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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 13, 2013

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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 ► Wednesday, December 11, 2013

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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

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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 ► Saturday, December 7, 2013

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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 ► Wednesday, December 4, 2013

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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

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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 ► Monday, December 2, 2013

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Welcome to another thrill-packed edition of Headlines Du Jour. Today I am adding to the format slightly. When appropriate I will be printing quotes from the articles cited to give more context and/or irony. Today there happens to be two such headlines that deserved more context. So, let’s get right to the news while it’s still fresh.

TODAY IN LGBT NEWS:

Florida Tea Party Leader Bashes Gay GOP Group

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?


Santorum: Denying women birth control
coverage is a First Amendment right

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Canada to file Arctic seafloor claim this week

TODAY’S VOLLEY IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Target Canada will not be playing Christmas music

FREE THE WEED:

3 More Michigan Cities Free Up Marijuana

Why Canada banned pot (science had nothing to do with it)

These days some think a total repeal of Canada’s drug laws is inevitable.
We look at how the drug laws put in 90 years ago were based on panic
and racism as opposed to science or medicine

Doob??? Really???

QUOTE: “One has to ask in these circumstances what the benefit to society is,” says University of Toronto criminologist Anthony Doob. Forty years ago, the Le Dain report also questioned the notion that overly harsh laws were harmless if not strictly enforced. Aside from the occasional outlandishly severe sentence, rational people lose respect for laws that are irrational, corroding the faith that citizens — especially young people — ought to place in institutions.

Prohibition Then and Now
A Not Now Silly investigative report

FREE THE CRACK:

Mayor Ford draws a crowd at Bills game

Rob Ford to start YouTube show: Why it won’t work

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Tool use in crocodylians: crocodiles and alligators
use sticks as lures to attract waterbirds

10 Mysteries we’ve solved in the past year…

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Tucker Carlson Backs Lara Logan on Benghazi:
‘Sometimes the Best Stories Have Flaky Sources’

IRONY ALERT!!!

QUOTE: “Yeah, well, you know as well as I, some of the best stories have flaky sources unfortunately,” Carlson concluded.

Before Kurtz was hired by Fox News earlier this year, he had blasted Carlson’s the Daily Caller website after a Dominican law enforcement official claimed that the publication had offered to pay prostitutes to make false claims about Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ).

Kurtz, a CNN host at the time, insisted that the Daily Caller “owes the senators and its readers an apology.”

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

Social media are a tool for Detroit Police
to answer critics, expand investigations

Enjoy Detroit TV Nostalgia? Catch ‘Remember When’ On WTVS Monday

BULLY CORNER:

Father Of Girl Who Committed Suicide Speaks
Out Against Ginger Bullying, ‘Kick A Ginger Day’

Science Reporter Emily Graslie Reads
Her Mail — And It’s Not So Nice

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day
Another Not Now Silly investagative report

IN SOUTH FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Miami readies its new front porch: the $131 million Perez Art Museum

Sweetwater mayor’s corruption conviction pops lid on a sewer of scandal

SCIENCE CORNER:

Chinese Train that Never Stops

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Memories of You is my favourite song and Eubie Blake among my favourite artists
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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 1, 2013

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It’s that time of the morning again. As people begin to wake from their slumber, the Not Now Silly news team has been busy all night long. It has been gathering only the finest, shiniest, and most interesting Headlines Du Jour for your reading pleasure.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Tennessee man shoots and kills wife
after argument over dead man’s shoes

►►► R.I.P. ◄◄◄


‘Fast & Furious’ star Paul
Walker killed in car crash

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

Filmmaker Uncovers Her Family’s Shocking Slave-Trading History

Anti-LGBT cardinal: Catholic church isn’t anti-gay
and was ‘out-marketed’ on same sex marriage

Scott Jones attack inspires Don’t be Afraid campaign
Facebook group tries to fight homophobia

GOBBLE, GOBBLE:

Conservatives Still Seeking
Vindication for George W.
Bush Fake Turkey Scandal

OH!! CANADA!!!

Feds to monitor social
media round-the-clock

Online dating relationship ends badly, $1.3M later
Canadians looking for love online are falling prey to the country’s
most lucrative scam. One woman says she gave a total of $1.3
million to a man she met on a dating site, but never in person.

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford and Doug Ford plan comeback on YouTube
Having lost their weekly radio talk show, the Fords are planning to launch a self-
produced program. “We’ve done a lot more than the Kardashians,” said Doug Ford.

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Murdoch’s British Tabloid Attempted Hundreds Of
Times To Hack Aides To British Royals’ Phones

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Washington Post Op-Ed Goes Viral: End Presidential Term Limits

MUSIC VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, November 27, 2013

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While the rest of the world rests, the Not Now Silly news team is not allowed any sleep. Provisioned for the job at hand the NNS news team enters the internet through a coaxial cable in NNS Headquarters and collects as many headlines as they can safely carry. Then they bring them back where they are compiled into today’s Headlines Du Jour. 

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Supreme Court takes up birth control cases

Obama administration proposes new limits on tax-exempt political groups

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge orders expedited marriage license
so terminally ill woman can wed partner

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

Florida Christian School Threatens to Kick
Out Black Girl Over Her Natural Hair

Prosecutors Say This Ohio Man Plotted
A One-Man Racist Killing Spree

Where Do the Most Racist and Homophobic
People In America Live? Check This Map

GOD BLESS ‘MERKA:

America is the Stingiest Rich Country in the World

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News: Now the Anti-Obamacare Propaganda Channel

O’Reilly Factor’s Watters Takes on Rob
Ford: ‘Are You Having Fun Right Now?’

O’Reilly Factor is Rob Ford’s craziest interview yet

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

Detroit bankruptcy creditors ask judge to
take steps toward sale of DIA treasures

This Is What Detroit Could Look Like In 2033 … And Beyond

CRACK CORNER:

“This isn’t Toronto,” says sheriff after arresting Florida mayor
Oh brother, now small town sheriffs are using our mayor as an example

RELIGION CORNER:


 

Pope Francis rips capitalism and trickle-down
economics to shreds in new policy statement

Dan Savage Was Last Straw — Catholic Group
Demands Bill Maher’s HBO Show Gets Canceled

IN OUTER SPACE:

Birth of black hole witnessed, marking watershed moment for astronomy

Mach 1,000 shock wave lights supernova remnant
Astronomers have discovered that a reverse shock wave racing inward
heats Tycho’s supernova remnant and causes it to emit X-ray light.

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 26, 2013

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The Not Now Silly News Team has been working all night
long to compile the very best of today’s Headlines Du Jour. So, grab a cop of coffee and
settle down to the best damn headlines found anywhere.

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

Christian Tea Party Terrorist Claims 2nd Amendment
Authority To Shoot President Obama!

STAND YOUR GROUND:

‘Stand your ground’ moves to Ohio Senate

Police find 12-gauge, rifle, and more than 100
rounds at George Zimmerman’s girlfriend’s home

Why George Zimmerman Was Arrested
Immediately When He Abused A White Woman

The Curious Case Of George Zimmerman’s Public Defender

FREE THE WEED:

Pot smokers warned: think twice
before crossing U.S. border
Canadians heading south to sample
legal marijuana should not expect
a warm welcome at the border


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

Task force to compile database
in Detroit blight fight

Thieves target massive water
tower at Packard Plant in Detroit

Torched: Jefferson Ave’s Historic Somerset Apartments

Video: The Diego Rivera Murals As You’ve Never Seen Them

FOX NEWS IN THE NEWS:

Ed Schultz Blasts Fox’s ‘Steve Douchey,’ Cavuto
for Claiming Iran Deal Distraction from Obamacare

Sarah Palin Snubs Bill O’Reilly?!

Fox Host: Obamacare is worse than Katrina
or the Iraq War because it touches more lives


I AIN’T AFRAID OF NO GHOSTS:

‘Ghost-hunters’ allegedly burn down historic Louisiana plantation

The Ghost In The Machine

HAITIAN HATE IN THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC:

Dominicans expel 244 Haitians over border killings


IN LGBT NEWS:

The Very Gay History of the Almost Lost
Tradition of the Sunday Tea Dance


CRACKED MAYOR CORNER:

Blair must explain why police didn’t arrest Rob Ford
Why did police sit back and watch the mayor for months while he repeatedly met with an alleged dealer and apparently took curious packages from him?

 
Drunken Mayor Goes Bonkers After Being Arrested by
His Own Police Force

CRACKED CORNER:

Atheist drops golfer’s sponsorship over fears
Ted Cruz, Glenn Beck could taint business

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck


LAWSUIT DU JOUR:

Yuliana Avalos, Miami Bikini Model, Sues
Match.com For $1.5 Billion Over Stolen Photos

PERFECT FOR THE NUCLEAR FAMILY:

This House Has A Massive Door Going To The Basement.
When You See What’s Down There, You’ll Get It.


ENTERTAINMENT CORNER:

Doctor Who’s 50th anniversary episode breaks the Timelord’s
number one rule and re-writes history – and reminds us
why Matt Smith and David Tennant were so irritating

 

VIDEO DU JOUR

Brian Wilson, Frank Zappa & Graham Nash Go Inside Pop
Fascinating 1967 film lifts the lid on “the strange and compelling scene called ‘pop music’”.


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