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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 29, 2014

March 29, 2014Detroit, Dirk McQuickly, Eric Idle, facebook, Florida, FloriDuh, Fox News, Geraldo Rivera, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Religion, Rob Ford, The RutlesHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Dirk McQuickly, also known as Eric Idle. As one of the members of Monty Python, Idle loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany’s illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.

Let’s waste no more time and get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

10 Poverty Myths, Busted
No, single moms aren’t the problem.
And neither are absentee dads.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pastor charged with sexual
battery claims devil ‘motivated
his mind’ in motel attack

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

Study cites Metro Detroit
as high-tech hotbed

French street artist, 23,
painted worldwide; why was
he found shot dead in Detroit?

THE ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

Facebook “Friend”
Burglarizes Vacationers: Police

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

400-lb. Florida cop charged with posing as teen girl online to get sex pics from boys

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Prankster wants to hire someone to follow Rob Ford around with a tuba

◄ BONUS: CRACK MAYOR CARTOON ►

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: Crooked politicians on the Democratic side ‘tend to be ethnic’

IN INNER SPACE:

Prisoners ‘could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

This is EXACTLY how all the 24-hour tee vee news
channels covered the Malaysian Airliner tragedy:

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, March 28, 2014

March 28, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Climate Change, Detroit, DNA, Falafel King, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Polio, Sarah Palin, SCOTUSHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! It’s the King of Jazz’s birthday. Paul Whiteman is the orchestra leader who commissioned George Gershwin to write Rhapsody in Blue and hired Bing Crosby as his boy singer back in 1926. George, along with his brother Ira, loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom in exchange for leaving.
1776 – Juan Bautista de Anza finds the site for the Presidio of San Francisco.
1802 – Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers discovers 2 Pallas, the second asteroid known to man.
1854 – Crimean War: France and Britain declare war on Russia.
1871 – The Paris Commune is formally established in Paris.
1930 – Constantinople and Angora change their names to Istanbul and Ankara.
1969 – The McGill français movement protest occurs, the second largest protest in Montreal’s history with 10,000 trade unionists, leftist activists, college students, and some McGill students at McGill’s Roddick Gates. The majority of the protesters are arrested.
1979 – A coolant leak at the Three Mile Island‘s Unit 2 nuclear reactor outside Harrisburg, Pennsylvania leads to the core overheating and a partial melt down.
1990 – President George H. W. Bush posthumously awards Jesse Owens the Congressional Gold Medal.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Mozillagate grows

LGBT RIP

SCOTUS WATCH:

A Decision In Favor Of Hobby Lobby Will
Equal a License For Religious Tyranny

FREE THE WEED!!!

Medical Marijuana User Relieved
He Can Still Grow At Home

These States Are Ready To Break The Marijuana Taboo In The Conservative South

Industrial hemp research
bill passes in Nebraska

Legalize Canada: New Activist
Group Targets Key Ridings To
Elect Pro-Marijuana Candidates

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOYIM:

The Sheldon Primary:
No Welcome Mat for the Tea Party

ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WORLD:

India officially declared polio-free

CLIMATE CHANGE CORNER:

Weathermen Blown Away (Literally) By Massive Blizzard

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Former CEO: There Is
No One Representing
Low-Wage Workers

$1 trillion student loan
debt widens US wealth gap

‘Nuns on the Bus’ Leader
on Income Inequality

Michelle Kaeser: Debunking
an income inequality myth

Fixing one driver of inequality may hit
close to home for some progressives

It’s okay: Only one of them was shot!

PALIN POLITICAL WATCH:

2016 report: Sarah Palin’s possible
presidential run gaining traction

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

No Suprise: Detroit Listed as
Most Segregated City in America

◄ BONUS ►
Top 10 Most Segregated Cities in the U.S.

The Falafel King: Outstanding!
East Room, White House

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Congresswoman Barbara Lee Responds To O’Reilly’s “Divisive” “Race Hustler” Attack

Chris Hayes: ‘Bill O’Reilly
Is a Pretty Accomplished
Race-Baiter Himself’

O’Reilly Blames Ignorant
Americans For Obama’s
Positive Poll Result

IN INNER SPACE:

In a first, scientists create
artificial chromosome
Scientists have built from scratch the
world’s first synthetic chromosome
of a eukaryote, incorporating it
into brewer’s yeast.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Mars-Bound Comet Sprouts Twin
Jets in Hubble Telescope Photos

Scientists solve riddle
of celestial archaeology

Capturing Halley’s Comet:
An Astronomy Tale

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 27, 2014

March 27, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, General Motors, Gloria Swanson, GM, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Hobby Lobby, John Boehner, Koch Brothers, Loofah Lad, SCOTUSHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners! Today’s the birthday of Gloria Swanson, who loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1513 – Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León reaches the northern end of The Bahamas on his first voyage to Florida.

1613 – The first English child born in Canada at Cuper’s Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.

1625 – Charles I becomes King of England, Scotland and Ireland as well as claiming the title King of France.

1851 – First reported sighting of the Yosemite Valley by Europeans.

1886 – Famous Apache warrior, Geronimo, surrenders to the U.S. Army, ending the main phase of the Apache Wars.

1915 – Typhoid Mary, the first healthy carrier of disease ever identified in the United States, is put in quarantine, where she would remain for the rest of her life.

1958 – Nikita Khrushchev becomes Premier of the Soviet Union.

1980 – Silver Thursday: A steep fall in silver prices, resulting from the Hunt Brothers attempting to corner the market in silver, led to panic on commodity and futures exchanges.

1990 – The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí, an anti-Castro propaganda network, to Cuba.

1998 – The Food and Drug Administration approves Viagra for use as a treatment for male impotence, the first pill to be approved for this condition in the United States.

Today’s Headlines Du Jour is just waiting for you:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

Republican Senators Slam John Boehner For Blocking Unemployment Benefits Extension

THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH:

Koch Power Raised Gasoline Prices
By 40 Cents A Gallon Overnight

Here’s the Latest Conservative TV Ad in
Michigan Attacking Gary Peters and Obamacare

SCOTUS WATCH:

How the Supreme Court Justices Reacted
to Today’s Hobby Lobby Arguments

Justices Ginsburg, Sotomayor and
Kagan come out swinging against
Hobby Lobby corporate religion claim

Sen. Barbara Boxer Wonders Why Hobby Lobby Defenders Aren’t Complaining About Viagra

Hobby Lobby’s Shoppers Find New Hobby In Lobbying Against Hobby Lobby

16 Actual Supreme Court Cases with Hilariously Ridiculous Names

DEREGULATION? YOU’RE DRIVING IT:

WSJ Reports GM Expected Drivers With Bad Ignitions To Coast Out Of Traffic

NYT: General Motors Misled Grieving Families About Lethal Ignition Switch

FREE THE WEED:

Confessions Of A Pot-Smoking Police Officer, Firefighter And Youth Pastor

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

Downtown Detroit office building vacancy rate drops 7.7 percentage points from 2012

First new apartment project
in Detroit’s business district
since 1992 gets DDA’s OK

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Dimwits: Oil Spills Are Just Distractions-Just do the Keystone Pipeline Already!

Fox Analyst Bizarrely Claims Obamacare Contraception Coverage Includes Euthanasia

Fox News Latest: Birth Control Coverage
Will Kill Granny And Cause Abortions!

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Goes On A Humongous Rant About Flight 370

AN ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

Your new Facebook ‘friend’ may be the FBI

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers Discover First Saturn-Like
Ring System Around Asteroid Chariklo

New Dwarf Planet Found at Solar System’s
Edge, Hints at Possible Faraway ‘Planet X’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 23, 2014

March 23, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Detroit, DNA, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LAPD, LGBT, Netflix, Outer Space, Racism, Rand Paul, Tom Leher, Wernher von BraunHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! You need not be a rocket scientist to know that today’s the birthday of ‘Merka’s favourite Nazi, Wernher von Braun. While Werner was directly responsible for many Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear, he’s indirectly responsible for what happened on this date in 1965 and 1983:

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – “Give me Liberty, or give me Death!” – at St. John’s Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their “Corps of Discovery” begin their arduous journey home.
1857 – Elisha Otis‘s first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States‘ first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.

Without any further ado, whatever that is, let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

Why Are Black People
Nearly 4 Times as Likely
to Be Arrested for Weed?

‘Christian’ Militia Leader
NOW Networking Militias To Assassinate President Obama

KKK Leader Disputes Hate
Group Label: ‘We’re A
Christian Organization’

IN LGBT NEWS:

LGBT community honors murdered lesbian
couple as investigation continues

FREE THE WEED!!!

NJ senator to introduce marijuana
legalization bill Monday

Michigan medical pot bills
would OK edibles, dispensaries

Colorado launches informational
marijuana website

Henry Ford’s Suppressed Hemp Car –
What We All Should Be Driving

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

LAPD Officer Raped Woman and then Dept.
Tried to Bury Case, Threatened her with Jail
A new lawsuit alleges that the Los Angeles police department
stonewalled a case of rape by one of its own.

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GULLIBLE:

Rand Paul’s “youth” snow job: Why he’ll never, ever, ever win over young voters

STREAMING OR STEAMING?

Netflix Just Opened the Door to
Paying ISPs More Access Fees

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Right Wing Billionaires Tell People Forget Income Inequality Worship Us Instead

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

2 Car Thefts Push WSU Board Member Kim Trent Closer To Leaving ‘My Beloved City’

IN INNER SPACE:

DNA Mugshots Possible

IN OUTER SPACE:

Now you see it: Nasa spots Martian
gully that formed in just three years

Just After It All Began, the Universe Sent
Us a Text Message. We Just Decoded It.
Phil Plait explains the universe’s sudden and dramatic
inflation…tiny fractions of a second after the Big Bang.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 22, 2014

March 22, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully, Detroit, facebook, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Pat Robertson, Paul Ryan, Racism, Rand Paul, Rob FordHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of crazy evangelist Pat Robertson, who Johnny Dollar (aka Mark Koldys) actually supported for President of the United States. [I know, right?] Robertson may be 84 years old, but still makes headlines. Especially when he opens his mouth and crazy shit tumbles out. Here are some more Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser

1963 – The Beatles‘ first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

Now, let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Rand Paul Says the GOP is Like Bad Pizza Crust

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge lifts Michigan’s ban on gay marriage

Lesbian Visits Harlem
Church for Her Stoning

Gay Arkansas student says his
profile was pulled from yearbook

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

African-American Man Confronts
Paul Ryan At Town Hall Over
Ryan’s Racist Comments

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

Will Republicans mute
the culture war in 2016?

BULLY CORNER:

Confession of a Former Bully

— Not Now Silly has its own Cyber-Bullies —

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

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

How Facebook is Quite Possibly Becoming the Biggest Scam in Marketing and Advertising Ever

The 10 Facebook friends you need to block

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

6 obscene paydays for the rich that prove the deck is stacked against ordinary Americans

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Economy Has
Plenty Of Room To Grow

No proof that high-dose
cannabis is more addictive

MORE PROOF THE EARTH SUCKS:

40ft-deep hole drains Stockport park lake of water

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

Have Detroit Police Department raids made a difference?

Audit: 19 Detroit Fire Department workers have invalid driver’s licenses

Detroit plans mass water shutoffs over $260M in delinquent bills

Filmmaker discusses his 45-year-old documentary on late-’60s Detroit

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Debunking Ford Nation’s favourite budget chart

CRACK MAYOR BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Five Ribs Bill O’Reilly for Acting Like He’s Above the MH370 Coverage

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 20, 2014

March 20, 2014420, Detroit, Florida, FloriDuh, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Lee "Scratch" Perry, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Rob Ford, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! It’s Ned Buntline‘s birthday!!! Not only was Ned interested in the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear, but he wrote more than a few himself:

1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.
1815 – After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his “Hundred Days” rule.
1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe‘s Uncle Tom’s Cabin is published.
1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.
1916 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida‘s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.
1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT.
1995 – A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 13 and wounds 1,300 persons.
2003 – 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq.

Now, let’s check out today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

American bars start boycotting Russian vodka over Ukraine

America’s Right-Wing
Has Gone Gay Crazy
The madness has spread from the
Christian Right’s talking heads to the leading lights of the Republican Party.

Janet Mefferd Upset Honey Maid’s Graham
Crackers Push ‘The Gay Propaganda Machine’

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Russell Crowe Meets the
Pope, but Will Religious
Viewers See Noah?

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

Miami Cops Now Have To Check
Guns At Door Of City Hall

FREE THE WEED!!!

In Florida, medical marijuana will be legal, John Morgan says

What can the Dutch teach
the U.S. about selling pot?

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

Yes, Schools Do Discriminate Against Students Of Color

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

10 years of social media’s biggest
players and payouts by the numbers

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

GOP Lawmaker Says Sick Leave, Equal
Pay Bills Make Women ‘Look Like Whiners’

Illinois Republicans Nominate Candidate Who
Blames Gay Rights For Autism And Tornadoes

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Rangel Questions Why Obama Thought He Could Work With ‘Mean, Racist’ Tea Party

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News host Bill Hemmer
explains missing plane: ‘It took
2,000 years to find Noah’s Ark’

White House Mice Attack Fox News

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

GM’s Problem Will Affect It And Industry ‘For Decades’ — Walsh

Salaries driving Detroit police officers to the suburbs

Exclusive: Traffic Jam
Owners to Reassemble
Dairy Barn in Detroit

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford: Gun photos
found on laptop that is connected to crack video,
according to documents

CAN YOU DIG IT:

126 Million Year Old Fossil Of Stick Insect Found In Mongolia

IN OUTER SPACE:

Our Universe May Exist in a Multiverse,
Cosmic Inflation Discovery Suggests

NASA Orbiter Finds New Gully Channel on Mars

VIDEO DU JOUR:

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to Lee “Scratch” Perry.

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 18, 2014

March 18, 2014420, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Grover Cleveland, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, KKK, Koch Brothers, Outer Space, Paul Ryan, Racism, Religion, UniverseHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners. Before you rush out and celebrate the birthday of Grover Cleveland — still the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms — here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear for your enjoyment:

37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius‘s will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup.
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He serves only 2 years.
1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending the racist policy of Apartheid.

Now, let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

First glimpse of big bang
ripples from universe’s birth

Gravitational Waves from
Big Bang Detected

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

South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually
the best-case scenario. Here’s the scary alternative

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

‘Code Words for Race’:
What’s Really Behind GOP’s Poverty and Welfare Obsession
When Paul Ryan decried the “culture”
of inner cities it followed a long
conservative tradition, a scholar explains.

Debunking the Top 10 Most Egregious Republican Lies

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Judge rules against creationist teacher who called Buddhist student’s faith ‘stupid’

THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCHS:

Koch Brothers Group
Abandons Anti-Obamacare
Ads After Fact-Checkers
Prove Them False

FREE THE WEED!!!

The environmental
case for legalizing pot

Miami’s First Marijuana
School Could Open in April

A Head Start for Florida
Cannabis Entrepreneurs

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Praises Gay
Ban at New York’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade
Hosts call Mayor Bill deBlasio a ‘religious bigot’ for not marching in today’s parade.

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit area water authority talks hit cutoff

IN OUTER SPACE:

Planet X myth debunked

Star next door may host a ‘superhabitable’ world

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2014420, Climate Change, Detroit, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Paul Ryan, Religion, Rob Ford, Sherlock Holmes, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's DayHeadly Westerfield

Saint Patrick depicted in a stained glass
window at Saint Benin’s Church, Ireland

Howdy Headliners. Put on your funny green hat and drink the funny green beer until you turn a funny shade of green: It’s St. Patrick’s Day or Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Long before he chased the snakes out of Ireland, Patrick loved to read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

Green with envy? No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Is Paul Ryan Racist?

GOP Congressional Candidate Apologizes for Slavery Comments

Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’

Ohio State Rep Proposes Selling Off Public Schools To Private Businesses To End ‘Socialism’

Republican Ignorance and Stupidity Hit a New
Low With Attacks on Neil de Grasse Tyson

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Republican Legislators Fall Victim
to Ponzi Scheme Run by Man who
Claimed to Have Found Noah’s Ark

Nine Unopened Dead Sea Scrolls Found

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

British Import: Music College Comes To Capitol Park Downtown This Autumn

COLD CASE SOLVED:

Has the real Sherlock Holmes been deduced?
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests
he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

Thousands Turn Up For California’s
Largest-Ever Rally To Ban Fracking

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Greenland Ice Melt ‘Accelerating,’ Climate Change Awakens ‘Sleeping Giant’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Congressman Guestimates
How Many of His Fellow
Reps Smoke Weed

Colorado Recreational
Weed Sales Top $14
Million In First Month

How Much Could Michigan Gain
In Marijuana Tax Revenue?

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford captured on
new video stumbling,
swearing outside city hall
Mayor Rob Ford has again been caught
on video behaving erratically in public.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox analyst: Obama buying
pink clothes is a failure of
the White House PR dept.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have U.S. scientists found
the Big Bang’s biggest secret
and the final key to relativity?

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury

Asteroid Set to Cover One of
the Brightest Stars in the Night
Sky Thursday Morning

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 12, 2014

March 12, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Boycott, Chris Christie, Constitution, Dave Davies, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, The KinksHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners. Today’s the birthday of Charles Boycott, whose ostracism by an Irish village gave us the word “boycott,” but Not Now Silly refuses to celebrate that. Among the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear include:

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats“.
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993
– Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with
tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures.
The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno was sworn in as the United States‘ first female attorney general.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

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

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

The Religious Right Crusades
to Deny Americans Their Constitutional Rights

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Watch out, “Cosmos”!
The Holy Inquisition is
not happy with you

FREE THE WEED!!!

D.C. Board of Elections allows marijuana legalization effort to move forward

Medical marijuana refugees:
‘This was our only hope’

Medical marijuana and ‘the entourage effect’

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

Scrappers cause collapse of ornamental
ceiling in storied Eastown Theatre in Detroit

Are Michigan lawmakers holding up legistlation that could help fight Detroit scrappers?

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Revealed: Chris Christie gave pieces
of 9/11 wreckage to his cronies as gifts

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Wonders If The Press Is
Covering For Obama Because He’s Black

IN OUTER SPACE:

Was our galaxy formed by
a ‘Council of Giants’?
Giant galaxies arranged in a ring around the Milky Way might have shaped its very formation, reveals a new study.

“Death stars” in Orion blast planets before they even form

Is the lopsided Universe telling us we need new theories?

ESA mission sees a rainbow-like “glory” in Venus’ atmosphere

TODAY IN ROCK’N’ROLL:

Interview: Dave Davies (The Kinks)

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 11, 2014

March 11, 2014420, Coconut Grove, Detroit, Florida, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Honest Ed's, LGBT, Public Transit, Racism, Religion, Soilgate, Toxic Soil, TrolleygateHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! It’s the 70th day of the year and the birthday of Shemp Howard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear includes:

1702 – The Daily Courant, England‘s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Had enough? Then let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Lesbian couple murdered and left near dumpster in Texas

The quickly shifting language of the transgender community
He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Right-Wing Zealots Are Already Freaking Out About The Return Of Cosmos!

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

Race, the War on Drugs
and Mass Incarceration

GOP Lawmaker Accused of
Racism for Tweet About the NBA

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Pennsylvania trooper fatally shoots pregnant wife in the head while cleaning his gun

STARVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE:

Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches
Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report

IN OLD COCONUT GROVE:

Coconut Grove’s Blanche
Park to close through
summer to remove toxic soil

From the Not Now Silly archives:
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is Trolleygate Writ Large

FREE THE WEED!!!

It Takes Nine Days to
Spot a Stoned Driver

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

Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People

Graffiti Tagger Hits One Of
The New Shinola Clocks
That Were Gifts To Detroit

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Most Corrupt Town in America in
Danger of Being ‘Wiped Off the Map’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox & Friends First Misspells ‘Spelling Bee’

A SIGN OF THE TIMES:

Honest Ed’s latest bargain: those zany signs

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