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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 18, 2014

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

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN LGBT NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

MORE SHOOTOUTS AT THE OK CORRAL:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, September 18, 2014

Hello there, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to the Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, one man who often got the best of Jack Benny. He lived through may Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

GOP STANDS FOR GOT OUR PRIORITIES:

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

VIDEO BONUS DU JOUR:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

BEST HEADLINES DU JOUR:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

HARRIS FAULKNER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STUART VARNEY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday is ZERO degrees from Kevin Bacon, born on this day in1958. Here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

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

GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!!!

GET THE TRUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

Conservatives who show their
annoyance with liberals, Obama,
and the EPA by blowing black
smoke from their trucks.

FREE THE WEED!!!

SCOTUS WATCH:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

DR. BEN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, April 14, 2014

Howdy Headliners! Today is the birthday of Albert Einstein, who is still being proven right by the Large Hadron Collider more than 100 years after unveiling his Theory of Relativity. Other events on this day:

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

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY???

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

TODAY IN LGBT EQUALITY:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Income inequality in the U.S. is now as bad as it was in aristocratic Europe. Are the bread riots finally coming?

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE:

ABC NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

10 Moments That Illustrate The Right-
Wing Radio Host’s Fringe Viewpoints
And Disdain For Civil Discourse

BRIT HUME IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:


IN OUTER SPACE:

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Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

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:

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

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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 13, 2014

With only 292 days until New Year’s Eve, today is also the birthday of Sci-Fi writer and charlatan L. Ron Hubbard, born on this day in 1911. It was his dying wish that people read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

END THE DEATH PENALTY!!!

Black Man Sentenced To Death By All-White Jury Freed From Louisiana Prison After 30 Years

WHAT IF MEN WERE RAPE VICTIMS?

IN LGBT NEWS:

Mississippi, Louisiana,
Georgia top list of gay-
porn watching states

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OUT OF IDEAS”

Conservative Intellectuals
Fear the GOP Is Out of Ideas

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

Fracking suspended after earthquakes rock Ohio

WHO’S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

NSA posed as Facebook to infect computers with malware

Report on CIA Black Sites and Torture May Provoke a Constitutional Crisis

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

The war on black intellectuals:
What (mostly) white men
keep getting wrong
about public scholarship

FREE THE WEED!!!

Cash, gun and pot seized in
L.A. marijuana dispensary raids

Michigan medical marijuana patients, families speak out in support of dispensary, edible bills

WSJ Poll: Candy Is Dandy
But Pot Is Less Harmful

With marijuana bills under
consideration in Legislature,
Jefferson Parish group joins debate

CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

Brian Kolfage and Jan Vrotsos

◄ A duped writer defends the cyber-bullies ►
Left-wing trolls launch vile attack on Iraq war veteran and triple amputee

◄ The Not Now Silly cyber-bullies ►
The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

TODAY IN MUSIC:

City of Seattle creates priority parking for musicians

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly: Abraham Lincoln Would Never Have Appeared
on Funny or Die

Chris Matthews to O’Reilly: Abraham Lincoln ‘Would Not Have Worked for Fox’

IN OUTER SPACE:

Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years

Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 9, 2014

Howdy, Headliners. Canadians will gather today in Mel Lastman Square to wax nostalgic on the 81st birthday of former Toronto Mayor and Bad Boy Mel Lastman, who never smoked crack cocaine in a drunken stupour. Mayor Mel is addicted to the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

And now: Today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR WIRED WORLD:

Cuba allows phone
access to some email

Soon, Our Robot Coffee Baristas Will Only Brew Certain Brands

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

HEADLINES IN THE NEWS:

Newspaper Publishes Astoundingly Racist ’12
Years A Slave’ Headline

Los Angeles Times Writes Perfect Headline For John Travolta’s Oscar Fail

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

THE BEST CONGRESS MONEY CAN BUY:

Infographic:
How Money Won Congress

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Woman Dies When Gun Falls Out of Sock And Shoots Her


WHO’S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

FBI probing alleged
removal of documents
from CIA by Senate staffers

WHO’S WATCHING THE UFO WATCHERS?

The most per capita UFO sightings last year were in Vermont, Arizona and Maine

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Hypes Christie
“Comeback” Amid Ongoing
Bridge Scandal Investigations

Fox Reporter A No-Show For Breitbart News Benghazi Conspiracy Panel

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: The Only Place
America Is Not In Decline
Is The Sport Of Luge

According To Bill, 50 Percent Of Americans Don’t Care About Nation’s Decline Because “They Want The Nanny State”

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate buffoons’ real
motives: 5 reasons they
still spout debunked garbage

From greed to idiocy, here’s the true agenda of deniers who still claim climate change isn’t happening

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Fake Arrests of Ohio Ministers Designed to Sell Christian Persecution Myth

Zmuda lawsuit may set statewide precedent

LOOK! UP IN THE SKY:

Judge dismisses FAA fine
against small drone user

FREE THE WEED!!!

Could Tennessee be next to legalize marijuana?

A WOMAN SCORNED:

Woman Posted Explicit
Material Inside Walmart

Cops: Suspect targeted employee over year-long affair with husband

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Good morning, Headliners. How will you be celebrating the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus today? Among the Headlines Du Jour from yesterday include:

356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
1674England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
1859Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
1878Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
1953Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan‘s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

Now let’s delve into today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

The evolutionary puzzle
of homosexuality

Washington State To Automatically Marry All Same-Sex Domestic Partners

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

Scientists mystified as 20 earthquakes hit Oklahoma in one day

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Bobby Jindal Relaunches Himself One More Time

The Cost of Voting Republican: Economy Lost $3 Billion Due to GOP Blocking UI Entension

THE “P” IN GOP STANDS FOR PLUTOCRACY:

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Comcast Gave $854,000 to
Congressional Committee
Overseeing its Merger with Time Warner

Filthy rich but secretly terrified: Inside the 1 percent’s sore-winner backlash


TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

The Tea Party Demands that
Mitch McConnell Drop Out Or
Else Alison Grimes Will Win

Voting Against John Boehner Just Became The Tea Party’s Litmus Test

FREE THE WEED!!!

Louisiana governor open to
legalizing medical marijuana

Washington State Legislators
Pass Hemp Nullification Bill

Inside Girl Scout Cookies

Kinky Friedman Agriculture Commissioner campaign rooted in marijuana legalization

KANSAS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Kansas Bill Would Allow Spanking
Children To Point Of Bruising

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

How Fox News Talks About African-Americans When It’s Not February

Don Lemon Attacked By Fox News Over
His Reaction To Michael Dunn Verdict

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Doug Ford says Rob Ford is
being bullied by gay community

Rob Ford not backing down from controversy, says he can see ‘no reason’ to put up Pride flag to support gay rights during Olympics

Rob Ford may have broken
election rules, rival says


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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 5, 2014

Good morning, Headliners!!! Today is the birthday of United Artists, a company I once worked for. It was started by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and D.W. Griffiths on this date in 1919. But, that’s yesterday’s headlines. Here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour.

IN LGBT NEWS:

BREAKING: Scotland legalizes same-sex marriage

AT&T Is First Olympic Brand to Condemn Russia’s Anti-Gay Laws

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

How to avoid the ‘one ring scam’ that’s been blowing up your phone

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Republicans Self Destruct as Conservative Group Tries to Overthrow Boehner and McConnell

BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS!!!

Journalists at Sochi are live-tweeting their hilarious
and gross hotel experiences

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Criminal investigation
into Mayor Rob Ford
‘very active,’ top Toronto
police detective says

TEE VEE NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Enabling Chris Christie: How Fox News, Joe Scarborough and faux-centrist pundits lie, deny and shade the truth
Bad journalism, false equivalency, phony
objectivity: Christie coverage shows why
mainstream media can’t be trusted

KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Did A Right-Wing Media
Backlash Kill Karl Rove’s
Attempt To Moderate The GOP?

Believe it or not: He’s not talking about Fox “News”


LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly outFoxed by Obama

O’Reilly Forgets To Fact-Check Before Lecturing Obama For Not Addressing Black Issues

Five things you need to know about Bill O’Reilly’s interview with President Obama

Bill O’Reilly Demands Obama Explain How He’s Unfair to Him: VIDEO


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