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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



Saturday, September 3, 2016

RSN: Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika, ALABAMA: The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Fined and Arrested After $1.07 Check Bounces




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Hillary’s GOP Outreach: Could It Do More Harm Than Good for Democrats? 
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton and former U.S. president Bill Clinton greet supporters during a primary night gathering on April 26 in Philadelphia. (photo: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images) 
Gary Legum, Salon 
Legum writes: "Could Hillary Clinton’s outreach to some traditional Republican constituencies cost the Democrats the House and Senate? That is the implication of a poll released on Thursday." 
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Latino Trump Supporter Warns of ‘Taco Trucks on Every Corner' 
teleSUR 
Excerpt: "The founding member of the “Latinos for Trump” group made a strange argument to support U.S. Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, saying that a loose U.S. immigration policy would lead to “taco trucks on every corner." 
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Socialize the EpiPen 
Adam Gaffney, Jacobin 
Excerpt: "The ongoing EpiPen debacle has served one useful purpose: it has plainly revealed the uninhibited avarice — and general dysfunction — at the core of the American pharmaceutical system." 
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The Criminalization of Poverty: Woman Fined and Arrested After $1.07 Check Bounces 
Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzales, Kristen Clarke, Democracy Now! 
Excerpt: "We continue our look at what the ACLU calls an illegal debtors’ prison in Arkansas by speaking with a former resident who wrote a check for $1.07 for a loaf of bread. She describes how after her check bounced, her debt ballooned with fees and fines to nearly $400, and police officers twice came to her job to arrest her." 
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22 Mothers Are Fasting Inside an Immigration Detention Center 
Esther Yu Hsi Lee, ThinkProgress 
Lee writes: "Almost two dozen immigrant mother detainees begun fasting inside a Pennsylvania detention center this week, hoping to force a harsh spotlight on the one-year detention anniversary of at least four families." 
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The Death of Alan Kurdi: One Year on, Compassion Towards Refugees Fades 
Patrick Kingsly, Guardian UK 
Kingsly writes: "Sitting in a refugee camp in northern Greece, Mohammad Mohammad, a Syrian taxi driver, holds up a picture of three-year-old Alan Kurdi. It is nearly a year since the same photograph of the dead toddler sparked a wave of outrage across Europe, and heightened calls for the west to do more for refugees. Twelve months later, Mohammad uses it to highlight how little has changed." 
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Millions of Honeybees Killed in Attempt to Prevent Zika 
Dan Zukowski, EcoWatch 
Zukowski writes: "Aerial spraying of the pesticide naled in a South Carolina county, done in an attempt to prevent Zika-infected mosquitoes from gaining a foothold in the state, resulted instead in the massacre of millions of honeybees." 
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