Posts Made By: Greg Shaffer

Jim Brown said:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/435570/donald-trump-judicial-appointments-list-outstanding-conservatives

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-election-trump-court-idUSKCN0Y92K5


I think it might. Trump and or his people are targeting folks like me, Richard, Russ Carroll and Mark Costello quite specifically with this move. He is targeting us early and targeting us where our political souls live. Pretty good idea in my view.

Jim

Dave Goodyear said:

Starting to get multiple browser errors when reloading astromart. Tried with multiple browers.

Error from IE:
(HTTP 500 Internal Server Error)

From Firefox and Opera:
HTTP/1.1 New Session Failed



Dave

Greg Shaffer said:

So I acquired a Mark Harry 6" mirror about 3 years ago that has been bugging for an OTA for a while now

Started fiddling with it in earnest a few months ago whenever the notion struck me. Have decided on making it a spiderless newt using an optical window to mount the secondary and contacted several glass houses for a quote to my specs for a window. Have the 8" tube, 2ndary, mirror cell etc all ready to go, starting on the cell for the window. If I like the way this turns out a 6.9" f/10 will be next with a window. Disregard the spider in the pic....Having read up on Ed Turco's windowed newt I am going that route.

Charles Stevenson said:

I posted this on CN but also wanted to share that I finally finished my first mirror. Came out to f/5.7 (8") and looked pretty decent to me. Thinking of shipping the mirror off this week to get coated... haven't heard back from OWL. What's the quickest turnaround? SpectruM? Magestic?

Russ Carroll said:

disgraced themselves by not protecting individual Trump supporters being attacked by a rabble right on the public streets at a peaceful political rally.

Even I would say to those trying to disarm American's from the right to protect themselves with lethal weapons, go F yourselves. You have an absolute right legally and morally to defend your life.

Russ Carroll said:

I really thought Trump was going to win the pPresidency in a landslide when Cruz got out of the race. I was never happy about that, but I could read the writing on the wall. i just thought Hillary was that unpopular, and that Trump would moderate his tone.

I was wrong.

I never thought that Trump would not only continue down the moronic path he was on that won him the Republican nomination, but that the racist statements that he had made would actually get worse.

Qualified to be President??? I'm not sure he qualifies to be an American.

Those that will Trumpet him here, or bash Clinton, will be in a fairly small minority on election day.

Thomas Dey said:

I finally got all the parts to build my final biggest telescope: A 36-inch f/3.75 Dob (to replace my ~too-small~ 29-inch). The 36 will just fit my geodesic dome up this dark rural hill from the house. Found a buyer for the 29 and threw in a brand new enclosed deluxe 12x5x5 trailer almost free! Good for him and good for me. Thanx, Kevin! So I am committed to the 36, excited and a bit trepid. I got the excellent journal Amateur Astronomy back issues on DVD and have been reading back from the present to educate myself on the history of Dobs. Tom Clark composed an excellent article 10 years ago (issue 51) wherein he describes the +/- of scopes small to gigantic. He concludes that [scopes around half gigantic (such as half of 36) are generally most staisfying for a variety of reasons that we DS folks are familiar with.] And I gota admit my most satisfying By Far was the trusty 17.5 that I built using a (good!) Coulter mirror and oil drums. It resided in a 12-foot dome behind the house and was pure pleasure exploring the cosmos. Also cheap, easy, reliable = +++. My 29 was expensive and required more TLC to perform. The exceptional nights were indeed wonderful. Now comes the 36! Tom's consul regarding his 36a, 36b and 42 is: [exceptional on rare exceptional nights --- but smaller scopes far more often perform to capability.] And my experience with the 29 bears that out. When it's good, it's GREAT ... but the seeing cooperates far less often. So now I will build the 36, install it in the dome --- and hope for the best. I'm targeting 1st light by Aug 1st - might take longer. All excited and wondering what I have gotten mysely into. I'm actually very happy that I decided to do it. Worst that can happen is I won't like it all that much --- and that would be OK. Tom Dey

Mark Costello III said:

There is some "evidence" out there ....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ralf-michaels/donald-trump-does-not-wan_b_9285638.html

http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/2016/03/28/Ex-Trump-Insider-Donald-Doesn-t-Want-Be-President

... that Donald Trump does not want to President. He either is locked into running for the Presidency or just wants to win it because in his eyes the Donald does nothing but win. But these and others like them make a case for the Donald not really wanting the job even if he wins.

So let's suppose the Donald wins the November Election, as unlikely as that is looking to be at this time. On the following Wednesday he announces that he will not serve as President. What happens next? Does Hillary get it because she came in #2 (she won't come in any lower than this)? Does the GOP VP candidate become President? Does this go to the House? Is a special election held? Is there another outcome I missed?

My guess, and I'm no expert on this is: The GOP VP candidate becomes the President-elect. It's the smoothest solution and IMHO FWIW best approximates the intent of the authors of the Constitution as currently amended.