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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 25, 2014

March 25, 2014420, Cops Gone Wild, Creationism, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Johnny Dollar, LGBT, Mark Koldys, News, Outer Space, Pat Robertson, Racism, Religion, SCOTUSHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners around the world — and to all the ships at sea. How are you celebrating the birthday of Jack Ruby, the man who launched a million conspiracy theories? That’s a lot of Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear. Here are some more:

1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to colonize Virginia.
1634 – The first settlers arrive in Maryland.
1655 – Saturn‘s largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens.
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes law, abolishing the slave trade in the British Empire.
1911 – In New York City, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape.
1948 – The first successful tornado forecast predicts that a tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma.
1957 – United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg‘s poem “Howl” on the grounds of obscenity.
1958 – Canada‘s Avro Arrow makes its first flight.
1965 – Civil rights activists led by Martin Luther King, Jr. successfully complete their 4-day 50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.
1969 – During their honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam Hilton Hotel (until March 31).
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world’s first wiki, and part of the Portland Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham.

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

Who would support this crazy MoFo for president?
Why, it’s crazier MoFo Mark Koldys aka Johnny Dollar,
who went on to defend Fox News and cyber-bully me.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Christian Right Has Major
Role in Hastening Decline
of Religion in America

Taxpayers fund creationism
in the classroom

Stop giving equal time
to pseudo-science!

Pat Robertson Suggests a
Woman’s Atheism May
Be a Result of Rape or
Demonic Possession

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Why America’s Police Are Becoming So Militarized

THE NEWS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The 5 most horrifically embarrassing cable news
stories about Malaysia Airlines

Mika Brzezinski Gets Fed Up With Joe Scarborough
On Air And Takes Him To News School

IN INNER SPACE:

Forgetting keeps us sane

IN OUTER SPACE:

Why ‘fireball season’ is so spectacular this year

Yes, “Cosmos” Fans,
Creationists Also Deny
the Science of Comets

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 22, 2014

March 22, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Bully, Detroit, facebook, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Income Inequality, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Pat Robertson, Paul Ryan, Racism, Rand Paul, Rob FordHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of crazy evangelist Pat Robertson, who Johnny Dollar (aka Mark Koldys) actually supported for President of the United States. [I know, right?] Robertson may be 84 years old, but still makes headlines. Especially when he opens his mouth and crazy shit tumbles out. Here are some more Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.

1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquian Indians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony’s population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.

1630 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.

1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser

1963 – The Beatles‘ first album, Please Please Me, is released in the United Kingdom.

1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.

1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.

Now, let’s get to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Rand Paul Says the GOP is Like Bad Pizza Crust

IN LGBT NEWS:

Judge lifts Michigan’s ban on gay marriage

Lesbian Visits Harlem
Church for Her Stoning

Gay Arkansas student says his
profile was pulled from yearbook

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

African-American Man Confronts
Paul Ryan At Town Hall Over
Ryan’s Racist Comments

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBSOLETE:

Will Republicans mute
the culture war in 2016?

BULLY CORNER:

Confession of a Former Bully

— Not Now Silly has its own Cyber-Bullies —

The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

How Facebook is Quite Possibly Becoming the Biggest Scam in Marketing and Advertising Ever

The 10 Facebook friends you need to block

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

6 obscene paydays for the rich that prove the deck is stacked against ordinary Americans

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Economy Has
Plenty Of Room To Grow

No proof that high-dose
cannabis is more addictive

MORE PROOF THE EARTH SUCKS:

40ft-deep hole drains Stockport park lake of water

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

Have Detroit Police Department raids made a difference?

Audit: 19 Detroit Fire Department workers have invalid driver’s licenses

Detroit plans mass water shutoffs over $260M in delinquent bills

Filmmaker discusses his 45-year-old documentary on late-’60s Detroit

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Debunking Ford Nation’s favourite budget chart

CRACK MAYOR BONUS VIDEO DU JOUR:

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Five Ribs Bill O’Reilly for Acting Like He’s Above the MH370 Coverage

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, March 5, 2014

March 5, 2014420, Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Cuba, Dean Stockwell, Free the Weed, GOP, Harvard, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Joe Arpaio, LGBT, News Corp., Outer Space, Pat Robertson, Racism, Religion, SearsHeadly Westerfield

In order to best celebrate Dean Stockwell‘s 78th birthday, let’s take some look at Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus‘s book, De revolutionibus orbium coelestium is banned by the Catholic Church
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War
(also known as the American War of Independence) five years later. At a
subsequent trial the soldiers are defended by future U.S. president John Adams.
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1933 – Adolf Hitler‘s Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections. This later allows the Nazis to pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
1946 – Winston Churchill coins the phrase “Iron Curtain” in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1960 – Cuban photographer Alberto Korda takes his iconic photograph of Marxist revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1979 – America’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.

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

LGBT NEWS:

Texas Republican official: Founding fathers would never allow ‘sodomites’ to marry

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OUT OF TOUCH:

Opportunity for Democrats:
68% Think the Republican
Party is Out of Touch

Lindsey Graham Spends His Tuesday On Twitter Blaming Everything On Benghazi