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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 11, 2014

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People have been curious about the process of curating Headlines Du Jour, which surprises me because I didn’t think people would be that interested. However, since you asked:

When my headline-collecting robot drones return from a night of headline collecting, they are loaded down with headlines from every genre. Then the culling begins. The first thing I do is throw out all the sports headlines. Then older headlines are discarded. Next, I toss out any headline you can find elsewhere. My readers don’t come here to find what they can get elsewhere; they come here for the headlines they won’t get anywhere else. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP’s poverty scam: Why does it suddenly “care” about the poor?

‘No free lunch’ Republican bills taxpayers for
his food but tells poor kids to work for theirs

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Formal complaint filed about
Mayor Rob Ford’s use of staff

POLITICS IS AS POLITICS DOES:

Dirty Tricks, Traffic Studies, And Why Sociopaths Flourish In Politics

All the Governors’ Dark-Money Funds

Walker, Kasich, Snyder: These big-name governors embraced dark
money to push their agendas. They could pay for it in 2014.

Is Scott Walker next?

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

CNNers: Ailes Book Likely Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind About Fox News

Ailes book: Fox chief to blame for
Fox’s election night meltdown

Past Book Sales Show Apathy Rules When It Comes to Roger Ailes

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Scott Blames “Overly-Vindictive
Women” For Arrest Of Man Who
Violated Restraining Order

Fox: Where The Chris Christie Scandal
Is Really Just About Benghazi

FREE THE WEED!!!

Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people affected by pot deaths

Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not
locking up marijuana users in Colorado

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

Interracial Couple Upset Over
‘Jungle Fever’ Note Left by Valet

WEATHER, OR NOT?

Scientists: Americans are becoming weather wimps

MOSTLY HARMLESS???

What if the rest of the
alien universe was
terrified of humans?

WHISTLE-BLOWERS BEWARE:

Australian Teen Reported To Police After
Exposing Security Hole In Website

MOVIE CORNER:

Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary
‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released

VIDEO DU JOUR:

And, introducing Maureen O’Hara:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 10, 2014

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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

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, January 9, 2014

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Good morning, Headliners. It’s time once again to take the pulse of the world and see what your neighbours will be talking about later today. So grab a cup of java, put your cell phone on vibrate only, and settle in with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Oklahoma man killed
stepfather with ‘atomic
wedgie,’ authorities say

LGBT NEWS:

Breaking: Utah Gov. Tells 1360 Legally Married
Same-Sex Couples Their Unions Are Invalid

FROM OUTER SPACE:

UFO Causes German Airport To Divert Flights

Fox Guest: Minimum Wage Is Just ‘Black Teenage Unemployment Act’

‘Gates of Hell’: Fox News
Pairs Ann Coulter with
Unfortunate Chyron

Colbert Calls Out Fox’s Hollow Climate Change Attack

TODAY’S COLD CASE:

Burglars Who Took On F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Lawmaker fires handgun in Kentucky Capitol: ‘I am a gun owner… It happens’

I NEVER META-DATA I DIDN’T LIKE:

Graphs by MIT Students Show the Enormously Intrusive Nature of Metadata

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

16 Reasons to Go to Detroit Right Now

Detroit’s historic Brush Park may finally see a revival

Rebuilding Detroit’s first and last neighborhood

Nod to 1300 Lafayette

WHEN DO WE ADMIT THAT CAPITALISM HAS NOT WORKED?

Bring Back the WPA

Why we should give free money to everyone

TODAY IN FLORI-DUH NEWS:

Florida man bites neighbor’s
ear off over a cigarette

Toxic Tush Doc Oneal Morris to Begin
Prison Sentence (in the Male Population)

CLIMATE CHANGE, GLOBAL WARMING, & CHARLETANS

Linking Weather Extremes to Global Warming

Yes, It’s Cold — and Yes, Global
Warming Is Still Happening

RELIGION CORNER:

Pat Robertson: Global warming is a scam because there are no SUVs on Jupiter

America’s First ‘Pastafarian’
Official Sworn into Office

Pastafarian minister sworn into office

FREE THE WEED!!!

Fox News contributor Ben Carson: Marijuana causes flashbacks years after use

Chris Hayes: Bill O’Reilly Wrong On Pot Arrests

Jon Stewart blasts cable anchors panicking over legal pot: ‘You’re a f*cking idiot’

O’Reilly Fires Back at Jon Stewart, ‘Can’t Imagine’ Chinese Kids Being Addicted to Texting

Kevin Hart and Ice Cube Aggressively
Mock Nancy Grace’s Anti-Weed Comments

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, January 8, 2014

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Guess what day it is? That’s right! It’s the anniversary of when the last person was executed for blasphemy in Britain. Meanwhile, I’ve grown suspicious of my headline collecting robot drones. They may be executed for exactly the very same reason. However, let’s not dwell on the unpleasant because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

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

Omaha police association labels video of
diapered black toddler ‘The Thug Cycle’

THE SORRY STATE OF TEE VEE NEWS:

“60 Minutes” gets it wrong again:
Cleantech hit job doesn’t check out

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”

‘You’re Invisible, But I’ll Eat You Anyway.’ Secrets Of Snow-Diving Foxes

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Climate Change Deniers
Using Cold Weather as
Proof Exposed as Idiots
By Jon Stewart

FREE THE WEED!!!

Stephen Colbert shreds
‘buzzkill’ David Brooks’s
argument against legal weed

RELIGION CORNER:

Man who thinks he’s Jesus… along with hundreds of young women who follow him across the world

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 ► Sunday, January 5, 2014

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It’s the beginning of the first full week of the new year. I’ve yet to hear back from The O’Jays, but that fight’s so new the ink hasn’t dried on my rant yet. If I don’t hear back from them soon, I’ll be sending the robot drones after them. No matter. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

A man tried to rob a bank after paying
$500 to a wizard to make him invisible

GET THE DUCK OUTTA HERE:

GOP’s “Duck Dynasty” problem: Why Phil
Robertson was a hugely important political story

Mike Duggan, Detroit’s First White Mayor in 40 Years, Takes Office

Duggan turns to cronies first

IT WAS BROKEN WHEN I GOT HERE. HONEST!!!

The Year We Broke the Internet
An explanation. An apology. A plea.

RELIGION CORNER:

Bill Nye To Debate Evolution At Kentucky Creation Museum

Pastor Tries to Walk on Water
Like Jesus, Then Drowns
in Front of His Congregation

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

100-Million-Year Old Amber
Fossil Preserves Ancient
Flowers Caught In The Middle
Of Sexual Reproduction

Bizarre ‘Earthquake Light’ Mystery Has Been Solved! They Aren’t UFOs

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford Kicks Off Toronto Mayoral Campaign With Misinformation

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News and Right Wing Media Attack Journalists For Reporting the Truth About Benghazi

EDJUMAKATING THE MASSES:

Here’s Exactly How Much the Government Would
Have to Spend to Make Public College Tuition-Free

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 4, 2014

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FREEING THE WEED

Marijuana stores in Colorado
have long lines but few problems

Pot sales exceed $1 million on first day

Tina Brown: Legal Weed Leaves
America Unable to Compete with China

Is It Legal To Smoke or Possess
Marijuana in Lansing, Michigan?

David Brooks Explains Why He
Doesn’t Smoke Pot Anymore,
Is Roundly Mocked

Fugitive Ga. Banker Suspected
In Marijuana Case In Fla.

Miami’s 16th-Annual Medical
Marijuana Benefit: “It’s Not Just
About Smoking a Joint”

Colorado’s marijuana foes and
supporters worked for smooth launch

Muting Marijuana’s High:
Pot Without the Impairment

OSU Point Guard Stevie Clark
Facing Marijuana Charges

As the first weekend of the new year begins, the Not Now Silly robot drones have collected a vast array of headlines. However, they seem to have developed a particular fascination with stories about Colorado. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

The Supreme Court Joins The Right Wing Attempt to Replace the Constitution With the Bible

Bryan Fischer Rejects Constitution – Says Evolutionists Disqualified from Political Office

South Carolina Violates the Constitution With Plan For Mandatory Prayer In Public Schools

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox News Regular Michael Scheuer Suggests Assassinating President Obama And David Cameron

14 Things We’ve Learned From News Corp.’s Phone Hacking Trial So Far

NYT Executive Editor Calls Fox News Accusation on Benghazi “Ridiculous”
War Reporters Push Back: Fox News Doesn’t Understand What Journalism Is

Fox News’ hack has a plan to fix the country

OCCUPY WALL STREET:

Reporter Chris Faraone Sues NYPD Over Occupy Wall Street Arrest

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Ancient stone bridge revealed after Chinese lake dries up

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

North Carolina Deputy Orders Man With Camera Off “My County Property” Under Threat of Arrest

THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:

CNN Disgraces Journalism With Hit Piece That Tries to Get Melissa Harris-Perry Fired

THE PENIS: MIGHTIER THAN THE SWORD:

Penis drawn on business card is key to Wyoming
legal battle over unemployment benefits

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Man arrested for stealing brains in Indiana

CLIMBING THE CHRIS CHRISTIE CHAIN OF COMMAND:

‘It came from a
higher authority’

Kelly: Assemblyman says order for GWB traffic tie-up came from outside Port Authority

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

New Jersey neo-Nazi alleges discrimination after ninth child taken away

LONG STORY SHORT: LIFE DOESN’T IMITATE ART:

Dave Van Ronk’s Ex-Wife Takes Us Inside Inside Llewyn Davis

EARTH IS COMPLICATED:

Geologists discover new quake fault line in Spokane

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

‘Criminally insane’ Florida man found in van with 36 guns, 4,629 rounds of ammo

TODAY’S TRUMP:

Donald Trump: Researchers trapped in Antarctic ice prove global warming is a sham
This “very expensive GLOBAL WARMING
bullsh*t has got to stop,” Trump tweeted


VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► January 2, 2014

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I was recently asked, “What makes a Headline Du Jour?” The first line of defense, as always, is my army of drone robots. They spend the long nights traversing the innertubes, collecting only the best headlines — at the peak of perfection. The hardest part is keeping the robot drones from becoming self-aware, which is why I’ve limited their RAM. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

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

Racism Literally Costs America $2 Trillion…Ready to Stop Payment?

FREE THE WEED!!!

This Iraq War Vet Was First to
Buy Legal Pot in Colorado

Six Things You Should Know
About Buying Pot In Colorado

South America May Be On the Verge Of a Marijuana Legalization Tidal Wave

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

On Christmas, Republicans Quietly Declare War on Themselves

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Watch: Party Girl Says ‘We’re Gonna
F*ck Sh*t Up!” Live on Fox News

Kelly Wright, Juan Williams Pimp Christian
Right’s America Founded On Faith Meme

GET THE DUCK OUTTA HERE!!!

Duck Dynasty Patriarch Hates On Chinese, Says Muslims Are ‘Famous For Murder’

Franklin Graham chides Christians
for not fighting beside Phil
Robertson in ‘religious war’

‘Suck Dynasty’? Reality stars fizzle in awkward Fox New Year’s interview

Watch the Giant Rubber
Duck Pop and Deflate

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Law firm demands Florida man remove racist
‘commercial or whatever it is’ from Internet

WHOOOPS!!!

Customs officials destroy virtuoso flautist’s 11
instruments because they
were ‘agricultural products’

FROM OUTER SPACE:

NASA’s Hubble Sees Cloudy
Super-Worlds With
Chance for More Clouds

Video: Sun has ‘flipped upside down’ as new magnetic cycle begins

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 31, 2013

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This being the last day of the year means that today’s Headlines Du Jour is the last one for 2013. Join us tomorrow for the first Headlines Du Jour of 2014. Two-thousand and four. It just rolls off the tongue.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox Anchor: NY Times Benghazi Report ‘Goes Against Much of Fox News’ Own Reporting’

Fox News Wastes No
Time Attacking NY Times
Benghazi Report

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

Guess which party has a bone to pick with evolution?

Sen. Ted Cruz hires lawyers to renounce his Canadian citizenship

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Guy Reaches For Wallet, Ends Up
Shooting Himself In The Butt

RELIGION CORNER:

Comedian Raised $125K for Atheist Tornado Survivor Just to Piss Off Her ‘Okie-Christian Neighbors’

IN OUTER SPACE:

Sun has ‘flipped upside down’ – Nasa

The Quadrantid Meteor Shower-One of the Best Bets for 2014

FREE THE WEED:

Tommy Chong on marijuana legalization:
Everyone is waking up to the truth

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

The 12 Craziest Things That
Happened in Florida in 2013

The 32nd Annual The King Mango Strut

WHEN GLITTER IS OUTLAWED, ONLY GLAM STARS WILL BE OUTLAWS:

U.S. police gone mad: Activists
arrested for ‘bioterrorism hoax’
for using glitter on a protest banner

MOTHER EARTH IS GONNA BE PISSED:

Scientists Find 7,300-Mile
Mercury Contamination ‘Bullseye’
Around Canadian Tar Sands

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL PETER MAX POSTER:

‘Antiques Roadshow’ discovers $660
painting is $661,000 van Dyck masterpiece

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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