Posts Made By: Domenic Quadrini

I have seen the companion many times with my Vixen 60 mm f/11.7 at 60X. It is usually easy with my Vixen 80 mm f/11.4 at 51X.

I have the UWA's in 14 mm, 8.8 mm and 6.7 mm and the SWA's in 24.5 mm, 18 mm, 13.8 mm and the series 4000 APO triplet barlow. No Plossls, though. Great eyepieces.

I had the ES 8.8 mm UWA that I immediately returned after purchasing. Could not see the entire field without moving my eyeball around and the blackout (kidney beaning) was very annoying. I replaced the ES with the Meade UWA 8.8 and found nirvana. No blackouts and could see the entire field with one eye position. Same for the 14 mm UWA. And stars are pinpoint to the edge of the field. Both very fine eyepieces.

As we now know there was never any evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Russians to interfere with the election.  The allegation that it did was invented by the democrats because Clinton lost the election.

If Clinton had won, does anyone doubt that the Mueller investigation would never have happened?  If Clinton had won (shudder the thought) the democrats would have celebrated their victory and the Trump campaign colluding with the Russians would have quickly become an after thought and no investigation of collusion would have occurred.

I find it ironic, though, that Trump was so intimidated by the Mueller investigation, even though he knew he was not guilty of colluding with the Russians, that he had to resort to bumbled attempts to stifle it, attempts that now have given the democrats more fodder to malign his presidency.

Had he not tried to quash the investigation, obstruction of justice would not have become an issue and the democrats would have no further reason to pursue his demise.  It is unfortunate that this has become their main focus, instead of enacting legislation to solve some of the countries more pressing domestic problems.

I blame the democrats for perpetrating the lies that led to an investigation that should never have occurred (we knew in great detail before the investigation what the Russians were up to) and I blame Trump for creating the evidence that allowed the democrats to keep up their whining and fruitless efforts to get him out of office.

The Mueller investigation was a waste of time and money and directed congress away from its contracted duty.  
  

Originally Posted by Richard Davis

I disagree only in the sense that it really wouldn't matter if they hadn't completely concocted this fake nonsense, because they would have come up with another scenario to try and remove him from office.  

Remember the very day after the election, they were already saying he should be impeached.  They've never stopped and they never will.  

It is funny how the people who are the Dems' heroes suddenly become their nemesis when they go against the Dem play machine.  Mueller didn't find collusion, so he needs to come up to Capitol Hill to answer for his crimes.  

Even Nancy Pelosi was saying that William Barr was a trustworthy AG, then when he puts out his report on the Mueller Invest. and it doesn't comport with their fantasy world, he's the Devil.  He needs to be impeached according to the Dems.  

Jerold Nadler is a complete Fraud because back in the later '90s he was adamant that any of Ken Starr's report about Bill Clinton Could not and should not be released because of the danger of Grand Jury testimony and information getting out to the public, yet now, virtually every aspect of their perpetrated fraud definitely needs to be open and transparent, with NO redactions.

These Dems are just as phony as they come.  It was all a sham and like the Terminator, they will not stop... ever!  

Rich, I agree with your comments.  I was referring to this scenario only which led to a completely useless investigation.

Originally Posted by James Lacey

The Mueller report makes it crystal clear that Russia attacked our 2016 election to help Trump, and Trump and his campaign welcomed that help. These facts as established by the Mueller report is not media spin, it's not gossip, and it's not a hoax. It is the reason the investigation started and saying otherwise, or that it was a political witch-hunt is quite frankly just dishonest. The only reason the investigation started was because of Russia and the actions of Trump, his campaign and those around him. Then what made matters worse, was all of the lies, and attempted obstruction once the investigation did start. For crying out loud, Trump asked McGahn to fire the special counsel and then write a memo saying that Trump never asked him to do it. In the report Mueller's conclusion was this incident alone satisfies all the elements of obstruction. There are no less than twelve such incidents detailed. The only reason Trump's indictment for obstruction is not a reality is that he's a sitting President and many of his aides had the good sense to not follow through with his requests. I will grant you this though; the Mueller report did exonerate someone; it exonerated the media. It looks like most of their reporting about the White House's chaos and dysfunction and Trump's actions that cause all of this were entirely accurate. And now Trump is demanding political retribution and investigating the investigators. The man is awful, and America deserves far better than a President who acts and behaves like an overgrown childish bully and a banana republic despot.

Hey James, the Trump campaign may have welcomed that help, but they didn't ask for it and they didn't participate in whatever the Russians were doing; at least that is what Mueller concluded. 

The Russians would have meddled in our election no matter who was running and if it were a different republican that won there may or may not have been an investigation, depending on how PO'ed the democrats were that they lost and how much they disliked the personality of the winning republican. 

Don't get me wrong, I'm not a fan of Trump, but this whole investigation was a sham perpetrated by the left and fueled by the liberal media.  Again, if Clinton had won there would never have been an investigation in the first place.  And if you believe otherwise there is a bridge in New York that someone would like to sell to you.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

There was plenty of back and forth quid pro quo between the Trump campaign and the Russians, as per evidence in the Mueller report, especially with interactions between gates and Manafort and Russia:
http://time.com/5572821/donald-trump-russia-contacts/
I also disagree with your assertion that there never would have been an investigation had Clinton won the election. The fact that the Russians interfered with the election and the reasons for doing so were more than sufficient to initiate an investigation at multiple levels. 

Not if Clinton had won.

Mercury transit.  Mercury near center of solar disc and at the edge just before egress.  Jaegers 4" f/15.5 refractor with Baader visual solar filter and Pentax K10D DSLR.

Near center of solar disc.

The United states has about 1/23 of the world population, but it has about 1/3 of the documented Covid-19 cases.  Either somebody's not being honest in their reporting or we are really screwed.

Oh.  The latest news from NBC says that there is hope for a vaccine within a year, possibly even by the end of this year.  Keep your fingers crossed.