Posts Made By: James C Chandler Jr

There are common people-shaped targets of various bad guys, terrorists, criminals with hostages, etc. The bad guys with hostages are actually practical, as ideally there should be lots of bullet holes in the bad guy and none in the hostage.

There are also many critter-shaped targets.

Only time I've shot people-shaped targets is for the handgun carry license exam, where the people-shaped silhouette is required. I don't like shooting people-shaped or animal-shaped targets. The only exception is a pad of Barney the Dinosaur targets which are a lot of fun to shoot.

jeff glancy said:

Personally, gold and oil stocks look good to me:


http://www.zerohedge.com/article/guest-post-sound-one-hand-clapping-what-deflationists-may-be-missing

Thanks Jeff

The article is interesting, as are the comments.

Hi Mark

I have these two UWA EP's marked with another brand name, bought at about the same price. Have suspicion they all come from the same factory and would be quite similar, but really don't know. It is not impossible that the UO branded UWA might have entirely different specs from the ones I got, with entirely different characteristics from an entirely different OEM.

Assuming all the 11mm and 16mm generic UWA's are all about the same, these are the most disappointing EP's I've ever bought. Maybe someone with different eye physiology or tastes would like them better.

The Expanse type (generically called EWA enhanced wide angle at 6mm, 9mm, 15mm, 20mm) are head-and-shoulders better eyepieces than the 11mm and 16mm UWA generic EP's.

* Incredibly tight eye relief. I think you would have to actually touch the eyeball to the eyelens to see the advertised 80 degrees. At the (comfortable) eye-spacing for an Expanse EWA, the Expanse will show a wider AFOV than these generic UWA's.

* Wants drastic in-focus more than any other EP I've bought. Some scopes can't focus these things before you bottom out the focuser. I went to the trouble of trimming the eyepieces in a mini lathe to get the focus in the ballpark with other eyepieces, but it really didn't improve the basic poor performance.

* The lenses appear coated, but transmission of the EP's seems bad. They do not seem as bright as other EP's I've bought.

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I also bought one of the 2" 15mm UWA's. It is better than the 11mm and 16mm 1.25" UWA's, but nothing to write home about. They all were relegated to the junk drawer just in case some bizarre need for them should arrive in the future.

Have read many reviews that the 2" 20mm and 30mm generic UWA's are pretty good for the money, but I've never tried those.

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Expanses are much better EP's than the 1.25" UWA's.

13mm T6 is head-and-shoulders better. The 7mm, 10mm, and 15mm Celestron Axiom LX perform as good as the 13mm T6 as best I can tell. Also the 18mm Meade 5000 UW. Am very happy with all those.

The generic UWA's are just no comparison with the above.

Thanks Jim

That Peugeot is funny-shaped, like the designer accidentally stepped on the clay model but nobody noticed.

Found a neat micro car museum site. Didn't realize that so many had been manufactured over the years. It looks like all micro-car designers have been gifted with unusual tastes in appearance.

http://microcarmuseum.com/tourindex.html

My uncle had an Isetta in the 1950's and I actually got to ride in it some--

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/isetta-gb00.jpg

Here are a few other good ones--

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/silver00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/schmitt-55-02-00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/trojan00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/trident00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/eshelman-200-00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/bondbug00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/frisky-three00.jpg

http://microcarmuseum.com/tour/images/aws-shopper00.jpg

Here is a manufacturer who has all the bases covered-- Hummer-killer on one end, and deadly mini-car on the other end--

http://www.supremesv.com/ta-overview.php

The Avenger would eat Hummers for lunch, and it also has a top-hatch and rotating firing platform which would work fabulous for astronomy.

The MAD Mobile Armored Device is an armor-plated golf cart from hell, but it is electric powered and politically-correct green vehicle (literally a green vehicle).

And the nice thing about both-- They are Level III armored with luxurious and convenient gun ports!

Perhaps the careful stroking in one direction only would allow static electric charges to slightly align the magnetic domains in the needle? Moving electric charge causing a magnetic field and such.

Apparently a pretty weak magnet will make a compass if the bearing is smooth enough. The old child experiments wiping a needle across a bar magnet and floating it in a bowl of water on a bottle cork.

There was one crude magnet-making technique read as a kid in a textbook-- Align an iron rod north-south and give it a firm rap with a hammer. I don't recall trying it. Supposedly the firm rap shakes up some of the domains and then they settle a little more-aligned because of the earth's magnetic field?

Came across this one--

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/269355-breaking-news-barack-obama-named-finalist-for-heisman-trophy

"It was announced today that President Barack Obama has been named a finalist for the 2009 Heisman Memorial Trophy Award as presented by the Downtown Athletic Club.

President Obama just held a press conference to respond to this honor and had this to say. "Let me be clear: I do not view this as a recognition of my own accomplishments, but rather as an affirmation of the totalitarian agenda of the NCAA. We have much in common."

"I know it is highly unusual for a non-football player to be named a finalist for the Heisman but I believe that with hope and change, along with social justice, this will not be my last sports type of award thingy."

President Obama went on to thank his wife Michelle, George Soros, Bill Ayers and ACORN.

After waiting for the thunderous applause to cease and Chris Matthews to stop humping his leg, he closed with these remarks.

"To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many transformative figures from the storied history of college football. After all, I'm Barack Obama. I've got a Nobel Peace Prize. What have they done?"

He is the only finalist named so far and the first non-college football player to ever receive this honor."

I believe the proposition and don't even feel obligated to explain or document why it is believable. Its gotta be at least as credible as the widespread liberal belief that the Bush admin was monitoring everybody's phone calls .

Even if guns and ammo remain a political third rail-- Given the high odds of future inflation, it seems unlikely that guns or ammo will ever be substantially less expensive than today. Even given the shortages, prices have not risen dramatically (yet).

If one also assigns slim odds of stocks or bonds having significant long-term growth (seems unlikely to me).

Ammo has an extremely long shelf life. Guns have an extremely long shelf life. If one likes to shoot, now is arguably a better time to stock up than the future. Ammo bought now will shoot just fine five or ten years from now, and its a pretty sure bet it will be more expensive in the future.

No sense buying what ya don't need, but ammo seems as good a place as any to park money right now, if ya expect to still be shooting in the future. That and precious metals, storable food, extra shoes and jeans. They will all be more expensive in the future, and if we don't drop dead we'll have to buy them in the future if we don't buy them now when they are cheap.

Strange bedfellows. Or maybe just strange . I'll bet dollars to donuts that Rev Jeremiah Wright, ex-czar Van Jones, and Rosie O'Donnell also agree, but haven't found evidence.


http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/10/19/Farrakhan-suspicious-of-H1N1-vaccine/UPI-63931256011008/

""The Earth can't take 6.5 billion people. We just can't feed that many. So what are you going to do? Kill as many as you can. We have to develop a science that kills them and makes it look as though they died from some disease," Farrakhan said, adding that many wise people won't take the vaccine."

http://www.prisonplanet.com/government-hijacks-kids-tv-to-propagandize-for-swine-flu-shots.html

"What ‘Sid the Science Kid,’ the pharmaceutical lobby and Kathleen Sebelius won’t tell you about the swine flu vaccine is that children are already dying after taking similar vaccines, that healthy young women are getting brain disorders after being injected with flu vaccines, that the H1N1 shot contains dangerous additives like mercury which cause autism, and that a child is 40 times more likely to be struck by lightning than have their life saved by a swine flu vaccine."

david elosser said:

GONE! Overseas to:
"...a new multi-million-dollar technology fund for Muslim nations...will provide financing of between 25 and 150 million dollars for selected projects and funds. The Global Technology and Innovation Fund will "catalyze and facilitate private sector investments" throughout Asia, the Middle East and Africa." bragged President Obama. "...projects could help foster the development of new computer technology or telecommunications businesses, or widen access to broadband Internet services."

http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=CNG.96323f483e0be9f6a793eaa215ad708a.211&show_article=1

David E

They are blowing thru so many hundreds of billions of fresh-printed money that a measly $150 million is like giving a quarter to the bum on the street for a cup of coffee (yeah sure, it is for coffee).