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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, May 4, 2014

Hello, Headliners. Today’s birthday boy is Canadian Jazz great Maynard Ferguson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

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

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

You knew it was true. Now research proves it! The real
motivation behind Rush, Sterling and defenses of awfulness

GOP STANDS FOR GOD’S OWN PEOPLE:

GOP STANDS FOR GET OUT, PERVERTS!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

TODAY IN HEALTHCARE:

TAKING GOOD CARE OF EARTH:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

DOWN BY THE OLD MILL, STREAMING:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 26, 2014

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:

1815Napoleon 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.
1935Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed, violating the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles.
1952Vincent 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 ► Monday, February 17, 2014

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.
1959Project Vanguard: Vanguard 2 – The first weather satellite is launched to measure cloud-cover distribution.
1965Project 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

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.
1779James 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.
1876Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
1929Saint 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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Headlines Du Jour ► Groundhog Day ► Sunday, February 2, 2014

It’s Groundhog Day. Punxsutawney Phil shares his big day Ayn Rand, Elaine Stritch, Stan Getz, Graham Nash, and Farrah Fawcett, all celebrating birthdays today. But, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.


A BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS:

Gov. Chris Christie booed by Times Square crowd at Super Bowl event


POLITICAL CORNER:

Cecil Bohanon: Why national politics has become so nasty


IN COCONUT GROVE:

Out with old, in with new Miami park

West Grove to get its first police station


IN RUSSIA, BEARS ARM YOU:

Vodka blamed for Russia’s high death rate


FREE THE WEED!!!

Obama, Who Evidently Has Not Read The Controlled Substances
Act, Denies That He Has The Power To Reclassify Marijuana

Medical marijuana shops could open by summer

FREE THE TUMBLING TUBLEWEEDS!!!

‘Tumbleweed Invasion 2014’: Tumbleweeds bury New Mexico town

EXPOSING THE AFFORDABLE CARE ACT LIES:

All About the Woman Whose Life Was Ruined by
Obamacare and Had No Choice but to Appear in a TV Ad

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Study Shows How Planets with Binary Stars, Like Tatooine, Form

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford reportedly ticketed in Vancouver
for jaywalking; public intoxication

Mayor Rob Ford ’embarrassed’ by Vancouver jaywalking ticket

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 10, 2014

As Fox “News” lionizes New Jersey Governor Chris Christie as a shining example of leadership, the robot drones have returned with today’s Headlines Du Jour. Let’s get right to it . . . before they close the bridge again.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Police Find Entire Jewelry Store Inside Teen’s Rectum

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

New Data Show How Hospitals Rip You Off

EXAMPLES OF THE COLOUR LINE:

#BlackTwitter Gives Politico’s Dylan Byers Hell For Melissa Harris-Perry ‘Intellectual’ Comments

Where The Sidewalk Ends, Racism Begins

WAR IS HELL:

Gatesgate: Why Obama was right to Distrust his Generals on Afghanistan

Top Ten Things Bob Gates was Wrong about, Some Criminal

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Renews Her Racial Attacks On Eric Holder

Megyn Kelly Race Baits? Teaching Black Toddler To Swear Is Child Abuse!

Fox host on Christie: ‘Bridge thing’ ruining
coverage of Bob Gates’ Obama-bashing

Fox News Downplayed Chris Christie Scandal All Day

FREE THE WEED!!!

The One Crucial Detail That
Could Sink Legal Pot in Colorado

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Skeleton of 2,000-year-old woman unearthed in Davie

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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

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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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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, November 6, 2013

Mayor McCheese blames the Hamburglar for asking wrong questions

Welcome to today’s exciting edition of Headlines Du Jour, where only the freshest headlines are picked at the exact moment of ripeness for your news reading pleasure.

TORONTO’S MAYOR MC CHEESE ADMITS TO SMOKING CRACK:

Rob Ford : ‘Yes, I have smoked crack cocaine.’
Rob Ford said he smoked crack about a
year ago. “I don’t even remember.
Probably in one of my drunken stupors.”

 

Full transcript of Mayor Rob Ford admitting he smoked crack cocaine

Doug Ford calls on Toronto police chief to step down
Says Chief Blair believes he’s ‘judge, jury and executioner’ in case involving Mayor Rob Ford

Toronto Mayor Rob Ford ‘could easily get re-elected’
The mayor’s base of support hasn’t eroded much, say experts

COCONUT GROVE’S SOILGATE AFFECTS POOR AND RICH:

Du Pont Mansion in Coconut Grove Is Buried in Poison

BUT, THERE ARE PLENTY OF PLANETS WE HAVEN’T POLLUTED YET:

8.8 billion habitable Earth-size planets exist in Milky Way alone

ON THE ELECTION TRAIL:

Alabama GOP Special Election Candidate Told
Gays To ‘Go Back To California Or Vermont’

IN LGBT NEWS:

‘You Would Have To Kill Me’: Hawaii Police Union
President Speaks Against Gay Marriage Laws

IN HEALTH INSURANCE NEWS:

The Real Story Behind the Phony
Canceled Health Insurance Scandal

Insurance companies ripped off Americans for years
with lousy health plans. Obamacare was designed to fix that.

FROM THE FOUR FOOD GROUPS:

Family evacuated as deadly spiders hatch from Sainbury’s bananas
Terrified family flee London home after finding dozens of world’s most venomous
spiders hatching and crawling all over banana bought in supermarket chain

FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

John Carlisle: Utopia-seeking squatters struggle
to create oasis in rough Detroit neighborhood

CRAZY POLITICIANS’ CORNER:

Ted Cruz’s Father is a Dangerous Religious Fanatic

Fresh Plagiarism Charges Raised Against Rand Paul

He Did It Again: Rand Paul Caught Plagiarizing
Word for Word in Washington Times Op-Ed

Gun-loving rock star Ted Nugent on possible
run for president: ‘Sure, why not?’

15 Things You Need To Know About David Barton,
The Man Who Could Be Texas’s Next Senator

 

TODAY’S EXCITING EDITION OF COPS GONE WILD:

4 On Your Side looks into traffic stop
gone horribly wrong for Lordsburg man

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Colbert Trolls Fox News By Offering
@RealHumanPraise On Twitter, And It’s Brilliant 

 

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Read tomorrow’s headlines today. Today’s Headlines Du Jour were all lovingly hand-picked by Aunty Em Ericann — at just the height of ripeness — for your news reading pleasure and left right on your doorstep, just like the good ol’ days.

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Florida Cops Made Millions Dealing Cocaine:
The Latest Asset Forfeiture Outrage


TODAY’S TECH NEWS:

“Our Understanding of Gravity is Fundamentally Wrong” —
Two Conflicting Theories of the Universe

IN RELIGIOUS NEWS:

Generation atheist! Millennials to religion — get out of politics
Millennials are much less attached to religion than their
elders — the politicization of the church might be why

OBAMACARE NEWS:

Under Health Care Act, Millions Eligible for Free Policies

THE BEST ANSWER TO A QUESTION THAT SHOULD NEVER BE ASKED:

Mike Michaud: Yes, I am gay. ‘But why should it matter?’

THE LATEST FROM TORONTO MAYOR ROB FORD’S CLOWN CAR:

 

► OPINION ◄
Give Rob Ford what he wants: release the video
Oozing deceit even as he professes sincerity, Ford exhausts the patience of all including
the kindly octogenarian who urged him to take a leave, saying “the city will survive.”

TODAY IN TRAITOR NEWS:

Michael Vannak Khem Misiewicz, Navy Commander,
Accused Of Selling Secrets For Prostitutes, Lady Gaga Tickets

THE LATEST IN FOX “NEWS” NEWS:

Gretchen Carlson gets shut down after calling
LGBT rights and climate change ‘distractions’

Ed Schultz Fires Back at ‘Coward’ Hannity
for Declining Debate Challenge

The Simpsons Brutally Mocks
CNN, MSNBC and Especially Fox News

WHO IS A BIGGER WACKO BIRD?

Move over, Ted Cruz: Rand Paul’s wacko public meltdown
The proven plagiarist trashes his “haters” and wishes he could
challenge them to a duel. Who’s the wacko-bird now?

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Street musician gets surprise backup vocals from famous singer

 

 

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