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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, September 18, 2014

September 18, 2014420, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, facebook, Fox News, Fracking, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Harris Faulkner, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Racism, Religion, Republicans, Sean HannityHeadly Westerfield

Hello there, Headliners.Today’s birthday belongs to the Eddie “Rochester” Anderson, one man who often got the best of Jack Benny. He lived through may Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Honduras on his fourth, and final, voyage.

1679 – New Hampshire becomes a county of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1793 – The first cornerstone of the Capitol building is laid by George Washington.
1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.
1895 – Booker T. Washington delivers the “Atlanta Compromise” address.

1914 – The Irish Home Rule Act becomes law, but is delayed until after World War I.

1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.
1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.
1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.

1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations.

1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.

1975 – Patty Hearst is arrested after a year on the FBI Most Wanted List.

1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.

1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.

1997 – United States media magnate Ted Turner donates USD 1 billion to the United Nations.

2014 – Scottish independence referendum

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

The NFL’s Hazy Logic on Marijuana
When it comes to pot, the league’s usual
anti-drug arguments don’t hold—and are
harming players instead of protecting them.

Marijuana industry ad campaign battles stereotypes, promotes safe use

Colorado marijuana industry
battling stoner stereotypes

VIDEO BONUS DU JOUR:

ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORKS:

Facebook for rich people launches

BEST HEADLINES DU JOUR:

Rosie Perez Asks McCain Campaign
Adviser: When Was The First Time
You Wanted To Punch Palin?

Papa Murphy’s Employee Admits Rubbing Scrotum On Pizza Was ‘Stupid’

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Doubles Airtime For GOP Senators During Hearing On Islamic State Threat

Viggo Mortensen: Fox News ‘So
Appallingly Shallow and Manipulative’

HARRIS FAULKNER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Host on Benghazi Hearing: ‘Where Is the Outrage from Republicans?’

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Hannity Removes Belt and Smacks It on Desk During Segment on Peterson

Hannity: Liberals Could Make It ‘Child Abuse’ for Parents to Tell Kids ‘Being Gay Is Not Normal’

STUART VARNEY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox Business Network Hosts Squabble: ‘You Sound Like a Democrat Now!’

ELISABETH HASSELBECK IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

A Fox Host Finally Connected The NFL Domestic Violence Controversy To Benghazi

“The Sorority House Of
Hillary Clinton”: How A
Fox Guest Explains Away
The War On Women

CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Krauthammer Distorts Obama’s Words
To Declare Him A Napoleonic “Narcissist”

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, September 16, 2014

September 16, 2014420, B.B. King, Daniele Watts, Fox News, Free the Weed, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Howard Kurtz, Lost Civilizations, marijuana, Outer Space, Racism, ReligionHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Riley B. King, better known as Blues guitarist B.B. King. He’s seen more than a few Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1620 – Pilgrims (Plymouth Colony) set sail on the Mayflower.

1812 – The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.

1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation’s oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

1893 – Settlers make a land run for prime land in the Cherokee Strip in Oklahoma.

1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.

1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.

1941 – World War II: Concerned that Reza Shah Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, is about to ally his petroleum-rich empire with Nazi Germany, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union invade Iran in late August and force the Shah to abdicate in favor of his son, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

1971 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

1992 – The trial of the deposed Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega ends in the United States with a 40 year sentence for drug trafficking and money laundering.

1992 – Black Wednesday: the pound sterling is forced out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism by currency speculators and is forced to devalue against the German mark.

1994 – The British government lifts the broadcasting ban imposed against members of Sinn Féin and Irish paramilitary groups in 1988.

2007 – Mercenaries working for Blackwater Worldwide allegedly shoot and kill 17 Iraqis in Nisour Square, Baghdad; all criminal charges against them are later dismissed, sparking outrage in the Arab world.

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

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

Racial discrimination & resignation of Dr. Misee Harris – An Open Letter to media

Daniele Watts: Django Unchained
actress detained in Los Angeles
after being mistaken for a prostitute

‘Django Unchained’ Actress Daniele Watts
Explains Why She Refused To Give LAPD Her ID

Newspaper Apologizes For Offensive
Cartoon Comparing Airplanes To Slave Ships

FREE THE WEED!!!

People are auditioning for a new marijuana reality show. It’s called ‘The Marijuana Show’

BSO’s Scott Israel One of Just Four Florida
Sheriffs Not Campaigning Against Medical Pot

New Study: Marijuana Slows
Down Alzheimer’s Disease

Is This the End of Medical Marijuana?

Medical marijuana company takes
over Vancouver rooftop garden

Marijuana smell on Michigan kindergartener
leads cops to dad’s homegrown pot

TODAY IN RELIGION:

The Most Absurd Religious Right Headlines of the Week (and One Hopeful Humanist One)

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Howard Kurtz: Fox & Friends’ ‘take the
stairs’ Ray Rice joke an ‘unfortunate misstep’

Kurtz Gives Fox & Friends A Pass
On Their Ray Rice Non-Apology

‘No military action,’ except
for all the military action

From Fox Insiders To The Secret Service:
Top 20 Insults Directed At Fox News

IN INNER SPACE:

New Evidence Lost Civilizations Really Existed

IN OUTER SPACE:

What Is the Universe?
Real Physics Has Some
Mind-Bending Answers

Science says the universe could be
a hologram, a computer program, a
black hole or a bubble—and there
are ways to check

“Hot Jupiters” provoke their own host suns to wobble

Rosetta mission control announces comet landing site

Boeing said to win NASA space taxi contract

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, September 9, 2014

September 9, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, facebook, Falafel King, Fox & Friends, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Jon Stewart, LGBT, Outnumbered, Racism, Religion, Republicans, Space, Tucker Carlson, TwitterHeadly Westerfield

Hello again, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Otis Ray Redding, Jr, whose biggest hit, “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay,” was recorded 3 days before he died in a plane crash in 1967, making it a Headline Du Jour of yesteryear. Also on this date:

1739 – Stono Rebellion, the largest slave uprising in Britain’s mainland North American colonies prior to the American Revolution, erupts near Charleston, South Carolina.

1776 – The Continental Congress officially names its new union of sovereign states the United States.

1791 – Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, is named after President George Washington.

1839 – John Herschel takes the first glass plate photograph.

1850 – California is admitted as the thirty-first U.S. state.

1926 – In the United States the National Broadcasting Company is formed.

1940 – George Stibitz pioneers the first remote operation of a computer.

1942 – World War II: A Japanese floatplane drops incendiary bombs on Oregon.

1947 – First case of a computer bug being found: a moth lodges in a relay of a Harvard Mark II computer at Harvard University.

1956 – Elvis Presley appears on The Ed Sullivan Show for the first time.

1969 – In Canada, the Official Languages Act comes into force, making the French language equal to the English language throughout the Federal government.

1971 – The four-day Attica Prison riot begins, which eventually results in 39 dead, most killed by state troopers retaking the prison.

1993 – The Palestine Liberation Organization officially recognizes Israel as a legitimate state.

Here’s today’s Headlines Du Jour:

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

GOP congressman calls firing gay
people one of the ‘freedoms we enjoy’

Should Women Or Gays Be Excited
For The GA-10? Colbert is on the Case

State GOP chairman defends GPS tracking of Long Island Democrat

Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver (D-Manhattan) told the Daily News he was outraged at
Republicans’ bugging of Assemblyman Edward Hennessey’s car, while others demanded an
apology. State GOP Chairman Ed Cox shot back on Monday that the tracking was perfectly legal.

Fun fact: September 8th is the birthday of Ruby Bridges, center

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

Syracuse University soccer player suspended over video calling classmate
‘f*ggot-*ss n*gger’