I have been warning for years about the constant struggle of police against Lemonade pushers, here, and here. They are just as bad as veggie pushers. Now, Multnomah County has found one in their own backyard. Julie Murphy, 7, was found boldly peddling lemonade in Northwest Portland.
Police shut down Murphy for operating without a license — specifically a $120 temporary restaurant license.
Jon Kawaguchi, environmental health supervisor for the Multnomah County Health Department, insisted “we still need to put the public’s health first.”
What is really disturbing is that this little felon had the audacity to make a sign with a person saying “yummy” after drinking her contraband product. “Yummy” is well known gang slang among lemonheads.
Source: Oregonlive
re: “H. L. Mencken wrote in The American Mercury for April 1924…”
Ironically, what he wrote obviously applied much more to the European powers we’d be fighting in the next war than to the US, where debate and dissent have always been a right, if not a duty. Wise, snarky, and often wrong, that’s good ol’ H. L. He was a man fifty years ahead of his time. Eighty years ago.
One man’s “putting down dissent” is another man’s “educated citizenry leading to civil order”.
And as for “giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take a risk every now and then. But we don’t do that.” Well, that’s because there isn’t any way to know how much autonomy that is, precisely, as it varies from child to child and moment to moment. Not to mention nobody wants to pay for it.
In other words: Browncow, you couldn’t be more mistaken if you were doing it on purpose. Often the case when one is being pointedly cynical.
I never stay mad very long….well I am still pissed at the 6th grade teacher taking my Mad books away. Hell what could they have taught me anyways…..Oh yeah, maybe that was when they started teaching English…..the rules….but then, oh well…
Anonymously Yours
1, August 7, 2010 at 10:19 pm
Well the recluse hermit spider crab is back. Next time son stay away from that bioux queen named marleen, she carry’s and she mean….I am sure…
anon nurse, if Blouise said welcome back and Buddha said it too, then it must be true, you are back….
Blouise, I am mad because you beat me to it…..
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No you aren’t … you’re just trying to be a tough guy!
Well the recluse hermit spider crab is back. Next time son stay away from that bioux queen named marleen, she carry’s and she mean….I am sure…
anon nurse, if Blouise said welcome back and Buddha said it too, then it must be true, you are back….
Blouise, I am mad because you beat me to it…..