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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



Tuesday, April 15, 2014

RSN: Nothing Really Compares to the Koch Brothers' Political Empire, Recovery for Whom?, et al



Andy Borowitz | Nation Stunned to Learn Congress Accomplished Something Fifty Years Ago
President Lyndon Johnson signing the Civil Rights Act, 1964. (photo: courtesy Cecil Stoughton/White House Press Office)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "Millions of Americans were in a state of shock this past week after learning that Congress had accomplished something fifty years ago."
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Window Opens on Secret Camp Within Guantanamo
Ben Fox, Associated Press
Fox reports: "Attorney James Connell has visited his client inside the secret Guantanamo prison complex known as Camp 7 only once, taken in a van with covered windows on a circuitous trek to disguise the route on the scrub brush-and-cactus covered military base."
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Silicon Valley Could Force NSA Reform, Tomorrow
Trevor Timm, Guardian UK
Timm writes: "How much are internet companies like Facebook and Google helping the National Security Agency, and why aren't they doing more to stop it?"
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Paul Blumenthal | Nothing Really Compares to the Koch Brothers' Political Empire
Paul Blumenthal, Moyers and Company
Blumenthal writes: "As billionaire conservatives Charles and David Koch become a focus of Democratic Party attacks for their big spending in the 2014 elections, conservatives have argued back that the Kochs' 'dark money' is puny compared to the shadowy funds spent by an array of wealthy liberal interests and individuals."
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Recovery for Whom?
The New York Times | Editorial
Excerpt: "Economic gains so far have mostly benefited those at the top of the income and wealth ladder. Worse, future growth is likely to be lopsided, because the foundation for broad prosperity is arguably the weakest it has been since World War II."
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Yes, California, Your Prison Conditions Are Still Unconstitutional
Nicole Flatow, ThinkProgress
Flatow writes: "The U.S. Supreme Court found that the state's prison health care was so deficient that it constituted cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. But California still hasn't gotten the message."
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Utah Moves to Defy Federal Law, Remove Wild Horses
Jennifer Dobner, Reuters
"A Utah county, angry over the destruction of federal rangeland that ranchers use to graze cattle, has started a bid to round up federally protected wild horses it blames for the problem in the latest dustup over land management in the U.S. West."
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