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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, May 26, 2015

RSN: The Disappearing Colorado River, The Tales We Tell to Cope With Unwinnable Wars, Republicans Unlearning Facts Learned in Third Grade to Compete in Primary




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Andy Borowitz | Republicans Unlearning Facts Learned in Third Grade to Compete in Primary
Rick Perry, Jeb Bush and Scott Walker. (photo: Chip Somodevilla/Kevork Djansezian/Darren Hauck/Getty Images)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker
Borowitz writes: "In the hopes of appealing to Republican primary voters, candidates for the 2016 Presidential nomination are working around the clock to unlearn everything that they have learned since the third grade, aides to the candidates have confirmed."
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Elizabeth Warren Calls for Public Hearings on Banks
Sam Forgione and Sandra Maler, Reuters
Excerpt: "US Senator Elizabeth Warren is calling for U.S. Department of Labor hearings on whether banks accused of rigging foreign exchange markets should be allowed to manage retirement accounts, the Financial Times reported on Sunday."
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John Oliver Should Be More Like Mad Max
Thomas Crowley, Jacobin
Crowley writes: "In his second season, Oliver has skewered the tobacco industry, the sugar industry, the test prep industry, the for-profit education industry, and - just last week - the chicken farming industry."
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The Tales We Tell to Cope With Unwinnable Wars
Scott Beauchamp, Al Jazeera America
Beauchamp writes: "The mythology of Vietnam is now distorting accounts of the Iraq war."
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3,000 Children Enslaved in Britain After Being Trafficked From Vietnam
Annie Kelly and Mei-Ling McNamara, Guardian UK
Excerpt: "Hien was 10 when he arrived in Britain. He did not know where he was or where he had been. He knew only that he was here to work."
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Ex-Israeli PM Handed 8 Months in Jail
Revital Hovel, Haaretz
Hovel writes: "Ehud Olmert was found guilty in March of unlawfully accepting money from American supporter Moshe Talansky."
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The Disappearing Colorado River
David Owen, The New Yorker
Owen writes: "The Colorado's flow is so altered and controlled that in some ways the river functions more like a fourteen-hundred-mile-long canal. The legal right to use every gallon is owned or claimed by someone."
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