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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 3, 2013

While you have been sleeping the Not Now Silly news team was slipping and sliding the cyber-streets to bring back nothing but the best Headlines Du Jour. So, put on your bathrobe and slippers, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and settle in with the news you can use.

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Affluent, white residents of south Baton Rouge
propose seceding from city’s poor, black northern areas

Three white college students file racial discrimination
complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism
One of the students allegedly asked professor Shannon Gibney, “Why do we have to talk about this?”

► WAITING WHILE BLACK!!! ◄

Students arrested on Main Street in court

Coach Defends Students Arrested at Bus Stop

► GUARDIAN WHILE BLACK!!! ◄
Texas cops handcuff and take 13-year-old white girl from black guardians

Teen visiting Houston for dance classes taken into CPS custody

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Kansas City firefighter shot dead at his wedding reception by off-duty police officer

TODAY IN HEALTHCARE:

The Rise Of Obamacare McCarthyism

LGBT NEWS:

Philly church bans member over LGBT activism:
‘You are not in covenant with us’

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Fast-food workers plan strikes in 100 US cities this week

Low prices at Wal-Mart don’t have to mean low wages

TODAY IN GOD:

Poll: Faithful Catholics are an endangered species
“Zero percent of British Catholics now look to religious leaders for guidance as they make decisions”

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Slave artifacts found at Georgia highway project site

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OH NO!!! NOT AGAIN!!!”

RNC Tries to Cover Tracks Over Tweet Saying Racism has Ended

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Comedians Tell Pete Holmes About the Time
They Got Stoned and Went to a Fox News Taping

‘Fox And Friends’ Warns Of YMCA Swim Class For Muslim Girls

That HuffPo article provides the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how Johnny Dollar twists both the truth and the language to defend Fox “News”

Note Mark Koldy’s (aka Johnny Dollar) obvious deflection of Fox
“News” Islamophobia to a meaningless criticism of whether
@heatherfoxnews “lamented” and if she’s actually a F&F First host.

Maybe J$ is really a seal because it’s one red herring after another.

BTW:
Who is Johnny Dollar? Here’s all you need to know:

 

 Johnny Dollar Has Proven Himself To Be A Very Dangerous Person

 

 Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?

PASS THE POPCORN:

GOP infighting rages: McConnell blasts
Tea Party group for “utter nonsense”

The Senate minority leader says it’s time for
Republicans to “stand up” to Tea Party intimidation

IN THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS:

The AIDS Granny In Exile
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed the horrifying cause of an AIDS epidemic in rural China — and the ensuing cover-up — and became an enemy of the state. Now 85, she lives in New York without her family, without her friends, and without regrets.

THE RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; 2016:

‘Bizarre behavior’ could be risk to Christie White House run

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Doug Ford upset Kathleen Wynne is meeting with Norm Kelly
Premier Kathleen Wynne to bypass Mayor Rob Ford and meet Tuesday with his deputy, Norm Kelly, infuriating the mayor’s brother

Bill Blair has some explaining to do
It’s starting to look like the entire police investigation into the mayor may have been designed to embarrass him out of office

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s fibs about his record: Editorial
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford keeps misleading voters about his record.
He hasn’t transformed the city and doesn’t run it like a business.

SPEAKING OF TORONTO:

The 5 most influential buildings in Toronto
Christopher Hume: From office towers to a university,
these structures put the city on the architectural map

Unpacking My Toronto ► Iconic Buildings I Have Worked In

VIDEO DU JOUR


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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 2, 2013

Welcome to another thrill-packed edition of Headlines Du Jour. Today I am adding to the format slightly. When appropriate I will be printing quotes from the articles cited to give more context and/or irony. Today there happens to be two such headlines that deserved more context. So, let’s get right to the news while it’s still fresh.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Florida Tea Party Leader Bashes Gay GOP Group

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?


Santorum: Denying women birth control
coverage is a First Amendment right

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week

TODAY’S VOLLEY IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Target Canada will not be playing Christmas music

FREE THE WEED:

3 More Michigan Cities Free Up Marijuana

Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable.
We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic
and racism as opposed to science or medicine

Doob??? Really???

QUOTE: “One has to ask in these circumstances what the benefit to society is,” says University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob. Forty years ago, the Le Dain report also questioned the notion that overly harsh laws were harmless if not strictly enforced. Aside from the occasional outlandishly severe sentence, rational people lose respect for laws that are irrational, corroding the faith that citizens — especially young people — ought to place in institutions.

Prohibition Then and Now
A Not Now Silly investigative report

FREE THE CRACK:

Mayor Ford draws a crowd at Bills game

Rob Ford to start YouTube show: Why it won’t work

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators
use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

10 Mysteries we’ve solved in the past year…

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Tucker Carlson Backs Lara Logan on Benghazi:
‘Sometimes the Best Stories Have Flaky Sources’

IRONY ALERT!!!

QUOTE: “Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately,” Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson’s the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller “owes the senators and its readers an apology.”

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

Social media are a tool for Detroit Police
to answer critics, expand investigations

Enjoy Detroit TV Nostalgia? Catch ‘Remember When’ On WTVS Monday

BULLY CORNER:

Father Of Girl Who Committed Suicide Speaks
Out Against Ginger Bullying, ‘Kick A Ginger Day’

Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads
Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day
Another Not Now Silly investagative report

IN SOUTH FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami readies its new front porch: the $131 million Perez Art Museum

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal

SCIENCE CORNER:

Chinese Train that Never Stops

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Memories of You is my favourite song and Eubie Blake among my favourite artists
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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 1, 2013

It’s that time of the morning again. As people begin to wake from their slumber, the Not Now Silly news team has been busy all night long. It has been gathering only the finest, shiniest, and most interesting Headlines Du Jour for your reading pleasure.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Tennessee man shoots and kills wife
after argument over dead man’s shoes

►►► R.I.P. ◄◄◄


‘Fast & Furious’ star Paul
Walker killed in car crash

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

Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family’s Shocking Slave-Trading History

Anti-LGBT cardinal: Catholic church isn’t anti-gay
and was ‘out-marketed’ on same sex marriage

Scott Jones attack inspires Don’t be Afraid campaign
Facebook group tries to fight homophobia

GOBBLE, GOBBLE:

Conservatives Still Seeking
Vindication for George W.
Bush Fake Turkey Scandal

OH!! CANADA!!!

Feds to monitor social
media round-the-clock

Online dating relationship ends badly, $1.3M later
Canadians looking for love online are falling prey to the country’s
most lucrative scam. One woman says she gave a total of $1.3
million to a man she met on a dating site, but never in person.

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford and Doug Ford plan comeback on YouTube
Having lost their weekly radio talk show, the Fords are planning to launch a self-
produced program. “We’ve done a lot more than the Kardashians,” said Doug Ford.

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Murdoch’s British Tabloid Attempted Hundreds Of
Times To Hack Aides To British Royals’ Phones

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Washington Post Op-Ed Goes Viral: End Presidential Term Limits

MUSIC VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Serial Liar James Rosen Responds To Me Again

It looks like James Rosen, who wrote a book filled with words, has trouble understanding his own words.  Never fear. I’m here to help.

Rosen, for those smart enough to avoid watching Fox “News,” is the mendacious channel’s Chief Washington Correspondent. However, Rosen also wrote a doorstopper of a book about John Mitchell — Richard Nixon’s Attorney General and, later, head of the Committee to Re-elect the President (aptly shortened to CREeP). The Strong Man: John Mitchell and the Secrets of Watergate can charitably be called Revisionist History, but more accurately it’s filled with lies, half-truths, and shaded language. To make a long story short, according to Rosen, John Mitchell was innocent of all Watergate crimes — even those for which he was convicted —  because he was out for a pack of cigarettes when they happened, or something.

My bun fight with James Rosen began in February of 2012, back when we were all so young and innocent. It flared into life when Rosen rudely jumped into a Twitter conversation I was having with Watergate whistle-blower John W. Dean. While I promised Rosen I would read his book, and did so almost immediately, it took me a year to finally review it for Not Now Silly because, quite frankly, it wasn’t much of a priority. That post, Did Roger Ailes Dupe James Rosen, Or Did Rosen Dupe ‘Merka?, has risen to become the #5 All Time post at Not Now Silly. However, more importantly, in it I made the claim that Fox “News” Chief Roger Ailes was Rosen’s secret source quoted on Page 61.

Six months later, when Rosen found himself embroiled in a federal probe of Top Secret links and possible espionage, I returned to the topic of The Strong Man, Roger Ailes and Anna Channault in a post that asked the musical question: James Rosen: Blundering Biographer or Enemy of the State? Hilarity ensued.

Despite having blocked me blocked me a year and a half earlier, Rosen finally woke up and responded a mere 5 days later. He did so in a tweet that is a classic example of attacking the messenger because you don’t like the message:

Which prompted my next Watergate-related blog post, James Rosen Responds To Me, Sort Of, in which I call Rosen’s tweet a non-denial denial because I know a non-denial denial when I read one. To be charitable again: Maybe Rosen doesn’t know a non-denial denial when he writes one.

Then yesterday — totally out of the blue — I got a new tweet from James Rosen after I promoted all my Watergate posts in a tweet. (Okay, so maybe it wasn’t so “out of the blue.”)

The thing of it is this: Yes, Rosen’s tweet is finally a declarative denial. However, Rosen did not “told [me] before,” despite what he may think the words he used meant. With tweets limited to 140 characters, Rosen spent more than half of it making fun of my beard, which surely pleased Johnny Dollar and The Flying Monkey Squad. Better he should have used some of that Twitter real estate to have made an actual denial.

I called it a non-denial denial because it denied nothing. So, no. You didn’t done told me before, James.

This is how my copy of The Strong Man looked when I was done

The bigger thing of it is this, James: I didn’t believe your book while I was reading it. “I have told you before” how I dropped a sticky note on every question I wanted to ask you. When I was done my copy of The Strong Man was filled with enough sticky notes to supply an Office Depot, and all fall under the general rubric of “bullshit.” For that matter, James, I don’t believe your Fox “News” reports when I see them, nor are you the Beatles expert you hold yourself out to be.

So, I think it’s a legitimate question to ask: Why should I believe your little tweet, especially as it contradicts your previous tweet?

However, as we head in to the Holiday Season, I just want to get this contretemps behind us and go back to those halcyon days of yore, when you and I were happily exchanging Beatles’ trivia, without a dark cloud on our horizon. Consequently, help me understand how the lie on Page 61 of your book came to be printed. We can achieve détente if you answer the following questions:

1). Who is the secret source on Page 61, the source promised anonymity according to the book’s end notes? [While you may have promised anonymity, I don’t feel you need be bound to a deal that protects someone who fed you a falsehood.]
2). Did you, or did you not, not recognize that the quote was factually incorrect when you printed it?
3). Did you, or did you not, understand when you printed this false information that it went to the topic of whether Richard Nixon committed treason?
4). Why is Roger Ailes, your current boss and an intimate of Nixon and
Mitchell — and, more importantly, the re-election campaign’s behind-the-scenes media man — not mentioned or quoted in The Strong Man whatsoever?
5). What about all my other sticky notes? [See pic above.] Care to discuss them? The Anna Channault Affair is just one pile of bovine manure in a book filled with cow patties.

Just send a tweet, James. Otherwise, you’re as full of shit as your book.

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, November 29, 2013

While you were lolling around in your tryptophan-induced stupour the Not Now Silly news team was busy — as busy as it has ever been. They were busy creeping and crawling through the innertubes with just one task: Bring back only the most scrumptious Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Dinesh Bhugra: Psychiatry needs a broader focus
The
first gay president of the World Psychiatric Association wants a
radical rethink of mental
illness and for the profession to apologise
for the harm it has inflicted on gay people and women

World’s top psychiatrist comes out, promises stand on ‘gay cures’
New
head of World Psychiatric Association has come out as gay, demanded

action in countries where homosexuality is treated as an illness


FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

This Fox News interview with Richard Simmons
is the greatest thing to ever happen on cable TV

WRITERS CORNER:

Unpublished J.D. Salinger stories ‘leaked’ online
‘The Ocean Full of Bowling Balls,’ ‘Paula’ and
‘Birthday Boy’ surface against the late author’s wishes.

Unpacking the Writer – Continued

Farce Au Pain ► The Soft Launch

Farce au Pain © 2013, Headly Westerfield

YOU DON’T NEED A WEATHERMAN TO KNOW WHICH WAY THE WIND BLOWS:

Cape Breton amateur weather man is a viral video star

FREE THE WEED:

Pot-smoking Mountie can’t smoke in uniform, RCMP says
Cpl. Ron Francis legally smokes marijuana daily
while on duty to treat post-traumatic stress disorder

CRACK CORNER:

‘Merka’s greatest documentarian, Ken Burns, tackles the Rob Ford Story

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Did comet ISON flame out on its trip around the sun?

Comet ISON leaves a mystery behind as it goes around the sun

A Timeline Of Comet ISON’s Dangerous Journey

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thanksgiving Day!!! ► Thursday, November 28, 2013

On this very special day the entire Not Now Silly News Team is grateful for all the headlines out there and for all our readers in here. We couldn’t — wouldn’t — do it without you. Here’s is today’s exciting holiday edition of Headlines Du Jour.

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

Residents shocked that DeKalb County,
Georgia, juror form lists ‘slave’ as occupation

Manitoba restaurant owner says she’s closing because of racism

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

Stephen Henderson: Rally around Kevyn Orr to hold off Detroit’s financial buzzards

Tom Walsh: Warren Buffett gets it – Detroit is still alive and kicking

AND IN WORLD NEWS:

Israel heads for a terrifying split

FREE THE WEED:

Members Of Congress To California U.S.
Attorney: Back Off Marijuana Prosecutions

MANNA FROM HEAVEN:

Pot Falls From the Sky in San Diego

SPEAKING OF RELIGION:

The Unfair Tax Exemption for Politically Active Churches Must End

No, Obama Is Not Closing The Vatican Embassy

VOTER RESTRICTION NEWS:

Some Florida Election Supervisors Stunned By New Voter Restrictions

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox Business host Stuart Varney lectures Pope Francis about capitalism and religion

Greta Van Susteren Hypes Phony Postal Service War On Christmas

Fox Nation vs. Reality: The U.S. Closes Imaginary Vatican City Embassy

10 Headlines Fox News Might Have Written Had
They Existed During Key Points in U.S. History

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford investigation: Judge orders release of censored parts of police document
Remaining blacked-out information about the mayor and his associates could be made public Dec. 6, under a ruling by Superior Court Justice Ian Nordheimer.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Watch EmTV, my growing YouTube Channel

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, November 27, 2013

While the rest of the world rests, the Not Now Silly news team is not allowed any sleep. Provisioned for the job at hand the NNS news team enters the internet through a coaxial cable in NNS Headquarters and collects as many headlines as they can safely carry. Then they bring them back where they are compiled into today’s Headlines Du Jour

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Supreme Court takes up birth control cases

Obama administration proposes new limits on tax-exempt political groups

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge orders expedited marriage license
so terminally ill woman can wed partner

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Florida Christian School Threatens to Kick
Out Black Girl Over Her Natural Hair

Prosecutors Say This Ohio Man Plotted
A One-Man Racist Killing Spree

Where Do the Most Racist and Homophobic
People In America Live? Check This Map

GOD BLESS ‘MERKA:

America is the Stingiest Rich Country in the World

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News: Now the Anti-Obamacare Propaganda Channel

O’Reilly Factor’s Watters Takes on Rob
Ford: ‘Are You Having Fun Right Now?’

O’Reilly Factor is Rob Ford’s craziest interview yet

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

Detroit bankruptcy creditors ask judge to
take steps toward sale of DIA treasures

This Is What Detroit Could Look Like In 2033 … And Beyond

CRACK CORNER:

“This isn’t Toronto,” says sheriff after arresting Florida mayor
Oh brother, now small town sheriffs are using our mayor as an example

RELIGION CORNER:


 

Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down
economics to shreds in new policy statement

Dan Savage Was Last Straw — Catholic Group
Demands Bill Maher’s HBO Show Gets Canceled

IN OUTER SPACE:

Birth of black hole witnessed, marking watershed moment for astronomy

Mach 1,000 shock wave lights supernova remnant
Astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward
heats Tycho’s supernova remnant and causes it to emit X-ray light.

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 26, 2013

The Not Now Silly News Team has been working all night
long to compile the very best of today’s Headlines Du Jour. So, grab a cop of coffee and
settle down to the best damn headlines found anywhere.

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Christian Tea Party Terrorist Claims 2nd Amendment
Authority To Shoot President Obama!

STAND YOUR GROUND:

‘Stand your ground’ moves to Ohio Senate

Police find 12-gauge, rifle, and more than 100
rounds at George Zimmerman’s girlfriend’s home

Why George Zimmerman Was Arrested
Immediately When He Abused A White Woman

The Curious Case Of George Zimmerman’s Public Defender

FREE THE WEED:

Pot smokers warned: think twice
before crossing U.S. border

Canadians heading south to sample
legal marijuana should not expect
a warm welcome at the border


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

Task force to compile database
in Detroit blight fight

Thieves target massive water
tower at Packard Plant in Detroit

Torched: Jefferson Ave’s Historic Somerset Apartments

Video: The Diego Rivera Murals As You’ve Never Seen Them

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Ed Schultz Blasts Fox’s ‘Steve Douchey,’ Cavuto
for Claiming Iran Deal Distraction from Obamacare

Sarah Palin Snubs Bill O’Reilly?!

Fox Host: Obamacare is worse than Katrina
or the Iraq War because it touches more lives


I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO GHOSTS:

‘Ghost-hunters’ allegedly burn down historic Louisiana plantation

The Ghost In The Machine

HAITIAN HATE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

Dominicans expel 244 Haitians over border killings


IN LGBT NEWS:

The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost
Tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance


CRACKED MAYOR CORNER:

Blair must explain why police didn’t arrest Rob Ford
Why did police sit back and watch the mayor for months while he repeatedly met with an alleged dealer and apparently took curious packages from him?

 
Drunken Mayor Goes Bonkers After Being Arrested by
His Own Police Force

CRACKED CORNER:

Atheist drops golfer’s sponsorship over fears
Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck could taint business

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck


LAWSUIT DU JOUR:

Yuliana Avalos, Miami Bikini Model, Sues
Match.com For $1.5 Billion Over Stolen Photos

PERFECT FOR THE NUCLEAR FAMILY:

This House Has A Massive Door Going To The Basement.
When You See What’s Down There, You’ll Get It.


ENTERTAINMENT CORNER:

Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary episode breaks the Timelord’s
number one rule and re-writes history – and reminds us
why Matt Smith and David Tennant were so irritating

 

VIDEO DU JOUR

Brian Wilson, Frank Zappa & Graham Nash Go Inside Pop
Fascinating 1967 film lifts the lid on “the strange and compelling scene called ‘pop music’”.


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 24, 2013

We have this day to blame for Sarah Palin.

While you were getting your beauty rest, the Not Now Silly interns were set loose on the internet. Their instructions? Do not return unless they have collected a bucketful of Headlines Du Jour. Once they returned the headlines were culled so that only the most interesting are used for the Sunday edition.

TODAY’S TOP HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Bomb squad says suspicious item was a burrito
Foil-wrapped object was brought in for analysis

TODAY IN EDUCATION:

Colorado school board member calls
for castration of Transgender students



Texas School Board Adopts Accurate Biology Books,
Rebuffing Last-Ditch Campaign By Creationists

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Grosse Pointe Park cop admits taking
demeaning video, is removed from duty

Posthumous pardon in 1931 Alabama rape case
The Scottsboro Boys receive official pardons more than
80 years after being wrongly convicted by all-white juries.

11 of The Most Racist Movies Ever Made

AWKWARD!!!

Washington State GOP Chair Accuses Party Of Playing Into ‘War On Women’

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Seventeen-year-old shot in the head while in police custody

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:   

Glee Transgender Character’s Actor Fires Back at Bill O’Reilly

False Fox News Story About ‘Banned’ Pledge Of
Allegiance Results In Death Threats (VIDEOS)

Mike Huckabee Renews Assault on Sanity of a Living Wage

WOMEN’S CORNER

The Conspiracy Against Women

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Federal Court OKs Lifetime
Gun Bans For Those Convicted
of Domestic Violence!

Michigan man misses at
suicide attempt and fatally
shoots woman instead

Texas GOP Lawmaker Charged With Felony In Airport Gun Incident

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR:

The Disneys: Not the
happiest family on Earth

FREE THE WEED:

11 Pounds of Marijuana Mistakenly Delivered to
Florida Keys Couple: Monroe County Sheriff’s Office

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford and the centre of the universe
Toronto has never witnessed a global media circus of this scale.
A look at the appeal of a story at once bizarre and strangely refreshing.

Rob Ford: Concern for staff helped push
efforts to cut mayor’s budget, councillors say

A desire to allow stressed staff a “graceful exit” was one impetus to
take action against the mayor, according to Councillor Jaye Robinson.

Rob Ford: the director’s cut. A montage of two years
A three-minute video montage captures the most intense moments of the Rob Ford saga.

Remember when Palin said “reload” and put a
gun sight on 20 different politicians? Remember
when one of those politicians was shot in the head?

Remember “blood libel”?

Remember her recent remarks on slavery?

I can see her stupidity from my porch.

CRACKED CORNER:

It Is The Mainstream Media’s Fault That America is Plagued By Sarah Palin

RELIGION CORNER:

America Spends $71 Billion Annually Subsidizing Tax-Exempt Religion

Breaking: Federal District Court
Declares A Religious Income Tax
Exemption Unconstitutional

North Carolina Christian school orders families to sign anti-LGBT ‘Biblical Morality’ pledge

LET’S ALL GO TO THE MOVIES:

‘Bettie Page Reveals All,’
A Close-Up Look at the
Pinup Goddess and Sexual Icon

VIDEO DU JOUR:

The Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know About Nikola Tesla


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Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar? ► The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Comment of the Day

Does Shep Smith of Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s tactics?

This isn’t a post about financial recompense. I did that one last month. We  already know that Fox “News” paid trolls and surrogates* to attack web sites critical of the fact-challenged network.

Not Now Silly highly suspects that Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar, who runs Johnny Dollar’s Place, was a recipient of Fox “News” largess. Nothing else really explains his almost 10-year obsession with NewsHounds and anyone having anything to do with it. Nobody is THAT dedicated without being paid to be so, especially since Koldys has to twist truth into a pretzel to do so.

No, this question of “support” isn’t about money. This blog post asks the musical question, ‘Does Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics in outing my sex life in his never-ending quest to defend Fox “News” as one of its surrogates?’

During a recent Twitter rage Mark Koldys admits he posted
details about my sex life on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. Then
he pretends that because he found it on the internet, it rose to the
level of being posted on his piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog.

Now, I always get a kick out of Johnny Dollar’s sleight-of-hand on Twitter. When someone is critical of Fox “News,” Dollar/Koldys responds with some lame variation of “Oh, did the building say that?” As if this silly red herring negates the valid criticism in the first place. That’s just the lawyer in Mark Koldys, twisting words again. Can you believe he was once a Michigan prosecutor? Is it any wonder people hate lawyers?

So, believe me when I say that I am not asking whether the physical building supports Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics. Despite what you may have heard, corporations are not people, my friends.

However, “some people say” corporations are peopled with people. “Some people say” that some of the people at Fox “News” actually have hearts and compassion. [The jury’s still out on Bully Boy Bolling.] That’s why I’m asking each and every person within Fox “News” to search deeply and ask themselves whether they support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics: posting information about my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I wrote about Fox “News” for NewsHounds.

Hypocrite, thy name is Koldys.

A tweet from October 25, 2013, in which Johnny Dollar attacks @DylanByers
for tweeting details of Shep Smith’s alternative lifestyle personal info. So, what
does that make Mark Koldys for printing details about my alternative
lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog? Because . . . journalism!

Imagine how you would feel, Greta Van Susteren, if you woke up to find details of your sex life posted on the innertubes, merely for a difference of opinion. Would Gretchen Carlson be pleased to see intimate details of her sex life splashed around the innertubes because people didn’t like her message?  I wonder how Shep Smith would like seeing details of his sex life as fodder for internet jokes because a someone didn’t like what he had to say. Oh! Wait!! That actually happened!!!

Yet the same MoFo — Johnny Dollar, aka Mark Koldys — who felt my alternative lifestyle was perfect material for his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog NOW believes that publishing personal details about someone’s sex life is … err … hitting below the belt.

Read a compendium of my NewsHounds columns, written under the nom de blog of Aunty Em Ericann, by clicking here.

So . . . When Greta Van Susteren or Shep Smith or any other Fox “News” personality supports Johnny Dollar with messages or Re-Tweets, they are, in reality, supporting Mark Koldys’ methods and tactics of outing people’s sex lives to destroy the messenger, simply because he couldn’t destroy the message.

There are no two ways to look at it. If you are supporting a hypocrite, you are a hypocrite yourself.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When Johnny Dollar posted a picture of NewsHounds’ Ellen on his blog, and was called on it, he justified it by saying anything found on the internet is FAIR USE, therefore fair game. Every picture I have ever posted of Mark Koldys I have found on the internet. FAIR USE, therefore fair game, right? So, please, Koldys Kiddies Klub, aka The Flying Monkey Squad, spare me the faux outrage that I have invaded his precious privacy. Especially after he posted details about my alternative lifestyle. I hadn’t realized there were rules in the politics of personal destruction.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When I posted a little movie montage comprised of photographs I found on the internet of Mark Koldys, he bleated to the officials of the YouTubery that I invaded his privacy, which threatened my account if I refused to take it down. That’s why I edited it to the following:

I just want to repeat that, because it would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking sick: He cites the law to justify his use of Ellen’s pic, but he uses the law to his advantage to complain to YouTube. That’s why he’s the Hypocrite Supreme. I ask again: Is it any wonder people hate lawyers? Especially weaselly lawyers like Mark Koldys?

Grumpy Cat, aka Mark Koldys,
with his family removed

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

He bleats like a stuck pig while he’s making up lies about me for his twitter surrogates. F’rinstance, contrary to his oft-repeated whine of victimization, it’s simply not true that I have used these pictures found on the internet to mock Mark Koldys’ dead parents. I never mocked his dead parents. I mocked Mark Koldys, the spoiled, stupid, fat fuck who outed my alternative lifestyle.

Yes, Koldys, I’ve mocked you and exposed you for the slimy piece of shit you are, the same way you exposed my alternative lifestyle on your piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. So, stop pretending that your shit don’t stink. Thanks to Not Now Silly people can smell you coming a mile away, Koldys.

You started this trip into the sewer. I’m just happy to follow you there and keep kicking your ass up and down these cyber-corridors as long as it continues to amuse me to do so.

Oh, and while you’re at it, say HI! to your surrogate Grayhammy. I can always tell when I’ve hit my target: When your surrogate Ashley Graham starts shoveling the bullshit on your behalf.

So says my eternal victimizer. If anyone would know, it’s him.

* LET’S HAVE A FRANK TALK ABOUT SURROGATES AND ASHLEY GRAHAM, AKA GRAYHAMMY:

David Folkenflik, who recently published his scathing biography Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, was recently interviewed by Joe Strupp at Media Matters for America for the article “Murdoch Biographer Folkenflik On News Corp. Opposition, Family Dysfunction, and Fox News’ Role As GOP “Referee.” This excerpt jumped out at me:

MMfA: You describe how Fox PR staffers created an elaborate series of dummy accounts to fill the comments sections of critical blog posts with pro-Fox arguments. When was that going on? Do you know if it continues? What blogs were being monitored?

DF: My sense was that I believe that after the Tim Arango incident [in which someone leaked personal information about Arango shortly after he had been threatened by the network for his reporting], that Murdoch who had known Arango a bit as a reporter was embarrassed by it when he was told about it and consulted some of his top aides and he sort of said ‘let’s pull back a bit,’ Fox was not as publicly vituperative after that. Certainly if you look at how [New York Magazine’s] Gabe Sherman has been treated on the air and in blogs and other places it’s hard not to conclude that they are very wary of what he is going to write and that they’re willing to ramp up again, I’m not saying they are sock puppeting, but I know that they are aggressively tracking personal blogs and major sites and they try to see it all and they try to let reporters know that they see it all. At one point I was warned when I was inquiring about an interview request, I was told that they were watching my Tweets, well, good, they’re there to be watched, God bless, they are there for them as well. There is a notion that they are monitoring everything.

The way I am told it is done now is that it is through surrogates.

That excerpt prompted me to tweet, without any identification whatsoever, “Some people can defend themselves. Others need surrogates.” Perhaps indicative of a guilty conscious — or perhaps because I clearly hit my 2 cyber-bullies with one stone — Grayhammy IMMEDIATELY started accusing strangers who tweet of being my surrogate and under my mind control super-power:

The four people he lists thought he was an asshole, totally independent of anything I said, and felt the urgent need to pound a keyboard to tell him so. They sure didn’t need my prompting.
What does he do next? Lies again, of course. He connects me to comments made by people I don’t
know in order to try and smear me.

Let me repeat: I have no surrogates and no one is
under my mind control super-power. Furthermore, what others say has nothing to do with me. However, one does not need 6 degrees of separation to connect Grayhammy with Johnny Dollar and their comments to each other. They are BFFs forever!! 

Don’t believe me? Search the Twitter timeline of one and you’ll find RTs from the other, day after day, after day, after day. I supposed I should be flattered, but it’s stunning is how often it’s about me. What’s even more stunning is how many other people have also noticed the same thing:

Followed by . . .

Just for giggles . . .

. . . and then . . .

. . . and even . . .

But the message that sums up these several years of being cyber-bullied by Johnny Dollar and Grayhammy is this one:

At least Ashley Graham finally admits he analyzes every one of my electronic messages. He does this as a surrogate for Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar. Of course, Johnny Dollar acts as a surrogate for Fox “News.” To put it simply: Johnny Dollar outed my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I said things he didn’t like about Fox “News.” 
Whether Fox “News” paid him to do so is hardly the issue. What kind of despicable person would do such a despicable thing, merely over ideological differences of opinion? What kind of person would support people who do this? This is what Fox “News” needs to ask itself, and I don’t mean the building.