Colleen, you're doing corporate PR in the guise of journalism. What's up with that?

"Plagiarism" This is ludicrous. "Respectable" people plagiarize, and it's o.k. When a student does it, suddenly it's a deadly sin. When a political figure submits a letter to the Op-Ed page under his/her signature, but he/she didn't write it, how is that not plagiarism? When the Governor delivers a speech that he didn't write, how is that not plagiarism? When an architect is credited with his latest work (and he didn't do all the work),how is that not plagiarism? When a professor publishes her grad students' research under her own name, how is that not plagiarism? When a corporate CEO issues a statement that he didn't write, how is that not plagiarism?

Steve, I've read every one of your statements, and I am annoyed that you continue to fail to address the issues raised by the posters here. "Call you crazy." No, I won't be doing that, but I do think you revealed the ugly truth of your feelings above. "I like to enjoy my local park without people living and sleeping there. I like to be able to walk down the street without watching someone urinate there. I like cycling along the American River Parkway without the fear of being robbed. Nuts, huh?" Amazing. You're equating individuals who avail themselves of recyclables with public urination, being physically robbed, and seeing homeless people sleeping in a park. You've just revealed your true agenda. For you, this isn't about recyclables or public policy; it's about your hatred of the homeless and your desire to have any reminder of them erased from your vision or your life.

I've read everyone of your statements, and I am annoyed that you continue to fail to address the issues raised by the posters here. "Call you crazy." No, I won't be doing that, but I do think you revealed the ugly truth of your feelings above. "I like to enjoy my local park without people living and sleeping there. I like to be able to walk down the street without watching someone urinate there. I like cycling along the American River Parkway without the fear of being robbed. Nuts, huh?" Amazing. You're equating individuals who avail themselves of recyclables with public urination, being physically robbed, and seeing homeless people sleeping in a park. You've just revealed your true agenda. For you, this isn't about recyclables or public policy; it's about your hatred of the homeless and your desire to have any reminder of them erased from your vision or your life.

Depends on where you live, Harry. Significant case law has ruled in other notable cases that once you put something in the trash and on the curb, you have thrown it away and it is no longer your property. This was put to test by prominent officials who had compromising stories written about them after journalists obtained incriminating evidence from sorting through their trash cans.