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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 27, 2014

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We’re all singing Happy Birthday to National Velvet star Elizabeth Taylor, born on this day in 1932. It was her dying wish we look at the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
• 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
• 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany‘s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
• 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
• 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Arizona Governor Jan
Brewer Vetoes Hatred
That Was Disguised As
Religious Freedom Bill

Arizona governor Brewer
vetoes controversial anti-gay
law, Ohio pulls similar bill
after Brewer’s veto

Texas ban on marriage equality ruled unconstitutional, Rick Perry upset


A NEW, NEW DEAL?

Obama wants to put people to work by fixing
the nation’s crumbling roads and bridges

FREE THE WEED!!!

Police Chief Cites Fake News
Article in His Anti-Pot Testimony


WAIT!!! WHAT???

Man Arrested in Key West: “I Thought Cocaine Wasn’t Illegal in Florida”


TODAY IN RELIGION:

Brent Bozell: American Atheists ‘Devoted To The Hatred Of God’


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford wraps up day in Ottawa, gets criticized by Quebec mayors


HE AIN’T HEAVY. HE’S MY CRAZY ASS BROTHER:


SPIKE LEE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Spike Lee’s epic anti-gentrification speech


IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

SEE IT: NASA images
capture desperation of
California’s drought
California recorded its driest year on record in 2013. New images capture bone-dry conditions near Sacramento and along the Sierra Nevada mountains.


LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Stossel: ‘Crotchety Old
Geezers’ Like O’Reilly
Need to Quit Complaining
About ‘The Kids’


THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Tucker Carlson: It’s ‘called fascism’ when laws give LGBT people equal treatment

Tucker Carlson: US Should Stop Entry Of Refugees Because They’ll Vote Democratic -And It’s Not His ‘Moral Obligation’

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News guest tells Hannity: ‘Overfed’ non-whites use food stamps as a ‘fat pill’


IN OUTER SPACE:

Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead

NASA discovers 715 new planets


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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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We can blame this for Sarah Palin.

Today you can pull on your jeans one leg at a time, because it’s the birthday of Levi Strauss, born on this day in 1829. He would have loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba.
• 1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band records the first jazz record, for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New York.
• 1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, Robert Wiene‘s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, receives its première in Berlin.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
• 1952 – Vincent Massey is sworn in as the first Canadian-born Governor-General of Canada.

Here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour:


LGBT NEWS:

Fox News Criticizes The Anti-Gay “Jim Crow
Laws” It Helped Promote

Challenged By Anderson Cooper To Provide One Example To Justify Anti-Gay Bill, Arizona Senator Comes Up Empty

Pat Buchanan Says Conservative Christians Are True Victims in Arizona

GOP Lobbyist Behind Anti-Gay NFL Bill Has A Gay Brother

Black Gays Make Up Largest Share Of LGBT Community, Survey Shows

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

Father delivers baby after hospital staff abandons him

TODAY’S EDITION OF COPS GONE WILD, THE CANADIAN EDITION:

Hamilton police sergeant pleads guilty to sexual charges

COLD CASE FILE SOLVED:

A 45-Year Old Jimi Hendrix Photo Mystery Gets Solved


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

“Welcome To Obama’s America,” Where You Can Use Food Stamps At Strip Clubs, According To Fox

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News’s Bill O’Reilly calls on
Panetta to testify (again) on Benghazi

Bill O’Reilly asks about La Jolla’s seals

LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Watch: FOXNews’s Megyn Kelly is Forced
to Cut Off an Obamacare Truth-Teller

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 25, 2014

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Happy Birthday to the youngest and least known Marx Brother, if you don’t count Gummo. Zeppo Marx was born Herbert Manfred in 1901. As straight man and romantic lead, he acted in the first 5 Marx Brothers’ movies. Zeppo retired from Show Biz to become a theatrical agent and inventor and would have loved these Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
• 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
• 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
• 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam‘s Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
• 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines‘ first woman president.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Uganda Tabloid Prints List
of ‘Top’ Homosexuals

Arizona GOP State Senator Regrets Voting For Anti-Gay
SB 1062: ‘I Screwed Up’

Ariz. business leaders call
for veto of anti-gay
religious freedom bill

Sens. McCain and Flake
Call on AZ Governor to
Veto ‘Anti-LGBT’ Bill

Watch: CNN Anchor Explains To Anti-Gay Group
That Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A KKK Rally

Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners

Horrifically anti-gay Regnerus study
conceived at top GOP think tank Heritage


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OH, FER FUCK’S SAKE!!!

Virginia Lawmaker Calls Pregnant Women “Hosts”

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Former Bush Strategist: Anti-LGBT Law Uses Christianity Like Muslim Terrorists Use Islam

The Religious Right
To Dodge the Law

On this date in 1836, Samuel Colt is granted
a United States patent for the Colt revolver.


GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:


Judge orders guns returned to blind FL man who ‘stood his ground’ against drinking buddy

Demonstrating Gun Safety, Oakland Man Shoots Himself
In The Head And Dies

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

Ole Miss Fraternity Suspended
After Hanging A Noose On
Statue Of Civil Rights Hero

White Grandfather Cuffed For
Walking With Black Granddaughter

Is Black History Month still needed?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Colorado Governor Set To Release
Those Convicted On Marijuana
Related Charges, Expunge Records

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

Detroit’s New LED Freeway Lights Off At Night, On During The Day

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford runs groin-first into fire hydrant while celebrating Canada’s gold medal in hockey

Rob Ford threatens to
walk out of scrum
Mayor struggles to explain
position on transit revenue tools

This is not parody. The Falafel King actually said this.

LOOFAH LAD’S EGO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Falafel King showing absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever.

LOOFAH LAD’S FANS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Freshman’s idol reads his
fan letter on national TV

LOOFAH LAD’S GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OTHER FOX “NEWS” GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Ten Of The Most Ludicrous
Fox News Guests

IN INNER SPACE:

The oldest gem

IN OUTER SPACE:

Biggest meteor ever recorded hits Moon (VIDEO)

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 24, 2014

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Today ‘Merkins will gather in town squares all across the country to celebrate Abe Vigoda‘s 93rd birthday, as fire crews are on stand-by, watching the candles on his cake. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
• 1809 – London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
• 1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
• 1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
• 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
• 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Indiana man accidentally shoots
himself dead during gun sale


DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

Tea Party-Type Militia Terrorists
Used Facebook To Plot Attack
Against The United States


CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

Cyber bullies face the threat of fines and jail time under new legislation

 My very own personal Cyber-Bullies:
The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

Anatomy of a Cyber-Feud

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLIGARCHY:

If Republicans Don’t Want to
be Compared to Nazis, They
Should Stop Acting Like Nazis



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

These Racist Tweets
About Subban Prove
Canada’s Not so Tolerant


ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

New Jersey man escapes 5
year sentence after dash cam
footage clears him, indicts cops


WAIT!!! WHAT???

Minnesota nursing home defends rapist: 89-year-old victim was a ‘flirt’

Court Rules Off-The-Grid Living Is Illegal


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

Update: Detroit Police
Chief ‘Not Backing Off’
Amid Death Threat

Sugrue: Trickle-down urbanism won’t work in Detroit


MEET THE PRESS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

David Gregory Tarnishes Meet The Press by Creating a Fake Obama Leadership Crisis


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Murdoch, Fox and Limbaugh:
Closing the conservative mind


SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sean Hannity fundraises
for tea party: Surprise?

◄ ◄ From the Wayback Machine ► ►
Hannity’s Charity Under Fire


ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck:
I don’t hate Obama


ALLEGEDLY CORRUPT GOVERNOR’S CORNER:

Scott Walker Falls Apart When Asked About Incriminating Emails On Fox News


TODAY IN EDUCATION:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 21, 2014

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As SciFi fans the world over celebrate Anthony Daniels‘ birthday, let’s take a quick look at some of the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
• 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
• 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
• 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera“, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
• 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
• 1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
• 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

But, what’s happening in the world right now? Take a gander at just a few of today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT:

Study: Homophobia takes
2.5 years off your life


FREE THE WEED!!!

Legalized Marijuana:
Companies Moving Now
To Cash In On Cannabis

Marijuana news: Colorado governor projects millions in pot tax and sales revenue


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

Investigator Tells a Lynching
Story, Forced to Resign


TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Income inequality: Among US cities, bigger ones are more unequal


WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Georgia House votes to allow
weapons in bars and churches


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OFFENSIVE:

Ted Cruz Stands Up For
Hateful Racist Ted Nugent
During CNN Interview

Bachmann Explains Why Americans Still ‘Aren’t
Ready’ for a Female President


TEE VEE NEWS IN THE NEWS:

The End of America’s
Fake Consensus


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Lindsay Lohan and Mom Do Cocaine Together? Actress Blasts New Reports

John Romano: Pam Bondi, Fox News a match made in conservative heaven


LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Is Worried About “Homosexual Overtones”
In The Girl Scouts


BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

College Security Head
Arrested For Jerking Off
Into Co-Worker’s Shoe


IN FRANK ZAPPA NEWS:

Scientists name bacterium for Frank Zappa


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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 20, 2014

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Hello, Headliners!!! On this, the 87th birthday of Sidney Poitier, let’s first take a look at some of the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1816 – Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
• 1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
• 1877 – Tchaikovsky‘s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party‘s upcoming election campaign.
• 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

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

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:


George Zimmerman’s BFF Called Oprah the N-Word

FBI Investigating Racial Vandalism Of Ole Miss Statue

New Georgia Specialty License Plate Features A Confederate Flag

IN LGBT NEWS:

Gambian president: LGBT stands for “Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis”

FREE THE WEED!!!

A marijuana tidal wave?

Minnesota Poll: Majority support legalization of medical marijuana

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Mississippi church floor collapses, around 35
injured: report

THE LITTLE BROTHER WATCHING BIG BROTHER:

Meet Jonathan Mayer, The Stanford Ph.D. Student Who’s Reverse-Engineering The NSA

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Candidate Arrested for Assaulting
Man Who Called Him ‘RINO’

A MEMBER OF THE CORRUPT GOVERNORS CLUB:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill Maher Claims MSNBC Is Turning Into Fox News

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY EVEN MORE SO:

IN OUTER SPACE:

Our entire universe might
exist inside a massive
black hole, say physicists

Supernova secrets seen in X-rays

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 19, 2014

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Good morning, Headliners. How will you be celebrating the birthday of Nicolaus Copernicus today? Among the Headlines Du Jour from yesterday include:

• 356 – Emperor Constantius II issues a decree closing all pagan temples in the Roman Empire.
• 1674 – England and the Netherlands sign the Treaty of Westminster, ending the Third Anglo-Dutch War. A provision of the agreement transfers the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it is renamed New York.
• 1846 – In Austin, Texas the newly formed Texas state government is officially installed. The Republic of Texas government officially transfers power to the State of Texas government following the annexation of Texas by the United States.
• 1847 – The first group of rescuers reaches the Donner Party.
• 1859 – Daniel E. Sickles, a New York Congressman, is acquitted of murder on grounds of temporary insanity. This is the first time this defense is successfully used in the United States.
• 1878 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
• 1953 – Censorship: Georgia approves the first literature censorship board in the United States.
• 1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan‘s The Feminine Mystique reawakens the Feminist Movement in the United States as women’s organizations and consciousness raising groups spread.

Now let’s delve into today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

The evolutionary puzzle
of homosexuality

Washington State To Automatically Marry All Same-Sex Domestic Partners

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE!!!

Scientists mystified as 20 earthquakes hit Oklahoma in one day

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Bobby Jindal Relaunches Himself One More Time

The Cost of Voting Republican: Economy Lost $3 Billion Due to GOP Blocking UI Entension

THE “P” IN GOP STANDS FOR PLUTOCRACY:

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Comcast Gave $854,000 to
Congressional Committee
Overseeing its Merger with Time Warner

Filthy rich but secretly terrified: Inside the 1 percent’s sore-winner backlash


TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

The Tea Party Demands that
Mitch McConnell Drop Out Or
Else Alison Grimes Will Win

Voting Against John Boehner Just Became The Tea Party’s Litmus Test

FREE THE WEED!!!

Louisiana governor open to
legalizing medical marijuana

Washington State Legislators
Pass Hemp Nullification Bill

Inside Girl Scout Cookies

Kinky Friedman Agriculture Commissioner campaign rooted in marijuana legalization

KANSAS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Kansas Bill Would Allow Spanking
Children To Point Of Bruising

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

How Fox News Talks About African-Americans When It’s Not February

Don Lemon Attacked By Fox News Over
His Reaction To Michael Dunn Verdict

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Doug Ford says Rob Ford is
being bullied by gay community

Rob Ford not backing down from controversy, says he can see ‘no reason’ to put up Pride flag to support gay rights during Olympics

Rob Ford may have broken
election rules, rival says


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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 18, 2014

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As every Beatles fan knows, February 18 is the birthday of Yoko Ono, who gets the Headlines Du Jour delivered to her doorstep every morning. She says her favourite part is the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1861 – In Montgomery, Alabama, Jefferson Davis is inaugurated as the provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces under Major General William T. Sherman set the South Carolina State House on fire during the burning of Columbia.
• 1885 – The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain is published in the United States.
• 1913 – Pedro Lascuráin becomes President of Mexico for 45 minutes; this is the shortest term to date of any person as president of any country.
• 1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.
• 1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.
• 1970 – The Chicago Seven are found not guilty of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

How’s that? Was it good for you too, Yoko? If so, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

IN LGBT NEWS:

Olympic police re-arrest former
Italian MP for wearing rainbow outfit

Watch: Lawmakers Cheer As
Ugandan President Declares ‘War
With The Homosexual Lobby’

Susan Rice Urges Ugandan President
Not To Sign Anti-Gay Law

Anne Rice Unloads on Anti-Gay Facebook Commenters

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

California police use taser
on deaf man trying to communicate with them
via sign language

PRESIDENTS’ DAY LEFTOVERS:

George W. Bush: Still the worst

A new study ranks Bush near the
very bottom in history, due to delusional
wars, reckless spending and inflexibility

Happy Presidents’ Day! Meet The Five Most Overrated American Presidents


FREE THE WEED!!!

Uruguay Prez Jose Mujica To
United States: Legalize Weed

Medical Marijuana Sponsor Says
Police Are Addicted To Drug War Dollars

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Senate Candidate Calls
Mitch McConnell ‘Beltway
Turtle’ In Anti-Cornyn Ad

Greg Abbott under fire
for Ted Nugent invite

43 House Republicans Want to Sue Barack Obama For Being President

The GOP Has Screwed Itself
Out Of A Perfect Obamacare
Election Message


TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

America’s First President
Was The Tea Party’s
Worst Nightmare


TODAY IN RAPE CULTURE:

Montana county attorney’s office to mother of 5-year-old rape victim: ‘Boys will be boys’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


CNN’s Don Lemon Hits Back
at Fox’s Gregg Jarrett: ‘Mind
Your Business, Old Man’


Chris Wallace Says Climate Change Isn’t Occurring Because It Is Cold On The East Coast


MORE IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

Heatwave frequency ‘surpasses levels previously predicted for 2030’
Abbott government urged to better articulate dangers of climate
change as Climate Council highlights rising number of hot days

TODAY IN NON-RELIGION:

NC high school faces legal challenge for refusing secular club


TRUMP THE CHUMP:

Donald Trump faces
Irish wind farm battle


LIVING WITH POLLUTION IN DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

John Carlisle: Some Detroiters
living with Marathon plant
pollution find peace – at a price


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Yoko Ono backed by John Lennon, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 17, 2014

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As we celebrate the birth of Jerry Lewis-muse Kathleen Freeman, let’s take a closer look at a few Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1753 – In Sweden February 17 is followed by March 1 as the country moves from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar.
• 1801 – An electoral tie between Thomas Jefferson and Aaron Burr is resolved when Jefferson is elected President of the United States and Burr Vice President by the United States House of Representatives.
• 1819 – The United States House of Representatives passes the Missouri Compromise for the first time.
• 1933 – The Blaine Act ends Prohibition in the United States.
• 1959 – Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
• 1965 – Project Ranger: The Ranger 8 probe launches on its mission to photograph the Mare Tranquillitatis region of the Moon in preparation for the manned Apollo missions. Mare Tranquillitatis or the “Sea of Tranquility” would become the site chosen for the Apollo 11 lunar landing.
• 1996 – In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, world champion Garry Kasparov beats the Deep Blue supercomputer in a chess match.

Now that that’s over with, let’s take a gander at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS!!!

Russians “brutally” arrest former Italian member of parliament at Sochi Olympics

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

Hospital charges shown to vary widely
Some bill more ‘because they can’

FREE THE WEED!!!

New details emerge on Colorado
marijuana operators raided by feds

Deep pockets and personal stories underpin Florida’s medical marijuana push

HACKING DU JOUR:

Kickstarter Hacked, Credit Card Data Safe

PHONE HACKING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Murdoch’s ex-British paper boss Brooks to start phone-hacking defense

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Would Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly be a good president in 2016 or not?

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Why would a Michigan medical clinic block Fox News?

WHEN THE MITT HITS THE FAN:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OH! STOP!! MY!!! SIDES!!!!

Election Thief Karl Rove Says Chris Christie Is What We Want In a President

PASS THE POPCORN!!!

Reviled by Republicans,
Ted Cruz is ‘So Hated,
He’s Going to Need
a Food Taster’

REAL ESTATE CORNER:

Al Capone’s gangster mansion on the market in Miami Beach

CONSTITUTION CORNER:

Top Ten Reasons Why You Should Not Talk to the Police


CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford’s Toronto: where the buck doesn’t stop

If Ukrainians can protest their leader in weather even colder than Toronto’s, why are Torontonians content to let Rob Ford be mayor?

STAR TREK UNIVERSE:

Michael Dorn Confirms He’s Working on a ‘Star Trek: Captain Worf’ TV Series

CBS developing new CSI
and EMS related Star Trek
television shows

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pastor dies after snake he was handling bit him

DYLAN IN DECLINE:

Bob Dylan and the Ethics of Market Fascism

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 14, 2014

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It’s Valentine’s Day, but more importantly, it’s Pops’ 88th birthday. Pops shares his date with these headlines from yesteryear:

• 1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
• 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• 1929 – Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone‘s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

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

LGBT NEWS:

Virginia Ban on Gay
Marriage Overruled

Kansas’ Anti-Gay Segregation Bill Is an Abomination

Facebook adds gender options

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

How Texas Health Care Failed Israel, A Man With
Terminal Cancer Who’d Worked His Whole Life

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Court overturns restrictions on
concealed guns in much of California
Appeals panel finds state rules allowing
counties to restrict the right to carry concealed
weapons in public violate the 2nd Amendment.

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Takeover of the crazy ants: It’s creepy!

Kentucky Sinkhole Eats
Corvettes, Raises Questions
Geologists explain what happened—and
which other areas might be vulnerable.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

WSJ: Ted Cruz on Mission to ‘Make Republicans Even More Unpopular’


Colorado lawmaker shocks victim’s dad: ‘Good thing’ Aurora shooter had 100-round magazine


Montana Republican Charged With Felony Assault After Throwing 4-Year Old Daughter


Darrell Issa Is Raising Millions Of Dollars
Off Of His Bogus Obama Investigations

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

Gun Owner Blames Fictional Black Man for Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

MONOPOLY ISN’T JUST A GAME:

Comcast Announces $45.2 Billion Takeover of
Time Warner Cable


Al Franken Drops the
Hammer on the Comcast
Time-Warner Deal


The Comcast Deal Won’t Make a Terrible Industry Any Worse


CAREFUL WHAT YOU TYPE ON FACEBOOK:

The Facebook Comment
That Ruined a Life

FREE THE WEED!!!

Rick Perry urges move toward marijuana decriminalization

Scott Walker: Big difference between
having a beer and smoking marijuana

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