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Headlines Du Jour ► Monday, February 24, 2014

February 24, 2014Cops Gone Wild, Cyber-bullying, Detroit, Domestic Terrorism, Elisabeth Hasselbeck, Eubie Blake, Fox News, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Johnny Dollar, Mark Koldys, Racism, Scott Walker, Sean HannityHeadly Westerfield

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:

◄ ◄ 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:

I’m The Duke University
Freshman Porn Star And
For The First Time I’m
Telling The Story In My Words

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 20, 2014

February 20, 2014420, Bill Maher, Free the Weed, George Zimmerman, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Lee "Scratch" Perry, LGBT, marijuana, Outer Space, Racism, Religion, Scott WalkerHeadly Westerfield

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?

John Hickenlooper: Colorado Pot Market Exceeds Tax Hopes

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:

This Could Be the Start of
Scott Walker’s Bridgegate

Walker Aides Stressed Over Staffer’s
‘Checkered’ Past As Thong Model

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:

600 year old mystery
manuscript decoded
by University of Bedfordshire professor

IN OUTER SPACE:

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

Supernova secrets seen in X-rays

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, February 14, 2014

February 14, 2014420, Comcast, Darrell Issa, facebook, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Health Care, LGBT, marijuana, Pops, Racism, Rick Perry, Scott Walker, St. Valentine's Day Massacre, Valentine's DayHeadly Westerfield

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

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, January 11, 2014

January 11, 2014420, Alfred Hitchcock, Fox News, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, John Kasich, marijuana, Racism, Rick Snyder, Rob Ford, Roger AIles, Scott Walker, Toronto Mayor Rob FordHeadly Westerfield

People have been curious about the process of curating Headlines Du Jour, which surprises me because I didn’t think people would be that interested. However, since you asked:

When my headline-collecting robot drones return from a night of headline collecting, they are loaded down with headlines from every genre. Then the culling begins. The first thing I do is throw out all the sports headlines. Then older headlines are discarded. Next, I toss out any headline you can find elsewhere. My readers don’t come here to find what they can get elsewhere; they come here for the headlines they won’t get anywhere else. Which brings us to today’s Headlines Du Jour.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP’s poverty scam: Why does it suddenly “care” about the poor?

‘No free lunch’ Republican bills taxpayers for
his food but tells poor kids to work for theirs

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Formal complaint filed about
Mayor Rob Ford’s use of staff

POLITICS IS AS POLITICS DOES:

Dirty Tricks, Traffic Studies, And Why Sociopaths Flourish In Politics

All the Governors’ Dark-Money Funds

Walker, Kasich, Snyder: These big-name governors embraced dark
money to push their agendas. They could pay for it in 2014.

Is Scott Walker next?

ROGER AILES IN THE NEWS:

CNNers: Ailes Book Likely Won’t Change Anyone’s Mind About Fox News

Ailes book: Fox chief to blame for
Fox’s election night meltdown

Past Book Sales Show Apathy Rules When It Comes to Roger Ailes

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox’s Scott Blames “Overly-Vindictive
Women” For Arrest Of Man Who
Violated Restraining Order

Fox: Where The Chris Christie Scandal
Is Really Just About Benghazi

FREE THE WEED!!!

Kentucky Republican offers to ‘fill this committee room’ with people affected by pot deaths

Senator Ted Cruz attacks Obama for not
locking up marijuana users in Colorado

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

Interracial Couple Upset Over
‘Jungle Fever’ Note Left by Valet

WEATHER, OR NOT?

Scientists: Americans are becoming weather wimps

MOSTLY HARMLESS???

What if the rest of the
alien universe was
terrified of humans?

WHISTLE-BLOWERS BEWARE:

Australian Teen Reported To Police After
Exposing Security Hole In Website

MOVIE CORNER:

Unseen Alfred Hitchcock Holocaust documentary
‘Memory of the Camps’ to be released

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, November 23, 2013

November 23, 2013420, Ashley Graham, Detroit, Evolution, Glenn Beck, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, JFK, Johnny Dollar, Maltese Falcon, marijuana, Mark Koldys, President Kennedy, Rob Ford, Scott Walker, St. JosaphatHeadly Westerfield

Good morning, sleepyheads. While you were getting your 40 winks, the Not Now Silly interns were out collecting today’s Headlines Du Jour. So, pour yourself a cup of java, sit down, and check out what you’ve been missing.

NOSTALGIA AIN’T WHAT IT USED TO BE:

The actual Maltese Falcon is for sale, so why not treat yourself?

LIARS CORNER:

Gov Scott Walker, Time Lord: Says he left college
for the birth of his son, 4 years before he was born

FREE THE WEED:

Denver Now Has More Marijuana Dispensaries Than It Does Starbucks

‘No explanation’ for federal raid on Denver-area pot dealers

► A song for anything and anything for a song ◄

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford police investigation: ‘Domestic assault’ call at Ford home sidetracked police sting
Mayor followed the August incident at his home with a three-day hotel stay near ‘crack central’ and a barbecue with the prime
minister.

WATCH: Late night hosts make more cracks about Rob Ford

RELIGION CORNER:

Evolution debate again engulfs Texas board

► JUMPING JOSAPHAT ◄

This week the steeple of St. Josaphat Catholic Church, at I-75 and East Canfield, was damaged by heavy winds and will have to
come down. Harry Arnold sends his drone-cam out to record iconic Detroit locations and gave us a bird’s eye view of the damage
to this beautiful structure.

CRAZY CORNER:

Glenn Beck Goes Off The Deep End and
Claims JFK Would Be a Tea Party Radical

The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

BULLY CORNER:

► Scratch a bully, find a bigger bully ◄
Iowa Parents Defend Kids’ Bullying Of Autistic
Student, Saying He Brought It On Himself

Does Fox “News” Support Johnny Dollar?
The latest news on what my cyber-bullies are up to.
With those psychopaths, it’s always something.

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida Woman, Enraged When Duck Won’t
Eat Her Candy, Runs It Over With Car

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, November 19, 2013

November 19, 2013Atlanta, Crack, Education, Fox News, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Headlines in the News, Leonardo Da Vinci, LGBT, Mayor Rob Ford, R.I.P., Roma, Scott Walker, World War TwoHeadly Westerfield

Remember the good ol’ days, when the milkman and paperboy still delivered fresh products every morning? Not Not Silly takes you back to the days of yore. Our interns have been set loose on the internet and told not to return without interesting Headlines Du Jour. Let’s take a look at what they found this morning.

WHAT A GREAT IDEA:

Photographer Sheila Pree Bright
Puts Civil Rights Activists In Your
Face In Downtown Atlanta