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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014420, Detroit, Florida, FloriDuh, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Lee "Scratch" Perry, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Rob Ford, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! It’s Ned Buntline‘s birthday!!! Not only was Ned interested in the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear, but he wrote more than a few himself:

1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida‘s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1995 – A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 persons.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.

Now, let’s check out today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

American bars start boycotting Russian vodka over Ukraine

America’s Right-Wing
Has Gone Gay Crazy
The madness has spread from the
Christian Right’s talking heads to the leading lights of the Republican Party.

Janet Mefferd Upset Honey Maid’s Graham
Crackers Push ‘The Gay Propaganda Machine’

Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 19, 2014

March 19, 2014420, Florida, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Miami, Outer Space, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! It’s the birthday of both Albert Speer and Adolph Eichmann, not to mention Wyatt Earp, William Jennings Bryan, and Patrick McGoohan. They all loved their Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1885 – Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.

1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.

1918 – The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada.

1941 – World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.

1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his “Nero Decree” ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1954 – Willie Mosconi
sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss
during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.

1962 – Highly influential artist, Bob Dylan releases his first album, Bob Dylan, on Columbia Records label.

1987 – Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.

It’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Anti-Gay Harlem Church Sign: ‘Jesus Would Stone Homos’

Harry Belafonte calls for US to review its aid to all countries with anti-gay laws

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

The Secret Lives of
Inner-City Black Males
Paul Ryan’s explanation for urban poverty isn’t much different from Barack Obama’s. Why did it make liberals so angry?

Do You Think the CIA Infected African-
Americans With HIV? You’re Not Alone

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

It’s a Fact: Republican Run
Red States Have America’s
Highest Poverty Rates

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

It’s Payback Time for McDonald’s — Lawsuits Could Force Company to Hike Wages

The rich strike back

FREE THE WEED!!!

Federal Government Signs Off
On Study Using Marijuana
To Treat Veterans’ PTSD

24 Mind-Blowing Facts About
Marijuana Production in America

How To Grow Pot for (Soon to Be) Legal Profit: Inside Cannabis
Career Institute’s Miami Seminar

Medical marijuana stores
blocked from tax breaks

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

Ultra Music Festival to Turn
Miami Into a Three-Day Rave

IT’S MICRO AND IT’S SOFT:

How to Survive the
Windows XPiration Date
Microsoft urges users of its aging software to move to Windows 8.1, but other paths might be easier

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Bryan Fischer Explains Why
God Did Not Smite Bill Maher
for Calling Him Out on Friday

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA Scientists Create Largest High-Resolution
Interactive Mosaic Of Moon’s North Pole

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 18, 2014

March 18, 2014420, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Grover Cleveland, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, KKK, Koch Brothers, Outer Space, Paul Ryan, Racism, Religion, UniverseHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners. Before you rush out and celebrate the birthday of Grover Cleveland — still the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms — here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear for your enjoyment:

37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius‘s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He serves only 2 years.
1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.

Now, let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

First glimpse of big bang
ripples from universe’s birth

Gravitational Waves from
Big Bang Detected

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually
the best-case scenario. Here’s the scary alternative

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

‘Code Words for Race’:
What’s Really Behind GOP’s Poverty and Welfare Obsession
When Paul Ryan decried the “culture”
of inner cities it followed a long
conservative tradition, a scholar explains.

Debunking the Top 10 Most Egregious Republican Lies

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Judge rules against creationist teacher who called Buddhist student’s faith ‘stupid’

THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCHS:

Koch Brothers Group
Abandons Anti-Obamacare
Ads After Fact-Checkers
Prove Them False

FREE THE WEED!!!

The environmental
case for legalizing pot

Miami’s First Marijuana
School Could Open in April

A Head Start for Florida
Cannabis Entrepreneurs

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Praises Gay
Ban at New York’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade
Hosts call Mayor Bill deBlasio a ‘religious bigot’ for not marching in today’s parade.

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit area water authority talks hit cutoff

IN OUTER SPACE:

Planet X myth debunked

Star next door may host a ‘superhabitable’ world

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2014420, Climate Change, Detroit, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Paul Ryan, Religion, Rob Ford, Sherlock Holmes, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's DayHeadly Westerfield

Saint Patrick depicted in a stained glass
window at Saint Benin’s Church, Ireland

Howdy Headliners. Put on your funny green hat and drink the funny green beer until you turn a funny shade of green: It’s St. Patrick’s Day or Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Long before he chased the snakes out of Ireland, Patrick loved to read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

Green with envy? No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Is Paul Ryan Racist?

GOP Congressional Candidate Apologizes for Slavery Comments

Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’

Ohio State Rep Proposes Selling Off Public Schools To Private Businesses To End ‘Socialism’

Republican Ignorance and Stupidity Hit a New
Low With Attacks on Neil de Grasse Tyson

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Republican Legislators Fall Victim
to Ponzi Scheme Run by Man who
Claimed to Have Found Noah’s Ark

Nine Unopened Dead Sea Scrolls Found

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

British Import: Music College Comes To Capitol Park Downtown This Autumn

COLD CASE SOLVED:

Has the real Sherlock Holmes been deduced?
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests
he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

Thousands Turn Up For California’s
Largest-Ever Rally To Ban Fracking

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Greenland Ice Melt ‘Accelerating,’ Climate Change Awakens ‘Sleeping Giant’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Congressman Guestimates
How Many of His Fellow
Reps Smoke Weed

Colorado Recreational
Weed Sales Top $14
Million In First Month

How Much Could Michigan Gain
In Marijuana Tax Revenue?

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford captured on
new video stumbling,
swearing outside city hall
Mayor Rob Ford has again been caught
on video behaving erratically in public.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox analyst: Obama buying
pink clothes is a failure of
the White House PR dept.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have U.S. scientists found
the Big Bang’s biggest secret
and the final key to relativity?

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury

Asteroid Set to Cover One of
the Brightest Stars in the Night
Sky Thursday Morning

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 16, 2014

March 16, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully Boy Bolling, Cops Gone Wild, Eric Bolling, Falafel King, Fetish, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Henny Youngman, Income Inequality, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Playboy, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. Today is the birthday of funnyman Henny Youngman, born in 1906. Take the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear, please:

1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.”

1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.

1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.

1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Some White People Tried To Rally For Their Race Today

Shocking racist tweets follow
high school basketball
win by all-white team

The White Man March, Which Is Almost Exactly What It Sounds Like, Is Coming to New York

Taking on the Trolls:
Why the Online Race-Hatred Against First Nations?

74 y.o. African-American lectures college kids for using the n-word

Paul Ryan To Smooth Things Over With
Black Leadership After ‘Inner City’ Remark

How the Irish Became White? Paul Ryan’s Ugly
Public Embrace of Anti-Black Racism and Eugenics

IN LGBT NEWS:

Slán Go Fóill! Sponsors Flee Boston’s Homophobic St. Patrick’s Day Parade

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Man Tapes Himself Molesting Street Signs – 2 Years of
Video Footage Found

Model Sues Playboy for Letting Golfer Drive Ball Off Her Butt

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Alabama children’s pastor tells police he ‘cannot remember’ how many boys he molested

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

No CEOs paid price for 2008 meltdown. Here’s why:

The U.S. financial sector drained taxpayers of $12.6 trillion in bailouts and more than 8 million jobs in North America. Why have no top CEOs gone to jail?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Tim Skubick: Marijuana decriminalization or legalization could pop up on many local ballots in 2014

Brutal press release from
Health Canada shows their
disdain for cannabis medicines
and patients in need

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Former Palmdale deputy
pleads to rape, bribery

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Letterman to O’Reilly
on Beyoncé Obsession:
‘You Just Found Something
to Whine About’

O’Reilly Jabs at ‘Another Network’ Who Does ‘Nothing’ but Speculate About Missing Airliner

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Jon Stewart flattens Fox News’ Eric Bolling for trying to ‘school’ him on shaming the poor

Fox News’ Attempt To ‘School’ Jon Stewart On Food Stamp Abuse Blows Up On Them

Jon Stewart Hits Back At Fox Host For
Trying To ‘School’ Him On Food Stamps

◄ BONUS VIDEOS DU JOUR ►

The Daily Show
Get More: Daily Show Full Episodes,The Daily Show on Facebook

Chow Mein and Bolling
A retired Not Now Silly series which made fun of Eric Bolling, until it wasn’t fun anymore.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have we found a message from the dawn of time?
‘Major discovery’ set for Monday could give scientists their first glimpse of the birth of the universe

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, March 14, 2014

March 14, 2014420, Albert Einstein, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Christie, Cops Gone Wild, Falafel King, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s all relative, but Albert Einstein would have been 135 years old today, had he not died in 1955. He loved the Headlines Du Jour in yesteryear’s space-time:

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Eight More Couples Sue Florida to Recognize Gay Marriages From Other States

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Sex charge dropped; state
says ex-coach entrapped

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Jim Brown Says Slavery
Wasn’t So Bad. And That’s
Bad News for the GOP

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Christie to Town Hall
Hecklers: ‘Sit Down and
Keep Quiet or Get Out!’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Seth Rogen Rattles Off Many of the
Celebs with Whom He’s Smoked Weed

Legislation legalizing
marijuana in Maryland killed

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Hundreds of Belgians flock to
glowing Virgin Mary statue

Noah ‘won respect of animals by fighting them’

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Blasts Russell Simmons for Being ‘Too Frightened to Answer’ Questions

TV Host Bill O’Reilly: Beyonce’s ‘Partition’ Video May Cause ‘Unwanted Pregnancies’

Lack of respect for office? O’Reilly certainly should know

Hey, Bill O’Reilly and David Gergen! You
Should Really Hear Abe Lincoln’s Fart Joke

Fox News has an “Angry Grandpa” freakout:
Obama is making them irrelevant
O’Reilly’s upset that Democrats can reach young non-cable
viewers because it’s dooming his network — and his party

IN OUTER SPACE:

ESO’s Very Large Telescope spots largest yellow hypergiant star

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Happy Birthday, Albert!!!

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully, CIA, Cyber-bullying, Death Penalty, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, NSA, Outer Space, Racism, Rape Kits, SeattleHeadly Westerfield

With only 292 days until New Year’s Eve, today is also the birthday of Sci-Fi writer and charlatan L. Ron Hubbard, born on this day in 1911. It was his dying wish that people read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad‘s army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1963 – Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona
1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
2013 – Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

END THE DEATH PENALTY!!!

Black Man Sentenced To Death By All-White Jury Freed From Louisiana Prison After 30 Years

WHAT IF MEN WERE RAPE VICTIMS?

There Are 400,000
Unprocessed Rape
Kits in the U.S.
How Can This Be?

IN LGBT NEWS:

Mississippi, Louisiana,
Georgia top list of gay-
porn watching states

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OUT OF IDEAS”

Conservative Intellectuals
Fear the GOP Is Out of Ideas

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

Fracking suspended after earthquakes rock Ohio

WHO’S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

NSA posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware

Report on CIA Black Sites and Torture May Provoke a Constitutional Crisis

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

The war on black intellectuals:
What (mostly) white men
keep getting wrong
about public scholarship

FREE THE WEED!!!

Cash, gun and pot seized in
L.A. marijuana dispensary raids

Michigan medical marijuana patients, families speak out in support of dispensary, edible bills

WSJ Poll: Candy Is Dandy
But Pot Is Less Harmful

With marijuana bills under
consideration in Legislature,
Jefferson Parish group joins debate

CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

Brian Kolfage and Jan Vrotsos

◄ A duped writer defends the cyber-bullies ►
Left-wing trolls launch vile attack on Iraq war veteran and triple amputee

◄ The Not Now Silly cyber-bullies ►
The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

TODAY IN MUSIC:

City of Seattle creates priority parking for musicians

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly: Abraham Lincoln Would Never Have Appeared
on Funny or Die

Chris Matthews to O’Reilly: Abraham Lincoln ‘Would Not Have Worked for Fox’

Lincoln Scholar Tells O’Reilly: Lincoln Would Have Gone On Comedy Show “In A Second”

IN OUTER SPACE:

Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years

Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 12, 2014

March 12, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Boycott, Chris Christie, Constitution, Dave Davies, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, The KinksHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners. Today’s the birthday of Charles Boycott, whose ostracism by an Irish village gave us the word “boycott,” but Not Now Silly refuses to celebrate that. Among the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear include:

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats“.
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993
– Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with
tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures.
The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno was sworn in as the United States‘ first female attorney general.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

The Religious Right Crusades
to Deny Americans Their Constitutional Rights

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Watch out, “Cosmos”!
The Holy Inquisition is
not happy with you

FREE THE WEED!!!

D.C. Board of Elections allows marijuana legalization effort to move forward

Medical marijuana refugees:
‘This was our only hope’

Medical marijuana and ‘the entourage effect’

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Scrappers cause collapse of ornamental
ceiling in storied Eastown Theatre in Detroit

Are Michigan lawmakers holding up legistlation that could help fight Detroit scrappers?

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Revealed: Chris Christie gave pieces
of 9/11 wreckage to his cronies as gifts

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Wonders If The Press Is
Covering For Obama Because He’s Black

IN OUTER SPACE:

Was our galaxy formed by
a ‘Council of Giants’?
Giant galaxies arranged in a ring around the Milky Way might have shaped its very formation, reveals a new study.

“Death stars” in Orion blast planets before they even form

Is the lopsided Universe telling us we need new theories?

ESA mission sees a rainbow-like “glory” in Venus’ atmosphere

TODAY IN ROCK’N’ROLL:

Interview: Dave Davies (The Kinks)

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 11, 2014

March 11, 2014420, Coconut Grove, Detroit, Florida, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Honest Ed's, LGBT, Public Transit, Racism, Religion, Soilgate, Toxic Soil, TrolleygateHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! It’s the 70th day of the year and the birthday of Shemp Howard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear includes:

1702 – The Daily Courant, England‘s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Had enough? Then let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Lesbian couple murdered and left near dumpster in Texas

The quickly shifting language of the transgender community
He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Right-Wing Zealots Are Already Freaking Out About The Return Of Cosmos!

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Race, the War on Drugs
and Mass Incarceration

GOP Lawmaker Accused of
Racism for Tweet About the NBA

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Pennsylvania trooper fatally shoots pregnant wife in the head while cleaning his gun

STARVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE:

Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches
Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report

IN OLD COCONUT GROVE:

Coconut Grove’s Blanche
Park to close through
summer to remove toxic soil

From the Not Now Silly archives:
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is Trolleygate Writ Large

FREE THE WEED!!!

It Takes Nine Days to
Spot a Stoned Driver

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People

Graffiti Tagger Hits One Of
The New Shinola Clocks
That Were Gifts To Detroit

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Most Corrupt Town in America in
Danger of Being ‘Wiped Off the Map’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox & Friends First Misspells ‘Spelling Bee’

A SIGN OF THE TIMES:

Honest Ed’s latest bargain: those zany signs

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, CPAC, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Outer Space, Racism, Rand Paul, The SimpsonsHeadly Westerfield

Good morning, Headliners. It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday and it can beat up your birthday — with one hand tied behind its back. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Watch The ‘Not-Racist’ Crowd React
To ‘Annie’s’ Blackness In Remake

TODAY IN VOTER FRAUD NEWS:

How Much Voter Fraud Is There?
A state-by-state map reveals the answer: almost none.

INCOME INEQUALITY:

Income equality is just a
dream for most Americans

4 States Where the
Rich Got Richer at
the Expense of the Poor

FREE THE WEED!!!

Tests show THC content in
marijuana edibles is inconsistent

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit Police Chief Tells
Homeowners Don’t Wait for Cops –
‘Shoot Thugs Who Invade Your Home’

M-1 Rail groundbreaking nears amid hopes for a broader regional system

CPAC PROM KING:

CPAC Presidential Straw Poll Picks Guy Who Thinks Whites-Only Lunch Counters Should Be Legal

THE SIMPSONS IN THE NEWS:

11 Times ‘The Simpsons’ Predicted the Future of Technology

IN OUTER SPACE:

Scientists Discover New
Process that Protects Earth
from Space Weather

Every red dwarf star
has at least one planet

REMEMBERING COSMOS, THE ORIGINAL SERIES:

Cosmos reboot with Neil deGrasse Tyson: 13 new episodes after 34 years – What to expect

‘Cosmos’ then and now: The ‘personal voyage’ of Carl
Sagan, the Hollywood cool of Neil deGrasse Tyson

VIDEO DU JOUR:

REMEMBERING CARL SAGAN,
THE ORIGINAL COSMOS HOST

About Headly Westerfield

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

FREE THE WEED!!!

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

CAN YOU DIG IT:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

IT’S MICRO AND IT’S SOFT:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCHS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

COLD CASE SOLVED:

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

IN LGBT NEWS:

WAIT!!! WHAT???

TODAY IN RELIGION:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

END THE DEATH PENALTY!!!

WHAT IF MEN WERE RAPE VICTIMS?

IN LGBT NEWS:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OUT OF IDEAS”

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

WHO’S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

TODAY IN MUSIC:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR: