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Here We Go AgainHere are the headlines that

greeted Texas news consumersaround the July 4 weekend:

Herald-Zeitung, July 2:Holiday garbage up 438percent

WOAI TV, July 3: Major increase inriver trash

San Antonio Express-News, July 3:Large amount of trash removed from NewBraunfels rivers

KSAT, July 7: Crowds ock to Comalriver, leave mess behind

WOAI Radio, July 7: Big Crowds Leave aBig Mess on the New Braunfels Rivers

Austin American-Statesman, July 7:Tubers trashing Comal River

Houston Chronicle, July 7: Tubers trashTexas Comal River

Weve got to hand it to Houston andAustin for bringing in the scariest headlines.Well done.

All of the above reports, with the exceptionof the WOAI Radio piece, dealt with theMemorial Day, not Fourth of July, weekend. TheWOAI Radio story was a vague item about theuly 4 holiday, which offered no statistics, and

led with this example of non-reportage:Fourth of July was the best holiday

weekend for the New Braunfels waterrecreation industry in 21 years, but boy did

they leave a mess. All of the stories had a few things in

common a sense of surprise that crowdscreate a mess, a take-for-granted attitude thatthe numbers the City reported were accurate, afailure to ascertain the commensurate increasein activity that precedes any litter situation,and a botched opportunity to ask why the Cityrefuses to manage the waste of river visitors,

while it merrily manages the waste of thosevisiting the parks and downtown. Well breakit down for yall.

Where There arePeople, There is WasteNowhere, at any time, in thehistory of mankind, havepeople lived without generatingwaste. We have landlls for just

this reason. There will alwaysbe a sector of the population that

disposes of their garbage improperlybecause they are awful people, and anotherthat litters because they are distracted. Casein point from my years working at Disneyland:

Hundreds of sweepers attend to the MagicKingdom every day, doing nothing but pickingup garbage, often from owerbeds and otherplaces one wouldnt expect to nd it. And thatsin a closed environment where trashcans areplaced mere steps from each other. Theres noexplanation for the litter, other than as a forceof nature, personal responsibility seems tofade as people nd themselves in increasinglylarger groups. As the Third Reich showed us,

feelings of guilt diminish when actual guiltspreads out. Its like Nutella.My time with Disney taught me that lack of

personal responsibility shows up in other waysas well people who would normally wait fora green light to cross a street had no problemat all walking out in front of a giant horse, ora double-decker bus, or an old-timey car goingdown Main Street, USA, simply because theywere having fun, and because, as we all know,nothing bad can happen to you while yourehaving fun. Its group stupidity, and while I neverlitter, I know Ive walked in front of my share ofold-timey cars. Its the same principle at work.

Disney has a choice in how they handlethese things. They can allow their horses totrample tourists to teach them a lesson, or theycan acknowledge the reality of the situation,and manage it. They know that smart peoplebecome less smart in groups, so they keep aneye out for the results of that less smartness.By the same token, the City of New Braunfelsknows that when people show up at LandaPark, or Hinman Island, or Cypress Bend, orthe rivers, that people will be in possession ofthings that will eventually need to be thrownaway, and those things will either end up in agarbage can or on the ground or in the water.Like Disney, the City has a choice too. Create asystem for handling waste, or complain aboutthe problems that ensue from not having one.

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Continued from page 3.Every bit of packaging and food waste

you deal with at home ends up in your garbagecan, or simply accumulates on surfaces aroundyour house. Now, take away your garbagecan, and see how long before your homebecomes a living Hell. One day? Two days?

Go ahead and try, and let me know when itbecomes unbearable for you. Wont be long.

There are trashcans in Landa Park. Thereare trashcans at Hinman Island. There aretrashcans at Cypress Bend and all the otherparks. Remove those trashcans, and watchthe garbage pile up. It will. Because peopleleave stuff. The City knows this, acknowledgesthis, and does something to mitigate it in theaforementioned areas. Of course, they couldjust ban disposable containers in the parks andremove all of the garbage cans, and Id beinterested in seeing how that works out.A oatdown the Comal takes a few hours, with norestrooms or trashcans along the way . Imaginethe nightmare if restrooms and trashcans wereonly available in the parks every few hours.

If we accept that human activity produceswaste, and that waste not managed results inlitter, it shouldnt be too difcult to see whatneeds to happen to keep litter from piling upin the rivers: either seize control of the riversfrom The Great State of Texas and ban allhuman use of them (likely impossible, yet aplan worth pursuing to some) or provideplaces to dispose of trash so it doesnt becomelitter to complain about later (easy).

We know people are coming, and weknow that much of what they are bringingalong will become waste. There should betrash boats every 50 feet. There should berangers handing out empty mesh bags at theentrance to the river and picking up the fullones at the exits. There should be rangersstanding in the water where possible, taking

trash from people oating by. There should bethese things, but there are not, because thishas never been about litter. Its always beenabout discouraging tourism, and nothing doesthat better than complaining about a litterproblem which was created by a refusal tocollect the garbage in the rst place. Photoopportunities and such.

Perhaps we should all just have an

honest discussion about the real problems:Bad behavior on the part of some tourists,bad behavior on the part of some locals,

and bad behavior on the part of some riverarea residents that think they own the place.If everybody respected the fact that privateproperty is private, and public property ispublic, wed have no problems at all downthere. Thats a conversation worth having.

Why Believe the Numbers?Theres no good reason to believe City Hallsinsistence that litter is up 438 percent. All theother newspapers noted above bought thatstatement wholesale. But this column wascreated from the discovery that back in 2011,the City outright lied about how much litterwas collected. They did it two ways:

1) They reported every 60 gallon trashbag collected as 60 gallons worth of trash,even if they were as little as one-quarter full, (a400% fudge factor), and

2) They reported trash collected frompark garbage cans as river litter. Take thatin. They reported thousands of gallons of landbased, properly disposed of trash as littercollected from the river itself,and used thosenumbers to create a political crisis. The riverwas being polluted, after all, by garbage incans hundreds of feet away from the water.

If were going to treat garbage collectedas a reason for draconian action, I think weregoing to have to shut down, well, everything.Sorry, folks. It seems your ofce/restaurant/grocery store has produced some garbage.Youll need to close up shop.

So forgive me if Im skeptical. City Hall

has a well-documented history of creatingwaste numbers out of thin air and misreportingothers. I discovered these shenanigans while Iwas a reporter at KGNB, and started writingthis column shortly thereafter. If City Staff andCouncil hadnt played games with the numbersin order to inuence public opinion, this columnnever would have existed. Ouch. All thetrouble weve caused looking into corruption

and incompetence at City Hall started with thetrash numbers. Talk about being in the rightplace at the right time! #gamechanger

Of Utmost ImportanceHeres another item that needs to be addressed.Lets say that all the trash numbers are legitimate.Stop laughing. Seriously. Just just try and hold

it together for a moment. Come on now.Lets say the numbers are legitimate. Ok,

now Im laughing. Ok, wait.

Alright. I m good. Ok, let s say thenumbers are legitimate, that this yearsMemorial Day litter take is indeed up 438percent over 2013s. There are two morevariables to consider:

1) Is it possible that we simply had morepeople on the rivers, and theres no litter increase,and possibly a highly newsworthy decrease, when calculated on a per capita basis? Afterall, there were far fewer people on the riversin 2012 and 2013, and with a disposablecontainer ban in place, there should have beenzero litter to remove. More importantly

2) What were the cleanup dates?Thats critical. Lets say last Memorial Day

weekend had a cleanup the Thursday beforethe weekend, and another the Tuesday after(a ve-day window), and this year we had acleanup two Thursdays before the weekend,and another two Tuesdays after (a twenty-daywindow). The actual days dont matter here,so dont get caught up in that. What mattersis what the cleanup calendar looked like in2013, compared to the cleanup calendar in2014. We dont know which days, or howmany, are in those cleanup windows.

If you want numbers that can belegitimately compared, those windows needto be identical, as do the man-hours. Nobodyhas addressed either, and the fact that othermedia outlets havent even raised the questionis disheartening. These are the key facts thatneed to be considered, and until we knowwhat they are there is absolutely no reason toaccept the Citys assertion that litter is up. No

reason. None. At all.Its ok, though. We asked the City forthe cleanup dates and man-hour information.Stand by while they retroactively create it.

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New Braunfels vsThe NothingIn a surreal maneuver, the City of New Braunfels

led an appeal recently, but no one is certainwhat case was appealed.

The brief led with the Third Court ofAppeals in Austin does not mention the nameof the case, the court from which the caseoriginated, or the legal reasoning for theappeal, other than to mention no less than 163times that the City cant be sued.

We cant be sued, the brief reads. Wecant be sued. We cant be sued. We cant be

sued. We cant be sued.Besides the numerous mentions that theCity cant be sued, the ling also makesseveral bizarre and irrelevant arguments:

1). A hypothesis about how many rabbitscould t into a sock. City attorneys answeredthat it depends on the size of the sock and thesize of the rabbits. We cant be sued.

2). A lengthy discussion as to why the hubof a wheel appears to be going backwards.The argument concluded it was due to somekind of wheel magic. We cant be sued.

3). Asked, Why dont girls like me? Is itbecause we cant be sued?

4). Argued that New Braunfels is awashin demons and cans and the current situationmust be stopped.

5). Wrongly claimed that the City was thebirthplace of jazz.

When the Third Court of Appealsdemanded that the City Attorneys ofce

name what case New Braunfels was actuallyappealing and why it was doing so, theAttorneys ofce replied in a letter that read, infull, Leave me alone.

City ofcials say they dont know who ledthe appeal and are equally troubled about thematter. However, during a recent City Councilmeeting, ve members voted in favor of theappeal, arguing that they did so because theydidnt know what was going on.

The Universe is ReallyFreaking Me Out Researchers from the physics department atthe University of Marijuana Studies (UMS) inBolder, Colorado, have shaken the eld with atheory that the universe is older than itself.

Delivering their ndings at the recentSpooky Theoretical Physics Conference inVienna, the UMS team opened their discussionwith, Check this out, dudes.

The researchers theory states that SpaceTime is all around us and the universe is, like,made of Space Time and is also in Space Time.

And its, like, really, really heavy. So heavy,it, like, messes with Time and stuff. You knowwhat Im saying?

While delivering their results to theconference, UMS members would often stareoff into space, eat pizza and, at one point,argued that if the universe were a pizza, whattoppings it would have.

Stop arguing, team member Kyle Fortonsaid at one point. Everyones going to knowwere stoned. Eventually the research teamagreed that it would taste purple.

Conference attendees were intrigued bythe theory.

Well, they didnt actually offer any validproof to their ideas, said Gunter Claus, headof the physics department at the University ofMunich. But, I dont know, the universe is kindof weird like that. Is there any pizza left?

Last year, UMS quantum physicists publisheda groundbreaking study, Think About It: On ThatLevel, Man, Everything Is So Small That Its Big.

Everyone, out of the water!Rising to a new level of cognitive disconnect,the New Braunfels City Council passed anordinance that would allow people use of theComal and Guadalupe rivers, provided that noone actually enter them.

Council members reasoned that sincecongestion on the rivers made it impossible foremergency personnel to reach people in troubleon the waterways, the only recourse would beto ban people from the rivers so that emergencypersonnel could reach them easier.

City Attorney Val Acevedo advised councilmembers they could pass the ordinance because

you are all powerful. We cant be sued.Some are accusing the City of simply trying

to nd a way to keep tourists from coming toNew Braunfels. This accusation was also leveledagainst the City during its can ban ordinance,which continues to weave its way through thecourts after it was declared unconstitutional.Since the ban was ordered to be lifted, the City

says it has picked up a million-billion poundsof trash out of the river, enough trash to stretchto where the angels live.

The newest controversial ordinance comesfast on the heels of last months ordinance thatclosed off downtown to all people in orderto preserve the Citys unique and historicdowntown area.

According to a City news release, bothordinances are tools designed to help localofcials and law enforcement do somethingabout this continuing people problem.

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Dear Opa Esel:

Since I am a native exan and have

lived here my entire life, I have never

thought much about the number of

arts and/or crafts that represent our

fair state. I have seen giant exas stars

for sale at antique stores, fairs, ea

markets, etc. Because my job requires

that I travel quite a bit, I have become

friends with many people from other

states and can honestly say they love

their home states just as much as any

exan. However, you dont see the same

state-inuenced themes as you do in

exas. Why is that?

Proud but Puzzled

Dear Puzzled: Everyone seems to have

one of these metal monstrosities, but in my

research I have yet to discover one person

who remembers actually buying one. Almost

everyone says they received their Texas-

themed item as a gift, but can never recall from

whom the gift came from.

I have heard a number of horrifying tales

regarding this strange phenomenon.

Some months ago, I found in the

basement a welded metal sculpture of a

star surrounded by a circle, but I havenever been to Texas, said one 36-year-old

Wyoming woman. At night I can hear it

scuttle around down there. I refuse to go

into the basement anymore.

I spoke to one man who sold old pewter

ware at various fairs in Englands Cotswolds.

After locking up the goods in his van one

night, he was aghast the next morning to ndevery pewter tankard and plate had turned

into windmills each adorned, as usual, with

the Lone Star.

The worse part is that they arent even

good windmills, he said. How am I supposed

to sell these things? Theyre all shite.

Of course, England is struggling with its

own Union Jack virus problem.

As of yet, I am not sure why this is

happening only that it is, indeed, happening.

But should we be scared?

Oh God yes!

Liebe, Karl

Dear Opa Esel:

Who are your favorite bands? Who

are your least favorites?

Music Lover

Dear Music:

Abba and Visceral Bleeding. Im into the

Swedish thing.My least favorite band is We Hit

Ourselves With Sticks, a techno band that is,

unfortunately, self-explanatory: ve guys wh

hit themselves with sticks. Their music is usua

a collection of caterwauling and wailing as

the members hit themselves with sticks, all p

to a syncopated rhythm. Although, I must say

they did an interesting version of the HawaiFive-O theme song.

Liebe, Karl

Dear Opa Esel:

If you could go back into time and

change one thing, what would it be?

Tinking Outside the Box

Dear Box:

I would convince our forefathers to mak

this country a monarchy. This would be fo

two reasons:

First, with a monarchy you are at least

guaranteed a good one once in a while.

Second, if things dont go well in the

country, instead of worrying about it we can

just shrug our shoulders and say, Yeah, but

what are you gonna do? Hes the king.

Liebe, Karl

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Dear Mexican: I have some questionsand observations. During George, W.Bushs administration, there was a lotof talk for and against comprehensiveimmigration reform (amnesty to some).One remark that I recall was stated by aMexican that went something like, Goback to Europe!!!! Arent Mexicansof European descent also? Hello,colonized by Spain. I thought to myself,Why dont you go back to Europe?Unless you are puro indio, your roots

from Europe also. Immigration reformaside, what are your thoughts on goingback to Europe?

Murrieta Maven

Dear Gabacha: Eh, we say that just toshow how stupid gabachos yelling, Go backto Mexico! sounds. The only Mexicans whotruly believe gabachos should head back toEurope are indigenazi types who claim theyrethe pureblooded 15th linear descendant

of Cuauhtmocwhile sporting facial hairstraight from Extremadura.

Dear Mexican: Do Indians mangleSpanish as bad as they do English when you call a tech support line? What I likeabout Mexicans is, they are honest with you if they dont understand what you just said. Tey ask you to say it again. Andif you dont understand a Mexican who isnobly attempting to learn that universalsecond language that is English, theytry to say it again, more correctly. AndMexicans are grateful when you have

helped them understand English a littlebit better so they can communicate with you, without demanding you learnSpanish in return.

Even in Mexico, Mexicans dontmind if you dont understand Spanish;they always take care that everybodycan communicate with each othereven if it means they speak Englishin Mexico to a tourist whose Spanish vocabula ry is limited to the aco Bel l

menu. Unlike Indian tech support, who seem to want to punish you fornot understanding as they attempt toread English sentences from a pieceof paper, that they have no interestin trying to understand. If they dontget it right on the first try, then I havefound that you should immediatelyhang up and call back hoping forsomebody who can understandEnglish. I have paid cancellation feesand returned electronics items onlybecause of tech support that seemsonly interested in a sort of passive-

aggressive jihad.So back to my question: How does a

Mexican deal with Indian tech support?Do you have some wisdom on how tonavigate non-native speakers withouthaving a stroke, Oh He Who AlwaysKnows o Press Eight For Spanish?

An American Consumer

Dear Gabacho: We press 2.

Dear Mexican: What do you thinkabout just opening the U.S.-Mexicoborder (and for that matter all theborders in the world)? I think that a lotof people that go the U.S. illegally wouldmuch rather work in the U.S. for a fewmonths and then go back to their homein Mexico and live off of the earningsfor a while. You are a smart guy. Im justcurious what you think!

Bordering on a Bonus

Dear Gabacho: The Mexican has alwaysbeen for open borders, if only because thats

been the American mantra since the days ofDaniel Boone. Id say more, but my columnword count gets slashed every ve years orso due to the death of printyay, Internet! In

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Cooking breakfast, lunch, happy hour hors doevres, dinner and late night snacks sure doe

motivate me to be creative. We cant serve the same thing every day while onboard our Alaskan

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while in port last weekend and knew I could do something special with them. Although thes

ingredients may be uncommon to you, they can be found at your local grocery store and you

can create a unique appetizer for your family and friends. Bon Appetit!

Roasted Fig Salad

1/2 cup extra-virgin olive oil

1/4 cup sherry vinegar

2 tbls sugar

1 tsp salt

1/2 tsp freshly ground pepper

12 fresh gs, halved

3 oz chvre (goat cheese)

1/4 cup heavy whipping cream

1 tsp fresh lime juice

2 tsp chopped fresh chives

8 cups spring mix salad greens

3 oz thinly sliced prosciutto, chopped

Whisk together rst 5 ingredients until blended. Drizzle 3 tablespoons vinaigrette ove

g halves, and reserve remaining dressing. Grill gs, covered with grill lid, over medium-hi

heat (350 to 400) for 2 to 3 minutes on each side or until tender. Remove from heat, and

cut g halves in half. Cover and chill 30 minutes. Combine chvre and next 3 ingredient

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with remaining vinaigrette. Spoon chvre mixture in the center of each plate. Top with gprosciutto, and greens.

Until next time, Eat, Drink & Be Sherri!

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