Austin Has Lost Its Mind

[jocat54]

Back on the subject of banning bags and bringing your own--do most of ya'll only buy a bag full of groceries when you go to the store? With living 60 miles from a large grocery store we buy a lot of groceries when we go to city don't think one little bag will cut it.
I do agree that plastic bags are a problem to the inviroment (more a people problem) but don't want anyone telling me I can't use them. I also don't have a problem with the good old brown paper bags--sacked a lot of groceries in them back in the early 60's.

 

[M. Sage]

I usually buy for two weeks when I get groceries. Mostly because I hate going to the store... The bags usually find other uses at home. Trash bags, dog crap bags, use 'em to pick up brass at the range, etc...

 

[stdreb27]

Hell carry dove or ducks back we use those bags all the time.


I wonder if they've banned the plastic bags in the meat department...

 

[2ManyGuns]

By no means do I advocate chaos, there must be some rules for civilization.

Plastic bags have in many instances a "destabilizer" that is activated by UV radiation, I'm not 100% sure about the plastic shopping bags. Paper, why ban paper shopping bags, it is bio-degradable. It may be unsightly if some idiot throws it out the window or it flies out of the back of someones truck, but it will rot away. If someone answers to "save the trees", they need to be beaten and educated. When trees are cut for lumber, the portion of that tree that is not usable for lumber is used for "pulp wood", in other words for making paper or "OSB" (orientated strand board, chip board) products. Not all pulp wood comes from this source but a percentage does, why waste it when it can be used to create a product that benefits people. That alone, not WASTING a renewable resource should make the greenie weenies ecstatic to say the least.

 

[Younggun]

Anyone who has left somwthing in a plastic grocery bag in the back of their truck for a couple weeks in the summer aught to know how quickly they start coming apart. If not, put a pound of nails in one and try it. You might want to have a magnet handy.

 

[txgunner00]

All the philosophical and theoretical issues aside, the biggest problem I have with this ban is the way the city council went about it. A few proponents made some presentations, spouted some "facts" and the council jumped in bed. Even after some of these so called facts were called into question and despite the outcry of local businesses they ram it though at a midnight meeting AND decide to spend 2 MILLION DOLLARS to implement it. If this kind of governing is acceptable to you just look in the mirror and say "baaaaaa".

 

[txgunner00]

By no means do I advocate chaos, there must be some rules for civilization.

Plastic bags have in many instances a "destabilizer" that is activated by UV radiation, I'm not 100% sure about the plastic shopping bags. Paper, why ban paper shopping bags, it is bio-degradable. It may be unsightly if some idiot throws it out the window or it flies out of the back of someones truck, but it will rot away. If someone answers to "save the trees", they need to be beaten and educated. When trees are cut for lumber, the portion of that tree that is not usable for lumber is used for "pulp wood", in other words for making paper or "OSB" (orientated strand board, chip board) products. Not all pulp wood comes from this source but a percentage does, why waste it when it can be used to create a product that benefits people. That alone, not WASTING a renewable resource should make the greenie weenies ecstatic to say the least.

Much of the North America's pulp wood comes from re-growth tree farms also. Sustainable forestry does work and is growing.

 

[JaketheBake]

Back on the subject of banning bags and bringing your own--do most of ya'll only buy a bag full of groceries when you go to the store? With living 60 miles from a large grocery store we buy a lot of groceries when we go to city don't think one little bag will cut it.

There's another issue. I frequently have a whole cart full of groceries. I mean piled over the top. Now I would have to fill half my cart with stupid cloth sacks? Where am I putting all those things while I shop? It will take like a dozen of them.

 

[JaketheBake]

 

[Younggun]

Where can I buy one!?

 

[JaketheBake]

Where can I buy one!?

http://www.cafepress.com/antitotes

 

[cuate]

The idiocy of Austin, TX is the same idiocy as the Nation's Capitol, however in a lesser degree presently. I don't know what State Capitols and the National one have that attracts kooks, idiots, and dumbasses so strongly ? Heaven Help us from these people !

 

[Elbe]

The idiocy of Austin, TX is the same idiocy as the Nation's Capitol, however in a lesser degree presently. I don't know what State Capitols and the National one have that attracts kooks, idiots, and dumbasses so strongly ? Heaven Help us from these people !

For decades the primary employers in Austin were the government and the University. These two industries attract libs. One does not have to produce or maintain a satisfied client base to keep a job/stay in business in these two fields. When I was a kid, my parents talked about moving to Austin a few times, the deciding factor against it was always that there were few job prospects outside of government and education, and my parents were in neither field.

 

[Rangerscott]

Is Austin the Cali cancer spot of Texas?


Lets ban showers because there's a lot of people that take too long to shower.


I see more plastic water bottles than plastic sacks on the ground. Stop being wimps and drink out of a cup from the faucet.

 

[JaketheBake]

Is Austin the Cali cancer spot of Texas?

They do actually refer to it as the "Third Coast".

 

[TheDan]

Hell, lets get rid off ALL the laws.

Works for me... Why do we need anything more than the 10 commandments? Actually, even that is too restrictive. We only need 6 out of the 10

 

[JaketheBake]

Works for me... Why do we need anything more than the 10 commandments? Actually, even that is too restrictive. We only need 6 out of the 10

I keep telling people 99% of all the laws are unnecessary and unfounded. I remember hearing Peter Gammons on the radio years ago saying Ted Kennedy was the greatest U.S. Senator in history because he had introduced more legislation than anyone else. Whaaaaaat?

 

[M. Sage]

Works for me... Why do we need anything more than the 10 commandments? Actually, even that is too restrictive. We only need 6 out of the 10

All we need is one: Don't **** with people.