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Did anyone notice how, very quietly, WalMart has stated that they will no longer support groups that are basically considered to be political or controvercial? They did this the monday before Thanksgiving, obviously hoping to end the boycott against them so their pro-gay tyrade of October and November didn't cripple sales for black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, busiest shopping day of the year. Because of this, AFA stopped their boycott and emailed all their readers to do the same. Clearly, the boycott worked. Their third quarter sales were the lowest in seven years, and with the rest of the economy booming, and other retailers reporting higher than expected profits, clearly yhe boycott is what caused this massive drop in sales for Walmart in October and November.

So don't anyone tell me that Boycotts don't work! Even the Mighty Walmart was forced to back off their pro-gay move to get more sales, less then two months after joining the national gay and lesbian chamber of commerce. Without those donations, they'll be dropped from that organization, and that's what caused the boycott in the first place. Losing hundreds of millions in sales got their attention, and cozying up to a bunch of queers wasn't worth that price.

But this was the last straw for me with Walmart. I've been annoyed for years with their apathetic customer service and increasingly not being able to find employees who speak English to ask a question. And things not being stocked, and messy shelves, etc. So frankly, I'm going to keep on shopping at other places, other than Target which is even worse than WalMart, has lousy return policies, and doesn't allow the Salvation Army or "Christmas" or pictures of local military personnel serving abroad in their stores, in addition to their queer agenda. And actually, I've found that it cost us MUCH LESS shopping at smaller local stores than I thought. Brookshires is Christian owned, with the local Christian station playing on the intercom, and their prices are only marginally above WalMarts, and other local stores in some cases are lower with that stores card, so we're going to just keep on getting stuff from other places. Considering WalMart gets basically ALL their stuff from China, I never have felt comfortable getting everything from WalMart anyway. And the people running WalMart now a days are a bunch of sluts. Sam Walton would never have approved of that kind of trash and their policies running WalMart. So their little bid for the queer dollar has permanently cost them mine.

I'm just happy that this boycot worked so well and forced WalMart to back down. I didn't think it would work as big as WalMart did, but clearly millions of Christians boycotted them and that hit WalMart where it counted and forced them to their knees. Very entertaining. :) Boycotts work when the reason for the boycott is a good one backed by conservative values. This is proof. WalMart certainly didn't back off their gay position out of the goodness of their hearts. That's for sure.

WalMart has stated that they will no longer support groups that are basically considered to be political or controvercial?

Where'd you hear it? A news blip on the alphabets?

I was listening to Rush [standin Hitchcock] and a woman called in about Walmart's treatment of their vendors. It's not the first time I've heard bad things about that. And, it hasn't been long ago that they were roundly criticized for not giving better bennies to their workers. This is what's wrong on so many levels: the day-in and day-out of it keeps we the sheeple from baaing too loudly. We work our days and earn our sheep dip and get up and do it again tomorrow. Baaaa!