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Posts Made By: mike welsh

October 1, 2003 01:50 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day, 01.10.03

Posted By mike welsh
"Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war."

-Isaac Asimov, scientist and writer (1920-1992)


October 3, 2003 06:30 PM Forum: Equipment Talk

Vixen/Celestron/Televue Mirror diagonal

Posted By mike welsh
Anyone here have any experience replacing the mirror in one of these puppies? i have the shells of two of these... the mirrors are cashed.

i had tried -i think it was- a .75" MA standard diagonal mirror, but it was too thick to allow reassembly.

Thanks!
-mw.

October 26, 2003 08:12 PM Forum: Religion

FYI and comment... from Radio Netherlands.

Posted By mike welsh
Too long to post here, but give it a read. Aired on 10/25...

http://www.rnw.nl/en/insight.html

October 28, 2003 02:33 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day. 28/10/03

Posted By mike welsh
If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitable.
-John F. Kennedy, 35th US president (1917-1963)

October 29, 2003 04:31 AM Forum: Religion

Re: I don't like politics, but

Posted By mike welsh
The best thing about our government system: everyone is dispensable.

There's no real need for term limit legislation... just voting out the incompetents limits their terms. Automatically.

Good rule of thumb: Remember, it's an election... not a RE-election.

(only keep the ones you like...)

-mw.


November 3, 2003 02:52 PM Forum: Religion

Another taste of hate...

Posted By mike welsh
** Group plans monument to gay mans death **
Five years after student Matthew Shepard was killed, touching off a national dialogue on gay rights, a group wants to put up a monument in Shepards hometown to his murder.


http://www.msnbc.com/modules/exports/ct_email.asp?/news/986318.asp

Try to have a good day...
-mw.

November 4, 2003 03:25 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the day, 04.11.03

Posted By mike welsh
"The radio is nothing but a conduit through which pre-fabricated din can flow into our homes. And this din goes far deeper, of course, than the eardrums. It penetrates the mind, filling it with a babble of distractions, blasts of corybantic or sentimental music, continually repeated doses of drama that bring no catharsis, but usually create a craving for daily or even hourly emotional enemas."

-Aldous Huxley; On Silence; 1946.

November 5, 2003 03:15 AM Forum: Religion

Bottom line on "Hate."

Posted By mike welsh
Been working my way through the various threads on this, and maybe i missed it, but i think my original point when i posted "Another taste..." is this:

Matt Shepard was MURDERED. Period. It doesn't matter one iota if he was gay or anything else. The people who killed him were WRONG and MURDERERS. To put a monument in a public park proclaiming that he "went to Hell" is INFLAMMATORY and IMMORAL.

Whatever peace he made with his god on the days he hung dying on that barbed-wire fence will never be known by any mortal in this life. How dare ANYONE feel triumphant over his death, and presume to declare where his soul went?

Thank you.
-mw.

November 6, 2003 06:47 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day... 06.11.03

Posted By mike welsh
"Youth is the first victim of war - the first fruit of peace. It takes 20 years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only 20 seconds of war to destroy him."
-Boudewijn I, King of Belgium (1934-1993)

November 7, 2003 06:32 PM Forum: Religion

Thought for the Day, 07.11.03

Posted By mike welsh
"The aim of an argument or discussion should not be victory, but progress."
-Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

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