Conservative Musings

Chic-Fil-A founder shows mercy with consequences

Chic-Fil-A's founder's home was vandalized by three female teenagers causing over $30,000 in damages.  He did not want them to have to go through the court system because he felt this would not make them better citizens but possibly make them worse.  So, he devised a punishment for them so they will not end up with a record.  Truett Cathy has spent many years with youth from being a Sunday School teacher and helping young people through a foundation called Winshape.  Winshape supports programs that help young people succeed and influences their lives in positive ways.

For these young truants, the punishment was "a 1000 sentences of “I will not vandalize other people’s property”, no TV and video games for six months, reading a “good book” for three hours a day and submitting weekly written book reports to him for 13 weeks."

I applaud Truett Cathy for this approach and for his many accomplishments in remaining faithful to his calling.  Truett Cathy's business, Chic-Fil-A still remains closed on Sunday so that employees can spend time in church and with their families.  Two things he feels are very important. 

-Lady Colonel

Subway Invites Homeschoolers in New Contest

Subway had a previous contest for grade school-ers that excluded home schooled students from the competition.  Now they are running an almost identical contest, removing the homeschool exception (see here and here).

Wise move.

-Colonel Steve

Subway and Home Schoolers

Somehow I think Subway restaurants just lost a bigger customer base then they realize, with their latest contest.

Contest is open only to legal US residents, over the age of 18 with children in either elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.

Considering their spelling mistakes, they might need more home schoolers in their employ.  Take these 2 examples from the text in their contest:

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. Contest is open only to legal residents of the Untied States who are currently over the age of 18 and have children who attend elementary, private or parochial schools that serve grades PreK-6. No home schools will be accepted.

Untied States?  Where exactly is that?

And one of the things the grand prize winner could receive?

Scholastic Gift Bastkit for your home.

What exactly is a Bastkit?  What does one use it for?

Considering that home schooled kids have won a fair amount of spelling bees, these guys sure could use them in their national office.  Their local stores may not, however, be seeing them considering the home schoolers may just feel a little slighted.

Update:  The more I have thought about this, the angrier I've gotten.  If you, like me, are a little bothered by this, leave them a comment here.

-Colonel Steve

Restaurant Inspection Scores

A friend sent this to me the other day, knowing how my wife and I notice those health inspection scores in restaurant windows.  If you're in the Louisville area, and want to know any restaurant health inspection score, you can check out there inspection score here.

Hopefully, you'll still wanna go after looking!

-Colonel Steve

Some Ideas Never Die

Way back in my sophomore year in college, someone offered me a taste of a new drink.  It was a health food drink called celery soda.  My reaction after one taste?  Yuck!

After 25 some-odd years, this kind of drink is still around.  Some ideas never seem to go away, even when you thought they would.

-Colonel Steve

Rather Not Be Number 2

Maybe that should be our slogan for this ranking of Louisville.

According to Scarborough Research, an industry tracking firm, the Louisville market ranks behind only Birmingham, Ala., in the number of pit stops we make each month at a fast-food restaurant. On average, Scarborough says, we eat fast food 6.4 times a month, or 23 percent more often than the national rate for adults.

On the bright side, we are an incubator for restaurant chains. with the likes of Rally's and Texas Roadhouse.

Wonder what our Weight Watcher's ranking is?

-Colonel Steve

Brain Food

I always thought that chocolate should be a food group all it''s own.  Pizza could be a food group as well.

Now we hear that chocolate is a brain food right up there with fish and peanuts.

Smart move!

(HT: Carol Platt Liebau).

-Colonel Steve

Pamela Anderson Enters Kentucky Politics?

Pamela Anderson and PETA are making another statement against KFC.  This time, they're asking Governor Ernie Fletcher to remove a bust of Colonel Sanders from the Kentucky state capitol in Frankfort.

The Governor's communications director, Brett Halle, told CNN:

We understand that people have a passion for their causes, but Harland Sanders is a beloved man, and as far as this state is concerned, he exemplifies the best of Kentucky. The governor has no intention of moving his statue. If we were going to move it, it would be to a more prominent position where more people could see it.

Way to go Ernie and Brett!  Harland Sanders life is a great success story.  As a fellow Kentucky Colonel myself, I can truly say we take pride in what his life represents.

PETA's beef is with the current KFC processes, not the Colonel himself.  PETA, get over it!

-Colonel Steve