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Posts Made By: Louis Busby

July 7, 2014 01:53 PM Forum: Guns and Hunting Optics

The Range at Belmont Observatory

Posted By Louis Busby

I got a little range time in yesterday at Belmont Observatory. Furthest target is 85 yards. Managed a shot group a little larger than a silver dollar with my Sig Sauer M400.

July 9, 2014 04:14 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Greenpeace Co-Founder – Rips Climate Change

Posted By Louis Busby

‘President Obama seems to say it is sufficient to say the ‘science is settled’. It is a hollow statement with no content.

“CO2 is the most important nutrient for all life on earth,” he noted.

“There are so many [climate] variables that we can’t control and when you do an experiment you have to control all the variables except the one you are studying if you want to get a clean result. There are even variables we do not even understand that we cannot control,” he said.

“So it is virtually impossible to think of doing an experiment where we would be able to tweeze out the impact of CO2 versus the hundreds of other variable at work. Which is why you could never make a model that would predict the climate,” he added.

http://www.climatedepot.com/2014/07/09/greenpeace-co-founder-dr-patrick-moore-i-fear-a-global-cooling-rips-obama-for-hollow-climate-claims/

July 21, 2014 02:40 PM Forum: No Holds Barred

Top Ten Reasons a Lifelong Leftist Moved Right

Posted By Louis Busby

Excellent read. Give it a whirl.

http://politicsandfinance.blogspot.com/2014/07/top-10-reasons-lifelong-leftist-moved.html

July 29, 2014 05:53 PM Forum: Politics

As if we didn't already know

Posted By Louis Busby

Son of Hamas founder, Mosab Hassan Yousef, gave a short interview last week to CNN regarding the true intentions of Hamas, explaining that while the destruction of Israel is certainly one of their goals, that a worldwide caliphate is their ultimate goal.

http://therightscoop.com/son-of-hamas-founder-tells-cnn-the-true-intentions-of-hamas/

August 2, 2014 03:16 PM Forum: Politics

Obama’s Policy Is A Direct Danger To The U. S.

Posted By Louis Busby

On July 31, the National Defense Panel released its long-awaited report on the effects of the QDR and delivered its findings to Congress. The panel pulled no punches — its findings were a scathing indictment of Obama’s foreign policy, national security policy, and defense policy. The panel found that president Barack Obama’s QDR, military force reductions, and trillion-dollar defense budget cuts are dangerous — and will leave the country in a position where it is unable to respond to threats to our nation’s security. This, the panel concluded, must be reversed as soon as possible.

Link:
http://news.yahoo.com/pentagon-official-facts-obama-policy-direct-danger-united-024816529.html

August 22, 2014 03:03 PM Forum: Politics

Quote from James Foley's Father

Posted By Louis Busby

"I did not realize how brutal they were, and I actually hoped we could engage in negotiations with them if they were willing to send any sort of communication because we had none prior," he said.

I guess you can say that this statement represents the feelings of most liberals and how they feel towards the Muslims. Perhaps they now will wake up to the fact that ISIS and Islam represents grave danger to America and Americans everywhere.

For one, I believe the purge of non-believers (non-Muslims) is a deep fundamental aspect of all Islam. I believe that most Muslims will remain quitely and peacefully in the shadows of the societies where they live until Islam and the caliphate gains a greater foothold in the world. When that happens they will descend upon us as an innocent friend and kill us in our sleep vengefully and without remorse.

I do not trust Islam or any Muslims whether they are friends or strangers.

September 11, 2014 04:16 PM Forum: Politics

My Head is Spinning both Left and Right after Spee

Posted By Louis Busby

Charles Krauthammer:

This was a political speech in the guise of a military plan. There wasn't a lot in the plan, it was obvious stuff meaning an air campaign to support Iraqis and Kurds on the ground which we've been doing. And then analogizing it to what we're doing in Yemen, saying our objective is to do what we're doing in Yemen and Somalia, which are both failed states where we have been doing nothing except pinprick attacks that occasionally knock out a leader or two, it hasn't changed anything on the ground. It's hardly a model you want to use.

This is a political speech, because this is a president trying to save a collapsed presidency. The numbers that you cited about the lack of support, confidence in his presidency -- if he were a prime minister in a parliament he would be out of office with a vote of no confidence. There is a way to try to tell America, as he said, America is safer, who believes that? America has a plan, it's a very weak one and it has got a president who will lead. There are not a lot of American who believe that today with the speech and even after the speech.

Chris Mathews:

I heard all the necessary conditions but not the sufficient conditions for defeating ISIS. And I didn't hear in there how we're going to encourage the Arab countries, the Islamic world to go after ISIS. I didn't hear that. I heard air strikes by the United States. I heard military training and support for the Free Syrian Army. I heard vague reference to someone over there flying with us over Syria right now without saying what country that was, what ally that was. Nothing really about the building of a posse. And everyone from David Ignatius and others who really know this region are saying the only way you defeat a cancer like this, like ISIS, is within the Islamic world itself. They must find themselves the strength and the determination to go in and erase this blot on their culture. And I didn't hear in this speech how we're going to do that or if we can even imagine being the leaders of such an effort. Again, I'll say these are necessary steps. They didn't sound sufficient.

Michael Moore:

"That's it, Mr. Obama. 100 years from now: 'He was the first black American that got elected president.' And that's it. Eight years of your life and that's what people are going to remember. Boy, I got a feeling, knowing you, that — you'd probably wish you were remembered for a few other things, a few other things you could've done," Michael Moore said in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter that was posted on Wednesday.

November 15, 2014 12:30 AM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Deep Sky

Cocoon Nebula

Posted By Louis Busby

Tak TOA150/EM400 & Sbig 11000m
7 x 5min subs plus
2 x 5min Ha
Total: 45 min unguided

January 11, 2015 07:54 PM Forum: CCD Imaging and Processing/Solar System

Comet Lovejoy

Posted By Louis Busby

Here's an attempt at comet Lovejoy using my Tak TOA150 and a Sbig STL11000. Processed in MaximDL and PSCS2.

February 10, 2015 03:42 PM Forum: Global Warming - REAL or NOT

Temp Data Manipulation -- Go Figure

Posted By Louis Busby

The problem is not whether or not there is such a thing as made-made climate change. The problem is that liberal media has reported out that left-leaning environmentalists said there is and that we have to do something about it. The fear mongering environmentalist with agendas use manipulated data to reinforce their claim and then try to convince us that its true through bloviating policy makers. When reasonable people question the legitimacy of the data they then result to name calling, labeling the GW/CC doubters as climate change deniers or worse. The simple act of doing this while foisting deceptive data upon the voting public automatically destroys their credibility and prompts further investigation. Which, unfortunately, points to more manipulation and more deception.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/climate-guru-brace-for-massive-cover-up/#WLIWHzPkJhuS4Bo5.99