Posts Made By: Steve Thornton

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YiAkTdmj0A

"All we've heard," the Fox News host complained, is "we need a big tent. We need a big tent. Can we get a bigger tent? How can we get a big tent? What is this the circus? America is not a clown show. America is not a circus." - Glenn Beck at CPAC

Read the quote, Watch the Link. Enjoy the show.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/02/woolly-mammoths-resurfaci_n_482879.html

Siberia may be melting; methane, 26 times as powerful as carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, is being released, but at least someone is making money from global warming.

Link to all the headstuckinthesand.com websites you want, when old mammoth bones start making an appearance, time to say, "Yeah, this may be real."

This Headline in today's Drudge Report;

"Hussein reconsiders Indonesia Military"

Which links to this story:

"Ahead of visit, Obama reconsiders Indonesia military"

Or are they tea-partiers now? Hard to tell the difference.

Follows the birthers, deathers, Obama's a socialist, his teleprompter; the continuing list of Obama-hating talking points.

Well, I guess there are some Republican politicians who have common sense. First, Tim Pawlenty in February's Esquire:

"The Republicans had their shot not long ago to address the real needs and concerns of everyday Americans, and they blew it.... Over the time that they were there and had the leadership opportunity, they blew it. We got fired for a reason."

And then the link to David Frum, former speechwriter for George Bush.


http://www.frumforum.com/waterloo

Richard Davis said:

........... No, they have their own excellent care paid for by us! They are totalitarian THUGS!

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I wondered how long it would take to get to 'TOTALITARIAN.' First, commies, socialists, marxists, blah, blah, blah, blah.......

You know, you guys would be a lot better off making reasoned arguments about legitimate concerns like the deficits instead of going bat crap crazy all the time with all these end of the world, end of the country, and the aforementioned commies, socialists, marxist diatribes.

It's not called any of those, it's called MAJORITY RULE! The majority RULES! All this whining and bitching about no bipartisanship is ridiculous because there's only one party that's actually trying to solve the problems we have right now. And we have the Majority because your guys blew it big time. From the insane tax cuts for the rich your side reconciled through the Congress, to Katrina to the unimaginably stupid and incompetent war in Iraq, fighting the WRONG country. Your guys blew it!

Let's face it, the reality of the situation is that all this moaning and groaning about health care and the "nail in the coffin' and constant name-calling by you and your politicians can be summed up in two word: POOR LOSERS. You didn't get your way so your going take all your marbles, not play the game anymore and call everybody names.

Which is fine because it's our turn now. Sorry it took so long for me to post this but I was sitting back and enjoying the signing of the Health Care Reform Bill. A great day for the country.

I guess all those ranting against the socialists, commies, marxists, liberals and fascists involved in health care reform will have to add the health insurance companies to their list. Will the last person in the haters room please turn out the lights?

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1974757,00.html

http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1974757,00.html


This is a link work seeing again. If I were a Republican politician, I would be pissed. They lost the Health Reform vote and succeeded to unify the Democrats at the same time. Their overlords, the health insurance companies took a nanosecond to see which side their bread was buttered on and now they're gung-ho for reform.

The polls(USA Today/Gallup) now show the American people supporting reform by 49% to 40%. The Republican take-no-prisoners attitude have left them with their teabagger buddies supporting revolution and violence. All Boehner can do is say,

“Well, there are a lot of angry Americans and they are angry over this health care bill. They’re angry about the fact that the Democrats here in Washington aren’t listening to them. But I’ve got to tell you that violence and threats are unacceptable."

Sort of like the joke, "Well, aside from that, how was the play Mrs. Lincoln?"

And now, from two of the Republican leaders, you get Sarah Palin, targeting congressional Democrats with a map of Democratic districts with a gunsight on them and she says to RELOAD. Nice classy move. And then there's Mitt Romney, who criticized the heath reform bill, which was very similar to the one he helped institute in Massachusetts. Nothing like intellectual consistency. I guess he was against it after he was came up with it. That was when he was a liberal before he was a conservative.

I may disagree with Republicans, but I have to admit, they are damned entertaining.

Well, I guess this was predictable, the Republican National Committee reimbursed a staffer for nearly $2,000 worth of expenses at a West Hollywood Bondage-themed stripper club, featuring simulated lesbian acts. Puts a new meaning to "stimulating the economy."

But wait, there's more........

The RNC actually included the expenses on their Federal Elections Commission filing. Just a normal expense for those wild and crazy Republicans. The staffer who O.K.ed the expenses was fired, probably for not putting them under 'Miscellaneous.' I can just imagine what the RNC's books look like...

Paper...........................$85

Pens, Pencils...................$60

Printer ink.....................$95

Bondage/Stripper Club...........$1946

But wait, there's more...

The RNC spent more that $17,000 in February for private planes, limos and bar tabs for rich donors. Just keeping in touch with the common folk(pilots, limo drivers and bartenders).

But wait, there's more......

The Republicans were outed by conservative/libertarian Tucker Carlson, which probably, in the eyes of the Republican establishment, makes him a bleeding heart liberal.

Well, paraphrasing Sarah Palin, "Reload, aim at foot, shoot!"

Or, as Confucius would say, "One can disagree with Republicans, but in the end, they're just so damned entertaining!"

http://dailycaller.com/2010/03/29/rnc-cultivating-young-donors-during-after-party-at-voyeur-west-hollywood/

Robert,

I made mine out of a 12-inch sonotube that I picked up from Home Depot. It costs about $10, is easy to paint, is solid instead of flexible and is almost a perfect fit for OTA. It's alos very lightweight.

Steve Thornton

Here's a shot I took last Friday with my ToUcam and a 127 mm Orion Mak. The seeing wasn't great but I got some pretty decent detail with the sunspot group near the sun's limb