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It's the law in D.C. - recycle or face a fine from the Department of Public Works. Dupont Circle resident Patricia White says she has been fined eight times for throwing homemade cat litter in her trash. The fines total $2,000. According to White, the inspector admitted to digging through trash looking for violations.

A towing company w/ a very sketchy history finally got what it deserved. After crossing the path of one pro-active kid, it has now lost half of its commercial accounts, and is in threat of going out of business all b/c they tried to claim the kid didn't have a parking permit, when in fact they scraped it off the car's windshield and tried to claim it wasn't there in the first place. The kid started a facebook group w/ past customers receiving the same dishonest dis-service, and now the company is literally paying the price.

Green-minded campaigner Al Gore has been left red-faced after being accused of leaving his car running for almost an hour while he gave a lecture on sustainable development.
His mistake was compounded further by the fact that he had asked his distinguished guests to attend the event by public transport in order to minimize CO2 emissions.
Swedish law prohibits – for environmental reasons - any car engine being left running without its driver for more than 60 seconds.
The fines for breaking that law are severe but it appears Gore has not been fined.

Southern Style Granite. They have a really nasty attitude toward gays, to the point of refusing to do business with them.
And that’s fine, really. If they’re afraid of the gay cooties, that’s their business. The libertarian in me tells me that, as a private business, they have the right to refuse service to anyone.
But they don’t have the right to be immune from the consequences of their intolerance and bigotry.

Why does the government have any say it what is clearly not their business? Consider the whole Rosen debacle where one of Obama’s strategist claims that housewives, stay at home mom’s, have shouldn’t have the right to talk about the economy, and haven’t worked a day in their lives. The fact is Obama and his administration, and those whom he consults should have no say in how anybody, including women, chooses to pursue happiness.

Anderson Cooper has, at long last, publicly said he is gay. Cooper made the announcement in an email to writer Andrew Sullivan. "The fact is, I'm gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud," he wrote. Cooper's sexuality has long been the subject of ample media speculation, but he has never publicly confirmed it -- a fact which he also seemed to address in the email to Sullivan. Cooper also said that he ultimately decided that he was doing more harm than good by not speaking up.

Now that a proposed location in the Slate Belt has been rejected, a federal detention center for illegal immigrants could find a home among the farms of Warren County.

Harmony Township officials said Friday they have expressed interest to federal authorities to be considered for the possible location of the detention center. The GEO Group, the company behind the proposal, approached municipal officials about a month ago, officials said.

A woman has refused to undergo cancer treatment is now being forced to undergo cancer treatment because supposedly she doesn’t have the intellectual capacity to make to make a valued judgement as to what’s best for her. Of course what is being meant by a valued judgement is a valued judgement in opinion of others & not her own opinion, in fact the means of her reaching a decision on what’s best for her is now being used against her. Its her body, her health, her lier life, her decision to make on what’s best for her 7 nobody else’s.

A 26-year old single mom in Texas decided she’d kick-start her own economic recovery last month, starting the Lubbock Fantasy Maid Service, a housekeeping service with nude maids. Unfortunately, there’s no competition for Borrett and her business in Lubbock because local law enforcement doesn’t look kindly on it. In fact, they consider the service a sexually-oriented business.