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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 3, 2015

March 3, 2015420, Anti-Social Media, Bullying, Climate Change, Cops Gone Wild, Doc Watson, Free the Weed, GOP, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Net Neutrality, Outer Space, Religion, Republicans, SCOTUS, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Doc Watson. Here are some other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1776 – American Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of the United States Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau.

1820 – The U.S. Congress passes the Missouri Compromise.

1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S. state.

1873 – Censorship in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any “obscene, lewd, or lascivious” books through the mail.

1875 – The first ever organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette.

1885 – The American Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York.

1904 – Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany becomes the first person to make a sound recording of a political document, using Thomas Edison‘s phonograph cylinder.

1913 – Thousands of women march in a suffrage parade in Washington, D.C.

1923 – TIME magazine is published for the first time.

1931 – The United States adopts The Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem.

1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia.

1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records “Rocket 88“, often cited as “the first rock and roll record“, at Sam Phillips‘ recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee.

1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module.

1991 – An amateur video captures the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers.

2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, October 28, 2014

October 28, 2014420, Charlie Daniels, Cops Gone Wild, Ebola, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Racism, Religion, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Hello Headliners! Today’s birthday boy is singer and fiddler Charlie Daniels. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1492 – Christopher Columbus discovered Cuba on his first voyage to the New World. [1]

1538 – The first university in the New World (in present-day Dominican Republic), the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established.

1636 – A vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony establishes the first college in what would become the United States, today known as Harvard University.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.

1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.

1919 – The U.S. Congress passes the Volstead Act over President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto, paving the way for Prohibition to begin the following January.

1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.

1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.

1948 – Swiss chemist Paul Müller is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the insecticidal properties of DDT.

1962 – End of Cuban missile crisis: Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev orders the removal of Soviet missiles from Cuba.

1965 – Construction on the St. Louis Arch is completed.

2005 – Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice-president Dick Cheney‘s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case. Libby resigns later that day.

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

LIFE IS LIKE EBOLA CHERRIES:

Ebola outbreak: Australia denies visas
from Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone

Kaci Hickox’s Quarantine was Based
on ‘Fear and Politics,’ Attorney Says

Kaci Hickox 1, Chris Christie 0

Number of children orphaned by Ebola grows

Why Has Nurse Amber Vinson
Recovered From Ebola So Quickly?

TEABAGGED ENOUGH ALREADY?

The Great Kansas Tea Party Disaster

Extremist Republicans turned their government into a lab
experiment of tax cuts and privatization. And now they may
be losing control of one of the reddest states in the nation

ANOTHER SHOOTOUT AT THE OK CORRAL:

Seattle dad shoots to death
daughter, granddaughter, self

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

GOP House Candidate Marilinda
Garcia Plagiarized Parts Of Floor
Speech On Same-Sex Marriage

TODAY IN RELIGION ~or~ JOHN LENNON WAS RIGHT:

Godless millennials could
end the political power
of the religious right

America is becoming less Christian because young people
are less religious. That’s not blessed news for conservatives

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

What Happens When You’re Tired
of Saying ‘Dear White People?’

Charles Barkley Totally Goes There – ‘We
Are Brainwashed To Think, If You’re Not A
Thug Or An Idiot, You’re Not Black Enough’

‘Unintelligent’ blacks ‘brainwashed’ to
choose street cred over success: Charles Barkley

On this day in 1886, in
New York Harbor, President
Grover Cleveland dedicated
the Statue of Liberty.

FREE THE WEED!!!

Marijuana Laws in All 50 States

Why Oregon is about to be the poster child
for how to legalize and regulate marijuana

Medical pot dilemma:
Where to get the first seeds?

Alaska Marijuana Legalization Would Generate Millions In Taxes

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

The Police Are Still Out of Control

Frank Serpico: “I should know.”

Wisconsin cops deploy armored
vehicle to collect fines from
75-year-old man for messy land

IN INNER SPACE:

Kilauea lava could destroy
Hawaiian homes any minute now

African Lions Are Facing Extinction

Meet Putnisite, the newest mineral
discovered in Western Australia

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday August 6, 2014

August 6, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, CNN, Falafel King, Free the Weed, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, LGBT, Lucille Ball, Outer Space, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy again, Headliners! Today’s birthday girl is the incomparable Lucille Ball. Other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear include:

1787 – Sixty proof sheets of the Constitution of the United States are delivered to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1806 – Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor, abdicates ending the Holy Roman Empire.

1890 – At Auburn Prison in New York, murderer William Kemmler becomes the first person to be executed by electric chair.

1912 – The Bull Moose Party meets at the Chicago Coliseum.

1914 – World War I: Serbia declares war on Germany; Austria declares war on Russia.

1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.

1930 – Judge Joseph Force Crater steps into a taxi in New York and disappears never to be seen again.

1944 – The Warsaw Uprising occurs on August 1. It is brutally suppressed and all able-bodied men in Krakow are detained afterwards to prevent a similar uprising–the Krakow Uprising (1944)— that was planned but never carried out.

1945 – World War II: Hiroshima, Japan is devastated when the atomic bomb “Little Boy” is dropped by the United States B-29 Enola Gay. Around 70,000 people are killed instantly, and some tens of thousands die in subsequent years from burns and radiation poisoning.

1960 – Cuban Revolution: Cuba nationalizes American and foreign-owned property in the nation.

1962 – Jamaica becomes independent from the United Kingdom.

1964 – Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world’s oldest tree, is cut down.

1965 – US President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Voting Rights Act of 1965 into law.

1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web. WWW debuts as a publicly available service on the Internet.

1996 – NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

2012 – NASA‘s Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

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

MONEY MAKES THE WORLD GO ‘ROUND:

‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off
Tea Party Cronies Instead

Move America Forward has collected millions to send care packages to U.S. troops. But its assets have been used to benefit conservative political consulting firms close to its Tea Party founder.

Down and out in Lake County

Revealed – the capitalist network that runs the world

Company Pays Settlement in Buckets of Loose Change

IN LGBT NEWS:

Fourth Judge Strikes Down
Florida’s Same-Sex Marriage Ban

FREE THE WEED!!!

Rules for the Marijuana Market

Full-Page Marijuana Ad to
Appear in New York Times

Why Can’t Americans Grow Their Own Weed Without Fear?

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Illinois man ‘showing off’ shotgun to friends fatally shoots self in head to prove it is empty

Man Fatally Shoots Himself in Head
While Posing for Selfie With Loaded Gun

THE FALAFEL KING IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Bill O’Reilly’s Attacks On Black Culture

CNN IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

CNN Reportedly Sued over Drunken,
Violent, Biting Correspondent

IN OUTER SPACE:

European Spacecraft Nears
Rendezvous With Comet

A hellacious two weeks
on Jupiter’s moon Io

L.A.’s Mt. Wilson Observatory
inspires the future of cosmology

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Headlines Du Jour ► Wednesday, July 2, 2014

July 2, 2014420, Bill O'Reilly, Cops Gone Wild, facebook, Festus, Festus Haggen, Fox News, Free the Weed, GOP, Guns, Headlines, Headlines Du Jour, Jesse Watters, Ken Curtis, LGBT, Loofah Lad, NBC, Outer Space, Tea Party, TeabaggersHeadly Westerfield

Howdy, Headliners. It’s the 183rd day of the year — with just 182 left — which means 2014 is now more than half over. Celebrating a birthday today is Ken Curtis, who played Festus Haggen on Gunsmoke, but was one of The Sons of the Pioneers. Let’s look at some of the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

1504 – Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
1679 – Europeans first visit Minnesota and see headwaters of Mississippi in an expedition led by Daniel Greysolon de Du Luth.
1698 – Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
1776 – The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
1777 – Vermont becomes the first American territory to abolish slavery.
1822 – 35 African American slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
1839 – Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
1881 – Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield, who eventually dies from an infection on September 19.
1890 – The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Anti-Trust Act.
1897 – Italian scientist Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
1900 – The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
1937 – Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
1962 – The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
1964 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
2001 – The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
2002 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.

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