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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



Wednesday, August 31, 2016

RSN: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Insulting Colin Kaepernick Says More About Our Patriotism Than His, Pentagon Officials Allowed Government Spending at Strip Clubs and Casinos




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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar | Insulting Colin Kaepernick Says More About Our Patriotism Than His 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. (photo: Unknown) 
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, The Washington Post 
Abdul-Jabbar writes: "Patriotism isn't just getting teary-eyed on the Fourth of July or choked up at war memorials. It's supporting what the Fourth of July celebrates and what those war memorials commemorate: the U.S. Constitution's insistence that all people should have the same rights and opportunities and that it is the obligation of the government to make that happen." 
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Black Activists in Missouri Are Fighting to Preserve the Right to Vote 
Alice Speri, The Intercept 
Speri writes: "Instead of shelving the bill as unconstitutional, legislators moved to change the constitution itself, making Missouri the only state in the country that's attempting to rewrite its supreme law in order to restrict access to the polls." 
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Pentagon Officials Allowed Government Spending at Strip Clubs and Casinos 
Spencer Ackerman, Guardian UK 
Ackerman writes: "Pentagon officials permitted their subordinates to use government charge cards to ring up nearly $100,000 in expenses at strip clubs and 'adult entertainment establishments' and almost $1m at casinos, all without serious reprisal, a new report reveals." 
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Concern Arises Over Impact of Police Moves to Block Social Media 
Martin Kaste, NPR 
Kaste writes: "When should police be able to deactivate your social media account? The question is becoming more urgent, as people use real-time connections in the middle of critical incidents involving law enforcement." 
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US to Review Use of Private Prisons for Immigrants 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The U.S. Department of Homeland Security said Monday it will study whether to discontinue using privately-run detention centers for migrants, just a few weeks after the Justice Department announced it will phase out private federal prisons after an internal investigation declared them unsafe." 
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Virginia School Board Tells the Supreme Court It Has No Idea What a Transgender Person Is 
Zack Ford, ThinkProgress 
Ford writes: "The school district's argument is literally this: If we can't discriminate against trans students, then we won't be able to discriminate against trans students." 
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Winona LaDuke | An Oil Pipeline and a River: What Would Sitting Bull Do? 
Winona LaDuke, LA Progressive 
LaDuke writes: "It's 2016, and the weight of American corporate interests has come to the Missouri River, the Mother River. This time, instead of the Seventh Cavalry, or the Indian police dispatched to assassinate Sitting Bull, it is Enbridge and Dakota Access Pipeline." 
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