorted Chocolates

Tainted Inc. started out in 2001 selling chocolate truffles laced with marijuana leaves and grew to an enterprise selling the choclates to clubs in Los Angeles, Vancouver, British Columbia, and Amsterdam. In 2007 federal prosecuters charged the four owners of Tainted Inc. after they were surveilled for several months. The boss of the operation that featured choclates by the names of Mr. Buddafinga, Munchy Way, and Stoners, Michael Martin, 33, was sentenced last week to five years of probation. The business was also known to sell cocaine and ecstasy. Now what happens when you run across a pot chocolate? The supreme court outlawed through the wall thermovision in 2001 in Kyllo, but Justice Steven's off the wall test might get you a date.

Fly on the Wall

Sorry for the sporadic postings on this blog, but I have been frequenting local bars, nightclubs, and restaurants lately to drown my sorrows in wine and cake. While sipping Pinot Grigio, Candida Fontana I saw a priest walk in at a local restaurant that serves Lebanese cuisine. At a downtown Hip Hop club, a couple of guys let a friend and I quench our thirst with Grey Goose Vodka and O. J. in the VIP section. Finally, I met a friend that hails from Cambridge and all things anti-Yank over a purple Sangria at a Tex-Mex bar. He also owns several strip malls in the area and a oil well Mexico and one in Venezuela. Sipping Remy Martin VSOP last night, a guy on his way to visit his uncle in Toronto chatted with me about my love for sports. Earlier in the evening at an American restaurant that short orders cake and ice cream last night, CBS's Big Brother broadcast cut to George Bush's introduction of Sarah Palin at the Republican National Convention. So now, you, gentle reader, are one of the first to know, I am officially looking for a lawyer.

Abscam

Abscam is the name for the 1970's covert investigation of corrution in New Jersey politics. During that investigation, the FBI hired a con-man to work undercover as a Saudi Arabian sheik doling out favors and influence to congressmen and other politicians. In recent current events, the same concept of duping others by connections to Arab royalty or business has worked in the Iraq war. Black Operations or Black Op's outfits, so titled because of their sub-legal status as independent defense contractors, hired by Great Britain's Special Air Service or S.A.S. have gone undercover to identify and kill Iraqi suicide bombers. In the United States, Black Ops defense or military contractors have earned the nickname Beltway Bandits because their revolving door status with the CIA and the U.S. military. High level command officers leave government service only to sell military secrets to the highest bidders. It is a common accepted practice however corrupt and illegal it is.