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Toyota

Since the Dilly, Dally, Delay & Stall Law Firms are adding their billable hours, the Toyota U.S.A. and Route 44 Toyota posts have been separated here:

Route 44 Toyota Sold Me A Lemon



Sunday, February 23, 2014

A Shadow Government Controls

Interesting perspective from Mike Lofgren here:

A Shadow Government Controls



FOCUS: Charles Pierce | The Haunted Democratic Senate
Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV). (photo: Tom Williams/Getty Images)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Joe Manchin, the gun-totin', bill-shootin' centrist genius who represents the considerably poisoned state of West Virginia in the World's Greatest Deliberative Body, had some notions he wanted to share with his constituents, once they're done boiling drinking water and fishing for three-headed trout in the rivers and streams of their business-friendly environment."
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Mike Lofgren | A Shadow Government Controls America
Is the real power hiding in the shadows? (photo: Scott Galindez/RSN)
Mike Lofgren, Moyers & Company
Lofgren writes: "During the last five years, the news media has been flooded with pundits decrying the broken politics of Washington. The conventional wisdom has it that partisan gridlock and dysfunction have become the new normal."
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Jonathan Chait | How the GOP Sabotaged Marco Rubio, the Man Who Was Once Its Savior
Jonathan Chait, New York Magazine
Chait writes: "Everything Rubio touches has turned to shit. The cumulative humiliations have transformed the former party savior into a figure himself in need of saving. How did it all go so badly?"
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The Hidden Demographic Shifts That Are Sinking the Republican Party
Ruy Teixeira, ThinkProgress
Teixeira reports: "Most people have gotten the sense that rising diversity is making life hard for the Republican Party; ditto for the rise of the notably progressive Millennial generation. But there's a lot more to American demographics than that..."
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Fracking Boom Leaves Texans Under a Toxic Cloud
Lisa Song, Jim Morris and David Hasemyer, Bloomberg
Song, Morris, and Hasemayer report: "Since 2008, more than 7,000 oil and gas wells have been sunk into the brittle, sedimentary rock. Another 5,500 have been approved by state regulators, making the Eagle Ford one of the most active drilling sites in America."
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UAW Demands Labor Board Review Volkswagen Plant Vote
Dominic Rushe, Guardian UK
Rushe writes: "Union officials filed an appeal on Friday against a vote that denied labour representation at a Tennessee Volkswagen plant, blaming a 'firestorm of interference' for the no vote."
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The Polar Vortex Is About to Hit for the Third Time
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams reports: "Remember that time when a giant pattern of Arctic air descended over the U.S. and Canada, freezing everything in its path? Remember when it came back? Yeah, that's all happening again."
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