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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, February 27, 2014

February 27, 2014420, Arizona, Bill O'Reilly, Climate Change, Cocaine, Falafel King, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, John Stossel, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Religion, Rob Ford, Sean Hannity, Spike Lee, Ted Nugent, Tucker CarlsonHeadly Westerfield

We’re all singing Happy Birthday to National Velvet star Elizabeth Taylor, born on this day in 1932. It was her dying wish we look at the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: the House of Commons of Great Britain votes against further war in America.
• 1801, Washington, D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Congress.
• 1812 – Poet Lord Byron gives his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against Industrialism in his home county of Nottinghamshire.
• 1844 – The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
• 1864 – American Civil War: The first Northern prisoners arrive at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.
• 1900 – The British Labour Party is founded.
• 1933 – Reichstag fire: Germany‘s parliament building in Berlin, the Reichstag, is set on fire.
• 1940 – Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14
• 1963 – The Dominican Republic receives its first democratically elected president, Juan Bosch, since the end of the dictatorship led by Rafael Trujillo.

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

IN CLIMATE CHANGE NEWS:

SEE IT: NASA images
capture desperation of
California’s drought
California recorded its driest year on record in 2013. New images capture bone-dry conditions near Sacramento and along the Sierra Nevada mountains.

LOOFAH LAD IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Stossel: ‘Crotchety Old
Geezers’ Like O’Reilly
Need to Quit Complaining
About ‘The Kids’

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

O’Reilly: Hispanics
And Californians Have
Ruined Colorado

FUCKER CARLSON IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Tucker Carlson: It’s ‘called fascism’ when laws give LGBT people equal treatment

Tucker Carlson: US Should Stop Entry Of Refugees Because They’ll Vote Democratic -And It’s Not His ‘Moral Obligation’

SEAN HANNITY IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News guest tells Hannity: ‘Overfed’ non-whites use food stamps as a ‘fat pill’

IN OUTER SPACE:

Bullying black holes force galaxies to stay red and dead

NASA discovers 715 new planets

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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:

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:

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 ► Saturday, February 8, 2014

February 8, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Detroit, Florida, FloriDuh, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Greg Gutfeld, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Juan Williams, LGBT, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Racism, Rob Ford, Sean Hannity, Sochi OlympicsHeadly Westerfield

It’s another weekend, the second of this shortened month. Before we get to today’s Headlines Du Jour, let’s take a look at some headlines from yesteryear:

• 1587 – Mary, Queen of Scots, is executed on suspicion of having been involved in the Babington Plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I.

• 1879 – Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute.

• 1915 – D.W. Griffith‘s controversial film The Birth of a Nation premieres in Los Angeles.

Now, on to more recent headlines:

IN LGBT NEWS:

This drag queen’s brilliant response to homophobia
will move you to tears

Video: Gays arrested in Moscow`s Red Square,
singing national anthem

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

The history white
people need to learn

Anyone who wants “white history
month” should learn instead about how
whiteness has been used to discriminate

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Greg Gutfeld Rags on
Bill O’Reilly: ‘How
Egotistical Is That?!’

Fox’s Juan Williams: It’s
Fair To Call Out Fox For
Their Benghazi Coverage

Hannity Attacks “Comrade De Blasio” For Boycotting
St. Patrick’s Day Parade Over Its LGBT Exclusion
Hannity: “This Is Him Being Prejudiced Towards
People’s Deeply Held Fundamental Religious Belief”

BOYCOTT THE SOCHI OLYMPICS:

Most corrupt Olympics ever: Why Sochi’s
“above and beyond” what we’ve seen before

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBFUSCATION:

National Republican Congressional Campaign using fake Democrat websites to lure voters

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD, TOO:

850,000-year-old human
footprints found in Norfolk

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

Obama invites Duggan
to develop job creation
plan for Detroit

Bankruptcy In Action: Belle Isle Becomes A State Park Tuesday

Nancy Kaffer: Plenty of
blame for Detroit arena
deal’s shortcomings

Really? A ‘No Colors Allowed’ Sign at Bar Sparks Absurd Cries of Racism

Orr: Detroit’s turnaround is going to happen quickly

FREE THE WEED!!!

Uruguay’s President Nominated for
Nobel Peace Prize for Legalizing Weed

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Florida Ordinance Makes It Illegal
For Homeless To Use Blankets

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford wanted rainbow flag
removed from Toronto City Hall

Rob Ford to duck
World Pride parade, too

Rob Ford: ‘I’m not going to change the way I am’

WATCH: Robyn Doolittle appears on The Daily Show

FROM OUTER SPACE:

Curiosity Rover Sees Earth from Mars for 1st Time (Photos)

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, February 1, 2014

February 1, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Falafel King, Free the Weed, Girl Scout Cookies, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Janet Jackson, Loofah Lad, Outer Space, Sean Hannity, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

It’s the start of a new month here at Not Now Silly, the shortest month of the year. Today is the 10th anniversary of Janet Jackson’s wardrobe malfunction, which made headlines all around the world. Today’s Headlines Du Jour isn’t nearly as exciting as Janet Jackson’s nipple, but we do try harder.

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Tea Party Republican Todd Kincannon: Wendy
Davis is a “Looker,” “Hooker,” and a “Whore”

FREE THE WEED!!!

Pool was swimming in pot, police say

First medical marijuana dispensary licenses awarded in Massachusetts

Pot shops face obstacles to serve
young medical marijuana patients

Obama on the problem of
criminalizing marijuana use

THE ART OF DYING:

Ohio biker, 82, is buried on his Harley