http://toubabou.blogsome.com People who say such things make it clear that they are looking for a city of their own… Tue, 22 Dec 2009 18:51:05 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/22/a-law-of-the-medes-and-persians/ 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 ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/19/the-dangers-of-the-current-policies/ 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 ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/16/p80/ 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 lambIts fleece was sooty blackAnd everywhere ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/14/mary-had-a-little-lamb/ 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. http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/13/third-sunday-in-advent/ 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, ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/12/its-midnight-do-you-know-where-your-father-is/ 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 ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/11/todays-post-is-brought-to-you-by-the-nearly-reverend-al-gore/ 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, ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/08/oops/ 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. ... http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/04/drowning-in-data/ 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. http://toubabou.blogsome.com/2009/12/04/we-will-know-that-it-is-over/