Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 9, 2013

As the world sleeps Not Now Silly sends out its News Team to collect nothing but the finest in headlines for your reading pleasure. That’s how you can pour yourself a cup of coffee and start your day with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Texas campus cop empties gun on unarmed student: ‘Oh, you’re gonna shoot me?’

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Founding Fathers’ Words Reveal 2nd
Amendment Was… To Preserve Slavery?

AT&T rejects ‘transparency report’ shareholder
demand; FBI can secretly turn your laptop camera on

WHAT’S THIS YOUNGER GENERATION COMING TO?

Student expelled after threatening to kill, cook classmate

SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook Considers Adding
a ‘Sympathize’ Button

For when you’ve seen something … but can’t ‘like’ it.

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Westboro Baptists ‘booking flights’ for Johannesburg to protest Mandela’s funeral

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

What Ruin Porn Means to a City Rebuilding Itself

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

You think Ford is bad?
Get a grip. He’s hardly the only
mayor to have disgraced his office

IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

Rock ‘n’ roll rip-off:
Failed rockstar, big spender

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”

Surprising Friendship Between Norwegian Dog And Wild Fox

OH! CANADA!!!

Potentially damaging Jackpine oilsands
mine expansion OK’d by Ottawa

Environment minister says negative environmental
effect is ‘justified in the circumstances’

Harper, tell the truth
Stephen Harper may be about to become the Richard Nixon of Canada.

John Ivison: As PM prepares for Israel trip, speculation
abounds: Will he resign after he returns?

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