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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



Sunday, August 28, 2016

RSN: Severe Drought in India Pushed Thousands of Farmers to Suicide, Partial Win in Fight Over North Carolina Transgender Bathroom Law




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Andy Borowitz | Pence Recaptured After Fleeing Trump Campaign Bus 
Mike Pence. (photo: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters)
Andy Borowitz, The New Yorker 
Borowitz writes: "Calling it a 'scary moment' and a 'close call,' Donald Trump's campaign officials confirmed that they had recaptured Mike Pence after the Indiana governor attempted to flee the campaign bus in the early hours of Friday morning."
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Trump Uses Fatal Shooting of Chicago Woman to Boast About His Own Campaign 
Bryce Covert, ThinkProgress 
Covert writes: "On Friday afternoon, Nykea Aldridge, who was the cousin of basketball star Dwyane Wade, was shot and killed while pushing her baby in a stroller. By Saturday morning, Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump was using the incident as proof of his campaign's future success." 
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Obamacare's Faltering for One Simple Reason: Profit 
Jon Schwarz, The Intercept 
Schwarz writes: "There have been dozens if not hundreds of news articles about Aetna leaving the Affordable Health Care Act's online marketplaces in eleven states, and whether this signals serious problems for Obamacare down the road." 
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People of Color the 'Enemy,' Should Be Shot: Maine Governor 
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Excerpt: "Maine Governor Paul LePage said Friday that drug dealers - or 'the enemy' - are almost entirely 'people of color or people of Hispanic origin' and must be shot." 
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Partial Win in Fight Over North Carolina Transgender Bathroom Law 
Colleen Jenkins, Reuters 
Jenkins writes: "North Carolina's university system must allow two transgender students and a transgender employee to use bathrooms matching their gender identity, a U.S. judge ruled on Friday, in a partial victory for those fighting the state's restrictive restroom law." 
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Severe Drought in India Pushed Thousands of Farmers to Suicide 
Nathanael Johnson, Grist 
Johnson writes: "A severe drought in India has caused a spike in farmer suicides. These suicides increased 40 percent between 2014 and 2015, according to government statistics. In those two years monsoon rains were weak, reservoirs dried up, and crops died in the inland west of the country." 
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Protecting Our National Parks for Another 100 Years 
Jillian Mackenzie, Natural Resources Defense Council 
Mackenzie writes: "'Europe has cathedrals. We have national parks,' said Stephen Saunders, president of the Rocky Mountain Climate Organization, neatly capturing the significance of these 59 national treasures, which include important monuments as well as parklands. But as we honor their majesty on this 100th anniversary of the National Park Service, we must also recognize and address the biggest threats to our natural versions of Notre Dame." 
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