Tag Archives: Racism

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 4, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

‘Merkins all over the world will gather on street corners today to celebrate Shemp Howard‘s birthday. They will also pour over the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

As Regnerus Testifies
Against Marriage In
Court, His University
Denounces His Research

Hobby Lobby Win At
Supreme Court Could Lead
To More Anti-Gay Laws

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Texas man shoots 9-year-old in the head during illegal backyard target practice

THE KEYSTONE:

Native Americans vow a last stand
to block Keystone XL oil pipeline

FREE THE WEED!!!

Deputy Drug Czar Admits
Marijuana Is Safer Than Alcohol

Father Sold Marijuana to Pay for Son’s Funeral

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pope accidentally says ‘f***’
during Sunday blessing after
getting his Italian wrong

Rep. Steve King Calls Homosexuality ‘Self-Professed Behavior’ — Unlike Religion

WAIT!!! WHAT???

Sex store owner gave
workers polygraph test

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. EVOLUTIONARY HISTORY EVEN MORE SO:

X-ray analysis suggests Neanderthals spoke languages similar to our own

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLIGHARCHY:

CNN’s Sally Kohn to GOP:
You’re ‘Practically Cheering’
for Putin on Ukraine

How Do Republicans Feel
Now About Their Recent Hero-Worshiping Of
Vladimir Putin?

Big Business Turns On
The Republican Party For
Proposing Tax Reform

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

Detroit Scam City:
How The Red Wings Took Hockeytown For All It Had

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

The American Right Wing Is In A Death Spiral Of Denial And Racism

Students being trained
to fight anti-Semitism

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News host calls out Darrell Issa for ‘highest level of falsehood’ on Benghazi

FREE THE CRACK MAYOR:

Kevin Spacey mocks Toronto mayor after Ford cameo on Jimmy Kimmel show

Rob Ford in Hollywood: ‘What movie were you in again?’

What 10 people in Hollywood said about Rob Ford

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

Apple CEO Tim Cook to climate deniers: “Get out of this stock”

IN INNER SPACE:

Rare Mutation Kills Off Gene Responsible for Diabetes

IN OUTER SPACE:

Astronomers Discover a
New Super-Powered
Small Black Hole

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Sugar Chile Robinson

Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, March 3, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As we celebrate the birthday of Canadian inventor Alexander Graham Bell, let’s take a quick look at a cosmic coincidence: on the 38th anniversary of Bell’s birth, AT&T was incorporated in 1885. Some of the other Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear include:

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

AN OSCAR WRAP-UP:

Oscars 2014: Winners list

Ellen DeGeneres brings pizza and deadpan affability to Oscars

Ellen DeGeneres Breaks Twitter
With Truly Epic Oscars Selfie

Things You Missed at the Oscars:
On the Scene at the Dolby Theater

Oscars 2014: Bill Murray gives
late Harold Ramis shoutout
while presenting award

U2, Pharrell and Karen O Stun With
Showstopping Oscar Performances

Oscars 2014: Ranking the acceptance speeches! — VIDEO

Oscars: ‘In Memoriam’ Snubs Cory Monteith, James Avery, Tom Clancy

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

When May I Shoot a Student?

ON THE CRIMEBEAT:

FBI reports a drop in crime in
2013: why the rate continues to fall

TODAY IN RELIGION:

5 Things Kentucky Could Spend $73 Million On Instead Of A Fake Noah’s Ark

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

Man Who Tried to Hire KKK to Hang Black Neighbor
‘From a Tree’ Like ‘An Animal’ Begs Court for Leniency

Man Says It’s Okay To Do Blackface If You Sleep With Black Chicks

FREE THE WEED!!!

Harvard Professor To NFL:
Treat Concussions With Pot

Gov. Jerry Brown on
legalized marijuana: ‘How
many people can get stoned
and still have a great state?’

Marijuana legalization on
cusp of mass acceptance

IN COCONUT GROVE:

If It’s News, It’s News To The Coconut Grove Grapevine

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

Ilitches to get all revenues from new publicly financed Red Wings arena

SCIENCE IS COMPLICATED:

JAZZ CORNER:

What Louis Armstrong
Really Thinks

Louis Armstrong, in His
Own Words: Armstrong
Biographer Terry Teachout
Takes Satchmo to the Stage

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 1, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , ,

March comes in like a lion and goes out like a mutha. Today is Harry Belafonte‘s 87th birthday. Also celebrating birthdays today are Chopin, Glenn Miller, and David Niven, among millions of other less famous people. What do they have in common? They all just love a look back at the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

• 1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro is founded.
• 1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now known as York, Maine), becomes the first incorporated city in the United States.
• 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
• 1781 – The Continental Congress adopts the Articles of Confederation.
• 1790 – The first United States census is authorized.
• 1845 – President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
• 1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolishes capital punishment.
• 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world’s first national park.
• 1873 – E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York begins production of the first practical typewriter.
• 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
• 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
• 1932 – The son of Charles Lindbergh, Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, is kidnapped.
• 1936 – The Hoover Dam is completed.
• 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet‘s surface.

As if that’s not enough, let’s add today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT NEWS:

Stephen Colbert on SB1062 going down in Arizona

FREE THE WEED!!!

Girl Scouts Outlaw Cookie
Sales Outside of Pot Shops

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

25 Things Everyone Needs to Know About
the Lives of Black People in America

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY:

Tea Party Nation President
Writes Possibly the Most Insane
Letter You Will Ever Read

How spending has fallen under Obama

NEWS YOU CAN USE:

50 Supermarket Tricks You Still Fall For

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED:

8 Surprising Historical Facts That Will Change Your Concept Of Time Forever

FOX “NEWS: IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

LETTER: Fox News out of touch

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly Lectures Valerie
Jarrett and Michelle Obama
About How To Prevent
Teen Pregnancy

BILL O’REILLY TO OBAMA ADVISER: Tell ‘Gangsta Rappers’ To ‘Knock It Off’

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:


O’Reilly delusional about being self-reliant

Oh, Really, Bill? Once Again,
O’Reilly Can’t Admit a Mistake

BILL O’REILLY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly criticizes Mower County officials; judge calls Fox News report slanted

O’Donnell Mocks O’Reilly’s ‘Stupid Question’ About a Woman President

VIDEO DU JOUR


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, February 25, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Happy Birthday to the youngest and least known Marx Brother, if you don’t count Gummo. Zeppo Marx was born Herbert Manfred in 1901. As straight man and romantic lead, he acted in the first 5 Marx Brothers’ movies. Zeppo retired from Show Biz to become a theatrical agent and inventor and would have loved these Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1836 – Samuel Colt is granted a United States patent for the Colt revolver.
• 1870 – Hiram Rhodes Revels, a Republican from Mississippi, is sworn into the United States Senate, becoming the first African American ever to sit in the U.S. Congress.
• 1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, D.C. becomes the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.
• 1932 – Adolf Hitler obtains German citizenship by naturalization, which allows him to run in the 1932 election for Reichspräsident.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: 135 unarmed citizens of Hà My village in South Vietnam‘s Quảng Nam Province are killed and buried en masse by South Korean troops in what would come to be known as the Hà My massacre.
• 1986 – People Power Revolution: President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos flees the nation after 20 years of rule; Corazon Aquino becomes the Philippines‘ first woman president.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Uganda Tabloid Prints List
of ‘Top’ Homosexuals

Arizona GOP State Senator Regrets Voting For Anti-Gay
SB 1062: ‘I Screwed Up’

Ariz. business leaders call
for veto of anti-gay
religious freedom bill

Sens. McCain and Flake
Call on AZ Governor to
Veto ‘Anti-LGBT’ Bill

Watch: CNN Anchor Explains To Anti-Gay Group
That Same-Sex Marriage Is Not A KKK Rally

Georgia Wants to Allow Businesses to Kick Gay People Out of Diners

Horrifically anti-gay Regnerus study
conceived at top GOP think tank Heritage


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OH, FER FUCK’S SAKE!!!

Virginia Lawmaker Calls Pregnant Women “Hosts”

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Former Bush Strategist: Anti-LGBT Law Uses Christianity Like Muslim Terrorists Use Islam

The Religious Right
To Dodge the Law

On this date in 1836, Samuel Colt is granted
a United States patent for the Colt revolver.


GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:


Judge orders guns returned to blind FL man who ‘stood his ground’ against drinking buddy

Demonstrating Gun Safety, Oakland Man Shoots Himself
In The Head And Dies

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

Ole Miss Fraternity Suspended
After Hanging A Noose On
Statue Of Civil Rights Hero

White Grandfather Cuffed For
Walking With Black Granddaughter

Is Black History Month still needed?

FREE THE WEED!!!

Colorado Governor Set To Release
Those Convicted On Marijuana
Related Charges, Expunge Records

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

Detroit’s New LED Freeway Lights Off At Night, On During The Day

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford runs groin-first into fire hydrant while celebrating Canada’s gold medal in hockey

Rob Ford threatens to
walk out of scrum
Mayor struggles to explain
position on transit revenue tools

This is not parody. The Falafel King actually said this.

LOOFAH LAD’S EGO IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

The Falafel King showing absolutely no self-awareness whatsoever.

LOOFAH LAD’S FANS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Freshman’s idol reads his
fan letter on national TV

LOOFAH LAD’S GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

OTHER FOX “NEWS” GUESTS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Ten Of The Most Ludicrous
Fox News Guests

IN INNER SPACE:

The oldest gem

IN OUTER SPACE:

Biggest meteor ever recorded hits Moon (VIDEO)

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 24, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Today ‘Merkins will gather in town squares all across the country to celebrate Abe Vigoda‘s 93rd birthday, as fire crews are on stand-by, watching the candles on his cake. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

• 1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announces the Gregorian calendar.
• 1809 – London’s Drury Lane Theatre burns to the ground, leaving owner Richard Brinsley Sheridan destitute.
• 1822 – The 1st Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, is inaugurated.
• 1831 – The Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek, the first removal treaty in accordance with the Indian Removal Act, is proclaimed. The Choctaws in Mississippi cede land east of the river in exchange for payment and land in the West.
• 1863 – Arizona is organized as a United States territory.
• 1868 – Andrew Johnson becomes the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives. He is later acquitted in the Senate.
• 1920 – The Nazi Party is founded.
• 2008 – Fidel Castro retires as the President of Cuba after nearly fifty years.

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

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Indiana man accidentally shoots
himself dead during gun sale


DOMESTIC TERRORISM:

Tea Party-Type Militia Terrorists
Used Facebook To Plot Attack
Against The United States


CYBER-BULLY CORNER:

Cyber bullies face the threat of fines and jail time under new legislation

 My very own personal Cyber-Bullies:
The Mark Koldys-Johnny Dollar Cyber-Bully Comments of the Day

Anatomy of a Cyber-Feud

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLIGARCHY:

If Republicans Don’t Want to
be Compared to Nazis, They
Should Stop Acting Like Nazis



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

These Racist Tweets
About Subban Prove
Canada’s Not so Tolerant


ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

New Jersey man escapes 5
year sentence after dash cam
footage clears him, indicts cops


WAIT!!! WHAT???

Minnesota nursing home defends rapist: 89-year-old victim was a ‘flirt’

Court Rules Off-The-Grid Living Is Illegal


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

Update: Detroit Police
Chief ‘Not Backing Off’
Amid Death Threat

Sugrue: Trickle-down urbanism won’t work in Detroit


MEET THE PRESS IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

David Gregory Tarnishes Meet The Press by Creating a Fake Obama Leadership Crisis


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Murdoch, Fox and Limbaugh:
Closing the conservative mind


SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Sean Hannity fundraises
for tea party: Surprise?

◄ ◄ From the Wayback Machine ► ►
Hannity’s Charity Under Fire


ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Elisabeth Hasselbeck:
I don’t hate Obama


ALLEGEDLY CORRUPT GOVERNOR’S CORNER:

Scott Walker Falls Apart When Asked About Incriminating Emails On Fox News


TODAY IN EDUCATION:


VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 21, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

As SciFi fans the world over celebrate Anthony Daniels‘ birthday, let’s take a quick look at some of the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive makes its outing at the Pen-y-Darren Ironworks in Wales.
• 1842 – John Greenough is granted the first U.S. patent for the sewing machine.
• 1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels publish The Communist Manifesto.
• 1878 – The first telephone book is issued in New Haven, Connecticut.
• 1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument is dedicated.
• 1925 – The New Yorker publishes its first issue.
• 1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrates the first “instant camera“, the Polaroid Land Camera, to a meeting of the Optical Society of America.
• 1948 – NASCAR is incorporated.
• 1958 – The peace symbol, commissioned by Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in protest against the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment, is designed and completed by Gerald Holtom.
• 1965 – Malcolm X is assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.
• 1972 – President Richard Nixon visits the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.

But, what’s happening in the world right now? Take a gander at just a few of today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LGBT:

Study: Homophobia takes
2.5 years off your life


FREE THE WEED!!!

Legalized Marijuana:
Companies Moving Now
To Cash In On Cannabis

Marijuana news: Colorado governor projects millions in pot tax and sales revenue


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

Investigator Tells a Lynching
Story, Forced to Resign


TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

Income inequality: Among US cities, bigger ones are more unequal


WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

Georgia House votes to allow
weapons in bars and churches


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OFFENSIVE:

Ted Cruz Stands Up For
Hateful Racist Ted Nugent
During CNN Interview

Bachmann Explains Why Americans Still ‘Aren’t
Ready’ for a Female President


TEE VEE NEWS IN THE NEWS:

The End of America’s
Fake Consensus


FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Lindsay Lohan and Mom Do Cocaine Together? Actress Blasts New Reports

John Romano: Pam Bondi, Fox News a match made in conservative heaven


LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly Is Worried About “Homosexual Overtones”
In The Girl Scouts


BEST HEADLINE DU JOUR:

College Security Head
Arrested For Jerking Off
Into Co-Worker’s Shoe


IN FRANK ZAPPA NEWS:

Scientists name bacterium for Frank Zappa


VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 20, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Hello, Headliners!!! On this, the 87th birthday of Sidney Poitier, let’s first take a look at some of the Headlines Du Jour from yesteryear:

• 1816 – Rossini’s opera The Barber of Seville premieres at the Teatro Argentina in Rome.
• 1872 – In New York City the Metropolitan Museum of Art opens.
• 1877 – Tchaikovsky‘s ballet Swan Lake receives its première performance at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
• 1933 – Adolf Hitler secretly meets with German industrialists to arrange for financing of the Nazi Party‘s upcoming election campaign.
• 1943 – American movie studio executives agree to allow the Office of War Information to censor movies.
• 1952 – Emmett Ashford becomes the first African-American umpire in organized baseball by being authorized to be a substitute umpire in the Southwestern International League.
• 1959 – The Avro Arrow program to design and manufacture supersonic jet fighters in Canada is cancelled by the Diefenbaker government amid much political debate.
• 1965 – Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

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

SO GLAD WE ARE LIVING IN A POST-RACIAL SOCIETY:


George Zimmerman’s BFF Called Oprah the N-Word

FBI Investigating Racial Vandalism Of Ole Miss Statue

New Georgia Specialty License Plate Features A Confederate Flag

IN LGBT NEWS:

Gambian president: LGBT stands for “Leprosy, Gonorrhoea, Bacteria and Tuberculosis”

FREE THE WEED!!!

A marijuana tidal wave?

Minnesota Poll: Majority support legalization of medical marijuana

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Mississippi church floor collapses, around 35
injured: report

THE LITTLE BROTHER WATCHING BIG BROTHER:

Meet Jonathan Mayer, The Stanford Ph.D. Student Who’s Reverse-Engineering The NSA

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Candidate Arrested for Assaulting
Man Who Called Him ‘RINO’

A MEMBER OF THE CORRUPT GOVERNORS CLUB:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill Maher Claims MSNBC Is Turning Into Fox News

HISTORY IS COMPLICATED. THE HISTORY OF CRYPTOGRAPHY EVEN MORE SO:

IN OUTER SPACE:

Our entire universe might
exist inside a massive
black hole, say physicists

Supernova secrets seen in X-rays

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 14, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

It’s Valentine’s Day, but more importantly, it’s Pops’ 88th birthday. Pops shares his date with these headlines from yesteryear:

• 1349 – Several hundred Jews are burned to death by mobs while the remainder of their population is forcibly removed from the city of Strasbourg.
• 1778 – The United States Flag is formally recognized by a foreign naval vessel for the first time, when French Admiral Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte renders a nine gun salute to USS Ranger, commanded by John Paul Jones.
• 1779 – James Cook is killed by Native Hawaiians near Kealakekua on the Island of Hawaii.
• 1849 – In New York City, James Knox Polk becomes the first serving President of the United States to have his photograph taken.
• 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray.
• 1929 – Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre: Seven people, six of them gangster rivals of Al Capone‘s gang, are murdered in Chicago, Illinois.

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

LGBT NEWS:

Virginia Ban on Gay
Marriage Overruled

Kansas’ Anti-Gay Segregation Bill Is an Abomination

Facebook adds gender options

TODAY IN HEALTH CARE:

How Texas Health Care Failed Israel, A Man With
Terminal Cancer Who’d Worked His Whole Life

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Court overturns restrictions on
concealed guns in much of California
Appeals panel finds state rules allowing
counties to restrict the right to carry concealed
weapons in public violate the 2nd Amendment.

NATURE IS COMPLICATED:

Takeover of the crazy ants: It’s creepy!

Kentucky Sinkhole Eats
Corvettes, Raises Questions
Geologists explain what happened—and
which other areas might be vulnerable.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

WSJ: Ted Cruz on Mission to ‘Make Republicans Even More Unpopular’


Colorado lawmaker shocks victim’s dad: ‘Good thing’ Aurora shooter had 100-round magazine


Montana Republican Charged With Felony Assault After Throwing 4-Year Old Daughter


Darrell Issa Is Raising Millions Of Dollars
Off Of His Bogus Obama Investigations

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

Gun Owner Blames Fictional Black Man for Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound

MONOPOLY ISN’T JUST A GAME:

Comcast Announces $45.2 Billion Takeover of
Time Warner Cable


Al Franken Drops the
Hammer on the Comcast
Time-Warner Deal


The Comcast Deal Won’t Make a Terrible Industry Any Worse


CAREFUL WHAT YOU TYPE ON FACEBOOK:

The Facebook Comment
That Ruined a Life

FREE THE WEED!!!

Rick Perry urges move toward marijuana decriminalization

Scott Walker: Big difference between
having a beer and smoking marijuana

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 13, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , ,
Not Tennessee Ernie Ford

As we celebrate the birthday of Tennessee Ernie Ford, Not Now Silly looks at some of the headlines of yesteryear (from the WikiWackyWoo).
On this date:

• 1633 – Galileo Galilei arrives in Rome for his trial before the Inquisition.
• 1880 – Thomas Edison observes the Edison effect.
• 1881 – The feminist newspaper La Citoyenne is first published in Paris by the activist Hubertine Auclert.
• 1914 – Copyright: In New York City the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers is established to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members.
• 1920 – The Negro National League is formed.
• 1960 – Black college students stage the first of the Nashville sit-ins at three lunch counters in Nashville, Tennessee.

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

IN LGBT NEWS:

Kansas House passes
bill allowing service
refusal to gay couples

Idaho bill would allow
doctors or cops to refuse
service to LGBT people
on religious grounds

Nigerian gay people being hunted down

Dallas sportscaster’s shocking response to Michael Sam coming out as gay

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

Don Lemon Proves People Are ‘Really Sensitive’ About Race with One Epic CNN Shout-Fest

7 Things Your Colorblind
Racist Friend Might Say to
You and How to Respond

BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS!!!

Russian govt defends anti-gay neo-Nazis, says kidnappings never happened

FREE THE WEED!!!

Wanted: Medical marijuana critics to write for
Motor City Muckraker


Congress Calls On President Obama To Use His Authority
To Reclassify Marijuana

RELIGION CORNER:

A Montana School Just Fired a
Teacher for Getting Pregnant.
That Actually Happens All the Time.

Georgia Rep. Paul Broun Supports the Bible, Not the Constitution

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

Chris Christie said with a straight
face: George W. Bush was our
last successful politician


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

Burst Mains Continue Flooding Detroit Streets And Basements

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Watch Fox News Throw A Hissy
Fit Over ‘The Lego Movie’

How A Man Accused Of Threatening His Wife
With A Gun Became A
Conservative Media Hero

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

In the “RoboCop” Reboot, Samuel L. Jackson Is
Basically Bill O’Reilly


IN OUTER SPACE:

Teamwork! Two Telescopes Combine Forces To Spot
Distant Galaxy Clusters

VIDEO DU JOUR:


Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.

Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 10, 2014

, , , , , , , , , , , ,

It’s February 10th, folks. Which means this is the 41st day of the year. Before we get to today’s news, here’s a look at a few of the headlines from yesteryear. On this day, according to the WikiWhackyWoo:

• 1840 – Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom marries Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha.
• 1861 – Jefferson Davis is notified by telegraph that he has been chosen as provisional President of the Confederate States of America.
• 1870 – The YWCA is founded in New York City.
• 1942 – The first gold record is presented to Glenn Miller for “Chattanooga Choo Choo“.
• 1962 – Captured American U2 spy-plane pilot Gary Powers is exchanged for captured Soviet spy Rudolf Abel.

Now let’s get right down to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Wielding Whip and a Hard New Law,
Nigeria Tries to ‘Sanitize’ Itself of Gays

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

Racist Chants From The Crowd
Brought This Soccer Star To Tears

FREE THE WEED!!!

Legal Pot Coming Soon? 50-State
Marijuana Law Roundup.

Medical Marijuana Gains
Traction in the Deep South

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

On Fox & Friends: Oscar
Song ‘Yanked’ Because
Of Faith Based Bigotry

PAYING TWO DEBTS TO SOCIETY:

BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS:

Sochi Olympic Winter Games at
root of residents’ housing woes

THINGS GO BETTER WITH KOCH:

Keystone XL Pipeline Could Yield
$100 Billion For Koch Brothers

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Ken Ham: The Making of An
American Religious Huckster

Young American adults abandon
religion in record numbers

Christians Might Be Surprised to
Find That Not God, But Men,
Decided What They Would Believe

CHRIS CHRISTIE CORNER:

NJ Star-Ledger Regrets Endorsing
Christie: ‘We Blew This One’

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford’s wee-hours
Foggy Dew pub night
concerns Coquitlam mayor

IN OUTER SPACE:

Researchers identify one of the
earliest stars in the universe
The discovery suggests that the very first generation of stars may not have been as powerful as previously thought.

NASA is now accepting applications from companies that want to mine the moon

VIDEO DU JOUR:

Headlines Du Jour is a leisure-time activity of Not Now Silly, home of the
Steam-Powered Word-0-Matic, and your rest stop on the Information
Highway. Use our valuable bandwidth to post your news comments in
today’s open thread.