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NEW CONTENT MOVED TO MIDDLEBORO REVIEW 2

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



Thursday, March 27, 2014

RSN: BP Refinery Leaks Oil Into Lake Michigan, American Jails Are Wretched Hell Holes for the Mentally Ill, Hobby Lobby, et al



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Charles Pierce | Is Putin The New Reagan?
President-elect Putin watches the tactical exercises of Russia's Northern Fleet in the Barentsevo Sea (photo: CNN)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "I would like to congratulate historian Dan Carlin for offering up his e-mail account, his twitter feed, his Facebook page, and, maybe, the walls of his home as sacrifices to the flying monkeys."
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Jeffrey Toobin | Women Justices Rock the Hobby Lobby Argument
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: "There were two lessons from Tuesday's argument in the Hobby Lobby case in the Supreme Court. First, it's very important that there are now three women Justices. Second, it's even more important that it takes five votes to win."
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Michael Winship | The Pampered, Delusional Rich
Michael Winship, Consortium News
Winship writes: "'NYC: Tolerant of your beliefs, judgmental of your shoes,' is a New York state of mind that even those of us who favor sneakers and loafers over Louboutins can get behind."
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LAPD Tells ACLU, 'All Cars Are Under Investigation'
The Stream Team, Al Jazeera America
Excerpt: "The Los Angeles Police Department says it cannot release information about its automatic license plate reader program because all cars in the Los Angeles metropolitan area are under investigation."
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SWAT Teams Deployed 50,000 Times a Year in US
The Economist
Excerpt: "From the way police entered the house-helmeted and masked, guns drawn and shields in front, knocking down the door with a battering ram and rushing inside-you might think they were raiding a den of armed criminals."
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American Jails Are Wretched Hell Holes for the Mentally Ill
Grace Wyler, Vice
Excerpt: "In the latest gruesome dispatch from the clusterfuck that is America's corrections system, the Associated Press reported last week that Jerome Murdough, a mentally ill former Marine, 'basically baked to death' in his 6'-by-10' cinderblock cell in Rikers Island."
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BP Refinery Leaks Oil Into Lake Michigan
Katie Valentine, ThinkProgress
Valentine reports: "A BP refinery in Whiting, Indiana leaked an unknown amount of oil into Lake Michigan Monday afternoon, an incident that occurred less than two weeks after the U.S. lifted BP's ban on seeking new oil leases in the Gulf of Mexico."
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