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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



Friday, November 20, 2015

RSN: 550 People Died in Texas Jails in 2015 Alone, Minneapolis Erupts Over Police-Related Shooting




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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Why Athletes Use Their Platform to Effect Change Off the Field 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (photo: Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE/Getty Images) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, TIME 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "The conventional wisdom seems to be that athletes should never step outside their roles as entertainers to pontificate. That attitude is a stereotype of the dumb jock who is too busy jamming smart, adorkable kids into lockers to know anything about the world around them except what Coach tells them. Those days are over, folks." 
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Gunmen Holding at Least 135 Hostages at Radisson in Mali 
Kevin Sieff, Brian Murphy and Sarah Kaplan, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "Gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali's capital on Friday with 170 guests and staff, killing at least three people and taking hostages in a city that serves as a logistics hub for French and American forces helping fight Islamist insurgents." 
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Third Body Found in Apartment Raided After Paris Attacks 
Associated Press 
Excerpt: "The Paris prosecutor's office says that a third body was found overnight in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week's Paris attacks. The office said in a statement Friday that the body is that of a woman but her identity is unclear." 
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Minneapolis Erupts Over Police-Related Shooting 
Josh Sanburn, TIME 
Sanburn writes: "Was Jamar Clark handcuffed when he was shot and killed by police? That's the question many Minneapolis protesters are asking after the fatal shooting of a 24-year-old black man in the early morning hours Sunday following a confrontation with police officers." 
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'Rabid' Dogs and Closing Mosques: GOP Takes Harder Line on Muslims 
David A. Fahrenthold and Jose A. DelReal, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "One of the front-runners in the Republican presidential race said Thursday he would 'absolutely' want a database of Muslims in the country and wouldn't rule out giving them special ID cards that noted their religion. Another top candidate likened Syrian refugees - who are largely Muslim - to dogs. Some of them might be rabid, he said, which was reason to keep them all out." 
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550 People Died in Texas Jails in 2015 Alone 
Jessica Hamilton, Chron 
Hamilton writes: "More than 550 people in Texas have died so far this year while in custody either at the city, county or state level, according to data from the state attorney general's office." 
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Following Shell, Another Oil Company Pulls Out of Arctic 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "Following in the wake of Shell's decision to abandon its operations in the Arctic, another drilling company has announced that it will be pulling out of the region." 
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