CosmicConservative http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:35:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Wildfires! It’s been a good year so far for forest fires. I guess that’s over now. A wildfire that started yesterday morning has burned “dozens of structures” just west of Boulder. I’m not aware of much in that area except homes.. I hope everyone got out safely. Someething like 4,000 evacuations were ordered.

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8136 “… like a doggone dog!” For all my disagreements with President George W. Bush, for all my anger over his coddling of his blood-enemies on the left, for all my frustration over his disastrous attempt to blend conservatism with mind-blowing spending programs, for all my concern over his inability to articulate a true conservative message, and finally, for all of [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8134 I bet he ends up in Denver Arizona thought it had a steal when Leinart, who led Southern California to two national championships and a third title game appearance, fell to the Cardinals at the No. 10 overall pick in 2006. He started 11 games as a rookie under then-coach Dennis Green, then the first five the following season under new coach [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8132 I. Am. William. Shatner In 1966, he accepted a starring role in a sci-fi series called “Star Trek,” joining a no-name cast, some of whom later accused him of being pompous, self-aggrandizing, clueless and insufferably William Shatner, which became his greatest role once he finally accepted the fact of it.

via The Many Iterations of William Shatner – NYTimes.com.

I’ve always [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8130 Level 80 paladin After all the garage sale activity I stayed up late getting my paladin to level 80. So now he’s level 80. Now if I intend to raid with him I need to gear him up. That costs gold or means running daily dungeons for a while.

Which probably means, since time is not infinite, that [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8128 Garage Sale blues… OK, so we had our big garage sale, made about $70, and now we’ve still got a garage full of old stuff to get rid of. We donated several boxes of clothes to a resource center that provides clothes to needy folks, but I’ve got two TVs, some old furniture, more clothes, and just box [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8126 Junk food junkie… When you think that environmental hysteria and hypocrisy is a new phenomenon, consider that this song was a hit in 1976…

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8124 Tattoo ruminations… So the inimitable Glenn Reynolds at Instapundit just happened to have a post today about tramp stamps.

Tramp stamps are a favorite subject of mine to ponder. There’s something about the debate between those who have them and think they are “cute”, and those who look at them and snicker about advertising a certain product, that [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8121 Pay attention now, this is how you create a “scientific consensus.” A longtime professor at UCLA, told that he would not be rehired because his “research is not aligned with the academic mission” of his department, says he’s being fired after 36 years at the prestigious school because his scientific beliefs are “politically incorrect.”

via FOXNews.com – Scientist’s Firing After 36 Years Fuels ‘PC’ Debate at UCLA.

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8118 High School Yearbook comments… So while performing some sort of archeological dig in our closet yesterday, the Cosmic Wife uncovered our long-lost high school yearbooks. (Yes, the Cosmic Wife and I attended the same high school, although she was a lowly freshwoman when I was a high and mighty senior. As a result we have six years of consecutive [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8115 WoW update… Yeah, so I’m now leveling up a paladin on the same server my rogue is on. He’s level 77 now. He was level 55 about two weeks ago, so I’ve been power-leveling him pretty good.

The funny thing is that the only reason I started leveling him was to have him mine titanium and saronite for [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8113 And you thought Chuck Norris was teh awesome? http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8111 Big spike in traffic… Hmm… according to my site meter, this post generated roughly 20 times my normal daily traffic when it was posted.

I can’t find any incoming links which would explain it, which implies that the traffic was all organic, from search engines.

Weird.

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8109 Obviously violence instigated by Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck… A man known for protesting the Discovery Channel stormed the network’s Maryland headquarters carrying a handgun on Wednesday, taking a “small number” of hostages while appearing to have a bomb strapped to his chest, police said.

via FOXNews.com – Armed Man Believed to Be Environmental Protester Takes Hostages in Discovery Channel Building.

/sarcasm

The man appears to be [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8105 And so it begins? Palin’s plan to headline the Iowa Republican Party’s annual fall fundraiser on Sept. 17 is solely to help raise money for the state party’s candidates, the former Alaska governor’s aides said.

And one trip to Iowa is a long way from a successful campaign for the state’s 2012 presidential caucuses, still 18 months away, Iowa party [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8103 Obama redecorates the Oval Office My aesthetic challenges are notorious here on CC, but I nonetheless still have opinions about aesthetics, even if they are those of an artistic philistine…

First I’ll address the timing of this. It’s yet another political unforced error by the Bumbler-in-Chief. It really doesn’t matter that the expense of this is not picked up directly by [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8100 He should have taken the one shot penalty for unplayable lie… Forget “Fore!” “Fire!” was the cry of the day for a golfer whose off-target swing sparked a 12-acre blaze in Southern California. The golfer at the Shady Canyon Golf Course in Irvine landed a shot in the rough Saturday.

On his next swing, his club snagged a rock, causing a spark that lit the rough ablaze [...]

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8098 I nominate them for Darwin Awards… At least 18 mushroom-lovers have been killed in accidents while hunting for their favorite fungi in the mountains and forests of northern Italy.

via Mushroom hunter “massacre” claims 18 lives in Italy – Yahoo! News.

]]> http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8096 Thorium! http://www.cosmicconservative.com/weblog/?p=8094 “Birtherism” revisited So, Obama has clearly been irked lately by a large part of the American population. According to polls almost 1/3 of Americans believe Obama is a Muslim, and a similar number believe he has something to hide about his birth.

Obama’s flippant response was “I can’t walk around with my birth certificate plastered to my forehead [...]

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