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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, March 29, 2015

Hiya, Headliners. Today’s birthday belongs to Python & Rutle, Eric Idle. Here are some of the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Today’s yesteryear segment was larger than usual, as is today’s Headlines Du Jour. So, let’s get to it…finally:

INDIANA LGBT NEWS:

IN LGBT NEWS:

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

FREE THE WEED!!!

MORE OF THAT REPUBLICAN OUTREACH:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF CORPORATIONS GONE WILD:

TODAY IN CLIMATE CHANGE:

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Howdy, Headliners! Today’s birthday belongs to Neil Innes, former-Bonzo Dog Band and Rutles. Among the other Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear:

Here is today’s Headlines Du Jour:

TODAY’S PROTESTS:

MORE EXCITING EPISODES OF COPS GONE WILD:

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

TODAY IN RELIGION:

FREE THE WEED!!!

HACK ATTACKS!!!

IN INNER SPACE:

IN OUTER SPACE:

VIDEOS DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Saturday, March 29, 2014

Hello Headliners. It’s the birthday of Dirk McQuickly, also known as Eric Idle. As one of the members of Monty Python, Idle loved the Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear.

Let’s waste no more time and get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour:

IN LGBT NEWS:

Gay marriages have begun
in England and Wales!

U.S. recognizes Michigan’s same-sex marriages

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

Wisc. Republican accuses
Dem of ‘murdering’
grandkid to deflect cat leg-breaking conviction

TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

A Nation of Takers

10 Poverty Myths, Busted
No, single moms aren’t the problem.
And neither are absentee dads.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Pastor charged with sexual
battery claims devil ‘motivated
his mind’ in motel attack

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

Study cites Metro Detroit
as high-tech hotbed

THE ANTI-SOCIAL NETWORK:

Facebook “Friend”
Burglarizes Vacationers: Police

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH:

400-lb. Florida cop charged with posing as teen girl online to get sex pics from boys

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Prankster wants to hire someone to follow Rob Ford around with a tuba

BONUS: CRACK MAYOR CARTOON

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox’s Geraldo Rivera: Crooked politicians on the Democratic side ‘tend to be ethnic’

IN INNER SPACE:

Prisoners ‘could serve 1,000 year sentence in eight hours’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

This is EXACTLY how all the 24-hour tee vee news
channels covered the Malaysian Airliner tragedy:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Thursday, December 12, 2013

While you were sleeping the Now Now Silly news team was wandering up and down, back and forth, throughout the entire internet to gather nothing but the best in headlines. Only when they return are they finally fed their one meal a day. But don’t be concerned for them because it’s time for today’s Headlines Du Jour.

WORKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE:

It Takes A McDonald’s Worker 4 Months
To Earn What The CEO Gets In An Hour

TODAY IN GOD:

Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds

FINALLY! A FAIR AND BALANCED REPORT!!!

Rupert Murdoch Called
‘Evil’ In His Own Newspaper

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Megyn Kelly Ignores Guest’s Depiction
Of Danish PM As “Danish Pastry”

Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade tells general:
Iraq was a ‘great place’ until U.S. left

I GOTCHER WAR ON CHRISTMAS RIGHT HERE:

Christmas is a Pagan Holiday – Get Over it Already

6 conspiracy theories about the imaginary war on Christmas

Satanists & Atheists Vie For Space In Florida Capitol

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Cops killed Harlem man after they mistook friendly Taser fire for knife stab: lawsuit

The “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

GOP Plan to “Punish” Democrats Is Probably the Stupidest Thing You’ve Ever Heard Of

Republicans’ self-hatred swells: The GOP vs. its own base

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

Sci-fi pilot ’12 Monkeys’ filming in Detroit,
will get $1.5M in state incentives

What Should Be Done About Detroit? A Gawker Internal Debate

FREE THE WEED:

Denver legalizes marijuana for use on private property

Uruguay legalizing marijuana breaks
drug control treaty, says watchdog

Study finds no link between teen
pot use and schizophrenia risk

CRACKHEAD CORNER:

Daniel Dale: Rob Ford is lying about me, and it’s vile
Literally every single thing Mayor Rob Ford told Conrad Black about
my conduct on May 2, 2012 is false in some way. Let’s go lie by lie.

RUTLES NEWS:

DVD Review: Mock songs give life to ‘The Rutles’

VIDEO DU JOUR:

 

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Headlines Du Jour ► Friday, December 6, 2013

While you were tossing and turning in bed, trying to get your beauty rest, the Not Now Silly interns have been wandering through the vast reaches of cyberspace to bring back nothing but the best in Headlines Du Jour. Now that they’ve returned, let’s get right to it.

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

Indiana University display used negative stereotypes to ask: Can Santa Claus be black?

Texas principal bans Hispanic students from
speaking Spanish to ‘prevent disruptions’

OY VEY, DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

The Fading Yiddish Language I Grew
Up With is Still Alive in Metro Detroit

THE “O” IN GOP STAND FOR OLD:

GOP debunked on food stamps:
Everything they say about SNAP is wrong

Forget the nonsense about them breeding dependency.
Food stamps increase self-sufficiency, research shows 

YOU CAN’T PRAY AWAY A SUBPOENA:


FBI searches former Michele Bachmann campaign staffer’s home

SPEAKING OF WING NUTS:

WND Says Social Justice Doesn’t Come from Jesus but from the KGB

TODAY IN FOX “NEWS”:

After Being Rescued, a Sweet Fox Shows Her Saviors Amazing Gratitude

THE LATEST SALVO IN THE PHONY WAR ON CHRISTMAS:

Fox’s Latest Christmas Scare Deemed A
“Vicious Dissemination Of Untrue Information”

THE VICTIMIZATION OF SARAH PALIN, BY SARAH PALIN, CONTINUES:

Fox & Friends Provides Warm Support
For Poor, Maligned, And Very
Hypocritical Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin Thanks The Media for Doing Her Dirty Work and Getting Martin Bashir Fired

Sarah Palin: People might be afraid to ‘start a
business’ because Martin Bashir attacked me

CRACK MAYOR CORNER:

Rob Ford: What the wiretaps revealed
Wiretapped conversations released Wednesday show
the extent to which the mayor was involved with
a group police say was running drugs and guns.

It’s come to this: “Our mayor’s gangster life? Yawn…”

Rob Ford: Crack video motive
for Smith murder, police told

The mayor’s former staffers believed the crack video belonged to
alleged gang member Anthony Smith and was behind his murder.

It gets worse and we haven’t hit bottom yet: DiManno

THE BEST MC DONALD’S EVER SERVED:

Tennessee Couple Almost Accidentally Steals
Thousands of Dollars from McDonald’s

►►► R.I.P. CORNER◄◄◄

► This is the guy I watched growing up ◄
Veteran WDIV Newsman Dwayne X. Riley Dies at 84

Todd Mills, Man Whose Doritos Taco Idea Made Taco Bell $1 Billion But Who Never Saw A Penny, Dies At 41

And, of course, Nelson Mandela who is being mourned,
remembered and lionized all around the world.
 

Mandela daughters ask that film’s premiere go on

What you might not have known about Nelson Mandela

South Africa, world mourn ‘giant for justice’ Mandela

Gracious and tough, Mandela was fun to cover 

Music to mourn by . . .

ROCK AND ROLL ROILING:

SiriusXM Will Have to Defend Multiple Lawsuits Over Pre-1972 Music

BEATLES NEWS:

Liberating The Beatles
MUSICIAN AND PARODIST, NEIL INNES, ON HIS UNIQUE
AND HUMOROUS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FAB FOUR

VIDEO DO JOUR:

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Idle No More ► Happy Birthday Eric!

Say no more!

He’s been a Python, a Rutle, a cartoon, a song writer, an author, a comedian, a hit Broadway playwright, and the comic relief at an Olympics ceremony. And he turns 70 today.

Whole episodes of Monty Python are available all over the place. Here’s one with English subtitles for those who have trouble understanding English:

Dr. Carl Sagan wishes he could have explained it this simply:

Enjoy this Eric Idle Jukebox and wish him a Happy Birthday.