Tag Archives: Bill O’Reilly

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, April 14, 2014

April 14, 2014420, ABC News, Albert Einstein, Bill O'Reilly, Brit Hume, CERN, Fracking, Free the Weed, Hadron Collider, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Laura Ingraham, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Racism, Religion, Teabaggers, TwitterHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners! Today is the birthday of Albert Einstein, who is still being proven right by the Large Hadron Collider more than 100 years after unveiling his Theory of Relativity. Other events on this day:

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.

1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.

1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.

1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)

1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”.

1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.

1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

1984 – Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.

1994 – Timeline of Linux development: Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.

1995 – Space Exploration: Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Income inequality in the U.S. is now as bad as it was in aristocratic Europe. Are the bread riots finally coming?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Vending Machine
Unveiled In Colorado

Extravaganja 2014: Changing views on marijuana lead push toward legalization

The Five States Most Likely
to Next Legalize Marijuana

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

44 Percent of Twitter Accounts
Have Never Tweeted

GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE:

Ohio confirms “probable connection” between
fracking and earthquakes

ABC NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Meet ABC News’ Newest Contributor, Laura Ingraham

10 Moments That Illustrate The Right-
Wing Radio Host’s Fringe Viewpoints
And Disdain For Civil Discourse

BRIT HUME IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Brit Hume: Obama, Holder ‘Benefited Enormously’ From Being African American

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Says Jesus ‘Forged’ The Constitution! Seriously?

IN INNER SPACE:

The Large Hadron Collider
may have found a new
form of matter

How CERN’s Discovery
of Exotic Particles May
Affect Astrophysics

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA hosting two online events for Blood Moon

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, April 13, 2014

April 13, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, CIA, Cops Gone Wild, Detroit, Florida, Free the Weed, George W. Bush, GOP, Headlines Du Jour, Jerry Lewis, Loofah Lad, Mike Huckabee, Religion, Rupert Murdoch, Sean Hannity, Teabaggers, The FiveHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Butch Cassidy, born on this day in 1866. He knew a thing or two about the Headlines of Du Jour of yesteryear.

1613 – Samuel Argall captures Native American princess Pocahontas in Passapatanzy, Virginia to ransom her for some English prisoners held by her father. She is brought to Henricus as hostage.

1796 – The first elephant ever seen in the United States arrives from India.

1870 – The New York City Metropolitan Museum of Art is founded.

1873 – The Colfax massacre, in which more than 60 African Americans are murdered, takes place.

1919 – Eugene V. Debs is imprisoned at the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary in Atlanta, Georgia, for speaking out against the draft during World War I.

1943 – The Jefferson Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C., on the 200th anniversary of President Thomas Jefferson‘s birth.

1953 – CIA director Allen Dulles launches the mind-control program MKULTRA.

1960 – The United States launches Transit 1-B, the world’s first satellite navigation system.

1964 – At the Academy Awards, Sidney Poitier becomes the first African-American male to win the Best Actor award for the 1963 film Lilies of the Field.

1970 – An oxygen tank aboard Apollo 13 explodes, putting the crew in great danger and causing major damage to the spacecraft while en route to the Moon.

1974 – Western Union (in cooperation with NASA and Hughes Aircraft) launches the United States’ first commercial geosynchronous communications satellite, Westar 1.

1997 – Tiger Woods becomes the youngest golfer to win the Masters Tournament.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSTRUCTIONISTS:

Evidence of GOP Interference in
VW Election Is Now Overwhelming

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Conservatives Attack Obamacare,
Eye 2016 At High-Profile Summit

THE GEORGE W. BUSH LEGACY:

CIA and White House Under Pressure
After Senate Torture Report Leaks

Senate committee found CIA interrogations and detentions to be ‘brutal’ and urges administration to release report as quickly as possible.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida bill would allow hidden guns for
all in times of turmoil, widespread panic

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Iowa Governor Signs Away
Separation of Church and State

Pope Francis assumes
responsibility for priest sex abuse

ANOTHER EXCITING EPSIODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Former Ore. deputy, 42,
and 17-year-old girl missing