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Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2014420, Climate Change, Detroit, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Paul Ryan, Religion, Rob Ford, Sherlock Holmes, St. Patrick, St. Patrick's DayHeadly Westerfield

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:

624 – Led by Muhammad, the Muslims of Medina defeat the Quraysh of Mecca in the Battle of Badr.
1776 – American Revolution: British forces evacuate Boston, ending the Siege of Boston, after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city.
1780 – American Revolution: George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday “as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence”.
1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed.
1941 – In Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Art is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1942 – Holocaust: The first Jews from the Lvov Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1958 – The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1960 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 – My Lai Massacre: The United States Army charges 14 officers with suppressing information related to the incident.
1985 – Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the “Night Stalker”, commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.

Green with envy? No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

How Much Could Michigan Gain
In Marijuana Tax Revenue?

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

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 16, 2014

March 16, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully Boy Bolling, Cops Gone Wild, Eric Bolling, Falafel King, Fetish, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Henny Youngman, Income Inequality, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Playboy, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. Today is the birthday of funnyman Henny Youngman, born in 1906. Take the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear, please:

1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford’s Tower, York.

1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches the Philippines.

1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, “Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset.”

1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

1940 – First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands, James Isbister.

1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch. It exploded at lift-off.

1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.

1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company’s founding.

1968 – Vietnam War: In the My Lai massacre, between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.

1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.

1988 – Iran-Contra Affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

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

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

Some White People Tried To Rally For Their Race Today

Shocking racist tweets follow
high school basketball
win by all-white team

The White Man March, Which Is Almost Exactly What It Sounds Like, Is Coming to New York

Taking on the Trolls:
Why the Online Race-Hatred Against First Nations?

74 y.o. African-American lectures college kids for using the n-word

Paul Ryan To Smooth Things Over With
Black Leadership After ‘Inner City’ Remark

How the Irish Became White? Paul Ryan’s Ugly
Public Embrace of Anti-Black Racism and Eugenics

IN LGBT NEWS:

Slán Go Fóill! Sponsors Flee Boston’s Homophobic St. Patrick’s Day Parade

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Man Tapes Himself Molesting Street Signs – 2 Years of
Video Footage Found

Model Sues Playboy for Letting Golfer Drive Ball Off Her Butt

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Alabama children’s pastor tells police he ‘cannot remember’ how many boys he molested

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

No CEOs paid price for 2008 meltdown. Here’s why:

The U.S. financial sector drained taxpayers of $12.6 trillion in bailouts and more than 8 million jobs in North America. Why have no top CEOs gone to jail?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Tim Skubick: Marijuana decriminalization or legalization could pop up on many local ballots in 2014

Brutal press release from
Health Canada shows their
disdain for cannabis medicines
and patients in need

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Former Palmdale deputy
pleads to rape, bribery

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Letterman to O’Reilly
on Beyoncé Obsession:
‘You Just Found Something
to Whine About’

O’Reilly Jabs at ‘Another Network’ Who Does ‘Nothing’ but Speculate About Missing Airliner

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Jon Stewart flattens Fox News’ Eric Bolling for trying to ‘school’ him on shaming the poor

Fox News’ Attempt To ‘School’ Jon Stewart On Food Stamp Abuse Blows Up On Them

Jon Stewart Hits Back At Fox Host For
Trying To ‘School’ Him On Food Stamps

◄ BONUS VIDEOS DU JOUR ►

The Daily Show
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Chow Mein and Bolling
A retired Not Now Silly series which made fun of Eric Bolling, until it wasn’t fun anymore.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have we found a message from the dawn of time?
‘Major discovery’ set for Monday could give scientists their first glimpse of the birth of the universe

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, March 14, 2014

March 14, 2014420, Albert Einstein, Bill O'Reilly, Chris Christie, Cops Gone Wild, Falafel King, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s all relative, but Albert Einstein would have been 135 years old today, had he not died in 1955. He loved the Headlines Du Jour in yesteryear’s space-time:

44 BC – Casca and Cassius decide, on the night before the Assassination of Julius Caesar, that Mark Antony should stay alive.
1780 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans in Spanish Louisiana.
1794 – Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1885 – The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance in London.
1900 – The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1936 – The first all-sound film version of Show Boat opens at Radio City Music Hall. (There had been a part-talkie, part-silent version of Show Boat in 1929.)
1942 – Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the United States successfully to treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 – World War II: The Kraków Ghetto is “liquidated”.
1964 – A jury in Dallas finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1967 – The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Eight More Couples Sue Florida to Recognize Gay Marriages From Other States

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Sex charge dropped; state
says ex-coach entrapped

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

Jim Brown Says Slavery
Wasn’t So Bad. And That’s
Bad News for the GOP

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Christie to Town Hall
Hecklers: ‘Sit Down and
Keep Quiet or Get Out!’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Seth Rogen Rattles Off Many of the
Celebs with Whom He’s Smoked Weed

Legislation legalizing
marijuana in Maryland killed

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Hundreds of Belgians flock to
glowing Virgin Mary statue

Noah ‘won respect of animals by fighting them’

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Blasts Russell Simmons for Being ‘Too Frightened to Answer’ Questions

TV Host Bill O’Reilly: Beyonce’s ‘Partition’ Video May Cause ‘Unwanted Pregnancies’

Lack of respect for office? O’Reilly certainly should know

Hey, Bill O’Reilly and David Gergen! You
Should Really Hear Abe Lincoln’s Fart Joke

Fox News has an “Angry Grandpa” freakout:
Obama is making them irrelevant
O’Reilly’s upset that Democrats can reach young non-cable
viewers because it’s dooming his network — and his party

IN OUTER SPACE:

ESO’s Very Large Telescope spots largest yellow hypergiant star

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Happy Birthday, Albert!!!

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 13, 2014

March 13, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully, CIA, Cyber-bullying, Death Penalty, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, NSA, Outer Space, Racism, Rape Kits, SeattleHeadly Westerfield

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:

624 – Battle of Badr: a key battle between Muhammad‘s army – the new followers of Islam and the Quraish of Mecca. The Muslims won this battle, known as the turning point of Islam, which took place in the Hejaz region of western Arabia.
1781 – William Herschel discovers Uranus.
1862 – American Civil War: The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers to return fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 – American Civil War: The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops.
1930 – The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1943 – The Holocaust: German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków.
1963 – Police in Phoenix, Arizona arrest Ernesto Miranda and charge him with kidnap and rape. His conviction is ultimately set aside by the United States Supreme Court in Miranda v. Arizona
1964 – American Kitty Genovese is murdered, reportedly in view of neighbors who did nothing to help her, prompting research into the bystander effect.
1991 – The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
2013 – Pope Francis is elected in the papal conclave to succeed Pope Benedict XVI.

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?

There Are 400,000
Unprocessed Rape
Kits in the U.S.
How Can This Be?

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’

Lincoln Scholar Tells O’Reilly: Lincoln Would Have Gone On Comedy Show “In A Second”

IN OUTER SPACE:

Galaxies in the early universe mature beyond their years

Astronomers find faint strings of galaxies inside empty space

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 12, 2014

March 12, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Charles Boycott, Chris Christie, Constitution, Dave Davies, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, The KinksHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners. Today’s the birthday of Charles Boycott, whose ostracism by an Irish village gave us the word “boycott,” but Not Now Silly refuses to celebrate that. Among the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear include:

1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world’s first black international football player and captain.
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi, by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his “fireside chats“.
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993
– Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with
tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures.
The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno was sworn in as the United States‘ first female attorney general.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan’s earthquake.

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

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

The Religious Right Crusades
to Deny Americans Their Constitutional Rights

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Watch out, “Cosmos”!
The Holy Inquisition is
not happy with you

FREE THE WEED!!!

D.C. Board of Elections allows marijuana legalization effort to move forward

Medical marijuana refugees:
‘This was our only hope’

Medical marijuana and ‘the entourage effect’

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Scrappers cause collapse of ornamental
ceiling in storied Eastown Theatre in Detroit

Are Michigan lawmakers holding up legistlation that could help fight Detroit scrappers?

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Revealed: Chris Christie gave pieces
of 9/11 wreckage to his cronies as gifts

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Wonders If The Press Is
Covering For Obama Because He’s Black

IN OUTER SPACE:

Was our galaxy formed by
a ‘Council of Giants’?
Giant galaxies arranged in a ring around the Milky Way might have shaped its very formation, reveals a new study.

“Death stars” in Orion blast planets before they even form

Is the lopsided Universe telling us we need new theories?

ESA mission sees a rainbow-like “glory” in Venus’ atmosphere

TODAY IN ROCK’N’ROLL:

Interview: Dave Davies (The Kinks)

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 11, 2014

March 11, 2014420, Coconut Grove, Detroit, Florida, Fox News, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Honest Ed's, LGBT, Public Transit, Racism, Religion, Soilgate, Toxic Soil, TrolleygateHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! It’s the 70th day of the year and the birthday of Shemp Howard. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear includes:

1702 – The Daily Courant, England‘s first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 – Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1824 – The United States Department of War creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1848 – Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1861 – American Civil War: The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted.
1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1946 – Rudolf Höss, the first commandant of Auschwitz concentration camp, is captured by British troops.
2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (81 mi) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.

Had enough? Then let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Lesbian couple murdered and left near dumpster in Texas

The quickly shifting language of the transgender community
He, she, ze, and how to navigate a new landscape

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Right-Wing Zealots Are Already Freaking Out About The Return Of Cosmos!

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

Race, the War on Drugs
and Mass Incarceration

GOP Lawmaker Accused of
Racism for Tweet About the NBA

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Pennsylvania trooper fatally shoots pregnant wife in the head while cleaning his gun

STARVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE:

Use of Public Transit in U.S. Reaches
Highest Level Since 1956, Advocates Report

IN OLD COCONUT GROVE:

Coconut Grove’s Blanche
Park to close through
summer to remove toxic soil

From the Not Now Silly archives:
A Century of Coconut Grove Racism ► Soilgate Is Trolleygate Writ Large

FREE THE WEED!!!

It Takes Nine Days to
Spot a Stoned Driver

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit Doesn’t Need Hipsters To Survive, It Needs Black People

Graffiti Tagger Hits One Of
The New Shinola Clocks
That Were Gifts To Detroit

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Most Corrupt Town in America in
Danger of Being ‘Wiped Off the Map’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox & Friends First Misspells ‘Spelling Bee’

A SIGN OF THE TIMES:

Honest Ed’s latest bargain: those zany signs

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, March 10, 2014

March 10, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, CPAC, Detroit, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, Outer Space, Racism, Rand Paul, The SimpsonsHeadly Westerfield

Good morning, Headliners. It’s Chuck Norris’ birthday and it can beat up your birthday — with one hand tied behind its back. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying “Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you.”
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1922 – Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1945 – The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting conflagration kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1952 – Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the “provisional president”.
1969 – In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later unsuccessfully attempts to retract his plea.
1977 – Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus.

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

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

Watch The ‘Not-Racist’ Crowd React
To ‘Annie’s’ Blackness In Remake

TODAY IN VOTER FRAUD NEWS:

How Much Voter Fraud Is There?
A state-by-state map reveals the answer: almost none.

INCOME INEQUALITY:

Income equality is just a
dream for most Americans

4 States Where the
Rich Got Richer at
the Expense of the Poor

FREE THE WEED!!!

Tests show THC content in
marijuana edibles is inconsistent

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit Police Chief Tells
Homeowners Don’t Wait for Cops –
‘Shoot Thugs Who Invade Your Home’

M-1 Rail groundbreaking nears amid hopes for a broader regional system

CPAC PROM KING:

CPAC Presidential Straw Poll Picks Guy Who Thinks Whites-Only Lunch Counters Should Be Legal

THE SIMPSONS IN THE NEWS:

11 Times ‘The Simpsons’ Predicted the Future of Technology

IN OUTER SPACE:

Scientists Discover New
Process that Protects Earth
from Space Weather

Every red dwarf star
has at least one planet

REMEMBERING COSMOS, THE ORIGINAL SERIES:

Cosmos reboot with Neil deGrasse Tyson: 13 new episodes after 34 years – What to expect

‘Cosmos’ then and now: The ‘personal voyage’ of Carl
Sagan, the Hollywood cool of Neil deGrasse Tyson

VIDEO DU JOUR:

REMEMBERING CARL SAGAN,
THE ORIGINAL COSMOS HOST

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 9, 2014

March 9, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, CIA, Climate Change, Coffee, Congress, Cuba, FBI, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Loofah Lad, Mel Lastman, Racism, Religion, UFOsHeadly Westerfield

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:

632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada’) of Prophet Muhammad.
1796 – Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1841 – The U.S. Supreme Court rules in the United States v. The Amistad case that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.
1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurs at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.
1945 – The Bombing of Tokyo by the United States Army Air Forces begin, one of the most destructive bombing raids in history.
1954 – McCarthyism: CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, “A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy“, produced by Fred Friendly.
1959 – The Barbie doll makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.
1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches, carrying a human dummy nicknamed Ivan Ivanovich, and demonstrating that Soviet Union was ready to begin human spaceflight.
1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp: Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.

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:

U.S. Geological Survey confirms: Human activity caused 5.7 quake in Oklahoma

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:

Conservative leader
caught on live mic:
‘The Jews are the problem’

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

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, March 7, 2014

March 7, 2014420, Canada, Constitution, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Packard Plant, Religion, Rob FordHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners!!! Today would have been the 139th birthday of Maurice Ravel, had he not had the misfortune to die in 1937. He was quite fond of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

321 – Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
1850 – Senator Daniel Webster gives his “Seventh of March” speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone.
1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1965 – Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
1985 – The song “We Are the World” receives its international release.
1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses.
1994 – Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.

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

MORE OF THAT ‘MERKIN ‘CEPTIONALISM:

35 Countries Where the U.S. Has Supported Fascists, Drug Lords and Terrorists

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OH WHAT A BUNCH OF LOONS”

Sarah Palin’s Latest Lie Should
Scare Republicans — But The GOP
Noise Machine Won’t Allow That

IN LGBT NEWS:

State’s last witness says unrepentant homosexuals are going to hell

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Religion may not
survive the Internet
There’s a reason churches are struggling
to maintain membership, and it has
nothing to do with Neil deGrasse Tyson

Watch this con man ‘pastor’ go absolutely ballistic when a news crew confronts him at his home

Farah: US ‘Becoming The Persecutor’ Of Christians, Leading To Next Holocaust

CONSTITUTION CORNER:

Republicans Use Stalinesque Tactics to Show Their Love
For The Constitution

SO YOU DON’T GET LOST:

These 9 Maps Should Absolutely Outrage Southerners

FREE THE ‘MERKIN WEED!!!

Gupta: ‘I am doubling down’
on medical marijuana

FREE THE CANADIAN WEED!!!

Ticket system for pot possession
pushed by some Tories
Police often turn a blind eye to avoid hours
of paperwork and court backlogs, MP says

OH! OH! OH! CANADA!!!

Your porn is not Canadian enough, CRTC warns
erotica channels

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Newsmax CEO Wants To Combat Fox News With Conservative Cable Channel

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. FELINE HISTORY EVEN MORE SO:

1500s German Prince Imagined ‘Rocket Cats’ Weaponry

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford friend Sandro Lisi
has long history of violence,
threats and dirty tricks
Sandro’ Lisi’s unsavory past includes
incidents of menacing, stalking and
assaulting young women, snitching
on drug rivals — and deliberately
spreading bedbugs.

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Different strategies for Gilbert, Ilitches as they reshape Detroit

Free Press Documentary On The Packard Plant Debuts March 20

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Packard: The Last Shift

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, March 6, 2014

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It’s Second Banana Day, a holiday just made up to commemorate Ed McMahon‘s 91st birthday. Among the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
1899 – Bayer registers “Aspirin” as a trademark.
1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1964 – Nation of Islam‘s Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.

It’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TPM Interview: Why Kentucky’s Attorney General Refuses To Defend His State’s Anti-Gay Law

SMALLER GOVERNMENT, UNLESS YOU’RE A WOMAN:

Arizona Advances Bill
For Surprise Inspections
Of Abortion Clinics

SMALLER GOVERNMENT, UNLESS YOU’RE THE CIA:

The CIA Allegedly Spied on a Senate Committee Investigating the CIA

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

Dem State Rep: GOP Would Back Abortion if Black Men Impregnated Their Daughters

West Boca Raton man proudly flies KKK, confederate flags

KKK flags fly outside
2 mobile homes

FREE THE WEED!!!

The City You’d Least Expect Has
Just Decriminalized Marijuana

DEA Official: ‘Every Single Parent’ Opposes Marijuana Legalization

Ohio woman unknowingly
drove around with pot in her
spare tire since August 2013

FREE THE WEEDer!!!

Robert Duncan, Pot Shop Employee In
Federal Prison, Has A Message For Obama

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLIGARCHY:

Republicans Blow The Response
To Putin’s Aggression

GOP’s pathetic Putin
debacle: How their foreign
policy politicking backfired

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Packard Plant’s ex-owner
claims he still holds title;
Peru developer cries ‘blackmail’

THIS IS THE END OF CIVILIZATION AS WE KNOW IT:

The World’s First ‘Sexual
Home Appliance’ Will
Haunt Your Dreams

Teen Explains Why He Had
Sex With A Hot Pocket

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

OPP take control
of investigation into
Mayor Rob Ford

Jimmy Kimmel: Upsetting Rob Ford was not my intent
‘What were we supposed to talk about, his other hobbies?’ Jimmy Kimmel says

VIDEO DU JOUR:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

COLD CASE SOLVED:

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

WAIT!!! WHAT???

TODAY IN RELIGION:

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BULLY BOY BOLLING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

END THE DEATH PENALTY!!!

WHAT IF MEN WERE RAPE VICTIMS?

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

WHO’S WATCHING THE WATCHERS?

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

TODAY IN MUSIC:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

TODAY IN ROCK’N’ROLL:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

STARVING THE INFRASTRUCTURE:

IN OLD COCONUT GROVE:

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

A SIGN OF THE TIMES:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

TODAY IN VOTER FRAUD NEWS:

INCOME INEQUALITY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE DISPATCHES FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

CPAC PROM KING:

THE SIMPSONS IN THE NEWS:

IN OUTER SPACE:

REMEMBERING COSMOS, THE ORIGINAL SERIES:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

OUR WIRED WORLD:

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

HEADLINES IN THE NEWS:

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

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