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Posts Made By: George Andrew

July 10, 2006 03:55 PM Forum: Star Parties

Black Forest Star Party golf anyone ?

Posted By George Andrew

I’m going to go to the BFSP on Thursday. I’m going to bring my golf clubs. So if anyone is interested in playing, on Friday morning, at Coudersport Golf Course, in Sweden Valley, let me know.

PS I have a 8:00 tee time.

August 14, 2006 01:11 PM Forum: Star Parties

BFSP One more time ! Golf anyone ?

Posted By George Andrew

I’m going to go to the BFSP on Thursday. I’m going to bring my golf clubs. So if anyone is interested in playing, on Friday morning, at Coudersport Golf Course, in Sweden Valley, let me know.

PS I have a 8:00 tee time.


August 31, 2006 07:07 PM Forum: Star Parties

Ok I’ll try it again in Cherry Springs.

Posted By George Andrew

After witnessing the wash-out at the BFSP, I’d thought I should try it again. I’m going to go to Cherry Springs State Park, in Pennsylvania, on the new moon weekend in September. For those of you that don’t know then that is, it’s Friday September 22 through Sunday the 24.
It’s preliminary to start this now but people need to plan. Of course because this is not an “event” the weather will be a factor. In other words if I see there’s bad weather don’t expect to see me there.
Cherry Springs has Saturday night listed as a public star party night, I don’t know what that means but I would guess there are no woodsman contests that weekend. I’ll decide wither or not to go on Wednesday the 20th or Thursday the 21st, stay tuned.

August 17, 2008 12:58 PM Forum: Star Parties

Cherry Springs

Posted By George Andrew

Last year at the BFSP I saw there was something happening at the north side of the park. It looked like they where putting in bathrooms and or showers. Does any one have any info on this?

September 2, 2008 06:23 PM Forum: Star Parties

Is that a hurricane at my tent door!

Posted By George Andrew

This should be a fun one guys. It’s still a little early for the weather people to get it right but lets hope there predictions a off, way off.

September 19, 2008 05:01 PM Forum: Politics

8 years of bad roads and some of you want more!

Posted By George Andrew

8 years of bad roads and some of you want more!

GOOD LUCK thinking that John McCain who has voted 90% of the time with Bush is going to do anything but continue the same economic policies. And like Bush he says the economy is strong. Maverick my @$$

AHHH John McCain was always against government regulation. BUT NOW that Wall Street is in a meltdown he’s all for it. Can you say flip-flop.

GOOD LUCK with your 401K’s as the market sinks and the housing market shrinks and Bush has a hands off domestic policy.

AHHH the housing turmoil can you say government bailout with our money.

AHHH the American dollar the pore American dollar it’s a worthless piece of paper as we print and print and print more of it. By the way that’s why oil is on the rise again.

GOOD LUCK with putting missiles in Poland and the Czech Republic to piss of the Russians, as we might need them in our war on terror.

AHHH the Russians good luck telling the rest of the world what we did in Iraq is any different then what they did to Georgia.

GOOD LUCK with Iraq a war that was started in the name of our freedom but had absolutely nothing to do with that day in September. But was started on faulty information that when proved faulty before the war started was dismissed as faulty.

AHHH the war in terror, good luck with Afghanistan where this whole mess started. Where we don't have enough manpower or equipment to get the job done.

GOOD LUCK with Iran and Pakistan AHHH Pakistan, look I'm all for killing militants that would have us dead but you have to respect another countries borders. Thank you “The Bush Doctrine”.

AHHH oil lets drill of the coast so when we have an oil spill we, the taxpayers, can help clean it up just like what happened in Alaska. And we will still be hurting the environment, and giving more money to the oil companies.

AHHH the oil companies good luck taxing them for record-breaking profits, as Bush and Cheney who are from two different oil companies. Would not let their friends in the oil industries get hurt by some silly tax. Add to that where do you think they are going to end up after they leave office.

OHHH and buy the way if we ok drilling for oil off the coast it will take 10 years to get the first barrel of oil out of the ground. How will this help drive the price of oil down right now?

GOOD LUCK thinking that Sarah Palin was McCain’s real choice for VP as the Christian Coalition told him he had to have a VP that was against abortion if they wanted his vote. Say goodbye to Joe Lieberman. And so much for the separation of church and state.

OHHH by the way there are several Supreme Court judges that are over 70 years old. As it stands right now 4 are liberal and 4 are conservative and one generally votes independently. One or two of the liberal judges are probably going to retire during our next president’s first term. Do you see where I’m going with this people?

GOOD LUCK thinking that being the governor of Alaska is a great way to prepare to become the VP of the United States.

AHHH Alaska where men are men and the women are pit bulls with hockey sticks.

To use a quote from my favorite president Ronald Regan “are you better off then you where 4 years ago”. Let alone 8, I think not.

I can say what ever I want about this jackass in the white house. I voted for the worst president in history not once but twice and I would like to take the time to apologize to the entire world for it.

I love this country as much as everyone else. Don’t even think about questioning my patriotism as an American. But as someone that has had the good fortune to go out of our borders and spend some time in another country. I can tell you People around the world love America and Americans but loathe our government. Our country is the envy of the entire world. I’ve seen it.

We have freedom to do anything we want.

Our culture is covering the planet. From McDonalds to our celebrities to what’s on there TV’s.

But when you start a war that your father couldn’t finish because you need to win an election that’s just wrong.

When you as the president refuse to allow people in your administration to testify before congress, to answer question on what you did and why you did it, and call it executive privilege that’s bull.

This president thinks he’s above the laws we live under as Americans. Bush and Cheney, the puppet master, made laws and passed them with out the permission of the people we put in power to represent us. Not that Congress would have done anything about it anyway. We are involved in a war with no end; we will truly never leave Iraq, or Afghanistan for that mater. The military base we built in Iraq is ridiculous. And Afghanistan has once again become a runaway train.

Bush sat on his hands as the real estate bubble burst, and people started loosing their houses at an alarming rate. Now that there is money lost in the business side of the fence he steps in, but still has no plan for the people that are loosing their houses or lost them because of his non-regulation in the first place.

This country should be leading the way in everything from A-Z.
Our education system is behind almost all developed countries.
Our health care system is a joke. There are more people in this country that have no health care insurance then do.
Our science community is being stifled by government regulation all because the religious right thinks we are playing god. But it’s ok for genetically engineered food products to be on my plate for dinner. Where’s the logic in that?

I’m a registered republican and I’m embarrassed to say it. I’m conservative about my environment as well as my government. But spend, spend, spend seems to be our motto now. Clinton, Bill that is, gave Bush a surplus of cash in the treasury Now before we bail out more businesses we are approaching 1,000,000,000,000, trillion, in national debit. And because of the war and Wal-Mart bringing in crap from China our public debit is almost at 10,000,000,000,000.

All this as a genocide is going on in Africa. I guess there is no freedom-oil in Africa for us to pillage. People around the world are starving to death because of food shortages. And the polar bears will be looking for a new home, Lets hope they don’t learn how to use guns as we are lower on the food chain then they are.

We need change at a rudimentarily level. We need to change everything about this country except for what we stand for. We need to totally change our energy policy. We need to fix problems here at home first before we try to change another government in a foreign land because we don’t think he’s a good guy.

OHHH and one last thing I want to say Obama is half white let’s remember that. Some of you out there, and you know who you are, will find it hard to vote for him won't you! Isn’t it time you let go of your problem. He’s Christian not Islamic know mater what some people will have you believe.

I'm George Andrew and I approve the message.

September 24, 2008 04:48 PM Forum: Eyepieces

Ethos 17mm $750.00 ! ! !

Posted By George Andrew

Well there goes the rest of my 401K that I didn't loose in the market. At least you don't need the $25.00 2" extender.

November 3, 2008 07:51 PM Forum: Reflectors

Mirrors?

Posted By George Andrew

I would like to throw a question out to see what people think is the best primary mirror for our hobby. The reason I’m asking this is I currently have a 4-year-old 12.5” Discovery mirror. I’ve had some people look through my scope and could not believe how good the optics are. But I’m upgrading to a used 20” Obsession telescope that I’m getting from Dave Candela that has an OMI mirror. Yea, yea, I know you can’t compare the views in a 12.5” to a 20”. But you can talk about how good a mirror is in terms of its optics. So any opinions?

February 12, 2009 09:29 PM Forum: Politics

Thanks Bush

Posted By George Andrew

Given the chance I would like to personally kick Bush right in the nuts, hard. I only hope they go after him for the crap he pulled while in office. I guess it's just a mater of time before he flees the country. I think he should be the one in Guantanamo. I voted for him twice. And I’ve apologized to everyone for it. I would like to give the first book to his library, My Pet Goat.

February 13, 2009 05:23 PM Forum: Politics

Re: Trust me politics

Posted By George Andrew

Jim, as an American, if you are one, you should hope it works. For the sake of our country, and not the republican party.