Posts Made By: Tony Aguire

robert black said:

Having just spent 3 evenings trying to collimate my LX90 8" SCT I have decided to try a collimator. The question is what would be the best and easiest. I don't want to buy two or three to find the best one.
By the way, if it won't collimate, could there be another problem.
I met a person in my campground who has been in the hobby for years and he couldn't get it any better than myself.
I would appreciate any thoughts you might have on this subject, regards, bob

James McSheehy said:

A popular theme these days is the notion of taxing wealthy Americans because they got an undeserved tax cut and now they should pay "their fair share". Never mind the fact that many of these wealthy folks actually represent small businesses and their "income" is inflated because they file taxes as S-corporations or LLCs.

The political rhetoric treats these people as fixed targets, and politicians assume they will just stand there, grab their ankles, and take whatever tax increases are handed down. The reality is the wealthiest 1% can live wherever they choose, and many will simply leave the tax base if the federal government heaps enough abuse on them. The next level, not quite as wealthy, may not have unlimited mobility, but they will alter their behavior to avoid paying taxes. They will lay off employees, close businesses, retire early, etc., rather than pay Uncle Sam's high taxes.

So what you say? Well consider this, the upper 1% already pay about 40% of income taxes, and the upper 5% of earners pay a total of 60% of the total. The bottom half, 50%, of income earners only pay 3-frikkin'-% of income taxes! If only one tenth of the upper 1% of taxpayers leave the tax base (a few thousand people), income taxes on the bottom 50% will have to DOUBLE to make up the difference.

So go ahead and cheer 'em on as they go after the wealthiest Americans. Your taxes are going up. They could afford it, can you?

James C Chandler Jr said:

Dunno about the misery thang, but if just looking for a boring place...

Long ago spent a month in Abilene TX. It wasn't a bad burg as far as I could tell. However, the locals I met did not consider the home town especially exciting. It was the first time i heard the expression, "The most exciting thing to do around here is watch the cars rust." They had some pretty nice restaurant steaks, tho.

Jim Babcock said:

I would prefer that Obama's socialist agenda would fail and that we go through a lot of pain because of the failure than for this country to turn into a socialist country. If there is enough pain and people appropriately attribute it to Obama, Democrats and socialism, then maybe some of their nonsense will be relegated to history permanently.

Sometimes tough love is required, and in many of our opinion, socialism and communism are evil and bad enough that they are worth the pain to defeat.

Jim Babcock said:

They have proposed many ideas, but none of them are extreme or liberal enough for Obama.

The nonpartisan CBO actually said that Obama's plan is WORSE than doing nothing in the long run. No one is proposing that we do nothing. What Obama is doing is destructive and it is great when citizens speak out against a regime like Obama's.

david elosser said:

"Polling data show that Mr. Obama's approval rating is dropping and is below where George W. Bush was in an analogous period in 2001."

"A detailed examination of presidential popularity after 50 days on the job similarly demonstrates a substantial drop in presidential approval relative to other elected presidents in the 20th and 21st centuries. The reason for this decline most likely has to do with doubts about the administration's policies and their impact on peoples' lives."


From this current article:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123690358175013837.html


David E

Lee Spain said:

The president was simply making an analogy about his bowling abilities being comparable to the bowling abilities of special Olympians. I don't particularly see it as an insult and the mentally challenged don't see it as an insult. The only people who see it as an insult are the hyper-sensitive parents of the mentally challenged. So fine, here is something for them to worry about:

It is a complete waste of time to mainstream mentally challenged children in an already overburdened public school system. The distraction of the drooling kid in the corner is not helping American kids improve their math, science or literacy skills and meet the challenge of globalism. All mentally challenged should take the short bus to a special school or a special classroom within a school in order to recieve education and vocational training that is appropriate to their abilities. It is a complete waste of taxpayer resources to train all teachers to deal with the one special needs child in their class.

To penalize Obama, I hearby forgive Michael Richards for his comedy club tirade and hope he gets a new sitcom. I now return you to your regularly scheduled programming. Game on.