Posts Made By: Greg Shaffer

Originally Posted by Mathew Zdravecki

Thank you much appreciated

Originally Posted by James Lacey

CNSNEWS is a small right-wing internet news site, whose only purpose is to peddle conservative views and opinion and commentary. It's owned by L. Brent Bozell who in 2011 appeared on Fox News and declared that "Obama looks like a skinny ghetto crackhead." He was also an outspoken critic of Trump in 2016 and called him "the greatest charlatan of them all," "a huckster," and a "shameless self-promoter." This article is not objective and unbiased reporting, and the irony is of course that you are the first one to always whine about CNN or Snopes or anyone else's sources, but you routinely post and link news sites that are incredibly dubious only because their reporting resonates with your personal biases.

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

The GOP is supposedly working on a tax cut for the middle class just prior to the mid term elections. Don't we already have a middle class tax cut? I mean that's how it was presented here in this forum by a a certain conservative or two. Ya mean it really was the big corporations and the millionaires that were benefiting all along and the middle class really didn't? How did that happen? That's what the Democrats have been saying all along. If they're wrong the conservatives on this forum were right, then why do we need another and just before the mid term elections?
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/20/politics/donald-trump-tax-middle-income/index.html

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Oh, I see and it worked out so well that it helped pay for the deficit and then some, like Mitch McConnell said it would and who now says it's "disappointing" that it didn't. I didn't claim the middle class didn't get a tax cut as I said it the title of my thread but I do think it was no where near that enjoyed by the corporations which is what I've read throughout it's rise as the nirvana of tax cuts for everyone as promoted as such in previous threads here on this issue. And I'm sure some in the middle class have benefited from it to some extent while others may have not. Looks to me like the GOP is trying to buy their way out of a big defeat in November with some sort of tax scheme. With Paul Ryan working on it, there's probably a good chance he'll do so my trying to make up the effects on the deficit by raiding either medicare or social security under the pretext of  making them more stable. You'd probably but that one, too...

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

I think you need to transpose truly awful liberal politicians and what follows with truly awful conservative ones and then ask yourself the same question. Paul Ryan has a long history of attempting to undermine medicare and social security. But it's no surprise that you're unaware of it. 
Personally, if they pass another tax cut, that's fine with me. The government usually pees away the money anyway. But I do care about the deficit and the financial instability that follows it as well as potential impacts on either medicare or social security. I think you should do the same before karma jumps up and bites you on the ass.. 

Originally Posted by Rod Kaufman

Greg,
That's bullshit, all the way around.
I'd expect that from someone who said he can't offer up an opinion on Trump's position that the invasion of Iraq was the biggest mistake ever because you didn't know enough about it. I'd expect that from someone who decries Democrats inciting violence when one of 'um says something stupid like kicking them when they're low while at the same time remaining mum when Trump touts a fellow Republican rep for literally body slamming a reporter for asking a question and the crowd behind him roars in approval with mob-like mentality, you're suddenly the expert on finances and ethics...

Originally Posted by Bob Forman

Recently sold my 4 inch refractor and am looking for something larger but manageable size-wise.  At 73 I'm not up to lifting more than 45-50 pounds with gusto but....I'd like something capable of seeing galaxies.  I'm thinking a scope that can be disassembled/assembled for moving it around so that no part will be too heavy, or whatever else will give me the viewing power that doesn't require a crane.  Suggestions?