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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, December 18, 2015

RSN: The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross, Saudi Arabia's Execution Spree, Where's Bernie? Media Ignores Sanders Though He's More Popular Than Trump,




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Frank Rich | The Lesson of the 5th Republican Debate: You Can't Out-Trump Trump 
The last GOP debate of the year. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) 
Frank Rich, New York Magazine 
Rich writes: "The debate was almost solely focused on fear, and the main way the candidates tried to distinguish themselves from each other could be found in their race to determine who could best exploit and ramp up the audience's worst nightmares of imminent Armageddon." 
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Why No One Should Be Truly Shocked by the Mistrial in the Freddie Gray Case 
Janell Ross, The Washington Post 
Ross writes: "There are now a series of cultural cliches and almost meaningless declarations that can be expected after yet another police officer, facing the rare event of criminal charges, manages to go home a free man or woman." 
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Where's Bernie? Media Ignores Sanders Though He's More Popular Than Trump 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "The headlines about Donald Trump hitting new highs in national polls are tremendously deceptive, as they only measure his support among self-declared Republican primary voters, a small subset of the nation as a whole." 
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The Corporate Takeover of the Red Cross 
Justin Elliott, ProPublica 
Elliot writes: "When Gail McGovern was picked to head the American Red Cross in 2008, the organization was reeling. Her predecessor had been fired after impregnating a subordinate. The charity was running an annual deficit of hundreds of millions of dollars." 
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Amid Chronic US Homelessness, Northwest Backs 'Tent Cities' 
Eric M. Johnson and Shannon Stapleton, Reuters 
Excerpt: "For years, Jammie Nichols struggled with a drug habit that left the Florida mother reeling from blackouts, seizures, depression and poverty - and a decision to give one of her children up for adoption. Then a friend told her about Tent City 3." 
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Saudi Arabia's Execution Spree 
The New York Times | Editorial 
Excerpt: "Saudi Arabia's justice system has gone into murderous overdrive. More than 150 people have been executed this year, the most since 1995." 
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Michael Pollan and Debbie Barker | A Secret Weapon to Fight Climate Change: Dirt 
Michael Pollan and Debbie Barker, The Washington Post 
Excerpt: "We think of climate change as a consequence of burning fossil fuels. But a third of the carbon in the atmosphere today used to be in the soil, and modern farming is largely to blame." 
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