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* The True Colours of Teabaggers - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/e77fb546fe14b090?hl=en
* Oil filter wrench - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/60ec5e63639fffb7?hl=en
* OT - work shoes - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/0076210173ec998f?hl=en

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TOPIC: The True Colours of Teabaggers
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/e77fb546fe14b090?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 20 2010 11:16 pm
From: Cliff

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/20/1826688/congressmen-are-abused-by-protesters.html
[
.... shouted obscenities at members of the Congressional Black Caucus and spat
on Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Missouri Democrat.

The protesters used a racial epithet toward Rep. John Lewis, a Georgia Democrat,
and confronted a gay congressman with taunts.
....
A colleague who was accompanying Lewis said people in the crowd responded by
saying "Kill the bill," then the n-word.
....
"It was a chorus," Cleaver said. "In a way, I feel sorry for those people who
are doing this nasty stuff — they're being whipped up. I decided I wouldn't be
angry with any of them."

Cleaver's office said later in a statement that he was also spat upon and that
Capitol Police had arrested his assailant.
....
]

Can you spell "faux "news"" or "rethugs"?
Or "Nazi racists"?

http://www.nydailynews.com/blogs/dc/2010/03/make-that-the-nas-tea-party.html#ixzz0imz9qjFq
[
And racism and gay-bashing apparently wasn't all. Add anti-Semitism to the list.

A staffer in Rep. Anthony Weiner's office reported a stream of hostile
encounters with tea partiers roaming the halls of Congress. The less harmful
stuff was mockery. But they left a couple of notes behind. One asked what Rahm
Emanuel did with Weiner in the shower, in a reference to mess around ex-Rep Eric
Massa. It was signed with a swastika, the staffer said. The other note called
the congressman "Schlomo Weiner," among other hate-filled words.

Rep. Jose Serrano was so disturbed, he called to relay his own unpleasant
encounter with a Tea Party activist who accosted him outside, when Serrano went
for a stroll near the rally.

"The Capitol there was pretty ugly," Serrano sad. "They were shouting, 'Don't
take away my Medicare, we don't want socialism, you're throwing our country
away.'"

"There was a person who saw me go by, and called me a bunch of things, and ended
calling me an elitist pig with a cutesy haircut," Serrano, of the Bronx, said.

It wasn't the words so much that bothered the congressman, but the tone and
attitude.

And the words heard by Lewis were especially distasteful to Serrano. Lewis is a
widely respected member of Congress who had his skull fractured by police in a
1965 civil rights march in Selma, Ala.

"He's the conscience of the Congress," Serrano said.

It all reminded him of the worst reactions to the civil rights movement and the
anti-Vietnam war protests. It was the kind of reaction, he said, that you get
"whenever you're trying to do something really important."

Majority Leader Steny Hoyer fired off a condemnation tonight, saying, "Today's
protests against health insurance reform saw a rash of despicable, inflammatory
behavior, much of it directed at minority Members of Congress."
]
--
Cliff

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TOPIC: Oil filter wrench
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/60ec5e63639fffb7?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 20 2010 11:32 pm
From: Don Foreman

On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 15:01:48 -0700, "Steve B" <newid@nowhere.com>
wrote:

>I just changed oil on my 2006 Dodge Ram 2500 with the Cummins. Some genius
>engineer put the oil filter in a nearly inaccessible place. I took my
>regular oil filter wrench, cut the handle off it, and welded two old sockets
>on the stub so I could slip it up in there and get the thing off and back
>on. Barely enough room at that.
>
>Is a wrench made that sockets up from the center, and upon turning,
>constricts? I have one that is 16 sided or something like that, but not all
>filters are hex shaped. And the ones that are don't always spin off with
>that flimsy little plastic goober.
>
>Anyone know of a good filter wrench configured like that?
>
>Steve
>
http://auto-part.co.cc/engine-tools/worlds-best-universal-oil-filter-wrench-3-jaws.html

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TOPIC: OT - work shoes
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.crafts.metalworking/t/0076210173ec998f?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sat, Mar 20 2010 11:50 pm
From: Beryl

Jim Stewart wrote:
> Stormin Mormon wrote:
>> My $15 Walmart working man's sneakers are gone flat, again. No
>> cushion, and it's about like being barefoot.
>>
>> I did a froogle search for postal shoes. Those guys on their feet all
>> day, must have good shoes. No joy. Looked for working shoes. Not much
>> to be found.
>>
>> Where does a man buy comfortable shoes that last a couple years, and
>> good for working men who climb ladders, work on cars, and that kind of
>> thing?
>
> Try Merell Shoes
>
> I spent my first 30 years wearing Hush Puppys,
> Now Merell Shoes are more comfortable and last
> longer.

Merrell! My one pair were the most luxurious shoes I've ever worn. I
still think of them, 20 years later. <snif>

But HI-TEC are cheaper and longer lasting.

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