Well, it has already been hypothesized or proven to be effective to create houses. But that would take money and the homeless obviously don't have that.
As said above, of course it wasn't legal from the British viewpoint, but it was from many if not most of the settlers. The only reason they pledged their loyalty to the king is that they couldn't very well pledge it anywhere else, until they formed their own nation.
Law is only relative until society and morality decide that the law is no longer applicable and either seek to change the law or to reject it outright.
Well, when I worked at Wal-Mart, they had us be 5% (IIRC) less than the competition (Target and K-Mart mostly). If we were lower than that, we had to raise the price to the penny. Here it seems that their calculations were off by that penny and they corrected. The sign is a little overkill. =)
This level of violence is not subject material for children. Their minds cannot properly process this kind of violence, and nor should they. There is plenty amount of time for them to understand what really happened. You are only an innocent kid once.
I live a few miles from the fairgrounds. Not going to go to it if I can help myself. Some people go absolutely bananas (which they fry too) about the state fair. I'm waiting for deep fried porpoise or something before we go too far.
Law is only relative until society and morality decide that the law is no longer applicable and either seek to change the law or to reject it outright.