Rational Conservatism from the Rocky Mountains
Biggest news of the day here…
NASA – NASA Spacecraft Confirms Martian Water, Mission Extended TUCSON, Ariz. — Laboratory tests aboard NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander have identified water in a soil sample. The lander’s robotic arm delivered the sample Wednesday to an instrument that identifies vapors produced by the heating of samples.
“We have water,” said William Boynton [...]
I’ve actually been waiting for this story for quite a while. My mind works in funny ways, and the first time I ever thought about “new car smell” I immediately assumed that the smell came from all the chemicals used to soften plastics, foam out cushions and fake leather-looking materials. Having taken high-school chemistry and [...]
So here’s an illustration of a very common fish in southern rivers and reservoirs:
It’s called a “needelnose gar” or at least that’s what it is called in northwest Louisiana where I used to do a lot of fishing. They live in close proximity to these fish:
This is called an “alligator gar” for I think rather [...]
… but knives do. I guess this will lead to calls for banning butcher knives in Canada.
Knife-wielding man beheads fellow passenger on bus A passenger traveling on a bus across Canada’s vast Western plains stabbed, gutted and decapitated a man seated next to him in an unexplained attack, a witness told media Thursday.
The victim had been [...]
So, when exactly did sending a kid to college become the financial equivalent of buying a vacation home in Miami Beach?
One of the things I ponder about when I decide to ponder is the nature of nothingness. For a long time humans thought “nothing” was that which existed apart from matter and energy. In other words, in the deepest, coldest, most remote corner of the universe, in a place where the nearest galaxies are millions [...]
I haven’t shot a lawnmower (yet) but I can promise you I have felt like it many, many times….
Man shoots his lawn mower, police say – CNN.com MILWAUKEE, Wisconsin (AP) — A 56-year-old Milwaukee man is accused of shooting his lawn mower because it wouldn’t start.
Keith Walendowski has been charged with felony possession of a short-barreled [...]
So I don’t listen to Rush much. I don’t dislike him really, I just find his style to grate on my nerves like fingernails on blackboards. I guess people respond to his self-aggrandizing sound bites, but they just make me want to change the station.
But I was listening to him yesterday on the way to [...]
OK, so we waited a week to see the big blockbuster of the summer. The theater was still fairly crowded, even for a Friday matinee movie (I took Friday off this week). Usually matinee showings are virtually empty so that means the evening showings were probably full.
With the billions of words written and published about [...]
The oldest rule in the books is “follow the money.” So let’s do that.
IBDeditorials.com: Editorials, Political Cartoons, and Polls from Investor’s Business Daily — Putting Money Where Mouths Are: Media Donations Favor Dems 100-1 An analysis of federal records shows that the amount of money journalists contributed so far this election cycle favors Democrats by a [...]
I’ve commented before about how sick I am of the Democrat sound-bite “you can’t drill your way out of this problem.” As I’ve pointed out, even using current technology you absolutely CAN drill your way out of the problem.
But let’s look at the announcement President Bush made yesterday about opening up Colorado’s oil shale for [...]
So my internet service provider is Qwest. Qwest is what is left of US West, one of the original seven Regional Bell Operating Companies, which were spawned in the early 80s when the federal government split up the monotlithic Bell Telephone Company.
Disclaimer: I used to work for Qwest. Although I worked in the yellow pages [...]
Do you believe this story?
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) — Want to help the country save a quick million barrels of oil a day? Drive 5% less. Slow down. Inflate your tires.
Those three steps would reduce U.S. oil consumption by 1.3 million barrels a day immediately, according to the Alliance to Save Energy, a conservation group running [...]
This startling claim is the latest hand-wringing from those on the Left whose livelihood depends on keeping alive the notion that America is a deeply racist country.
Paul Street, author of the forthcoming book, “Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics,” says Obama risks becoming an Oval Office version of talk-show host Oprah Winfrey. She [...]
Well, actually there is no coconut in this story, but I couldn’t resist…
What this story is about is putting lime in seawater and boosting its ability to absorb atmospheric C02 so that we can “reverse” the trend towards global warming. Scientists and researchers are “hopeful” that this will work and is economically feasible.
A dash of [...]
It’s coming folks, and the legal battles are going to be monumental. In fact one of Obama’s first true political crises could well be his stand on nuclear power, pitting the AlGorentian AGW folks against the hardcore environuts who still believe nuclear power has the taint of Satan (although they don’t actually believe in Satan [...]
When people are paying to have fish nibble callouses off their smelly feet?
Fish pedicures: Carp rid human feet of scaly skin ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) – Ready for the latest in spa pampering? Prepare to dunk your tootsies in a tank of water and let tiny carp nibble away.
Fish pedicures are creating something of a splash in [...]
Well, I’m leaving on a jetplane bound for Montana tomorrow with the Mrs. and my youngest son. We’ll be doing a tour of some of our grandest national parks starting with Glacier, Yellowstone, and Grand Teton. We might also makes stops at Arches and Canyonlands time permitting.
I’m going to be mostly [...]
This is a doubly fascinating article. The lede on it which got Instapundit attention was the carbon sequestering properties of the new cement (current cement generates tons of CO2, this new cement REMOVES C02 from the atmosphere), but equally as interesting is the “printing buildings” concept that is presented here, showing that concept to have [...]
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