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AFA Relaunches Home Depot Boycott

The American Family Association has relaunched their boycott of Home Depot for supporting the dastardly homosexual agenda. Home Depot’s website now states the company’s support for “Out and Equal Workplace Advocates,” a gay political activist organization heavily promoting legalization of gay marriage and gays in the military, and celebrating activities such as Transgender Remembrance Day. AFA has repeatedly asked The …

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Brooklyn Maternity Shop Offer Discounts For Lesbians Moms Only

A lesbian-owned maternity shop in Brooklyn’s Park Slope is offering a discount to lesbian moms only, although the owner doesn’t ask patrons to “prove” that they are gay. While a few people have looked “questioningly” at the placard advertising the unique discount, Paperno says the overall response to the lesbians-only promo is positive. “People are tickled by it,” Paperno says, …

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SATURDAY: Record Store Day

This Saturday is Record Store Day, an annual celebration of the nation’s dwindling music retailers in which acts such as the Beastie Boys make in-store appearances and issue special releases for the day. This is the one day that all of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate the art of music. Special vinyl and CD …

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Target Issues Gay-Positive Message

A little damage control from Target: “Whether we’re gay, straight, or identify any other way…we love whoever it is we love.”(Tipped by JMG reader Donald) RELATED: Target has lost its lawsuit against the gay group it was trying to stop from collecting marriage equality petitions outside its San Diego stores. Judge Barton said Target and its powerful law firm of …

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CALIFORNIA: Target Sues Gay Group

Saying that they are annoying the customers, Target has filed suit against an LGBT group that has been gathering marriage petitions outside its San Diego locations. Target says that the gay group’s activists regularly canvass outside eight San Diego stores and refuse to leave when asked. The retailer says it receives around a dozen complaints every day from shoppers angry …

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Lady Gaga Ends Target Deal

Earlier this month it was reported that Lady Gaga had struck a special promotional deal with Target with the stipulation that the company “start affiliating themselves with LGBT charity groups.” Now it appears that deal has fallen through. Carmen Cacciatore, co-founder of Fly-Life marketing agency, announced this afternoon that the earlier reported deal between Target Corp. and Lady Gaga was …

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NEW YORK CITY: National Gay & Lesbian Task Force Joins Battle Against Walmart

As I’ve reported here for months, Walmart is engaged in a pitched battle with unions and city leaders in their attempt to bring an outlet to New York City. Today the National Gay & Lesbian Task Force came out against the retail giant. “With the expansion of Wal-Mart stores comes the expansion of antiquated employment policies,” the Task Force said …

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NEW YORK: World’s Largest Apple Store Planned For Grand Central Terminal

Apple plans to install what would be their largest outlet in the world in the massive balcony area of Grand Central Terminal. The 16,000 square foot store will displace at least one of the restaurants presently in that location. The store will be Manhattan’s fifth Apple location. While relatively low-profile tenants like restaurants and their tables and chairs don’t detract …

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Today In Frivolous Lawsuits

A New Jersey woman has filed a $5M class action lawsuit against NYC-based discount retailer Century 21 because when she returned items for a cash refund, she didn’t get 80 cents in credit for the coupon she’d used when making the original purchase. In Manhattan federal court papers, Tova Gerson claims she used a coupon, good for $5 off a …

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Target Rewrites Donations Policy

After suffering through a long year of negative press and calls for boycotts over their sizable donation to an anti-gay group, Target has published new guidelines to corporate giving. The new policies appear to install tighter executive review of proposed donations. The Washington Blade’s Chris Johnson reports: Jessica Carlson, spokesperson for Target, said the change was enacted within the last …

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Borders To Close 200 Stores

Borders Books will close 200 locations as part of a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filed today. Analysts say today’s actions may not save the company. The filing — which comes 40 years after Borders started as a used bookstore on Ann Arbor’s South State Street — gives the chain a chance to reorganize by slashing expensive leases and reducing its debt …

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Quote Of The Day – Michelle Malkin

“Progressive groups are gloating over Chick-Fil-A’s public relations troubles exacerbated by the nation’s politicized paper of record. Not because they care about winning hearts and minds over gay rights or marriage policy, but because their core objective is to marginalize political opponents and chill Christian philanthropy and activism. The fearsome ‘muscle-flexing’ isn’t being done by innocent job-creators selling chicken sandwiches …

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Borders To File For Bankruptcy

Borders Books is expected to close 150 stores and file for bankruptcy in the next week. Analysts blame the Amazon Kindle, sort of. Analysts have faulted Borders for being ill equipped to adapt to bookbuyers’ migration to digital formats and for having too many stores in an age when many shoppers prefer to buy even paper books on line from …

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Stonewall Dems: Walmart Is Homophobic

As Walmart ramps up its media blitz against the New York City government, hoping to finally gain a foothold in the nation’s largest market, the Stonewall Democrats have issued a statement denouncing the company as homophobic. “Walmart represents a culture of intolerance and insensitivity towards LGBT employees and issues that is unwelcome in New York. Just last year more than …

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Quote Of The Day – Dan Cathy

“In recent weeks, we have been accused of being anti-gay. We have no agenda against anyone. At the heart and soul of our company, we are a family business that serves and values all people regardless of their beliefs or opinions. We seek to treat everyone with honor, dignity and respect, and believe in the importance of loving your neighbor …

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Starbucks’ Trenta

I’m not getting all this hubbub about the new supersize Starbucks cup. How is this any different than a Big Gulp?

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NYC: Walmart Launches “Let Us In” Site

Walmart has launched a new website intent on convincing New Yorkers to pressure city leaders to allow the retailing giant a foothold in the nation’s largest market. The site is being accompanied by a massive radio campaign. Many New Yorkers woke up Monday morning to a radio advertisement by Walmart blasting “special interest” groups for pressuring the City Council to …

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Wal-Mart Wants New York City

Wal-Mart’s years-long battle to gain a foothold in New York City has been ramped up a notch with their hiring of Mayor Bloomberg’s former campaign manager, who will battle unions and community groups before the City Council next month. Steven Restivo, a spokesman for the Bentonville, Ark.-based Wal-Mart Stores Inc., told The New York Times in its online edition Sunday …

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A&P Files For Bankruptcy

The 151 year-old Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, which operates 400 grocery stores under the names A&P, Food Emporium, Pathmark and others, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The company said it will have access to $800 million in debtor-in-possession financing and that all of its stores are fully stocked and open for business. The company said that it …

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