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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 13, 2013

It’s Friday the 13th and the Not Now Silly news interns have been toiling all night long in the darkest recesses of the internet, collecting only the must scrumptious headlines for your reading pleasure. So, here are today’s unlucky Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE OF THE MONTH:

U.S. Charity Revealed As Buyer
Of Hopi Masks, Promises To
Return Artifacts To Tribe

LGBT NEWS:

George Clooney Addresses Gay Rumors In The Best Way Possible

TODAY IN IMMIGRATION:

Arizona detective quits after learning she’s
been living in the U.S. illegally since childhood

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

Virginia GOP senatorial candidate: Desegregation
‘was the beginning of the decline’ for schools

Volunteer fire chief resigns over shockingly offensive Facebook posts, but denies he’s racist

COMPASSION CORNER:

Startup CEO Wishes Homeless ‘Degenerates’ Would
Stop Ruining ‘The Civilized Part’ Of San Francisco

IT’S A SMALL WORLD, AFTER ALL:

We Found This 20-Year-Old T-Shirt In Kenya. The Internet Found The Original Owner

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade
Mocks Nelson Mandela Sign
Language Interpreter

Other ‘Verifiable Facts’ for Fox to Investigate
About Your Favorite Christmas Characters

NO LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Wants Kids At Home To Know That Jesus And Santa Were White

What Megyn Kelly’s White Santa Says About Power Dynamics In Journalism

The (Race) War on Christmas: Megyn Kelly Declares ‘Santa Claus Just Is White’ and So Was Jesus

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Rachel Maddow: GOP in shambles as internal war goes public

GOP Planning on Tighter Control Over 2016
Primaries: Fewer Debates, Better Moderators

THE “G” IN GOP STANDS FOR GOD:

For Budget Deal, Paul Ryan Called the Jesus of the Republican Party

THE NEWEST EXCUSE FOR RICH PEOPLE TO GET AWAY WITH MANSLAUGHTER:

Texas man who lost wife and daughter to rich kid drunk driver fuming over sentence

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford: Daniel Dale tells us why he’s taking legal action
I am serving the mayor of Toronto with a libel notice. Here’s why.

Rob Ford: Daniel Dale files libel notice against Toronto mayor
Toronto Star reporter Daniel Dale has served a libel notice against Mayor Rob Ford and Vision
TV in connection with comments Ford made on Conrad Black’s television show The Zoomer.

BEST HEADLINE OF THE DAY:

The woolly jumper flashmob that became a YouTube hit
Loes Veenstra spent 50 years knitting woolly jumpers on her home street in
Rotterdam only to pack them away, never to be worn. Surely she and they
deserved better? Enter one very colourful (and toasty) flashmob

VIDEO DU JOUR:


 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 12, 2013

While you were sleeping the Now Now Silly news team was wandering up and down, back and forth, throughout the entire internet to gather nothing but the best in headlines. Only when they return are they finally fed their one meal a day. But don’t be concerned for them because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

It Takes A McDonald’s Worker 4 Months
To Earn What The CEO Gets In An Hour

TODAY IN GOD:

Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds

FINALLY! A FAIR AND BALANCED REPORT!!!

Rupert Murdoch Called
‘Evil’ In His Own Newspaper

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Ignores Guest’s Depiction
Of Danish PM As “Danish Pastry”

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade tells general:
Iraq was a ‘great place’ until U.S. left

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Christmas is a Pagan Holiday – Get Over it Already

6 conspiracy theories about the imaginary war on Christmas

Satanists & Atheists Vie For Space In Florida Capitol

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops killed Harlem man after they mistook friendly Taser fire for knife stab: lawsuit

The “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Plan to “Punish” Democrats Is Probably the Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Heard Of

Republicans’ self-hatred swells: The GOP vs. its own base

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

Sci-fi pilot ’12 Monkeys’ filming in Detroit,
will get $1.5M in state incentives

What Should Be Done About Detroit? A Gawker Internal Debate

FREE THE WEED:

Denver legalizes marijuana for use on private property

Uruguay legalizing marijuana breaks
drug control treaty, says watchdog

Study finds no link between teen
pot use and schizophrenia risk

CRACKHEAD CORNER:

Daniel Dale: Rob Ford is lying about me, and it’s vile
Literally every single thing Mayor Rob Ford told Conrad Black about
my conduct on May 2, 2012 is false in some way. Let’s go lie by lie.

RUTLES NEWS:

DVD Review: Mock songs give life to ‘The Rutles’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, December 11, 2013

The daily collecting of Headlines Du Jour is a tricky thing. Not Now Silly sends its interns and parolees out into the innertubes, each provisioned with scissors and a wicker basket. They carefully cut out the headlines and place them respectfully into the basket. Only when their basket is full are they allowed to return for food and water. Now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

STOP THE INSANITY:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

At Least 194 Children Have Been Shot to Death Since Newtown.

Police: Three Year-Old Shot Himself In The
Head After Parents Left Gun On Kitchen Counter

6 police officers injured, 2 suspects killed in shootings

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

NAACP calls for probe of ‘harassment’
by Miami Gardens police

IN LBGT NEWS:

9 Stupid Myths About Bisexuals
That Will Make You Laugh

TRUE STORY: THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD!

Republican Candidate Says You Have to
Talk to Women on an Emotional Level

John McCain reacts to Obama’s Castro
handshake: ‘Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler’

North Carolina Republican’s DWI and drug
possession arrest is his fourth in office

TODAY IN GOD:

Fischer: Pot Should Be
Illegal Because Its Use
Violates Biblical Teaching

Creationist home school curriculum isn’t just inaccurate — it’s really, really dumb

What the New Atheists Get Very Wrong About Religion

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Police Called To Home To Break Up Family
Fight Over Decorating Of Christmas Tree

Fox News host flips over atheist holiday display:
‘Baby Jesus is behind the Festivus pole!’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News Wonders If
Castro Friend Nelson
Mandela Would Have Hated
Obama’s Castro Handshake

Megyn Kelly to Leno:
Ask Karl Rove if I’m
‘This Conservative Operative’

Anti-LGBT baker tells Fox News that Jesus ‘wants me’ to deny cakes to gay couples

Fox Allows Anti-Obamacare Guest To Hide Koch Funding

Elisabeth Hasslebeck Endorses Anti-Gay Discrimination
Because Religious Freedom And Free Enterprise!

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS:

O’Reilly Goes Ballistic Over Denver Post Hiring Pot Editor: They’re ‘Promoting Intoxication!’

Bill O’Reilly Freaks Out
About Denver Post Pot Editor

THE FALAFEL KING SAYS:

O’Reilly to Rove: GOP Lacks Real Leader,
Any Strong Alternative to Obamacare

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford should apologize to
Star reporter, says deputy

Rob Ford suggests Bill Blair’s investigation of him was retribution for proposed budget cuts

Conrad Black out-Mansbridges Mansbridge

Rob Ford, Conrad Black and the death of decency

Rob Ford saga biggest Canadian story in U.S. this century

SCIENCE CORNER:

Simulations back up theory that Universe is a hologram
A ten-dimensional theory of gravity makes the same predictions as standard quantum physics in fewer dimensions.

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 10, 2013

During the night, while the world slept peacefully, the Not Now Silly interns were set loose on the internet and told not to return until they had collected 22 pounds of headlines, each. Just when they think they are done, they learn they won’t be fed until they’ve culled the night’s catch until only the best remain. Which is why you can now read today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Woman Goes for Jog, Gets Hit by Flying Deer

ANOTHER SKIRMISH IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Sandy Rios On The War On Christmas: ‘This Is Exactly What Hitler Did In Nazi Germany’

OPTIMISM IS OVER-RATED:

We are deluding ourselves: The apocalypse is coming — and technology can’t save us

FREE THE WEED:

Zeoform: A New Plastic That Turns Hemp Into Almost Anything

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Kentucky Man Sets Gun On Toilet Paper Dispenser
While Using Restroom, Gun Goes Off

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News Reportedly Paid Fired
Exec Millions In “Hush Money”

Forthcoming Gabriel Sherman Book Reportedly
Drove A Wedge In Fox’s Public Relations Team

Book Club: How Fox News Built Its
Scream Machine In The Obama Era

Fox News guest tells female host to quit,
get married, have babies and ‘thank men’

SISTER SARAH:

Sarah Palin to Host Show
on Sportsman Channel

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Gold-embossed business cards created for Clement, Hawn against rules: documents

OY VEY, CANADA:

“Superman’s” forgotten Jewish roots

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

‘Shockingly racist’ sign about Chiefs,
Redskins brings restaurant apology

Passing for white and straight:
How my looks hide my identity

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Catholic high school teacher fired after applying for same-sex wedding license

GOP Congressman Wants NRCC to
Cut Off Funding for Gay Candidates

Anti-Gay Think Tank: ‘Its Not Bigorty Its Biology’

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

A Museum Grows On Kercheval; Its Founders
Are Out-Of-Town Artists Who Dig Detroit

After Millions Spent On Repairs, I-94 Is
Dark Again Thanks To Copper Thieves

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Why Are Upworthy Headlines
Suddenly Everywhere?

My Facebook angst
The social network site kicks up so much anxiety and embarrassment for me. But that doesn’t mean I want to quit it

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

◄◄ D-List Celebrity Death Match ►►
Paris Hilton’s brother blames
Lohan for assault at Miami party

Barron Hilton, 24, says man struck him after
receiving orders to do so from Lindsay Lohan

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mirrors in Giant Magellan Telescope ready to capture light from dawn of universe

In a “Rainbow” Universe Time
May Have No Beginning

TODAY IN BEATLES NEWS:

In Havana, 95-year-Old Minds Lennon Statue’s Specs

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 8, 2013

While you were sleeping the Not Now Silly news team went creeping and crawling thru’ the internets with one mission in mind: Bring back nothing but the best in news headlines. Let’s get right to it with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN WTF? NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD
Has Been Charged With Assault
Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I’D BE AN ARCHEOLOGIST:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘God Help Us’: Fox News Columnist Calls Pope Francis the ‘Catholic Church’s Obama’

ALL I NEED IS THE AIR THAT I BREATH:

Shanghai’s Choking Smog
Registers ‘Beyond Index’

TODAY IN FOLK MUSIC:

Bob Dylan Stratocaster sets auction
record, sells for nearly $1 million

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

Axel Foley Is Coming Back To Detroit
In Another ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Film

THE HEAD BECKERHEAD:

Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed
into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

◄◄ From the Wayback Machine ►►
The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious Alien Planet in
Farthest-ever Orbit Discovered

UA Astronomers Discover
Planet That Shouldn’t Be There

Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible
Sighting by NASA’s WISE

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, December 7, 2013

While you were asleep — getting the nightly beauty sleep you don’t even need because you’re perfect just the way you are — the Not Now Silly interns have been working diligently, wandering up and down the far less populated parts of the cyber-sphere, collecting nothing but the best headlines. When they are exhausted and can carry no more, they return in the hopes that I will finally feed them. However, that will only happen if I really like the headlines they brought back for you. Meanwhile, here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour.

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Drunk sheriff’s officer pulls over and
punches driver in road rage incident


TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Attorney: Transgender murder victim’s
life not as valuable as higher class victims


ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY AGAIN:

Dick Cheney Didn’t Regret His Vote Against Freeing
Nelson Mandela, Maintained He Was A ‘Terrorist’

THE POLITICIZATION OF MANDELA’S DEATH:

A Comprehensive Guide To Conservative Reactions To Nelson Mandela’s Death

How Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC
Covered Nelson Mandela’s Passing

Meet The Mandela RINOs: Republicans
Who Lost Their R-Card For Praising Mandela

SC Sheriff Takes Stand Against Honoring
Mandela: ‘He Was Not an American!’

Rick Santorum compares himself to Nelson Mandela
fighting against the ‘apartheid’ of Obamacare

Columnist Under Fire for Blasting ‘Famous
Nice Black Man Dies!’ Mandela Coverage

The Worst Reactions to Nelson Mandela’s Death

Republicans praise Mandela, draw ire of supporters

HERE’S YOUR NEW WORLD ORDER:

The World Bank Pushes
For Universal Health Care
In Every Nation By 2030


ANOTHER SALVO IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

The Atheists Are Coming! Fox Wants You
to Blare the War on Christmas™ Sirens


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘Really?!’ Fox’s Gretchen Carlson Can’t Believe Her Guests All Love Pot So Much

O’Reilly Grills Palin About GOP Tea
Party Infighting: ‘You Can’t Keep
Sniping at Each Other’

Stewart Hammers Fox’s Stuart Varney: You
Want to Lecture the Pope on Helping the Poor?!

What kind of crazy MoFo would
support Pat Robertson for POTUS?

Exactly!!!


REMEMBER WHEN THIS CRAZY MOFO RAN FOR POTUS?

Pat Robertson tells woman: ‘Something in your character’ makes men abuse you

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

Black cop says white colleagues arrested her knowing she was one of them

Ten Disturbingly Racist Things About St. Louis


NEWS YOU CAN USE . . . OR NOT:

Puddles is Atlanta’s sad clown with a golden voice


VIDEO DU JOUR:

Puddles Du Jour

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 6, 2013

While you were tossing and turning in bed, trying to get your beauty rest, the Not Now Silly interns have been wandering through the vast reaches of cyberspace to bring back nothing but the best in Headlines Du Jour. Now that they’ve returned, let’s get right to it.

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

Indiana University display used negative stereotypes to ask: Can Santa Claus be black?

Texas principal bans Hispanic students from
speaking Spanish to ‘prevent disruptions’

OY VEY, DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

The Fading Yiddish Language I Grew
Up With is Still Alive in Metro Detroit

THE “O” IN GOP STAND FOR OLD:

GOP debunked on food stamps:
Everything they say about SNAP is wrong

Forget the nonsense about them breeding dependency.
Food stamps increase self-sufficiency, research shows 

YOU CAN’T PRAY AWAY A SUBPOENA:


FBI searches former Michele Bachmann campaign staffer’s home

SPEAKING OF WING NUTS:

WND Says Social Justice Doesn’t Come from Jesus but from the KGB

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”:

After Being Rescued, a Sweet Fox Shows Her Saviors Amazing Gratitude

THE LATEST SALVO IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Fox’s Latest Christmas Scare Deemed A
“Vicious Dissemination Of Untrue Information”

THE VICTIMIZATION OF SARAH PALIN, BY SARAH PALIN, CONTINUES:

Fox & Friends Provides Warm Support
For Poor, Maligned, And Very
Hypocritical Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Thanks The Media for Doing Her Dirty Work and Getting Martin Bashir Fired

Sarah Palin: People might be afraid to ‘start a
business’ because Martin Bashir attacked me

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford: What the wiretaps revealed
Wiretapped conversations released Wednesday show
the extent to which the mayor was involved with
a group police say was running drugs and guns.

It’s come to this: “Our mayor’s gangster life? Yawn…”

Rob Ford: Crack video motive
for Smith murder, police told

The mayor’s former staffers believed the crack video belonged to
alleged gang member Anthony Smith and was behind his murder.

It gets worse and we haven’t hit bottom yet: DiManno

THE BEST MC DONALD’S EVER SERVED:

Tennessee Couple Almost Accidentally Steals
Thousands of Dollars from McDonald’s

►►► R.I.P. CORNER◄◄◄

► This is the guy I watched growing up ◄
Veteran WDIV Newsman Dwayne X. Riley Dies at 84

Todd Mills, Man Whose Doritos Taco Idea Made Taco Bell $1 Billion But Who Never Saw A Penny, Dies At 41

And, of course, Nelson Mandela who is being mourned,
remembered and lionized all around the world.
 

Mandela daughters ask that film’s premiere go on

What you might not have known about Nelson Mandela

South Africa, world mourn ‘giant for justice’ Mandela

Gracious and tough, Mandela was fun to cover 

Music to mourn by . . .

ROCK AND ROLL ROILING:

SiriusXM Will Have to Defend Multiple Lawsuits Over Pre-1972 Music

BEATLES NEWS:

Liberating The Beatles
MUSICIAN AND PARODIST, NEIL INNES, ON HIS UNIQUE
AND HUMOROUS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FAB FOUR

VIDEO DO JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 5, 2013

When newspapers are outlawed, only outlaws will read newspapers. If truth be told, I haven’t read a newspaper in years and there was a time in my life, while working at Citytv, I was at my desk at 4AM and by 5AM had 3 or 4 newspapers read already. Yet, the headlines keep coming, which is why Headlines Du Jour keeps coming.

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

Spinning off DIA from city could save both art and Detroit pensions

Detroit Thieves Rip Off World-Famous Photog Christopher Morris Twice In One Day

THE FALAFEL KING SHOWS HIS BENEVOLENCE:

Bill O’Reilly: Jesus is not ‘down with’ food stamps because most poor people are drug addicts

Asshole Of The Day

Bill O’Reilly Fires Back At Jon Stewart In The War On Christmas

OH, FER FUCK’S SAKE:

CNN Throws In the Towel as it Schedules Hour-Long Glenn Beck Interview

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

Related: All of my Aunty Em posts [that survived] at NewsHounds

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Newtown 911 calls released; fear, desperation heard in voices

IN FLOR-I-DUH:

10 Whales Dead, 41 Still Stranded in Everglades: NOAA

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Baffling 400,000-Year-Old Clue to Human Origins
Scientists have found the oldest DNA evidence yet of humans’ biological history. But instead of neatly clarifying human evolution, the finding is adding new mysteries.

SPACE HISTORY IS MORE COMPLICATED:

Youngest known X-ray binary has plenty of secrets to reveal
Most X-ray binaries are very old and no longer contain a supernova remnant.

NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon

IN BEATLES NEWS:

Peyton Reed Set To Helm ‘The Fifth Beatle,’ On Fab Four Manager Brian Epstein

►►► TODAY’S R.I.P. ◄◄◄

Danny Wells, Luigi on ‘Super Mario Bros.’ Show, Dies at 72

TODAY IN NON-MURDOCH HACKING:

Found: Hacker server storing two million pilfered passwords
Credentials belonged to users of Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and more.

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, December 4, 2013

As the world slept peacefully, the Not Now Silly news team was reconnoitering the internet looking for the freshest, most succulent Headlines Du Jour. When they returned they were given a treat and locked back in their cages until tomorrow. Let’s get right to it! 

IN HEALTH CARE NEWS:

Consumer Reports Changes Verdict on Obamacare Website, Tells MSNBC: ‘It’s Time’

California takes down 10
fake Obamacare websites

Report: Obamacare To Cost ‘Billions Of
Dollars Less Than Originally Projected’

PARTY OVER COUNTRY!!!
Erick Erickson On Obamacare: ‘We Must Deny
Them The Opportunity To Fix The Law Itself’

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Gun Lovers Are Attacking
Newtown Activists With
Violent, Misogynistic Messages

LGBT NEWS:

President Of Israel Now
Supports Same-Sex Marriage

Watch This Teen Destroy Every
Argument Against Gay Marriage in
His Stunning Bar Mitzvah Speech!

IN OTHER EQUALITY NEWS:

Archie Comics CEO claims she can’t be guilty of gender discrimination against employees because ‘white males’ aren’t a protected class

RELIGION CORNER:

Rush Limbaugh Knows Nothing About Christianity

THE OPENING SKIRMISH IN THE YEARLY FOX “NEWS” PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

General Bill O’Reilly Declares the Official Start of the War on the War on Christmas™

Bill O’Reilly: Just ‘Upholding
A Nice Tradition’ With
His War On Christmas

Bill O’Reilly Enlists Virulently Anti-Gay Group In War On Christmas

Jon Stewart Takes Down Sarah Palin, Bill O’Reilly,
and the Fox News-Fueled War on Christmas™

MORE FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly’s Hypocrisy: Rush Limbaugh Vs.
Martin Bashir, Sandra Fluke Vs. Sarah Palin

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Washington D.C. cop accused of taking nude photos of 15-year-old girl

THE BECKSTER:

Glenn Beck Bashes ‘Progressive Republicans,’
Laments the End of America on Hannity

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

IN OUTER SPACE:

Update: Comet ISON dead at 4.5 billion years old

VIDEO DU JOUR FROM THE WAYBACK MACHINE:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 3, 2013

While you have been sleeping the Not Now Silly news team was slipping and sliding the cyber-streets to bring back nothing but the best Headlines Du Jour. So, put on your bathrobe and slippers, pour yourself a cup of coffee, and settle in with the news you can use.

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

Affluent, white residents of south Baton Rouge
propose seceding from city’s poor, black northern areas

Three white college students file racial discrimination
complaint against professor over lesson on structural racism
One of the students allegedly asked professor Shannon Gibney, “Why do we have to talk about this?”

► WAITING WHILE BLACK!!! ◄

Students arrested on Main Street in court

Coach Defends Students Arrested at Bus Stop

► GUARDIAN WHILE BLACK!!! ◄
Texas cops handcuff and take 13-year-old white girl from black guardians

Teen visiting Houston for dance classes taken into CPS custody

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Kansas City firefighter shot dead at his wedding reception by off-duty police officer

TODAY IN HEALTHCARE:

The Rise Of Obamacare McCarthyism

LGBT NEWS:

Philly church bans member over LGBT activism:
‘You are not in covenant with us’

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

Fast-food workers plan strikes in 100 US cities this week

Low prices at Wal-Mart don’t have to mean low wages

TODAY IN GOD:

Poll: Faithful Catholics are an endangered species
“Zero percent of British Catholics now look to religious leaders for guidance as they make decisions”

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Slave artifacts found at Georgia highway project site

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR “OH NO!!! NOT AGAIN!!!”

RNC Tries to Cover Tracks Over Tweet Saying Racism has Ended

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Comedians Tell Pete Holmes About the Time
They Got Stoned and Went to a Fox News Taping

‘Fox And Friends’ Warns Of YMCA Swim Class For Muslim Girls

That HuffPo article provides the perfect opportunity to demonstrate how Johnny Dollar twists both the truth and the language to defend Fox “News”

Note Mark Koldy’s (aka Johnny Dollar) obvious deflection of Fox
“News” Islamophobia to a meaningless criticism of whether
@heatherfoxnews “lamented” and if she’s actually a F&F First host.

Maybe J$ is really a seal because it’s one red herring after another.

BTW:
Who is Johnny Dollar? Here’s all you need to know:

 

 Johnny Dollar Has Proven Himself To Be A Very Dangerous Person

 

 Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?

PASS THE POPCORN:

GOP infighting rages: McConnell blasts
Tea Party group for “utter nonsense”

The Senate minority leader says it’s time for
Republicans to “stand up” to Tea Party intimidation

IN THE GLOBAL FIGHT AGAINST AIDS:

The AIDS Granny In Exile
In the ’90s, a gynecologist named Gao Yaojie exposed the horrifying cause of an AIDS epidemic in rural China — and the ensuing cover-up — and became an enemy of the state. Now 85, she lives in New York without her family, without her friends, and without regrets.

THE RUN FOR THE WHITE HOUSE; 2016:

‘Bizarre behavior’ could be risk to Christie White House run

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Doug Ford upset Kathleen Wynne is meeting with Norm Kelly
Premier Kathleen Wynne to bypass Mayor Rob Ford and meet Tuesday with his deputy, Norm Kelly, infuriating the mayor’s brother

Bill Blair has some explaining to do
It’s starting to look like the entire police investigation into the mayor may have been designed to embarrass him out of office

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford’s fibs about his record: Editorial
Toronto Mayor Rob Ford keeps misleading voters about his record.
He hasn’t transformed the city and doesn’t run it like a business.

SPEAKING OF TORONTO:

The 5 most influential buildings in Toronto
Christopher Hume: From office towers to a university,
these structures put the city on the architectural map

Unpacking My Toronto ► Iconic Buildings I Have Worked In

VIDEO DU JOUR


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