Posts Made By: James Brown

William Daley said:

Hi all,

I knew it would happen when I re-subscribed to Astronomy Magazine. I was a charter subscriber to the mag in about 1973 and let my subscription lapse after 20 years.

Now I am wanting to get back into the hobby, and narrowed my search to the CPC 1100. I really am only interested in visual use, no astrophotography for me.

I hope this part of the discussion doesn't violate forum rules (I looked!), but I notice on every website I see, the price of the scope is exactly the same. There are no scope stores where I live, so I plan to buy it online. My question is, can anyone suggest a dealer that is willing to negotiate on the web price? Sent an email to one dealer and got a ho-hum response.

Anyway, thanks and would appreciate any thoughts any of you may have. Never been on this forum before, but I see I have a message inbox so feel free to use that venue.

William

mike montreal said:

tried to upload pic for an ad. came back with error that it was too big. how do you make it smaller? not too bright on this stuff so explain carefully. did the same thing on "cloudy nights" site and it was ok. thanks for any help!!

Lee Spain said:

If you had a choice and could vote for a charismatic crook who had pro-business, GOP, orthodox policies --OR-- a really boring, but honest, accountant lady who has no charisma, who would you choose? I think the crook could bring much needed economic development to the state, but he led one of the largest corporate medicare frauds in U.S. history. On the other hand, I don't agree with any of the Democrats policies, but she is not generally regarded as a crook. This is the WORST choice I've ever had as a voter EVER anywhere! When I was in Georgia I voted Libertarian one time because the GOP governor had a little bitty minor land scandal.

Yes, this is Rick Scott vs. Alex Sink for governor in Florida...

Mike Strieber said:

The article not only describes Obama perfectly, but liberals in general. This same attitude was prevalent in this very forum...back in the days when liberals weren't too embarrassed to post here that is.
Mike

Doug Matulis said:

What started with Clinton giving national secrets to China and followed on by Obama apologising to the world for American success and leadership as well as out right stating that America should not be a superpower, is now becoming reality. We are losing out place in the world and falling into third world status in all areas of our country, education, economics, politics (i.e. banana republic courts and unprotected elections), moral. http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/01/losing-scitech-race-china-experts-fear/

Floyd Blue said:

Well, voting day has arrived and it is time to go and express your views in a way that actually counts.
It will be an interesting election and will probably indicate the way the next election is heading.
Whether your party wins or not, it is important that whoever wins does something to bring changes that will get the country on the move again.
So VOTE, which ever way you choose, but VOTE!

Mike Strieber said:

Law curbs McDonald's Happy Meal toys
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20101103/us_nm/us_mcdonalds_toys


How could anyone live in such a place? Regardless of what you think about nutrition, and Happy Meals specifically, do you really want the government dictating what you should eat or how to raise your children? Do you want your government creating laws that say you can't give a toy away with a meal? Is that how they should be spending their time? Is this how the people of SF want to live? Every step of their lives dictated to them? Are they brain-dead to the point they need a helicopter government hovering over them everyday, making sure they are making the "right" decisions? Are they uber-lazy people and just don't want to have to make choices and feel the govenment should be doing that for them?

I'm from California but I just don't get how we can have such a place so alien from the rest of the country. What happened in SF? What happened to bring all these sorts of people to this one place in our country?

I know I asked a bunch of rhetorical questions but it truly does boggle my mind what goes on in California, and more specifically SF. Probably the most beautiful state with the most to offer in the country, yet the most unusual people habitate it. Of course I understand not all the people there are like that but most are, thus you have the trends in California you do. If these sorts of people were in a minority there you would see California self-destruct before our very eyes.
Mike