author: Lee Michaels

subject: Re: Hammer Strength plate-loaded vs. MTS

text:
<[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...

Gary Jones was one of the biggest innovators in gym equipment design. He
designed machines that were mych cheaper than other machines and worked
better.

Then he sold out to life fitness. Life fitness doesn't care about anything
that was done before. They wanted to gentrify his machines and charge big
bucks for them.

Gary Jones was concerned about how a machine felt and worked. Life Fitness
is only concerned about money.  And they want something that fits the image
of a machine that is purty and accomplishes nothing.


author: frank-in-toronto

text:
On 31 May 2005 21:39:30 -0700, [email] wrote:
...
mostly.  the eccentric is reduced with cables.  other than that
how do you think your muscles know what is providing the resistance?
it's still a machine with defined movement.  your thoughts are
half-way in between free-weights and selectorized.  a lonely place.

because the market demands it.  hence more customers will sign up.
less plates lying around or mis-racked.  weight lifters (like smokers)
are their own worst enemies.  less damage to the finish on the
low side of the equipment.  goofy weight boys leaning 45s on
painted surfaces can quickly ruin the appearance of a piece of
equipment that might cost thousands of dollars.  and they don't
care.  but the owner does.

looks as if the owners have decided to appeal to a different
demographic without consulting you.  hope you can find
another gym with what you like.
...thehick


subject: Faux Brown...A Teabagger Suckered You Fools

text:
Looks like we have a Sarah Palin in drag....

Do you think he can see Russia from Massachusetts?

TMT

Brown record doesn't always match everyman image
By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press Writer Steve Leblanc, Associated
Press Writer
Wed Jan 20, 6:18 pm ET

BOSTON – As he campaigned for the U.S. Senate from the back of his
green pickup, Scott Brown portrayed himself as an independent-minded
everyman and moderate candidate fighting the Democratic "machine."

But as a Republican in Massachusetts, Brown sometimes found himself to
the right of his own party.

He once proposed an amendment which would have allowed emergency room
doctors to deny emergency contraception to rape victims based on the
doctor's religious beliefs, which drew the ire of fellow Republicans.
But, Brown voted for the final version of the bill without the
amendment.

He has criticized the federal stimulus program as ineffective, but
said he would not return the money.

And in the final weeks of the campaign, Brown benefited from the
financial backing of conservative groups like the Tea Party movement
which pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into television ads for
him.

Like former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and even Barack
Obama in 2008, Brown is getting a boost from his own limited political
resume, according to Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public
affairs at Princeton University. In the absence of a strong record or
public profile, voters felt free to read into the candidates whatever
they want.

"There is a virtue of not being a known commodity and not having tons
of experience in the national spotlight," Zelizer said. "With Palin,
people knew nothing about her when she was introduced ... and that was
an asset at first."

Brown was able to craft his own image in the public mind in large part
because of an initial lackluster response from Democrat Martha
Coakley, the state's attorney general who was considered by many a
shoo-in after double-digit leads in polls coming off a primary win
last month.

Only after Brown picked up momentum and polls reflected a tight race
did Coakley respond, but it was too little, too late.

In his acceptance speak Tuesday night, Brown again declared himself an
independent thinker.

"I go to Washington as the representative of no faction or interest,
answering only to my conscience and to the people," Brown said. "I've
got a lot to learn in the Senate, but I know who I am and I know who I
serve. I'm Scott Brown. I'm from Wrentham. I drive a truck, and I am
nobody's senator but yours."

Key to Brown's campaign was his pledge to be the 41st vote to block
Obama's health care initiative, but Brown himself voted in favor of
the 2006 Massachusetts health care law that has been used as a blue
print for the bill working its way through Congress.

On health care, Brown has said he supports providing health care to
everyone, but would block the bill and send it "back to the drawing
board." But Brown has also said that providing health care is best
left up to the states.

"There should be a way for the states to go and do what we have here,"
Brown said in December. "They should have the ability to see what
their needs are and what help they need, if any, from the federal
government and tailor a plan that's good for their individual states."

Another key to his campaign was an strong anti-tax message. In his
first television ad, he invoked President John F. Kennedy in calling
for lower taxes. In the ad, Brown segued an old newsreel of Kennedy
calling for tax cuts into a clip of Brown reading from the same
speech.

But as a state senator Brown opposed a 2008 ballot initiative that
would have eliminated the state income tax and saved the average
taxpayer about $3,700 a year according to supporters.

He also supported hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines pushed
by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney during his first two years in
office.

While he's portrayed himself as an independent-minded candidate on the
campaign trail, Brown's campaign has pulled in support from deep-
pocketed lobbying and interests groups, from U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
the Tea Party movement, and the Iowa-based conservative American
Future Fund, which spent about $600,000 on an ad saying Coakley
"supports the reckless spending by Washington politicians."

During the campaign, Brown portrayed himself as stronger on national
security. He said terror suspects shouldn't have the same
constitutional protections as U.S. citizens, and chastised Coakley for
saying there were no al-Qaida terrorists left in Afghanistan.

He also campaigned alongside former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but
a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Brown was one
of three Massachusetts representatives to vote against a bill that
would have granted paid leave to state workers volunteering for
disaster relief with the American Red Cross.

He's also positioned himself to the right of his party's 2008
presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, over the simulated
drowning tactic known as waterboarding to gain information from
suspected terrorists. McCain, who endorsed Brown, opposes
waterboarding.

Brown said he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture.

Brown, one of just five Republicans in the 40-member Massachusetts
Senate, found himself at odds with other members of his party on
social issues.

In 2005, Brown sponsored an amendment to a bill requiring hospitals
make emergency contraception available to rape victims. Brown's
amendment would have created an exemption for doctors and nurses with
"sincerely held religious beliefs" against abortion.

Coakley's campaign seized on the issue, pointing out that even Brown's
Republican Senate colleagues criticized the proposal, saying the needs
of rape victims should come first.

The criticism struck a nerve with Brown, who called it a "red
herring." At one point during the campaign, Brown's two daughters —
including a former "American Idol" contestant — met with reporters to
vouch that their father cared about rape victims.

Although he touted the fact he'd put more than 200,000 miles on his
truck, Brown earns a comfortable income and owns several properties,
including his home in Wrentham, three apartments in Boston and a time
share.

Besides his base Senate salary of $61,440, Brown also reported earning
up to $20,000 from his National Guard service and between $80,000 and
$100,000 from a law practice in 2008, according to his latest
financial statement filed with the state.

Brown ran in part on a clean cut family image, touring the state
dressed in a barn jacket, often with one or both of his daughters in
tow. His wife, Gail Huff, a television reporter in Boston, was absent
from the campaign until election night.

He's also served 30 years as a member Massachusetts Army National
Guard and holds rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

But while he was a law student, Brown traded on his matinee good looks
for work as a model, and while still in law school, he posed nude for
Cosmopolitan magazine — in a photo spread with a strategically placed
crease in the magazine.

___

Associated Press Writer Glen Johnson in Boston contributed to this
report.


author: Democrats Invent Square Wheels

subject: Police discover at least 10 victims at Negro Anthony Sowell's home

text:
On 21 Jan 2010, Too_Many_Tools <[email]> posted some
news:[email]:

http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2009/11/crews_again_digging_at_anthony.htm
l

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Police have discovered four bodies and the remains of a
fifth this afternoon at the home of Anthony Sowell, bringing the total
body count to 11.

Sowell's home on Imperial Avenue now ranks among the deadliest crime
scenes in Cleveland history.

Sowell, 50, was charged with five counts of aggravated murder even as
workers continued finding more bodies in his back yard.

A heated tent is being installed in the back yard so crews can work
through the night.

Police, coroner and fire personnel are at the home, along with a dump
truck.

Police have scheduled a news conference for 6 p.m. Crews started digging
this afternoon, two days after they had stopped searching for bodies.

Sowell is being held on suspicion of murder after police found six
decomposing bodies in his home. The bodies were scattered througout the
home, including buried in a shallow grave in the basement, in crawl spaces
and left in the home.

A search warrant obtained over the weekend gave police permission take
apart the home brick by brick if necessary, police sources said.


author: Fred B. Brown

subject: Re: Faux Brown...A Teabagger Suckered The Democrats

text:
"Too_Many_Tools" <[email]> wrote in message
news:[email]...
Looks like we have a Sarah Palin in drag....

Awwwww, did MarthaCoakley scew up and lose the election?
Too bad, so sad there will be one less dimwit in Washington.

Do you think he can see Russia from Massachusetts?

Can you?

TMT

Brown record doesn't always match everyman image
By STEVE LeBLANC, Associated Press Writer Steve Leblanc, Associated
Press Writer
Wed Jan 20, 6:18 pm ET

Another dimwit newsman who got caught with his pants down. The hand
writing was on the wall but LeBlanc couldn't see it. Now he's gonna whine.

BOSTON ï¿½ As he campaigned for the U.S. Senate from the back of his
green pickup, Scott Brown portrayed himself as an independent-minded
everyman and moderate candidate fighting the Democratic "machine."

But as a Republican in Massachusetts, Brown sometimes found himself to
the right of his own party.

He once proposed an amendment which would have allowed emergency room
doctors to deny emergency contraception to rape victims based on the
doctor's religious beliefs, which drew the ire of fellow Republicans.
But, Brown voted for the final version of the bill without the
amendment.

He has criticized the federal stimulus program as ineffective, but
said he would not return the money.

And in the final weeks of the campaign, Brown benefited from the
financial backing of conservative groups like the Tea Party movement
which pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into television ads for
him.

Like former vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin and even Barack
Obama in 2008, Brown is getting a boost from his own limited political
resume, according to Julian Zelizer, professor of history and public
affairs at Princeton University. In the absence of a strong record or
public profile, voters felt free to read into the candidates whatever
they want.

"There is a virtue of not being a known commodity and not having tons
of experience in the national spotlight," Zelizer said. "With Palin,
people knew nothing about her when she was introduced ... and that was
an asset at first."

Brown was able to craft his own image in the public mind in large part
because of an initial lackluster response from Democrat Martha
Coakley, the state's attorney general who was considered by many a
shoo-in after double-digit leads in polls coming off a primary win
last month.

Only after Brown picked up momentum and polls reflected a tight race
did Coakley respond, but it was too little, too late.

In his acceptance speak Tuesday night, Brown again declared himself an
independent thinker.

"I go to Washington as the representative of no faction or interest,
answering only to my conscience and to the people," Brown said. "I've
got a lot to learn in the Senate, but I know who I am and I know who I
serve. I'm Scott Brown. I'm from Wrentham. I drive a truck, and I am
nobody's senator but yours."

Key to Brown's campaign was his pledge to be the 41st vote to block
Obama's health care initiative, but Brown himself voted in favor of
the 2006 Massachusetts health care law that has been used as a blue
print for the bill working its way through Congress.

On health care, Brown has said he supports providing health care to
everyone, but would block the bill and send it "back to the drawing
board." But Brown has also said that providing health care is best
left up to the states.

"There should be a way for the states to go and do what we have here,"
Brown said in December. "They should have the ability to see what
their needs are and what help they need, if any, from the federal
government and tailor a plan that's good for their individual states."

Another key to his campaign was an strong anti-tax message. In his
first television ad, he invoked President John F. Kennedy in calling
for lower taxes. In the ad, Brown segued an old newsreel of Kennedy
calling for tax cuts into a clip of Brown reading from the same
speech.

But as a state senator Brown opposed a 2008 ballot initiative that
would have eliminated the state income tax and saved the average
taxpayer about $3,700 a year according to supporters.

He also supported hundreds of millions in higher fees and fines pushed
by former Republican Gov. Mitt Romney during his first two years in
office.

While he's portrayed himself as an independent-minded candidate on the
campaign trail, Brown's campaign has pulled in support from deep-
pocketed lobbying and interests groups, from U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
the Tea Party movement, and the Iowa-based conservative American
Future Fund, which spent about $600,000 on an ad saying Coakley
"supports the reckless spending by Washington politicians."

During the campaign, Brown portrayed himself as stronger on national
security. He said terror suspects shouldn't have the same
constitutional protections as U.S. citizens, and chastised Coakley for
saying there were no al-Qaida terrorists left in Afghanistan.

He also campaigned alongside former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, but
a month after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Brown was one
of three Massachusetts representatives to vote against a bill that
would have granted paid leave to state workers volunteering for
disaster relief with the American Red Cross.

He's also positioned himself to the right of his party's 2008
presidential nominee, Arizona Sen. John McCain, over the simulated
drowning tactic known as waterboarding to gain information from
suspected terrorists. McCain, who endorsed Brown, opposes
waterboarding.

Brown said he doesn't believe waterboarding is torture.

Brown, one of just five Republicans in the 40-member Massachusetts
Senate, found himself at odds with other members of his party on
social issues.

In 2005, Brown sponsored an amendment to a bill requiring hospitals
make emergency contraception available to rape victims. Brown's
amendment would have created an exemption for doctors and nurses with
"sincerely held religious beliefs" against abortion.

Coakley's campaign seized on the issue, pointing out that even Brown's
Republican Senate colleagues criticized the proposal, saying the needs
of rape victims should come first.

The criticism struck a nerve with Brown, who called it a "red
herring." At one point during the campaign, Brown's two daughters ï¿½
including a former "American Idol" contestant ï¿½ met with reporters to
vouch that their father cared about rape victims.

Although he touted the fact he'd put more than 200,000 miles on his
truck, Brown earns a comfortable income and owns several properties,
including his home in Wrentham, three apartments in Boston and a time
share.

Besides his base Senate salary of $61,440, Brown also reported earning
up to $20,000 from his National Guard service and between $80,000 and
$100,000 from a law practice in 2008, according to his latest
financial statement filed with the state.

Brown ran in part on a clean cut family image, touring the state
dressed in a barn jacket, often with one or both of his daughters in
tow. His wife, Gail Huff, a television reporter in Boston, was absent
from the campaign until election night.

He's also served 30 years as a member Massachusetts Army National
Guard and holds rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

But while he was a law student, Brown traded on his matinee good looks
for work as a model, and while still in law school, he posed nude for
Cosmopolitan magazine ï¿½ in a photo spread with a strategically placed
crease in the magazine.

___

Associated Press Writer Glen Johnson in Boston contributed to this
report.


author: Sueki Tartridge

subject: Re: Faux Brown...A Teabagger Suckered You Fools

text:
On Jan 22, 12:58 am, Too_Many_Tools <[email]> wrote:

Wrong !! Brown "teabagged" YOU FOOLS !! ROTFFLMMFAO !! Btw. How's that
hopey/changey thing working for ya'???
'


author: [redacted]

text:
On Jan 22, 1:58 am, Too_Many_Tools <[email]> wrote:

Obamacare DIED in Massachusetts - whatever any liberal thinks of Scott
Brown.
Boston - was Obama's Stalingrad.

http://www.Internet-Gun-Show.com - your source for hard-to-find stuff!


author: Klaus Schadenfreude

text:
In talk.politics.guns Too_Many_Tools <[email]> wrote:

Looks like we have another defeated leftist.  [chuckle]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052748704423204575017421792846804.html
Indiana Democrat Feels Icy Breeze From Massachusetts
MADISON, Ind.ï¿½When Rick Berry heard on Tuesday that a Republican had
won the U.S. Senate race in Massachusetts, he emailed one of his
friends: "Maybe there's hope for the country after all!"
The message was bad news for Baron Hill, a five-term Democratic
congressman who represents Mr. Berry's district.

Shocked Democrats vow health care reform rebound following loss of Ted
Kennedy's Senate seat
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_shocked_dems_vow_healthreform_recovery.html
The party relaunched its reform effort after a Republican won
Massachusetts' special election Tuesday, giving the GOP power to kill
almost anything in the Senate.

Democrats Prepare for 2010 Midterm Storm
In fact, not since Sen. Henry Cabot Lodge narrowly defeated seven-time
Boston mayor, John F. ``Honey Fitz'' Fitzgerald for the U.S. Senate in
1916 have the Republicans been so drunk with joy in the Bay state.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/bill-lucey/democrats-prepare-for-201_b_432485.html
So when Scott Brown gassed up his green pick-up truck and proceeded
onto Interstate 90 (Massachusetts Turnpike) in route to the nation's
capital, the Obama administration knew they had to switch gears in a
hurry and reconnect with a wide swath of frustrated independent voters
at odds with what's going on in Washington.

__________
"[Michael] Jackson made a difference that has already spanned
generations."
                       -Too Many Tools, tearfully weeping


author: bugs

subject: Re: Brown.. a relief from right wing wackos

text:
Too_Many_Tools wrote:

Right of the MA republicans, but quite moderate relative to the wacko
right wing.

And there is something wrong with that?

So you only want to reelect those who have been around forever?
Typically, the best rule of thumb is to dump incumbents.

Brown will never be confused with Palin.

Relative to most current republicans & democrats, he is quite moderate.
  That's obvious.  Of course, both the liberal left and wacko right will
be against him.   Is that a bad thing?

Makes full sense.  Vote for the right bill.

Simply dumping income taxes makes no sense without an equal cut in
spending.   After all, states can't simply cut taxes and then borrow
from China for the refunds as GW did.

Balancing a budget is difficult, but necessary.  Was there a spending
bill that ever got vetoed by GW that later required massive borrowing
(from China?).

makes full sense.

Makes full sense.

Makes full sense.

As long as there was someone on call who could provide such, makes full
sense.

and the right wing is completely against the rights of rape victims -
why the criticism - too moderate for a republican?

what does his daughter's life have to do with Brown's political positions?

While $180 is perhaps "comfortable", he's hardly rich - especially
compared with the republican standard that <$200k is middle class.

Thanks for posting such a positive - You've provided a number of
excellent reasons why he got elected.

Only the far right and far left should be upset.  His election is a win
for moderates.  On that note, it's amusing to see the far right pee all
over themselves (especially on Fox) with the Brown win considering he'd
have never been elected in any of the far right wing, backward states
such as TX, AL, MS, etc.


author: Gunner Asch

text:
On Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:00:50 -0500, bugs <[email]> wrote:

But light years to the right of the average Leftwing Extremist Fringe
Kooks that control the DNC.

Gunner

The current Democratic party has lost its ideological basis for
existence.
- It is NOT fiscally responsible.
- It is NOT ethically honorable.
- It has started wars based on lies.
- It does not support the well-being of americans - only billionaires.
- It has suppresed constitutional guaranteed liberties.
- It has foisted a liar as president upon America.
- It has violated US national sovereignty in trade treaties.
- It has refused to enforce the national borders.

...It no longer has valid reasons to exist.
                       Lorad474


author: Archmedes

subject: Larken Rose's "clueless" jury

text:
Funny stuff....
_____________

Rose was disillusioned after seeing a jury of his peers so ready to believe the
arguments of government prosecutors, he said. "Basically, I regret having put my
freedom in the hands of the American public because they're utterly clueless and not
deserving of the freedom they still have," Rose said.

http://www.concordmonitor.com:80/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070423/REPOSITORY/704230377/1013/NEWS03


author: Randall M

subject: Re: Larken Rose's "clueless" jury

text:
On Apr 23, 5:09 pm, "Archmedes" <[email]> wrote:

Perhaps you can explain why Larken chose not to present to the jury
the merits of his 861 argument, instead choosing to go with the "I'm a
dumbass" approach.


author: Paul Thomas, CPA

subject: Re: Larken Rose's "clueless" jury

text:
"Archmedes" <[email]> wrote

That's sorta Eldon's plan as well.  That there is enough non-compliance that
the government is too busy to chase him down.  Again.  And convict him.
Again.


author: Ozramesh

subject: Air-canada services (Delhi to Toronto) starting Oct 18, 2003.

text:
Effective October 18, Air Canada introduces the only daily non stop service
between North America and India

Toronto - Delhi             AC 051            5:15 pm           5:45pm+1       A343

Delhi - Toronto             AC 052            12:25 am          05:25am+1      A343

Thanks Air-Canada, and Canada Here I come...,.

Cheers,
Ozramesh


author: WebCrawler

subject: Re: Air-canada services (Delhi to Toronto) starting Oct 18, 2003.

text:
Wow !!
This is a really good deal !
However, the flights are already sold out for Oct. (not a surprise).

Personally, though, I can't fly that long without any stops.
A flight from NY to LAX is enough to give me leg cramps :o)

[email] (Ozramesh) wrote in message news:<[email]>...


author: Tiger

text:
I belive the return flight (Delhi to Toronto) arrives on the same day,
early morning, not the next day.

[email] (Ozramesh) wrote in message news:<[email]>...


author: nmstevens

subject: Re: Problem with New Orleans coverage

text:
Asbestos Jeff wrote:

It always strikes me as strange that people don't seem to draw pretty
straightforward connections like, "Build your house in a flood plain +
enough time = your house will get flooded."

NMS


author: RonB

subject: Re: Problem with New Orleans coverage

text:
On Sat 26 Nov 2005 05:38:11p, "nmstevens" <[email]>, wrote:

Or build them on stilts stuck into a sandstone cliff along the ocean...


author: MC

subject: Re: Problem with New Orleans coverage

text:
In article <dmav5j$lue$[email]>,
 "nmstevens" <[email]> wrote:

To say nothing of the people who move into trailer parks in Tornado
Alley.