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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, October 5, 2014

October 5, 2014420, Andrea Tantaros, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Beckel, Climate Change, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Eric Bolling, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Greta Van Susteren, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, RacismHeadly Westerfield

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:

1450 – Jews are expelled from Lower Bavaria by order of Louis IX, Duke of Bavaria.

1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

1813 – Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British and kill Shawnee leader Tecumseh.

1877 – Chief Joseph surrenders his Nez Perce band to General Nelson A. Miles.

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.
1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.

1938 – In Nazi Germany Jews’ passports were invalidated, and those who needed a passport for emigration purposes were given one marked with the letter J (Jude – Jew).

1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.
1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released.

1962 – The Beatles‘ first single, “Love Me Do” backed with “P.S. I Love You“, is released in the United Kingdom.

1966 – Near Detroit, Michigan, there is a partial core meltdown at the Enrico Fermi demonstration nuclear breeder reactor.

1968 – Police baton civil rights demonstrators in Derry, Northern Ireland – considered to mark the beginning of The Troubles.

1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC One.

1970 – Montreal: British Trade Commissioner James Cross is kidnapped by members of the FLQ terrorist group, triggering the October Crisis.

1974 – Guildford pub bombings: bombs planted by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) kill four British soldiers and one civilian.

1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

2001 – Barry Bonds surpassed Mark McGwire‘s single-season home run total with his milestone 71st and 72nd home runs.

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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, October 2, 2014

October 2, 2014420, Allen West, Andrea Tantaros, Bill O'Reilly, Bob Beckel, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, facebook, Fox News, Free the Weed, Global Warming, Gretchen Carlson, Guns, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Racism, Religion, Steve DoocyHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belonds to the One! The only!! GROUCHO!!! Julius Henry Marx saw more than his fair share of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1535 – Jacques Cartier discovers the area where Montreal is located.

1789 – George Washington sends the proposed Constitutional amendments (The United States Bill of Rights) to the States for ratification.

1835 – The Texas Revolution begins with the Battle of Gonzales: Mexican soldiers attempt to disarm the people of Gonzales, Texas, but encounter stiff resistance from a hastily assembled militia.

1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West.

1919 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson suffers a massive stroke, leaving him partially paralyzed.

1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system.

1937 – Dominican Republic strongman Rafael Trujillo orders the execution of the Haitian population living within the borderlands; approximately 20,000 are killed over the next five days.

1944 – World War II: German troops end the Warsaw Uprising.

1950 – Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz is first published.

1959 – The anthology series The Twilight Zone premieres on CBS television.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of United States Supreme Court.
1979 – Pope John Paul II denounces all forms of concentration camps and torture while speaking at the U.N. in New York City.

1996 – The Electronic Freedom of Information Act Amendments are signed by U.S. President Bill Clinton.

2001 – NATO backs U.S. military strikes following 9/11.

2006 – Five school girls are murdered by Charles Carl Roberts in a shooting at an Amish school in Nickel Mines, Pennsylvania before Roberts commits suicide.

Now for today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

Bullied Black Teen Leaves Christian School After Classmate Takes Picture in KKK Mask

TODAY IN LGBT:

Transsexual differences caught on brain scan

White Ohio lesbians suing sperm bank over mixed-race baby

TODAY IN RELIGION:

70-year-old NC pastor accused of
sexually assaulting young girl for six years

FREE THE WEED!!!

Colorado’s pot market getting new competition

Busted in July, A’s Catcher Ready for Playoffs

Kew Gardens opens drugs festival where
visitors can sample mind-altering plants

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Texas city manager’s son fatally shoots
girlfriend in the face while cleaning his gun

Felon Doesn’t Know How to Unload Gun,
Fires It at Neighbor’s Window Instead

Newborn Baby Shot In Head In
Pennsylvania ‘Hunting Accident’

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Facebook apologizes to LGBT users, reverses ground on ‘real name’ policy

TODAY IN GLOBAL WARMING:

Striking NASA images:
Fourth-largest lake nearly dried up

PEEKING INTO WINDOWS:

Microsoft Is Finally Fixing The Disaster That Is Windows 8

Microsoft unveils first look at Windows 10

Microsoft skips Windows 9 to emphasize advances

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

A Cop Killing And A Beheading: How Fox News Picks And Chooses Its “Terrorism” Targets

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Bob Beckel Gets Bleeped During
Fiery Rant Against His Five Co-Hosts

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: Obama’s Anti-Terror Record
‘About as Weak as You Can Get’

O’Reilly Suggests A Strong Interviewer
Would Have Blamed Obama For
Islamic State Beheadings

O’Reilly: Interviewers Should “Be Provocative” And Ask Obama “Isn’t It Your Fault That These Two American Journalists Were Beheaded?”

Bill O’Reilly Throws a Temper Tantrum After
Stephen Colbert Mocked His Mercenary Army Plan

An Insanely Jealous Bill O’Reilly Claims
Conservatives Won’t Watch Stephen Colbert

Bill O’Reilly Is Just So Mad At Stephen Colbert These Days

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly pretty much calls Stephen Colbert ‘dumb’

WRETCHED GRETCHED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Hosts Idealize Bush’s “Precedent” Of Declassifying Intelligence Briefings

Fox Praises LA Restaurant That Gives Gun-Toting Patrons 10 Percent Discount

ALLEN WEST IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Ignores Allen West’s Sedition And
Welcomes Him As Credible Obama Critic

MEDIA MAN HOWARD KURTZ IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Kurtz to O’Reilly: Press Turning
on Obama Because It’s ‘In Thing to Do’

Those Foxy Friends from the
Curvy Couch on Fox & Friends

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox host to CDC director: Obama
lied about ‘things’ so maybe
you’re lying about Ebola

Fox Uses Oklahoma Beheading
To Tout Fake Obama “War
On The Second Amendment”

Fox’s Doocy: “If Barack Obama Could, He Would Ban Guns In The Hands Of Everybody Except The Police”

BRAIN BRIAN KILMEADE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host Brian Kilmeade “Would Love To See” Allen West “In A Leadership Role With The Secret Service”

West Says “It Would Be An Incredible
Honor” To Become Director

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck Demands to Know Why
Medical Expert Isn’t Panicking over Ebola

KKKARL ROVE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Karl Rove: President Obama Has “A
Lazy Attitude Towards The Job That He’s Got”

MARTHA MACCALLUM IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s MacCallum Falsely Suggests Obama Won’t
Acknowledge Khorasan Group’s Connection To Al Qaeda

THE TARANTULA IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Tantaros: Secret Service Director
Hired to ‘Appease Women Voters’

Fox Host: College Sex Education
Week Should Include “How Not
To … Blackout In A Fraternity House”

OUTNUMBERED IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host On Migrant Children In Public School: “What’s
Worse, A Drug War In Honduras Or Common Core?”