6/16    Home depot voting with its feet, and not doing business with the
        Federal Gov't:
        http://nandotimes.com/business/v-text/story/436842p-3497125c.html
        They're trying to avoid 3 regulations listed in the article.
        Seems sort of extreme  --PeterM
        \_ Desperate times call for desperate measures!  We're at war, for
           God's sake.  If we can't be guaranteed to sell hardware and
           plumbing equipment at our constituionally protected margins,
           then the bad guys have won!  If you're shopping at Lowes, you're
           shopping with bin Laden.
        \_ Can the federal govt sue Home Depot for discriminating against
           the govt as customers?
           \_ no.  this isn't discrimination.
        \_ This doesn't make any sense.  There must be more to the story.
           \_ The SF Comical said something brief about avoiding 3 laws that
              "federal government contractors" have to follow regarding
              affirmative action related stuff but didn't go into it.  I'm
              thinking some company lawyer made some exec panic and send a
              memo.
        \_ welcome to Dick Cheney's America.
           \_ uh whatever.
        \_ "If you are not with us, you are with the terrorists." -GWB
           \_ Which has *nothing* to do with the article.  You might as well
              start off with, "I did not have sex with that woman... Lewinsky".
              Same value to this thread.  None.
              \_ Home Depot is clearly with the terrorists.
                 \_ They won't sell to the government but I'll bet Ali or
                    Akbar could go in there and buy all the makings of a good
                    Kansas City style bomb.  Think about that one.
                    \_ didn't admiral Akbar fight for the rebel
                       alliance at the battle of Endor?
                        \_ No. "Akbar" makes regular appearances with "Jeff"
                           in the "Life is Hell" comic.