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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, CPAC, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Outer Space, Racism, Rand Paul, The SimpsonsHeadly Westerfield

Good morning, Headliners. It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday and it can beat up your birthday — with one hand tied behind its back. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

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

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

Watch The ‘Not-Racist’ Crowd React
To ‘Annie’s’ Blackness In Remake

TODAY IN VOTER FRAUD NEWS:

How Much Voter Fraud Is There?
A state-by-state map reveals the answer: almost none.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

REMEMBERING CARL SAGAN,
THE ORIGINAL COSMOS HOST

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, March 7, 2014

March 7, 2014420, Canada, Constitution, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Packard Plant, Religion, Rob FordHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! Today would have been the 139th birthday of Maurice Ravel, had he not had the misfortune to die in 1937. He was quite fond of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1985 – The song “We Are the World” receives its international release.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

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

MORE OF THAT ‘MERKIN ‘CEPTIONALISM:

35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OH WHAT A BUNCH OF LOONS”

Sarah Palin’s Latest Lie Should
Scare Republicans — But The GOP
Noise Machine Won’t Allow That

IN LGBT NEWS:

State’s last witness says unrepentant homosexuals are going to hell

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Religion may not
survive the Internet
There’s a reason churches are struggling
to maintain membership, and it has
nothing to do with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Watch this con man ‘pastor’ go absolutely ballistic when a news crew confronts him at his home

Farah: US ‘Becoming The Persecutor’ Of Christians, Leading To Next Holocaust

CONSTITUTION CORNER:

Republicans Use Stalinesque Tactics to Show Their Love
For The Constitution

SO YOU DON’T GET LOST:

These 9 Maps Should Absolutely Outrage Southerners

FREE THE ‘MERKIN WEED!!!

Gupta: ‘I am doubling down’
on medical marijuana

FREE THE CANADIAN WEED!!!

Ticket system for pot possession
pushed by some Tories
Police often turn a blind eye to avoid hours
of paperwork and court backlogs, MP says

OH! OH! OH! CANADA!!!

Your porn is not Canadian enough, CRTC warns
erotica channels

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Newsmax CEO Wants To Combat Fox News With Conservative Cable Channel

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. FELINE HISTORY EVEN MORE SO:

1500s German Prince Imagined ‘Rocket Cats’ Weaponry

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford friend Sandro Lisi
has long history of violence,
threats and dirty tricks
Sandro’ Lisi’s unsavory past includes
incidents of menacing, stalking and
assaulting young women, snitching
on drug rivals — and deliberately
spreading bedbugs.