RIP: Lowe’s
July 28th, 2007 at 5:14 am . by nukeA few years ago, Lowe’s built a shiny new store less than a mile from my home.
Oh yeah!
Nuke’s Toy Store. Heh.
Sunday afternoon strolls through the Home Improvement Section, checking out the power tools, shopping for landscaping junk in the Garden Center: Lowe’s is cool. Their prices aren’t spectacular, but the variety of name brands, and a clean new store means that my dollars have gone to Lowe’s much more frequently than they have gone to the locally owned building and supply store a few miles farther down the road.
Having said all that, you can understand that my decision to no longer patronize Lowe’s is a tough one.
But not that tough.
Lowe’s decision to pull their ad dollars from the top-rated show on cable tv is going to have consequences. Frankly, I don’t give two hoots about the Bill O’Reilly Show. But by bowing to the extortionists at the Daily POS, Lowe’s has just gone to the top of Nuke’s Shite List. I won’t be shopping there anymore. Period.
And, when I consider that I have bought a new roof, hot water heater, washer and dryer, dishwasher, microwave, and various sundry other tools, supplies, etc over the last couple of years at Lowe’s, it is not an insignificant amount of money. Of course, it won’t mean a flip to a big outfit like Lowe’s. But, it sure will matter to the locally-owned store that stands to benefit from my patronage.
UPDATE: Mike C and Ann have put the GCP fact-checker on my azz.
Uh, it seems that the Lowe’s decision pre-dates the Daily POS/MoveOn boycott by several months….
Oh, well. It’s still a good rant.
UPDATE 2: The advertiser targeting list by the leftist blogger newshounds. h/t n2l
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Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/28/2007 7:34:27 PM
I’m still watching videos at Pat Dollard’s. I like that Iraqi patriots film.
Comment posted by Robert D
at 7/28/2007 7:23:23 PM
She’d be worth fighting for n2l.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 7:21:35 PM
Henh…a show of hands.
It sux to be a demonrat.
Comment posted by Blog @ MoreWhat.com » Blog Archive » MoreWhat Matters: Today’s Blog List
at 7/28/2007 7:35:14 PM
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Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 7:36:01 PM
#31-I could get all primal and shiite, over her.
/where’s that asses jawbone
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 7:38:26 PM
Yeah, Swampie. Ol’Pat has some good vids over there.
I just read the story over there, about the anti-jihad campaign.
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 7:55:06 PM
So Ol’Icetray Jefferson’s evidence has been unsealed.
He drove a…1990 Town Car? Thrifty bribe taker ain’t he.
Comment posted by Robert D
at 7/28/2007 7:59:35 PM
Some older cars are more comfortable than the new ones. But then again, he did hide the money in his freezer….
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 8:03:55 PM
Yeah, but dude…a 1990 Town Car? Nothing spells has been like a seventeen year old luxury car. Unless it was restored or planning on being restored. I mean, break out one of those soy burger boxes, and get a 2007 Town Car.
/sheesh
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/28/2007 8:04:38 PM
A special on radical islam on FNC, right now.
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/28/2007 10:19:25 PM
‘Nite! Bonz has taunted me with possibly being hurricaned, and I’m trying to find more information.
Comment posted by Robert D
at 7/28/2007 10:26:15 PM
O’Reilly never claimed to be a conservative. He has said many times that he is an Independant, which goes along just fine with my “Decline to State”. If you watched a little more of his show you may be able to comment with more…whatever. I don’t like everything he says, and I don’t watch every day either, but, nevermind……………..
Comment posted by nuke
at 7/28/2007 10:26:50 PM
nite n2l
Comment posted by Robert D
at 7/28/2007 11:42:35 PM
Just came back in from watching the full moon rise over the mountain, and that has calmed me down a bunch. Sorry for the earlier outburst. G’nite n2l. (gotta get out on that deck more)
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/29/2007 9:24:25 AM
Robert D, you got upset with my comment about O’Reilly?
I don’t understand.
I quit watching him years ago, when his hat size expanded several sizes after his best selling books. That, and too many times he was all over the place on an issue, and just flat wrong on the details of others. Conservatism has nothing to do with being an Independent voter, being a moderate does, and I found him inconsistent and erroneous too many times.
If you like his show and watch it, it’s cool with me, so why shouldn’t my not liking or watching it, be cool with you?
As for the Marxist wanting to shut him down, I am opposed to that from an ethical perspective. Everyone has the right to express their views, and I will defend his right to do so, as well. If people don’t like what he has to say, they can just turn him off, as I have.
Comment posted by Robert D
at 7/29/2007 10:47:51 AM
I was Wrong. Sorry…. 
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/29/2007 10:52:54 AM
All is coolness! 
Comment posted by no2liberals
at 7/29/2007 11:01:01 AM
I watched the last part of a movie I had tivoed last night, The Prophecy, with Chris Walken. Not the best movie ever made, but with some interesting dialogue, and insights into faith. The following lines come from the end of the movie, just after Satan(Vigo Mortenson) ate the black heart of Arch Angel Gabriel(Chris Walken).
And in the end I think it must be about faith. And if faith is a choice, then it can be Iost…for a man, an angeI…or the deviI himself.
And if faith means never completeIy understanding God’s plan, then maybe understanding just a part of it, our part, is what it is to have a soul.
And maybe, in the end, that’s what being human is after all.
That statement at the end was profound, to me.
Comment posted by SwampWoman
at 7/29/2007 1:47:28 PM
I think Robert D and n2l are both going to burn in hell for not liking Bogart movies. Heretics.
Comment posted by Waking Up Late on the Day of Surgery | Adam’s Blog
at 7/29/2007 2:08:48 PM
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