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Rule 171
Rule 171. Board-Prescribed Forms for Property Statements.
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(a) CONTENT, ARRANGEMENT, AND APPROVAL OF PROPERTY STATEMENTS. Except as specifically authorized by the board with respect to heading, name and address of the taxpayer, location of the property, assessor's use columns, and the like, the assessor shall not change, add to, or delete the specific wording of property statement forms or mineral production report forms prescribed by the board or change the sequence of the questions, but the assessor may otherwise arrange the content and alter the size and design of a property statement or mineral production report form to meet the needs of his office procedures and facilities.
(b) Annually, on or before October 15, the assessor shall notify the board, on a checklist provided by the board, of those board-prescribed property statement and report forms, including instructions, which the assessor:
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(c) When filing the checklist, the assessor shall submit to the board (either in hard copy or electronically) for approval a copy of each form, including instructions, which the assessor will produce by means other than reproduction of the prototypes. If a form does not conform with the specifications prescribed by the board, as required by section 452 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, section 15606 of the Government Code, and this rule, the assessor shall be notified in writing of the variances. He shall submit a revised form within 30 days of the date of the notice.
(d) ATTACHMENTS TO PROPERTY STATEMENTS. The assessor is not required to obtain board approval for instructions pertaining to the format of attachments that an assessee elects to furnish in lieu of entering the information on the prescribed property statement. However, such instructions shall include requirements that at least one copy of the property statement as printed by the assessor must be executed and contain appropriate references to the data on the attachment, and that all information required by the property statement must be furnished on the property statement or the attachments.
(e) TIME FOR FILING MINERAL PRODUCTION REPORTS. The assessor shall not require the filing of mineral production reports prior to April following the calendar year for which the report is prepared.
(f) ASSESSOR TO FURNISH PROPERTY STATEMENTS. The pertinent property statement form and instructions shall be furnished by the assessor to every person required by law or requested by the assessor to file a property statement, and the pertinent report form shall be furnished by the assessor to every person requested to file a mineral production report.
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Amended September 12, 1969, effective October 18, 1969.
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Amended December 9, 1981, effective April 3, 1982.
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N. A. N. Mohamed, N. A. N. Mohamed and A. K. Ariffin, A. K. Ariffin and S. Fonna, S. Fonna (2006) Simulation Of A Two-Stroke Spark Ignition Free Piston Linear Engine Motion. Jurnal Teknologi (A) , 44 (A). pp. 27-40. ISSN 0127-9696
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Maths Age 3-5 (Letts Monster Practice)
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The Southside Tigers girls basketball team won Friday's home conference game against Wade Hampton by a score of 53-48.
The Southside Tigers basketball team scored 53 points and held the visiting Wade Hampton Generals to 48 in the Tigers league triumph on Friday.
The Tigers now sport a 14-7 record. They put it on the line next when they host Travelers Rest for a AAA Region II contest on Tuesday, February 8. Southside will meet a Devildogs team coming off a 55-51 league loss to Greenville (Greenville, SC). The Devildogs record now stands at 9-12.
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The Lord remained on Earth after His resurrection exactly 40 days. During this time, the services of the Orthodox Church return us to the night of Holy Easter. "Christ is risen!" — we greet each other and kiss thrice. Especially festive, joyful and majestic is the first week (Church Slavonic "sedmitsa," or seven days) following Easter, which is called Bright.
On Bright Week "all and all" — is Christ, Christ the resurrected. The fast, the time for crying and sorrowing, is over, the entire world is singing and glorifying the Lord. Each day in the morning, upon the conclusion of the liturgy, there is a procession, symbolizing the going of the women myrrh-bearers to the grave of Christ. The praying walk in the procession with lit candles.
All the services of Bright Week are served with open Royal doors, so that any one of us can see the church ritual in full detail. Open Royal doors symbolize the Lord's grave, from which the Angel rolled the stone away. On this week there is no fast on Wednesday or Friday, but it is necessary to avoid overeating, which is so easy to do after the long fast.
On Friday of Bright Week is the commemoration of the icon of the Mother of God "The Life-Giving Font," and water is blessed after the liturgy. On the next day, on Great Saturday, the faithful are given pieces of the artos. There are no marriages or prayers for repose (panihidas) on Bright Week. Funeral services are performed, but more than half of the service consists of Easter chants.
The Resurrection of Christ — is the cornerstone of the Orthodox faith. The Apostle Paul teaches: "If Christ be not risen, then is our preaching vain, and your faith is also vain" (1 Cor. 15:14). The joy of the Easter night — is a breach into the Heavenly Kingdom, the beginning of the endless joy of Heaven. How happy were the saints, such as the Ven. Seraphim of Sarov, who became worthy of continually having the memory of the Resurrection in his soul, and who met every person coming to him with the words: "My joy! Christ is risen!"
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Officials from several agencies —including the Office of Management and Budget—have assured the Government Accountability Office they will do a better job of analyzing their legacy IT systems. GAO on Nov. 15 released a report on agencies' handling of IT investments, which included the agency responses promising change.
The Veterans Affairs Department, for example, "understands and acknowledges the need for appropriate officials to develop an operational analyses (OA) policy, annually perform OAs on all investments, and ensure the assessments include all key factors required by the Office of Management and Budget," VA chief of staff John R. Gingrich wrote in a Sept. 13 letter to GAO.
Gingrich's comment was echoed by other departments that responded to the GAO report. Treasury, Defense and OMB said they would redouble their efforts to develop OA guidance. VA and Treasury plan to complete their OA guidance in early 2013, and DOD said it would work with OMB on its guidance. Homeland Security Department officials are circulating draft guidance already.
Federal agencies spent $54 billion on operating and maintaining existing legacy IT systems in Fiscal 2011, the report states – nearly 70 percent of the $79 billion budgeted for IT. OMB requires annual checks on the performance of these steady-state investments through OAs. But GAO found many agencies failing to do them. Overall, five departments—Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services, Treasury, and the VA -- have budgeted more than $3 billion in fiscal 2011 on steady-state investments that have not undergone the necessary analyses.
For instance, DOD, Treasury, and the VA did not have a policy or perform analyses on their 23 major steady-state investments with annual budgets totaling $2.1 billion.
"Until agencies address these shortcomings, there is increased risk that these agencies will not know whether the multibillion dollar investments fully meet their intended objectives," GAO wrote.
In an interview, David Powner, director of information technology management issues at GAO, said OAs are essential because they ensure agencies get a return on the $54 billion they invest in maintaining their systems.
Agencies "want to move that money out of operations and into development. If we could be more efficient on money spent in operations, we could move more of it into modernizing," he said. However, "we spend a lot keeping old systems up and running."
Defense and VA officials said in their letters to the GAO that OAs are not always necessary, because the departments develop plans and business cases, called exhibit 300s, as part of their annual budget processes. But GAO said exhibit 300s do not cover all the aspects of determining how a steady state investment is performing. Relying on exhibits alone, agencies would not consider different approaches to achieving the same mission through better use of technology. Nor would agencies study why problems occurred or make recommendations to modify, or even end, an investment. Of the 23 aspects of OAs, exhibit 300s would only cover 17 of them.
Staff from OMB's Office of E-Government and Information Technology agreed too with GAO to revise existing guidance to direct agencies to report on the IT Dashboard the results from the OAs of their steady state investments. Officials have begun work on it. Furthermore, OMB said fiscal 2014 budget guidance directs agencies to include OAs as part of the exhibit 300 submissions to OMB.
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4.38 / 5.00 7,301 ViewsI know I didn't state this earlier, But I thought many were going to notice. I made this as a tribute to my fave artists, Super Flash Bros. So stop leaving bad reviews!
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IM GIVING IT A TEN BECAUSE OF EVERYONE GIVING IT A BAD REVEIW...except the people who are giving it an actually good reveiw... Besides how was he calling it bad? He was aiming it at a spoof point and he was calling himself lame... How was he giving zelda a bad name? Well i hope you make more things..
Aww, thanks a lot you. ;D
Another take about things in Zelda
Well the things you did were pretty funny, it was 7 material but you got a 6 because the sound was poor and the visuals were okay.
Yea i read the ppls reviews down there and they keep saying ur bashing it... i think they're obsessed with the game so they take even the slightest offence to it.
Liked the background thing going on =P
Work harder on the voices.
I don´t know why, maybe you were too far to the microphone, or maybe is my computer (althought I don´t think so, it´s a new one) however, I couldn´t understand the voices at all, thank God for subtitles. And you have a grudge against the Zelda games, that´s easy to notice. Too bad, all of them are awesome, maybe they just were a little too difficult for you, try something else for gaming, maybe some action games in wich you don´t have to think at all. sorry for the bad review.
many people love zelda and it was the first game i played on 64, the gamecube and the wii. u hav sed that it isn't YOUR point of veiw but it seemed like the whole point of the movie was to make it look crap. zelda is the best game i've ever plkayed and i don't want to watch another 1 of ur flash movies.
uhm, even now, i still own the ol' zelda games. And i mean the original ones, Zelda I and Zelda II for the NES. Best game ever, agreed.
I wasn't bashing it, I clearly stated it as a tribute... Why do people never read the author comments? anyway, thanks for the review, i guess.


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Caroline's Cruise is a magazine story.
Henry is pulling a passenger train when he has to stop at a level crossing to let Caroline cross. Nearby, Bulstrode rests on the beach; they can all see the car ferry has docked. The Fat Controller then rolls off the ferry in his car and joins Caroline in crossing the railway. He has been to the Mainland to see the Railway Inspector. Sir Topham then goes on to boast about the splendid view of Sodor he had coming in by sea. Harold then hovers overhead boasting of the birds-eye view he has of the island. Caroline feels sad; she would like a tour of the island, but she fears her motor might break down. Henry wishes he could help her. Later, Henry has an idea which he tells the Fat Controller, who agrees. Next day, Caroline goes for a special trip around Sodor on the car ferry.
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- Sir Topham Hatt
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- In this story, Henry had to wait for the cars to pass, but engines have the right-of-way at level crossings.
- When Caroline gets her tour around Sodor, she is on the ship's deck, but cars would more likely be stored below deck.


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Pre-communist Bucharest was dubbed the "Paris of the East" because of its architectural influences. Recently completed renovations have gone a long way to give the city back its old French charm. Its municipal buildings are shining, churches have been restored, some spectacular museums are waiting to be rediscovered.
Easter is the biggest festival in the Romanian calendar and spring is the best time to visit one of Europe's most affordable capitals. Indeed, Ryanair (0871 246 0000; ryanair.com) starts flights to Bucharest from Stansted on Tuesday, joining a throng of airlines offering flights to the Romanian capital.
Touch down
I flew as a guest of Romania's budget airline Blue Air (0871 744 0104; blueairweb.com) from Luton. Other than the new Ryanair flights, British Airways (0844 493 0787; ba.com) and Tarom (020 8745 5542; tarom.ro) fly to Bucharest from Heathrow; easyJet (0843 104 5000; easyjet.com) from Gatwick; Wizzair (0906 959 0002; wizzair.com).
Otopeni airport is 17km north of the city centre. There are two buses into Bucharest: number 783 to Piata Unirii (1) and number 780 to the main railway station, Gara de Nord (2). You can't buy tickets on board: go to the booth on your right as you exit, buy an Activ card for 3.70 lei (75p) and pre-load it with 7 lei (£1.50), enough for a return ticket. You can add money to the card for metro and bus journeys, as with an Oyster card in London, but the centre is compact enough to walk around.
If you prefer a taxi, avoid those that tout for business and head for the yellow cabs with the name of the company and lei rate per km inscribed on their bodywork. A fare into town should be around 50 lei (£10).
Get your bearings
The best stop to get off the airport bus is Piata Universitatii (3) from where the Regina Elisabeta Boulevard runs east to west. It soon crosses Calea Victoriei, Bucharest's genteel thoroughfare littered with listed buildings, which goes north-south up to the Dambovita River.
Bucharest is flat and easy to navigate. Most sights are concentrated between the Palace of the Parliament (4) in the south, Piata Revolutiei (5) in the north, Piata Unirii, in the east, and Cismigiu Park (6) in the west. The old town, between Lipscani Str and the river, is the centre of dining and nightlife. For more information, see romaniatourism.com.
Check in
The Grand Hotel Continental (7) at Calea Victoriei 56 (00 40 372 121 721; continentalhotels.ro) continues the tradition of illustrious 19th-century hotels interrupted by communism. Doubles from €130 (hotels charge in euros), including breakfast.
For a boutique hotel close to the nightlife go for the Rembrandt (8) at Smardan 11 (00 40 21 313 9315; rembrandt.ro). Doubles from €100, with breakfast; try for the attic room, with a balcony.
A quieter option is the Hotel Opera (9) at Ion Brezoianu 37 (00 40 21 312 4855; thhotels.ro/hotel-opera), near Cismigiu Park (6). Doubles from €60, with breakfast.
Day one
Take a hike
Start at Piata Revolutiei (5), scene of the 1989 anti-communist uprising, facing the old Communist Party headquarters (10). General secretary of the Romanian Communist party, Nicolae Ceausescu, escaped the wrath of the crowd using a helicopter that took off from the roof on the right. On the left, at Boteanu 1, stands the exuberant University Library (11), founded in 1895 by Carol I – ruler of Romania from 1866 to 1914. Notice his bronze statue in front.
The historic Kretzulescu church (12) opposite is an outstanding example of the Romanian Brancovenesc style, a mixture of Renaissance, Byzantine and Ottoman. Damaged during the revolution, it has now been painstakingly restored (open Monday-Friday 9am-5pm, weekends 7am-3pm).
Walk down Calea Victoriei until you see the Neo-Classical façade of the Military Club (13). Built in 1911-13, the lower floors now house temporary art exhibitions (Monday-Friday 10am-6pm, Saturday 4pm, entrance fee varies according to exhibition).
Cross the Boulevard Regina Elisabeta and continue until the striking National Savings (CEC) (14) building on your right; turn left into Stavropoleos alley with the diminutive Stavropoleos church (15), whose richly decorated porch never fails to capture the attention of visitors. Walk across the Old Town to the ruins of the Old Court (16) adorned with a bust of Vlad the Impaler, who first put Bucharest on the map (having started with Ceausescu it seems appropriate to finish with Count Dracula).
Lunch on the run
For a good measure of local atmosphere, head to the Caru' cu Bere (17) at Stavropoleos 5 (00 40 21 313 7560; carucubere.ro), a huge but always full restaurant that's been serving Bucharest since 1879 in ornate Belle Epoque surroundings. Choose from six set menus (vegetarian included) costing 22.40 lei (£4.50) each.
Window shopping
Bucharest is full of bargains, and many can be found within the maze of shops in the gigantic Unirea Shopping Centre (18), which takes up the east side of Piata Unirii (www.unireashop.ro; daily 10am-10pm).
For something special, try Demmers Teehaus (19) at Academiei 9 (00 40 21 310 3396; demmer.ro; daily except Sundays) for all things tea. Offering everything from quirky mugs to bright porcelain tea sets, this shop outlived even the communist regime, which was so hostile to private enterprise.
An aperitif
If you visit only one bar in Bucharest, make it Bordellos (20) at Selari 9-11 (00 40 748 881 085; bordellos.ro). And if you have only one drink there, make it a Palinca de Maramures (plum or apple brandy). The building was a 19th-century brothel and many of the old sepia photos that decorate it were found in its attic during renovation.
Try to book a table for the cabaret upstairs, starting at 9pm on weekends; it costs 99 lei (£20) including two courses and a drink. Open daily noon-2am, weekends until 5am.
Dining with the locals
The saying goes that nobody should leave Romania until they've tasted game. Terasa Doamnei (21) at Doamnei 9 (00 40 21 314 6481; terasadoamnei.ro; daily 10am-1am) is a hunting lodge in an urban setting that serves bear stew with forest mushrooms for 60 lei (£12) or a meat platter for two that will satisfy the most dedicated carnivore for 132 lei (£26). There is also a sizeable selection for vegetarians.
Day two
Go to church
The Romanian Patriarchal Cathedral (22) is the most imposing religious edifice in Bucharest (daily 7am-8pm). If you want to attend Orthodox Mass, go at 9am to enjoy its renowned a cappella choir. Men stand on the right, women on the left, and candles are left in the portico outside.
Take a view
You can't begin to understand modern Romania until you've visited the Palace of the Parliament (4), a megalomaniac folly of hubristic proportions at Izvor 2-4 (00 40 21 316 0300l). Ceausescu bled the nation dry to erect the second-largest building in the world (after the Pentagon) and, with a £3.8m annual maintenance bill, it's still a drain on resources. Take in the view down Unirii Boulevard from the balcony in the Union Hall and marvel at the destruction of the Old Town south of the river. Open daily; admission 35 lei (£7); take your passport.
Out to brunch
Hanu Berarilor (23) at Poenaru Bordea 2 (00 40 21 336 8009; hanuberarilor.ro; 8am-midnight, weekends until 2am) with its massive beer garden is a great place to relax al fresco. Feast on hearty Romanian peasant cooking for about 25 lei (£5).
Cultural afternoon
The National Museum of Art (24) in the grounds of the old Royal Palace at Calea Victoriei 49-53 (00 40 21 313 3030; mnar.arts.ro) is essential viewing. It's separated into a European Gallery, with an impressive quota of old masters, and a National Gallery of Romanian art. Open Wednesday-Sunday, admission 15 lei (£3); free first Wednesday of the month.
Just north of the museum is arguably the most beautiful building in town, the Roman Athenaeum (25) at Benjamin Franklin 1-3 (0040 21 315 6875; fge.org.ro), designed by architect Albert Galleron. It's worth visiting to sample its acoustics during a performance of the Romanian Philharmonic and to gawp at its opulence. Open daily; entry 10 lei (£2).
A walk in the park
The best place for a stroll is the gorgeously landscaped Cismigiu Park (6), which attracts the locals in droves on Sundays. There is a chess and backgammon retreat for seniors and an assortment of skateboarders and buskers for your entertainment.
Icing on the cake
The smell of freshly brewed coffee should be enough to lead you to Origo (26) at Lipscani 9 (00 40 757 086 688; daily 7.30am-2am, weekends from 9am). It offers the best coffee and cake in town in stylish black-and-white and smoke-free surroundings – a rare treat in Bucharest.
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September 28, 2011, 18:09 | #11 | |
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option 1: "...a lightning bolt that does 6d6 * 1.35 damage" option 2: "...a lightning bolt that does an average damage of 28.35" option 3: "...a 6d6 lightning bolt that does adjusted average damage of 28.35" |
September 28, 2011, 18:16 | #12 |
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Currently, the damage information for devices is hardcoded into the description string for the device (IIRC). So it'd probably be easiest to have a separate line that says "Your damage multiplier for this device is 1.35".
Barring that, I'd go with the first option, to make it clear how much of the damage is from the device and how much is from the user being awesome with the device. |
September 28, 2011, 18:46 | #13 | |
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edit: you're correct, the descriptions are hardcoded in. That does indeed make things difficult... |
September 28, 2011, 19:21 | #14 |
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making it say like ~
You hit the Floating eye (2.3) The Floating eye gazes at you (-2) get the number from the hit and add like that ok ,
~eek Reality hits you -more- S+++++++++++++++++++ |
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When aimed, it fires a lightning bolt with minimum damage 6d6. Your chance of success is 90% With the 1.35 multiplier from your magic device skill your average damage with this device is 28.35. In fact, it would be great if there was a skills page in the knowledge menu or somewhere showing what stats you need to boost to get an increase, e.g. "With +1 WIS you would get a saving throw of X". Everything I understand about skills I've picked up from reading this forum, since the in-game help says nothing about how they're calculated or what actions they influence. |
September 29, 2011, 00:22 | #16 | |
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However, things have changed for the better with the list_spell_effects.h or whatever it's called. The proper course of action is to rip out the hardcoded stuff and put in context appropriate messages. So you get the message for damage causing items and other ones give something like, "this weapon causes no damage to monsters" |
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I'm just curious. I'd like to see numbers in addition to the text descriptions. I don't see any (real) advantage to having this information. Right now all I know is the average damage from the Inspect screen, and that words like "smite" and "hack" are good, but much like level feelings, I've no idea how good. Sure, I look at the asterisks, but that scale changes with each monster... then I have to Inspect said monsters HP's, and then try to recall how many *'s he had previous to that hit. What's more disturbing is that I frequently fail to notice when monsters put up particularly large damage numbers against me. Maybe the player health needs to be represented by *'s too. It makes just as much sense as monster *'s. Being the occupant of your own body doesn't endow you with the knowledge of the exact second that the poison you drank a while back is going to kill you. You just have a general sense of how healthy you are. I find it kind of ironic that no one really objects to source diving or spoiler use or the player knowing all the formulas to (pretty much) calculate these numbers, but objects to the game, having already calculated them, showing them to you. Just make it an option (even a cheat option if you must). EDIT: having re-read my post, here's another unacceptable idea. Ditch the wordy level feeling and just give me a number from 1 to 10. "On a scale of 1 to 10, you feel this level is a 6." This, I can remember.
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September 29, 2011, 02:14 | #18 |
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Buzzkill: Most of the stuff you allude to is in V, excepting the precise amount of damage you do per hit.
You see the probability you have to hit when looking at a monster. I believe the average damage takes into account critical hits (possible because of the way its calculated, although this might change.) There already is an easy way to see how much damage you are taking in combat, by either looking at your HP, or setting the option to have the color of @ change with HP level (very useful, IMO). Do you really think that putting the numbers for each blow will help significantly in this? |
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I get that this problem is just my inattention and really, this is the least of my concerns. *'s for player health probably wouldn't help much. I do read the messages though, and I'd like to think that I'd notice those big numbers scrolling across the top of the screen. As I said previously, I don't see what advantage showing the numbers bestows upon the player, so why not do it? Is it just a matter of flavor? Are we enforcing flavor? Make it an optin.
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I agree that much of the information is derivable, but doing the derivation yourself is error-prone, time consuming, annoying, and sometimes less obvious. There is one camp that thinks that the internal rules of games should be opaque (and then players will usually try to reverse engineer them) and another school that says players should be told the rules up front. I can respect the former view which is why I'd make this an option, but if you believe the latter then I think providing numbers for things like damage (or how likely you are/were to make a save, or whatever) is useful, as opposed to showing people a search score with no basis for understanding what it means. |
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Thursday, October 29, 2009
A sincere message to Reboot Congress and Term Limit supporters - THINK!
"In November of 2010 the entire House of Representatives will stand for re-election; all 435 of them. One third of the Senate, a total of 33 of them, will also stand for re-election. Vote every incumbent out. And I mean every one of them. No matter their Party affiliation. ... Two years later, in 2012, vote the next third of the incumbents in the Senate out. We can do the same thing in 2014 ...I am also suggesting term limits ..."
You can check back through my previous two plus years of posts to see how rarely I've ever cursed, do that, in order to get a gauge how emphatic I am being in the following message to the Term Limit and 'Vote them Out' 'Reboot Congress' movements... with one slight qualifier, that many of those who favor these actions, I deeply care for and respect, in person and online.
Ahem - warning blue language below...
Ok, here we go....
Take fucking responsibility for your own god damned civil and moral responsibility as Free men and women, as citizens of America, to know who your candidates are, what their positions and records are, and then VOTE! Learn for yourself whether a candidate is worth a god damn or not! If he is, strengthen him! If Not, WORK to vote him the hell out!
Do you know who will benefit? Do you know who will be in power when all the 'don't know jack shit' new politico's come to town?
Here's an idea - INSTEAD OF WATCHING AMERICAN IDOL, READ THE CONSTITUTION! LEARN WHAT IT MEANS!!! LEARN WHAT IT MEANS TO BE AN AMERICAN!!!
Ok, done. Sorry. Unfair in the extreme, I know, but... a man's got to rant what a man's got to rant.
26 comments:
- Ex-Dissident said...
I wholeheartedly agree with your rant. Whenever you are really pissed off and about to act on your impulses, stop. Cool off, think hard, and then act. Voting everyone out is an act of passion and, just as you say, mindlessness. Term limits will remove those politicians who wish to be removed, just as disarmament worked well to disarm those nations who wished for it in the 1930's.
- julie said...
What, you want people to actually think about who they're voting for? Do research? Oh, heaven forfend!
Actually, I agree wholeheartedly. The problem is, most people (left and right) just want the easy answer when it comes to voting, as though they should just pick the candidate with the correct initial after their name then get a cute little sticker and everything will be just fine. Most people have only a passing relationship with the world outside their primary concerns, which is simple human nature. Trouble is, part of the privilege of being a citizen of this republic relies on a specific type of responsibility, and they don't teach that much in school any more. Haven't for quite some time, now.
God save us from the government we deserve. Lord knows, as a nation we've done nothing to earn anything better. - 10/30/2009 12:17 AM
- Van said...
Thanks guys, glad I'm not alone on this. I felt... rude when I hit post, and surprising as it may seem to a few trolls, that is something I dislike... but this 'pass a law to solve our problems' mindset must be denounced - it IS Exactly what got us into the mess we are in now.
Julie said "God save us from the government we deserve."
You said it... I hope it's a common prayer. - 10/30/2009 11:17 AM
- jp said...
We're in the middle of a so-called "Fourth Turning". This is to be expected.
Now comes the period of Crisis.
While we're not on the subject, do you have any more amusing stories about Vegas? - 10/30/2009 2:01 PM
- patti said...
will you stop sugar coating your opinions please.
One of the unintended consequences/blessings of the lockdown over at one cosmos is the fact that I get to spend time reading your posts and the posts of other regulars of OC.
I like your style and appreciate your willingness to share it with us all.
Sean - 10/31/2009 2:07 PM
- Anonymous said...
But the pleasure of it, Van.
- Anonymous said...
Not a fan of the "stay at home protest vote" either. I believe that either serves no purpose or worse.
- xlbrl said...
The message, taken literally, is no more than another uninvited chain-email threatening us not to be the one breaking the thread. But since you otherwise respect your friend, perhaps the sentiment of the message is the message, even as that message only hints at the solution.
It seems you wish the electorate to be practical and committed. But that may be equally missing the point. We have seen an evolution in American government for eigthy years--give or take as you please--that is relentless. Burke decribed it already established in Britian over two hundred years ago: The parties are gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
That is permanent government.
Chesterton updated him: The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected. Even when the revolutionist might himself repent of his revolution, the traditionalist is defending it as part of his tradition. When a politician is in opposition he is an expert on the means to some end; and when he is in office he is an expert on the obstacles to it.
Reagan did not escape this fate. Practical and decent men refloated this progressive scow, which only advanced itself once again. What more proof is needed other than where we are?
So the real question is, do we accept our role as making the liberal state work in the interest of living another day--a very worthy and challenging cause--or do we wish to see farther and risk closing the State down? Citzens cannot be "responsible" in affecting a government designed to be immune to them, they can only suffer Tocqueville's description of our fate--we will derive consolation from being supervised by thinking that we have chosen our supervisors.
The State has this game established to where it does not even need to think or plan. An energetic citizenry cannot accomplish anything without a plan for the return of Constitutional government, and no politician I am aware of would risk standing for the principles both understood and respected by the last constitutionally minded President, Calvin Coolidge.
It may be very necessary for us all to keep illusions in a broad range of things, but that is not for those who wish to truly change this monster. Even an educated and energetic minority cannot make change without first understanding what that is, and such understandings are only made by individuals and then confirmed by groups. - 11/01/2009 11:40 AM
- Van said...
Xlbrl said "But since you otherwise respect your friend, perhaps the sentiment of the message is the message, even as that message only hints at the solution."
I think that is the case, the sentiment of his message was the full depth of the issue that was grasped.
I've had this argument before with him, but the 'subtleties' of political philosophy, and philosophy in general, are new issues to him, having had a 'normal public school education', and college degrees, he was taught nothing about political philosophy, let alone the ideas behind our founding, or the constitution itself. Not having had any interest in such subjects until this last year when he, and so many others, finally began to realize that things aren't right, he, and many, many others, have a kind of "Politicians are bad, get rid of all politicians" outlook, a sentimental grasp of the issue.
But he is very intelligent, he's not someone who takes things lying down, not even the ALS (Lou Gehrig's diseas) which he has... he's a fighter, and despite his email, he's also fighting against his own errors, knocking them down as best he can, and moving on. It takes time.
"It seems you wish the electorate to be practical and committed. But that may be equally missing the point."
As with most things, that depends on the context. I do think that everyone who thinks of themselves as citizens, and intends to vote, should have a grasp of the fundamentals of our govt, and why it was structured the way it is. Beyond that... 'practical and committed' depends upon the context of the issues involved, and their interest and/or concerns in them.
In 'Normal' political times, for the typical person who has no real interest in politics themselves, it shouldn't require much more of a voter than that they are satisfied that they're candidate has a solid grasp of our govt, the regional issues relevant to the office being sought, and confidence in the persons knowledge and character.
When abnormal times come around, as now, that casual voter, has the responsibility to bone up on the important issues and political infrastructure involved, and perhaps contribute more of their time and energy than they have before. Not a huge problem for someone with a decent liberal (in it's original, classical, meaning) education.
However such times leave the 'casual voter' who doesn't even have the understanding I mentioned above, who has in fact been not 'casual' but negligently lax for far too long, now that they suddenly realize that all they've taken for granted is in jeopardy, they have a responsibility to cram, at the very least they have a responsibility to see that the actions they are taking 'first, do no harm' - but they have a lot of ground to make up.
Which leaves it up to those who have bothered to learn more than the fundamentals to inform those who are stoked up on sentiment, that they are missing essential substance.
And that is not always easily accomplished... hence this post's rant!
"We have seen an evolution in American government for eigthy years--give or take as you please--that is relentless."
I'd about double the years of that give or take... I date the first structural erosion to the Civil War, but not the the typical rants against Lincoln, but to Morrill Act in 1862 (I've given more details in this post), which though seemingly small, first broke the Federal Powers out of it's proper restraints, involving it in the field of education, that quickly grew into the cancerous rot that has nearly wrecked us.
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- Van said...
"Burke decribed it already established in Britian over two hundred years ago: The parties are gamesters; but government keeps the table, and is sure to be the winner in the end.
That is permanent government."
Yes, but though the British think of themselves as having a constitution, they don't have a written one, which I think gives us an edge... if we can just get people to read it... and govt to follow it... tricky business I'm afraid. Burke is one of my favorites, btw, and not just for his shredding of Rousseauian idiocies, but his earlier philosophic writing as well.
"The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected"
And Our business, is not to fall into that trap, to identify ourselves as 'conservatives' in a light context, and anything deeper, we must differentiate ourselves as Classical Liberals, rather than Traditionalists - it is vitally important that we don't fall into a "WWTFD" (what would the Founders do) sort of parroting of our Founding Fathers era, but that we do our best to understand the principles which they did, in order to conceptually apply the Constitution to our business of our govt.
"Reagan did not escape this fate. Practical and decent men refloated this progressive scow, which only advanced itself once again. What more proof is needed other than where we are?"
Yep. And no, Reagan didn't escape it, as he himself once identified himself as an FDR Democrat, fond as I am of him in many ways, he had a deep progressive streak in him as well.
"So the real question is, do we accept our role as making the liberal state work in the interest of living another day--a very worthy and challenging cause--or do we wish to see farther and risk closing the State down?"
I'm not so sure that names the question well, or the risk. In "do we accept our role as making the liberal state work...", the word "Work" is quite loaded, and able to blast out in any direction. Yes, we should accept our role as responsible for seeing that out constitutional republic remains bound to our constitution. However, "...work in the interest of living another day", is also ripe with potential equivocations... living another day... in what way? Is living, in and of itself, a worthy goal, regardless of how you are living? I don't think so, not while you have at least the potential power to prevent you, or your children, from being forced to live in a manner unfit for Americans, then if we must "risk closing the State down", if that is the only option (and I Do NOT believe it is), we should risk such a thing, and every measure short of that while it is still possible.
We, MUST, take an active, long range hand, in affecting our government, and even more importantly, we must take an active hand in taking our educational system out of the hands of the proregressives who hold it. THAT is the only change that can have any hope of causing real change worthy of being believed in. All else, all merely political actions, are mere stop gap measures built with sand under the feet.
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- Van said...
"Citzens cannot be "responsible" in affecting a government designed to be immune to them, they can only suffer Tocqueville's description of our fate--we will derive consolation from being supervised by thinking that we have chosen our supervisors."
Our govt is not designed to be immune to us, quite the opposite, but our non-representing-representatives have saddled it with so much accretions of proregressive agencies and regulations and general spin-flam representations about how it runs, that our task is formidable. One of the greatest steps we could take, would be to teach the Federalist and Anti-Federalist papers AND Tocqueville's Democracy in America - those two together, if thoroughly discussed, would amount to a not so mini course in Classical Liberalism all themselves - not to mention an aversion to easy answer sentiments such as 'reboot congress' and term limits.
One of the things I've been most heartened by in the last year, is the number of people starting to actually read them... that would go a long way towards to reigniting our original American Revolution.
"The State has this game established to where it does not even need to think or plan. An energetic citizenry cannot accomplish anything without a plan for the return of Constitutional government, and no politician I am aware of would risk standing for the principles both understood and respected by the last constitutionally minded President, Calvin Coolidge."
Coolidge, was the ONLY constitutionally minded President, and the ONLY one I can see that Understood the Constitution's concepts and principles, from the 20th century forward. Not only can't I see any politician risk standing for those principles he did, I can't even see any making this speech, The Inspiration of The Declaration of Independence, which he did.
We've come a long way... and we've got a long way to go back, before we even find the right road to be on. But many strange and never before seen things are afoot today. If we can keep govt from neutralizing the internet, we might still have a chance to right ourselves.
I spent part of today campaigning for a local candidate a thousand miles away.... I don't think the Nat'l Political Parties have grasped yet, that their sealed operations are quickly becoming a thing of the past. They were created by the structures of available 19th and 20th century technology, which are no longer justified, or able to withstand a populace in which any significant portion grasps its role and responsibilities and means to act on them.
NY23 vs the GOP is a small powderkeg of a case in point.
We shall see what We The People may yet see.
"… Even an educated and energetic minority cannot make change without first understanding what that is, and such understandings are only made by individuals and then confirmed by groups."
I Fully agree with that, and sites such as I linked to in the post, The Founders Constitution offer a way for normal Americans to not only read the Constitution, but read it section by section along with the ideas which the Founders had in mind when not only writing that section, but debating for and against it, and later in arguing what it meant in the Supreme Court. If you haven't seen it before, just take a look at the page (and links below) for the Preamble, and you'll see what I mean.
We don't need to wait for our 'schools' to be reformed, in order to get an education, in fact I'm pretty sure that we're going to have to become an Educated people again FIRST, before we can make any lasting changes to our schools, or our govt... and for the very, very first time in all of history, a people has free access to the ideas which their debased leaders which to spin aside.
Interesting times lay ahead. - 11/01/2009 11:14 PM
- Van said...
Sean said "will you stop sugar coating your opinions please"
Lol... hopefully being so close to Halloween, you were able to avoid the sugar coma! - 11/02/2009 10:20 AM
- Van said...
Xlbrl, btw, I'm also an ex-musician from Las Vegas... go figure.
- xlbrl said...
Just noticed your motto, Exploit the Earth or Die. Excellent. Can we get that on the currency?
The public--and worse, the children--have been lobotomized to liberty, and it is for that reason that I find short and sweet to be of the greatest value, cherry bombs to break up the hympnotic slumber of commonly held opinions. I collect them.
The Meadows, eh? What is your instrument?
I shook Harry Reids's hand thirty-five years ago and am still not right, I admit that. - 11/02/2009 11:42 AM
- Van said...
Xlbrl said "The Meadows"
Such an odd name for the place, I vividly remember the first time I saw it, about noon, 115 degrees, coming over the hill from L.A. when I was about 12... what I saw was dirt... a few buildings... and dirt... with mountains ringing in the dirt.
Mt. Charleston was my meadows, every chance I could get - when I couldn't get that far away, we'd 'party' outside of town, taking the dirt roads of Sahara to Jones (!) then a little 4 wheeling in my solid steel '66 Ford Galaxy, swoosh the dirt to a stop and enjoy the distant lights and a very long Beer' O'clock.
I spent the 80's playing Bass in a band... The Moby Grape became our home turf... Captain America's & The Troubadour too... fun memories... from a distance... like twinkling lights. - 11/02/2009 12:20 PM
- ZZMike said...
Really? The whole entire House? Somebody wasn't thinking way back when. Has it ever happened before?
By all means, vote. If you're able, campaign for the new guy (just make sure he's not a sheep in wolf's clothing).
Better do it now - by 2012 it will be too late. The doom-sayers will have been right - 2012 is the End of the World. The End of the Free World; the end of the Great Experiment begun in 1776.
There's one big problem: look at how many people voted for Obama, how many voted for Reid, for Pelosi, for the whole Socialist Wing. They're going to vote again (and again, if Soros and Acorn have their way), and they're going to try their darndest to keep the Socialists in power.
We have to do better than just hope for change. We've go to pretend that this election will be the turning point in modern history.
Because it will be. If we lose this one, we might as well give it all up.
If we lose this one, we won't have to give it up - they'll take the rest of it from us - and we won't be able to stop it.
And it's not just House and Senate, it's local elections all the way down to city council.
It's going to be an uphill fight. Those who feed from the government trough outnumber the rest of us - who are the ones who stock it.
Van makes a great point:
"We don't need to wait for our 'schools' to be reformed, in order to get an education, in fact I'm pretty sure that we're going to have to become an Educated people again FIRST, before we can make any lasting changes to our schools, or our govt... and for the very, very first time in all of history, a people has free access to the ideas which their debased leaders which to spin aside."
Now here's the problem: the "educators" we've seen fit to run the asylums we call schools have been, since the time of John Dewey, been tinkering with the education system, making sure it got worse and worse (see Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform , making most of our children culturally and politically illiterate (not to mention scientifically and literally).
xlbrl notices that, too.
It's not going to be enough for you and me to vote, we somehow have to convince the wide-eyed optimists, the Obama-infatuated crowd that the "hope and change" he promised was not the hope or change we wanted. - 11/03/2009 6:53 PM
- Van said...
ZZMike said "Now here's the problem: the "educators" we've seen fit to run the asylums we call schools have been, since the time of John Dewey, been tinkering with the education system, making sure it got worse and worse (see Left Back: A Century of Battles over School Reform , making most of our children culturally and politically illiterate (not to mention scientifically and literally)."
Yes, we can not count on our schools, no matter what new 'reforms' they promise, they are fundamentally opposed to Education, they will not provide it. Period. We must do it ourselves.
No other option.
Modern education found it's anti-conceptual black heart and soul, in the writings of Rousseau, it acquired it's 'intellectual' foundations in Kant, Hegel & Fichte, it found it's progressivist pseudo-intellectual snob appeal and theoretical basis in Dewey.
It made inroads in fits and starts in private 'progressive' schools, and occasional local schools... usually followed with huge setbacks when it's practice proved it's failure to be able to - Teach - apparently parents felt that was a deal breaker.
But the center of Intellectual circles had shifted to Germany, Americans seeking a prestige education went to Germany or France for one of the newly invented sparkly "PHD"'s... and they began returning to America and getting prominent positions in society and at universities. The 'educator' who unmade Harvard, Charles Elliot, brought back the euro ideas and implemented the first 'elective' courses, and was a professor (though they disliked each other) to the central founder of Pragmatism, Charles Peirce, who was a huge influence on Dewey.
Once proregressive republican Morrill conned Lincoln into signing Morrill's pet education bill, which had been vetoed by Buchanon who saw it for the dangerous breach of the constitution that it was, as a war measure ("to educate the rebels out of existence"), over the objections of most College Presidents who foresaw that it would unmake classical education, that form of education which produced the Founders generation, we were hosed.
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- Van said...
Anyone who has followed how a seemingly small govt measures metastasize into all consuming cancers, would recognize how the Morrill Act, which established Land Grant colleges to teach agricultural methods, would not be surprised at how soon govt demanded that they have more control over curriculums that Fed money was going to, then the 'need' to ensure that those teaching what they were paying for were 'qualified' in modern educational methods, and led to the first Teachers colleges and soon mounting requirements that ALL teachers be certified, and then by the opening of the 20th century, that new industrial style schools be created "High Schools", and soon every state in the union had mandatory public education.
At that point, we became screwed. It didn't matter whether you went to a private or public school, you got some form of a progressive education, a reverence for pragmatism and it's virulent assaults on anything to do with Principle, a view that is thoroughly incompatible with America, a nation founded upon Principles of liberty and individual rights.
Woodrow Wilson summed it up in his comments on what he expected of education, and what he thought of America's founding principles; when as president of Princeton, he made a speech to the Federation of High School Teachers: "We want one class of persons to have a liberal education and we want another class of persons, a very much larger class of necessity in every society, to forgo the privilege of a liberal education and fit themselves to perform specific difficult manual tasks.", and his denigration of "Newtonian ideas" of the Founders, "The trouble with the theory is that government is not a machine, but a living thing. It falls, not under the theory of the universe, but under the theory of organic life. It is accountable to Darwin, not to Newton. It is modified by its environment, necessitated by its tasks, shaped to its functions by the sheer pressure of life. No living thing can have its organs offset against each other, as checks, and live.", IOW, there are no principles, everything must be decided 'pragmatically' on the basis of the moment, take action to 'make things work'... it is the abolishment of 2,000 of philosophic conceptual development, which the Founder's era was the pinacle. Wilson's The Author and Signers of the Declaration- by Woodrow Wilson is another which sets the 'modern' up as no longer having need of outdated notions of principles.
The proregressive is fundamentally anti-American. Neither their political leaders or educational leaders will willingly teach what they oppose. - 11/03/2009 10:22 PM
- Van said...
ZZMike "Really? The whole entire House? Somebody wasn't thinking way back when. Has it ever happened before?"
Hmmm... in case that was serious, yes, it has happened before... about one hundred and eleven times... and not just by extraordinary coincidence,
... but by design. The Senate is staggered in elections, but except for special elections, the entire house is up for election every two years. - 11/03/2009 10:39 PM
One problem is having far too many fools and me people voting on single issues and for the pols who promises them the most.
Maybe voting them all out won't work and most likely will hurt but you haven't convinced me that term limits are a bad thing. The pipe dream of people learning about positions of pols and how it effects the country and voting responsibly, while being something I would dearly love to see, is just that, a dream. - 11/04/2009 11:04 AM
- Van said...
Mxdg said "Maybe voting them all out won't work and most likely will hurt but you haven't convinced me that term limits are a bad thing."
Guess who is the minority representation in the legislative process right now... our elected representatives.
With the reams of existing regulations, regulatory agencies, laws and byzantine committees, sub committees and ad hoc committees... which are in place before a rep arrives in D.C., continue on during and after their term, and the gazillion measures and bills striving for their attention, and the importance of knowing which influential person favors which, the 'legislator' relies on their aides who make up the bureaucracy, to tell the new member what he is for and against.
It is only with experience, favors, connections, gained over time, that a legislator can hope to get to the point that they can begin to steer the course of their office and votes.
The value of a (alas perhaps mythical) honest, principled legislator who becomes an independent (relatively speaking, D.C. ya know) voice, is immeasurable. With every term won, that persons power increases geometrically.
If we pass a law to substitute for our vote, for the ability to make an intelligent choice, not only do we enshrine stupidity into the electoral process (not only will good and bad be both turned out, but even the possibility to make an intelligent decision will be ruled out), but the powerless will be replaced by more powerless, and those who 'aide' the process will become even more needed than they now are, and so the real power, and the elected representative a mere figurehead, having not even the possible threat of ever attaining actual power over the process.
In short, if you think it's bad now, while legislators and their aides actually care about the result of elections, imagine what it will be like when those who have the actual power will be permanently entrenched, and they don't give a rats ass who wins.
The problem is NOT in the terms of our elected representatives, it is in the existing regulations, regulatory agencies, laws and byzantine committees, sub committees and ad hoc committees we have allowed to entrench itself in Washington D.C., and what allowed them to take root, what waters and fertilizes them and cross pollinates them, is the fact that we allowed govt to interfere in the free enterprise system. Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, even more than FDR, with the complicit and instigating aid of proregressive legal minds such as Oliver Wendel Holmes, established a disregard for property rights, and a reverence and trust for x-spurts to regulate and supervise the market.
The people who sought no contact or help from D.C., did nothing. Those who knew that they could push for regulatory requirements that would favor themselves, and discourage new or rival competitors if they just 'helped' legislators in proposing and writing those agencies and regulations, did, and those legislators who knew they could wangle money, favors or both from those newly empowered bid'nessmen (who now had real, actual, political power of law through their influence), did as well.
That is the corruption we face. None of the corruption will be in any significant way reduced or checked, while the core of the system is in place. Until property rights and contract are again sacrosanct, free from govt intrusion (alphabet agencies, min wage laws, union's backed by govt, etc), we will not reduce the corruption. Until the people themselves come to understand their constitution and why it was written as it was, no progress will be made.
Not a rosy scenario, but it's a better one than blind stupidity and baseless hope of voting without thought or preventing thoughtful voting through term limits. - 11/04/2009 1:33 PM
- ZZMike said...
The argument against term limits is that it takes a few years to "learn the ropes" and get really good at being a Congressman. So by the time you know which way is up, you're out.
The arguments for term limits are Harry Reid, Nancy Pelosi, Ted Kennedy, maybe even Richard C. Byrd, and any number of people who've been there forever.
As I remember, one of the reasons the Founding Geezers had Senators sit for longer terms than Representatives is so they wouldn't have to be so dependent on drumming up the vote.
They also figured that someone would run for Congress, take time off from the family business (usually a farm), do his bit for a couple of years, then go back home and let somebody else have a shot at it.
That still sounds like a good plan. - 11/04/2009 7:37 PM
You've convinced me to take some time and rethink my position.
Those are some damn good points to ponder.
Part of the problem is the corruption and the blatant disregard of the people as displayed by many pols recently.
Their attitude that they know what's best for us has many people angry and rightfully so.
Back in the day they may have been ridden out of town on a rail after an application of tar and feathers but unfortunately that is no longer possible. Maybe it should be. There needs to be a way to hold these clowns accountable and if they ignore our phone calls and e-mails what do we have left? - 11/05/2009 5:49 AM
- Van said...
ZZMike and Mxdg, instead of another extended reply, I made it into a new post here.
- Van said...
Mxdg said "Back in the day they may have been ridden out of town on a rail after an application of tar and feathers but unfortunately that is no longer possible"
A warm thought
"There needs to be a way to hold these clowns accountable and if they ignore our phone calls and e-mails what do we have left?"
I think precisely what happened to the GOP in NY23. That we will very publicly expose their idiocy, and that we would rather have a principled candidate, win or lose, than an unprincipled RINO.
That WAS what happened, and MUST continue to happen. I'm going to do a post on this in the near future... not quite ready to right now. - 11/05/2009 12:24 PM


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Cathy Axel 20121215ACALHMin The Astronomy Club of
Augusta held its Annual Club Christmas Dinner/Party at Bobby's Bar-B-Q on
December 15 at 6PM. Twelve members
Bonnie & Tedda made festive
decorations for the tables. Each person placed their pretty gifts on the gift
table and took a number. We also drew for door prizes. We enjoyed delicious
meals from the buffet, and lots of table talk. Stan and Tedda reported counting 95 Geminid
meteors on Thursday night from 8-11PM. Samir, Sabi, and Lalit counted 105
through midnight, Lisa was only out briefly but saw 2. Tedda reminded us about the Lunar Observing program planned for Friday, December 21 at
NMR-DSO. We will start at 5PM with Mark Moffatt's movie
called "Star of Bethlehem". Tedda will list lunar
items to look for on the ACA website Calendar of Events page. Stan said he would show us all a neat trick
for the winter equinox on how to balance an egg. John mentioned that if we want
to see if the world is ending on the 21st, just pull up a website in
Australia on that day. While we finished our
meals, Tedda asked each person to tell what they
enjoyed about this year, and what they are looking forward to in the new year.
Some of the things mentioned were dark sky star parties, Most Excellent
Adventure to Roper Mountain, seeing comets, taking photos of objects, Transit
of Venus, International Observe the Moon Night, papier
mache planet making project, SEED event, getting some
younger members and watching them learn more. Lalit shared that he
was excited when he showed his family in India the Transit of Venus. Simar got an award in India for his photo of the moon. After helping us so much with dark sky
observing, Mike B. is looking forward to some organized AL lunar observing. Everyone picked a gift
from the gift table starting with the lowest number. Once the gifts and door
prizes were all opened, everyone showed what they had gotten. Some gifts
included a 2013 Sky calendar, several beautiful star books, star studded pjs, framed astronomy photos, thumb drives, red flashlights,
etc. Stan gave out door prizes and copies of Space News. Simar said the moon is moving further away
from us. Stan spoke briefly about the two GRAIL spacecraft, Ebb & Flow,
hitting the moon and what might happen. John recommended that those interested
in observing the moon be sure to research and learn why and how lunar objects
are named. Check out: Virtual Moon Atlas. Everyone pitched in to help clean up and leave
a nice tip. Our meeting adjourned before 8:00PM. Respectfully submitted, Lisa Sistare-Harkins 20121221ACADVMin The Astronomy Club of Augusta met on December 21, 2012 at
the NMR Dark Sky Observatory (DSO) out from Williston for a movie night, dinner
and dark sky observing. Fourteen members
attended. Mark Moffatt
presented Stephen McEveety's movie The Star of Bethlehem, the story of,
attorney and amateur astronomer, Rick Larson's search to find the true nature
of the Star of Bethlehem. The movie
examines scripture, ancient writings, indisputable astronomical facts. and nine
specific features of the "star" as recorded in the Gospel of Matthew and
other parts of the Bible, later used to eliminate most celestial objects as candidates. In the first part of
the movie Larson describes how Johannes
Kepler paved the way for rediscovery of the Star. Kepler puzzled out the
math which drives the heavens. Incorporating this math, software using Kepler's
equations allows Larson to animate ancient skies over the Mid East for us with
great precision and in doing so the sky comes alive. Larson goes on to
show the dance of the stars, how a "star" can appear to "stop" in the
sky and sets the date of the birth of Jesus.
An amazing production, giving us much to reflect upon and which many of
us will view over and over again. Many
thanks to Mark Moffatt for sharing this with us. After the movie we moved to the breezeway for
refreshments. We were treated to a
holiday feast of turkey and ham and all the trimmings, including fruitcake, and
Dot and Mark's holiday cookies, which was very much enjoyed by all and added much
to the holiday spirit of the evening. Stan, Kenneth, John W., Elizabeth, Sabi and Simar set up telescopes for
a chilly evening of observing. Dot was
able to try out her telescope, recently restored by John at the previous meeting. She observed and shared views of the Moon and
Jupiter with four of its moons – amazing!
Many thanks to John for sharing his knowledge and expertise of
telescopes with our club members. As the evening progressed we watched the moon
progress across the sky, while we caught views of Tycho
at the very edge of the terminator, with its rays and central peak. We noted Mare Imbrium
stretched across the terminator, and the whole of Mare Crisium
and the other western maria. Plato, Archimedes, and Ptolomaeus
stood out clearly. Despite the bright
moon, were treated to clear naked-eye views of the Winter Hexagon. Sabi and Simar captured long exposure photos of the Andromeda galaxy,the
Orion nebula, and the Moon with the camera attached to their
telescope. Click on them to view after
processing. By 9:30 most of us were sufficiently cold and
headed back to the house. Sarabjot and
Simarjot stayed on in an attempt to view the comet Nibiru. In the end, they were unable to view the
comet which thankfully did not collide with earth, and therefore did not
fulfill the end of the world prophecy at this time. We adjourned sharing warm holiday wishes for each
other and a wonderful, star-filled year ahead. ….. and to all a good
……………… Respectfully
submitted, Dot Valentine ACA Secretary PS. After warming up inside, Lisa and Elizabeth enjoyed
an extended session of ping pong with Stan, Tedda and
The Astronomy Club of Augusta met on December 8, 2012 at NMR-DSO (Dark Sky Observatory) for a presentation, light dinner, and dark sky observing. In total there were twenty attendees. Twelve current members, seven new members and one guest.
The evening started with John White giving a demonstration of how to clean, adjust and collimate a Dot's telescope. He removed the mirror (~ 4 ¼") and placed it in a weak soaking solution of Dawn dish detergent with alcohol, and warm water for two to four minutes. While the mirror was in the solution, he used a clean cotton ball and did 1 swipe across the mirror, avoiding any pressure on the mirror. This action was continued until he observed the mirror looked cleaner. Removing it from the solution he proceeded to dry it with a tissue, again no pressure. He replaced the mirror and hand tightened the scope. No parts were left over!
Next step was to check the alignment. This, John explained, was done using a collimator.
This typically is done more often than cleaning the mirror due to it getting jarred from typical movement. The technique was demonstrated by John. (Collimation: the accurate adjustment of the line of sight of a telescope).
A variety of questions and comments were raised and discussed throughout the session. A few highlights include: Why do we need a red flashlight, and what's the best way to get one? Hint for homemade version was shared: Simply place a piece of red plastic film cutout from a red lobster bag, and presto you're all set! Why it's good to keep a star/observing notebook. The Stellafane Convention held in Springfield Vermont is the birthplace of amateur astronomy, telescope making, and an annual star party.
After the presentation we feasted on hot dogs, chili, a variety of condiments, including Tedda's homemade pickles, and beverages. A feast of desserts provided by Dot, Tedda, Lalit's Rasmalai, and others graced the table in the breezeway. This gave our new members ample time to observe the breezeway solar system. Once we had our fill we made our way outside to observe.
It was moderate temperature with partly cloudy skies. Sabi & Simar and Jordan set up their telescopes. Stan setup a club telescope and provided binoculars for observing. John W. and Mark M. helped newer member Michael Axel with his telescope. We all helped each other in observing. Jupiter was a planet "star" attraction, observed along with the Pleiades, Orion, the Three Kings and the Winter Hexagon. The evening concluded earlier rather than later due to the cloud cover that came in from the west. In spite of that, it was a wonderful gathering and enjoyable evening.
Respectfully submitted,