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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



Monday, June 30, 2014

RSN: The Burlesque “Originalism” of Antonin Scalia

VETERANS' CARE:

If you're a Veteran or care about the care Veterans receive, please pay attention to the attempts to privatize Veterans' care.

This has been the GOP march from underfunding the budget, denying problems to today's scandal.

We have an obligation to provide care!

BEES:

This time of year, the blossoms on the elderberry should be so populated with honeybees, the hum is conspicuous. They're not here this year!

What are we doing to our food supply and ourselves with toxic pesticides?


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Charles Pierce | The Burlesque “Originalism” of Antonin Scalia
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. (photo: AP/Morry Gash)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: “Antonin (Short Time) Scalia had another attack of burlesque ‘originalism’ in the concurrence he insisted on reading Thursday morning when the Supreme Court found against the president in the case of Canning v. U.S., a case that held that the president cannot make recess appointments as long as somebody remembers to prop Mitch McConnell's empty suit up at his desk.”
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Obama to Nominate Procter & Gamble CEO to Head VA
Julie Pace, The Associated Press
Pace reports: “The White House seeks to shore up an agency beset by treatment delays and struggling to deal with an influx of new veterans returning from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.”
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White House Seeks New Deportation Powers
Paul Lewis, Guardian UK
Lewis writes: “The White House is preparing an emergency request to Congress for additional powers to enable the fast-track deportation of tens of thousands of unaccompanied children from Central America who are crossing the US border illegally, a move that could bypass protections introduced by the the Bush administration.”
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From Occupy Movement to Social Reconstruction
Nathan Schneider, Al Jazeera America
Schneider writes: “I’ve often found myself on the receiving end of people asking, ‘What happened to Occupy, anyway?’ Now, more than two years since the movement faded from the headlines, and in the wake of French economist Thomas Piketty’s bestselling diagnosis of economic inequality, the urgency of these questions is mounting, not diminishing.”
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Ayn Rand, Ronald Reagan, Wal-Mart, Amazon and the 1 Percent’s Sick Triumph Over Us All
Thomas Frank, Salon
Frank writes: “Monopoly is back, in a massive way, and yet it seems as though even liberals often have trouble talking about it. If we’re really going to do something about inequality, however, it’s time we looked this thing in the face.”
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When Civil-Rights Unity Fractured
Peniel E. Joseph, The New York Times
Excerpt: "’Freedom Summer’ is remembered as both a high point of interracial democratic activism and a low point in racial violence, most notably in the brutal murder of three civil rights workers, two of whom were white."
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Honeybees Feel the Sting of Pesticides
Carey Gillam, Reuters
Gillam writes: “Home Depot and other U.S. companies are working to eliminate or limit use of a type of pesticide suspected of helping cause dramatic declines in honeybee populations needed to pollinate key American crops, officials said.”
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