On Tue, 13 Aug 2013 18:29:37 -0400, Tom Gardner Mars@Tacks wrote:

On 8/13/2013 4:07 PM, Joe AutoDrill wrote:
This group seems to have transformed almost fully into the "let me rant
about this or that political BS" but seems to still have a few on-topic
posts here and there.

Does anyone know if alt.rec.crafts.metalworking is alive or not? Seems
to be dead quiet and ripe for the picking for those of us that do want
to talk metalworking...




Joe, you probably run into more of the most interesting metalworking
situations. I think you should post more, even if it's old hat for you.
The political stuff is just placeholders for good, brain exercising
problems and challenges.

Absolutely correct. If we had metalworking stuff...we would enjoy
it!


--
""Almost all liberal behavioral tropes track the impotent rage of small
children. Thus, for example, there is also the popular tactic of
repeating some stupid, meaningless phrase a billion times" Arms for
hostages, arms for hostages, arms for hostages, it's just about sex, just
about sex, just about sex, dumb,dumb, money in politics,money in
politics, Enron, Enron, Enron. Nothing repeated with mind-numbing
frequency in all major news outlets will not be believed by some members
of the populace. It is the permanence of evil; you can't stop it." (Ann
Coulter)