Posts Made By: Louis Busby

I'm 61 years old and recently married as of 3 years ago. I'm in excellent health. My wife and I are redoing our will and in the process I got to wondering about the final disposition of some 40K worth of astronomy equipment. My wife or any of my kids would find absolutely no use for any of it, nor have a clue on how to dispose of it in the event of my demise. My intent of course is to liquidate it for cash to the estate. To do this, I would have to have resonable warning of my demise in order to execute in a timely manner. Of course, if my demise is the result of a chronic illness I would have time to execute. If my demise is the result of an accident, then there would be no time.

So my question is, will my astromart account fall to my wife by right of survivorship? Or, will she need her own Astromart account? I've introduced her to Astromart and told her it would be the most efficient way to dispose of my equipment should something unforseen occur.

Any opinions on this?

Those who object that the issue is health care, and not lies, fail to see that the two were always inseparable. Obama knowingly and serially said something that he knew was not true because he did not wish to take the trouble to explain to the American people that, yes, several million people with individual plans would lose their existing health insurance — and many of them would have to change doctors and pay more in premiums — but they would in the long term, and in theory, be better off, and in fact, in the short term, would serve the public good by subsidizing the care of the less well-off.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/364250/obamas-noble-lies-victor-davis-hanson

http://therightscoop.com/wow-poor-blacks-in-chicago-respond-to-the-state-of-the-union/

Don't forget to read the comments further down the page.

Worth a read if you haven't read it before. If you have read it again.

From American Thinker:

By Virginia Prodan Texas State Republican Executive Committeewoman (SREC) Senate District #16
October 13, 2012

Twenty-four years ago, I was a political refugee exiled from communist Romania to freedom in America. But today, America is in need of freedom. Socialism is spreading in America like a horrible sickness. It is time for those of us who experienced socialism to speak up.

Socialism is a false ideology and is contrary to the American capitalism system. American capitalism promotes free-market and individual freedom, while the Socialist system replaces the free market with government control and eradicates private property, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, religious rights, and national self-determination.

Romania was once a rich capitalist country, with a free-market economy, good health care, and a great school system. Bucharest, the capital, was called "Little Paris." But soon after Nicolae Ceausescu was elected president in 1965, everything changed.

Socialism is against wealth. It confiscates and distributes its citizens' wealth, destroying productivity and individual self-worth. In the name of promoting "fair share," "justice," and "equality," socialism turns most of its people equally into poor people, while the elite leaders enjoy a lavish lifestyle.

Ceausescu governed Romania with an iron fist. He nationalized big areas of our economy, eliminating the free-market economy with new laws that suffocated many corporations. Government-controlled businesses had to abide by the government's request, rules, and regulations and had to produce low-quality products that we, the customers, were forced to buy at a price established by the government.

In short, Ceausescu ruined our economy. We experienced the end of competition and choices.

Under Ceausescu's strict Socialist control system, Romania quickly experienced a drastic shortage of food, fuel, energy, medicine, and all the other necessities. Soon many stores had empty shelves, or next to nothing. Many times people formed long lines waiting for hours in front of the empty stores, hoping the stores would be replenished soon. When the stores did have something on the shelves, the purchase process was frustrating and time-consuming.

Ceausescu turned our schools into a state-owned system. The teacher's role was to indoctrinate the students in socialist ideology and report parents who dared to complain. Parents had no voice in their kids' education. Parent-teacher relationships were gone, replaced with total government control.

Presented as a "humanitarian program," our health care system was changed into a national health care system. The patient-doctor relationship vanished, as did the freedom to chose your own doctor. The government ran hospitals, and medications were rationed.

Socialism is against guns. Again citing a "humanitarian" purpose (too many people or kids killed or hurt by guns), the Socialists in power immediately established gun control in Romania. A special police system called the Securitate controlled and silenced everyone, including the media. The Securitate was the dictator's elite special forces, his loyalists, and a very privileged and powerful group. They were his eyes and ears and above the law. Any honest question or skepticism would be considered an anti-government statement, punishable by everything from loss of employment to execution.

So we lived in a constant state of anxiety and mistrust, where one could be denounced for anti-government statements by anyone: a neighbor, a classmate, even a family member. The only way to avoid punishment (usually jail or death) was to remain silent or blend in.

No free election was held in Romania during Ceaususcu's reign. Dissidents were killed, exiled, or put under house arrest. I was declared a dissident, as I defended freedom in Romania.

Finally, socialism is against God. According to the socialism system, there is no God and therefore no Bible. God was replaced with our socialist leader, the Bible with the Communist Manifesto. There was no sin; there were no morals or virtues with eternal values. Whatever advanced the Socialist philosophy was deemed and declared morally right.

By the time I graduated from a law school in Bucharest and was licensed as an attorney, Ceausescu had declared himself god, starting to jail Christians for having Bibles in their homes or going to church, and began to demolish churches in order to make room for his palace.

During my legal struggles as an attorney to stop Ceausescu and protect churches and Christians, many of my cases were the subject of broadcasts on Radio Free Europe and Voice of America. They were part of U.S. State Department reports and United Nations reports on human and religious rights violations in Ceausescu's Romania. Because my work was considered "dissident activity," the Securitate sought to silence me by intimidation, house arrest, interrogation, and daily searches of my home and office. They even threatened to kill my family and me.

But by the grace of God, I am here, alive!

Those of us who have experienced Socialism and believe in freedom would rather die on our feet than live under any dictator's lies and chains. America's future is on the line-now is the time to speak up, stand up and act (vote) to save America!

Seeing has really been tough this opposition season. It finally calmed down enough last night to pull some images. I took some 30 AVIs and this is the best one so far. Mewlon 250, 2x extender, Imaging Source camera. Registax 6, CS6.

billy moss said:

Can you imagine if we had a real American saving emergency come up, and we had to depend on Obama to make a decision, hell, we might as well just turn ourselves in. If another country threatened us, I do not want that man in charge. He is so incompetent. He let 5 of the most notorious terrorist go, just because of the welcome that he got at the West Point, then went and pumped iron to make him look big and strong. This man is nothing but a wimp, he has no clue to what he is doing, and if I were his aides, I would quit lying and making up excuses for him. We can not stand much more of this man, and all these dumb things he does, all it does is takes everybody's mind off of the national debt that he has run up, and the Obama care will really run it up in the next years. This man is our biggest enemy, he is the laughing stock of the world. Our people will be kidnapped like crazy now, even the terrorist have admitted that. He has placed his people in all the positions that are able to protect him. I hope every body that voted for this man, gets their belly full, and are happy to what he has done to this country. This is the most pathetic, pitiful excuse for a national leader that exists any where on this planet.

What one should expect from an Alinski'ite. Alinsky openly advocates deceit. He tells the radicals of the ‘60s, “You know you people are middle class, but you hate the middle class, you hate middle class values, and that’s very good. But what you should do is pretend to be a friend of the middle class, pass yourself off as middle class, and use your position in the middle class to rub raw the sores of discontent. Try to radicalize the middle class by feigning or pretending to share their values.” And I think here, we begin to see the Obama and even the Hillary playbook, which is to say the ways in which Hillary and Obama both started out as Bohemians or Hippies, and then quickly adopted the Alinsky-ite approach of as Alinsky says “dressing square:” Seeming very respectable, being very self-disciplined, and ultimately pretending to be a friend of the middle class, whose values you are trying to undermine. Dinesh D'Sousa

Mewlon 250 @ f22

I gave Saturn a go last night also.

It is clear that the climate establishment has become as narrowly intolerant as any department of gender studies on a college campus, and for much the same reason. The frenetic publicity campaigns of recent months—the hyped reports of imminent climate catastrophe and the serial exaggerations of the prognosis of the West Antarctic ice sheet, polar bear numbers, extreme weather events, and so forth—were designed to provide unstoppable momentum behind the Obama administration’s remarkable assertion of executive power unveiled on June 2: regulations aimed at putting coal-fired electricity in the course of ultimate extinction in the United States.

Link to the The Weekly Standard article. Pretty much captures my position on the subject.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/climate-cultists_794401.html

A good effort early this morning. Seeing was pretty good.

Mewlon 250 3000 frames.