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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, January 13, 2014

As another work week begins here at Not Now Silly, all is calm. The headline-collecting robot drones have been collecting headlines for several weeks now and they seemed to have lost all interest in having sex with the toaster. Which is why I can concentrate fully on today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Auto Show Media Will See ‘How Vibrant A Bankrupt City Can Be’

THE MILITARY INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX IS COMPLICATED:

Why Are US Special Operations Forces Deployed in Over 100 Countries?
That’s over 60 percent of the nations on the planet.

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

America is still a deeply racist country

LGBT NEWS:

Indiana Church Fires Gay Choir Leader and EIGHTY PERCENT of the Congregation QUITS!

GLOBAL WARMING? WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?

Australia goes off the scale: Meteorologists create new colour
chart for record 54°C heatwave as wildfires blaze across bush

FOLLOW THE MONEY:

Not Just the Koch Brothers: New
Drexel Study Reveals Funders Behind
the Climate Change Denial Effort

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Brit Hume
shocks female panelist: ‘Feminized atmosphere’
made Christie a ‘bully’

Roger Ailes Book Creates Dilemma for Dueling CNN, Fox News Media Shows

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

Gabriel Sherman in Wide-Ranging Interview:
Ailes ‘More Extreme
Than Glenn Beck’

In new biography, Roger Ailes dumps on conservative darlings Gov. Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, Sean Hannity and more

New Book Reveals The Real Roger Ailes
Fox News Was Right To Be Scared Of Gabriel
Sherman’s The Loudest Voice in the Room

Roger Ailes Is Not That Powerful
We know more than ever about how vile Roger
Ailes is. But he still can’t elect a president.

How Fox News Chief Roger Ailes Tried
To Win Republicans The White House

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS:

Bill O’Reilly Terrorized Another Female Fox News Staffer

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

Detroit Three offer hope, lessons to bankrupt Detroit as world media descend on auto show

Free Press Will Blow Whistle On Bankruptcy ‘Distortions’ By Visiting Writers

VIP Auto Show Guest: Packard Buyer Will Pitch His Vision To Car Execs

10 things you didn’t know about Vernors

THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:

The Biggest Loser in Bridgegate:
Jay Carney’s Beard

TODAY IN THE CLASS WARS:

Why Conservatives’ Old Divide-and-Conquer Strategy — Setting Working Class Against the Poor — Is Backfiring

FREE THE WEED!!!

2014 poised to go to pot

FOR THOSE WHO DIG ARCHEOLOGY?

Lost Remains of Slain
Ancient Queen Unearthed

HACKER CORNER:

Anonymous Hacker Who Exposed the Steubenville
Rapists Gets More Prison Time Than Rapists

MIT website hacked by Anonymous on anniversary of Aaron Swartz suicide

WHAT’S THE SCOTUS UP TO?

Supreme Court to decide the future of Internet TV

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