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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 11, 2014

With only 323 days left in the year, let’s take a quick look at some of the WikiWhackyWoo headlines of yesteryear:

55Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome. This clears the way for Nero to become Emperor.
1531Henry VIII of England is recognized as supreme head of the Church of England.
1752Pennsylvania Hospital, the first hospital in the United States, is opened by Benjamin Franklin.
1794 – First session of United States Senate opens to the public.
1916Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
1990Nelson Mandela is released from Victor Verster Prison outside Cape Town, South Africa after 27 years as a political prisoner.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour before they become old:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSTREPEROUS:

Frustrated With Obstruction Harry Reid Eyes Going Nuclear on ALL Republican Filibusters

Former Florida State Rep. Ana Rivas
Logan Leaves GOP Over Immigration,
Becomes A Democrat

BACK TO THE LAND!!!

If children lose contact with nature they won’t fight for it

BLAMING AND SHAMING THE VICTIM:

WSJ Editor: Intoxicated Sexual Assault Victims
Are Just As Guilty As Their Attackers

IN LGBT NEWS:

NFL Prospect Michael Sam Blazes Trail By Bravely Coming Out As An Openly Gay Man

Anti-Gay Restaurant Hilariously
Pranked By Gay Rights Supporters

BULLY CORNER:

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day


TODAY IN RELIGION:

This church holds naked services


The Cruelty of Creationism

A new documentary shows how biblical
fundamentalism imprisons the mind.


BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS!!!

International Olympic Committee defends arrests and beatings of LGBT activists

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Advocates
‘Discouraged,’ but not Deterred

Why Smoking Pot Makes You So Hungry

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

Wall Street Journal: Casinos, The Engines Of Detroit’s Economy, Start To Sputter

East-side Detroit groups gain
recognition for reimagining
use of vacant urban parcels

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Flips Blame
From AOL Exec
To Obamacare In
One Segment


FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox & Friends:
Is Walmart’s Viral Pro-Work Ad a Response to Dems Denigrating Labor?

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

WATCH: O’Reilly’s Jesse Watters Confronts Pelosi to
Get Her to Come on Show

LAURA INGRAHAM IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Laura Ingraham fights
with an entire Fox News
panel over immigration

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, February 9, 2014

As we celebrate Alice Walker‘s birthday (1944), let’s take a look at some headlines from yesteryear for this day:

474Zeno crowned as co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
1775American Revolutionary War: The British Parliament declares Massachusetts in rebellion.
1913 – A group of meteors is visible across much of the eastern seaboard of North and South America, leading astronomers to conclude the source had been a small, short-lived natural satellite of the Earth.
1950Second Red Scare: Senator Joseph McCarthy accuses the United States Department of State of being filled with Communists.
1964The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed Sullivan Show, performing before a “record-busting” audience of 73 million viewers.

And now, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FIRST, THE GOOD NEWS:

George Zimmerman’s Epic Boxing Match With DMX Has Been Canceled
The rapper will not get to stop, drop, shut Zimmerman down after all


IN LGBT NEWS:

Justice Department to
give married same-sex
couples equal protection


SO GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

‘Racial slurs’ used in more
than 10,000 tweets a day


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSFUCATION:

Republican Party wing creates
18 fake websites for Democrats

PASS THE POPCORN!!!

Tea Party Brings The Knives
Out For Mitch McConnell


TODAY IN RELIGION:

The Religious Right Sells the False Choice of the State or Christianity


FREE THE WEED!!!

Alaska Could Be The Next
State To Legalize Marijuana

This Is Why So Many Reasonable People Think Anti-Marijuana Crusaders Look Ridiculous

Marijuana Legalization Plan Stalls in New Mexico

BULLY CORNER:

Former high school bully congratulates gay victim after seeing marriage proposal online

Some bullies never seem to learn:
The Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

LOOFAH LAD CORNER:

Bill O’Reilly Is On The
Wrong Side Of The
Minimum Wage Debate

O’Reilly Sucks Up
To Ted Nugent

Bill O’Reilly: “I Believe
That John Boehner Is
Secretly A Democrat”

Geraldo Rivera Calls O’Reilly ‘President
Of Most Of The White Guys In America


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford ‘talking gibberish’ during late night B.C. pub visit
Mayor reportedly disappeared into tiny staff washroom for more than an hour, emerging incoherent and fidgety before ordering rounds of drinks.

Toronto police mostly quiet on visit to Mayor Rob Ford’s office

Somali group to use Gawker funds for mentoring


GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

NC parenting columnist’s 3-year-old son shoots 17-month-old sister
with dad’s gun

6-year-old Alabama boy
shot while Dad was trying
to unload his pistol


IN OUTER SPACE:

Red skies discovered on extreme brown dwarf


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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 3, 2013

While you have been sleeping the Not Now Silly news team was slipping and sliding the cyber-streets to bring back nothing but the best Headlines Du Jour. So, put on your bathrobe and slippers, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and settle in with the news you can use.

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:

Affluent, white residents of south Baton Rouge
propose seceding from city’s poor, black northern areas

Three white college students file racial discrimination
complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism
One of the students allegedly asked professor Shannon Gibney, “Why do we have to talk about this?”

► WAITING WHILE BLACK!!! ◄

Students arrested on Main Street in court

Coach Defends Students Arrested at Bus Stop

► GUARDIAN WHILE BLACK!!! ◄
Texas cops handcuff and take 13-year-old white girl from black guardians

Teen visiting Houston for dance classes taken into CPS custody

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Kansas City firefighter shot dead at his wedding reception by off-duty police officer

TODAY IN HEALTHCARE:

The Rise Of Obamacare McCarthyism

LGBT NEWS:

Philly church bans member over LGBT activism:
‘You are not in covenant with us’

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Fast-food workers plan strikes in 100 US cities this week

Low prices at Wal-Mart don’t have to mean low wages

TODAY IN GOD:

Poll: Faithful Catholics are an endangered species
“Zero percent of British Catholics now look to religious leaders for guidance as they make decisions”

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Slave artifacts found at Georgia highway project site

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OH NO!!! NOT AGAIN!!!”

RNC Tries to Cover Tracks Over Tweet Saying Racism has Ended

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Comedians Tell Pete Holmes About the Time
They Got Stoned and Went to a Fox News Taping

‘Fox And Friends’ Warns Of YMCA Swim Class For Muslim Girls

That HuffPo article provides the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how Johnny Dollar twists both the truth and the language to defend Fox “News”

Note Mark Koldy’s (aka Johnny Dollar) obvious deflection of Fox
“News” Islamophobia to a meaningless criticism of whether
@heatherfoxnews “lamented” and if she’s actually a F&F First host.

Maybe J$ is really a seal because it’s one red herring after another.

BTW:
Who is Johnny Dollar? Here’s all you need to know:

 

 Johnny Dollar Has Proven Himself To Be A Very Dangerous Person

 

 Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?

PASS THE POPCORN:

GOP infighting rages: McConnell blasts
Tea Party group for “utter nonsense”

The Senate minority leader says it’s time for
Republicans to “stand up” to Tea Party intimidation

IN THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS:

The AIDS Granny In Exile
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed the horrifying cause of an AIDS epidemic in rural China — and the ensuing cover-up — and became an enemy of the state. Now 85, she lives in New York without her family, without her friends, and without regrets.

THE RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; 2016:

‘Bizarre behavior’ could be risk to Christie White House run

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Doug Ford upset Kathleen Wynne is meeting with Norm Kelly
Premier Kathleen Wynne to bypass Mayor Rob Ford and meet Tuesday with his deputy, Norm Kelly, infuriating the mayor’s brother

Bill Blair has some explaining to do
It’s starting to look like the entire police investigation into the mayor may have been designed to embarrass him out of office

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s fibs about his record: Editorial
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford keeps misleading voters about his record.
He hasn’t transformed the city and doesn’t run it like a business.

SPEAKING OF TORONTO:

The 5 most influential buildings in Toronto
Christopher Hume: From office towers to a university,
these structures put the city on the architectural map

Unpacking My Toronto ► Iconic Buildings I Have Worked In

VIDEO DU JOUR


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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 2, 2013

Welcome to another thrill-packed edition of Headlines Du Jour. Today I am adding to the format slightly. When appropriate I will be printing quotes from the articles cited to give more context and/or irony. Today there happens to be two such headlines that deserved more context. So, let’s get right to the news while it’s still fresh.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Florida Tea Party Leader Bashes Gay GOP Group

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?


Santorum: Denying women birth control
coverage is a First Amendment right

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week

TODAY’S VOLLEY IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Target Canada will not be playing Christmas music

FREE THE WEED:

3 More Michigan Cities Free Up Marijuana

Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable.
We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic
and racism as opposed to science or medicine

Doob??? Really???

QUOTE: “One has to ask in these circumstances what the benefit to society is,” says University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob. Forty years ago, the Le Dain report also questioned the notion that overly harsh laws were harmless if not strictly enforced. Aside from the occasional outlandishly severe sentence, rational people lose respect for laws that are irrational, corroding the faith that citizens — especially young people — ought to place in institutions.

Prohibition Then and Now
A Not Now Silly investigative report

FREE THE CRACK:

Mayor Ford draws a crowd at Bills game

Rob Ford to start YouTube show: Why it won’t work

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators
use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

10 Mysteries we’ve solved in the past year…

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Tucker Carlson Backs Lara Logan on Benghazi:
‘Sometimes the Best Stories Have Flaky Sources’

IRONY ALERT!!!

QUOTE: “Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately,” Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson’s the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller “owes the senators and its readers an apology.”

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

Social media are a tool for Detroit Police
to answer critics, expand investigations

Enjoy Detroit TV Nostalgia? Catch ‘Remember When’ On WTVS Monday

BULLY CORNER:

Father Of Girl Who Committed Suicide Speaks
Out Against Ginger Bullying, ‘Kick A Ginger Day’

Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads
Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day
Another Not Now Silly investagative report

IN SOUTH FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami readies its new front porch: the $131 million Perez Art Museum

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal

SCIENCE CORNER:

Chinese Train that Never Stops

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Memories of You is my favourite song and Eubie Blake among my favourite artists
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Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar? ► The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Comment of the Day

Does Shep Smith of Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s tactics?

This isn’t a post about financial recompense. I did that one last month. We  already know that Fox “News” paid trolls and surrogates* to attack web sites critical of the fact-challenged network.

Not Now Silly highly suspects that Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar, who runs Johnny Dollar’s Place, was a recipient of Fox “News” largess. Nothing else really explains his almost 10-year obsession with NewsHounds and anyone having anything to do with it. Nobody is THAT dedicated without being paid to be so, especially since Koldys has to twist truth into a pretzel to do so.

No, this question of “support” isn’t about money. This blog post asks the musical question, ‘Does Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics in outing my sex life in his never-ending quest to defend Fox “News” as one of its surrogates?’

During a recent Twitter rage Mark Koldys admits he posted
details about my sex life on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. Then
he pretends that because he found it on the internet, it rose to the
level of being posted on his piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog.

Now, I always get a kick out of Johnny Dollar’s sleight-of-hand on Twitter. When someone is critical of Fox “News,” Dollar/Koldys responds with some lame variation of “Oh, did the building say that?” As if this silly red herring negates the valid criticism in the first place. That’s just the lawyer in Mark Koldys, twisting words again. Can you believe he was once a Michigan prosecutor? Is it any wonder people hate lawyers?

So, believe me when I say that I am not asking whether the physical building supports Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics. Despite what you may have heard, corporations are not people, my friends.

However, “some people say” corporations are peopled with people. “Some people say” that some of the people at Fox “News” actually have hearts and compassion. [The jury’s still out on Bully Boy Bolling.] That’s why I’m asking each and every person within Fox “News” to search deeply and ask themselves whether they support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics: posting information about my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I wrote about Fox “News” for NewsHounds.

Hypocrite, thy name is Koldys.

A tweet from October 25, 2013, in which Johnny Dollar attacks @DylanByers
for tweeting details of Shep Smith’s alternative lifestyle personal info. So, what
does that make Mark Koldys for printing details about my alternative
lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog? Because . . . journalism!

Imagine how you would feel, Greta Van Susteren, if you woke up to find details of your sex life posted on the innertubes, merely for a difference of opinion. Would Gretchen Carlson be pleased to see intimate details of her sex life splashed around the innertubes because people didn’t like her message?  I wonder how Shep Smith would like seeing details of his sex life as fodder for internet jokes because a someone didn’t like what he had to say. Oh! Wait!! That actually happened!!!

Yet the same MoFo — Johnny Dollar, aka Mark Koldys — who felt my alternative lifestyle was perfect material for his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog NOW believes that publishing personal details about someone’s sex life is … err … hitting below the belt.

Read a compendium of my NewsHounds columns, written under the nom de blog of Aunty Em Ericann, by clicking here.

So . . . When Greta Van Susteren or Shep Smith or any other Fox “News” personality supports Johnny Dollar with messages or Re-Tweets, they are, in reality, supporting Mark Koldys’ methods and tactics of outing people’s sex lives to destroy the messenger, simply because he couldn’t destroy the message.

There are no two ways to look at it. If you are supporting a hypocrite, you are a hypocrite yourself.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When Johnny Dollar posted a picture of NewsHounds’ Ellen on his blog, and was called on it, he justified it by saying anything found on the internet is FAIR USE, therefore fair game. Every picture I have ever posted of Mark Koldys I have found on the internet. FAIR USE, therefore fair game, right? So, please, Koldys Kiddies Klub, aka The Flying Monkey Squad, spare me the faux outrage that I have invaded his precious privacy. Especially after he posted details about my alternative lifestyle. I hadn’t realized there were rules in the politics of personal destruction.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When I posted a little movie montage comprised of photographs I found on the internet of Mark Koldys, he bleated to the officials of the YouTubery that I invaded his privacy, which threatened my account if I refused to take it down. That’s why I edited it to the following:

I just want to repeat that, because it would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking sick: He cites the law to justify his use of Ellen’s pic, but he uses the law to his advantage to complain to YouTube. That’s why he’s the Hypocrite Supreme. I ask again: Is it any wonder people hate lawyers? Especially weaselly lawyers like Mark Koldys?

Grumpy Cat, aka Mark Koldys,
with his family removed

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

He bleats like a stuck pig while he’s making up lies about me for his twitter surrogates. F’rinstance, contrary to his oft-repeated whine of victimization, it’s simply not true that I have used these pictures found on the internet to mock Mark Koldys’ dead parents. I never mocked his dead parents. I mocked Mark Koldys, the spoiled, stupid, fat fuck who outed my alternative lifestyle.

Yes, Koldys, I’ve mocked you and exposed you for the slimy piece of shit you are, the same way you exposed my alternative lifestyle on your piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. So, stop pretending that your shit don’t stink. Thanks to Not Now Silly people can smell you coming a mile away, Koldys.

You started this trip into the sewer. I’m just happy to follow you there and keep kicking your ass up and down these cyber-corridors as long as it continues to amuse me to do so.

Oh, and while you’re at it, say HI! to your surrogate Grayhammy. I can always tell when I’ve hit my target: When your surrogate Ashley Graham starts shoveling the bullshit on your behalf.

So says my eternal victimizer. If anyone would know, it’s him.

* LET’S HAVE A FRANK TALK ABOUT SURROGATES AND ASHLEY GRAHAM, AKA GRAYHAMMY:

David Folkenflik, who recently published his scathing biography Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, was recently interviewed by Joe Strupp at Media Matters for America for the article “Murdoch Biographer Folkenflik On News Corp. Opposition, Family Dysfunction, and Fox News’ Role As GOP “Referee.” This excerpt jumped out at me:

MMfA: You describe how Fox PR staffers created an elaborate series of dummy accounts to fill the comments sections of critical blog posts with pro-Fox arguments. When was that going on? Do you know if it continues? What blogs were being monitored?

DF: My sense was that I believe that after the Tim Arango incident [in which someone leaked personal information about Arango shortly after he had been threatened by the network for his reporting], that Murdoch who had known Arango a bit as a reporter was embarrassed by it when he was told about it and consulted some of his top aides and he sort of said ‘let’s pull back a bit,’ Fox was not as publicly vituperative after that. Certainly if you look at how [New York Magazine’s] Gabe Sherman has been treated on the air and in blogs and other places it’s hard not to conclude that they are very wary of what he is going to write and that they’re willing to ramp up again, I’m not saying they are sock puppeting, but I know that they are aggressively tracking personal blogs and major sites and they try to see it all and they try to let reporters know that they see it all. At one point I was warned when I was inquiring about an interview request, I was told that they were watching my Tweets, well, good, they’re there to be watched, God bless, they are there for them as well. There is a notion that they are monitoring everything.

The way I am told it is done now is that it is through surrogates.

That excerpt prompted me to tweet, without any identification whatsoever, “Some people can defend themselves. Others need surrogates.” Perhaps indicative of a guilty conscious — or perhaps because I clearly hit my 2 cyber-bullies with one stone — Grayhammy IMMEDIATELY started accusing strangers who tweet of being my surrogate and under my mind control super-power:

The four people he lists thought he was an asshole, totally independent of anything I said, and felt the urgent need to pound a keyboard to tell him so. They sure didn’t need my prompting.
What does he do next? Lies again, of course. He connects me to comments made by people I don’t
know in order to try and smear me.

Let me repeat: I have no surrogates and no one is
under my mind control super-power. Furthermore, what others say has nothing to do with me. However, one does not need 6 degrees of separation to connect Grayhammy with Johnny Dollar and their comments to each other. They are BFFs forever!! 

Don’t believe me? Search the Twitter timeline of one and you’ll find RTs from the other, day after day, after day, after day. I supposed I should be flattered, but it’s stunning is how often it’s about me. What’s even more stunning is how many other people have also noticed the same thing:

Followed by . . .

Just for giggles . . .

. . . and then . . .

. . . and even . . .

But the message that sums up these several years of being cyber-bullied by Johnny Dollar and Grayhammy is this one:

At least Ashley Graham finally admits he analyzes every one of my electronic messages. He does this as a surrogate for Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar. Of course, Johnny Dollar acts as a surrogate for Fox “News.” To put it simply: Johnny Dollar outed my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I said things he didn’t like about Fox “News.” 
Whether Fox “News” paid him to do so is hardly the issue. What kind of despicable person would do such a despicable thing, merely over ideological differences of opinion? What kind of person would support people who do this? This is what Fox “News” needs to ask itself, and I don’t mean the building.

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, November 21, 2013

Overnight, while you were sleeping, the Not Now Silly interns went into the back alleys and speakeasies of the urban internet. Meanwhile, trained coyotes swept the rural precincts. The task: Come back with today’s Headlines Du Jour, or don’t come back at all. We now have openings for new interns. Meanwhile, here are the headlines.

TODAY IN WINGNUTTIA:

► Clearly I’m going to hell . . . Twice ◄

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS” NEWS:


► They can’t claim him, so they’ll dis his party instead ◄

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

A sociologist interrogates the criminal-justice system, and tries to stay out of the spotlight.

As part of the Global War on Terror, the US has exported its border patrol model to the Caribbean.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

CANADIAN DRUG CORNER:


► You can’t make this shit up ►

CANADIAN BULLY CORNER:

SPHINCTER DU JOUR:

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Once in a lifetime galactic fireworks display due from Comet Ison
Comet Ison, first spotted a year ago, is now visible to the naked
eye and will continue to brighten as it hurtles toward the sun

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