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(American Thinker)   Is it too early for an American Thinker article? No? Okay... "Lemonade Freedom Day" and the war on lemonade stands. This very special episode has been brought to you by Orit Sklar   (americanthinker.com) divider line 109
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2012-08-18 01:11:58 PM
cheezpictureisunrelated.files.wordpress.com
 
2012-08-18 01:14:03 PM
DeaH: Link is for a video that starts playing right away.

So, to summarize: These girls had to leave the bright red state of Georgia to sell their lemonade in that bluest of states, New York. And, the blue-staters also award the girls scholarships on account of their boot-strappiness.


I'm guessing that most of their business came from creepy looking older balding men. Just a hunch.
 
2012-08-18 01:16:17 PM
farkityfarker: DeaH: Link is for a video that starts playing right away.

So, to summarize: These girls had to leave the bright red state of Georgia to sell their lemonade in that bluest of states, New York. And, the blue-staters also award the girls scholarships on account of their boot-strappiness.

They're not going to make much money charging only half a cent for each serving.


I guess they made it up in volume. They came in with fists full of cash - and that was before they started getting all the stuff on account of boot-strappiness. (All snark aside, I do remember seeing this and thinking this was talking point wacky land.)
 
2012-08-18 01:17:25 PM
thamike: [central.washingtonexaminer.com image 300x300]

Orit Sklar. Stork Liar. I wonder what her three Fark handles are.


*ahem* that's "Ronald Reagan Award winner Orit Sklar" to you, pal. -_o
 
2012-08-18 01:18:40 PM
baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand

Hardly. Link
 
2012-08-18 01:23:37 PM
PC LOAD LETTER: Alright, who is going to post a lemonparty link?

img.timeinc.net

"Lemon party. Wet. Bad."
 
2012-08-18 01:36:10 PM
Rich Cream: baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand

Hardly. Link


So you've managed to google a bunch of articles on the same story. Good job I guess.
 
2012-08-18 01:39:58 PM
gameshowhost: thamike: [central.washingtonexaminer.com image 300x300]

Orit Sklar. Stork Liar. I wonder what her three Fark handles are.

*ahem* that's "Ronald Reagan Award winner Orit Sklar" to you, pal. -_o


I got the Ronald Reagan Award for Most Hours Spent Aimlessly Wandering the Shopping Mall Parking Lot. Honorable Mention in Prolonged Squinting At Fast Food Menu.
 
2012-08-18 01:40:38 PM
Clever article, and a good example of a fallacious conservative argument.

1) A lemonade stand has to deal with government regulations, some of which are absurd and many of which obstruct the search for profit.

2) A lemonade stand is like a small business, which has the same problems with government regulations.

3) A small business is like a major corporation, which has the same problems with government regulations.

4) Therefore, leave Goldman Sachs alone!

/I'll leave the reader to uncover the fallacious move
 
2012-08-18 01:40:45 PM
MacEnvy: PC LOAD LETTER: I love how one of the comments rail on Prohibition. An Amendment overwhelmingly supported by CONSERVATIVES.

History books show that it was Demmycrats who were on the wrong side of that one, you liar!

Just like when Ronald Reagan freed the slaves.


While the Demorats were on a sound stage in Hollywood, Ronald Reagan landed on the moon
 
2012-08-18 01:56:45 PM
AliceBToklasLives: Clever article, and a good example of a fallacious conservative argument.

1) A lemonade stand has to deal with government regulations, some of which are absurd and many of which obstruct the search for profit.

2) A lemonade stand is like a small business, which has the same problems with government regulations.

3) A small business is like a major corporation, which has the same problems with government regulations.

4) Therefore, leave Goldman Sachs alone!

/I'll leave the reader to uncover the fallacious move


Yes that and lemonaid stands fall under the jurisdiction of local government and Georgia is such a Big Government Liberal hotbed.
 
2012-08-18 01:57:47 PM
Last year, the war on lemonade stands came to the forefront of the national debate.

No, it really didn't.

Look banning bake sales and hassling li'l kids running lemonade stands is dumb and a good example of nanny staters and local officials with waaaay too much time on their hands.

That carefully noted, in terms of national priorities it's never really cracked the top 10 list.

There was that BS "Obama says you didn't build your lemonade stand, l'il girl" agit prop on FOX and Mitt's famous "Lemon, Wet. Good." thing, of course, but that's only tangentially related.

/Can't believe I read an American Stinker link.
//I must be bored as hell.
 
2012-08-18 01:58:09 PM
Rich Cream: baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand

Hardly. Link



Sorry, my bad, I forgot an "s"

Isolated incidents

Feel better now?
 
2012-08-18 02:02:09 PM
quatchi: Look banning bake sales and hassling li'l kids running lemonade stands is dumb and a good example of nanny staters and local officials with waaaay too much time on their hands.


This.

quatchi: That carefully noted, in terms of national priorities it's never really cracked the top 10 list.

And this
 
2012-08-18 02:08:23 PM
Fart_Machine: Rich Cream: baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand

Hardly. Link

So you've managed to google a bunch of articles on the same story. Good job I guess.


Crazy how the results were so different from earlier where I had articles like This show up. And that's a year old.


baka-san: Feel better now?

Well, yeah. That's different.
 
2012-08-18 02:15:44 PM
Rich Cream: Fart_Machine: Rich Cream: baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand

Hardly. Link

So you've managed to google a bunch of articles on the same story. Good job I guess.

Crazy how the results were so different from earlier where I had articles like This show up. And that's a year old.


baka-san: Feel better now?

Well, yeah. That's different.


The incident they reference in this article happened last year. Old news is so exciting.
 
2012-08-18 02:17:55 PM
This article is based on a single instance of over-zealous officials harshing some pre-teens buzz with overregulation. I know the plural of "anecdote" is "data," but shouldn't you have at least two examples of this kind of thing before you make broad accusations? I mean, shouldn't you at least send James O'Keefe out dressed as a pimp to sell lemonade before you go full poutrage?
 
2012-08-18 02:20:51 PM
AliceBToklasLives: Clever article, and a good example of a fallacious conservative argument.

1) A lemonade stand has to deal with government regulations, some of which are absurd and many of which obstruct the search for profit.

2) A lemonade stand is like a small business, which has the same problems with government regulations.

3) A small business is like a major corporation, which has the same problems with government regulations.

4) Therefore, leave Goldman Sachs alone!

/I'll leave the reader to uncover the fallacious move


Reading an American Thinker article?

I'm a health inspector in Georgia. One day while driving down the road I came across one if these illegal lemonade operations so I really had no choice as to what I was to do. I pulled up to the poorly equipped facility, walked right up to the little girl and purchased a lemonade.
 
2012-08-18 02:23:01 PM
quatchi: There was that BS "Obama says you didn't build your lemonade stand, l'il girl" agit prop on FOX

You've actually made my day - I didn't hear about any of this!

The best part of this comic is that they're showing just how correct Obama's statement was all along. No man (or, little girl) is an island:
pegitboard.com
 
2012-08-18 02:23:32 PM
I have it on good authority that the vast majority of lemonade stands are SOCIALIST, with the means of production provided at no costs by the state (mom)!
 
2012-08-18 02:26:35 PM
I don't think people should be so quick to judge those local governments. I remember the times I've bought a glass of lemonade from some child, then knocked it over. There's a certain pure, innocent joy in knocking over a child's lemonade stand, seeing their eyes well up with tears, waiting for the explosion of crying. When you feel your smile growing more and more as the child gets ever closer, their body's shaking with grief and frustration and sorrow, tears leaking down their eyes, their mouth moving without making a sound, unable to comprehend what just happened to them. Then it hits, with a long plaintive wail, followed by the stream of tears, the runny nose, the blubbering, the sobbing. It's like a ray of sunshine bursting through the clouds, warms the heart and soul. It makes life worth living.
 
2012-08-18 02:27:40 PM
^^^ I don' know what century that cartoonist lives in, but the lemonade stands in my neighborhood charge 75 cents.
 
2012-08-18 02:27:48 PM
Read the right wing nut ball article that Terry Savage wrote where she saw kids giving away free lemonade and she started yelling at them. She wrote that the reason our economy is farked up is because of the kind of mindset the "free lemonade" kids have.

I know it sounds like I'm kidding but I'm not.
 
2012-08-18 02:28:43 PM
1. Pass law allowing children to be exempt from regulations and safety inspections

2. Hire thousands of kids in groups no larger than three to work in "micro-sweatshops" for twenty hours a day.

3. Make Mad profits, and Uncle Sam can't do squat about it.

i304.photobucket.com
 
2012-08-18 02:36:44 PM
TV's Vinnie: 1. Pass law allowing children to be exempt from regulations and safety inspections

2. Hire thousands of kids in groups no larger than three to work in "micro-sweatshops" for twenty hours a day.

3. Make Mad profits, and Uncle Sam can't do squat about it.

[i304.photobucket.com image 850x638]


You weren't supposed to reveal that plan until *after* Mittens and the Tea Party Senators and Congresscritters were inaugurated! Expect the GOP Black Helicopters to land on your front lawn sometime after midnight tonight!
 
2012-08-18 02:44:35 PM
Mind if I do an ADHD-inspired threadjack? It's sort of on-point, since an enterprising kid could make a bundle doing this in his or her spare time:

So anyway my 9 year old car had some of those foggy yellow headlamp lenses which I'd thought of getting cleaned one of these days. Got a coupon in the mail from a Honda dealer -- $69.95, $30 off the normal price. fark that noise.

Spent $9.00 at the local Rockler store on two sheets of Micro-mesh, 8000 and 12000 grit; I know they invented that stuff for cleaning aircraft windshields. Cut each 3x6 sheet in half. Washed each lens, started with 8000 grit lubricated with a little soapy water, finished with 12000, and they're clear now. Took me maybe 10 minutes. The used 3x3 squares look like they'll do a few more headlights.

A kid doing this for money might wanna start with 6000 grit to save time and carry along a half-cleaned half-cloudy junkyard lens for show.

I bet a kid could make a couple hundred on a good weekend doing this for $15 a pop...
 
2012-08-18 02:45:10 PM
MyRandomName: PC LOAD LETTER: I love how one of the comments rail on Prohibition. An Amendment overwhelmingly supported by CONSERVATIVES.

So I can now use the fact that liberals supported slavery, since we are going back 100 years?

All silliness aside, the day is really a commentary on the overburdensome state. When you have states requiring 100 hours of training for farking barbers, there may be a little bit of over regulation that is really just masking government revenue, because licenses are a money maker. It's gotten a bit out of hand.

[2.bp.blogspot.com image 778x360]

Not everything should be required to be under government control.


Yeah, all those Confederates who were screaming about states' rights and using the Bible to justify slavery were all liberals, libbing it up in their plantations.
 
2012-08-18 02:48:22 PM
MyRandomName: All silliness aside, the day is really a commentary on the overburdensome state. When you have states requiring 100 hours of training for farking barbers, there may be a little bit of over regulation that is really just masking government revenue, because licenses are a money maker. It's gotten a bit out of hand.

Let me guess, you know someone who had to pay $10,000 for a permit to install a shower in their place of business huh?
 
2012-08-18 02:50:33 PM
Shaggy_C: quatchi: There was that BS "Obama says you didn't build your lemonade stand, l'il girl" agit prop on FOX

You've actually made my day - I didn't hear about any of this!

The best part of this comic is that they're showing just how correct Obama's statement was all along. No man (or, little girl) is an island:
[pegitboard.com image 528x440]


Glenn McCoy isn't known for being an intelligent person.
 
2012-08-18 03:06:45 PM
Shaggy_C: quatchi: There was that BS "Obama says you didn't build your lemonade stand, l'il girl" agit prop on FOX

You've actually made my day - I didn't hear about any of this!

The best part of this comic is that they're showing just how correct Obama's statement was all along. No man (or, little girl) is an island:
[pegitboard.com image 528x440]


It's still enforcing the "You didn't build this" lie though.

Any person in any country in the world who builds a successful business does so in part due to the infrastructure (both physical and legal), the educated workforce and the stability inherent to that country.

That that truism could get twisted into "Obama says you didn't build that" or in the case of the toon you linked to "You didn't create this business"* is madness and proof that the so-called liberal media is really just a bunch of corporate shills for the most part with a pro-status quo/powers-that-be agenda who have largely abrogated their responsibilities as the 4th estate.

/*Shades of the traditional RW "Job Creator" derp. 
 
2012-08-18 03:13:13 PM
Mrtraveler01: Glenn McCoy isn't known for being an intelligent person.

His comics are painfully unfunny. I've mentioned this before, but I seriously thought he was a liberal that parodied the most knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing GOP talking point on every issue. Seriously. For months I thought he was making fun of Republicans.

See, I thought McCoy was like a Farker that posts the "hands of my medicair!1!" photo so we can all point and laugh, but in reality he's actually just the guy in the photo holding the sign.
 
2012-08-18 03:20:39 PM
quatchi: /Can't believe I read an American Stinker link.
//I must be bored as hell.


upload.wikimedia.org
 
2012-08-18 03:30:47 PM
They tuk er stands.
 
2012-08-18 03:37:41 PM

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americanthinker.com - not *that* far removed from a text-generator bot
 
2012-08-18 03:44:50 PM
PC LOAD LETTER: Alright, who is going to post a lemonparty link?

DO NOT INVOKE THE WIZENED ONES
 
2012-08-18 03:45:07 PM
wejash: It didn't take long for some progressives to begin realizing that social engineering was a mistake and to begin supporting repeal but everyone was to blame for the thing in the first place.

If the stupid Irish didn't come home and beat their wives after a night of drinking, they wouldn't have passed Prohibition. It's all their fault.
 
2012-08-18 03:59:11 PM
The Author, Orit Sklar, is building a house of cards and he isn't playing with a full deck. If you read the stories linked to in the article you will find that his argument is not supported by those stories. Any loud noise will send this guy over the edge. Orit spends his days churning out press releases from his bunker in candy land. The "President" of My Food. My Choice! Orit has his very own web page, so that makes him ligit.
 
2012-08-18 04:02:42 PM
phaseolus: Mind if I do an ADHD-inspired threadjack? It's sort of on-point, since an enterprising kid could make a bundle doing this in his or her spare time:

So anyway my 9 year old car had some of those foggy yellow headlamp lenses which I'd thought of getting cleaned one of these days. Got a coupon in the mail from a Honda dealer -- $69.95, $30 off the normal price. fark that noise.

Spent $9.00 at the local Rockler store on two sheets of Micro-mesh, 8000 and 12000 grit; I know they invented that stuff for cleaning aircraft windshields. Cut each 3x6 sheet in half. Washed each lens, started with 8000 grit lubricated with a little soapy water, finished with 12000, and they're clear now. Took me maybe 10 minutes. The used 3x3 squares look like they'll do a few more headlights.

A kid doing this for money might wanna start with 6000 grit to save time and carry along a half-cleaned half-cloudy junkyard lens for show.

I bet a kid could make a couple hundred on a good weekend doing this for $15 a pop...



Not if he keeps shopping at Rockler.
 
2012-08-18 04:06:07 PM
But wait, all these atrocities are being committed by local governments. Don't the conservatives keep telling us that local governments are bastions of freedom?
 
2012-08-18 04:06:16 PM
red5ish: The Author, Orit Sklar, is building a house of cards and he isn't playing with a full deck.

LMAO, it's Orit Sklar?

And just when I was sure that Likud didn't have their elbow planted firmly on the pulse of the American People...
 
2012-08-18 04:12:26 PM
The only Sklar I trust:
userserve-ak.last.fm
 
2012-08-18 04:23:56 PM
Elzar: Done in 2. Lemon Tea Party anyone?

i.imgur.com
 
2012-08-18 04:27:56 PM
baka-san: So, isolated incident involving kids lemonade stand=get rid of the EPA, FDA, ECT...

Oh, and also, no kids use "Lemons; sugar, and water" for lemonade stands, and haven't since instant lemonade was invented.

Watered down Countrytime is more like it...

at least that's the way MY kids run em, max profit!


My son is now WAY past the age of lemonade stands but I remember the summer they were doing construction on the school across the street. He made a killing. Ended up also offering ice cream sandwiches, chips, etc. The workers wanted him to branch out into hot dogs and stuff but I nixed that one before he got into trouble about licensing.
 
2012-08-18 04:28:25 PM
JAYoung: ^^^ I don' know what century that cartoonist lives in, but the lemonade stands in my neighborhood charge 75 cents.

Good god, lemonade prices went up?

THANKS FARTBAMA
 
2012-08-18 04:31:45 PM
As I said before, apparently lemonade stands are the engine that drives the economy.
 
2012-08-18 04:33:29 PM
DeltaPunch: Mrtraveler01: Glenn McCoy isn't known for being an intelligent person.

His comics are painfully unfunny. I've mentioned this before, but I seriously thought he was a liberal that parodied the most knuckle-dragging, mouth-breathing GOP talking point on every issue. Seriously. For months I thought he was making fun of Republicans.

See, I thought McCoy was like a Farker that posts the "hands of my medicair!1!" photo so we can all point and laugh, but in reality he's actually just the guy in the photo holding the sign.


He's the cartoonist for a newspaper in Illinois not too far from me. I've sometimes wondered if I could get a job as an editorial cartoonist there just by drawing a perfect circle.

But yeah, his cartoons remind me of the ones from The Onion.
 
2012-08-18 04:40:47 PM
Mrtraveler01: But yeah, his cartoons remind me of the ones from The Onion.

Yes, but those are actually funny because they are intentionally bad.
 
2012-08-18 05:29:04 PM
As long as I have to take off my shoes and be digitally stripped naked to fly on a plane, these asshats can stfu about defying the overreach of government buerocracy (sp). Every business needs a permit- that's also part of American capitalism. Shame it cost so much, though.

/ mmmm, lemony tears of butthurt.
 
2012-08-18 05:29:53 PM
I'm still here, waiting on these lysteria-farmer chicks' tax returns and birth certificates before I can pass judgment.

And waiting...

* * Crickets * *
 
2012-08-18 05:35:32 PM
phaseolus: Mind if I do an ADHD-inspired threadjack? It's sort of on-point, since an enterprising kid could make a bundle doing this in his or her spare time:

So anyway my 9 year old car had some of those foggy yellow headlamp lenses which I'd thought of getting cleaned one of these days. Got a coupon in the mail from a Honda dealer -- $69.95, $30 off the normal price. fark that noise.

Spent $9.00 at the local Rockler store on two sheets of Micro-mesh, 8000 and 12000 grit; I know they invented that stuff for cleaning aircraft windshields. Cut each 3x6 sheet in half. Washed each lens, started with 8000 grit lubricated with a little soapy water, finished with 12000, and they're clear now. Took me maybe 10 minutes. The used 3x3 squares look like they'll do a few more headlights.

A kid doing this for money might wanna start with 6000 grit to save time and carry along a half-cleaned half-cloudy junkyard lens for show.

I bet a kid could make a couple hundred on a good weekend doing this for $15 a pop...


a kid? fark that! i don't know what a Rockler store is, but i'm going to find out and put my Mom to work on this asap. she's got nothing else to do, sitting there in her wheelchair and all. i learn great shiat on Fark. thanks, phaseolous!
 
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