Welcome To Case's Column
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.
In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Let me say a big welcome to all of you for joining me here. I'm going to call these blog meetings Case's Column. I wanted to use "Corner", but that was already taken.
Since 2008, it's been a real privilege to come on here and share some of my life with you, and it's a big world where we live.In these blogs, I'll just speak whatever is on my mind, but we will be playing within the rules here. I may pick a particular topic, point out an event, or shoot the breeze. I'm a little bit of an essayist at times, so I'll just speak what's on my mind, and I might tell a story or two. Or, I might spew out an opinion or three. There will be some serious moments, some tender, some poignant, but there will also be those moments that you'll just bust out laughing. But, hopefully, everything will be in good fun here. And, of course, there's a place below for your comments and thoughts as we go along here. So feel free to join me for the ride -- I sure as heck hope I'm doing this right and not making any mistakes.
Thanks for taking your time in reading Case's Column. Hopefully, you'll enjoy being entertained by it as much as I've enjoyed putting these writings together. And thanks for the time you spend in City-Data.com, where it's great to be alive!
Regards,
case44
Can These Unnecessary Bans Just Stop? Please?
Just when you thought California was the only state in this great America hellbent on banning plastic straws, well, just hang on, sports fans.
Now, that liberal madness has spread to my home state of Texas, not exactly a liberal and utopian paradise. It's my paradise, yes, but that's not important now. I say this because a Corpus Christi restaurant has decided to follow Cali's "lead" (as it were
) in banning plastic straws in order to "protect the environment". How wheels-off must it continue to get in this country? This is the left making every attempt, subliminally, to control our lives, and it is not necessary. Suddenly, because trash appears in a number of places, everything becomes wrong. I spotted this disclaimer in the pdf menus for Blackbeard's, amongst the dinner and drink choices. Restaurant officials at Blackbeard's on Corpus Christi's North Beach have felt that too many people are chucking their straws in the ocean, and that they believe that, by 2050, there will be more straws in the sea than fish.
Okay.
Look, folks, I'm not pro-trash. I'm also not anti-straws. Did a straw throw itself into the Gulf of Mexico after spending time in another person's drink? Did a straw jettison itself out of a customer's hand and decide to lie down on a hot Corpus Christi parking lot? Straws don't throw themselves away. People throw straws away; the problem for some of us is that we've forgotten where the trash can is. Now, to be fair, what I'm telling you about is not a city ordinance, but something the restaurant decided to do on its own. They did, however, say that they would grant people the use of a straw upon request. Good deal. I don't want falling ice cubes spewing iced tea all over my pant legs. Nobody wants to wear their drinks back to the house or the hotel.
Here's how you take care of the environment: Stop throwing trash into the ocean and on our streets and on our parking lots! There's no need for anyone to ban plastic straws. Nobody needs to ban anything. We civilians just need to clean up after ourselves.
That's it. Problem solved.
Now, that liberal madness has spread to my home state of Texas, not exactly a liberal and utopian paradise. It's my paradise, yes, but that's not important now. I say this because a Corpus Christi restaurant has decided to follow Cali's "lead" (as it were
) in banning plastic straws in order to "protect the environment". How wheels-off must it continue to get in this country? This is the left making every attempt, subliminally, to control our lives, and it is not necessary. Suddenly, because trash appears in a number of places, everything becomes wrong. I spotted this disclaimer in the pdf menus for Blackbeard's, amongst the dinner and drink choices. Restaurant officials at Blackbeard's on Corpus Christi's North Beach have felt that too many people are chucking their straws in the ocean, and that they believe that, by 2050, there will be more straws in the sea than fish. Okay.
Look, folks, I'm not pro-trash. I'm also not anti-straws. Did a straw throw itself into the Gulf of Mexico after spending time in another person's drink? Did a straw jettison itself out of a customer's hand and decide to lie down on a hot Corpus Christi parking lot? Straws don't throw themselves away. People throw straws away; the problem for some of us is that we've forgotten where the trash can is. Now, to be fair, what I'm telling you about is not a city ordinance, but something the restaurant decided to do on its own. They did, however, say that they would grant people the use of a straw upon request. Good deal. I don't want falling ice cubes spewing iced tea all over my pant legs. Nobody wants to wear their drinks back to the house or the hotel.
Here's how you take care of the environment: Stop throwing trash into the ocean and on our streets and on our parking lots! There's no need for anyone to ban plastic straws. Nobody needs to ban anything. We civilians just need to clean up after ourselves.
That's it. Problem solved.
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Big government doesn't work.
It never does.Posted 07-29-2019 at 04:55 PM by case44
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Fortunately, it's only one business and not an entire city's ordinance, as far as I know. I think Texas as a whole doesn't have that much to worry about as long as Abbott is governor.
Anymore, we just can't let our guards down. Liberals are so desperate.Posted 08-26-2019 at 01:34 PM by Gurn350 
