Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, November 18, 2013

Another work week begins and the Not Now Silly army of interns have just returned with all the latest Headlines Du Jour for your reading pleasure.

FLOODING IN THE ARABIAN DESERT:

Saudi capital hit with rare floods, residents urged to stay indoors

Crazy Photos Are Coming Out Of Saudi
Arabia After Rain Leaves Capital Flooded

FLOODING IN BOSTON STRONG:

FEMA’s new flood map reaches deep into city

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

Why Detroit’s lights went out, and how the city plans to get them back on

Finley: Will downtown Detroit be a white enclave?

IN LGBT NEWS:

Liz Cheney shrugs off lesbian sister’s call marriage rights: ‘We disagree’

Mary Cheney Fires Back at Sister’s Anti-Gay Marriage Comments (Again)

TODAY’S FOX “NEWS” LIE:

Fox Politicizes The Kennedy Assassination:
JFK Was A Conservative Murdered By A Liberal

Fox News marks 50th anniversary of JFK’s
death by painting him as ‘quite conservative’

 

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

Cobb taken into custody for toting guns in Leith

Craig Cobb: White supremacist told he is 14% African in televised DNA test

 

► VIDEO BONUS ◄

 

 



America’s angriest white men: Up close
with racism, rage and Southern supremacy

Up close with small-town white rage, with bitter, scary men
who feel left behind by economic and cultural change

Chad Palmer, Georgia Deputy Sheriff, Suspended
After Dressing In Blackface With Inmate Stripes

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Company fines couple $3.5k for posting negative review

Overboard cases on cruise lines often under-reported to public

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED/IT WAS 50 YEARS AGO:


 

In A Prophetic Letter, A Dallas Citizen Begged JFK Not To Visit

Stabilized Footage of the JFK Assassination Is Unsettlingly Real

► VIDEO BONUS ◄

 

ANOTHER NEIGHBOUR FROM HELL:

San Pedro Man Catches Neighbor Having Sex With His Dog

BOOK CORNER:

The Miami Book Fair International celebrates
its 30th anniversary when it opens on Sunday

TODAY IN GOD:

Gospel of selfishness pervades American Christianity
The philosophers of greed now use Christianity as their cover story

TODAY IN SCIENCE:

Sun will ‘flip upside down’ within weeks, says NASA

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford speaks to Fox News
Ford opens up to John Roberts from Fox News

Rob Ford might seek injunction to stop council meeting: Lawyer
Mayor Rob Ford consults lawyer George Rust D’Eye over council’s plan to transfer his powers and budget to deputy mayor Norm Kelly.

Ford his own worst enemy
Toronto’s mayor has only himself to blame for his political destruction

DISCRIMINATION DU JOUR:

For many Roma in Western Europe, no option to ‘go home’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

► Making M.C. Esher’s impossible objects possible ►

 

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