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When Life Gives You Lemons...

• Free Patriot Press
...make lemonade – though selling said lemonade may land you in jail if you don't have government permission; and by “you” I'm including your children. On July 29, 2010 at the “Last Thursday” monthly art fair in Northeast Portland, Oregon Julie Murphy a 7 year old girl had her lemonade stand shut down and her mother threatened with a $500 fine for failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license. After seeing what happened to young Julie “The Lemonade Revolt!” was born and many vendors at the August “Last Thursday” event gave away lemonade. Since then children have had lemonade stands shut down across the country. One of Alex's Lemonade Stands was shut down in Philadelphia – Alex’s Lemonade was founded by little Alex Scott who set up a “lemonade stand to raise money to find a cure for kids with cancer--while bravely battling her own” – for failing to have a permit to operate, or a hand-washing station. A lemonade stand was shut down after a Montgomery County, Maryland inspec

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Comment by David Jackson
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   Don't even ask if this will ever stop. This is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. I have to fall back on my contention that we are, indeed, heavily invested in the New Common Era - the most common of men and women doing the most common things. There is almost no likelihood of a lofty notion, idea, or event coming to pass. This is, of course, all that one might expect of petty little men and women who have come to represent all that is government at every level. Mindless little morons and impotent mental midgets are the norm in the bureaucratic morass that is the world of the governmental functionary...Keep on voting for them, folks. They love it. Without you they'd have to find real jobs and wouldn't be able to bully and harrass the rest of us.

   Don't get me wrong, voting isn't a causal event; these lunatics wouldn't even exist if their parents had had enough sense to use a condom. 



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