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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, February 8, 2014

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It’s another weekend, the second of this shortened month. Before we get to today’s Headlines Du Jour, let’s take a look at some headlines from yesteryear:

• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

• 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

• 1915 – D.W. Griffith‘s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Now, on to more recent headlines:

IN LGBT NEWS:

This drag queen’s brilliant response to homophobia
will move you to tears

Video: Gays arrested in Moscow`s Red Square,
singing national anthem


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

The history white
people need to learn

Anyone who wants “white history
month” should learn instead about how
whiteness has been used to discriminate


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


Greg Gutfeld Rags on
Bill O’Reilly: ‘How
Egotistical Is That?!’

Fox’s Juan Williams: It’s
Fair To Call Out Fox For
Their Benghazi Coverage

Hannity Attacks “Comrade De Blasio” For Boycotting
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Over Its LGBT Exclusion
Hannity: “This Is Him Being Prejudiced Towards
People’s Deeply Held Fundamental Religious Belief”


BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS:

Most corrupt Olympics ever: Why Sochi’s
“above and beyond” what we’ve seen before


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBFUSCATION:

National Republican Congressional Campaign using fake Democrat websites to lure voters

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD, TOO:

850,000-year-old human
footprints found in Norfolk

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

Obama invites Duggan
to develop job creation
plan for Detroit

Bankruptcy In Action: Belle Isle Becomes A State Park Tuesday

Really? A ‘No Colors Allowed’ Sign at Bar Sparks Absurd Cries of Racism

Orr: Detroit’s turnaround is going to happen quickly


FREE THE WEED!!!

Uruguay’s President Nominated for
Nobel Peace Prize for Legalizing Weed


TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal
For Homeless To Use Blankets


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford wanted rainbow flag
removed from Toronto City Hall

Rob Ford to duck
World Pride parade, too

Rob Ford: ‘I’m not going to change the way I am’

WATCH: Robyn Doolittle appears on The Daily Show


FROM OUTER SPACE:

Curiosity Rover Sees Earth from Mars for 1st Time (Photos)


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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 3, 2014

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The Super Bowl is over, which means ‘Merkins can now turn their collective attention to things that are really important, like the latest Coca-Cola commercial that the Reich Wing is so upset about. Which brings us right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

ASSHOLES DU JOUR:

Coca Cola Super Bowl Ad Inspires Racist Twitter Backlash

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

John Elway to Fox News: I’m Republican because ‘I don’t
believe in safety nets’


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

Why America Is Still a
Deeply Racist Country

Labor pains: The racist
policies that set workplace equality back decades

TODAY IN RAPE CULTURE:

Protestors outraged by “Date Grape” drink at Wash. bar


CHRIS CHRISTIE PUSHES BACK — AGAINST HIS OLD FRIEND:

Chris Christie Mounts Defense, Rips Into Former Ally David Wildstein

The Loneliest Man on Super Bowl Sunday Is Chris Christie

Christina Genovese Renna, Chris Christie Staffer, Resigns Amid Probe

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Sorry, Rob Ford: Pedestrian safety is important in Coquitlam
Coquitlam Mayor Richard Stewart
speaks out after the Toronto mayor
was ticketed for jaywalking

FOX IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Fox Nation Statement of Purpose. Just like
almost everything else from Fox “News,” it’s a lie.

FOX NATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

President Obama Takes No Guff From O’Reilly In Superbowl Interview

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 29, 2014

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STATE OF THE UNION


President Obama delivers his
fifth State of the Union address


State of the Union: Obama
tinkers around the edges


Analysis: A narrow path
for Obama’s ambitions


State of the Union: What Obama
didn’t say about energy, environment


Six things we learned from the State of the Union


5 takeaways from President
Obama’s State of the Union address


Obama hits the road to push
State of the Union message


Americans react to Obama’s address to nation

Collecting today’s headlines, Not Now Silly couldn’t help but find hundreds of headlines concerning President Obama’s State of the Union address. Some of the highlights are collected at left, with today’s Headlines Du Jour running down the rest of the page.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

KKK Member Indicted
For Trying To Build Anti-Muslim X-Ray Cannon


TODAY IN RELIGION:

Map: Publicly Funded
Schools That Are Allowed
to Teach Creationism

Thousands of schools in states across the country can use taxpayer money to cast doubt on basic science.


FREE THE WEED!!!

Poll: Majority of Americans support efforts to legalize marijuana

Marijuana contests to join county fair in Colorado


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Every GOP Member of Congress Wants a SOTU Photo with Duck Dynasty’s Willie Robertson


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Bends Over For Pepsi and Coca-Cola And Forces SodaStream To Edit Super Bowl Ad


SNOW IN MIAMI BEACH:

$37 Million Worth of Seized Cocaine Offloaded in Miami Beach by Coast Guard (Video)


THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH:

Rachel Maddow fends off Koch brothers’ complaints with new proof of their meddling


WHAT’S FOR DINNER?

Celebrity chef Mario Batali ordered to pay $5.25 million for skimming tips from his restaurant help

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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Today is the day President Obama will be delivering his State of the Union address. But, before he does: He will be checking today’s Headlines Du Jour to see if there was anything he missed.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

LIBERTARIANISM:

Confessions of a former Libertarian: My
personal, psychological and intellectual epiphany

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

50 Signs You Watch
Too Much Fox News

Fox v. Fox:
Greta Van Susteren Slams “Disrespectful” “Jerk” Erick Erickson’s Wendy Davis Attacks

TODD STARNES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Epic Twitter Meltdown
Fox News: Grammys Wedding Of Gay And Straight
Couples Was ‘Intolerance, Bigotry And Hatred’

HOWARD KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Kurtz Breaks Promise To Cover Critical Ailes Biography

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Ablow Dimisses Role Of Guns In Columbia Mall Shooting

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Koch Bros. are engineering
a “merger & acquisition”
of the Republican party

FREE THE WEED!!!

Fla. Supreme Court approves medical marijuana initiative
for November ballot
Scott says he’ll vote against
proposed constitutional amendment

Ten Photos Of When Marijuana Grew All Over Brooklyn, And The Men Who Destroyed It All

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

The Effects of Ignoring Systemic Racism

You’ll Never Guess Which State Ranks #2 For Having The Most Hate Groups

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Where does hate come from? It’s learned:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 21, 2014

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Not Now Silly is pleased to introduce a brand new rubric to Headlines Du Jour. The Asshole Du Jour will be awarded occasionally to that person who best exemplifies supreme assholishness. Our first winner is perennial asshole, Sister Sarah Palin, who used MLK Day to play the race card. And, that’s why, Sarah Palin, you are the very first to be given this prestigious award. You can pick up your statuette at the Not Now Silly offices during business hours. We don’t ship.

ASSHOLE DU JOUR; SARAH PALIN:

Flaming Racist Sarah Palin Celebrates MLK
Day With a Racial Attack on President Obama

INCOME INEQUALITY:

The World’s 85 Richest Now Worth as Much as 3.5 Billion Poorest

LGBT NEWS:

Twitter Explodes After Trans
Subject of Golf Article Kills Herself

Professor Claims Smoking or Drinking
During Pregnancy Makes Your Babies Gay

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Police Chief Accidentally
Shoots Himself At Gun
Shop, Blames Fleece Jacket

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Watch Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Learn Way TMI About Senior Citizen STDs

IN OUTER SPACE:

Scottish scientists awarded grant to build alien-detecting laser device

Comet-chasing Rosetta wakes up, whispers sweet-nothings to Earth

Milky Way may have formed inside-out

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops bloody old man — for jaywalking

FREE THE WEED!!!

Obama Says All the Right Things About Weed in New Interview

Fox News host: Solution to high minority arrest rate is for them to smoke less pot

Drugs In Colorado: New Deadly Strain Of Marijuana Turning Users Gay

As marijuana attitudes shift, this
may be a year of legalization
California and four other states may put
initiatives on the ballot in November. A
recent poll shows a clear majority
of Americans supports legalizing pot.

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

Richard Sherman’s Post-Game Rant Brings
Out Twitter’s Actual Racists and Morons

Federal Judge Sent Hundreds of Bigoted Emails

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Clearing the Smoke: The Science of Cannabis

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 18, 2014

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In yesterday’s exciting episode of Headlines Du Jour, I lamented that my headline-collecting robot drones had not shown up. Now I know why. They’ve become supreme overlord to your home appliances. The first two headlines describe the latest adventures of my former-headline-collecting robot drones. In the meantime, I’m taking applications for interns all over again.

Refrigerator Used By Hackers In Cyber Attack
Internet-connected home appliances are infected by a large “botnet” over a two-week period.

Hackers Use Refrigerator, Other Devices to Send 750,000 Spam Emails


SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

New study shows chimpanzees capable of communicating
through gestures and pointing to achieve a common goal


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Elisabeth Hasselbeck: Are male-wussifying feminists a national security problem?

Ann Coulter: Fox & Friends Won’t ‘Put on Conservatives Who Can Put Two Sentences Together’

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

 

Houston cops cuff and detain man for an
hour for giving change to homeless person


FREE THE WEED!!!

Harry Reid signals support for
medical marijuana use


FREE THE WEED HYSTERIA!!!

Nancy Grace: People on pot shoot
each other, strangle each other,
and kill whole families


FROM OUTER SPACE:

On Mars, A Rock Appears
Where There Wasn’t One Before


THE COMPANY HE KEEPS:

‘Hannity’ regular Erik Rush calls for military coup against Obama


OSCAR WORTHY!!!

’20 Feet From Stardom’ Gets Its Turn in Oscars’ Spotlight
How legendary record man Gil Friesen’s documentary about backup singers wowed the film world


OSCAR WORTHY???

‘MITT’: Five Big Revelations About Romney In The New Documentary

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 17, 2014

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Chris Christie in the headlines long
before he was NJ Governor.

Uh oh! My headline-collecting robot drones did not show up for the start of their shift. With no time left to hire interns, I had to go back to collecting the headlines by hand. While you read today’s Headlines Du Jour, I’ll ponder what this means.

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

13-year-old inventor cracks
the secret of trees to
revolutionize solar energy


SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Google developing smart contact lens


RELIGION CORNER:

Texas Public Schools Are Teaching Creationism
 


FREE THE WEED!!!

Florida Medical Marijuana
Supporters Claim Victory
Backers of medical marijuana constitutional amendment
have collected more than 1.1 million signatures

New Hampshire governor promises to
kill ‘historic’ marijuana legalization bill

‘I like weed, and I’m a good person’: Pot smokers fight stereotypes


TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Tea Party Candidate’s Ad Touts His
‘Sexy’ Wife And Large Testicles


WHEN YOU GOT TO GO, YOU GOT TO GO:

Final Exit: Group That Helps Suffering People Commit Suicide Is Active in Florida


STILL WORST SHOW SINCE MY MOTHER THE CAR:

Howard Stern: Fox’s The Five
Is ‘My Favorite TV Show’

◄ ◄ ◄ From the Not Now Silly Archives ► ► ►
The Five Is Simply Bad Tee Vee
— An Aunty Em Review —


ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

D.C. officer charged with prostituting teens
had been investigated as early as 2011, police


THE HAPPIEST PLACE ON EARTH:

Walt Disney’s Grandniece
Agrees With Meryl Streep:
He Was ‘Racist’


FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Fox News host says Americans don’t know their history, flubs history of Boston Tea Party


IN OUTER SPACE:

Spanish researchers discover the first
black hole orbiting a “spinning” star

Pluto Has a Fifth Moon,
Hubble Telescope Reveals

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 15, 2014

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When Fox “News” is outlawed, only outlaws will watch Fox “News.” While I don’t believe my headline-collecting robot drones planned it, there seems to be an awful lot of headlines about Fox “News” today. Let’s get right to today’s Healines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

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

Study Finds White Americans Believe They
Experience More Racism Than African Americans

BE ON THE LOOKOUT:

Black Man Suspected of Suspicious Stuff, West Virginia Paper Reports

FREE THE WEED!!!

Study: Marijuana Doesn’t
Affect Driving Performance

Marijuana advocates
lay groundwork for
legalization in Mass.
Colo., Wash. votes bring push for a
2016 ballot item on legalization

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox in Freefall as Rachel Maddow Beats Fox
News For an Entire Week In the Ratings

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly and Hume Still Blame ‘Feminized Atmosphere’ for Making Christie a ‘Bully’

‘I Just Freaking Answered It!’ Mary Katharine Ham Clashes with O’Reilly Again over Pot


MEGYN KELLY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Megyn Kelly advises McConnell: Stop fighting
Obama in court and ‘try to impeach him!’

DR. KEITH ABLOW IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox psychiatrist invents ‘data rage’ after theater shooting to blame phones instead of guns

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Inside The Laughable Cable News Blog Roger Ailes Reportedly Created
“The Cable Game” Fawned Over Fox
Talent, Smeared Network Enemies

“I Can’t See Her Legs!”: Roger Ailes’ Rampant Sexism

RUPERT MURDOCH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Phone Hacking Trial Shown Footage Of Alleged Cover-Up By Rebekah Brooks’ Husband


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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 13, 2014

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As another work week begins here at Not Now Silly, all is calm. The headline-collecting robot drones have been collecting headlines for several weeks now and they seemed to have lost all interest in having sex with the toaster. Which is why I can concentrate fully on today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Auto Show Media Will See ‘How Vibrant A Bankrupt City Can Be’

THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS COMPLICATED:

Why Are US Special Operations Forces Deployed in Over 100 Countries?
That’s over 60 percent of the nations on the planet.

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

America is still a deeply racist country

LGBT NEWS:

Indiana Church Fires Gay Choir Leader and EIGHTY PERCENT of the Congregation QUITS!

GLOBAL WARMING? WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?

Australia goes off the scale: Meteorologists create new colour
chart for record 54°C heatwave as wildfires blaze across bush

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Not Just the Koch Brothers: New
Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind
the Climate Change Denial Effort

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Brit Hume
shocks female panelist: ‘Feminized atmosphere’
made Christie a ‘bully’

Roger Ailes Book Creates Dilemma for Dueling CNN, Fox News Media Shows

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview:
Ailes ‘More Extreme
Than Glenn Beck’

In new biography, Roger Ailes dumps on conservative darlings Gov. Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity and more

New Book Reveals The Real Roger Ailes
Fox News Was Right To Be Scared Of Gabriel
Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room

Roger Ailes Is Not That Powerful
We know more than ever about how vile Roger
Ailes is. But he still can’t elect a president.

How Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Tried
To Win Republicans The White House

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS:

Bill O’Reilly Terrorized Another Female Fox News Staffer

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

Detroit Three offer hope, lessons to bankrupt Detroit as world media descend on auto show

Free Press Will Blow Whistle On Bankruptcy ‘Distortions’ By Visiting Writers

VIP Auto Show Guest: Packard Buyer Will Pitch His Vision To Car Execs

10 things you didn’t know about Vernors

THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:

The Biggest Loser in Bridgegate:
Jay Carney’s Beard

TODAY IN THE CLASS WARS:

Why Conservatives’ Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy — Setting Working Class Against the Poor — Is Backfiring

FREE THE WEED!!!

2014 poised to go to pot

FOR THOSE WHO DIG ARCHEOLOGY?

Lost Remains of Slain
Ancient Queen Unearthed

HACKER CORNER:

Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed the Steubenville
Rapists Gets More Prison Time Than Rapists

MIT website hacked by Anonymous on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide

WHAT’S THE SCOTUS UP TO?

Supreme Court to decide the future of Internet TV

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 11, 2014

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People have been curious about the process of curating Headlines Du Jour, which surprises me because I didn’t think people would be that interested. However, since you asked:

When my headline-collecting robot drones return from a night of headline collecting, they are loaded down with headlines from every genre. Then the culling begins. The first thing I do is throw out all the sports headlines. Then older headlines are discarded. Next, I toss out any headline you can find elsewhere. My readers don’t come here to find what they can get elsewhere; they come here for the headlines they won’t get anywhere else. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP’s poverty scam: Why does it suddenly “care” about the poor?

‘No free lunch’ Republican bills taxpayers for
his food but tells poor kids to work for theirs

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Formal complaint filed about
Mayor Rob Ford’s use of staff

POLITICS IS AS POLITICS DOES:

Dirty Tricks, Traffic Studies, And Why Sociopaths Flourish In Politics

All the Governors’ Dark-Money Funds

Walker, Kasich, Snyder: These big-name governors embraced dark
money to push their agendas. They could pay for it in 2014.

Is Scott Walker next?

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

CNNers: Ailes Book Likely Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind About Fox News

Ailes book: Fox chief to blame for
Fox’s election night meltdown

Past Book Sales Show Apathy Rules When It Comes to Roger Ailes

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Scott Blames “Overly-Vindictive
Women” For Arrest Of Man Who
Violated Restraining Order

Fox: Where The Chris Christie Scandal
Is Really Just About Benghazi

FREE THE WEED!!!

Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people affected by pot deaths

Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not
locking up marijuana users in Colorado

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

Interracial Couple Upset Over
‘Jungle Fever’ Note Left by Valet

WEATHER, OR NOT?

Scientists: Americans are becoming weather wimps

MOSTLY HARMLESS???

What if the rest of the
alien universe was
terrified of humans?

WHISTLE-BLOWERS BEWARE:

Australian Teen Reported To Police After
Exposing Security Hole In Website

MOVIE CORNER:

Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary
‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released

VIDEO DU JOUR:

And, introducing Maureen O’Hara:

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