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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Hello, Headliners. It’s the birthday of Hugh Hefner, who created a publishing empire and understands the importance of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Let’s hop right to it:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OUTRAGEOUS:

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

WAR IS HELL!

Watching the new Errol Morris documentary about my old boss,
Donald Rumsfeld, is a little like working for him: you feel nothing.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

MSNBC IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

BOB BECKEL IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEO DU JOUR:

It’s also Tom Leher’s birthday!
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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 22, 2014

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.

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:

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

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 ► Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Hello, Headliners. Before you rush out and celebrate the birthday of Grover Cleveland — still the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms — here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear for your enjoyment:

Now, let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

First glimpse of big bang
ripples from universe’s birth

Gravitational Waves from
Big Bang Detected


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

South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually
the best-case scenario. Here’s the scary alternative


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

‘Code Words for Race’:
What’s Really Behind GOP’s Poverty and Welfare Obsession

When Paul Ryan decried the “culture”
of inner cities it followed a long
conservative tradition, a scholar explains.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Judge rules against creationist teacher who called Buddhist student’s faith ‘stupid’


THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCHS:

Koch Brothers Group
Abandons Anti-Obamacare
Ads After Fact-Checkers
Prove Them False

FREE THE WEED!!!

The environmental
case for legalizing pot

Miami’s First Marijuana
School Could Open in April

A Head Start for Florida
Cannabis Entrepreneurs



TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Praises Gay
Ban at New York’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade

Hosts call Mayor Bill deBlasio a ‘religious bigot’ for not marching in today’s parade.


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

Detroit area water authority talks hit cutoff

IN OUTER SPACE:

Planet X myth debunked

Star next door may host a ‘superhabitable’ world



VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► St. Patrick’s Day

Saint Patrick depicted in a stained glass
window at Saint Benin’s Church, Ireland

Howdy Headliners. Put on your funny green hat and drink the funny green beer until you turn a funny shade of green: It’s St. Patrick’s Day or Lá Fhéile Pádraig. Long before he chased the snakes out of Ireland, Patrick loved to read the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Green with envy? No matter, let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Is Paul Ryan Racist?

GOP Congressional Candidate Apologizes for Slavery Comments

Wyoming GOP lawmaker: Promiscuous gays weaponizing AIDS for a ‘national suicide’

Ohio State Rep Proposes Selling Off Public Schools To Private Businesses To End ‘Socialism’

Republican Ignorance and Stupidity Hit a New
Low With Attacks on Neil de Grasse Tyson

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Republican Legislators Fall Victim
to Ponzi Scheme Run by Man who
Claimed to Have Found Noah’s Ark

Nine Unopened Dead Sea Scrolls Found


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

British Import: Music College Comes To Capitol Park Downtown This Autumn

COLD CASE SOLVED:

Has the real Sherlock Holmes been deduced?
A new biography of a leading Victorian detective suggests
he helped inspire Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s creation

GET THE FRACK OUT OF HERE:

Thousands Turn Up For California’s
Largest-Ever Rally To Ban Fracking

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Greenland Ice Melt ‘Accelerating,’ Climate Change Awakens ‘Sleeping Giant’

FREE THE WEED!!!

Congressman Guestimates
How Many of His Fellow
Reps Smoke Weed

Colorado Recreational
Weed Sales Top $14
Million In First Month

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford captured on
new video stumbling,
swearing outside city hall

Mayor Rob Ford has again been caught
on video behaving erratically in public.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox analyst: Obama buying
pink clothes is a failure of
the White House PR dept.

IN OUTER SPACE:

Have U.S. scientists found
the Big Bang’s biggest secret
and the final key to relativity?

The Incredible Shrinking Mercury

Asteroid Set to Cover One of
the Brightest Stars in the Night
Sky Thursday Morning

VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 29, 2013

As the year winds down to its logical end, Not Now Silly declares 2013 as having 365 days, give or take. Now that we got that out of the way, it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Woman Stabs Her Husband with a Ceramic
Squirrel Because He Didn’t Have Beer


LGBT CORNER:

Same-sex Couples Shatter
Marriage Records In Utah


RELIGION CORNER:

Fr. Jonathan Morris Compares
Phil Robertson To The Pope?

World’s Third Oldest Bible Displayed at Smithsonian

Paul Ryan lectures the pope
The Catholic conservative who insists he cares about the
poor says Pope Francis doesn’t understand capitalism


TEABAGGER CORNER:

Tea Party Facebook Group Posts BioShock Image Satirizing Tea Party


FREE THE WEED:

Marijuana Legalization Would
Bring Fresh Cash to California

Denver gives out recreational
cannabis sales licences


HOW MANY YEARS WILL HE GET? YOU DO THE METH:

Oregon man on meth fights off cops while masturbating in bar: police


NOW YOU CAN EAT IN THE DARK:

Glow-In-The-Dark Piglets Created In China Using Jellyfish DNA

THE LATEST IN COCONUT GROVE:


VIDEO DU JOUR:

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