Posts Made By: Richard N. Lipow

Andy Borowitz sent this out this morning:

CHENEY SEEKS SIXTH DEFERMENT
Veep Hopes to Secure Place in History

Vice President Dick Cheney announced plans today to seek an historic sixth draft deferment, realizing a longstanding personal dream of his.

Clutching his deferment application in his hand as he addressed reporters at the White House, a beaming Mr. Cheney said, "I am so close to getting this sixth deferment I can taste it."

Washington insiders were surprised that the vice president chose this moment to seek a sixth deferment, with the debate over the war in Iraq at full throttle and Mr. Cheney's lack of military service increasingly a target of his critics.

Furthermore, even without a deferment, Mr. Cheney would be unlikely to pass the routine physical necessary to serve in the military, since simple tasks like stepping out of a limousine or shaking hands with dignitaries leave him easily winded.

But according to vice presidential scholar Davis Logsdon of the University of Minnesota, the vice president may be trying to secure his place in history by obtaining his latest deferment.

"FDR will go down in history as the only president elected to four terms," Mr. Logsdon said. "Dick Cheney wants to be known as the only vice president with six deferments."

At his White House press conference, the vice president snapped at a reporter who questioned why he was seeking a draft deferment at all when there was no draft at the present time.

"Better safe than sorry," the vice president said.

Elsewhere, in order to keep details of her wedding from leaking to the press, pop star Christina Aguilera made all of her guests sign a confidentiality agreement and disinvited Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

Smarmy liberal...this guy acts pious and religious and self styled champion of the ordinary guy...while at the same time it appears that he sponsored one of the worst pieces of legislation every passed and enacted, the new bankruptcy act. This wonderful piece of, ah, well, law, has created what I refer to as the new debtors' prison...a new dimention where there are those who are too poor to pay their bills, and too rich to declare bankrtupcy.....ah. Liberman

You probably need a televue extender to move the eyepiece back. Try lifting up the Denk just a bit to see if you can reach focus.

I had this problem with my TV102 and Denk II after I put a Feathertouch 2.5 inch focuser in...Werner from feathertouch sold me a .75 inch extender and I can now reach focus in all three positions on my 102

I have a TV102 and I would recommend replacing the TV focuser with a Starlight focuser

I have fitted the scope with paralax rings and a losmandy dovetail (for my gm8). I use a TAK 7 * 50 finder and a starbeam.

I use pairs of 24panoptics, 20televue plossls and 14 radians in my DenkII...

the 20 plossls seem to be the best of these for saturn...

rn

here is an m42...its the sum of 15 images, about 30 minutes

Ivan Ong said:

Hi, I have never owned a reflector in my life so I am asking a pretty elementary question to Epsilon users out there. I have photographed with refractors with dew shields and heaters- they are very effective, but for an Epsilon, (a) is there a tendecy for the primary and secondary to dew and (b) if so, what reasonable means are there to prevent this?

Thanks,
Ivan

I understand that dew is not a problem with a tak 180ed i spoke with texas nautical and they said a dew heater is not needed. I thought that was odd, but, i've used the scope in humid conditions and so far, dew has not been a problem

richard