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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday August 16, 2014

August 16, 2014420, Andrea Tantaros, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Cyber-bullying, Dr. Keith Ablow, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Kevin Ayers, Pollution, Rick Perry, Steve KingHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Kevin Ayers, an English singer-songwriter, who started in the free Jazz combo Soft Machine. Before he died last year, he lived through quite a few Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1812 – War of 1812: American General William Hull surrenders Fort Detroit without a fight to the British Army.
1841 – U.S. President John Tyler vetoes a bill which called for the re-establishment of the Second Bank of the United States. Enraged Whig Party members riot outside the White House in the most violent demonstration on White House grounds in U.S. history.
1858 – U.S. President James Buchanan inaugurates the new transatlantic telegraph cable by exchanging greetings with Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom. However, a weak signal forces a shutdown of the service in a few weeks.
1896 – Skookum Jim Mason, George Carmack and Dawson Charlie discover gold in a tributary of the Klondike River in Canada, setting off the Klondike Gold Rush.
1927 – The Dole Air Race begins from Oakland, California, to Honolulu, Hawaii, during which six out of the eight participating planes crash or disappear.
1930 – The first color sound cartoon, called Fiddlesticks, is made by Ub Iwerks.
1930 – The first British Empire Games were opened in Hamilton, Ontario by the Governor General of Canada, the Viscount Willingdon.
1954 – The first issue of Sports Illustrated is published.
1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.
1989 – A solar flare from the Sun creates a geomagnetic storm that affects micro chips, leading to a halt of all trading on Toronto’s stock market.
2008 – The Trump International Hotel and Tower in Chicago is topped off at 1,389 feet (423 m), at the time becoming the world’s highest residence above ground-level.

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

COPS GONE WILD:

The Police Are Here
To Preserve Disorder

Every
Mayberry has a SWAT team and
authorities are eager to unleash riot

police on the public. This wasn’t the
case 50 years ago, so how’d we get
here?

Is This The ‘Land Of The Free’?: How Ferguson Is Playing Outside The U.S.

One nation under SWAT:
How America’s police
became an occupying force

Not Just Ferguson:
11 Eye-Opening Facts About
America’s Militarized Police Forces

The Day Ferguson Cops Were Caught in a Bloody Lie

San Jose police fatally shoot woman,
19, after mistaking power drill for a gun

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday August 13, 2014

August 13, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully Boy Bolling, Eric Bolling, Fox News, Fox News Snark, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Loofah Lad, Neil Cavuto, Outer Space, Shep Smith, Tucker CarlsonHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to Bert Lahr, the cowardly lion. AUNTY EM!!! AUNTY EM!!! Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1521 – After an extended siege, forces led by Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés capture Tlatoani Cuauhtémoc and conquer the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan.
1624 – The French king Louis XIII appoints Cardinal Richelieu as prime minister
1779 – American Revolutionary War: The Royal Navy defeats the Penobscot Expedition with the most significant loss of United States naval forces prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor.
1831 – Nat Turner sees a solar eclipse, which he believes is a sign from God. Eight days later he and 70 other slaves kill approximately 55 whites in Southampton County, Virginia.
1898 – Carl Gustav Witt discovers 433 Eros, the first near-Earth asteroid to be found.
1906 – The all black infantrymen of the U.S. Army’s 25th Infantry Regiment are accused of killing a white bartender and wounding a white police officer in Brownsville, Texas, despite exculpatory evidence; all are later dishonorably discharged.
1913 – First production in the UK of stainless steel by Harry Brearley.
1918 – Women enlist in the United States Marine Corps for the first time. Opha Mae Johnson is the first woman to enlist.
1918 – Bayerische Motoren Werke AG (BMW) established as a public company in Germany.
1942 – Walt Disney’s fifth full-length animated film, Bambi, was released to theaters.
1961 – East Germany closes the border between the eastern and western sectors of Berlin to thwart its inhabitants’ attempts to escape to the West.
1969 – The Apollo 11 astronauts are released from a three-week quarantine to enjoy a ticker tape parade in New York, New York. That evening, at a state dinner in Los Angeles, California, they are awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by U.S. President Richard Nixon.
1979 – The roof of the uncompleted Rosemont Horizon in Rosemont, Illinois, collapses, killing five workers and injuring 16.

Now let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

INCOME INEQUALITY:

Hamburger-making machine churns
out custom burgers at industrial speeds

FREE THE WEED!!!

Costa Rica’s Health Minister supports medical marijuana bill; CCSS would provide the drug free of charge

Arizona Medical-Marijuana Patients Could Buy
Pot in Nevada Dispensaries Under New Plan

Who Discovered THC? Setting the Record Straight

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News has a new Cliven Bundy — and again, the right’s new hero has some explaining to do

Fox News Backs Robin Williams Death
Report with Fake Mrs. Doubtfire Footage

SHEP SMITH IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News host labels Robin Williams ‘such a coward’ over alleged suicide

To his credit:

Shepard Smith Apologizes for Robin Williams ‘Coward’ Remark

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Surprised Some Ferguson African Americans Protected Property From Looters

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Bolling: Why Does Sharpton
Always Try to Insert Himself into Tragedy?

Eric Bolling Attacks Islam – Again!

TUCKER FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Tucker Carlson Offers Paranoid Claim That Government “Would Like To Disarm You”

Tucker Carlson: More Kids Die ‘In Their Bathtubs’ Than From Gun Accidents

NEIL CAVUTO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Cavuto Fails to Bait NFL Star into
Badmouthing Michelle Obama on Fox

LOU DOBBS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Lou Dobbs: Border Crisis ‘Coordinated
and Orchestrated’ by Obama

IN OUTER SPACE:

ALMA confirms comets forge organic
molecules in their dusty atmospheres
These new observations provide important insights
into how and where comets forge new chemicals,
including intriguing organic compounds.

Black hole bends light, space, time — and NASA’s NuSTAR can see it all unfold

Big Bang: How the Universe was created

Scientists Detect a Possible Signal from Dark Matter

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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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Ex-GOP candidate for CA gov. wounds neighbor in shooting spree, ‘I’m done with everything’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Cannabis Biotech: Creating
A 30-Foot Marijuana Tree

Medical Marijuana Research
Hits Wall of U.S. Law

Minnesota medical marijuana
grower application fee: $20,000

The Impact of Recreational Marijuana
Use on a Denver Neighborhood

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Eric Bolling to Radical
Muslims: ‘You Want a Holy
War? We’ll Give You One.’

Fox’s Bolling Likens Ebola
to AIDS Outbreak, Guests
Clash over Fearmongering