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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



Thursday, September 25, 2014

RSN: Hundreds of Colorado Students Walk Out in Protest Over Class on "Patriotism," Respect for Authority






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Charles Pierce | Bill O'Reilly Is Not a Military -- or Any Other Kind of -- Genius
Bill O'Reilly on ABC's 'The View.' (photo: Carolyn Cole/LA Times)
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: 'As the 'war' on terror has ground on, I have been waiting for years for a nuttier concept than Saddam's balsa-wood escadrille. Hold all calls.'
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Juan Cole | Syrian Regime Propaganda Coup as Israel Downs Syrian Plane Over Golan
Juan Cole, Informed Comment
Cole writes: "Israel shot down a Syrian MiG fighter jet on Tuesday, saying it had penetrated into Israeli airspace over the Golan Heights. The regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad took little time to imply that the Israelis were thus protecting the al-Nusra Front, instead of joining in the fight against al-Qaeda offshoots."
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What Obama Said (and Didn't Say) at the UN Climate Summit
Lindsay Abrams, Salon
Abrams writes: "Straight from his speech about last night's air raids in Syria and en route to an appearance at the Clinton Global Initiative, President Obama stood before the U.N. Climate Summit to deliver a short speech on the 'one issue that will define the contour of this century more than any other.'"
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Snowden, McKibben Honored With "Alternative Nobel"
Karl Ritter, ABC News
Ritter writes: "Edward Snowden was among the winners Wednesday of a Swedish human rights award, sometimes referred to as the 'alternative Nobel,' for his disclosures of top secret surveillance programs."
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Former AIG Executive Sues US Over $182 Billion Bailout, Saying it Wasn't Favorable Enough
Ben Protess and Aaron M. Kessler, The New York Times
Excerpt: "One might call it 'chutzpah,' as several irate lawmakers did, or 'rubbing salt in the wounds' of the American taxpayer. But to a few Wall Street financiers, a lawsuit that accuses the government of shortchanging the American International Group in its 2008 bailout is something else: a promising investment in a cause they support."
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Hundreds of Colorado Students Walk Out in Protest Over Class on "Patriotism," Respect for Authority
The Associated Press
Excerpt :"Hundreds of students walked out of classrooms around suburban Denver on Tuesday in protest over a conservative-led school board proposal to focus history education on topics that promote citizenship, patriotism and respect for authority, in a show of civil disobedience that the new standards would aim to downplay."
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Food Waste in the US Is out of Control
Joanna Rothkopf, Salon
Rothkopf writes: "In 2012, American individuals and businesses put nearly 35 million tons of once perfectly good food in the garbage, representing a 20 percent jump from 2000 and a 300 percent jump from 1960."
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