Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic

zemedelec


It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.
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"Zemedelec" wrote in message
...
Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much more of
a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions might
want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

I wouldn't doubt this. I saw an interview with him a few days ago. The guy
came from the division of GE that made (bad) appliances and other hard
goods. He didn't know a nut from a bolt. I wanted to throw a brick through
the TV because everything that came out of his mouth sounded like the
hypnotic jargon that you would hear from a sales seminar. I guess he never
visits the stores, otherwise he might see that all the feel-good "team
building" bull shit and new computer systems he promotes are worthless
because the stores look like a tornado hit them and the employees know less
about the products than he does. I seldom go to HD because I can get the
same thing for a little less in a better organized and maintained Lowe's
store across the street. I don't want to leave people with the impression
that Lowe's doesn't have their own set of problems. They treated my mother
very badly when she had them remodel her kitchen, but that is another story.

For people interested in tracking contributions to political campaigns, you
might want to look at this site: http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
You can enter a street or a zip code and see the contributions of the people
around you. You can also enter names. If you click on the name, it will
show the contributions of everyone with that name. If you click on the
address, it will show people in that area. There is interesting mapping
system that shows how red, blue, or purple an are is.

Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic

zemedelec


It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

Digital Camera: HP PhotoSmart 850

For pictures of my garden flowers visit
http://members.iglou.com/brosen

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On 27 Jul 2004 15:36:49 GMT, pamfree (Zemedelec) opined:

Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much more of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions might want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Yes, that is true of Blank. He indeed does fund raise and has contributed a lot
of money to the GOP over the years.


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On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:47:37 -0400, Bill R opined:

Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic

zemedelec


It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.

No, post them here too. Nobody moderates this newsgroup.


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Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much
more of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole
lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions
might want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Based on third-hand information, we should boycott one store, but not
the other? Are you saying the officers of Lowe's don't contribute to
Republicans? Are you saying Lowe's officers contribute to Democrats? Do
you have any real information, or are we going to go nuts based on a
rumor?

Sheesh. If I didn't shop at any stores who's officers or executives gave
to the Republicans, I wouldn't be able to shop at all.

There's a difference between political convictions and silliness.

BTW... Bill Gates is a Democrat. Does that mean Republicans with
convictions don't use Microsoft products? Warren Buffet is a Democrat.
Does that mean Republicans with convictions shouldn't patronize any
companies who's boards he sits on? Silliness.

--
Warren H.

==========
Disclaimer: My views reflect those of myself, and not my
employer, my friends, nor (as she often tells me) my wife.
Any resemblance to the views of anybody living or dead is
coincidental. No animals were hurt in the writing of this
response -- unless you count my dog who desperately wants
to go outside now.
Blatant Plug: Books for the Pacific Northwest gardener:
http://www.holzemville.com/mall/nwgardener/index.html

Home Depot does have a garden dept...

"Bill R" wrote in message
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escapee wrote:
On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:47:37 -0400, Bill R
opined:


Zemedelec wrote:

Maybe this is much too off topic

zemedelec


It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.


No, post them here too. Nobody moderates this newsgroup.



Even though it is true that nobody moderates this newsgroup
all posters should stick to the topic of this newsgroup -
GARDENS. If everyone starts posting ANYTHING they wish,
soon there will be little or no discussion of gardens. Is
that what you want? I have seen dozens of newsgroups
destroyed because off topic posters took over the newsgroup.
If we are not careful that could happen to rec.gardens
--
Bill R. (Ohio Valley, U.S.A)

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"Warren" wrote in message
news:LmvNc.179926$JR4.41837@attbi_s54...
Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much
more of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole
lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions
might want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Based on third-hand information, we should boycott one store, but not
the other? Are you saying the officers of Lowe's don't contribute to
Republicans? Are you saying Lowe's officers contribute to Democrats? Do
you have any real information, or are we going to go nuts based on a
rumor?

Here is a link to Lowe's officers and directors:
http://tinyurl.com/4655s

Here is a link to HD's officers and directors:
http://tinyurl.com/6t9fl

Here is a link to search for political contributions:
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php

No need to base decisions of rumor.

"Warren" wrote in message
news:LmvNc.179926$JR4.41837@attbi_s54...
Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much
more of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole
lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions
might want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Based on third-hand information, we should boycott one store, but not
the other? Are you saying the officers of Lowe's don't contribute to
Republicans? Are you saying Lowe's officers contribute to Democrats? Do
you have any real information, or are we going to go nuts based on a
rumor?

Here is a link to Lowe's officers and directors:
http://tinyurl.com/4655s

Here is a link to HD's officers and directors:
http://tinyurl.com/6t9fl

Here is a link to search for political contributions:
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php

No need to base decisions of rumor.

On 27 Jul 2004 15:36:49 GMT, pamfree (Zemedelec)
wrote:

Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much more of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions might want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Are you saying those that support republicans are not permeated with
political convictions, or that they don't garden? Or are you just
saying that anyone you disagree with should be boycotted and run out
of business?

Swyck

wrote in message
...
On 27 Jul 2004 15:36:49 GMT, pamfree (Zemedelec)
wrote:

Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much more
of a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions might
want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

Are you saying those that support republicans are not permeated with
political convictions, or that they don't garden? Or are you just
saying that anyone you disagree with should be boycotted and run out
of business?

I wonder if Linda Ronstadt is a gardener?

escapee said:

It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.

No, post them here too. Nobody moderates this newsgroup.

An unmoderated news group should thus be moderated by the restraint of the
posters. I have seen many newsgroups degenerate and become worhless due to off
topic posting.


Dave
http://members.tripod.com/~VideoDave

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 15:53:25 GMT, escapee wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 11:47:37 -0400, Bill R opined:

Zemedelec wrote:
Maybe this is much too off topic

zemedelec


It is and it shouldn't be posted here. There are dozens and
dozens of political groups. Post your views in one of them.

No, post them here too. Nobody moderates this newsgroup.

Au contraire. Plenty of people moderate this newsgroup.
OK, plenty of people WANT to moderate this newsgroup.

On Tue, 27 Jul 2004 16:28:18 GMT, "Vox Humana" wrote:

(snip)
You must have bad luck. I have been posting to Usenet for several years and
haven't seen a single newsgroup that doesn't have a fair amount of OT posts.
Likewise, I haven't seen any newsgroup that was destroyed by such posts.
Most people are smart enough to avoid posts that don't appeal to them. With
judicious use of filters and killfiles you don't even have to see the posts.
I don't know why people would suddenly lose interest in gardening because
someone posted a politically slanted article about a store with a garden
center. That seems as puzzling as all the people who claim that everyone
would lose interest in marriage if it were make available to same-sex
couples.

Is THAT what they're claiming? I've been trying to figure out what they're
talking about when they say "same sex marriage would "destroy" traditional
marriage", since the people who say that don't seem capable of explaining what
that is supposed to mean. :/

"Zemedelec" wrote in message
...
Maybe this is much too off topic, but a friend of mine who is much more of
a
political animal than I am told me HD is heavily supported by rich
Republicans
such as Arthur Blank, the
president of Home Depot, who hosted a dinner
in Atlanta that gave Bush $2.5 million. So any of you whose whole lives,
including gardening, are permeated with their political convictions might
want
to go to Loew's, etc. if you need to buy at a big chain store.
zemedelec

I wouldn't doubt this. I saw an interview with him a few days ago. The guy
came from the division of GE that made (bad) appliances and other hard
goods. He didn't know a nut from a bolt. I wanted to throw a brick through
the TV because everything that came out of his mouth sounded like the
hypnotic jargon that you would hear from a sales seminar. I guess he never
visits the stores, otherwise he might see that all the feel-good "team
building" bull shit and new computer systems he promotes are worthless
because the stores look like a tornado hit them and the employees know less
about the products than he does. I seldom go to HD because I can get the
same thing for a little less in a better organized and maintained Lowe's
store across the street. I don't want to leave people with the impression
that Lowe's doesn't have their own set of problems. They treated my mother
very badly when she had them remodel her kitchen, but that is another story.

For people interested in tracking contributions to political campaigns, you
might want to look at this site: http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
You can enter a street or a zip code and see the contributions of the people
around you. You can also enter names. If you click on the name, it will
show the contributions of everyone with that name. If you click on the
address, it will show people in that area. There is interesting mapping
system that shows how red, blue, or purple an are is.