HORACE MCQUEEN: Way Down South – In the Land of Cotton

Hobby Lobby is being called out for having a display of a cotton plant loaded with the fluffy bolls in their stores. A black activist — really a racist — student says cotton reminds her folks of slavery! The complainer calls for a boycott of all Hobby Lobby stores until the firm removes the offending cotton items. She also complains that even a cotton tablecloth or cotton clothing is as reminder of slavery. This nonsense from a young lady with a gaudy set of earrings in the shape of Africa attached to her lobes. Ma’am, please shuck the cotton blouse you are wearing—that’s only fair!

Burning off underbrush, dead limbs and other litter in a pine plantation makes good sense. The practice improves growth of the timber and opens the land up for wildlife. Cost of a burning operation is not cheap — generally $30-$50 an acre if a certified burn operator does the job. Now, the Texas Forest Service is offering some help in the form of grants that will pay half or more of the cost. Contact the local TFS office for applications. The burn assistance program is first come, first served and deadline for signup is October 6.

Just how long is a 12-inch Subway sandwich! Well, some bottom feeding lawyers filed nine class action lawsuits against the sandwich maker — claiming some of the foot longs only measured 11-inches or so. The first judge that heard the charges against Subway awarded the attorneys who brought the suit $520,000 in fees. The folks who hired the attorneys to challenge Subway got nothing for their efforts. Subway appealed the case to the Seventh Court of Appeals — and in front of three honest judges–got the penalties reduced to zero. One of the judges said that one foot long may be an inch longer — or shorter — than 12-inches and that customers with any common sense are not using a ruler on their sandwich.

Ethanol is back in the news. The backers of this fuel that offers less miles per gallon of fuel than plain old gasoline are doing their best to raise the percentage of ethanol added to gasoline at the pump. Meantime, ethanol companies are selling millions of gallons of excess ethanol to buyers in Brazil, Canada and other nations that add the inferior fuel to gas. Politicians from the Corn Belt states know their political futures depend on supporting the ethanol subsidies. And now, even President Trump has joined the ethanol chorus to keep his minions in the mid-west pacified! Just remember the old adage that “politics makes strange bedfellows!

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