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Cafe told to remove 'God Bless America' banner
Fox News.com ^ | June 30, 2016 | Todd Starnes

Posted on 07/01/2016 9:30:20 AM PDT by Kaslin

Whenever folks in Penfield, New York get a hankering for pancakes for lunch – they head over to the 5 Mile Café.

The family-owned restaurant is known in those parts for serving breakfast any time of the day (order their homemade corned beef hash).

They are also known for their patriotism.

“We are very patriotic here at the café – all year round –not just this time of year,” owner Jennifer Aquino told me. “We have American flags and patriotic things around the café.”

So Jennifer decided to ask the town for a permit so she could post a “God Bless America” banner on the front of her restaurant. She wanted to display the banner from Memorial Day through Independence Day.

There was just one significant problem.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: New York
KEYWORDS: 5milecafe; godblessamerica; jenniferaquino; newyork; penfield
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To: Mears
The town limit is three weeks———rules are rules.

But the banner is inside the restaurant. One would think that the ordinance would apply only to outdoor advertising.

21 posted on 07/01/2016 9:58:52 AM PDT by Rufii
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To: Mears
Instead of posting the banner outside the restaurant, she posted it inside. And that was that – until the Orlando terrorist attack.
22 posted on 07/01/2016 10:00:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Make America AMERICA again!.........................)
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To: Talisker
Because rules always respect rights, and therefore must be accepted without challenge. All hail the rulemakers.

Sometimes you're not the rule maker, just the rule enforcer.

In our HOA, the original documents were written that it takes 80% of the homeowners - at a physical meeting - to change the rules. We have 372 homes in our HOA. It is hard to get more than 12 homeowners to ANY meeting. So we are stuck with the rules as written.

If you, as a city, wish to make an exception to your banner policy for "patriotic" purposes, go for it. Fully expect to have it challenged in court and cost the city thousands of dollars defending it. That cost will likely have to be paid with higher taxes, for which you will be blamed. Isn't this fun?

23 posted on 07/01/2016 10:01:58 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Kaslin

If it was a rainbow flag then there would be no problem.


24 posted on 07/01/2016 10:02:20 AM PDT by tuffydoodle ("Never underestimate the total depravity of the average human being.")
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To: Kaslin
Had they displayed a banner reading, Allahu Akbar! no one would have bothered them, and they could have kept it up forever.
25 posted on 07/01/2016 10:02:20 AM PDT by Rufii
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To: Kaslin

it was not in America, it was in New York


26 posted on 07/01/2016 10:04:02 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc;+12, 73, ....Opabinia can teach us a lot)
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To: pfflier
Solution. Paint it on the storefront. Then it isn't a banner.

*********************

That's an excellent idea.

27 posted on 07/01/2016 10:04:32 AM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: Kaslin
Penfield has a strict banner allotment policy. Businesses are only allowed to post banners for a total of three weeks out of the year. “At one point we had banners all over the town and the town just looked trashy and our residents said enough’s enough,” town supervisor Tony LaFountain told WHEC.

Yeah, right. Banners made the town look trashy, and residents objected and demanded banner clean up.

Bald-faced lies - get yours today!

Let's see, New Years, Easter, 4th, end/start of school, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Ooooopsy, you're out of "banner time" by the end of the year for Christmas - but don't worry, you can't say that name anyway! Hohoho!

28 posted on 07/01/2016 10:04:52 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Kaslin

It’s not about the phrase. It’s about the ordinance.


29 posted on 07/01/2016 10:05:43 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: NonValueAdded

“NY still infested with Tories, I see.”

More like demonic goblins.


30 posted on 07/01/2016 10:06:50 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (And yet...we continue to tolerate this crap...)
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To: reg45

All our towns have a sign ordinance. And you have to the board for approval.


31 posted on 07/01/2016 10:07:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

“It’s not about the phrase. It’s about the ordinance.”

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Correct.

If this was a rainbow flag or a banner with a hammer and sickle we wouldn’t even be discussing it.

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32 posted on 07/01/2016 10:08:22 AM PDT by Mears (Afrocentrism is "the invention of tradition"-----Hobsbawm)
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To: Talisker

Too many of our “betters” telling the little people what they can and cannot do. Are there no potholes to fill?


33 posted on 07/01/2016 10:08:30 AM PDT by beelzepug (For English press #1; for Spanish, learn English and press #1)
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To: Crusher138
In our HOA, the original documents were written that it takes 80% of the homeowners - at a physical meeting - to change the rules. We have 372 homes in our HOA. It is hard to get more than 12 homeowners to ANY meeting. So we are stuck with the rules as written.

LOL, you're "stuck" with nothing - it's EXACTLY the way you want it. And it's WHY no one shows up - if more showed up, you'd have to change the rules until they stopped.

And of course, being a rules follower, y'all file with the SEC when you invest the reserve funds, and issue annual dividends to the residents, right?

Sure you do! LOL!

34 posted on 07/01/2016 10:10:31 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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To: Biggirl
Wow, that surprises me.
35 posted on 07/01/2016 10:16:35 AM PDT by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Kaslin

The headline is a fraud. This should not have been posted.


36 posted on 07/01/2016 10:18:43 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Media: completely irresponsible. Complicit in the destruction of this country.)
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To: Crusher138

All are equal under the law.

Tell that to the Clintons


37 posted on 07/01/2016 10:28:27 AM PDT by fungoking (40% share for a TV show is a hit; in the 2016 election it a loss in a landslide, hello Pres Hillary)
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To: Talisker
LOL, you're "stuck" with nothing - it's EXACTLY the way you want it.

I joined the board because I thought the rules were stupid and that I could change them. You can get a fine in our neighborhood if you have 6 or more weeds 3" or taller. If your garbage can is visible from the street, you can be fined. Stupid crap like that.

Once on the board I discovered that the board is trapped into enforcing the stupid rules. We tried to have one ruled changed, had a physical meeting, but accepted proxy votes, which is allowed. Got the requisite 80% approval. Went forward with the lawsuit (the vote was to allow the board to sue our previous management company for financial malfeasance) and they countered that our vote to allow us to move forward violated the law (our own rules in this case) because we didn't have 80% of the homeowners PHYSICALLY at the meeting. This crap is STILL being fought in court.

No, this is not the way I want it.

BTW, our members each got a $90 dividend check last year.

Stuff it.

38 posted on 07/01/2016 10:36:50 AM PDT by Crusher138 ("Then conquer we must, for our cause it is just")
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To: Mears

Put it up for 20 days...take it down for one...put back up for another 20

Ta-dah


39 posted on 07/01/2016 10:37:55 AM PDT by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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To: Kaslin

NEVER. TAKE. IT. DOWN.
AGAINST THE LAW TO ASK.


40 posted on 07/01/2016 10:39:15 AM PDT by connyankee (Cannot stand Fox News. A pack of wolves, they be.)
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