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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



Monday, April 25, 2016

RSN: New Forced Closure of Bedouin Settlements, It's Earth Day. Time to Buy a Bunch of Junk.





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Andy Borowitz | Trump Reassures Supporters That He Still Opposes Women Who Were Born Women 
Donald Trump. (photo: AP) 
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "After rattling many of his supporters by expressing tolerance toward transgender people, the Republican front-runner Donald J. Trump clarified on Friday that he still opposes women who were born women." 
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Prince: Gay Icon, Whether He Wanted to Be or Not 
Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic 
Kornhaber writes: "Whatever his later beliefs were, they pretty clearly don't undo the earlier impact he had in widening popular notions about sex and gender, nor the fact that he made lots of people who weren't heterosexual feel better about themselves." 
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In an Age of Privilege, Not Everyone Is in the Same Boat 
Nelson D. Schwartz, The New York Times 
Schwartz writes: "With disparities in wealth greater than at any time since the Gilded Age, the gap is widening between the highly affluent - who find themselves behind the velvet ropes of today's economy - and everyone else." 
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The NYPD Is Running Stings Against Immigrant-Owned Shops, Then Pushing for Warrantless Searches 
Sarah Ryley, ProPublica and the New York Daily News 
Ryley writes: "Nuisance abatement became city law in the 1970s as a tool to clean up the sex industry in Times Square. But today it's being used quite differently - often ensnaring legal mom-and-pop shops that are almost exclusively located in minority neighborhoods" 
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Honor or Insult?: A Debate on the Significance of Harriet Tubman on the New $20 Bill 
Amy Goodman, Democracy Now! 
Goodman writes: "On Wednesday, U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew has announced that new $20 bills will feature Harriet Tubman on the front, replacing former president and slave owner Andrew Jackson. The move comes after more than a half a million people voted for Tubman to replace Jackson." 
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New Forced Closure of Bedouin Settlements 
Silvia Boarini, IPS 
Boarini writes: "Despite ostensibly freezing the Prawer Plan - a proposed bill to 'regulate Bedouin settlement in the Negev'- in 2013, Israel continues to push for forced closure of unrecognised Bedouin villages in this southern region. The village of Umm al-Heran, near the Bedouin township of Hura, is amongst those slated for demolition." 
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It's Earth Day. Time to Buy a Bunch of Junk. 
Katie Herzog, Grist 
Herzog writes: "Earth Day isn't just an occasion to make a tiny dent in the crises hitting our planet. It's also a day to celebrate consumerism, as evidenced by my inbox, which is overflowing with marketers who want me to write about their products." 
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