Posts Made By: Greg Shaffer

Ron Ronhaar said:

how long does a classified ad stay up once i post it?

terry wolbach said:

I have been out of the hobby for a few years a lot has changed I want to restore an old Edmund scientific reflector that has been sitting in my attic for 40 years where can I buy telescope parts looking mostly for a new mirror and spider parts like that, seems like most places just want to sell you telescopes these days

Ed Blankenship said:

I concur with Tom: Yikes !!!

This seems very unstable to me !!!

I'd find a way to put the 80mm on the opposite side of the mount (trade for the dual mount).

Jim Moscheck said:

Maybe someone can tell me why it's OK for the Senate to be concocting a health care bill, which represents 20% of the economy, in secret by 13 men and hope to pass it by July 4th? The affordable care act or Obamacare as everyone called it, required over 100 public hearings and got the opinions of health care professionals and everyone else who wanted input into this important legislation. I remember lots of criticism and changes made that actually made it destined to fail. So, I guess it's OK to ram something through as long as you're the GOP?

David Cotterell said:

If any of these points below are in error please illuminate.

1) Republicans do not believe health care is a right.

[COLOR="Blue"]100% percent absolutely beyond a shadow of a doubt correct (at least in this conservatives opinion, note I did not say republican). I defy you to show me in OUR Constitution where it says it is.
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2) Republicans do not think the government should work toward ensuring everyone has health care coverage.

[COLOR="Blue"]Not if it entails taking by force from one group to give to another.

[/COLOR]3) Republicans want tens of millions of people to lose their health care coverage so Republicans can pay for a tax cut for wealthy people. (see the proposed drastic reduction in capital gains taxes...)

[COLOR="Red"]Loaded statement, not a question....

[/COLOR]4) Republicans believe that if you can't get the health care you need because you can't afford it, or getting that care financially ruins you, "thems the breaks" so to speak. You should have made more money, or made sure you got a job with better insurance coverage, or not gotten so sick.

[COLOR="Red"]Statement...not a question. Basic care is addressed by medicare/Medicaid
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5) Republicans do not think all health care insurance should cover certain essential benefits, nor do Republicans believe people with pre-existing conditions should be guaranteed coverage.

[COLOR="Red"]Statement...not a question.
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6) Republicans do not want an open, informed debate on an issue that impacts every American and 1/6th of the economy. That's why Republicans drafted the bill in secret and held no hearings.

[COLOR="Blue"]Pure partisan bullshit....the entire senate draft was released for review and discussion today! Why on earth should something that isn't finished be openly released when every partisan asshole on the planet is dying to rip it to shreds....
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The vast majority of those who voted for this sort of thinking are the very people who will be negatively affected. And they will vote for more and worse in the future..... I fail to understand the Stockholm Syndrome relationship between R voters and R policy.

[COLOR="Blue"]Yes I get that individual responsibility is a foreign concept for you, feel free to apply this to the above non-answers I gave on some statements
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James Lacey said:

“We’re going to have insurance for everybody,� Trump told the Washington Post as president-elect.

It was a promise he also made during his campaign. At an MSNBC town hall in February 2016, host Joe Scarborough asked Trump if “all Americans will get health care of some sort.� Trump responded, “we’re going to take care of them. We’re going to take care of them. We have to take care of them. Now, that’s not single payer. That’s not anything. That’s just human decency.

The CBO says 22 million fewer people with insurance by 2026, and even the WH analysis predicts 26 million.

[COLOR="Blue"]Yep.....largely represented by those who were forced to buy under Obamacare pulling out by CHOICE.

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I was the first & only potential GOP candidate to state there will be no cuts to Social Security, Medicare & Medicaid. Huckabee copied me.

The CBO says Medicaid to be cut by $880Bn in the first decade.

[COLOR="Blue"]Actually its not a cut from what is spent now....it is a cut to the rate of growth but no one cares to mention that.

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“Will people with pre-existing conditions be able to get health insurance?� Anderson Cooper asked him at a campaign stop. “Yes,� Trump replied.

“You’re going to see pre-existing conditions and everything else be part of it, but the price will be down, and the insurance companies can pay,� Trump said at a GOP debate in Texas. “Yes, they will keep pre-existing conditions, and that would be a great thing. Get rid of Obamacare, we’ll come up with new plans. But, we should keep pre-existing conditions.�

Insurance companies will be able to deny pre-existing conditions, forcing people into expensive high-risk pools.

Who is lying now?

[COLOR="Blue"]Cant dispute that....but that's why its called INSURANCE and its a business for profit, insurance for high risk has always cost more regardless of whether it is healthcare or whatever.

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James Lacey said:

The President of the United States is cyber-bullying a woman in the media on Twitter. Thank goodness we got rid of that Dijon mustard loving, Kenyan born, welfare loving, Muslim that came before him.

Russ Carroll said:

Congress is finally growing a pair and stepping into the void/incompetence/corruption of this President. I, for one, am relieved.

This guy really seems like the Manchurian candidate incarnate. Russian mob money tied to Trump businesses is the simplest explanation for his behavior towards Russia. Hopefully, Mr Mueller will be able to sift through and distill his financial history to reveal the truth, regardless of what it is. The American people have a right to know what the story is, and Trump wont reveal it.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/01/politics/congress-trump-war-power/index.html

Russ Carroll said:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/18/world/europe/trump-putin-undisclosed-meeting.html

WTF?

That's the best I can post about this...