Archive for May, 2008

With more than 50 people suffering from vehicles, garage doors and windows being tagged with the three letters “GTR”, I got to wondering and did a search on MySpace. There are a lot of young people that list their name tagged with GTR. For example:

life is worth living for {GTR}
Male
20 years old
FORT WAYNE, Indiana

TAKEOVER GTR 19
Male
20 years old
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA

andrew gtr
Male
20 years old
FORT WAYNE, Indiana

I found the following profile on local blogger Fr Fozy Bear’s MySpace page:
6LO {GTR}
Male
26 years old
FORT WAYNE, INDIANA

I still don’t know what GTR means. Anyone?

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The northern entrance to Jefferson Pointe has seen a high number of accidents within the last month. A few moments ago there was another one involving three vehicles. 

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SAN JUAN, P.R. — Chelsea Clinton April 30th at Our Lady of Providence
senior citizens home, where she told 250 seniors and an order of Catholic
nuns who run the home — all of whom wear all-white dress-like “habits” –
that her mother shares their social and political values.

PORTLAND, ORE.  — Chelsea Clinton April 12th at the “Red Dress Party,”
where she told approximately 2,000 homosexual men — all wearing red
dresses — that her mother shares their values. The party was described
by one homosexual journalist as an “alcohol-fueled dance party where
nearly 2,000 gay men in various states of red dress undress (and several
nearly naked straight men as well as one very colorfully decorated naked
woman).”

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They’re trying to scare people with crap like this.

Hey, maybe you haven’t made up your mind who you’re going to vote for in November? And further, how the hell would they know? Can they read your mind?

Crossover people. Vote for Hillary on Tuesday.

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Home Depot, once the darling of the home improvement “big boxes” is closing its store on Coliseum Blvd. A liquidation sale is slated to start tomorrow Saturday.

ATLANTA (Reuters) – Retailer Home Depot Inc (HD.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which has been battered by the slumping housing market, said on Thursday it plans to close 15 underperforming U.S. stores and will curb future store openings, sending its shares up 2 percent.

The home improvement industry leader said it expects a charge of about $586 million tied to the moves, with about $547 million pretax to be recognized in its first quarter. Excluding this charge, the company reiterated that per-share profit is still expected to fall as much as 24 percent for the year.

Many retailers are curbing store growth and cutting capital spending as recession worries and higher prices for gasoline and food lead consumers to pull back spending.

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The 15 store closures will affect 1,300 workers, many of whom will be offered posts at other stores. The stores to be closed are in Wisconsin, Ohio, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Minnesota, New York, North Dakota and Vermont.

I believe that Fort Wayne has 7 big box stores. Makes one wonder how the Menard’s in SE Fort Wayne is doing.

Hat tip: Bitchen Ric

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