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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