CosmicConservative

Wildfires!

CosmicConservative — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:33:42 +0000

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.

“… like a doggone dog!”

CosmicConservative — Tue, 07 Sep 2010 01:43:17 +0000

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 [...]

I bet he ends up in Denver

CosmicConservative — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:16:40 +0000

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 [...]

I. Am. William. Shatner

CosmicConservative — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 16:00:51 +0000

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 [...]

Level 80 paladin

CosmicConservative — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:12:39 +0000

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 [...]

Garage Sale blues…

CosmicConservative — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 15:09:12 +0000

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 [...]

Junk food junkie…

CosmicConservative — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 18:58:59 +0000

When you think that environmental hysteria and hypocrisy is a new phenomenon, consider that this song was a hit in 1976…

Tattoo ruminations…

CosmicConservative — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 03:12:40 +0000

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 [...]

Pay attention now, this is how you create a “scientific consensus.”

CosmicConservative — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:28:36 +0000

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.

High School Yearbook comments…

CosmicConservative — Thu, 02 Sep 2010 17:38:53 +0000

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 [...]

WoW update…

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:15:41 +0000

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 [...]

And you thought Chuck Norris was teh awesome?

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 21:50:15 +0000

Big spike in traffic…

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:52:40 +0000

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.

Obviously violence instigated by Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck…

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 20:47:22 +0000

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 [...]

And so it begins?

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:22:55 +0000

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 [...]

Obama redecorates the Oval Office

CosmicConservative — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 16:28:40 +0000

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 [...]

He should have taken the one shot penalty for unplayable lie…

CosmicConservative — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:02:37 +0000

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 [...]

I nominate them for Darwin Awards…

CosmicConservative — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:47:47 +0000

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.

Thorium!

CosmicConservative — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 18:26:09 +0000

“Birtherism” revisited

CosmicConservative — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 14:46:26 +0000

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 [...]