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May 15, 2023 05:51 AM Forum: Politics

My condolences to JB - Off Topic NCAA content

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Sorry, I skimmed the post and didn't see that you posted on CN. Like I was getting at, I really don't care about any other eyepieces except the ones I already have. They will last the rest of my life at least and my grandkids have dibs on them when I'm gone.

May 15, 2023 06:11 PM Forum: Politics

My condolences to JB - Off Topic NCAA content

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Before I ever posted here I sold a 24 Panoptic to a guy who answered my ad here. He was fairly local and my wife and I were heading to Ann Arbor for the weekend so I told the guy I'd deliver it.

Anyways, I had since discovered the forums here and while looking at a thread in the EP forum about 24 Panoptics I realized it was the fellow who bought the EP from me and he was having major problems with it in his homemade dob with home brewed mirror. The thread was pages long and starting to really diss on me for possibly selling an EP that they thought the lenses may have come apart and I put it back together wrong. So much for AM having more knowledgeable members than CN. I was horrified as that had never happened and it worked great in my 10" Orion dob with a Paracorr, and the only reason for selling it was I bought a 26T5 Nagler. Seems it was the first widefield EP the guy had ever used and he was seeing the horrendous coma from his mirror. He bought a Paracorr and lived happily ever after.

We've since become good friends and have belonged to the same club for many years since.

That was my introduction to the AM EP forum in 2004. Wow, in September I'll have been here 20 years!

I found this forum soon after. I miss all of those guys who used to post here! I didn't agree with everyone, but there was no name calling or real nastiness that I can remember until one fateful day...............

May 15, 2023 11:20 PM Forum: Politics

Congressman Comer - "Joe Biden engaged in a Pay to Play Scheme, selling his policy decisions for cash payments from our adversaries"

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Hey Rich, care to comment?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/15/comer-biden-allegations/

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May 16, 2023 02:02 AM Forum: Politics

Congressman Comer - "Joe Biden engaged in a Pay to Play Scheme, selling his policy decisions for cash payments from our adversaries"

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Originally Posted by James Lacey


What? The informant that Comer built his entire charade on has gone missing? Yet another victim of the Clinton body count, I'm sure! 
No, it was the Biden Crime Family: “That’s a real nice informant you got there, it’d be a shame if anything happened to it.”

How long do we give Davis to respond before we can claim victory? Of a stupid thread started because of a stupid congressman with no proof whatsoever. And echoed by the forum’s right wing lunatic. 

May 16, 2023 02:23 AM Forum: Politics

Congressman Comer - "Joe Biden engaged in a Pay to Play Scheme, selling his policy decisions for cash payments from our adversaries"

Posted By Jim Moscheck

I admit I stole the submarine gag from Joe Scarborough's commentary this morning.

"So, comrade, you’re telling me you’ve lost another submarine?” Scarborough said on his show Monday, making fun of Comer. 

Come on, you lost an informant … You lost the informant, the guy that you claimed gave you all this information that you built this entire charade on.”

The host was reacting to Comer’s comments on Fox Business a day earlier claiming House Republicans “unfortunately” can’t “track down the informant” they had been speaking with related to their probe.

Scarborough, who is frequently critical of Republicans supportive of former President Trump, scoffed at Comer’s assertions.

“What do you and [special counsel John] Durham, like, do you guys have tea parties every weekend? That talk about how you can destroy your reputation and your career … 

Durham tried this, remember? He chased conspiracy theories to try to prove that the FBI was corrupt and rigged the 2016 election, he made a fool of himself time and time and time again,” Scarborough said. “And now we have lost informants, in fact, the informant, that this entire charade was built on.”

May 16, 2023 03:03 AM Forum: Politics

My condolences to JB - Off Topic NCAA content

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman
Hi Jim B,
Thanks for the info on the Nagler patents. It's interesting and informative.
PS: You're right about the quote button being off; I can quote others in my replies but not my own. 
Seems like it happens when a really long link or large photo is posted. This software is getting pretty long in the tooth, although I like how we can post videos direct from youtube and not just a link using the youtube button above.

Like this. I heard that this is the guy Herb hired that oversaw the last update of the forum software.  Be patient, it takes a minute till the good part:


 

May 17, 2023 12:44 AM Forum: Politics

May 17, 2023 10:05 PM Forum: Politics

Congressman Comer - "Joe Biden engaged in a Pay to Play Scheme, selling his policy decisions for cash payments from our adversaries"

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


So then, your complete ignoring of my question, where I asked "what do you think of the Durham report?", is the non-answer you're going to offer up?  

I wonder why it is, that whenever any leftist like you is asked a Direct question, the only answer they ever give is "whatabout...." and then jump on their high horse and claim that the right is always claiming "whatabout" as you did when you deflected and made it about Trump, due to your TDS?  

So then since I'll point out that you're deflecting to Jared Kushner, Donald Trump, and don't care to answer, I'll challenge you again to answer about the Durham report after I DO give an answer to your deflection question about Kushner.

So you asked What do you think of Jared Kushner getting 2B from the Saudis?, where you claim it is the same as the Hunter Biden deal from China.

First of all, Kushner's firm did not have the blessing of getting $2 Billion right off the bat.  

His firm Affinity Partners, was going to be given $500 Million with the stipulation required by the Saudis that he would put an investment management team together consisting of some prominent investment managers.  

His firm did exactly that.  They hired the private equity firms of Bret Perlman and Asad Naqvi.  Kushner and his partners firm were then awarded the contract partly because his firm gave them (the Saudis) a discount from the usual 2% rate down to 1.25%.

Kushner's firm also agreed to provide a discount of the carried interest portion of Kushner's firms rate of 20% and give that to the Saudis as well.

Subsequent to that, it is reported that the Saudis had a stipulation in the deal that they would receive in exchange for their $2 Billion investment, a 28% stake in the main investment fund that Kushner put together.

Crown Prince Salman stepped in and met with the oversight group, and decided to invest in Kushner's investment firm probably partly because Jared Kushner was so instrumental in putting together the Abraham Accords.  Perhaps he had faith in Kushner's ability to understand how gov'ts operate and decided to go with them because he had already proven himself in getting the Abraham Accords agreement between the Saudis and the Israelis.  

Furthermore, he had a good understanding of gov't policies and the overall Geopolitical systems according to the Saudi investment fund panel members.

Now then, as reported by the NY Times, liberal's favorite paper of record, the Saudis put this caveat in place:  The Saudis had stipulated that Mr. Kushner’s firm could draw down only $500 million of the $2 billion commitment before “having a qualified investment team in place, on-boarding core operational professionals and constructing the investment committee.”

So since the Kushner investment firm hired several professional investment firms to join his company, there are now 20 people in the firm, which was reported to the Securities and Exchange commission, as filed by Affinty partners.

Also, of the 20 half are experienced investor professionals.  

Is that enough information for you or would you like me to elaborate further?

Now then, Hunter Biden's investment firm secured $2 Billion from the Communist Chinese Gov't.

Provide me a synopsis of what Hunter Biden's firm did for the Communist Chinese Gov't to secure their $2 Billion payment to Hunter's firm.  

Please be as specific as I just was regarding Jared Kushner's investment firm.  Who are the partners and members of Hunter Biden's firm and how many investment experts with vast experience that they have on staff?4

After you answer that question (if you don't again deflect), then maybe you can address my original question to you when I asked about the Durham report and how it showed that the FBI was/is as corrupt as the day is long.

Or you can do your usual deflection.  smile
I asked yesterday but you ignored it. How many indictments have come out of the Durham investigations? 

May 17, 2023 11:13 PM Forum: Politics

Congressman Comer - "Joe Biden engaged in a Pay to Play Scheme, selling his policy decisions for cash payments from our adversaries"

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Originally Posted by Richard Davis


2 that I know of.  What does that have to do with anything?  Durham stated that he wouldn't be pressing for prosecutions.

What would be the point, to continue to do like the Democrat operatives do with Repubs. and just have prosecution after prosecution of Ds, which do nothing but waste taxpayer money.

The Democrats would interfere anyway and stonewall.  They have been all along and covering up for Biden and his criminality. 

How many pages of the Durham report did you read?  My guess is zero.  

How would you possibly know what's contained in it?  

Anderson Cooper didn't even mention it on his show yesterday.  

Neither did the gal who followed him, not one mention of the Durham probe.

That's called cover up by omission.   
Two indictments. Two trials. 24 jurors unanimously rejected them. 

May 18, 2023 07:57 PM Forum: Politics

Yep, the Durham report proves what we knew all along about the FBI and that they are seriously corrupt and biased as hell

Posted By Jim Moscheck

Seems Rich doesn't want to answer my question concerning his original posting.

Durham Report: Two indictments. Two trials. Two seperate 12 person juries unanimously rejected them.

Four years and seven million dollars for what?