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NYC Man Fined $2,000 For Taking Discarded Garbage

http://wcbstv.com

A woman put an unwanted air conditioner out on the curb. A man asked her if he could take it. She said ok, and the man put it in his car. For this egregious crime, the man and woman were fined $2000 each and the man had his car impounded. Oh, and ignorance of this law is no excuse, citizen.

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U.S. pockets $20.6 billion in "sin taxes" in FY'09

http://in.reuters.com

Americans armed themselves to the teeth and paid through the nose to have a smoke, according to a U.S. government report released on Wednesday. The U.S. federal government collected $20.6 billion in taxes on alcohol, tobacco, firearms and ammunition in fiscal year 2009, up 41 percent from the previous fiscal year, according to the annual report of the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau. --- Remember, kids... "Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms" should be a convenience store, not a government agency.

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Town Clerk says, "Can you shoot him? I'll take responsibility."

http://www.whec.com

Brighton resident Mordechai Rennert was just stepping down from the podium after asking a series of questions at the June 23rd board meeting when the Town Clerk turned to then Police Chief Thomas Voelkl and said (regarding Rennert) "Can you shoot him? I'll take responsibility."

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Kops cure depression

http://www.toledoblade.com

Family calls Kops to help their depressed son. Kops solved it with a bullit.

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8yr old autistic girl arrestted, cuffed for throwing tantrum at school

http://blogs.seattleweekly.com

Little 8-year-old Evelyn Towry just wanted to be able to go to the party like all the other kids. But for some reason, a teacher at the Boise third-grader's elementary school wouldn't let her while she was wearing her favorite sweatshirt, a hoodie that her mom had sewn cow ears on to look like a cartoon character. Instead, the teacher put Evelyn in a classroom and asked two staffers to watch her and make sure she didn't leave.

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Illinois Considers 'Obesity Tax'

http://cbs2chicago.com

Feel like you're taxed enough already? More could be coming. There's an early push to explore taxing soft drinks that are sweetened with sugars – all to get you to stop buying them.

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Competing currency being accepted across Mid-Michigan

http://www.connectmidmichigan.com

New types of money are popping up across Mid-Michigan and supporters say, it's not counterfeit, but rather a competing currency.

Right now, you can buy a meal or visit a chiropractor without using actual U.S. legal tender.

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Germantown pubs fighting to allow drinks outside

http://www.louisville.com

Louisville's ABC (Alcoholic Beverage Control) shutting down patio drinking after a zoning change that happened 40 years ago.

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ATF: Counterfeit cigarettes on the rise

http://articles.dailypress.com

Only one thing you can say in response to this: "WHAT DID YOU THINK WOULD HAPPEN!?" Dumbass prohibitionists.

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Federal appeals court tosses FCC's fleeting expletives policy

http://news.yahoo.com

NEW YORK – A federal appeals court on Tuesday tossed out a government policy that can lead to broadcasters being fined for allowing even a single curse word on live television, concluding that the rule was unconstitutionally vague and had a chilling effect on broadcasters.

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Court rules FCC crackdown on curse words is unconstitutional

http://www.nydailynews.com

TV shows can get four-letter filthy after an appeals court ruling Tuesday declared the Federal Communications Commission's indecency rule unconstitutional.

The ruling, with provocative implications for evening TV, prompted cheers and jeers - and means the F-word might soon air on a network near you.

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TV Indecency Rule Struck Down by U.S. Appeals Court

http://www.businessweek.com

A federal appeals court in New York struck down a U.S. Federal Communications Commission policy that penalizes profanity in broadcasting, saying it violates the television networks’ First Amendment right to free speech....

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Cops leave boy handcuffed on busy road where he's run over and killed

http://news.smh.com.au

The mother of a boy killed by a car as he lay handcuffed on a road wants the police who arrested him to feel the terror of her son's final moments. Bornen was handcuffed and lying face down on a busy road when an oncoming car struck and killed him.

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Orlando Wins Band Feeding Homeless

http://www.alan.com

The Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled in favor of the City of Orlando’s efforts to stop feeding the homeless in city parks.

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Woman reports home prowler to kops then gets repeatedly tased by them

http://www.prisonplanet.com

Two Georgia cops have *lost their jobs* after a video emerged of them macing and tasing a 57 year old woman who simply called to report a prowler outside her house.

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NY Woman Harassed Again and Again During Border Crossing

http://news.yahoo.com

Sylvie Nelson's border crossings are anything but routine. Customs agents sometimes order her out of her car. Twice, they handcuffed her in front of her young children. Once, agents swarmed her car and handcuffed her husband, too.

She tells them: It's not me you want, it's a man with the same birth date and a similar name. Agents always confirm that and let her go.

Then it happens again. And again.

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Judge Napolitano: Bush & Cheney should have been indicted!

http://www.youtube.com

"They absolutely should have been indicted for torturing, for spying, for arresting without (a) warrant" said Judge Napolitano in an interview with Ralph Nader.

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Oakland police announce they will no longer respond to 'minor crimes'

http://www.nbcbayarea.com

Oakland's police chief is making some dire claims about what his force will and will not respond to if layoffs go as planned.
Chief Anthony Batts listed exactly 44 situations that his officers will no longer respond to and they include grand theft, burglary, car wrecks, identity theft and vandalism. He says if you live and Oakland and one of the above happens to you, you need to let police know on-line

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Bitcoin releases version 0.3

http://sourceforge.net

"How's this for a disruptive technology? Bitcoin is a peer-to-peer network based digital currency with no central bank, and no transaction fees. Using a proof-of-work concept, nodes burn CPU cycles searching for bundles of coins, broadcasting their findings to the network. Analysis of energy usage indicates that the market value of Bitcoins is already above the value of the energy needed to generate them, indicating healthy demand. The community is hopeful the currency will remain outside the reach of any government."

A growing list of merchants accept bitcoins.

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States Start Banning K2

http://www.nytimes.com

On Tuesday, Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, signed a bill prohibiting possession of K2. Missouri is the nation’s eighth state this year to ban the substance, which has sent users to emergency rooms across the country complaining of everything from elevated heart rates and paranoia to vomiting and hallucinations.

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