Pickets outside of city council meetings would probably draw CNN out of its cave in Atlanta, as these are Girl Scouts, not unionized public employees.

girl power! a city brought to its knees by brownies! [ok, and parent power, and tourist power too because what tourist destination wants to be labeled as a hater of girl scout cookies?]

I didn’t even get into the fact that the “bad guy” was named Randolph Scott, and the city manager decides that Savannah doesn’t need to be infested with protesting Brownies [and their registered voter parents].

The city manager of Savannah, Georgia, has decreed that Girl Scouts may sell their famous cookies on the sidewalk in front of their founder’s birthplace.

A city ordinance prohibits commercial sales in the public right of way, but the same ordinance allows the city manager to grant exemptions, according to the city’s announcement of the decision.

If you own a cookie business that feels threatened by Girl Scout cookies, you should just liquidate and save yourself the aggravation, because you aren’t going to make it in the real world.

Down in San Diego we had the tiny drive thrus on the side of the street selling Mexican for the most part, but there were a few Asian places taking the plunge before Pete Wilson took over from Dukmejian to continue the mess that Republican governors always leave behind. San Diego had some roach coaches downtown, but nothing outside of the central business district.

Someone was doing an Indian lunch delivery service that was used by a few people at the park where I had an office, but they wouldn’t give non-Indians the contact information, so I assume it was not a “regular business”.

Most days I made due with a thermos and a cooler, because “there were rules” about heating appliances and refrigerators in the office park. It was a condo arrangement, and the condo association wanted prevent people from living in their office, like Republican Congresscritters in DC.

On the East Coast you could become a member of a “lunch club” which was family style at a fixed price. That was a good deal as long as you liked Italian or Polish food. They had a menu, like the school cafeteria, but there was no guarantee that it would be followed.

Around here we have a lot of good street food, in the form of the “roach coaches” that pop into corporate parking lots all over the Valley to feed hoards of office workers who don’t have time to cook or go out to restaurant. These serve everything, not just tacos and burritos. One of my office-mates loves getting the salads from the truck that stops next door, we have limited refrigerator space so bringing things that need to be refrigerated from home doesn’t really work well. The only reason I think they’re allowed to continue is because the majority of the office workers would not patronize restaurants if they didn’t have access to the lunch trucks, because of time constraints and the horrific traffic, they’d eat sandwiches instead, so the lunch trucks are not really direct competition for restaurants. Thus why no food truck wars like in many major cities…

– Badtux the “Bidness of gumment iz bidness” Penguin

– Badtux the Snarky Penguin

I’m having to wade through the “commemorations” of the sesquicentennial of the “War of Northern Aggression”, despite it having almost totally skipped the state [one battle and one regiment, was Florida’s contribution], because of “heritage”, but they feel free to attack the long standing tradition of selling Girl Scout cookies in front of the house of the organization’s founder. That shows the real level of respect for American history and traditions.

Greed triumphs over everything else.

I would note that down here they sell the cookies at the entrances of most supermarkets, with the permission of the management, because it is not a good idea to be seen as “anti-Girl Scout”.

I call it the Texification of government in the United States. The saying in Texas has long been that “the bidness of government is bidness”. That is, government exists to protect businesses, not individuals. And now that notion has been rolled out nationwide…

– Badtux the “We The Corporations(*)” Penguin

(*) Apparently the first three words of the current Constitution read “We the Corporations” rather than “We the People”.