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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 2, 2014

December 2, 2014420, AIDS, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, DNA, Ferguson, Free the Weed, Global Warming, GOP, Guns, Hackers, Hacking, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Penelope Spheeris, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to director Penelope Spheeris. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1775 – The USS Alfred becomes the first vessel to fly the Grand Union Flag (the precursor to the Stars and Stripes); the flag is hoisted by John Paul Jones.

1804 – At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French, the first French Emperor in a thousand years.

1823 – Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.

1845 – Manifest Destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.

1859 – Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.

1927 – Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.

1939 – New York City’s LaGuardia Airport opens.

1942 – World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

1954 – Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”.

1961 – In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.

1962 – Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war’s progress.

1970 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1982 – At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.

1993 – Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 30, 2014

November 30, 2014420, Anti-Social Networks, Brownie McGhee, Cops Gone Wild, Ebola, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, RacismHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Blues singer Brownie McGhee. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

3340 BC – Earliest believed record of an eclipse.

1829 – First Welland Canal opens for a trial run, 5 years to the day from the ground breaking.

1886 – The Folies Bergère stages its first revue.

1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.

1940 – Lucille Ball marries Desi Arnaz in Greenwich, Connecticut.

1947 – 1947–48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel.

1954 – In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of a human being hit by a rock from space.

1972 – Vietnam War: White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler tells the press that there will be no more public announcements concerning American troop withdrawals from Vietnam due to the fact that troop levels are now down to 27,000.

1982 – Michael Jackson‘s second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history.

1993 – U.S. President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (the Brady Bill) into law.

1995 – Official end of Operation Desert Storm.

1999 – In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies.

2004 – Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television’s biggest game show winnings.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

‘GO BACH TO AFRICA’: School adds security after girl’s racist Ferguson tweet explodes

Father Threatens ‘Sh*tstorm,’ Sues School For Teaching Daughter About Islam

IN LGBT NEWS:

North Carolina Lesbian Couple Finds Their Address Labeled With Anti-Gay Slur On Google Maps

Finland Legalizes Same-Sex Marriage

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Oklahoma Toddler Shoots,
Kills Mother With Handgun

Claremore man shot,
killed during family
Thanksgiving gathering

Rifle-touting ammosexuals trail Ferguson
protesters in Dallas to ‘protect private property’

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

Isolated Incidents? 40 Cops in 30 Days Racked Up Dozens of Charges of Child Rape and Sexual Abuse

Wisc. Police Come To Man’s Home, Arrest
Him For Calling Them Racists On Facebook

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF DENVER COPS GONE WILD:

Denver cop demoted after viral video
shows him repeatedly shoving Rockies fan

Denver cops trip pregnant woman face first
into pavement as they pound boyfriend’s head

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana fights Alzheimer’s
disease, new study indicates

The make-or-break marijuana state

All eyes in the global marijuana legalization movement are on Uruguay’s election

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Social media data is RIDDLED with
human behaviour errors, boffins warn

IN INNER SPACE:

What about Ebola vaccine?

The Mysterious Antikythera Mechanism
Is More Ancient Than We Thought

Graphene Better than Kevlar and Steel as Body Armor

New ‘Super-Repellent’ Material Could Protect Medical Implants

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA surprises holiday shoppers with Black Hole Friday

Astronauts on the
International Space Station
Can Now Enjoy Espresso

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 25, 2014

November 25, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Ferguson, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer Space, Paul Desmond, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello again Headliners.Today’s birthday boy is Jazz composer and sax player Paul Desmond. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England.

1758 – French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Later, Fort Pitt will be built nearby and grow into modern Pittsburgh.

1783 – American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.

1876 – American Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife‘s sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

1915 – Albert Einstein presents the field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.

1926 – The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving Day. Twenty-seven twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.

1947 – Red Scare: The “Hollywood Ten” are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios.

1952 – Agatha Christie‘s murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London. It will become the longest continuously-running play in history.
1960 – The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated.

1981 – Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

1984 – Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid‘s “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.

1986 – Iran–Contra affair: U.S. Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua.

1999 – The United Nations establishes the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women to commemorate the murder of three Mirabal sisters for resistance against the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republic.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FERGUSON FOLLOW-UP:

Obama on Ferguson: U.S. ‘has
more work to do’ on race relations

Chris Rock, LeBron James and Other Celebrities React to Ferguson Decision

Protesters turn out in cities across
US after Ferguson decision

Protesters across the country
react to grand jury’s decision
not to indict Darren Wilson

Violence erupts after Ferguson
grand jury announcement

Fires burn in Ferguson, gunshots heard in streets

Buildings Burned, Businesses Trashed in Ferguson Protests

Darren Wilson, recalling shooting, said Michael Brown looked like demon

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Northern Ireland: DUP to introduce bill to
exempt religious people from equality laws

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

Soon-To-Be Nevada Speaker Said Democrats Are
The “Master” Of The “Simple Minded Darkies”

Nevada Speaker-Elect Ira Hansen Steps Down
After Racist And Sexist Writings Emerge

IN LGBT NEWS:

Country Music Star Ty
Herndon Comes Out as Gay

“Today I get to tell the world that I’m an out,
proud, and happy gay man,” says Ty Herndon.

Country Singer Billy Gilman Comes Out as
Gay: ‘It’s Time to Be Honest and Truthful’

Michael Phelps’ alleged girlfriend
says she was born intersex

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Former Oakwood officer indicted

How ‘aggressive and abusive tactics’ by police
put an innocent man through 2 murder trials

FREE THE WEED!!!

GOP plotting to block DC’s new pot law

Marijuana advocates hope Maine goes legal next

U.P. prosecutor’s ‘diatribe’ about marijuana ruins case

IN INNER SPACE:

Mysterious ‘Glow Worm’
Discovered in the Peruvian Rainforest

IN OUTER SPACE:

UK Announces First Mission To The Moon

Stephen Hawking’s work just might
explain our place in the cosmos

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, November 20, 2014

November 20, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, DNA, facebook, Free the Weed, GBT, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Joe Walsh, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, TwitterHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is Rocker Joe Walsh. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

1820 – An 80-ton sperm whale attacks the Essex (a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts) 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. (Herman Melville‘s 1851 novel Moby-Dick is in part inspired by this story.)

1945 – Nuremberg trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

1947 – The Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who becomes the Duke of Edinburgh, at Westminster Abbey in London.

1962 – Cuban missile crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.

1969 – Vietnam War: The Plain Dealer publishes explicit photographs of dead villagers from the My Lai Massacre in Vietnam.

1969 – Occupation of Alcatraz: Native American activists seize control of Alcatraz Island until being ousted by the U.S. Government on June 11, 1971.

1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1992 – In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

2001 – In Washington, D.C., U.S. President George W. Bush dedicates the United States Department of Justice headquarters building as the Robert F. Kennedy Justice Building, honoring the late Robert F. Kennedy on what would have been his 76th birthday.

2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.

Now today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Texas man sentenced to 15 years in
brutal attack on gay man he met online

Houston restaurant apologizes to customers
who complained ‘f*ggot’ waiter was too gay

Florida AG appeals same-sex marriage
rulings in state, federal appeals courts

Louisiana bus driver detains gay student to make
him repent for ‘sinful ways’ of homosexuality

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

Post-Racial America: Fire Chief Uses N-Word To Describe Black Family While Refusing Them Help

White Students At St. Louis Area High
School Wear Blackface During Football Game

Students Upset Over School Admin’s
Alleged Racial ‘Worst Nightmare’ Tweet

Racial gap in U.S. arrest rates: ‘Staggering disparity’

Fox News Readers Go Full-On Racist Over New Darren Wilson Recordings

FREE THE WEED!!!

Why Congress should legalize pot

Bob Marley, the reggae king of cannabis,
may soon have his own line of pot

Legal marijuana is ‘inevitable,’
says California attorney general

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Creationists say theoretical physicist Lawrence Krauss is like Hitler: ‘Very, very terrifying’

The Mormon Church’s
odd explanation for
Joseph Smith’s polygamy

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops Assault And Arrest Woman for No Reason, Leave Her Cuffed and Naked in Public for 30 Minutes

Missouri cops beat 80-year-old hearing impaired veteran for not getting off of his tractor

Kentucky police chief found passed out drunk
behind the wheel in Taco Bell drive-through

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

The Fall of Facebook

Facebook at Work? Not So Fast.

Twitter’s powerful new search
engine includes every tweet ever sent

IN INNER SPACE:

How DNA Is Reshaping How We
See Ourselves–and Our History

UN: ‘Carbon emissions must be cut to zero’

How Much DNA Do Distant Cousins Actually Share?

Scientists Collect DNA To Clone Woolly Mammoth, Like A Real-Life ‘Jurassic Park’

IN OUTER SPACE:

A mysterious Russian space object
could be the return of the ‘satellite killer’

Philae lander detects organic
molecules on surface of comet

No, it’s not a big deal that Philae found ‘organic molecules’ on a comet

NASA Pluto Probe to Wake From Hibernation Next Month

More Mysterious Objects Spotted In Titan’s Seas

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 18, 2014

November 18, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Fracking, Free the Weed, Guns, Hank Ballard, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer SpaceHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to R&B singer Hank Ballard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

326 – The old St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.
1210 – Pope Innocent III excommunicates Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV.

1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam (One Faith).

1626 – St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated.

1865 – Mark Twain‘s short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County is published in the New York Saturday Press.

1883 – American and Canadian railroads institute five standard continental time zones, ending the confusion of thousands of local times.

1926 – George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, “I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.”

1928 – Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey’s birthday.

1961 – United States President John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder-suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo J. Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.

1988 – War on Drugs: U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill into law allowing the death penalty for drug traffickers.

2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health
that the state’s ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives
the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts
the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to
same-sex couples.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Catholic Church Argues It Doesn’t Have to Show Up in Court Because Religious Freedom

Atheist and proud: Former adult
star Asia Carrera wears ‘Pastafarian’
colander for Utah license photo

These charts finally explain
where science denial comes from

Reza Aslan trashes biblical literalism: The
gospels are absolutely replete with errors

FL Schools Allow Bibles So Satanic Temple Hands Out Coloring Books

IN LGBT NEWS:

Michigan Tells Gay Couples Their Marriages Basically ‘Never Existed’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Mich. medical marijuana card holder commits
suicide after police ‘witch hunt’ over pot ‘butter’

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

Fracking linked to Alberta
earthquakes, study indicates

MORE SHOOTOUTS AT THE OK CORRAL:

13-year-old shot dead by gun that
accidentally went off in nearby hotel room

Mother of 9-year-old girl shot
by brother charged with child
endangerment, Newark police say

Boy, 10, Accidentally Shoots Himself in The Face Inside SUV: Police

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Caught on tape: Mass. police officer with
history of abuse complaints attacks suspect

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Behind closed doors, Ford, UPS,
and Visa push for net neutrality

IN INNER SPACE:

Can the long-extinct woolly mammoth be cloned?

IN OUTER SPACE:

Elusive Dark Matter Could
Be Detected By GPS: Study

Humans on Mars by 2035? NASA’s sci-fi dream could be reality

The Crisis of Cosmology – Part one

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 16, 2014

November 16, 2014420, Anti-Social Networks, Cops Gone Wild, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Eric Bolling, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, W.C. HandyHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

1776 – American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba” Louis Riel is executed for treason.

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1940 – Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.

1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Hoover’s letter to MLK

POST RACIAL ‘MERKA:

Shocking Find: Yale Prof Unearths Notorious Letter Hoover’s FBI Sent
to MLK, Urging Him to Kill Himself

The Uncensored FBI Letter to MLK
Found Hidden in the National Archives

Civil Rights Leader Ruby Bridges
Says America Is Divided By Race

New England Patriots Twitter
Thank You Includes N-Word

North Carolina School Pulls Racist
Question About ‘LaShamanda’s Big Bootie’ After Parental Outrage

White People Don’t Get It Because They Never Had to

Whites See Blacks as Superhuman

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Greece, NY, Police Enter and Shoot Home Owner Because ‘Things Didn’t Look Right’

‘I thought he was going to shoot me.’
Unsuspecting middle school students
terrified by active shooter drill.

Police expert: War on terror has turned our cops
into occupying armies — and we’re the enemy

FREE THE WEED!!!

Legalizing marijuana
could benefit NY state

Marijuana transportation
issues up in the air
following legalization vote

Marijuana legalization trend
calls for research and care

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Kirk Cameron: Schools should celebrate
Christmas because ‘education is inherently religious’

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Open carry advocate to
moms against guns: ‘Put a
d*ck in your mouth and shut up’

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

US government planes collecting
phone data, report claims

AT&T Upholds Customer
Trust over ‘Supercookies’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Eric Bolling: ‘Man Up, Stewart’
and Admit You Were ‘Grubered’

Elisabeth Hasselbeck returns to ‘Fox & Friends’ after
a month’s absence, reveals she had tumor removed

Friday Fox Follies Soldiers On

IN INNER SPACE:

Bristol-Myers immunotherapy shows
promise to replace chemo for melanoma

Russian Scientists Explore Mysterious Siberian Hole

From the perfectly round forests of New
Zealand to the astonishing river patterns
along the Bay of Bengal: Nasa reveals stunning
images of Earth’s last untouched sanctuaries

New NASA map shows Earth bombarded by asteroids

IN OUTER SPACE:

Philae Falls Silent as Batteries Die;
Initial Phase of Comet Mission Completed

Uranus might be full of surprises

Magnetic Fields on Ancient Meteorites
May Hold Clues to the Formation of Planets

Leonid Meteor Shower Peaks Monday: How to See It

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, November 13, 2014

November 13, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Microsoft, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Philae, Religion, Terry ReidHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners!!! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Terry Reid, who gave up the chance to become Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, so he could tour as an opening act for Cream. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1553 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I.
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 – Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York’s Broadway Theatre.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami‘s first Cuban-born mayor.

1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.

1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.

2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

HISTORY IN THE MAKING:

Philae probe becomes first
spacecraft from Earth
to land on a comet

Philae Probe Transmits
Data From Comet 317
Million Miles Away

Rosetta mission to comet
67P ‘revolutionary’

Comet chasers: The scientists behind the Rosetta mission

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Now Facing a Whopping 32
Counts of Sexual Assault After
3 More Women Come Forward

Hero Cops Assault and Arrest Two Marines Who
Were Giving First Aid to an Unconscious Man

New York Deputy Slaps Citizen for Not Allowing him to Search Car

TODAY IN RELIGION:

The book that claims Jesus had a wife and
kids — and the embattled author behind it

Pope Francis Demotes
Outspoken Conservative Cardinal

Poll: Brits View Atheists As More Moral Than
Believers, Religion More Harmful Than Good

Bryan Fischer Suggests Ethnic Cleansing
Of Native Americans Justified By God

FREE THE WEED!!!

Why 2016 Will be Marijuana’s
Most Important Year Ever

Stop playing politics with
teens’ brains and legalize pot

Marijuana Patient Sues After Firm Won’t Hire Her

Dear Florida: You Have Been Duped

Marijuana May Mean Ticket, Not Arrest, in New York City

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Microsoft fixes ’19-year-old’
bug with emergency patch

Don’t get too excited: Big Telco does not
lose on issues as big as network neutrality

Facebook Messenger userbase
reaches 500 million per month

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK OUT, my friend! Masque Attack!

NON-jailbroken iOS 7, 8 sorta open to password stealing etc – FireEye

IN INNER SPACE:

Scientists Unearth Ice Age
Children’s Grave in Alaska

Monster Storm Becomes
Strongest on Record for Alaska

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers dissect the aftermath of a Supernova

NASA’s 1st Orion Complete
and Ready to Roll to Launch Pad

NASA confirms ‘fireball’ lights up Texas sky

Extreme storms flare up
on Uranus for first time ever

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 11, 2014

November 11, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Free the Weed, George S. Patton, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Religion, Remembrance Day, Veterans DayHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today we commemorate soldiers past and present who fought in wars both large and small. It’s also the birthday of George S. Patton, born on this day in 1885. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler’s Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.

1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

1864 – American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.

1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.

1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.

1975 – Independence of Angola.

1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Now Facing a Whopping 32 Counts of Sexual
Assault After 3 More Women Come Forward

Hero Cops Assault and Arrest Two Marines Who
Were Giving First Aid to an Unconscious Man

New York Deputy Slaps Citizen for Not
Allowing him to Search Car (Updated III)

TODAY IN RELIGION:

The book that claims Jesus had a wife and
kids — and the embattled author behind it

Pope Francis Demotes
Outspoken Conservative Cardinal

Poll: Brits View Atheists As More Moral Than
Believers, Religion More Harmful Than Good

Bryan Fischer Suggests Ethnic Cleansing
Of Native Americans Justified By God

FREE THE WEED!!!

Stop playing politics with
teens’ brains and legalize pot

Dear Florida: You Have Been Duped

Marijuana May Mean Ticket,
Not Arrest, in New York City

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Don’t get too excited: Big Telco does not
lose on issues as big as network neutrality

Facebook Messenger userbase
reaches 500 million per month

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK
OUT, my friend! Masque Attack!

IN INNER SPACE:

Monster Storm Becomes
Strongest on Record for Alaska

Scientists Unearth Ice Age
Children’s Grave in Alaska

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers dissect the
aftermath of a Supernova

NASA’s 1st Orion Complete
and Ready to Roll to Launch Pad

NASA confirms ‘fireball’ lights up Texas sky

Comet chasers: The scientists behind the Rosetta mission

Free astronomy lessons for the starry-eyed

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 9, 2014

November 9, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Hedy Lamarr, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to inventor, singer, and actress Hedy Lamarr. Here are more Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.

1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Federal Appeals Court Upholds
Four States’ Same-Sex Marriage Bans

6th Circuit Court of Appeals splits with other
federal appeals courts, upholding Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio, and Tennessee’s bans. The decision sets up
a likely Supreme Court showdown over the issue.

GLAAD to Media: Stop Giving Religious Bigots a Platform

FREE THE WEED!!!

Legalization limbo in D.C.: Republican
congress will have final say on city pot law

Medical marijuana loses to entrepreneurial greed

What’s next for the marijuana movement

Fred Grimm: Florida didn’t quite
say no to medical marijuana

New Marijuana Initiatives Loom as 3 Win Approval

Going to Pot

Florida was supposed to be the first state in the South
to legalize medical marijuana. What went wrong?

FREE THE WEEDERS!!!

People Are Already Being
Released From Detention Because
Of California’s Ballot Initiative

Rookie DT Ra’Shede Hageman Tries
Finding Marijuana On Instagram

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Iowa’s Joni Ernst: Obamacare is bad because people should rely on churches for help

‘Jesus, blah, blah!’ Watch this sassy little
girl tell a street preacher to shut his piehole

American Bible-Thumper Travels
To Scandinavia, Freaks Out After
Discovering How Secular They Are

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

C-SPAN Caller On Air: ‘Republicans
Hate That N***er Obama’ (VIDEO)

TV Station Accuses Mayor of ‘Gang Signs’ For
Pointing Index Finger With Black Volunteer

EXCLUSIVE: Black Lawyer Thought Money
Insulated His Family From Bigotry [VIDEO]

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: Minorities fail because they embrace a ‘thug ethic’

It is all still about race: Obama hatred,
the South and the truth about GOP wins

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

Citizens United boss: Supreme Court ruling handed midterm elections to Republicans

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Conviction Thrown Out For
Alleged Cop Killer, “Misplaced”
Evidence was Found in Cop’s Garage

Man Calls 911 For Chest Pains, Cops
Show Up Beat Him and Threaten to Kill Him

Police Officer Accidentally Shoots
7-Year-Old Girl On School Trip to Police HQ

IN INNER SPACE:

Amphibious ‘Sea Monster’ Discovered In China Is Missing Piece Of Evolutionary Puzzle

IN OUTER SPACE:

Europe set to make space
history with comet landing

Birth of Planets Revealed in Astonishing
Detail in ALMA’s ‘Best Image Ever’

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, Novermber 6, 2014

November 6, 20142014 Election, Cops Gone Wild, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer SpaceHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to March King John Philip Sousa. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1928 – Arnold Rothstein,
the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded
on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George “Hump”
McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.

1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper “A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation” to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).

1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.

1991 – The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished.

1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

Let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ELECTION AFTERMATH:

GOP Faces Dramatically Tougher
New Battle Ground in 2016

Gerrymandering Rigged the
2014 Elections for GOP Advantage

Election 2014: President
Obama Is Not a Happy Warrior

The White House Blasts Senate Democrats For Running Away From Obama

How Much of a Difference Did New Voting
Restrictions Make in Yesterday’s Close Races?

The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem

Sarah Palin Puts McConnell On Notice And
Places Republicans On The Path To Destruction

Stream of checks from big donors breaks records in Florida

IN LGBT NEWS:

Leading evangelical ethicist David Gushee
is now pro-LGBT. Here’s why it matters.

NYC pastor: Starbucks is flavoured
with the semen of sodomites

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Police charge 90-year-old man,
2 pastors with feeding homeless

Wisconsin police deploy armored vehicle over
dog poop dispute, SWAT team executes dog

IN INNER SPACE:

Ancient Stone Circles In Middle East
Have Archaeologists Scratching Their Heads

IN OUTER SPACE:

Huge Asteroid Nearly Hits Earth

Avalanche on an asteroid, due to close pass with Earth

Radical New Quantum Theory Says Other Universes Affect Our Own

Hubble Spies Spooky ‘Ghost Light’ Of Dead Galaxies

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GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

OUR WIRED WORLD:

CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF DENVER COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

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TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

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IN LGBT NEWS:

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MORE SHOOTOUTS AT THE OK CORRAL:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

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ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

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FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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FREE THE WEED!!!

FREE THE WEEDERS!!!

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

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD: