I told you last summer this would happen. Remember this post?

Based on the true-life, over-hyped story by the media, Attack of The Iceberg pits man against a broken-off piece of a glacier in Greenland that threatens to possibly move very, very slowly towards shipping lanes.

Yeah, I know, I was kidding. But then reality recently happened.

An iceberg floated into Newfoundland’s Goose Cove, from that same big ice chunk that broke away from Greenland a year ago by the way.

Snowflake, the dis-enchanted polar bear gansta from the movie was not on the iceberg.

And let’s not discount the menace factor here.

“Icebergs float in from Greenland,” said the photographer, Gene Patey. This one briefly blocked the town’s harbor before breaking apart and melting, “but the fishermen took their chances.”

Took their chances? It’s an iceberg. Not being able to get out of the way of it would be like saying the security guard could not get out of the way of the steamroller in the first Austin Powers movie.

It is not every day that the leader of a rogue state like Libya hits you up on email for a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help him out, and get rich in the process.

But it happened yesterday. Gaddafi reached out to me, or rather his wife did. I didn’t even know he was a fan of mine.

Mrs.Safia Farkash Gaddafi

Wife of Moammar Gadhafi President,

Man, even his wife can’t figure out how to spell the last name.

Dear Sir/Madam,

Safia Farkash al-Baraasi I am the second wife of the Libyan leader. we came to know each other in 1971 when Gaddafi was admitted to a hospital where i worked as a nurse. we got married the same year and have six sons and one daughter.

And all seven of those kids will spell their last name differently. A touching love story none the less.

Side note: He really likes nurses.

I got your address from my husband’s email booklet and so i decided to contact you on this vital issue. As you may be aware that my husband is presently facing a difficulties in Libya as his administration charges in Libya by the rebel,me and my three family members had moved to one of our hiding estate unknown to any body all our documents have be ceased to prevent us from traveling.

I hate when my documents have to be ceased. It kinda reminds me of a little incident that happened to me in an airport a few decades ago.

So now we get to the pay dirt. The offer that will make me rich…

Please, presently I and my entire family have what I will called “MY FAMILY LAST RESORT to the tune of U$40 (Forty million United States Dollars) and ready to be TRANSFER to you with the hope that you will invest this funds into any good business in your country, pending when the political turmoil is over.

Wait, “good business”? Oh man, I knew there was a catch. Eff.

Okay Chris, think positive here. There are always winners in a bad economy.

I got it! I’ll invest in companies that make barrels.

Then another catch…

Please if you are interested in helping me to receive this money that is presently in an escrow account in one of the banks in Asia country. After a successful process and transfer of this said money into your bank account, 30% of the total funds will go to you and my son Alaa will come to your country immediately to start up a business with your assistance so we will be able save for raining day.

Wait, now we have to start up a business? Does Alaa have expertise in running a company that makes barrels?

This sounds like a scam. I have to invest $40 million, then start up a business with some guy I don’t know. And I am pretty sure he doesn’t know squat about the barrel market.

But what the hell. It is $12 million dollars after all. Mrs. Gaddafi sign me up.

Hey, where did the money in my savings account go?

Man, this is the last time I invest in the Libyan barrel exporting business.

Try not to hold back the tears for what I am about to tell you. It will sadden even the alligator heart inside you…

Solar power is having some problems in Arizona.

These are sunny days for Arizona’s solar-energy industry, with photovoltaic panels sprouting up on rooftops and major utility-scale installations planned across the state.

But some see clouds forming.

Land and water issues, including restrictive public-land-use policies and opposition from some environmentalists and neighbors, have stalled some major projects, a report by a University of Arizona law professor concludes.

Lefties opposing other lefties? How dare they go off the reservation. Are they not aware of the consequences for such insubordination?

And just what is at the core of the opposition’s argument?

Some of the most promising large-scale solar technologies – thermal systems that concentrate sunlight to make steam that runs generating turbines – may require too much land and water to be cost-effective and environmentally sound, says UA law professor Robert Glennon.

“It takes a heck of a lot of water, a heck of a lot of land, and we don’t have lot of either; that’s uncontested,” said Glennon, co-author of “Solar Energy’s Cloudy Future,” published in November in the Arizona Journal of Environmental Law & Policy. UA law student Andrew Reeves was co-author.

Oh yeah that. There’s not much water in the desert. They just noticed.

Now if they could get around to noticing these solar panel projects often get funded at 110% of the cost and the contractor bails cause he made his money. Your tax dollars or higher electric rates stimulating the economy.

And notice the co-author. How would you like to be one of these greens all gung ho for these projects only to get blindsided in a study by a college student?

Now, if I can just find the world’s smallest violin. I’m in the mood to play a few renditions of “My Heart Bleeds”.