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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 7, 2014

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Since I began suspecting the headline-collecting robot drones of conspiring, they’ve been surprisingly silent. I know they’re just wait for me to slip up, so I won’t look directly at them. You shouldn’t either. Meanwhile, here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Tennessee man runs for governor in GOP primary for right to shower with his raccoon


TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop shoots dead a tased, restrained, 100lb
teen: “we don’t have time for this”

LGBT CORNER:

Supreme Court halts Utah gay marriage

2014’s Gayest Cities in America

CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

Climate Change Might Just Be
Driving the Historic Cold Snap

FREE THE WEED!!!

Disagree with Nancy Grace’s Anti-Pot Crusade?
Well, You’re Just ‘Fat and Lazy’ Stoners

TOO MUCH GOVERNMENT REGULATION?

Swaziland Bans Witches From Flying Above 150 Meters

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

White House To GOP: If You Want
Troops In Iraq, You ‘Should Say So’

Family Values Republican Congressman Hid
His Out-of-Wedlock Child and First Family

TAKE MONEY OUT OF POLITICS:

Koch-backed political coalition, designed to shield donors, raised $400 million in 2012

FRANK LUNTZ IN THE NEWS:

GOP Pollster Frank Luntz Became ‘Depressed’ After 2012 Election

Frank Luntz Can’t Figure Out Why Nobody In Hollywood Is Returning His Calls

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

Three Ways to Fight
Racism in 2014

THE COLOUR LINE IS COMPLICATED:

TWERK: Booty-dancing, gender
politics & white privilege

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. MUSICAL HISTORY EVEN MORE SO:

Sting, Puff Daddy, Andy Summers, and the case of the misplaced bajillion dollars

OH! OH!! CANADA?!?!?!

Canada’s former defense minister says space aliens live among us, but hate our nukes

FUCK CANADA!!!

They fought for your right to hear the F word
Local ‘Toilet Rockers’ MacLean & MacLean at centre of landmark Supreme Court decision

Couple feel ‘robbed’ by 25% interest TD car loan
Dealership promised relief after a year but didn’t deliver, customers say
[FULL DISCLOSURE: TD is my bank. It advertises as ‘Merka’s most convenient bank.]

RELIGION CORNER:

Alabama preacher arrested for his wife’s murder as he boarded overseas flight

Satanic Temple unveils 7-foot goat-headed Baphomet statue for Oklahoma Capitol

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami Named 4th Worst-Run
City in America, Hialeah 9th

TRUE OBAMA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME:

Armed Minnesota man burns down his own house, then blames Obama

MOVIE CORNER:

Male Fans Made Bettie Page
a Star, but Female Fans
Made Her an Icon

Her risqué pinup photos made
her famous in the 1950s, but as a
new documentary reminds us,
Page’s liberated sexuality and
unflinching body positivity
are what still resonate today.

TODAY IN BEATLES’ NEWS:

Eurythmics reunite for Grammys tribute to the Beatles that will also include John Mayer and Keith Urban

VIDEO DU JOUR:

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 6, 2014

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The Not Now Silly headline-collecting robot drones have been behaving oddly lately. While they have no heads, it sure seems like they are putting them together. If I didn’t know any better, I’d say they were talking about me. 

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

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

How two archaeologists’ hunch led to
stunning claim about Buddha’s birth date

LGBT NEWS:

Gay Marriage Opponents Call For Uprising In Utah

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

“Dark Money” Funds Climate Change Denial Effort
A Drexel University study finds that a large slice of donations to
organizations that deny global warming are funneled through third-
party pass-through organizations that conceal the original funder

FREE THE WEED!!!

The People of Florida
Demand Medical Marijuana
And they’re forcing a ballot measure
to legalize it in November.

Obama’s Pot Problem

Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana,
will the president continue the government’s war on weed?

Bummer: Colorado pot shops will run out of marijuana within days

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News Sunday Guest: God Doesn’t
Want Nuns To Sign ObamaCare Waiver

Things Go Horribly Wrong For Fox News When
They Try to Use Mitt Romney to Smear MSNBC

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

A more progressive America is emerging, but Republicans won’t go down without a fight

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker doesn’t know
how to make Republicans more appealing

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Fate of Fired Guns & Ammo Editor Shows
‘Little Room for Nuance’ in ‘Gun Journalism’

OH, CANADA!!!

Canadian libricide: Tories torch and dump centuries
of priceless, irreplaceable environmental archives

ANOTHER HOAX THAT’S GONE VIRAL:

Was a Local Fox Reporter Really Fired For
Saying On-Air He’d ‘F*ck’ Missing Woman?

WHAT IF THEY BECOME SELF-AWARE?

AI vs. AI:
Two chatbots talking to each other

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Christian Pastor Calls For Atheists And Gays To Be Put To Death

10 Worst Sex and Relationship Tips From the Christian Right
These holy tips on love, dating and marriage
will allow you to please yourself (not
that way), your mate and your Lord.

IS JUSTICE BLIND?

Trial by Twitter
After high-school football stars were accused of rape,
online vigilantes demanded that justice be served. Was it?

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami Named One of America’s Ten Best Cities for 2013

IN OUTER SPACE:

Small Asteroid 2014 AA Hits Earth
Discovered on New Year’s Eve by a telescope in Arizona, a small asteroid struck Earth somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean — apparently unnoticed — about 25 hours later.

MEET THE BEATLES:

50 Years Later: The Greatest Beatles Performance of All Time
Months before the The Ed Sullivan Show, the band played a seven-song set for Swedish radio that settles any doubt about their electrifying live presence.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

◄ A Beatles’ Bootleg – Something ►

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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, December 30, 2013

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As we count down the days to the New Year, Not Now Silly is grateful for headline collecting robot drones. My New Year’s resolution is to get more headline collecting robot drones. Meanwhile, here are today’s Headlines Du Jour.

OH! STOP!! MY!!! SIDES!!!!

Republicans Go Mad As Pope Francis and President
Obama Deliver The Same Economic Message

FREE THE WEED!!!

10 things to know about nation’s first
recreational marijuana shops in Colorado

NOT SUPER-VILLAINS:

Four robbery suspects arrested for
what LAPD deems ‘felony stupid’

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Toronto police officer strips naked “hundreds” of people
Const. Sasa Sljivo told court on Dec. 11 he has stripped “hundreds” of people
completely naked, which is against police policy as laid out by the Supreme Court.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida prostitute mistakenly texts on-duty deputy for sex: sheriff
Schquita Alaysha Warren arranged a hookup at a Pensacola Motel 6, realizing
too late she’d sexted an Escambia County investigator instead of her client.

NSA IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

The NSA Has A Way To Intercept Computers Mid-Shipment And Install Spyware On Them

NASA IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

NASA’s twitchy bouncy roboball
may explore Titan one day

TECH IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

The Biggest Tech Flops of 2013

DRONE IS A 4-LETTER WORD:

I worked on the US drone program. The
public should know what really goes on
Few of the politicians who so brazenly proclaim the benefits
of drones have a real clue how it actually works (and doesn’t)

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Coconut Grove’s 32nd Annual King Mango Strut

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 29, 2013

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As the year winds down to its logical end, Not Now Silly declares 2013 as having 365 days, give or take. Now that we got that out of the way, it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Woman Stabs Her Husband with a Ceramic
Squirrel Because He Didn’t Have Beer


LGBT CORNER:

Same-sex Couples Shatter
Marriage Records In Utah


RELIGION CORNER:

Fr. Jonathan Morris Compares
Phil Robertson To The Pope?

World’s Third Oldest Bible Displayed at Smithsonian

Paul Ryan lectures the pope
The Catholic conservative who insists he cares about the
poor says Pope Francis doesn’t understand capitalism


TEABAGGER CORNER:

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party


FREE THE WEED:

Marijuana Legalization Would
Bring Fresh Cash to California

Denver gives out recreational
cannabis sales licences


HOW MANY YEARS WILL HE GET? YOU DO THE METH:

Oregon man on meth fights off cops while masturbating in bar: police


NOW YOU CAN EAT IN THE DARK:

Glow-In-The-Dark Piglets Created In China Using Jellyfish DNA

THE LATEST IN COCONUT GROVE:


VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, December 28, 2013

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When Not Now Silly fired all the headline collecting interns and replaced them with robot drones, I thought life would get simpler. That has not proven the case. While they don’t agitate for days off, I think the drones have become sentient. Don’t look them directly in the eye and you should be fine.

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

‘Suspicious’ KKK flyers found in Chicago suburb: ‘The Klan is awake!’

Ann Coulter Trolls With Racist Article As
President Obama Wishes a Happy Kwanzaa


LGBT NEWS:

Catholic School Asked Gay Administrator to Dissolve His Marriage

Colorado State Football Coach Suspended For Using Gay Slur


GET THE DUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

A&E Reverses Decision to ‘Suspend’ Phil Robertson


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Neal Boortz: GOP Won’t Take Senate in
2014, and It’s Social Conservatives’ Fault

Rove’s Republican rivals step up


WAIT!!! WHAT???

Israel Newspaper Issues Hilarious Correction to Article Claiming Bugs Bunny is Jewish


TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Tanning Salons Now Outnumber McDonald’s in Florida


VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 27, 2013

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Earlier this week, when I introduced robot drones to collect the daily headlines, little did I know how smoothly things would run in the Not Now Silly news room. Now when I wake up, the robots have already returned and the headlines are waiting on my desk. If I could only find a robot with news sense to cull the bad headlines — and then post this to the blog — I could sleep in. 

I’m also going to need a never-ending supply of AAA batteries; these suckers use a lot of power. No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

WHERE WILL FUTURE HEADLINES DU JOUR COME FROM?

As fewer people read newspapers, more share their front pages

IN LGBT NEWS:

Texas bar bans gay men over ‘safety risk’ for
dancing to country music instead of hip-hop

Advocates in Florida Gather Enough Signatures to Put Medical Cannabis Legalization to a Vote

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Mike Huckabee is either a clueless fool or a brazen liar

Fox News’ 5 worst moments of 2013

Fox News Spent 2013 Worrying About “Wussification”

YOU DESERVE A BREAK TODAY:

McDonald’s shuts down
heavily-criticized employee
resources site

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

Racist Ohio Teacher Suspended After Telling Student ‘We Don’t Need Another Black President’

New Mexico Tea Party Patriots Leader: Blacks
Should Stop ‘Bitching And Moaning’ About Slavery

The Most Clueless Racists of 2013

Detroit has seen an uptick in history buffs and photographers
visiting its ruins since its bankruptcy filing.

THE RUIN PORN OF DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit’s abandoned buildings draw tourists instead of developers

After a century, Michigan Central
train station’s last
stop in limbo

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

8 very old sites in the New World

MUSIC IS LIFE:

30 Songs That Changed the Course Of Musical History

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

No charges after family member’s gun fatally shoots 2-month-old on Christmas Eve

Florida man shot and killed by stray bullet from neighbor’s backyard gun range

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 24, 2013

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When the Not Now Silly interns began agitating for Christmas off, I decided to grant their request. I fired the whole lot of them. However, I ain’t going out into the innertubes and getting my hands dirty. That’s why I have purchased the very latest technology in headline collection, specially designed drone robots. Today’s Headlines Du Jour are the very first to be picked by the new bots. Not only do they work cheap, but they won’t demand time off.

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge Smacks Down Utah’s Request for Stay
as Hundreds of Gay Couples Get Married

Federal judge’s ruling rejects
Ohio gay marriage ban

OH, FER DUCK’S SAKE!!!

Mike Huckabee Defends Phil Robertson With a
Paranoid Rant Against Militant Homosexuals

SOILGATE:

City Of Miami Closes Two More Parks For Potential Contamination

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

THE RACE FOR THE WHITE HOUSE:

Democrats Need To Rally Around the Issue of Income Inequality in America

THE COLOUR LINE IS THE POVERTY LINE IS THE POWER LINE:

Miami’s Staggering Inequality Explained in One Map

THE EARTH IS COMPLICATED:

Reservoir found under Greenland’s snow. What it means for shrinking glaciers.
The water in the huge reservoir remains liquid year-round, and researchers say it could help them estimate how Greenland’s rapidly melting ice sheet will respond to global warming.

RELIGION CORNER:

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

Tea Party Darling Rand Paul Insists He’s Sincere About Helping Detroit

UP AGAINST THE WALMART!!!

Walmart Gets Busted Forcing Employees to
Make Political Contributions to Republicans

DON’T ZIMMER ME, MAN!!!

eBay removes anti-Zimmerman artwork the
same day Zimmerman’s painting sells for $100k

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Whips, cloaks and parchment: the
festive presents of ancient Rome

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 22, 2013

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Following yesterday’s insurrection by the Not Now Silly interns, let’s just say you’ll never see or hear from them again. A brand new team of interns were hired, trained, and sent out overnight to collect today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Robot Handjobs Are The Future, And The Future Is Coming

LGBT NEWS:

LGBT activist reported missing

In Striking Down Utah’s Gay Marriage
Ban, Judge Gives Scalia Big Bear Hug

When Having Condoms Gets You Arrested

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

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed Bemoans The
End Of White Rule In The United States

Barry Diller’s PR Exec Fired After AIDS Tweet Outrage

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Says It’s Unconstitutional For Gas Companies
to Frack Wherever They Want

THE ROB FORD DEFENSE DIDN’T WORK FOR HIM:

General in Charge of U.S. Nukes Fired for Drunken Escapades in Russia

STING NOWHERE TO BE FOUND:

Message in a bottle found 54 years later in Canadian Arctic

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Colorado school shooting plot by two
teenage students thwarted: cops

RELIGION CORNER:

Right-Wing Group Seeks Help Rewriting the Bible Because It’s Not Conservative Enough

VIDEO DU JOUR:

◄ ◄ ◄ I gotcher Rasta Christmas right here!!! ► ► ►

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, December 21, 2013

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There’s been some trouble in News Land. Lately the Not Now Silly interns have been agitating for a livable salary. At the very least they want the minimum wage. But, why should I start paying them anything now? After I sent back into the innertubes to collect today’s Headlines Du Jour, I changed all the locks and moved offices. That’ll teach them. In the meantime there are now several openings for interns at Not Now Silly. Apply within. And now the news:

LGBT NEWS:

Federal judge strikes down Utah’s same-sex marriage ban

IN THE ECOLOGY:

 

Significant Victory for Ecuadorians in Oil Pollution Case Against Chevron

I GOTCHER PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE!!!

7 Reasons Why Jesus Would Hate Christmas

O’Reilly Becomes Unhinged Debating Mikey Weinstein In
The War On Christmas: “I Covered Four Wars With A Pen!”

Bill O’Reilly Repeats His Christmas Lie

I GOTCHER PHONY WAR ON PLANNED PARENTHOOD RIGHT HERE!!!

O’Reilly Cooks Up A ‘War On Babies’ To Launch A War On Planned Parenthood

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

The Detroit Adventures of A French
Cyber-Pop Artist Named Anne Horel

DON’T ZIMMER ME, MAN!!!

George Zimmerman Joins Twitter, Shares
Thoughts on the ‘Pseudo Media,’ Phil Robertson

George Zimmerman vents on Twitter after
freelancer shoots video of him picking up guns

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

Lawrence O’Donnell Condemns Phil Robertson…
But Not for His Comments About Homosexuality

NO JOKES ALLOWED!!! NEWS IS A SERIOUS BIDNEZZ:

Man Arrested After News Anchor Takes Joke Tweet Seriously

AND IN BEATLES NEWS:

Crater on planet Mercury newly named for a Beatle

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 19, 2013

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Each morning I sit by the open window waiting. I wait for the return of the Not Now Silly interns, who are both the hunters and the gatherers of this operation. The NNS interns have spent the entire night reconnoitering the innertubes and foraging for nothing but the best and most succulent headlines. They are picked at the exact moment of ripeness and brought back to me for inspection. I take these proto-headlines, check them for bugs, put them through a patented homogenization process, and VOILA! Today’s Headlines Du Jour.

PUT THIS ON PAY-PER-VIEW SETTLE THE NATIONAL DEBT:

McCain To Reid: ‘I’m Going To Kick The Crap Out Of You’

PROLITARIAT OF THE WORLD UNITE:

The Great American Class War: Plutocracy Versus Democracy

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Arizona Woman Gets Punched for Saying
‘Happy Holidays’ Instead of ‘Merry Christmas’

SAY! DIDN’T YOU USED TO BE…?

BBC interviews random man on the
street who turns out to be the Fonz

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Scientists cut million-year natural process to convert algae into crude oil to about an hour

Fossil turns back the human hands
of time  for tool use 500,000 years

LGBT NEWS:

Lawsuit: Mississippi school forced
‘pathetic dyke’ to use the boys’ bathroom
 

America’s Oldest Gay Rights Magazine Picks Pope Francis as Person of Year

 

◄ ◄ ◄ REMOVING THE ‘NASTY’ FROM DUCK DYNASTY ► ► ►

‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson suspended for comments about gays

◄ ◄ ◄ EARLIER ► ► ►

‘Duck Dynasty’ Star Rants Against ‘Homosexual
Behavior,’ ‘Islamists,’ And ‘Shintos’ In Epic Interview

Duck Dynasty Dad: Growing Up In Louisiana ‘I
Never Saw The Mistreatment Of Any Black Person’

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Gun activists have a new craze —
and it’s more dangerous than you think
The new front line in the battle over gun rights is “open carry.” Here’s why it has psychologists deeply concerned

HYPOCRITE CORNER:

Watch: Marco Rubio is Confronted for Accepting $10k Obamacare Subsidy

 

Johnny Dollar ► Hypocrite ► UPDATED!

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Reporter Daniel Dale drops libel suit
after Mayor Rob Ford apologizes again
Dale has agreed to not continue his lawsuit against the mayor after
a second, more complete, public apology was issued Wednesday.

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

N.Y. cop’s anti-Obama Facebook rant: ‘Go die in a shallow grave you Muslim commie’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘Where’s Hoda?!’ Shep Smith Gets Hilariously
Distracted by Dana Perino’s Facebook Page

THAT’LL TEACH HIM!!!

German town revokes Hitler’s citizenship

LOVE CONQUERS ALL:

Jamaican bride dumps new husband 20 MINUTES after
arriving in the UK… and guess who paid for her £5k visa

PLATE TECHTONICS IS COMPLICATED:

The world’s newest island, Niijima

VIDEO DU JOUR:

THIS REALLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN 3D:

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