Target Has Starbucks
Posted by Hazel Stone | Filed under Buttinskis, Nanny Business
Wal-Mart Stores Inc, the world’s largest retailer, unveiled plans on Monday to film its gun sales in the United States and create a computerized log of purchases in a bid to stop guns falling into the wrong hands.
Well, there’s a simple enough solution for that…don’t buy guns at Wal-Mart. In fact, don’t buy ammo, cat food, milk, potting soil, frozen pizzas, beach towels, frisbees, goldfish, 12 packs of diet Dr. Pepper, kids knee socks, band-aids, teethbreesh, or any other bloody thing they sell. Easy.
Tags: 2nd amendment, guns are good
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April 14th, 2008
As has been noted on other sites, Wal-mart has been so effective at reducing competition that in many areas it is quite difficult to do much commerce with out them. I agree that a boycott is the best answer to this action and I for one will participate and spread the word to do likewise. I just find it terribly disheartening it must come to this.
April 14th, 2008
Wal-Mart can join Starbucks on my blacklist.
April 15th, 2008
I’m still smarting over being carded at Walmart a couple of weeks ago when trying to buy beer on my last night in the US.
I mean, I’m 37! On one level it might be flattering to be mistaken for a teenager, but it’s still a pain when you have to flash your passport to prove what should be blatantly obvious to anyone who isn’t blind (sorry, I think I meant ‘visually impaired’).
If I’m ever planning to go on a shooting spree though, I’ll be sure to get my mug filmed at Walmart rather than buy an AK47 illegally adapted for automatic fire from some shifty bloke in a bar. I’ll pay by credit card too, just to leave nobody in any doubt as to who I really am. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Walmart, for now keeping the American public, including my fiance’s family, safe from harm.
April 15th, 2008
Well, damn. I don’t like Wal*Mart, but I’ve been making a point to shop there occasionally after one of my stupid lefty friends saw that anti Wal*Mart documentary and boycotted them. I try hard not to discuss politics with friends I’m sure to disagree with, but sometimes I can’t help myself.
She’s like, “Sam Wall’s widow makes a bzillionty jillion dollars a year, but the average Wal*Mart employee doesn’t have health care!”
And I’m like, “no minimum wage job in the country includes health insurance. Why single out Wal*Mart?”
“Because she has so much!”
Class envy is such an effective tool for the left, because it comes so naturally to people.
April 15th, 2008
Stoatmeister: It’s all part of the “taking our pie” philosophy they all share. Fecking socialists.
Rob F: If you’re in the sandbox, keep your dang head down, ok? And let us know if you want any books, we’re drowning in the things here.
WT: Sometimes you just needs a cup of chocolatey-sludgey wake-up-itude.
Bill: Sodding inconvenient, too. When we went there last week, it was because we could get potting soil, kid shorts and zucchini all in the same place. Now I have to go to Target AND the grocery store. Dammit.
April 15th, 2008
Rob F.: As far as the carding, I don’t think it’s just Wal-Mart that does that. Plenty of places around here will just card everyone for the sake of avoiding liability, and some have registers that require a DOB before a transaction can continue (which can still be circumvented pretty easily by entering a random date past a certain point, but some cashiers might not want to do that). I know that doesn’t change the fact that it’s annoying, though.
As far as the gun transactions, I agree that it’s an incredibly stupid, useless thing for them to do.
April 15th, 2008
A joke about the politics of envy:
God decides to come down to earth to personally see how people are living. While walking down a street, he sees a man sitting on his front porch crying.
“Why are you crying my son?” God asks the man.
“Father, my neighbour has a huge 10-bedroom mansion. I only have a tiny house that is too small for my family.”
“So what would make you happy?” God asks.
“I want a 10-bedroom mansion as well!” says the man.
God snaps his fingers and miraculously the man’s house is transformed into a mansion.
A little while later Gos comes upon a man sitting on a pavement crying.
“Why are you crying my son?” God asks the man.
“Father, my neighbour has a brand new Ferrari. All I have is a small Fiat that breaks down all the time.”
“So what would make you happy?”
“I want a Ferrari as well!”
God snaps his fingers and the man’s Fiat is transformed into a Ferrari.
Still later, God meets a man sitting in the middle of an empty field crying.
“Why are you crying my son?” God asks the man.
“Father, I don’t have anything in life and I cannot even feed my self. My neighbour on the other hand, has a goat.”
“So what would make you happy?”
“I want the neighbour’s goat to die!”