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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, October 16, 2014

Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Bob Weir, of The Grateful Dead, still making Headlines Du Jour. Here are some others from yesteryear:

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FREE THE WEED!!!

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

TODAY IN RELIGION:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Superintendent Aims To “To Set The Record Straight” About Fox’s Misinformation

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Laura Ingraham: Frieden Is “A Combination Of Baghdad Bob And Kathleen Sebelius”

GRETA DISAGREES WITH THE FALAFEL KING:

FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Ablow: Americans Got Stockholm Syndrome And Elected Obama Because His Names Are “Very Similar To Two Of Our Archenemies”

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

PETER JOHNSON, JR IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, October 5, 2014

Hello Headline hunters! Today’s birthday belongs to Elva Miller, who, as Mrs. Miller, warbled on variety shows all through the ’60s. She knew all about the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

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

OUR WIRED WORLD:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FIVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JIM CROW AT FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, May 8, 2014

Hello, Headliners!!! Today’s birthday girl is Teresa Brewer, one of the best selling singers of the ’50s and ’60s. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PRIORITIES”

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

BULLY CORNER:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

GRENDL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

JON SCOTT IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, April 25, 2014

Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is Egbert Roscoe Murrow, aka Edward R. Murrow. who read a lot of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Gay veteran, 74, denied burial
with spouse because of Idaho law

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

In Landmark Ruling, Jury Says
Fracking Company Must Pay
$3 Million To Sickened Family

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Two Former LA Sheriff Deputies Charged With Planting Guns At Marijuana Dispensary

GOP STANDS FOR “GOT OVERLY PLASTERED”

Mormon GOP Senator
Who Claims to Abstain from
Alcohol Arrested for DUI

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

What Georgia’s expansive
new pro-gun law does

Georgia Governor Signs Bill
Allowing Guns In Bars,
Churches, Libraries And Schools

IT’S A SERIES OF TUBES:

US proposes pay-for-priority
Internet standards

Net-Neutrality Advocates Angered
by FCC’s Planned New Rules

F.C.C. On Track To Ruin Last Truly Democratic Institution: The Internet

WAR IS HELL, UNLESS YOU’RE A CONTRACTOR:

The Real Winner of the Afghan War
Is This Shady Military Contractor

The State Department paid out $4 billion
to rebuild Afghanistan. Some $2.5 billion of
that went to a single firm with a bad, bad past.

IN THE WORLD OF SPORTS:

Buffalo Bills Cheerleaders Allege Minimum
Wage Violations In Lawsuit Against Team

$COTU$ WATCH:

Dawsey: The Ban on
Affirmative Action Is About
Preserving the Caste System

8 Times the Supreme Court
Was Bewildered by Technology

WHACKO WATCH:

Libertarian Hero Cliven
Bundy Shockingly Turns
Out to Be Gigantic Racist

Cliven Bundy is part of a long tradition: corporate mooching

Cliven Bundy’s Slavery Delusion

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News’ Anti-Gay Selective Outrage In One Chart

Fox Goes Silent On Bundy
After Racist Tirade

Fox’s Krauthammer Blasts Conservatives For Their
Support Of Cliven Bundy

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Roger Ailes owns Cliven Bundy now: How dumb opportunism became a right-wing nightmare

Did Roger Ailes Dupe James Rosen,
Or Did Rosen Dupe ‘Merka?

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sean Hannity Claims That He
Is The Real Victim of Cliven Bundy’s Racist Comments

Hannity Addresses Bundy on Fox: Comments ‘Downright Racist’ and ‘Bigoted’

Hannity: ‘I Think Jon Stewart Is Extremely Talented and Funny’

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly on
Bundy Fallout:
‘Be Careful Who
You Partner Up With’

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Greta: ‘I Condemn What Cliven Bundy Said About African Americans’

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Gretchen Carlson
Shuts Down Democrat’s
Attempt to Bring Up Bundy

BRAIN BRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Brian Kilmeade Mocks
His Own Prom Photo,
Says It’s “A Little Gay”

ΤΟ ΜΕΓΑΛΎΤΕΡΟ ΗΛΊΘΙΟΣ TANTAROS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Tantaros: Supreme Court
Rolling Back Civil Rights Laws Is
What “Martin Luther King Wished For”

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

President Obama Tears Apart CNN’s Lazy
and Biased Press Conference Question

IN INNER SPACE:

Watch as swarms of micro-robots run around making stuff

TODAY IN ART:

Dozens of Never-Before-
Seen Andy Warhol Works
Found on Floppy Disks

IN BEATLES NEWS:

Paul McCartney sets Aug. 14 Candlestick show

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 28, 2014

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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Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar? ► The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Comment of the Day

Does Shep Smith of Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s tactics?

This isn’t a post about financial recompense. I did that one last month. We  already know that Fox “News” paid trolls and surrogates* to attack web sites critical of the fact-challenged network.

Not Now Silly highly suspects that Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar, who runs Johnny Dollar’s Place, was a recipient of Fox “News” largess. Nothing else really explains his almost 10-year obsession with NewsHounds and anyone having anything to do with it. Nobody is THAT dedicated without being paid to be so, especially since Koldys has to twist truth into a pretzel to do so.

No, this question of “support” isn’t about money. This blog post asks the musical question, ‘Does Fox “News” support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics in outing my sex life in his never-ending quest to defend Fox “News” as one of its surrogates?’

During a recent Twitter rage Mark Koldys admits he posted
details about my sex life on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. Then
he pretends that because he found it on the internet, it rose to the
level of being posted on his piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog.

Now, I always get a kick out of Johnny Dollar’s sleight-of-hand on Twitter. When someone is critical of Fox “News,” Dollar/Koldys responds with some lame variation of “Oh, did the building say that?” As if this silly red herring negates the valid criticism in the first place. That’s just the lawyer in Mark Koldys, twisting words again. Can you believe he was once a Michigan prosecutor? Is it any wonder people hate lawyers?

So, believe me when I say that I am not asking whether the physical building supports Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics. Despite what you may have heard, corporations are not people, my friends.

However, “some people say” corporations are peopled with people. “Some people say” that some of the people at Fox “News” actually have hearts and compassion. [The jury’s still out on Bully Boy Bolling.] That’s why I’m asking each and every person within Fox “News” to search deeply and ask themselves whether they support Johnny Dollar’s methods and tactics: posting information about my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I wrote about Fox “News” for NewsHounds.

Hypocrite, thy name is Koldys.

A tweet from October 25, 2013, in which Johnny Dollar attacks @DylanByers
for tweeting details of Shep Smith’s alternative lifestyle personal info. So, what
does that make Mark Koldys for printing details about my alternative
lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog? Because . . . journalism!

Imagine how you would feel, Greta Van Susteren, if you woke up to find details of your sex life posted on the innertubes, merely for a difference of opinion. Would Gretchen Carlson be pleased to see intimate details of her sex life splashed around the innertubes because people didn’t like her message?  I wonder how Shep Smith would like seeing details of his sex life as fodder for internet jokes because a someone didn’t like what he had to say. Oh! Wait!! That actually happened!!!

Yet the same MoFo — Johnny Dollar, aka Mark Koldys — who felt my alternative lifestyle was perfect material for his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog NOW believes that publishing personal details about someone’s sex life is … err … hitting below the belt.

Read a compendium of my NewsHounds columns, written under the nom de blog of Aunty Em Ericann, by clicking here.

So . . . When Greta Van Susteren or Shep Smith or any other Fox “News” personality supports Johnny Dollar with messages or Re-Tweets, they are, in reality, supporting Mark Koldys’ methods and tactics of outing people’s sex lives to destroy the messenger, simply because he couldn’t destroy the message.

There are no two ways to look at it. If you are supporting a hypocrite, you are a hypocrite yourself.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When Johnny Dollar posted a picture of NewsHounds’ Ellen on his blog, and was called on it, he justified it by saying anything found on the internet is FAIR USE, therefore fair game. Every picture I have ever posted of Mark Koldys I have found on the internet. FAIR USE, therefore fair game, right? So, please, Koldys Kiddies Klub, aka The Flying Monkey Squad, spare me the faux outrage that I have invaded his precious privacy. Especially after he posted details about my alternative lifestyle. I hadn’t realized there were rules in the politics of personal destruction.

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

When I posted a little movie montage comprised of photographs I found on the internet of Mark Koldys, he bleated to the officials of the YouTubery that I invaded his privacy, which threatened my account if I refused to take it down. That’s why I edited it to the following:

I just want to repeat that, because it would be funny if it wasn’t so fucking sick: He cites the law to justify his use of Ellen’s pic, but he uses the law to his advantage to complain to YouTube. That’s why he’s the Hypocrite Supreme. I ask again: Is it any wonder people hate lawyers? Especially weaselly lawyers like Mark Koldys?

Grumpy Cat, aka Mark Koldys,
with his family removed

How else is Mark Koldys a hypocrite? I’m glad you asked.

He bleats like a stuck pig while he’s making up lies about me for his twitter surrogates. F’rinstance, contrary to his oft-repeated whine of victimization, it’s simply not true that I have used these pictures found on the internet to mock Mark Koldys’ dead parents. I never mocked his dead parents. I mocked Mark Koldys, the spoiled, stupid, fat fuck who outed my alternative lifestyle.

Yes, Koldys, I’ve mocked you and exposed you for the slimy piece of shit you are, the same way you exposed my alternative lifestyle on your piece of shit CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog. So, stop pretending that your shit don’t stink. Thanks to Not Now Silly people can smell you coming a mile away, Koldys.

You started this trip into the sewer. I’m just happy to follow you there and keep kicking your ass up and down these cyber-corridors as long as it continues to amuse me to do so.

Oh, and while you’re at it, say HI! to your surrogate Grayhammy. I can always tell when I’ve hit my target: When your surrogate Ashley Graham starts shoveling the bullshit on your behalf.

So says my eternal victimizer. If anyone would know, it’s him.

* LET’S HAVE A FRANK TALK ABOUT SURROGATES AND ASHLEY GRAHAM, AKA GRAYHAMMY:

David Folkenflik, who recently published his scathing biography Murdoch’s World: The Last of the Old Media Empires, was recently interviewed by Joe Strupp at Media Matters for America for the article “Murdoch Biographer Folkenflik On News Corp. Opposition, Family Dysfunction, and Fox News’ Role As GOP “Referee.” This excerpt jumped out at me:

MMfA: You describe how Fox PR staffers created an elaborate series of dummy accounts to fill the comments sections of critical blog posts with pro-Fox arguments. When was that going on? Do you know if it continues? What blogs were being monitored?

DF: My sense was that I believe that after the Tim Arango incident [in which someone leaked personal information about Arango shortly after he had been threatened by the network for his reporting], that Murdoch who had known Arango a bit as a reporter was embarrassed by it when he was told about it and consulted some of his top aides and he sort of said ‘let’s pull back a bit,’ Fox was not as publicly vituperative after that. Certainly if you look at how [New York Magazine’s] Gabe Sherman has been treated on the air and in blogs and other places it’s hard not to conclude that they are very wary of what he is going to write and that they’re willing to ramp up again, I’m not saying they are sock puppeting, but I know that they are aggressively tracking personal blogs and major sites and they try to see it all and they try to let reporters know that they see it all. At one point I was warned when I was inquiring about an interview request, I was told that they were watching my Tweets, well, good, they’re there to be watched, God bless, they are there for them as well. There is a notion that they are monitoring everything.

The way I am told it is done now is that it is through surrogates.

That excerpt prompted me to tweet, without any identification whatsoever, “Some people can defend themselves. Others need surrogates.” Perhaps indicative of a guilty conscious — or perhaps because I clearly hit my 2 cyber-bullies with one stone — Grayhammy IMMEDIATELY started accusing strangers who tweet of being my surrogate and under my mind control super-power:

The four people he lists thought he was an asshole, totally independent of anything I said, and felt the urgent need to pound a keyboard to tell him so. They sure didn’t need my prompting.
What does he do next? Lies again, of course. He connects me to comments made by people I don’t
know in order to try and smear me.

Let me repeat: I have no surrogates and no one is
under my mind control super-power. Furthermore, what others say has nothing to do with me. However, one does not need 6 degrees of separation to connect Grayhammy with Johnny Dollar and their comments to each other. They are BFFs forever!! 

Don’t believe me? Search the Twitter timeline of one and you’ll find RTs from the other, day after day, after day, after day. I supposed I should be flattered, but it’s stunning is how often it’s about me. What’s even more stunning is how many other people have also noticed the same thing:

Followed by . . .

Just for giggles . . .

. . . and then . . .

. . . and even . . .

But the message that sums up these several years of being cyber-bullied by Johnny Dollar and Grayhammy is this one:

At least Ashley Graham finally admits he analyzes every one of my electronic messages. He does this as a surrogate for Mark Koldys, aka Johnny Dollar. Of course, Johnny Dollar acts as a surrogate for Fox “News.” To put it simply: Johnny Dollar outed my alternative lifestyle on his CABLE NEWS TRUTH blog because I said things he didn’t like about Fox “News.” 
Whether Fox “News” paid him to do so is hardly the issue. What kind of despicable person would do such a despicable thing, merely over ideological differences of opinion? What kind of person would support people who do this? This is what Fox “News” needs to ask itself, and I don’t mean the building.