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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:

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Thursday, August 25, 2016

RSN: Obama's Offshore Drilling Puts Whales and Dolphins in Peril, Groups Warn, Curt Schilling Is the Next Donald Trump, How Many Guns Did the US Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands.




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Matt Taibbi | Curt Schilling Is the Next Donald Trump 
Former Major League pitcher Curt Schilling. (photo: AP)
Matt Taibbi, Rolling Stone 
Taibbi writes: "If you think the white-guy grievance movement will die after Donald Trump's likely landslide defeat this November, think again. There will be plenty of filterless, self-pitying dunces to carry the torch in Trump's place. Schilling is a leading candidate." 
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Secret Cameras Record Baltimore's Every Move From Above 
Monte Reel, Bloomberg Businessweek 
Reel writes: "Since the beginning of the year, the Baltimore Police Department had been using the plane to investigate all sorts of crimes, from property thefts to shootings. The Cessna sometimes flew above the city for as many as 10 hours a day, and the public had no idea it was there." 
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'Deadly Heat' in US Prisons Is Killing Inmates and Spawning Lawsuits 
Alice Speri, The Intercept 
Speri writes: "The TDCJ, which runs Texas prisons and houses more than 146,000 inmates, is currently in the middle of litigation over what inmates and advocates have said is deadly heat in its facilities. But Texas is not the only state facing such lawsuits." 
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20 Years Later, Poverty Is up, but Architects of 'Welfare Reform' Have No Regrets 
Zaid Jilani, The Intercept 
Jilani writes: "This week marks the 20th anniversary of 'welfare reform,' the 1996 law passed by Congress and administered by President Bill Clinton that strictly limited the amount of federal cash assistance that the poorest Americans can receive - transforming the Aid for Families with Dependent Children program into the more restrictive Temporary Aid for Needy Families." 
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Over 26,000 Refugee Children Arrested at US Border, UNICEF Reports 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "More than 26,000 unaccompanied child refugees from Central America were arrested at the United States border in the first six months of 2016, UNICEF said Tuesday." 
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How Many Guns Did the US Lose Track of in Iraq and Afghanistan? Hundreds of Thousands. 
C. J. Chivers, The New York Times 
Chivers writes: "Since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the United States has handed out a vast but persistently uncountable quantity of military firearms to its many battlefield partners in Afghanistan and Iraq. Today the Pentagon has only a partial idea of how many weapons it issued, much less where these weapons are." 
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Obama's Offshore Drilling Puts Whales and Dolphins in Peril, Groups Warn 
Oliver Milman, Guardian UK 
Milman writes: "Environmental groups have turned on the Obama administration over offshore oil and gas extraction, warning it puts whales and dolphins in peril and risks undermining the president's commitment to putting the brakes on climate change." 
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