Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 30, 2013

As we count down the days to the New Year, Not Now Silly is grateful for headline collecting robot drones. My New Year’s resolution is to get more headline collecting robot drones. Meanwhile, here are today’s Headlines Du Jour.

OH! STOP!! MY!!! SIDES!!!!

Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President
Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message

FREE THE WEED!!!

10 things to know about nation’s first
recreational marijuana shops in Colorado

NOT SUPER-VILLAINS:

Four robbery suspects arrested for
what LAPD deems ‘felony stupid’

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Toronto police officer strips naked “hundreds” of people
Const. Sasa Sljivo told court on Dec. 11 he has stripped “hundreds” of people
completely naked, which is against police policy as laid out by the Supreme Court.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida prostitute mistakenly texts on-duty deputy for sex: sheriff
Schquita Alaysha Warren arranged a hookup at a Pensacola Motel 6, realizing
too late she’d sexted an Escambia County investigator instead of her client.

NSA IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

The NSA Has A Way To Intercept Computers Mid-Shipment And Install Spyware On Them

NASA IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

NASA’s twitchy bouncy roboball
may explore Titan one day

TECH IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

The Biggest Tech Flops of 2013

DRONE IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

I worked on the US drone program. The
public should know what really goes on

Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits
of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn’t)

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Coconut Grove’s 32nd Annual King Mango Strut

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