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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



Tuesday, June 24, 2014

RSN: Watching Scotty Blow: Things Go Boom



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Charles Pierce | Watching Scotty Blow: Things Go Boom
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker. (photo: Madison Times)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: “The fallout will be descending for weeks, and its reach will extend far beyond Wisconsin, the former state now doing business as the midwest subsidiary of Koch Industries and managed by Scott Walker, the goggle-eyed homunculus hired for that purpose.”
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Juan Cole | Hardliners in Israel & Iran Resist US Pivot to Iran Over ISIS
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: “The Iraqi military continued its rapid collapse into uselessness, losing all the country’s military border outposts to ISIS. There is now a huge Sunnistan stretching from Aleppo to Tikrit and from Mosul to the Jordan border.”
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Detroit Activists Call for UN Intervention as City Shuts Off Water for Thousands
Peter Moskowitz, Al Jazeera America
Moskowitz writes: “Detroit has too much of some things – stray dogs, abandoned houses – and not enough of others, such as residents who pay their water bills.”
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Jeffrey Toobin | Ted Cruz: The Great Right Hope?
Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Toobin writes: “Cruz’s ascendancy reflects the dilemma of the modern Republican Party, because his popularity within the Party is based largely on an act that was reviled in the broader national community. Last fall, Cruz’s strident opposition to Obamacare led in a significant way to the shutdown of the federal government.“
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Woman Arrested, Loses Children After Leaving Them in Car for 70 Minutes for Job Interview
Shaila Dewan, The New York Times
Dewan writes: “On the morning of March 20, Shanesha Taylor had a job interview. It was for a good job, one that could support her three children, unlike the many positions she’d applied for that paid only $10 an hour.”
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Gun Nuts Are Terrorizing America: the Watershed Moment Everyone Missed
Rick Perlstein, Salon
Perlstein writes: “What should be judged a watershed in American history instead became a story about one man’s racist rants. Even as two more Nevada lunatics, inspired by their stint at Cliven Bundy’s ranch, allegedly ambushed and mowed down two police officers and killed a bystander after crying, ‘This is the start of a revolution.’”
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Laura Gottesdiener | A Private Equity Firm, a Missing Pool Fence, and the Price of a Child’s Death
Laura Gottesdiener, TomDispatch
Gottesdiener writes: “Security is a slippery idea these days -- especially when it comes to homes and neighborhoods. Perhaps the most controversial development in America’s housing “recovery” is the role played by large private equity firms.”
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