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DC Resident Fined $2000 For Not Recycling Cat Litter
Townhall.com ^ | February 24, 2012 | Helen Whalen Cohen

Posted on 02/24/2012 9:50:43 AM PST by Kaslin

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Ms. White says that she will continue to fight the fines and keep throwing away her cat litter in the trash.

Good for her

1 posted on 02/24/2012 9:50:47 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Mine go up in smoke as I use them to start the charcoal in my Weber grill. My recycling container is in my garage full of tools and stuff.


2 posted on 02/24/2012 9:53:45 AM PST by Sans-Culotte ( Pray for Obama- Psalm 109:8)
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She could haul her cat litter up to the Capitol and dump it inside the House. The smell would not be noticed.


3 posted on 02/24/2012 9:54:25 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to bring America back from the brink.)
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To: Kaslin

Ah liberalism. Such tolerance. Such open mindedness. Such freedom from intrusion.

They worry about us in their bedrooms. Guess we have to worry about them in our garbage bins. At least we have proof they are doing that. I’d dare them to cough up a case where we are literally in their bedroom looking for perversion. (Hint: we don’t have to be in the bedroom to see their perversions.)


4 posted on 02/24/2012 9:55:24 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Cat litter issues are serious business in the DC area. The cats' needs are why the Washington Post stays in business.
5 posted on 02/24/2012 9:55:55 AM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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ok throw the homemade kitty litter into the newspaper bin

or is there a fine for that?


6 posted on 02/24/2012 9:56:09 AM PST by Mr. K (Were the Soviet-Era propogandists as gleefully willing as our Lame-stream Media?)
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To: sodpoodle

May make the place smell better. You could probably light it on fire and it’d still make the place smell better.


7 posted on 02/24/2012 9:56:29 AM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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Save the most pungent for the Senate;)


8 posted on 02/24/2012 9:57:21 AM PST by sodpoodle ( Newt - God has tested him for a reason...... to bring America back from the brink.)
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To: Kaslin

Used to live in Washington state, where they would charge us some amount of money, per month, to recycle. They would then drop off bins for aluminum, plastic, newspaper and a big garbage can. We returned the bins.

Let’s see; I pay you $$ to haul my garbage, then I pay you more $$ for you to pick up the same garbage that I hand-sorted. If I make a mistake in sorting, then you fine me $$.

How about you just take my money and haul my garbage to the dump, and let me live my life?


9 posted on 02/24/2012 9:58:06 AM PST by Hodar ( Who needs laws; when this FEELS so right?)
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disease ridden cat poop BELONGS in the garbage....idiots!


10 posted on 02/24/2012 9:58:43 AM PST by goodnesswins (2012..."We mutually pledge our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor")
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ah, she’s a dumb zealot

she ought to throw her kitty litter shreds in the newspaper recycling bin. It might add a nice aroma to the Washington Post

problem solved


11 posted on 02/24/2012 9:59:06 AM PST by silverleaf (Funny how all the people who are for abortion are already born)
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Ewwww! I have 9 cats who use REAL litter. The stench from that can be overwhelming and I clean litter boxes everyday. I can’t imagine what shredded newspaper and junk mail used as cat litter would smell like.

But, I DO agree with another poster who suggested she dump it on the Capitol steps. I would go further and suggest that she dump it beneath Chuck Schumer’s or Barney Frank’s desk!!

THEY would not be able to detect the stench from their own!!!


12 posted on 02/24/2012 9:59:59 AM PST by DustyMoment (Congress - Another name for white collar criminals!!)
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Sounds to me a simple response by her would be “So you want it in the recycling bin instead? I can do that.”


13 posted on 02/24/2012 10:00:22 AM PST by 21twelve
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Did you see this comment that someone made?

Hilarious! Proof positive that D.C. has the biggest collection of officials who are "dumber than a box of rocks."

14 posted on 02/24/2012 10:00:53 AM PST by Kaslin (Acronym for OBAMA: One Big Ass Mistake America)
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So if she put the used, shredded newspaper in the recycle bin, that would be OK?


15 posted on 02/24/2012 10:03:21 AM PST by Truth29
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If they want it recycled, I would recycle it. Catshit and all. Heck, I would add to it just for a laugh.


16 posted on 02/24/2012 10:03:55 AM PST by healy61
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Ms. White says that she will continue to fight the fines and keep throwing away her cat litter in the trash.

Or, box it up and send it as a present from your cat to the inspector at the Department of Public Works!!!

17 posted on 02/24/2012 10:23:22 AM PST by varon (Allegiance to the Constitution, always. Allegiance to a party, never!)
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As an aside ...

Libs love to recycle newspapers - “Newsprint in landfills still readable fifty years later blah blah blah”.

Libs are petrified of carbon emissions - “Global warming! We’re all gonna die! Must sequester CO2! Pump it into big caves underground for eternity!”.

Now, the contradiction...

When trees grow, they extract carbon from the atmosphere. Turning the trees into newsprint and burying it in landfills accomplishes their goal of getting carbon out of the atmosphere. But, if you actually do that, they go nuts (for most, it’s a short trip).

But then, the essence of being a modern liberal is the ability to simultaneously hold fast to two contradictory concepts.


18 posted on 02/24/2012 10:23:46 AM PST by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Mr. K

PERFECT.....rofl


19 posted on 02/24/2012 10:27:09 AM PST by annieokie
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To: Kaslin
What do you bet that this (like most) recycling mandates started out as voluntary.
20 posted on 02/24/2012 10:29:27 AM PST by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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