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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday August 11, 2014

August 11, 2014420, Bob Mothersbaugh, Bully Boy Bolling, Devo, Eric Bolling, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, RacismHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. Celebrating a birthday today is Devo’s Bob Mothersbaugh. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

3114 BC – The Mesoamerican Long Count calendar, used by several pre-Columbian Mesoamerican civilizations, notably the Mayans, begins.

1919 – The constitution of the Weimar Republic is adopted.

1929 – Babe Ruth becomes the first baseball player to hit 500 home runs in his career with a home run at League Park in Cleveland, Ohio.

1934 – The first civilian prisoners arrive at the Federal prison on Alcatraz Island.

1942 – Actress Hedy Lamarr and composer George Antheil receive a patent for a Frequency-hopping spread spectrum communication system that later became the basis for modern technologies in wireless telephones and Wi-Fi.

1945 – Poles in Kraków engage in a pogrom against Jews in the city, killing 1 and wounding 5.

1960 – Chad declares independence.

1965 – Race riots (the Watts Riots) begin in the Watts area of Los Angeles, California.

1968 – The last steam hauled train runs on British Rail

1972 – Vietnam War: the last United States ground combat unit leaves South Vietnam.

1982 – A bomb explodes on Pan Am Flight 830, en route from Tokyo, Japan to Honolulu, Hawaii, killing one teenager and injuring 15 passengers.

1984 – “We begin bombing in five minutes” – United States President Ronald Reagan, while running for re-election, jokes while preparing to make his weekly Saturday address on National Public Radio.

1999 – The Salt Lake City Tornado tears through the downtown district of the city, killing one.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Ugandans hold first pride event after
overturn of Draconian anti-LGBT law

Anti-gay Tenn. lawmaker
behind ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill
defeated in reelection bid

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

Antisemitism on rise across Europe
‘in worst times since the Nazis’

Experts say attacks go beyond Israel-Palestinian
conflict as hate crimes strike fear into Jewish communities

Married Police Officers Charged With
Killing Daughter’s Black Boyfriend

Web Exclusive: Daughter Speaks After Cop Parents Accused of Shooting Boyfriend

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday August 9, 2014

August 9, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Payne, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Johnny Dollar, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Racism, Sean Hannity, Steve Doocy, The Mighty Hannibal, TrollsHeadly Westerfield

Howdy again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to R&B singer-songwriter The Mighty Hannibal, whose biggest hit, “Hymn No. 5,” was banned from radio due to its Vietnam War subject matter. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1173 – Construction of the campanile of the Cathedral of Pisa (now known as the Leaning Tower of Pisa) begins; it will take two centuries to complete.

1483 – Opening of the Sistine Chapel in Rome with the celebration of a Mass.

1814 – Indian Wars: the Creek sign the Treaty of Fort Jackson, giving up huge parts of Alabama and Georgia.

1854 – Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden.

1892 – Thomas Edison receives a patent for a two-way telegraph.

1930 – Betty Boop makes her cartoon debut in Dizzy Dishes.

1936 – Summer Olympic Games: Games of the XI Olympiad – Jesse Owens wins his fourth gold medal at the games becoming the first American to win four medals in one Olympiad.

1942 – Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in Bombay by British forces, launching the Quit India Movement.

1944 – The United States Forest Service and the Wartime Advertising Council release posters featuring Smokey Bear for the first time.

1945 – World War II: Nagasaki is devastated when an atomic bomb, Fat Man, is dropped by the United States B-29 Bockscar. 39,000 people are killed outright.

1969 – Followers led by Charles Manson murder pregnant actress Sharon Tate (wife of Roman Polanski), coffee heiress Abigail Folger, Polish actor Wojciech Frykowski, men’s hairstylist Jay Sebring and recent high-school graduate Steven Parent.

1974 – As a direct result of the Watergate scandal, Richard Nixon becomes the first President of the United States to resign from office. His Vice President, Gerald Ford, becomes president.

Without any further delay, here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Anti-Gay Fans Rant
On Facebook Over
White Sox LGBT Night

Tomorrow The Sixth Circuit
Court Of Appeals Will
Hear Six Marriage Equality
Cases – Here’s A Primer

Judge grills Michigan lawyer on difference between
banning gay marriage and interracial marriage

Texas GOP officials agree: Legal same-sex
marriage will cause incest and pedophilia

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

The Big, Long, 30-Year Conservative Lie

IN ROCK AND ROLL NEWS:

Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame
criticised for removing ashes of
DJ who invented the term ‘rock’n’roll’

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Man police shot in Walmart killed over fake gun, family says

Family asks for ‘memorial’ donations to the NRA after son is killed by ‘unloaded’ gun

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

Oklahoma GOP fundraising flier so crudely racist, Democrats at first suspected a hoax

White duo behind app to avoid ‘sketchy’ neighborhoods is shocked to hear it’s racist

This is NOT Johnny Dollar,
just an incredible likeness

PAID INTERNET TROLLS:

Political blogger outs herself
as paid troll for big telecom

Is Johnny Dollar a Paid Internet Troll?

The Smoking Gun

Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?

FREE THE WEED!!!

D.C. Residents Will Vote On
Marijuana Legalization This November

Medical Marijuana User
Sues Company That Fired Her

In most states, marijuana is
a bargain compared to beer

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Agrees: There’s A War On Whites

Bill O’Reilly Goes Off On Juan Williams

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

People Are Crowdfunding To Put “Sean
Hannity Is An Idiot” Billboards In US Airports

Colbert Takes A Hilarious Dig At Hannity

The Foxy Friends
at Fox & Friends

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Steve Doocy Thinks ‘In God We
Trust’ Speaks To All Americans!

CHARLES PAYNE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Business Host Calls Walgreens ‘Shameful’
for Not Using Loopholes to Avoid Paying Taxes

IN INNER SPACE:

Ancient fossil haul from Wyoming cave is a paleontologist’s dream

IN OUTER SPACE:

Rosetta Probe’s First Photos Of Comet Reveal A ‘Scientific Disneyland’

White Dwarf That Survived Supernova, Detected by Hubble Space Telescope

Galaxy’s Huge Black Hole Puts On Awesome Fireworks Show

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday August 6, 2014

August 6, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, CNN, Falafel King, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Lucille Ball, Outer Space, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy again, Headliners! Today’s birthday girl is the incomparable Lucille Ball. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.

1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising–the Krakow Uprising (1944)— that was planned but never carried out.

1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

2012 – NASA‘s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND:

‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off
Tea Party Cronies Instead

Move America Forward has collected millions to send care packages to U.S. troops. But its assets have been used to benefit conservative political consulting firms close to its Tea Party founder.

Down and out in Lake County

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

Company Pays Settlement in Buckets of Loose Change

IN LGBT NEWS:

Fourth Judge Strikes Down
Florida’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

FREE THE WEED!!!

Rules for the Marijuana Market

Full-Page Marijuana Ad to
Appear in New York Times

Why Can’t Americans Grow Their Own Weed Without Fear?

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Illinois man ‘showing off’ shotgun to friends fatally shoots self in head to prove it is empty

Man Fatally Shoots Himself in Head
While Posing for Selfie With Loaded Gun

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly’s Attacks On Black Culture

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CNN Reportedly Sued over Drunken,
Violent, Biting Correspondent

IN OUTER SPACE:

European Spacecraft Nears
Rendezvous With Comet

A hellacious two weeks
on Jupiter’s moon Io

L.A.’s Mt. Wilson Observatory
inspires the future of cosmology

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday August 2, 2014

August 2, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Beckel, Conservatives, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, Homophone Agenda, Homophones, Outer Space, Peter O'Toole, Rupert MurdochHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today Peter O’Toole would be celebrating his birthday if he hadn’t had the misfortune of dying last December. Here are some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1610 – Henry Hudson sails into what is now known as Hudson Bay thinking he had made it through the Northwest Passage and reached the Pacific Ocean.

1776 – The signing of the United States Declaration of Independence took place.

1790 – The first United States Census is conducted.

1870 – Tower Subway, the world’s first underground tube railway, opens in London, England, United Kingdom.

1873 – The Clay Street Hill Railroad begins operating the first cable car in San Francisco‘s famous cable car system.

1918 – The first general strike in Canadian history takes place in Vancouver.

1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding

1932 – The positron (antiparticle of the electron) is discovered by Carl D. Anderson.

1934 – Gleichschaltung: Adolf Hitler becomes Führer of Germany following the death of President Paul von Hindenburg.

1937 – The Marihuana Tax Act of 1937 is passed in America, the effect of which is to render marijuana and all its by-products illegal.

1939 – Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd write a letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt, urging him to begin the Manhattan Project to develop a nuclear weapon.

1943 – World War II: the Motor Torpedo Boat PT-109 is rammed by the Japanese destroyer Amagiri and sinks. Lt. John F. Kennedy, future U.S. President, saves all but two of his crew.

1964 – Vietnam War: Gulf of Tonkin incident – North Vietnamese gunboats allegedly fire on the U.S. destroyer USS Maddox.

1989 – Pakistan is re-admitted to the Commonwealth of Nations after having restoring democracy for the first time since 1972.

1990 – Iraq invades Kuwait, eventually leading to the Gulf War.

Now for today’s Headlines Du Jour:

WHAT SCARES THE RIGHT WING??? EVERYTHING!!!

Secrets of the Right-Wing
Brain: New Study Proves
It — Conservatives See
a Hostile World

THE HOMOPHONE AGENDA:

Blogger gets fired
from language school
for ‘homophones’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana advocate Marc Emery
vows ‘political revenge’ against Tories

So-called Prince of Pot gives 1st interview
to CBC since release from U.S. prison

A Majority Of Florida Voters Support Legalizing Recreational Marijuana

Ganjapreneurs Line Up to Get Florida High

Smoke-filled room? Legal marijuana
debated at National Press Club

Drug Czar Responds to NY
Times Legalization Editorial

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

NRA’s Murder Mystery

One court sent him to prison for shooting
a woman. Another set him free over bad
police work. Was the NRA’s top lawyer
railroaded — or a bad guy with a gun?

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

As Murdoch Tries To Buy
Time Warner, Two More
Charged With Phone Hacking

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly On Racial Profiling Of
Drug Offenders: It’s Not About “Let’s
Hunt Down The Black People Today”

BOBBY BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Bob Beckel On ABC’s The
Bachelorette Star: “She’s A Slut”

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox & Friends Host Dismisses “Faux Fear” Of Impeachment Immediately After Laying Out Case For Obama’s Impeachment

Fox Host Lists A “Ton Of Proof” That
Obama “Might Qualify For Impeachment”

IN INNER SPACE:

Siberian Mystery Craters Explained:
‘Dragon Breath’ Methane Spikes Above
Russia Linked to Climate Change

IN OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious X-Ray
Glow Comes From
‘Hot Bubble,’
Astronomers Say

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, July 29, 2014

July 29, 2014420, Alexis de Tocqueville, Bill O'Reilly, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Howard Kurtz, LGBT, Loofah Lad, MSNBC, Racism, Sarah Palin, Science, SpaceHeadly Westerfield

After a hiatus of a few weeks, Headlines Du Jour is back, babies!!! Today’s birthday belongs to Alexis de Tocqueville, who coined the phrase ‘Merkin ‘Ceptionalism and it wasn’t meant to be a compliment. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots, marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace in Edinburgh, Scotland.

1793 – John Graves Simcoe decides to build a fort and settlement at Toronto, having sailed into the bay there.

1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.

1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.

1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.

1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.

1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (aka the “Son of Sam”) kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul’s Cathedral in London.

1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

Now here are today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Gay Marriage and the
Political Psychology of Disgust

Why is it that some react to the LGBT community
with the same emotions we use for rotting food?
Scientists are starting to figure it out.

Florida Man Denies Homophobia After
Towing 100 Cars At Disney’s Gay Days

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

Miami Beach Cars Vandalized With Anti-Semitic Messages

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Pregnant FL woman dies after being shot in head by friend showing off his gun collection

FREE THE WEED!!!

NY Times Calls for
Legalization of Marijuana

At Colorado’s borders, a dividing line over marijuana

The 7 Most Ridiculous Things Said on Meet the Press’ Panel on Pot Legalization

SCIENCE MARCHES ON:

Stanford creates ‘Holy Grail’ lithium battery,
could triple smartphone and EV battery life

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Gretchen Carlson the Persecution
Peddler Claims She is Persecuted

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Hits ‘Far-Left’ NY Times for
Pot Support: ‘It’s About Race, Not Drugs’

COLONEL KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Kurtz Amends Statement That ‘No Question’ Hamas Kidnapped Israeli Teens

SARAH PALIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sarah Palin Launches Subscription-Based
Online Video Channel

Palin Challenges WaPo
‘Wusses’ to Go After
Obama Like They Did Nixon

MSNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Rula Jebreal Calls Out MSNBC: Whoever’s
Doing Their PR ‘Needs to Rethink’ Things

IN INNER SPACE:

Deep-Sea Lab Will Train Astronauts for Asteroid Mission

IN OUTER SPACE:

The 5 Massive New Telescopes That Will Change Astronomy Forever

Astronomers Discover
Three Surprisingly Dry
Jupiter-Like Exoplanets

Peru: Archaeologists Uncover Ancient Astronomy Lab In Peruvian Ruins

Don’t Miss These Minor
Meteor Showers This Summer

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, July 10, 2014

July 10, 2014420, Ablow Job, Bill O'Reilly, DNA, Dr. Keith Ablow, Evolution, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, Ian Whitcomb, Jesse Watters, Kirsten Powers, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Steve Doocy, Tucker CarlsonHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Ian Whitcomb, born in 1941 and still going strong. From the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1553 – Lady Jane Grey takes the throne of England.

1821 – The United States takes possession of its newly bought territory of Florida from Spain.

1850 – Millard Fillmore is inaugurated as the 13th President of the United States upon the death of President Zachary Taylor, 16 months into his term.

1890 – Wyoming is admitted as the 44th U.S. state.

1913 – Death Valley, California, hits 134 °F (57 °C), the highest temperature recorded in the United States.

1921 – Belfast’s Bloody Sunday: 16 people are killed and 161 houses destroyed during rioting and gun battles in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

1925 – Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.

1925 – Scopes Trial: In Dayton, Tennessee, the so-called “Monkey Trial” begins with John T. Scopes, a young high school science teacher accused of teaching evolution in violation of the Butler Act.

1962 – Telstar, the world’s first communications satellite, is launched into orbit.

1966 – The Chicago Freedom Movement, led by Martin Luther King, Jr., holds a rally at Soldier Field
in Chicago, Illinois. As many as 60,000 people come to hear Dr. King as
well as Mahalia Jackson, Stevie Wonder, and Peter Paul and Mary.

1985 – The Greenpeace vessel Rainbow Warrior is bombed and sunk in Auckland harbour by French DGSE agents, killing Fernando Pereira.

1992 – In Miami, Florida, the former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is sentenced to 40 years in prison for drug and racketeering violations.

1997 – In London scientists report the findings of the DNA analysis of a Neanderthal skeleton which supports the “out of Africa theory” of human evolution placing an “African Eve” at 100,000 to 200,000 years ago.

1998 – Roman Catholic sex abuse cases: The Diocese of Dallas agrees to pay $23.4 million to nine former altar boys who claimed they were sexually abused by Rudolph Kos, a former priest.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

FREE THE WEED!!!

Brooklyn District Attorney to Stop
Prosecuting Low-Level Marijuana Cases

New York is 23rd US state to allow medical marijuana

Smell of unburnt marijuana cannot justify search of car

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

NRA: Gun Regulations Are “Equally As Unconstitutional” As Jim Crow Laws

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Covers Immigration ‘Protest’ of
About 10 People, Including Some Kids

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Gay Pride Parades Are Still
Funny On The O’Reilly Factor

Bill O’Reilly Thinks IUDs Sold At Target?!

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

KIRSTEN POWERS HAS HAD ENOUGH!!!

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Jesse Watters: I Wasn’t Judging When
I Called Single Women Government-
Dependent ‘Beyoncé Voters’

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Steve Doocy Lies: Hobby Lobby Decision
Only Covers Contraceptives That “End Lives”

TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Daily Caller’s Menendez Smear May
Have Come From The Castro Regime

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sean Hannity: President Obama
Is the ‘Manchurian Candidate’

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Keith Ablow Officially Confirms
What We All Knew About Him Already

IN INNER SPACE:

Scientists have found that memories may be passed down through generations in our DNA

Scientists watch the still frames of central
step of photosynthesis for the first time

Duck-Billed Dinosaur Footprints, Made Nearly
70 Million Years Ago, Discovered In Alaska

IN OUTER SPACE:

Supernova SN2010jl Helps Scientists Understand the Origin of Cosmic Dust

Missing Light Crisis: The
Universe Seems a Little Too Dark

Astronomers bring the third
dimension to a doomed star’s outburst

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, July 8, 2014

July 8, 2014420, Air Pollution, Ben Carson, DNA, Evolution, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Kevin Bacon, Outer Space, Racism, SCOTUSHeadly Westerfield

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

1099 – First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in a religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders look on.

1663 – Charles II of England grants John Clarke a Royal charter to Rhode Island.

1775 – The Olive Branch Petition is signed by the Continental Congress of the Thirteen Colonies.

1822 – Chippewas turn over a huge tract of land in Ontario to the United Kingdom.

1876 – White supremacists kill five Black Republicans in Hamburg, South Carolina.

1889 – The first issue of The Wall Street Journal is published.

1898 – The death of crime boss Soapy Smith, killed in the Shootout on Juneau Wharf, releases Skagway, Alaska from his iron grip.

1932 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level of the Great Depression, closing at 41.22.

1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.

1960 – Francis Gary Powers is charged with espionage resulting from his flight over the Soviet Union.

1968 – The Chrysler wildcat strike begins in Detroit, Michigan.

1970 – Richard Nixon delivers a special congressional message enunciating Native American self-determination as official US Indian policy, leading to the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975.

1982 – Assassination attempt against Iraqi president Saddam Hussein in Dujail.

2011 – Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched in the final mission of the U.S. Space Shuttle program.

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

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

A Newspaper Actually Used a Headline Calling Obama The N-Word In The White House

Off-duty GA police officer arrested for road rage assault, calling victim a ‘low-life n*gger’

GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!!!

Just 4 fracking wastewater sites cause 20
percent of all central US earthquakes – study

GET THE TRUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

Rolling Coal

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

L.A.’s First-Ever Marijuana Farmers
Market Draws Hourlong Lines

Washington State’s First Legal Marijuana
Shops Set to Open Amid Chaos

This Is What Seattle’s First Legal
Marijuana Shop Looks Like

Everything You Need to Know About
Buying Legal Weed In Washington State

Florida holds first hearing
on medical marijuana rules

Colo., Wash., differ in legalizing marijuana

SCOTUS WATCH:

Cutting Through The Conservative Lies About The Hobby Lobby Ruling

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Only 2 People Showed Up To July 4
Richmond Open Carry Demonstration

Police: Man shot toddler to torture her dad

Armed Preacher In Texas Shot With Own Gun During Home Invasion

10 states where guns are most (and least) likely to kill people

FOX & FRIENDS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News ‘Girls Gone Mild’
segment warns women not to
raise voices: ‘Don’t talk too much’

Fox News Advises Women To Ditch Feminism, Offers Tips To ‘Keep Your Husband Happy’

DR. BEN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Ben Carson: ‘Sad’ that stoners vote after Obama distracts them from Benghazi with pot

IN INNER SPACE:

Researchers Find Ancient Human Skull with
Inner Ear Structure Unique to Neanderthals

IN OUTER SPACE:

How the faintest galaxies
illuminated the early universe

NASA Mission Captures
Video of Massive Solar Fireworks

Sun Sends More ‘Tsunami Waves’ to Voyager 1

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, July 5, 2014

July 5, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, facebook, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Google, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Outnumbered, Racism, Religion, Smiley Lewis, Steve DoocyHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Smiley Lewis, a New Orleans Rhythm & Blues artist. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1687 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.

1775 – The Second Continental Congress adopts the Olive Branch Petition.

1934 – “Bloody Thursday” – Police open fire on striking longshoremen in San Francisco.

1935 – The National Labor Relations Act, which governs labor relations in the United States, is signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1937 – Spam, the luncheon meat, is introduced into the market by the Hormel Foods Corporation.

1946 – The bikini goes on sale after debuting during an outdoor fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris, France.

1948 – National Health Service Acts creates the national public health systems in the United Kingdom.

1950 – Zionism: The Knesset passes the Law of Return which grants all Jews the right to immigrate to Israel.

1954 – The BBC broadcasts its first television news bulletin.

1971 – Right to vote: The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 years, is formally certified by President Richard Nixon.

1975 – Arthur Ashe becomes the first black man to win the Wimbledon singles title.

1989 – Iran–Contra affair: Oliver North is sentenced by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell
to a three-year suspended prison term, two years probation, $150,000 in
fines and 1,200 hours community service. His convictions were later
overturned.

1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.

2009 – The largest hoard of Anglo-Saxon gold ever discovered, consisting of more than 1,500 items, is found near the village of Hammerwich, near Lichfield, in Staffordshire, England.

Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Anti-gay Archbishop under investigation
for sexual misconduct with other men

Rep. Paul Broun: Right to have ‘guns everywhere’ was ‘given by our Lord’

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

“GOP” STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PROPHYLACTICS?”

GOP Senator: Women Use Birth Control
for Mostly ‘Recreational Behavior’

GOP ALSO STANDS FOR THE LAST CENTURY:

Underdog GOP Candidate Sings And
Speaks In Tongues On Self-Posted Video

All The Single Ladies: Female Voting Power and The Looming Extinction of The GOP

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

17-year-old cheerleader shot
‘execution style’ on New Jersey street

Two-Year-Old Fatally Shot in Inkster; 12-Year-Old and Adult Wounded

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

Chris McDaniel Insists Thad Cochran Abandoned Christian Values by Appealing to Black Voters

FREE THE WEED!!!

First Marijuana Farmers Market
in Los Angeles Opens Today

Marijuana prohibition has
failed; it’s time for a new approach

Texas Rancher Discovers $2M Marijuana Growing Operation on His Land

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Facebook News Feed experiment isn’t all bad: A look at the other side of the controversy

Clicking Their Way to Outrage

On Social Media, Some Are Susceptible to Internet Outrage

Right to be forgotten: Google may hate it,
but we’re dangerously close to making it work

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Republicans Have Been Secretly Helping To Elect Bill and Hillary Clinton By Watching Fox News

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly’s awful border plan:
Insane, cruel and comparatively moderate

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host: Obama Avoiding Border for Fear
He Might ‘Catch Something’ from Immigrants

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Outnumbered: Outlandish,
Outdated, Overtly Biased

IN OUTER SPACE:

Study Disproves 2 Earth-like Planets’ Existence

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, July 2, 2014

July 2, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Festus, Festus Haggen, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Jesse Watters, Ken Curtis, LGBT, Loofah Lad, NBC, Outer Space, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners. It’s the 183rd day of the year — with just 182 left — which means 2014 is now more than half over. Celebrating a birthday today is Ken Curtis, who played Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, but was one of The Sons of the Pioneers. Let’s look at some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1822 – 35 African American slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

Now here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

WATCH: SC trooper threatens Taser on cooperative NFL player during traffic arrest

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Tea Party Gov. Paul LePage held several
meetings with FBI-designated terrorist group

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GETOUTTAHERE!

Rick Santorum: Founding fathers had
right idea limiting those who could vote

IN LGBT NEWS:

The invention of the heterosexual

The history of straightness is much shorter
than you’d think. An expert explains its origins

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

NY man walks into business for
a job, shoots two workers and
himself when he doesn’t get it

Firearms dealer shoots woman while teaching concealed carry safety at PA gun show

FREE THE WEED!!!

Iowa’s new medical
marijuana law takes effect today

Colorado recreational marijuana
industry begins major transformation

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Twitter Chat: The ethics of
Facebook’s mood manipulation study

NBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

George Zimmerman Loses Lawsuit; It’s
Not NBC’s Fault He Appears to be a Racist

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Turns To Extremist Group To Clear Up “Misinformation”
On Hobby Lobby Case

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly Claims
A Liberal SCOTUS Will Lead
To Slavery And Loss Of Freedom

Bill O’Reilly: One more liberal Supreme Court justice could end freedom ‘forever’

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Watters: Single Women Are
“Beyonce Voters” Who “Depend On
Government Because They’re Not
Depending On Their Husbands”

IN INNER SPACE:

Chilean Devil Rays Dive
Deeper Than You Think

Ancient baby boom delivers a
lesson in population management

IN OUTER SPACE:

Saturn-orbiting spacecraft to
go out with a bang, says NASA

Biggest meteor recorded in the
UK lights up skies above Devon

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, June 30, 2014

June 30, 2014420, Climate Change, DNA, facebook, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Karl Rove, KKKarl Rove, Larry Gatlin, Murray McLaughlan, Religion, Space, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

It’s the last day of June, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Canadian troubadour Murry McLaughlin. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.

1864 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln grants Yosemite Valley to California for “public use, resort and recreation”.

1882 – Charles J. Guiteau is hanged in Washington, D.C. for the assassination of U.S. President James Garfield.

1886 – The first transcontinental train trip across Canada departs from Montreal. It arrives in Port Moody, British Columbia on July 4.

1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.

1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.

1922 – In Washington D.C., U.S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes and Dominican Ambassador Francisco J. Peynado sign the Hughes-Peynado agreement, which ends the United States occupation of the Dominican Republic.

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler‘s violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

1937 – The world’s first emergency telephone number, 999, is introduced in London

1953 – The first Chevrolet Corvette rolls off the assembly line in Flint, Michigan.

1966 – The National Organization for Women, the United States’ largest feminist organization, is founded.

1971 – Ohio ratifies the 26th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, reducing the voting age to 18, thereby putting the amendment into effect.

1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in Bowers v. Hardwick that states can outlaw homosexual acts between consenting adults.

1987 – The Royal Canadian Mint introduces the $1 coin, known as the Loonie.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

INCOME INEQUALITY IN ‘MERKA:

Why Republicans Refuse to
Recognize Class Privilege

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate change may cause
Emperor penguins’ extinction

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOOFBALL:

Man Who Believes ‘Obamacare Causes
Cancer’ Wins GOP Primary In Colorado

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Jenny Beth Martin, Tea Party Patriots Founder, Collecting Half-Million Dollar Government Bailout

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Watch This Christian KKK Grand Wizard
Find Out Jesus Wasn’t White (Video)

The Persecution of Pagans
Continues in the United States

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Fast food customer pulls
shotgun on employees at Hardee’s

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

Facebook News Feed: 5 Changes

FREE THE WEED!!!

5 things to know about
Washington legal pot sales

Marijuana shortages could have
Washington stores, customers
wondering: Where’s the weed?

Lawmakers in 11 states approve
low-THC medical marijuana bills

Bill Clinton: States should experiment
with marijuana legalization

‘This really is a time when there should be
laboratories of democracy,’ former president says

Maryland woman finds bag of marijuana in Sonic fast food order

KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host Challenges Rove On Boehner
Lawsuit: Is Obama Worse Than Bush?

BILL KRISTOL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Nation editor stuns ‘architect of catastrophe’
Bill Kristol: Join Iraqi Army if you want war

LARRY GATLIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Country music’s Larry Gatlin
rants to Fox about a ‘half-breed
Cherokee’ grandma to slam liberals

IN INNER SPACE:

Older sperm donors as good as young: study

Supercooling Organs- A Major Scientific Breakthrough In Organ Donation

IN OUTER SPACE:

NASA to Launch Global
Warming Satellite After Loss

Newfound Alien Planet ‘Gliese 832c’
May Be Able To Support Life

Three Supermassive Black Holes
Discovered In Distant Galaxy

NASA’s Flying Saucer Finally Flies

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IN LGBT NEWS:

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

IN ROCK AND ROLL NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

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

PAID INTERNET TROLLS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CHARLES PAYNE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND:

IN LGBT NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

WHAT SCARES THE RIGHT WING??? EVERYTHING!!!

THE HOMOPHONE AGENDA:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOBBY BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

SCIENCE MARCHES ON:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

COLONEL KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SARAH PALIN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

MSNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

FREE THE WEED!!!

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

JESSE WATTERS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ABLOW JOB IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

GET THE FRACK OUTTA HERE!!!

GET THE TRUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

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:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

“GOP” STANDS FOR “GOT OUR PROPHYLACTICS?”