It is a sad state of affairs when the local police have nothing better to do that shut down a kid’s lemonade stand. Correct me if I am wrong here but isn’t the “lemonade Stand” part of your and everyone’s childhood?

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It is a sad state of affairs when the local police have nothing better to do that shut down a kid’s lemonade stand. Correct me if I am wrong here but isn’t the “lemonade Stand” part of your and everyone’s childhood?

How far are we going to let the government get involved in our everyday lives? How many freedoms are we going to give up?

What the hell is wrong with all of you bloody sheeple that you actually let this shit happen. It is truly getting to the point where I am ashamed to be an American.

Peace Out

Dragon

Kids’ lemonade stand shuttered by police chief

Cory Doctorow at 5:05 PM Monday, Jul 18, 2011

The police chief of Midway, Georgia, has shut down a kids’ lemonade stand because the girls (10 and 14) who were operating it didn’t have $180 worth of permits. The proprietors were saving up for a visit to a water-park.

By a city ordinance, the girls must have a business license, peddler’s permit, and food permit to set up shop, even on residential property. The permits cost $50 a day and a total of $180 per year. City officials said it’s their job to keep everyone safe and healthy, and there can be no exceptions to the rules.

“We were not aware of how the lemonade was made, who made the lemonade, of what the lemonade was made with, so we acted accordingly by city ordinance,” Chief Morningstar said.

Midway Police Shut Down Girls’ Lemonade Stand for not having a Business License (via Consumerist)

via Kids’ lemonade stand shuttered by police chief – Boing Boing.

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Documentary about the bricks of St. Louis – Boing Boing.

The people of St. Louis sure love their bricks, and rightfully so. Unfortunately, poachers from other states like Louisiana and Mississippi love St. Louis bricks, too, and are stealing them.

Give her a break people.

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I have to give Amanda Kudo’s here for this blog entry. She has a point. And I don’t think the so called “complaining fans” fully understand how hard it is for someone like her to make a living in her chosen field.

Give her a break people.

I know damn well if you were in her situation and the same opportunities presented themselves to make a little extra money to help offset the expenses of traveling the planet to Entertain “US”, you would do the same thing.

Don’t change Amanda. Do what you need to. Your true fan base will understand and continue to support you in all you do.

amanda fucking palmer » blog

Peace Out

Dragon

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.The university said Hawking [...]]]>

Send any healing energy or Prayers you can to this man. If we lose him it will be a great loss to the Entire world!!
Stephen Hawking hospitalized, reported very ill

LONDON (AP) — Cambridge University says famed mathematician Stephen Hawking has been rushed to a hospital and is very ill.The university said Hawking had been fighting a chest infection for several weeks, and on Monday he was taken to Addenbrookes Hospital in Cambridge, north of London.

The 67-year-old Hawking gained renown for his work on black holes, and has remained active despite being stricken with motor neurone disease as a young man.

For some years, Hawking has been almost entirely paralyzed, and he communicates through an electronic device activated by his fingers.

Prof Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesizer.

He developed symptoms of the disease while studying in the 1960s and is one of the world”s longest surviving sufferers.

He has worked at Cambridge”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics for more than 30 years and since 1979 has been the University”s Lucasian Professor of Mathematics.

Prof Hawking was awarded a CBE in 1982, became a Companion of Honour in 1989 and is a Fellow of the Royal Society.

He lives in Cambridge and has three children and one grandchild.

Prof Hawking was born in Oxford but his family moved to St Albans, Hertfordshire, when he was eight.

He studied at St Albans School before reading physics at University College Oxford then moving to Cambridge to carry out research in cosmology.

One of Prof Hawking”s last public appearances was last September when he unveiled a £1 million clock erected at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.

“Professor Hawking is very ill and has today been taken by ambulance to Addenbrooke”s Hospital, Cambridge,” said the University spokesman.

“He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks.”

Professor Peter Haynes, Head of the University”s Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, added: “Professor Hawking is a remarkable colleague. We all hope he will be amongst us again soon.”

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Dragon Duckweed, they discovered, has an appetite for animal waste, quickly converting it to leafy starch that can then be converted into ethanol. The current source for most U.S. ethanol is industrial-scale corn farming, which requires [...]]]>

clipped from blog.wired.com By Brandon Keim The tiniest flowering plant could prove well-suited to two very big jobs: cleaning industrial animal pollution and providing clean biofuel. Able to thrive on nutrients in animal waste, duckweed produces far more starch per acre than corn, say researchers. It could be an alternative to corn-based ethanol biofuel, which is disfavored by environmentalists because of waste generated in farming it. “Based on our laboratory studies, we can produce five to six times more starch per unit of footage,” said Jay Cheng, a biological engineer at North Carolina State University. More than a decade ago, Cheng and fellow NC State forestry professor Anne-Marie Stomp wondered whether fast-growing duckweed, commonly seen in shallow ponds, might remediate animal waste. Excrement from the billions of animals raised every year in America”s factory farms has fouled watersheds, especially in the South, and fed oxygen-gobbling algae blooms responsible for rapidly-spreading coastal dead zones.

It is a link to Mr. Olbermanns spot on MSNBC. It is [...]]]>

I could not have said it any better myself. Although I dont think I could have been as respectful of the Commander in chief as Mr. Olbermann. But you have to listen to this if you havent already. It is absolutely Great.

It is a link to Mr. Olbermanns spot on MSNBC. It is 12 minutes long. But Oh SO Worth listening to:

Peace Out
Dragon

I was at the Marina with my brother in law and father in law. We were in the back building popping a hull form out of a mold for a boat we [...]]]>

 This my dear Red is written in toto with your post about this sad day in history. Red’s thought’s from that day.

I was at the Marina with my brother in law and father in law. We were in the back building popping a hull form out of a mold for a boat we were making. We had stopped to have a cold one. When my brother in law turned on the tv. I was speaking to my father in law and heard the reporter say:

“John Lennon was dead at the age of 40 at 10:55pm tonight Monday December 8, 1980″.

As I turned around not thinking I had heard what I had just heard. I saw my brother in law’s bottle of brew smash on the floor.

All I remember of that moment was Fuck No, this cant be real… Not him. All he lived and breathed for was his music and peace for all mankind.

A small part of me died with him that day.

You have to understand. I have been a Beatles fan since I first heard them as a small child in a very small town in the south of Wales.

At one point in my life I think I have owned at least 1 copy of every album and 45 they made.

Anyway I digress… I remember the day very well…

We lost a Legend, A Great Advocate for the peaceful resolution to the worlds problems.
A soldier of Freedom. And a Musical Genius.

The World is a lesser place for his loss…

a very sad Dragon,