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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 16, 2014

November 16, 2014420, Anti-Social Networks, Cops Gone Wild, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Eric Bolling, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, W.C. HandyHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to W.C. Handy, Father of the Blues. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots.

1776 – American Revolution: The United Provinces (Low Countries) recognize the independence of the United States.
1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor.
1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and “Father of Manitoba” Louis Riel is executed for treason.

1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state.
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1940 – Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.

1940 – New York City’s “Mad Bomber” George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
1945 – UNESCO is founded.

1965 – Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1992 – The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

Hoover’s letter to MLK

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, November 13, 2014

November 13, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Microsoft, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Philae, Religion, Terry ReidHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners!!! Today’s birthday is celebrated by Terry Reid, who gave up the chance to become Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, so he could tour as an opening act for Cream. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1553 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer and four others, including Lady Jane Grey, are accused of high treason and sentenced to death under Catholic Queen “Bloody” Mary I.
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London.

1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.

1940 – Walt Disney’s animated musical film Fantasia is first released, on the first night of a roadshow at New York’s Broadway Theatre.

1947 – The Soviet Union completes development of the AK-47, one of the first proper assault rifles.

1956 – The Supreme Court of the United States declares Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery Bus Boycott.

1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March Against Death.

1974 – Ronald DeFeo, Jr. murders his entire family in Amityville, Long Island in the house that would become known as The Amityville Horror.

1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of Vietnam War veterans.

1985 – Xavier Suárez is sworn in as Miami‘s first Cuban-born mayor.

1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law student in Portland, Oregon is beaten to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group East Side White Pride.

1994 – In a referendum, voters in Sweden decide to join the European Union.

2001 – War on Terror: In the first such act since World War II, US President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing military tribunals against foreigners suspected of connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the United States.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

HISTORY IN THE MAKING:

Philae probe becomes first
spacecraft from Earth
to land on a comet

Philae Probe Transmits
Data From Comet 317
Million Miles Away

Rosetta mission to comet
67P ‘revolutionary’

Comet chasers: The scientists behind the Rosetta mission

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Now Facing a Whopping 32
Counts of Sexual Assault After
3 More Women Come Forward

Hero Cops Assault and Arrest Two Marines Who
Were Giving First Aid to an Unconscious Man

New York Deputy Slaps Citizen for Not Allowing him to Search Car

TODAY IN RELIGION:

The book that claims Jesus had a wife and
kids — and the embattled author behind it

Pope Francis Demotes
Outspoken Conservative Cardinal

Poll: Brits View Atheists As More Moral Than
Believers, Religion More Harmful Than Good

Bryan Fischer Suggests Ethnic Cleansing
Of Native Americans Justified By God

FREE THE WEED!!!

Why 2016 Will be Marijuana’s
Most Important Year Ever

Stop playing politics with
teens’ brains and legalize pot

Marijuana Patient Sues After Firm Won’t Hire Her

Dear Florida: You Have Been Duped

Marijuana May Mean Ticket, Not Arrest, in New York City

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Microsoft fixes ’19-year-old’
bug with emergency patch

Don’t get too excited: Big Telco does not
lose on issues as big as network neutrality

Facebook Messenger userbase
reaches 500 million per month

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK OUT, my friend! Masque Attack!

NON-jailbroken iOS 7, 8 sorta open to password stealing etc – FireEye

IN INNER SPACE:

Scientists Unearth Ice Age
Children’s Grave in Alaska

Monster Storm Becomes
Strongest on Record for Alaska

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers dissect the aftermath of a Supernova

NASA’s 1st Orion Complete
and Ready to Roll to Launch Pad

NASA confirms ‘fireball’ lights up Texas sky

Extreme storms flare up
on Uranus for first time ever

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 11, 2014

November 11, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Free the Weed, George S. Patton, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Religion, Remembrance Day, Veterans DayHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today we commemorate soldiers past and present who fought in wars both large and small. It’s also the birthday of George S. Patton, born on this day in 1885. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are, by that doctrine, said to transform into the body and blood of Christ.

1620 – The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

1634 – Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery.

1813 – War of 1812: Battle of Crysler’s Farm – British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.

1831 – In Jerusalem, Virginia, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

1864 – American Civil War: Sherman’s March to the Sea – Union General William Tecumseh Sherman begins burning Atlanta, Georgia to the ground in preparation for his march south.

1887 – Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

1911 – Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

1926 – The United States Numbered Highway System, including U.S. Route 66, is established.

1940 – Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.

1966 – NASA launches Gemini 12.

1975 – Independence of Angola.

1992 – The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

1993 – A sculpture honoring women who served in the Vietnam War is dedicated at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C.

2004 – The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cop Now Facing a Whopping 32 Counts of Sexual
Assault After 3 More Women Come Forward

Hero Cops Assault and Arrest Two Marines Who
Were Giving First Aid to an Unconscious Man

New York Deputy Slaps Citizen for Not
Allowing him to Search Car (Updated III)

TODAY IN RELIGION:

The book that claims Jesus had a wife and
kids — and the embattled author behind it

Pope Francis Demotes
Outspoken Conservative Cardinal

Poll: Brits View Atheists As More Moral Than
Believers, Religion More Harmful Than Good

Bryan Fischer Suggests Ethnic Cleansing
Of Native Americans Justified By God

FREE THE WEED!!!

Stop playing politics with
teens’ brains and legalize pot

Dear Florida: You Have Been Duped

Marijuana May Mean Ticket,
Not Arrest, in New York City

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Don’t get too excited: Big Telco does not
lose on issues as big as network neutrality

Facebook Messenger userbase
reaches 500 million per month

Got an iPhone or iPad? LOOK
OUT, my friend! Masque Attack!

IN INNER SPACE:

Monster Storm Becomes
Strongest on Record for Alaska

Scientists Unearth Ice Age
Children’s Grave in Alaska

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers dissect the
aftermath of a Supernova

NASA’s 1st Orion Complete
and Ready to Roll to Launch Pad

NASA confirms ‘fireball’ lights up Texas sky

Comet chasers: The scientists behind the Rosetta mission

Free astronomy lessons for the starry-eyed

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 9, 2014

November 9, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Hedy Lamarr, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Hey there, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to inventor, singer, and actress Hedy Lamarr. Here are more Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1620 – Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower sight land at Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.

1857 – The Atlantic is founded in Boston, Massachusetts.

1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872.

1887 – The United States receives rights to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.

1906 – Theodore Roosevelt is the first sitting President of the United States to make an official trip outside the country. He did so to inspect progress on the Panama Canal.

1913 – The Great Lakes Storm of 1913, the most destructive natural disaster ever to hit the lakes, destroys 19 ships and kills more than 250 people.

1935 – The Congress of Industrial Organizations is founded in Atlantic City, New Jersey, by eight trade unions belonging to the American Federation of Labor.

1938 – The Nazi German diplomat Ernst vom Rath dies from the fatal gunshot wounds of Jewish resistance fighter Herschel Grynszpan, an act which the Nazis used as an excuse to instigate the 1938 national pogrom, also known as Kristallnacht (Crystal Night).

1965 – Several U.S. states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout of 1965.

1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone Magazine is published.

1979 – Nuclear false alarm: the NORAD computers and the Alternate National Military Command Center in Fort Ritchie, Maryland detected purported massive Soviet nuclear strike. After reviewing the raw data from satellites and checking the early warning radars, the alert is cancelled.

1989 – Cold War: Fall of the Berlin Wall. Communist-controlled East Germany opens checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. This key event led to the eventual reunification of East and West Germany, and fall of communism in eastern Europe including Russia.

1998 – A US federal judge orders 37 US brokerage houses to pay 1.03 billion USD to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price-fixing. This is the largest civil settlement in United States history.

1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.

Today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Federal Appeals Court Upholds
Four States’ Same-Sex Marriage Bans

6th Circuit Court of Appeals splits with other
federal appeals courts, upholding Kentucky, Michigan,
Ohio, and Tennessee’s bans. The decision sets up
a likely Supreme Court showdown over the issue.

GLAAD to Media: Stop Giving Religious Bigots a Platform

FREE THE WEED!!!

Legalization limbo in D.C.: Republican
congress will have final say on city pot law

Medical marijuana loses to entrepreneurial greed

What’s next for the marijuana movement

Fred Grimm: Florida didn’t quite
say no to medical marijuana

New Marijuana Initiatives Loom as 3 Win Approval

Going to Pot

Florida was supposed to be the first state in the South
to legalize medical marijuana. What went wrong?

FREE THE WEEDERS!!!

People Are Already Being
Released From Detention Because
Of California’s Ballot Initiative

Rookie DT Ra’Shede Hageman Tries
Finding Marijuana On Instagram

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Iowa’s Joni Ernst: Obamacare is bad because people should rely on churches for help

‘Jesus, blah, blah!’ Watch this sassy little
girl tell a street preacher to shut his piehole

American Bible-Thumper Travels
To Scandinavia, Freaks Out After
Discovering How Secular They Are

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

C-SPAN Caller On Air: ‘Republicans
Hate That N***er Obama’ (VIDEO)

TV Station Accuses Mayor of ‘Gang Signs’ For
Pointing Index Finger With Black Volunteer

EXCLUSIVE: Black Lawyer Thought Money
Insulated His Family From Bigotry [VIDEO]

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: Minorities fail because they embrace a ‘thug ethic’

It is all still about race: Obama hatred,
the South and the truth about GOP wins

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

Citizens United boss: Supreme Court ruling handed midterm elections to Republicans

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Conviction Thrown Out For
Alleged Cop Killer, “Misplaced”
Evidence was Found in Cop’s Garage

Man Calls 911 For Chest Pains, Cops
Show Up Beat Him and Threaten to Kill Him

Police Officer Accidentally Shoots
7-Year-Old Girl On School Trip to Police HQ

IN INNER SPACE:

Amphibious ‘Sea Monster’ Discovered In China Is Missing Piece Of Evolutionary Puzzle

IN OUTER SPACE:

Europe set to make space
history with comet landing

Birth of Planets Revealed in Astonishing
Detail in ALMA’s ‘Best Image Ever’

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, Novermber 6, 2014

November 6, 20142014 Election, Cops Gone Wild, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Outer SpaceHeadly Westerfield

Howdy Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to March King John Philip Sousa. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.

1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.

1928 – Arnold Rothstein,
the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded
on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George “Hump”
McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.

1934 – Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.

1935 – Edwin Armstrong presents his paper “A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation” to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.

1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).

1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.

1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.

1991 – The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished.

1999 – Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

Let’s look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

ELECTION AFTERMATH:

GOP Faces Dramatically Tougher
New Battle Ground in 2016

Gerrymandering Rigged the
2014 Elections for GOP Advantage

Election 2014: President
Obama Is Not a Happy Warrior

The White House Blasts Senate Democrats For Running Away From Obama

How Much of a Difference Did New Voting
Restrictions Make in Yesterday’s Close Races?

The new GOP Senate is already gearing up to cause climate mayhem

Sarah Palin Puts McConnell On Notice And
Places Republicans On The Path To Destruction

Stream of checks from big donors breaks records in Florida

IN LGBT NEWS:

Leading evangelical ethicist David Gushee
is now pro-LGBT. Here’s why it matters.

NYC pastor: Starbucks is flavoured
with the semen of sodomites

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Police charge 90-year-old man,
2 pastors with feeding homeless

Wisconsin police deploy armored vehicle over
dog poop dispute, SWAT team executes dog

IN INNER SPACE:

Ancient Stone Circles In Middle East
Have Archaeologists Scratching Their Heads

IN OUTER SPACE:

Huge Asteroid Nearly Hits Earth

Avalanche on an asteroid, due to close pass with Earth

Radical New Quantum Theory Says Other Universes Affect Our Own

Hubble Spies Spooky ‘Ghost Light’ Of Dead Galaxies

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, Novermber 2, 2014

November 2, 2014420, Comcast, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, k.d. lang, Outer Space, Racism, RepublicansHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Kathryn Dawn Lang, better known as k.d. lang. Among today’s other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip’s War.

1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.

1917 – The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the “establishment in Palestine
of a national home for the Jewish people” with the clear understanding
“that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious
rights of existing non-Jewish communities”.

1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.

1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.

1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.

1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.

1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley’s Lover case.

1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and “The Wise Men” conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

Columnist Fired for Calling Michael
Brown an ‘Animal’ Who Was ‘Put Down’

Lindsey Graham ‘Jokes’ That White Men In
Male-Only Clubs Will “Do Great” If He’s President

I Was A ‘Tough On Crime’
Lawmaker. Here’s Why I Changed

Spike Lee: ‘Post-Racial America is Bullshit’

FREE THE WEED!!!

For Pot Inc., the Rush to Cash In Is Underway

A Competition to Get a Medical Marijuana License in New York

Medical marijuana politics in Florida

Colorado Congressman Urges Oregon To Follow
His State’s ‘Excellent Example’ On Marijuana

Pot shop challenges city’s ban on retail marijuana

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Lindsey Graham unfiltered:
jokes about white men, Baptists

IN LGBT NEWS:

Ted Cruz has a really gross reaction
to Apple CEO Tim Cook’s coming out

Most Americans Don’t Think Churches Should
Be Exempt From LGBT Non-Discrimination Laws

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

Comcast and AT&T insist to lawmakers:
There are no plans for Internet ‘fast lanes’

Feds cut off internet, dress up as
technicians to conduct warrantless search

FOX “NEW” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News’ Most Terrifying Headlines

IN INNER SPACE:

Bangladesh power back on
after nationwide blackout

Killer Fungus Threatens Salamanders

IN OUTER SPACE:

Mystery of Earth’s Water Origin Solved

Instead of arriving later by comet impact, Earth’s
waters have likely existed since our planet’s birth.

Sunlight glints off Saturn moon’s
seas in dazzling NASA image

These Stunning Hubble Images
Show Us The Secrets Of The Universe

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, October 30, 2014

October 30, 2014420, Amelia Earhart, Cops Gone Wild, Free the Weed, GOP, Grace Slick, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Hollywood, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners! Celebrating a birthday today is Grace Slick, who made Headlines Du Jour at Woodstock. Among the other events on this day :

1485 – King Henry VII of England is crowned.

1534 – English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church – a role formerly held by the Pope.

1831 – In Southampton County, Virginia, escaped slave Nat Turner is captured and arrested for leading the bloodiest slave rebellion in United States history.

1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells‘s The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.

1941 – World War II: Franklin Delano Roosevelt approves U.S. $1 billion in Lend-Lease aid to the Allied nations.

1941 – One thousand five hundred Jews from Pidhaytsi (in western Ukraine) are sent by Nazis to Bełżec extermination camp.

1942 – Lt. Tony Fasson, Able Seaman Colin Grazier and canteen assistant Tommy Brown from HMS Petard board U-559, retrieving material which would lead to the decryption of the German Enigma code.

1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.

1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.

1961 – Because of “violations of Lenin‘s precepts”, it is decreed that Joseph Stalin‘s body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin’s tomb and buried near the Kremlin Wall with a plain granite marker instead.

1974 – The Rumble in the Jungle boxing match between Muhammad Ali and George Foreman takes place in Kinshasa, Zaire.

1995 – Quebec citizens narrowly vote (50.58% to 49.42%) to remain a province of Canada in their second referendum on national sovereignty.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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

The White Problem

Illinois teacher calls Jamaican students ‘n*gger’
after they object to ‘African-American’

N-Word Printed Twice on Front
Page of MSU Student Newspaper

MORE REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Georgia GOP county chair
accused of attempted rape after
crime is broadcast live on Skype

Governor Refuses To Say Why He Signed A Rape Gag Rule Into Law

Kansas GOP House Candidate Posts Blatantly
Racist Joke on Facebook, Blames Wife

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pope Francis declares evolution and
Big Bang theory are right and God
isn’t ‘a magician with a magic wand’

Pope Francis Gives Blessing
To Exorcist Conference

Ken Ham’s hypocrisy on religious
discrimination has his creationist
theme park in serious trouble

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Graphic Video Released in “Firing Squad”
Style Police Killing of Mentally Ill Man

California Cops Caught Stealing and
Sharing Naked Pictures of Women Reveal
Larger Network of Disgusting Behavior

St. Louis Cops Target Independent
Journalists on “Cop Talk” Forum

St. Louis Police Department Spends Over
$172,000 on Riot Gear Since Ferguson Protests

MORE SHOOTOUTS AT THE OK CORRAL:

Texas probation officer fatally shoots
self in groin during target practice

Rehearsing for death: A pre-K teacher
on the trouble with lockdown drills

Jose Canseco Shoots Off Finger In Gun Accident

The Insane Lawsuit Rocking the Glock Gun Dynasty

FREE THE WEED!!!

War on pot defies science,
doctors testify in federal court

First Marijuana Planted
for Medical Use in Chile

Oregon Marijuana Legalization Gets Boost From Cops

LGBT NEWS:

Dolly Parton Q&A: The Country
Legend on 50 Years in Nashville
and Why She Supports Her Gay Fans

COLD CASE SOLVED?

Amelia Earhart plane fragment identified
as part of missing Lockheed Electra

IRONY ALERT!!!

The Inventor of the Game Operation Now
Needs Help Affording an Operation of His Own

THE LATEST FROM HOLLYWOODLAND:

The Movie That
Completely Exposes the
Myth of the ‘Free Press’

‘Kill the Messenger’ reveals the media’s subservience to power.

IN INNER SPACE:

UK opens National Sperm
Bank amid donor shortage

First human ‘mini-stomach’ grown in lab

Frogs’ chorus leads to
discovery of new species in US

IN OUTER SPACE:

How Will the Universe End?

Not with a bang but a bubble.

Planet-forming lifeline
discovered in a binary star system

Space Weather Physics Being Uncovered a Step at a Time by Scientists

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, October 26, 2014

October 26, 2014420, Bob Hoskins, Cyber-bullying, DNA, Ebola, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Outer Space, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to actor Bob Hoskins, who died in April. Among other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1774 – The first Continental Congress adjourns in Philadelphia.
1775 – King George III of Great Britain goes before Parliament to declare the American colonies in rebellion, and authorized a military response to quell the American Revolution.
1776 – Benjamin Franklin departs from America for France on a mission to seek French support for the American Revolution.
1825 – The Erie Canal opens – passage from Albany, New York to Lake Erie.
1861 – The Pony Express officially ceases operations.
1863 – The Football Association, the oldest football association in the world, is formed in London.
1881 – The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral takes place at Tombstone, Arizona.
1921 – The Chicago Theatre opens.
1936 – The first electric generator at Hoover Dam goes into full operation.
1955 – Ngô Đình Diệm declares himself Premier of South Vietnam.
1964 – Eric Edgar Cooke becomes last person in Western Australia to be executed.
1967 – Mohammad Reza Pahlavi crowns himself Emperor of Iran and then crowns his wife Farah Empress of Iran.
1984 – “Baby Fae” receives a heart transplant from a baboon.
1992 – The Charlottetown Accord fails to win majority support in a Canada wide referendum.
1999 – Britain’s House of Lords votes to end the right of hereditary peers to vote in Britain’s upper chamber of Parliament.
2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

Ebola Cases Top 10,000 in Current Outbreak, WHO Says

Quarantined Nurse Lashes Out
After She Tests Negative for Ebola

Kaci Hickox Says She Was Made to Feel Like a
Criminal While Being Detained at Newark Airport

New York Ebola Patient Has Gastrointestinal Symptoms

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Preach to me

IN LGBT NEWS:

Students want trustee suspended
over Pride parade tweets

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Indiana man shoots and kills 13-year-
old neighbor for laughing at him

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

It is now illegal to distribute food
to homeless people in 21 cities

GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

Deadly Force, in Black and White

A ProPublica analysis of killings by police
shows outsize risk for young black males.

New York City Council Wants To
Tackle City’s Intense School Segregation

FREE THE WEED!!!

3 Reasons Why Oregon Should
Be Next to Legalize Marijuana

More Marijuana Arrests Under De Blasio
Than Bloomberg, Racial Disparity Persists

Medical marijuana: Florida parents fight
to help children suffering with seizures

CYBER-BULLY WATCH:

The Trolling Epidemic, Quantified

The Johnny Dollar Wars –
Chapter and Verse

IN INNER SPACE:

Oldest DNA ever found sheds
light on humans’ global trek

Humans were living at extreme
altitudes 1000 years earlier than thought

Lava crosses Apa’a Street; Pahoa
residents given evacuation notice

Easter Island’s ancient inhabitants weren’t
so lonely after all, genetic study reveals

IN OUTER SPACE:

Comet in space smells like
rotten eggs and horse pee

4 local students send science
project to space station

SpaceX’s Dragon splashes down with
critical research on human spaceflight

Cal Poly shares $1M grant researching the origins of the solar system

NASA has a new SoundCloud page and these are the best clips

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, October 23, 2014

October 23, 2014420, Bullying, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Ebola, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Johnny Carson, Johnny Dollar, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Republicans, White PrivilegeHeadly Westerfield

Heya, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to the King of Late Night, Johnny Carson. Long live the King!!! Among other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1694 – British/American colonial forces, led by Sir William Phips, fail to seize Quebec from the French.
1850 – The first National Women’s Rights Convention begins in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States.

1861 – U.S. President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus in Washington, D.C., for all military-related cases.
1915 – Women’s suffrage: In New York City, 25,000-33,000 women march on Fifth Avenue to advocate their right to vote.

1917 – Lenin calls for the October Revolution.

1929 – Great Depression: After a steady decline in stock market prices since a peak in September, the New York Stock Exchange begins to show signs of panic.
1958 – The Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series, appear for the first time in the story La flute à six schtroumpfs, a Johan and Peewit adventure by Peyo, which is serialized in the weekly Spirou magazine.
1970 – Gary Gabelich sets a land speed record in a rocket-powered automobile called the Blue Flame, fueled with natural gas.
1973 – The Watergate scandal: US President Richard M. Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
1998 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a “land for peace” agreement.
2012 – After 38 years, the world’s first teletext service (BBC‘s Ceefax) ceases broadcast due to Northern Ireland completing the digital switchover.

Let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

‘Fearbola’ Spreads as Virus Disrupts Flights, Classes

Americans Are A Little More
Worried About The Flu Than Ebola

Bobby Jindal on top of Ebola thing, signs
executive order that will do precisely nothing

FREE THE WEED!!!

No, marijuana use doesn’t lower your IQ

Ontario man flying high
with world’s first hemp plane

California marijuana raids will continue
until controls improve, DOJ official says

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Thirty-Three Cops Fire 600
Bullets Into Car Containing
Hostage, Killing Her (Video)

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Financial guru Dave Ramsey: Jesus was
wrong to say rich people can’t go to heaven

The Evangelical War on Halloween

Woman arrested claiming Jesus
Christ will pay her restaurant tab

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

Chris Christie: ‘I’m Tired Of
Hearing About The Minimum Wage’

Top Republican Official Calls Wisconsin Voters Stupid While Campaigning For Scott Walker

TODAY IN WHITE PRIVILEGE:

Next Time Someone Says ‘White
Privilege Isn’t Real,’ Show Them This

IN LGBT NEWS:

GOP Attorney General Says It Is ‘Unethical’
To Keep Fighting Marriage Equality In Court

GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

The Racial Double Standard on Gun Violence

America’s Schools: Still
Separate and Very Much Unequal

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

After record warm September, 2014 is
on track to warmest year, NOAA says

Now more than EVER,
Weather.com is out of control

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Bonus Video Du Jour:

BULLYING BY BULLIES:

Girl Who Was Called ‘Ugly’ After
Donating Hair To Cancer Patients,
Gets Major Support From Internet

The Johnny Dollar Wars ► Chapter and Verse

IN INNER SPACE:

Bizarre dinosaur reconstructed
after 50 years of wild speculation

Deinocheirus mirificus, or ‘unusual horrible hand’, had long, clawed forearms, a sail on its back and a duck-like bill

6,000-Year-Old Temple With Possible Sacrificial Altars Found in Ukraine

Victory! World’s Largest Bat
Colony Protected From Development

IN OUTER SPACE:

Wrinkles In Spacetime

The Warped Astrophysics of Interstellar

NASA’s new Soundcloud album:
Listen to the exploration of space

Halley’s Comet: Cosmic
meteor shower lights up UK skies

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, October 21, 2014

October 21, 2014420, Celia Cruz, Cops Gone Wild, Ebola, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Republicans, Steve Doocy, UnionismHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Úrsula Hilaria Celia de la Caridad Cruz Alfonso de la Santísima Trinidad, who, as Celia Cruz, was also known as “The Queen of Salsa Music.” She died in 2003, but recently made Headlines Du Jour for a tee vee series being made on her life. Here are other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1097 – First Crusade: Crusaders led by Godfrey of Bouillon, Bohemund of Taranto, and Raymond IV of Toulouse, begin the Siege of Antioch.

1520 – Ferdinand Magellan discovers a strait now known as Strait of Magellan.

1774 – First display of the word “Liberty” on a flag, raised by colonists in Taunton, Massachusetts in defiance of British rule in Colonial America.

1824 – Joseph Aspdin patents Portland cement.

1854 – Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses are sent to the Crimean War.

1867 – Manifest Destiny: Medicine Lodge Treaty – Near Medicine Lodge, Kansas a landmark treaty is signed by southern Great Plains Indian leaders. The treaty requires Native American Plains tribes to relocate to a reservation in western Oklahoma.

1879 – Thomas Edison
invents a workable electric light bulb at his laboratory in Menlo Park,
N.J. which was tested the next day and lasted 13.5 hours. This would be
the invention of the first commercially practical incandescent light.
Popular belief is that he invented the first light bulb, which he did
not.

1921 – President Warren G. Harding delivers the first speech by a sitting U.S. President against lynching in the deep South.

1945 – Women’s suffrage: Women are allowed to vote in France for the first time.

1959 – In New York City, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, opens to the public.

1959 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs an executive order transferring Wernher von Braun and other German scientists from the United States Army to NASA.

1973 – John Paul Getty III‘s ear is cut off by his kidnappers and sent to a newspaper in Rome; it doesn’t arrive until November 8.

1983 – The metre is defined at the seventeenth General Conference on Weights and Measures as the distance light travels in a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

Ebola outbreak: What you need to know now

Nigeria declared Ebola-free after 8 deaths

Marco Rubio To Propose
Ebola Travel Ban Legislation

Ebola crisis turns a corner as U.S.
issues new treatment protocols

In Ebola fight, Cuba flexes
medical diplomacy muscle

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

Indiana GOP candidate:
‘No one has the guts’ to let
poor people ‘wither and die’

GOP Candidate Calls Gay People ‘Gremlins’ And ‘Bullies’

The GOP hates the ‘lamestream media’ even more than you think

Make Conservatism Cooler, College Students Advise GOP Candidates

The GOP Can’t Quit “Willie Horton”

Even though they promise to do so, again and again.

Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard Arrested

GOP governor’s stunning Obamacare admission: John Kasich on why it’s here to stay

GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

NYPD Busted In Hidden Camera
Racial Profiling Experiment

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

NYPD Assault Arrest Musician for Playing a Song
Even After Verifying He Hadn’t Broken Any Laws

FREE THE WEED:

Feeling Threatened: When Firefighters
Encounter Marijuana Growers

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Oklahoma man opens fire on ex-girlfriend
for not leaving ‘fast enough’: police

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Texas Judge Begins Court Sessions with
a Five-Minute Bible Reading and Prayer

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Poor kids who do everything right don’t do
better than rich kids who do everything wrong

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

You Can Recover From a Snippy
Email, But Prepare to Grovel

China-backed hackers may have
infiltrated Apple’s iCloud: blog

TODAY IN UNIONISM:

How to Revive
the Labor Movement

When Good Union Jobs Were White

STEVE DOOCY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News host Steve Doocy
still does not understand the
concept of transgender people
using public restrooms

IN OUTER SPACE:

Should the first manned mission to Mars
be all WOMEN? Females need less
resources so the trip is easier, claims expert

Mars Orbiter Beams Back
Images of Comet’s Tiny Nucleus

Video: ‘UFO’ bombs NASA video of ISS repair

Orionid Meteor Shower to Dazzle Tonight

VIDEO DU JOUR:

POST RACIAL ‘MERKA:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

FREE THE WEED!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

HISTORY IN THE MAKING:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

IN LGBT NEWS:

FREE THE WEED!!!

FREE THE WEEDERS!!!

TODAY IN RELIGION:

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

MORE OF THAT GOP OUTREACH:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

ELECTION AFTERMATH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

IN LGBT NEWS:

ANTI-SOCIAL MEDIA:

FOX “NEW” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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

MORE REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

MORE SHOOTOUTS AT THE OK CORRAL:

FREE THE WEED!!!

LGBT NEWS:

COLD CASE SOLVED?

IRONY ALERT!!!

THE LATEST FROM HOLLYWOODLAND:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

IN LGBT NEWS:

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

GLAD WE’RE LIVING IN A POST RACIAL SOCIETY:

FREE THE WEED!!!

CYBER-BULLY WATCH:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

FREE THE WEED!!!

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN RELIGION:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

TODAY IN WHITE PRIVILEGE: