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he calls a bunch of Home Depots in Delaware and asks if they've ever seen Biden hysterical!

It turns out that Katie's Restaurant closed down fifteen years ago. Talk radio host Curtis Sliwa of WABC dug this information up. He also got puzzled reactions from Wilmington Home Depots asking if anyone had ever sighted Biden.

Some big retailers are promoting compact fluorescent light bulbs as a way to save energy. But improper disposal of the bulbs creates a hazard, because they contain small amounts of mercury. Recycling them is about to get easier. Home Depot, the nation’s second-largest retailer, will announce on Tuesday that it will take back old compact fluorescents in all 1,973 of its stores in the United States, creating the nation’s most widespread recycling program for the bulbs. “We kept hearing from the community that there was a little bit of concern about mercury in the C.F.L.’s,” said Ron Jarvis, Home Depot’s...

Shopper sues Home Depot, claims he was cemented to store toilet JUNE 13--A St. Louis man claims that he was injured last year after being glued to a toilet seat in a Home Depot and is suing the retail giant for negligence. Haywood Rosales, 31, charges that during an August 2007 visit to a Home Depot in Florissant, Missouri he used a store bathroom and came into contact with a toilet seat "covered with adhesive," according to his Circuit Court lawsuit. Rosales's lawyers told TSG that their client did not notice the adhesive before sitting down and that he used...

The rising value of the Chinese yuan, higher pay for Chinese workers and $136-a-barrel oil may mean more factory jobs in North America, the Home Depot chief executive Frank Blake said. The world's largest home-improvement chain is looking for factories in the United States, Mexico and Canada to build some products that are getting too expensive to make in China, Blake said in an interview in New York. The Atlanta-based Home Depot imports about 13 percent of the goods it sells, and most of that is made in China, said a spokeswoman. A shift in production from China back to...

A Home Depot store in Utah plans to celebrate Gay pride in the Store with decorations of Rainbows and employee Tee shirts announcing gay pride. Inside sources say that this is something that will be devastating to business as most of the customer base tends to be on the Right side of the issue as they are mostly religious people. I am actively involved in this business and i dont want to be a part of it bacuae this is contrary to my belief and would like advice from more experienced FReepers on how best to disrupt these outrageous plans...

How could job loss for 80 small-town residents be a "great story?"

So far, 2008 hasn't been a banner year for Home Depot. In January, the Atlanta-based home improvement retailer laid off 500 people from corporate headquarters. In February, it announced its first ever year over year sales decline. In April, it announced the net loss of 970 jobs from reorganizing its human resources staff. And today, it announced it is closing 15 stores, affecting 1,300 employees. Plus, the Home Depot is suspending the development of 50 stores. The 15 targeted stores are mostly in the Northeast and Midwest, from New Jersey to North Dakota. No Atlanta stores are scheduled to close....

Critics have long believed environmentalists were planning global domination. The problem with making a credible case against such an ambitious plan was simple: no environmental leader had published one. Yet conflicts over global warming, world trade, multinational corporations, population control, sustainable futures, and transnational government left little doubt that environmentalists in fact shared the unspoken aim of wielding supreme power over a green future. But there was no proof. For years, critics, lacking hard evidence, were reduced to piecing together a jigsaw puzzle of suspicious environmentalist actions - funding from huge charitable trusts, ties to the broader "progressive" community, and...

A D.C. Council member's plans to place a day-laborer center in Northeast appear to be at a halt as officials struggle to find a property to house the site and community opposition to the center grows. “I don't know if there is ever going to be a final” resolution, said council member Harry Thomas Jr., Ward 5 Democrat, who proposed placing the center near a Brentwood shopping plaza to connect day laborers and others with jobs. “I would just say, 'Stay tuned.' ” As many as 200 mostly Hispanic day laborers congregate each day at the shopping plaza, which includes...

Bad news. As our folks were leaving, the fake indian showed for the first time in a year, gathered 12 guys with him, and said 'lets get them', and they jumped D, E, and old man N. D was hit with a rock and had his head split open. Some of our folks had already left, so there were only 4 left. Heather managed to stay in her car. I knew something was going to happen there today, but decided to put my car in the shop and blow that feeling off. Needless to say, this is one of the...

A plan to require large home-improvement stores to set aside space for day laborers moved ahead Friday as the Los Angeles City Council asked for a final ordinance. "This is a citywide problem and rather than try to go back and retroactively fix the issue, we should deal with the stores before they open," Councilman Bernard Parks said. Under the measure, all home-improvement stores in Los Angeles with more than 100,000 square feet will be required to set aside space for day laborers that includes plumbing facilities. Parks said that while he appreciates the economic development that comes with the...

Community and business leaders met last night with officials from the Metropolitan Police Department to discuss recent crime exacerbated by a throng of day laborers who gather at a Northeast shopping center looking for work. "When you have a group of people who are not from your neighborhood, and a large group of men gathering, people become worried and become fearful," said Raymond Chandler, an advisory neighborhood commissioner who scheduled the meeting at Isle of Patmos Baptist Church at 12th Street and Rhode Island Avenue. "These people are coming into our community wreaking chaos and confusion." As many as 200...

South Elgin police are investigating a possible hate crime after a racial slur was painted on a work counter and a noose was found hanging from an exit at a Home Depot store under construction, authorities said today.

Portland, Ore. (AP) -- Kitty and Shawn Sonnenschein didn't think they had cheap friends. The couple were married last month at their Portland house. Because they were remodeling the kitchen, they requested gift cards from Home Depot instead of gifts. But when they looked in the basket they had set out by the guest book, they found only three Home Depot cards. Not wanting to offend their guests, the couple didn't say a word. "It's been extremely uncomfortable," Kitty Sonnenschein, 28, told The Oregonian newspaper. "You don't want to call somebody and ask them what they got you." But over...

Dustin Chester was job hunting Tuesday — a day after The Home Depot fired him and the general manager for thwarting a thief from running away with a pocket full of stolen cash. Last week, the 24-year-old department manager confronted a man who was standing by a soda machine in front of the Murfreesboro store off Old Fort Parkway holding a crowbar and a wad of cash. When the suspect started running, Chester said his instincts took over. "When he ran, I ran after him," he said. Chester caught the thief and restrained him in the parking lot until police...

Home Depot was forced to drop the sale price of its commercial supply business by nearly $2 billion yesterday, according to people involved in the negotiations, one of the first big buyouts to be renegotiated as a result of recent tightening of the credit markets and problems in the housing market. The renegotiated deal, which cut the sale price roughly 18 percent, to $8.5 billion, could lead to reconsideration of some other large buyouts that are still pending and are worth nearly $400 billion collectively. Such turmoil is likely to leave the Wall Street banks that backed those deals stuck...

By picking a tough-minded outsider to head Chrysler, the struggling automaker's new owners have put company employees, suppliers and dealers on notice that things will be changing. Cerberus Capital Management's founder Stephen Feinberg closed the $7.4 billion deal to buy Chrysler on Friday and this weekend put his guy in place at the top, installing former Home Depot Inc (HD.N) head Robert Nardelli as the automaker's CEO. Nardelli's hiring comes at a critical time for the struggling U.S. automaker -- amid contract negotiations with the United Auto Workers union aimed at reducing hourly labor costs in areas such as health...

Seven local residents showed up at Home Depot in Pittsfield Township Tuesday to present a petition calling for the retailer to pull its advertising from the FOX News network. Copies of the same 40,000 signatures - collected nationwide over the past three weeks by members of the Sierra Club and MoveOn.org - were also given to managers at five other Home Depots across the country. The Pittsfield Township store was the only one targeted in the Midwest.

CHICAGO, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Home Depot Inc. (HD.N: Quote, Profile, Research) said on Wednesday it had fired four merchandising associates who violated the company's ethical standards and said the matter is under investigation by federal authorities. CBS News reported that four purchasing managers are alleged to have taken kickbacks totaling millions of dollars to make sure that certain flooring products got onto Home Depot's shelves. The company said in a statement, "The Home Depot has terminated four merchandising associates for infractions of our ethical standards. We're cooperating with authorities and because this matter is under investigation, we can't comment...

Green Groups Want Home Depot to Pull Ads From Fox By Katherine Poythress CNSNews.com Correspondent August 01, 2007 (CNSNews.com) - The Sierra Club delivered a petition bearing 40,000 signatures to Home Depot on Tuesday, urging the nation's largest home improvement retailer to pull its advertising from Fox News Channel (FNC) because of the network's reporting on climate change. The liberal environmental group claimed that FNC "routinely and consistently distorts the facts on global warming." A videoclip by the liberal Brave New Films, posted online, features a montage of guests on the channel expressing skepticism about some of the claims made...

A group of local residents gathered outside a Camarillo home improvement store Tuesday, armed with a petition protesting The Home Depot's advertising on TV's Fox News Channel. The group rallied at noon on the public sidewalk in front of the store. Several people carried signs with messages such as "Home Depot cares about the environment. Fox News lies about it." "Home Depot has a very strong corporate statement about the environment and trying to improve the environment. Yet, they send millions of advertising dollars to a news station that says pretty much the opposite thing," said Bruce Little, 58, a...

AFA to Counter Boycott of Fox News Channel The American Family Association (AFA) says it will counter the efforts of left-wing groups to boycott Fox News Channel. Groups such as MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America’s Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com have called for a boycott of Fox News Channel. DailyKos says the network characterizes itself as a fair news network when it consistently favors a conservative point of view. "Every advertiser the liberals want to target for a boycott, we will target to promote,” said AFA chairman Donald E. Wildmon. "I think we can do a better job than...

NEW YORK (AP) - Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to...

"If Home Depot is serious about protecting the environment, they must stop advertising on Fox -- a network that consistently spreads misinformation about and denies the existence of global warming," says a petition on www.foxattacks.com. Since the dawn of the information age, groups have tried to manipulate news organizations by going after their advertisers. The first casualty was in the “Marlboro Man” and smoking. That battle still rages with hearings on Capitol Hill regarding the use of smoking in movies and the manipulation of the ratings system to appease the anti smoking crowd. Even in the recent attacks on the...

"Liberal activists are stepping up their campaign against Fox News Channel by pressuring advertisers not to patronize the network. MoveOn.org, the Campaign for America's Future and liberal blogs like DailyKos.com are asking thousands of supporters to monitor who is advertising on the network. Once a database is gathered, an organized phone-calling campaign will begin, said Jim Gilliam, vice president of media strategy for Brave New Films, a company that has made anti-Fox videos. The groups have successfully pressured Democratic presidential candidates not to appear at any debate sponsored by Fox, and are also trying to get Home Depot Inc. to...

Filmmaker and activist Robert Greenwald has produced an ad urging pressure on Home Depot to stop advertising on Fox News because of a purported editorial stance skeptical of man-made global warming.

WASHINGTON -- Home Depot is turning to Congress for help. The home improvement company is tired of local governments forcing it to accommodate day laborers who turn up in its store parking lots seeking construction work. The Senate has attached an amendment to a proposed immigration bill that would prohibit city councils from requiring home improvement stores to pay for shelters and services needed to maintain day labor sites. The amendment is sponsored by Republican Senator Johnny Isakson. He says forcing companies to provide those services in order to receive permits is "extortion." But local officials say home improvement companies...

MIDWEST CITY, Okla. -- A former Home Depot employee said the company fired him and three other workers because they helped police catch several suspected shoplifters in May. Midwest City Police said the men helped officers catch suspected shoplifters as they tried to run from a store with lawn equipment. An internal memo from Home Depot outlines that associates cannot accuse, detain, chase or call the police on any customer for shoplifting. However, one of the fired employees said the company is selective in enforcing that policy. "The loss-prevention guy at our Shields (Boulevard) store turned around and told me...

TUSTIN – Tom Egan should have been home – his shift had ended at 7 a.m. – but he had lingered at the Tustin Marketplace Home Depot on Friday, talking to his employees and making sure things were in order...

Most CEOs favor market solutions over regulatory ones and laissez-faire economics over other kinds. Little wonder: When you're the most powerful guy in the market–or the company–things tend to go your way. Even when they don't go your way, which is the happy conundrum Home Depot CEO Robert Nardelli has found himself in. Under pressure from shareholders, Home Depot's board has dumped Nardelli after six years, deciding he's not the right guy to lead the home improvement chain out of a slump. But to make his departure less painful, Home Depot is handing Nardelli a parting gift worth $210 million...

(AP) Dogged by criticism of his hefty pay and his company's poor stock performance, Bob Nardelli abruptly resigned as chairman and chief executive of The Home Depot Inc. after six years at the helm of the world's largest home improvement store chain, the company said Wednesday. But he didn't leave empty-handed: the Atlanta-based company said Nardelli would receive a severance package worth roughly $210 million, an amount decried by some lawmakers as a golden parachute that sends the wrong message to investors. "It's a sign of being totally out of touch," said Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass., the incoming chairman of...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - U.S. home improvement retailer Home Depot Inc. (HD.N: Quote, Profile , Research) is set to buy a major stake in Chinese furnishing chain HomeWay, making its first foray into retailing in China, a source familiar with the situation told Reuters on Wednesday. Home Depot would "eventually" take management control of the Chinese firm, based in the eastern Chinese port city of Tianjin, the source said. Home Depot has been looking to set up stores in China for at least two years, the source added.

To All Fellow Service Members: Home Depot and Lowes will give you a 10% Discount to this Weekend (Cause this is Veteran's Day Weekend). Bring your military ID! 2banana (whi is currently redoing a bathroom)

Liberal blogger David R. Mark recently wrote, “Those that call themselves ‘compassionate conservatives’ would never think to touch their fat-cat supporters. It’s much easier to spin the ‘economic benefits’ of helping huge corporations fatten their bottom lines.� Liberal academic Thomas Frank, in his book What’s The Matter With Kansas?, claims that the corporate world “wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.� Both Mark and Frank express a common view that corporations are major funders of the political right, and that when corporations make contributions to nonprofit advocacy groups they give to groups on the right because those groups...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Home Depot and DuPont have teamed up to launch pre-built storm rooms for sale to consumers in a few test markets. Home Depot (Charts) will debut the in-house shelters in a store in Houston. On Sept. 11, the company will roll out the product to four additional locations in the Texas market. DuPont says its 'storm room', made of bullet-resistant Kevlar, can provide protection against wind speeds of up to 250 miles an hour. Depending on customer response, the retailer aims to expand the offering to storm and hurricane-prone regions across the United States. Consumers can...

Large quantities of drugs were found inside merchandise from at least two Home Depot stores in Massachusetts, and authorities are investigating, police said Wednesday. A contractor late last week discovered two 50-pound "bricks" of marijuana wrapped in plastic bags inside a bathroom vanity he had purchased at a Home Depot store in Tewksbury, said Chief of Detectives Lt. Dennis Peterson. The estimated street value of the marijuana is around $145,000, Peterson said. Similar incidents have occurred in other parts of the state.

There is an organization that actually tracks people who hire illegal aliens. They track corporations and people in all 50 states. It was recently featured in LA based program hosted by "John and Ken". These hosts have been estremely active in the immigration debate because it affects residents of Southern Calfornia. They also take photographs of the owners the companies that hire illegal immigrants. Their website: www.WeHireAliens.org

This caught my eye several months ago and its a good way of enforcing immigration law.This may give you the added tool to enforce immigration law. From the Backrounder In 1996, Congress expanded the Racketeer influenced and Corrupt Organization(RICO) to include violations of federal immigration law. While this expansion may not recieved publicity, it could potentially change the face of U.S. immigration law eforcement. Under the new RICO provisions, a violation of certain provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act(INA) meets the definition of racketeering activity, also know an "predicate offenses" and an entity that engages in a pattern of...

BURBANK -- Protests and demonstrations at the Home Depot day labor center have racked up law enforcement costs of more than $46,000, prompting worries that the extra costs are a burden on city coffers. Between Sept. 30 and April 21, Burbank Police responded to 11 incidents involving anti-illegal immigration protests against center, which offers employment assistance to workers who are often not United States citizens, according to a Burbank Police memo. The memo has raised questions from residents about the purpose of the $94,000 annual fee that Home Depot pays to the city, intended to cover costs related to the...

Day laborers who solicit work at Home Depot in Boston will continue to face police scrutiny because they are trespassing on private property and have drawn complaints from customers, a police official said yesterday. Capt. Paul Russell, who commands the South Boston police district, acknowledged the issue has the potential to spark strong emotions amid the nation’s roiling debate over illegal immigration, but he also said the law is clear. “It’s basically private property and we are giving them no trespassing orders based on the requests of retailers and the management company.” Russell said of day laborers who gather outside...

Pupils launch bid to save Americans $2.3B in electric costs; seek Oprah's help in plan to dole out lightbulbs Qiana Marks and 200 other North Babylon students hope to save the Earth - and also save the American public $2.3 billion in electric costs. It's all part of a campaign begun yesterday in the Robert Moses Middle School to "fight global warming one lightbulb at a time," said Kenny Luna, eighth-grade science teacher. Luna and his students want to give an energy-saving compact fluorescent lightbulb to every school child in America, "all 50 million between pre-kindergarten and 12th grade." They're...

– Eight day-laborers could face deportation after police arrested them in front of a Home Depot store on Friday, triggering more debate over the role of local police in enforcing federal immigration laws. Orange police said such arrests are not uncommon, but a Home Depot spokeswoman said they were the first she'd heard of at a Southern California store. The arrests come amid tension over Costa Mesa's plans to become the first city in the nation to take on federal powers to deport felony suspects. The Orange County Sheriff's Department is considering a similar proposal to remove undocumented immigrants who...

WATSONVILLE — They hang out in front of Home Depot on Green Valley Road. Their presence has been met with disdain by some neighbors, but relief by general contractors when they need to get something done. And get it done fast and cheap. They are day laborers — guys who mostly hail from Mexico and are looking to make a buck at a time when there's a lull in agriculture work in the Pajaro Valley.

(AP) LOS ANGELES The immigrant day laborers who wait for work on street corners across the United States have families and attend church regularly, and the people who hire them are more likely to be individual homeowners than construction contractors. The first nationwide study of day laborers also found that one in five has been injured on the job and nearly half have been cheated out of pay. The study, the most detailed snapshot to date of the mostly Hispanic and often undocumented immigrants who've become a focal point in the immigration debate, was based on interviews of 2,660 workers...

With a copy of the Quran and a Palestinian flag in his trunk, a Jordanian-turned-U.S. citizen crashed his car into a Home Depot in Arizona where he formerly worked, igniting an explosive blaze in the stores' paint section and causing $1 million in damage. The Dec. 18 attack in Chandler, Ariz., by 24-year-old Ali R. Warrayat was a carefully planned "personal statement," the East Valley Tribune

The Job Center closes today. Some laborers will leave area; others will find new places in town to seek work. COSTA MESA -- Today is the beginning of an uncertain time for workers who use the city's Job Center. At 11 a.m., the center closes for good after 17 years of operation. The City Council chose earlier this year to shutter the facility, which connects day laborers and employers. At the time, Mayor Allan Mansoor said employment services should be provided by the private sector, not the government. Without the center, workers will be forced to move on, and for...

The following story is based on witness accounts and a police report released Wednesday. He placed both hands on the steering wheel, stared straight ahead and barrelled toward the front entrance of Home Depot. Ali R. Warrayat hadn’t slept in days, planning this moment down to the last detail. Now, his face was void of any expression. A store employee jumped out of the car’s path. To drown out the man’s yells, Warrayat reached over to his car radio and blasted Arabic music before crashing through the front doors. The scene was only the beginning of a violent rampage through...

Glendale, Calif. -- One person was arrested during a protest Saturday outside Home Depot as groups clashed over the placement of day laborer centers near some of the home improvement chain's stores. About 200 people gathered outside the store, including members of the anti-illegal immigration group Save Our State, which has staged similar protests against Home Depot in other parts of Southern California. While the protest grew heated at some points with both sides screaming and yelling over one another, only one person was arrested for allegedly pushing someone, police said. There were no reports of any injuries. Save Our...