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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 1, 2014

March 1, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Falafel King, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Racism, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a mutha. Today is Harry Belafonte‘s 87th birthday. Also celebrating birthdays today are Chopin, Glenn Miller, and David Niven, among millions of other less famous people. What do they have in common? They all just love a look back at the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

• 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
• 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
• 1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
• 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
• 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
• 1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
• 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet‘s surface.

As if that’s not enough, let’s add today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 28, 2014

February 28, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Chrome, Coconut Grove, Don Francks, facebook, Fox Nation, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Jericho, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, SCOTUS, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

The headline from a year ago

As Canadians wonder why Don Francks‘ birthday is not a national holiday, allow me to get personal for a moment. I co-starred with Mr. Francks (as an extra in two different scenes, breaking movie continuity) in 1978’s Drying Up the Streets, about heroin addiction in the big city. With the deep relationship I forged with Don, I can tell you that he loves the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1525 – The Aztec king Cuauhtémoc is executed by Hernán Cortés‘s forces.
• 1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast of the United States begins with the arrival of the SS California in San Francisco Bay, 4 months 22 days after leaving New York Harbor.
• 1883 – The first vaudeville theater opens in Boston
• 1885 – The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York State as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone. (American Bell would later merge with its subsidiary.)
• 1939 – The erroneous word “dord” is discovered in the Webster’s New International Dictionary, Second Edition, prompting an investigation.
• 1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announce to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA; the formal announcement takes place on April 25 following publication in April’s Nature (pub. April 2).
• 1991 – The first Gulf War ends.
• 1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raid the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group’s leader David Koresh. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.
• 2013 – Pope Benedict XVI resigns as the pope of the Catholic Church becoming the first pope to do so since 1415.

Without any further delay, let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE LATEST IN COCONUT GROVE:

Coconut Grove Developer
Fined After Cutting Down 100-Year-Old Trees Around Charles Ave.

Aftermath of the Great
Miami Tree Massacre

BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING:

Report: UK spy agency
intercepted millions of
webcam chats, stored images

SCOTUS INTERUPTUS:

Unprecedented Interruption of Supreme Court Proceedings

LGBT NEWS:

Joe Walsh Calls LGBT Community ‘Constitutional Terrorists’ Amid Arizona Anti-Gay Bill Protests

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana bill clears
Ga. committee

TODAY IN RELIGION:

New York pastor: Obama
sending ‘white homo demons’
to ‘scoop up’ black men

Noah’s ark project in
Ky. to move forward

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY???

Louie Gohmert: God ‘answered my prayers’ by creating the Tea Party

5 years later, here’s how the
tea party changed politics

Tea Party leader attacks Jan Brewer
for allowing “slavery” and penis cakes

ON THE FACEBOOKERY:

Facebook Shuttering Messenger
Apps for Windows, Firefox

BROWSER BATTLES:

Chrome users attack Google for zapping
unsanctioned Windows add-ons

FOX NATION IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Eric Holder Hospitalized. Fox Nation Readers Hope He Dies

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Here’s Why Fox News
Should Report On The
Noose Hung Around A
Civil Rights Statue
At Ole Miss

Fox Debunks Its Own
Defense Of Right-Wing
Special Interest Groups

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sexist Pig Bill O’Reilly Insists That There Is A Downside To Having A Female President

IN OUTER SPACE:

What if We’ve Completely
Misunderstood Our Place
in the Universe?

Black Hole Winds Provide
Clues to Early Galaxies

Bizarre Orbit of Weird Asteroid’s Moon Revealed

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Don Francks stars in Jericho!!!

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 27, 2014

February 27, 2014420, Arizona, Bill O'Reilly, Climate Change, Cocaine, Falafel King, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, John Stossel, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, Rob Ford, Sean Hannity, Spike Lee, Ted Nugent, Tucker CarlsonHeadly Westerfield

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

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

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

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

Texas ban on marriage equality ruled unconstitutional, Rick Perry upset

A NEW, NEW DEAL?

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

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

WAIT!!! WHAT???

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

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

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

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

Meet Ted Nugent’s Brother,
Jeff, Who Says Ted Needs
to ‘Tone It Down’

SPIKE LEE IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Spike Lee’s epic anti-gentrification speech

IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

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

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: Hispanics
And Californians Have
Ruined Colorado

FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

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

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

IN OUTER SPACE:

Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead

NASA discovers 715 new planets

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, February 26, 2014

February 26, 2014Bill O'Reilly, Cops Gone Wild, Fox News, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Health Care, Jimi Hendrix, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Megyn Kelly, Megyn Kelly's White World of PrivilegeHeadly Westerfield

We can blame this for Sarah Palin.

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

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

Here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

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

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

Pat Buchanan Says Conservative Christians Are True Victims in Arizona

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

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

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

Father delivers baby after hospital staff abandons him

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

Hamilton police sergeant pleads guilty to sexual charges

COLD CASE FILE SOLVED:

A 45-Year Old Jimi Hendrix Photo Mystery Gets Solved

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

Bill O’Reilly asks about La Jolla’s seals

LEGGY MEGGY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 25, 2014

February 25, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Colt Revolvers, Detroit, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Rob Ford, Zeppo MarxHeadly Westerfield

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

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

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Uganda Tabloid Prints List
of ‘Top’ Homosexuals

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Virginia Lawmaker Calls Pregnant Women “Hosts”

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

The Religious Right
To Dodge the Law

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

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

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

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

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

White Grandfather Cuffed For
Walking With Black Granddaughter

Is Black History Month still needed?

FREE THE WEED!!!

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

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

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

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

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

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

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

LOOFAH LAD’S EGO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Colbert: Bill O’Reilly an ‘idiot’ for not verifying $10 million eBay bid from ‘Bone Ranger’

Got Irony? Bill O’Reilly
Attacks ‘Salon’ Because
Writer ‘Smeared’ Him!!

The Falafel King showing absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever.

LOOFAH LAD’S FANS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Freshman’s idol reads his
fan letter on national TV

LOOFAH LAD’S GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Dennis Miller’s Smear Of Sandra
Fluke Wins Our Most Outrageous Quote Of The Week Poll

OTHER FOX “NEWS” GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Ten Of The Most Ludicrous
Fox News Guests

IN INNER SPACE:

The oldest gem

IN OUTER SPACE:

Biggest meteor ever recorded hits Moon (VIDEO)

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, February 23, 2014

February 23, 2014Bill O'Reilly, Civil War, Climate Change, Coconut Grove, Cops Gone Wild, Demolition By Neglect, Detroit, E.W.F. Stirrup House, George Takei, Gino Falsetto, Glenn Beck, GOP, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Religion, Ted NugentHeadly Westerfield

Today we honour W. E. B. Du Bois, on the anniversary of his 1868 birth. While he died in 1963, his books and articles are still avidly read around the world. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear are:

• 1455 – Traditional date for the publication of the Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type.
• 1836 – The Battle of the Alamo begins in San Antonio, Texas.
• 1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln arrives secretly in Washington, D.C., after the thwarting of an alleged assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.
• 1896 – The Tootsie Roll is invented.
• 1898 – Émile Zola is imprisoned in France after writing “J’accuse“, a letter accusing the French government of antisemitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus.
• 1903 – Cuba leases Guantánamo Bay to the United States “in perpetuity”.
• 1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh.

Without further delay, here are today’s Headlines Du Jour: