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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



Friday, October 10, 2014

RSN: This Is Elizabeth Warren's Moment





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This Is Elizabeth Warren's Moment
Elizabeth Warren. (photo: AP)
Julian Zelizer, CNN
Zelizer writes: "After spending several years championing the cause of the consumer and railing against the power of big banks, the Massachusetts Democrat may be perfectly positioned to react to the revelation of secretly taped conversations within the Federal Reserve."
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Charles Pierce | Another Black Teenager Was Shot Last Night in St. Louis
Charles Pierce, Esquire
Pierce writes: "Another black teenager was shot last night in St. Louis by another white police officer, and St. Louis is a place now that is full of doubts of which nobody gets the benefit any more."
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Police Act Furious About Encrypted Phones but Still Love Them. Here's Why
Micah Lee, The Intercept
Lee writes: "By improving the security of disk encryption, smartphones didn't magically become super-secure anti-government machines."
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How Sonia Sotomayor Is Transforming the Supreme Court
Elias Isquith, Salon
Excerpt: "While many Americans may still not have much of a feel for Justice Sotomayor, journalist and author Joan Biskupic's new biography, 'Breaking In: The Rise of Sonia Sotomayor and the Politics of Justice,' makes a persuasive case that the Court's first Latina is already having great influence."
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Ebola Panic Is Worse Than the Disease
Abby Haglage, The Daily Beast
Haglage writes: "When the first person to be diagnosed with Ebola in the U.S. died Wednesday, any sense of calm that remained about the virus in America apparently went with him."
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Late-Season Surprises Shake GOP Confidence in Senate Elections
Karen Tumulty and Robert Costa, The Washington Post
Tumulty and Costa report: "As campaign season heads into its final weeks, some wild cards are now on the table in states where the GOP had been expecting easy victories on its way to gaining six seats for control of the Senate."
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LEGO Ends Shell Partnership Following Greenpeace 'Save the Arctic' Campaign
Adam Vaughan, Guardian UK
Vaughan reports: "Lego will not renew its marketing contract with Shell after coming under sustained pressure from Greenpeace to end a partnership that dates to the 1960s."
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Highways Fragment Southern California Mountain Lion Gene Pool
Steve Gorman, Reuters
Gorman reports: "Mountain lions in Southern California are under growing pressure from a shrinking gene pool, fragmented by highways and urban sprawl that has left the cats' territories increasingly isolated from each other, a study published on Wednesday showed."
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