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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, January 14, 2014

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G’morning, Headliners!!!
 
It’s Tuesday. Tuesday is no different than Monday — or any other day of the week — because every day my robot drones and I bring you the news you didn’t even know you needed. 

That’s right!!! It’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

AN AUTHORITY ON PORTS:

How patronage politics
ate the Port Authority


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

Ohio politician not sorry for incredibly racist email


LGBT NEWS:

Jared Leto and Michael Douglas’s
homophobic Golden Globes speeches
show the worst of Hollywood


THE SORRY STATE OF JOURNALISM TODAY:

Major Parts of the World Ignored by US TV News in 2013


PASS THE POPCORN:

Tea party group mobilizes
to oust House Speaker
John Boehner


FREE THE WEED!!!

NFL might legalize medical
marijuana for players

Marijuana advocates
lay groundwork for
legalization in Mass.


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

Deal could come as early as today to protect DIA art, Detroit pensioners


RELIGION CORNER:

Pastor accused of paying
homeless to fire-bomb
ex professes innocence:
‘I never did pay them’


EVOLUTION IS COMPLICATED:

Fossils show how fish
evolved into land animals


HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

UO adds Native American Studies minor to ethnic studies curriculum

QUANTUM CIRCUTS ARE COMPLICATED:

Integrated quantum circuit
is most complex ever


FROM OUTER SPACE:

HD 4203c: New Giant Exoplanet Discovered


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, January 12, 2014

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When Headlines Du Jour is outlawed, only outlaws will read Headlines Du Jour. Let’s get right to it, shall we?

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Pimp Suing Nike for $100 Million After He Stomped Man Nearly
to Death with Jordans

LGBT NEWS:

U.S. Government Issues LGBT Travel Alert For Olympics

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

Biography Of Fox’s Roger Ailes Alleges Sexism, Anti-Semitism

Roger and me: How I got berated by Fox News
Channel’s boss

ANOTHER HACK ATTACK:

Neiman Marcus is latest victim of security breach
Customers’ card information stolen and unauthorized charges made

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Los Angeles woman who fell from moving police car says she was sexually assaulted by cop

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

The racism at the heart of
the Reagan presidency

White professors still dominate Bay Area
colleges as student bodies grow more diverse


Franklin McCain — of ‘Greensboro Four,’
who defied whites-only barrier — dies

FREE THE WEED!!!

Faces of Pot: The Vapour Lounge

Marijuana case filings plummet in
Colorado following legalization

STOP THE PRESSES!!!

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio lambasted for eating pizza with a fork

IN THE ART WORLD:

Renoir found at flea market returned to museum by Virginia court

OUT OF THIS WORLD:

Planetology comes of age
Those who study planets orbiting other
stars now have plenty of data to play with

Rare, Eclipsing Binary Asteroids Discovered by Undergraduate Astronomy Class

Scientists spot hypervelocity stars escaping clutches of galaxy

TODAY IN BEATLES’ NEWS:

Paul McCartney And Ringo Starr May Stage Beatles
Reunion On ‘Late Show With David Letterman’

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, January 3, 2014

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What makes a headline good enough for Headlines Du Jour? The biggest criteria is that it has to be interesting to me. I figure it’ll also interest at least one of my readers. Being funny, or absurd doesn’t hurt, either. However, more than anything else it has to be attractive to my robot drones, which do all my headline picking now. Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

RELIGION CORNER:

Mayor declares 2014 the ‘year
of the Bible’ in Texas city

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Dogs align themselves with Earth’s magnetic field when it comes time to poop

El Nino may be behind melting of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier

How mysterious orbs could be used to predict earthquakes: Scientists link strange lights to movement in the Earth’s crust

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

It’s Official: A Peruvian Man Owns the Crumbling Packard Plant

UAW Trust: Fiat’s $4.35 billion deal for
Chrysler is ‘best possible outcome’ for retirees

Detroit Murders Drop, But City Recorded Same Number as NY

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Young Viewers Avoid Fox
News Like the Plague
as Ratings Drop 30%

Fox Business host Stuart Varney: Ice in Antarctica
proves ‘global cooling’

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

Florida expected to surpass NY in population,
Sunshine State embodies 21st century America

Miami’s got new city commission leaders

THE “P” IN GOP STANDS FOR PARTY:

Defying GOP Leaders, Rep. Trey Radel Won’t Resign After Rehab

Cocaine Congressman Trey
Radel Draws $1 Million
Super PAC Challenge

Partisan Evolution Gap? Politically Insignificant, GOP Says


TODAY IN OUTER SPACE:

New studies give strong boost to binary-star formation theory

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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

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Headlines Du Jour ► New Year’s Day 2014

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2013 YEAR-ENDERS

Twelve Months Of Fox
News Race-Baiting

2013 a great year for U.S. stocks

2013: The year in whiteness

2013: The Best of Bad Astronomy

The Year in Racial Amnesia

Universe Today’s Top 10
(or so) Stories of 2013

2013 In Memoriam:
Musicians We Lost This Year

The 20 Worst Fox News
Moments Of 2013

The Seven Most Tiresome
Media Trends of 2013

In 1964, Isaac Asimov
Imagined the World in 2014

I’m sure it comes as no shock to anyone, but it’s a brand NEW YEAR!!! 

Not Now Silly is going to call it Two-thousand and fourteen when frustrated with it, but ’14 when pleased.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour, the very first of ’14.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Life, Liberty, and the Founding Fathers’ Pursuit of Hoppiness
The Constitution was written by men who owned breweries, imported whiskey, and humped cows.

Retired General Wants March on White House and Citizens Arrest of Obama

Dysfunctional Republican Christians Vow To Destroy the First Amendment

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Oops! Republican Congressman Files Re-Election Papers For Wrong District

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Christie declines to defend N.J. gun laws, sparking criticism

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

Knoxville drivers greeted by banners warning
that diversity is anti-white genocide

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Judge strikes down Florida law mandating drug tests for welfare

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Passengers Ridicule Canadian
Airline For Sexist Ticket Policy

RELIGION CORNER:

Franklin Graham: Pope Francis is not the judge, God is the judge

Home Depot founder worries Pope Francis neither loves nor understands rich Americans

HIGH TECH CRIME:

Thieves In Europe Are Using USB Sticks To Clean Out ATMs

VIDEO DU JOUR:

◄ Best News Bloopers of 2013 ►

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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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 26, 2013

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With baby Jesus’ birthday over, the world holds its collective breath until New Year’s Rockin’ Eve. Meanwhile, the new Not Now Silly headline robots are working out perfectly. No more work stoppages; no more complaints. So, get ready for today’s Headlines Du Jour. 

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Man charged with stealing handcuffs he
was wearing in escape from police cruiser

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Father Shoots And Kills 14-Year-Old Daughter, Saying He Mistook Her For Burglar

QUACKER CORNER:

Duck Dynasty empire estimated to be worth $500 million U.S.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Officers’ sobriety stop yields more than beer
A routine traffic stop took a bizarre turn when the driver told law enforcement
officers, “I don’t want to freak you out, but I have someone in the trunk.”

FREE THE WEED!!!

Brown pardons mostly
target drug offenders

SCIENCE CORNER:

New artificial muscle
promises super strength

FROM OUTER SPACE:

NASA celebrates anniversary of the
most important photo ever taken

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Illinois man uses ‘Star Trek’ technology to defraud investors of $25 million

THE REASON FOR THE SEASON:

Girlfriend transports man shot in stolen Christmas
present dispute to hospital in stolen truck

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 17, 2013

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Wake up, sleepyheads. I SAID, “WAKE UP!!!”

The Not Now Silly news team has been out and about on the innertubes collecting only the most succulent headlines, at the exact moment of ripeness. So . . . pour yourself a cup of coffee, slap on your reading specs, and buckle your seat belts because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour. 

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:


Judge Questions Legality
of N.S.A. Phone Records

WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE?

School Fails To Call 911 When Six-Year-
Old, Amazing Johnson, Severs Finger

IN LGBT NEWS:

Russian TV Star Wants to Throw Gays into Ovens – ALIVE

INSTANT RELIEF FOR AFFLUENZA SUFFERERS:

‘Affluenza’ Judge gave 14 Year-old Black kid
far more of a punishment than the rich white kid


DON’T ZIMMER ME, MAN!

O’Mara faces Florida Bar complaint about Zimmerman case


ON THE FACEBOOKERY:

Facebook to Start Showing Video
Ads This Week, Journal Reports


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

In The Daily Beast, A Libertarian Says It’s Time To Sell Detroit’s Art


PHARMACEUTICAL CORNER:

The Selling of Attention Deficit Disorder
The Number of Diagnoses Soared Amid a 20-Year Drug Marketing Campaign


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

FOX News Channel Announces ‘All-American New Year’ Special
►► Starring that GREAT ‘Merkin singer Susan Boyle!!! ◄◄

Fox News host Elisabeth Hasselbeck thanks
creationist for ‘standing up’ to the atheists


TODAY IN SCIENCE:

Scientists split water into hydrogen, oxygen utilizing light, nanoparticles

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:


 

China’s flag-bearing rover
photographed on moon

Sun will ‘flip upside down’
within weeks, says Nasa

Do We Live in a 10-Dimensional Hologram?
Why physicists imagine mind-bending black-hole universes.


IN ENTERTAINMENT NEWS:

Nirvana, KISS, Linda Ronstadt among Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees


IN ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS:

Has a natural world wonder just been approved
for destruction by the Australian government?
One of the natural wonders of the world is about to have
3 million cubic metres of seabed dumped on top of it.


HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

Cats Chased Rats for Humans Over 5,000 Years Ago

Neanderthals buried their dead, according to new study


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 15, 2013

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Set loose throughout the internet, the Not Now Silly interns have been collecting headlines nightly for the better part of two months now. They are provisioned with wicker baskets and told not to return until they’re full. It’s only then they are allowed any food and water. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Judge says giant cross must be removed from San Diego mountain

HELLO, NSA? ARE YOU THERE? GOOGLE? HELLO? IS THIS THING ON?

Who’s Watching You Watch Porn?
Privacy experts warn that advertisers, even the
NSA, could be following your visits to adult sites.

I GOTCHER MEGYN KELLY CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Operation White Christmas targets white
supremacist gangs, authorities say

FREE THE WEED:

Uruguay’s Prez Rips Into U.N. Official Over Marijuana Law: ‘Stop Lying’

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

Federal Judge Describes, Then Supports Plot to Rob Detroit Pensioners

Red Wings arena deal with Ilitch family wins approval from Detroit downtown authority

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

Previously unknown DNA code could help humanity defy aging and death

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Hannity, Atheist Go Head-to-Head
in Heated Battle Over the War to
End All Wars on Christmas™

Bolling Battles Atheist over Christmas
Display: ‘Wow, How Mean Can You Be?’

Andrew Sullivan Calls Fox ‘One of the
Most Powerful Forces Against Christianity’

NO-LONGER PREGGY LEGGY MEGGY BACK IN THE NEWS:

What Megyn Kelly Did — And Didn’t — Learn
From The Reaction To Her White Santa Segment

Megyn Kelly Defends White Santa “Jest”: “Fox News,
And Yours Truly, Are Big Targets For Many People”

Megyn Kelly Is A Small Slender Liar!!!

Megyn Kelly Defends Her Santa Comments,
Attacks Critics For ‘Race Baiting’

Megyn Kelly doubles down on ‘white Santa’: I did it for the kids

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Warning: the universe could be about ready to collapse on us

A Rare Glimpse of the Moon Orbiting the Earth From Afar

China safely soft-lands rover on the moon

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 8, 2013

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While you were sleeping the Not Now Silly news team went creeping and crawling thru’ the internets with one mission in mind: Bring back nothing but the best in news headlines. Let’s get right to it with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN WTF? NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD
Has Been Charged With Assault
Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I’D BE AN ARCHEOLOGIST:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘God Help Us’: Fox News Columnist Calls Pope Francis the ‘Catholic Church’s Obama’

ALL I NEED IS THE AIR THAT I BREATH:

Shanghai’s Choking Smog
Registers ‘Beyond Index’

TODAY IN FOLK MUSIC:

Bob Dylan Stratocaster sets auction
record, sells for nearly $1 million

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

Axel Foley Is Coming Back To Detroit
In Another ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Film

THE HEAD BECKERHEAD:

Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed
into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

◄◄ From the Wayback Machine ►►
The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious Alien Planet in
Farthest-ever Orbit Discovered

UA Astronomers Discover
Planet That Shouldn’t Be There

Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible
Sighting by NASA’s WISE

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