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2010-08-05 -Short Attention Span Theater-

Portland, OR: 7 yr-old lemonade stand entrepreneur runs into health inspector nazis

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Posted by gorb 2010-08-05 13:05|| || Front Page|| [7 views ] Top

#1 Oh my God. I'm on the "anarchist's" side...

Posted by tu3031 2010-08-05 13:42|| 2010-08-05 13:42|| Front Page Top

#2 you're suddenly engaging in commerce," he said.

Commerce! Oh, the humanity!. The man's got a point. Without the watchful eye of Government, we'd have thespians in the public parks, people practicing celibacy and gawd knows what else. Where would it end?

Posted by SteveS 2010-08-05 14:19|| 2010-08-05 14:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I doubt there would be a problem if the kid set up the lemonade stand and took donations for the donk re-election fund. Does this mean that blind beggars selling pencils are going to have problems too? It is time to jerk the politicians' permits to operate who make such laws that allow kids to be abused.

Posted by JohnQC 2010-08-05 14:20|| 2010-08-05 14:20|| Front Page Top

#4 I used to think that writing my congressman was a waste of time. I've done it twice in my life and both times, in two different states the guy came through for me as put some foot to ass. The first time was when I was having trouble with the University of Northern Kentucky, after writing him the President of the University called my directly to 'rectify' the problem.
I wonder what 15 people writing their congressman about an outrage like this could accomplish, especially if he were running for reelection this Nov.

Posted by bigjim-CA 2010-08-05 15:06|| 2010-08-05 15:06|| Front Page Top

#5 Failing to get a $120 temporary restaurant license.

..along with submitting the $120 ~~graft~~ ~~bribe~~ ~~gratuities~~ economic downturn processing surcharge.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-05 15:21|| 2010-08-05 15:21|| Front Page Top

#6 apparently they have too many regulators if they have time to go after this. this is what over-intrusive government looks like.

Posted by abu do you love 2010-08-05 16:19|| 2010-08-05 16:19|| Front Page Top

#7 this is truly a disgrace for you to use Nazi language to describe this situation. Were you thrown into a concentration camp? Asked to live in unbearable conditions struggling for a sense of decency...raped, watching family murdered? Did you experience this? or your ancestors? It's truly disrespectful to think of this situation in a Nazi context.

Posted by disgusted 2010-08-05 16:49|| 2010-08-05 16:49|| Front Page Top

#8 Dear disgusted,

While the point you wish to make is technically accurate, the word Nazi has degenerated in colloquial English into a simple pejorative. It has occurred because 'manners' were out the window sometime in the 60s. The value of the word has become debased and will soon be joined by the word racist as another word that once carried value, but which has been abused to such an extent that it no longer holds its original intent. Today its largely employed as a descriptive of an authoritarian figure or person of position who acts without any sense other than the exercise of power.

Posted by Procopius2k 2010-08-05 17:04|| 2010-08-05 17:04|| Front Page Top

#9 "disgusted" that horse is already well out of the barn. You want to blame, point your finger squarely at the "Bush is a Nazi" drumbeat from the lunatic left for 8 years from 2000-2008.

Posted by No I am The Other Beldar 2010-08-05 17:39|| 2010-08-05 17:39|| Front Page Top

#10 Were you thrown into a concentration camp? Asked to live in unbearable conditions struggling for a sense of decency...raped, watching family murdered? Did you experience this? or your ancestors? It's truly disrespectful to think of this situation in a Nazi context.

Yes, actually. In fact, we're in Germany to watch my mother being honoured by several communities here for what she and her family endured at the hands of the Nazis. If you happen to wander into the Holocaust Museum in Washington, D.C. you can read my grandmother's war memoir in the archive there. The curators are particularly fond of it because Mama provided a lovely English translation with photos, maps, and informative appendices -- it was, after all, the kind of project my little PhD mother enjoyed getting her teeth into, so she did herself proud.

Oh, and what Procopius2k said about common useage. As a life-long pedant myself, I appreciate the limitations of the outlook.

Posted by trailing wife in Germany 2010-08-05 18:12|| 2010-08-05 18:12|| Front Page Top

#11 How about:

FACISTS....

SOCIALISTS...

DEMOCRATS...

OBAMA SUPPORTER... (rhymes with Athletic Supporter)

Posted by CrazyFool 2010-08-05 18:16|| 2010-08-05 18:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Posted by trailing wife in Germany

My beloved Bavaria I hope. Send for me will you?

Posted by Besoeker 2010-08-05 18:54|| 2010-08-05 18:54|| Front Page Top

#13 Yo, disgusted -

We're trying to communicate here. You need to figure out what I was trying to say and not nitpick. Everybody but you figured out what I was trying to say. Except you. You need to think about what this means.

And yes, I know about the part of the Nazi government that you seem to be obsessed with. In fact, part of my family owned a newspaper and pi$$ed off the Kaiser and had to hightail it out of Germany with only the clothes on their backs and came to the good ol' U.S. of A.

Another part of my family can tell you everything you want to know about the Nazi military. They had to flee Morocco because they were coming. I've got some train stories for you when you come out from hiding behind your new nym.

No, I don't use the term disrespectfully. I just take advantage of it's common meaning for ease of communication. There is more to the Nazi party than just their military, you know. Like the fact that they had total control of the population. Sort of like what Obama is aiming for but on steroids.

So, tell me, why are you up on your ear about use of the common term? What are you trying to accomplish, and what will that accomplishment buy you? Is it realistic, or just honorable? Are you planning on going through your whole life with this chip on your shoulder?

And if you don't like that, please go somewhere else to take a dump.

Posted by gorb 2010-08-05 20:42|| 2010-08-05 20:42|| Front Page Top

#14 FYI, my wife's side were refugees from Hungary, driven out by the Nazis. We still have the immigration papers, they were lucky, they got out in 1938.

Posted by OldSpook 2010-08-05 21:02|| 2010-08-05 21:02|| Front Page Top

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