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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, August 10, 2014

RSN: Stop Calling Scalia a Scrotum, Florida Replaces Gerrymandered Congressional Maps With Nearly Identical Gerrymandered Maps




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Carl Gibson | Walgreens' Tax Decision Proves Movement-Building Works
Grassroots pressure kept Walgreens from avoiding taxes by relocating oversees. (photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images)
Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News
Gibson writes: "Walgreens' backing away from their plans to use 'inversion' as a tax dodge in the wake of massive public outcry is a major victory for a movement that's been building for the past 3 years, and is a sign the economic narrative is shifting in a major way."
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Peter Van Buren | Why Airstrikes in Iraq Are a Mistake
Peter Van Buren, Common Dreams
Van Buren writes: "As America goes back to war in Iraq with airstrikes, here's what to know and do instead."
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Republicans Rick Perry and Ted Cruz Stoke Fires at Right-Wing Convention
Tom Dart, Guardian UK
Dart writes: "Rick Perry used the 2011 RedState Gathering conservative convention to announce his ill-fated 2012 presidential bid. There was no such drama this time around from the man who is stepping down as Texas governor after November's election."
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Controversial Voter Suppression Law Gets Green Light
Michael Biesecker and Gary D. Robertson, Associated Press
Excerpt: "North Carolina's November election can be held under a new voting law approved by Republican lawmakers, a federal judge ruled Friday. The law is considered one of the toughest in the nation and the groups challenging it say it will suppress minority voter turnout."
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Stop Calling Scalia a Scrotum
Matthew Sharpe, Salon
Sharpe writes: "In the days following the Supreme Court's decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby, I repeatedly saw a word being used on social media by people who, like me, were outraged: 'Scrotus.' This is a play on the acronym SCOTUS - Supreme Court of the United States - a metaphor, if you will, in which the five (male) justices who joined in the majority opinion become a single scrotum."
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Florida Replaces Gerrymandered Congressional Maps With Nearly Identical Gerrymandered Maps
Alice Ollstein, ThinkProgress
Ollstein writes: "Following orders from a federal judge to redraw the state's voting district maps, since racial gerrymandering rendered the first draft unconstitutional, Florida's Republican-controlled legislature unveiled revised maps this week."
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Judge Overturns Fort Collins Five-Year Fracking Ban
Stefanie Spear, EcoWatch
Spear writes: "A judge overturned Fort Collins' five-year moratorium on hydraulic fracturing Thursday, making it the third big blow to efforts by grassroots groups and politicians working to ban fracking in communities throughout the state."
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