Four for Friday

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Q1 - Shopping Carts: When you're done using a store's shopping cart (bricks-and-mortar, not online), do you return the cart to the store, leave it in the parking lot, or push it into one of those storage areas that takes up all the great parking spots?

I leave it in a cart corral, usually. Unless it's as bloodyfeckingcold as it has been lately. I'm afraid I get really lazy when the temperature is under 5F.

Q2 - Global Warming: Do you think global warming is an environmental problem that is causing a serious impact now, or do you think global warming isn't having a serious impact?"

I think we're beginning to slide down the slope, and the speed of the depletion of resources is just going to increase unless we start taking some real steps to fiure out a solution.

Q3 - Prison: At the Southeast State Correctional Facility in Windsor, Vermont, inmates have been told that the facility's prison cats must go. According to SSC's new superintendent, the facility, which for years has allowed cats to come and go as they please, is not conducive to a pet program. If you were in charge of the facility, would you voluntarily parole Ziggy, Marmalade, Smokey and Shane, or would allow them to stay?

I'm allergic. I plead the 5th on this one. I don't care either way.
Seriously, I can see both sides of this, but being allergic trumps rationality.

Q4 - Taxes: After federal taxes are collected from the public, do you think the U.S. Congress thinks of the money more as taxpayer money to spend carefully or as their money to spend as they wish? How much of the money you pay in taxes do you think is spent on government programs that you personally favor and support?

I don't think they really think about where it comes from; it's just there. I'm sure that the largest chunk of my taxes pays for stuff I abhor. Rather disheartening. Thanks a lot! hah