Toubabou

It continues to amaze me how bold-faced the congressional despots are becoming. We have a congressman from Florida agitating for jail time for those who oppose him, and now this. It is incredible that men and women who owe their very jobs to the laws of this nation are so intent on undermining the rule of law.

Confederate Yankee

One of the biggest dangers brought by the Obama/Reid/Pelosi policies in Washington is that the disregard for the will of the people and for the law breeds lawlessness. When people lose hope that they can affect policy by expressing their opinions to their elected representatives – when it becomes clear that there is one law for them, and a different law for those who make the laws – then there are few options besides rebellion. The more the Democrats push for the consolidation of power and the outlawing of opposing viewpoints, the more desperate those who oppose them will become.

Okay, this probably doesn’t qualify as writing, since I’m just linking Zombie’s article, here. That said, I find it interesting that people as different as Zombie and I can agree so closely on reasons why Universal Health Care is bad. She expresses herself differently than I do, because she has a different worldview and values structure, but the reasoning is sound nonetheless. 

Why America Hates Universal Health Care: The Real Reason · zomblog

Why is it that it becomes progressively difficult to write when one has made up one’s mind to write? During the NaNoWriMo, which I failed, they encouraged the use of mindlessly writing Mary Had a Little Lamb until inspiration returned. Here goes:

Mary had a little lamb

Its fleece was sooty black

And everywhere that Mary went

It led her from in back. 

Well, here we are on the third Sunday in Advent. Time is just zipping by. The gifts have been bought, the presentation thereof is to come.

Had a heart-stopping moment last night when I checked voice-mail. "Your phone number was listed as an ICE number of a phone…" I almost didn’t hear the rest of it, since it was very cold, the only person who has my number as In Case of Emergency is my dad, and we lost my mom in June. However, the message continued, "… found in our parking lot. If you know the person who lost it…"

Even with that clarification, it took a good half hour for the adrenaline to get down to reasonable levels. 

Well, he flunked out of divinity school, but he was trying, right? My daughter was asking if we could take up a collection to send Mr. Gore to Australia for a while in order to take the cold weather there. I told her that it was no use – because of the climate conference in Copenhagen we can expect a global Gore effect for a while: January/February-esque temperatures.

Several days since I last posted. Oh, well.

How about a Sarah Palin post? Well, there seem to be two camps: those who love Sarah and those who hate her. I guess I would be with those who love her – she’s a nice lady, did a good job in Alaska, and reinvigorated the conservative base during the presidential election. That said, there seem to be a lot of people who are fixated on whether or not she will be President of the United States. I don’t entirely get that. She’s not running. In fact, no one is running right now. The future of the country does not currently depend upon whether Sarah Palin is up to being President.

In fact, the future of the country right now depends upon whether Mr. Barry Hussein Obama is up to being President, and the answer seems to be no.

That would seem to be more newsworthy than Sarah Palin, in my humble opinion. 

The Internet has brought us a problem that seems tradition now, we’ve had it so long. It is the tradition of drowning in data. I’m currently looking for information on Low-Temperature Differential Stirling Engines, specifically with the idea of trying to build a low-cost LTD engine capable of several horsepower. There are lots of videos of "kit" size Stirling engines, and lots of kits to build at $20-$500 a pop. What is lacking is specific information of ratios and materials. For example, I found a couple videos of people using "air compressors" to make a Stirling engine. What kind of compressor pistons are they using? I don’t know - they didn’t say. What would be necessary to allow these pistons to work in a LTD version of the engine? I don’t know that, either.

I’m not sure it would be more frustrating if there just wasn’t any information, like in the old days.

When someone from a new generation wonders a) why they have a monument like this at all, and b) why they misspelled Wii on the WWII monument.