Detroit Zoo Helps Care for Tens of Thousands of Animals Rescued in Texas Cruelty Seizure

www.detroitzoo.org/Newsflashes/2010_Press_Releases/Detroit_Zoo_Helps_Care_for_Tens_of_Thousands_of_Animals_Rescued_in_Texas_Cruelty_Seizure/

Happy New Year!!

Happy New Year everyone!! Please drink responsibly and be safe! If you see a drunk driver, please call 9-1-1 to report them.

AAA Tow to Go: Free ride home with tow

Through January 2 in select areas, AAA again offers its Tow to Go service, which includes a free ride home if you’re not fit to drive. To use the service, call 800.AAA.HELP; a tow truck will be dispatched to carry both you and your car up to 10 miles. It’s free for everyone; you don’t have to be a AAA member.

PLEASE everyone have a Happy New Year! Please do not drive drunk, drinking or buzzed driving (is drunk driving). We do not want anyone gettin hurt or killed.

http://dealnews.com/AAA-Tow-to-Go-Free-ride-home-with-tow/339847.html

Your Bottlecaps Found In Dead Birds’ Bellies

By Ben Popken, 11:28 AM on Tue Oct 20 2009

Every wonder what happens to the plastic trash in the streets after a big rain? Some of it gets washed out to sea and makes its way to the Pacific Trash Vortex, where it is fed to baby albatrosses by their confused parents.

http://consumerist.com/5385798/your-bottlecaps-found-in-dead-birds-bellies

Consumers Finally Growing Some Damned Sense, Not Buying Bottled Water

 By Chris Walters, 10:47 AM on Fri Aug 14 2009

We’re not always pessimists on Consumerist. Why, sometimes we actually like silver linings, if only because it gives us a chance to complain about argyria. (Don’t take colloidal silver, people!) Today’s silver lining is that sales of bottled water “have fallen for the first time in at least five years,” says the Los Angeles Times. We’re apparently showing common sense and opting for tap water over branded and labeled water, proving that in a tough economy it’s hard to compete with (nearly) free.

www.consumerist.com/5337459/consumers-finally-growing-some-damned-sense-not-buying-bottled-water

Make Your Own Green, Cheap Cleaning Products

By Phil Villarreal, 9:20 AM on Fri Aug 14 2009

When McGyver wants to clean his kitchen, he doesn’t need any fancy Clorox or 409. Give him some baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice and he’ll create a clean-up bonanza of the likes the world has never seen. And he’ll catch seven bad guys and utter a catch-phrase quip, all before the commercial break.

www.consumerist.com/5337332/make-your-own-green-cheap-cleaning-products

Windows 7 Family Pack gets priced at $150

Microsoft has placed a $149.99 price tag on the Windows 7 Family Pack, which lets as many as three PCs in a single household upgrade to Windows 7 Home Premium edition. Users in Canada will pay $199.99.
http://www.betanews.com/article/Windows-7-Family-Pack-gets-priced-at-150/1249057293

Facebook Lets Advertisters Steal Your Profile Photos To Sell Crap To Your Friends

http://consumerist.com/5322173/facebook-lets-ads-steal-your-profile-photos-to-sell-crap-to-your-friends

Anyone else ready to remove their facebook page?

Why You Shouldn’t Buy From Ikea

“Face it, when your $20 bookshelf broke you just threw it out and went back for another one, right? And why not, they’re so cheap!! (And there’s a bus! And where else can you eat lingonberries?!……) But our demand for highly disposable wood furniture has made Ikea the third-largest wood consumer in the world. Not to mention that the average consumer drives 50 miles round trip to get that $20 bookshelf.”
http://consumerist.com/5321404/why-you-shouldnt-buy-from-ikea

So basically, what this is saying is… Your buying crappy stuff, that then fills landfills cause it does not last, you waste tons of gas to get there and you end up hurting the environment and could have bought a $50 bookshelves that would have lasted you longer…

Don’t Put These Items On Your Credit Card If You Can Help It

http://consumerist.com/5310575/dont-put-these-items-on-your-credit-card-if-you-can-help-it