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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, March 18, 2014

Hello, Headliners. Before you rush out and celebrate the birthday of Grover Cleveland — still the only president to serve 2 non-consecutive terms — here are some Headlines Du Jour of yesteryear for your enjoyment:

Now, let’s take a look at today’s Headlines Du Jour:

OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE UNIVERSE HAS JUST CHANGED:

First glimpse of big bang
ripples from universe’s birth

Gravitational Waves from
Big Bang Detected


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

South Dakota GOP lawmaker: KKK business owners deserve right to ban blacks and gays

Paul Ryan’s race flap even worse than it looks
The notion that Ryan was dog-whistling to racists is actually
the best-case scenario. Here’s the scary alternative


THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OBNOXIOUS:

‘Code Words for Race’:
What’s Really Behind GOP’s Poverty and Welfare Obsession

When Paul Ryan decried the “culture”
of inner cities it followed a long
conservative tradition, a scholar explains.

TODAY IN RELIGION:

Judge rules against creationist teacher who called Buddhist student’s faith ‘stupid’


THINGS DON’T GO BETTER WITH KOCHS:

Koch Brothers Group
Abandons Anti-Obamacare
Ads After Fact-Checkers
Prove Them False

FREE THE WEED!!!

The environmental
case for legalizing pot

Miami’s First Marijuana
School Could Open in April

A Head Start for Florida
Cannabis Entrepreneurs



TODAY IN INCOME INEQUALITY:

There is no meritocracy: It’s just the 1 percent, and the game is rigged

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS AGAIN:

Fox News Praises Gay
Ban at New York’s St.
Patrick’s Day Parade

Hosts call Mayor Bill deBlasio a ‘religious bigot’ for not marching in today’s parade.


ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Detroit area water authority talks hit cutoff

IN OUTER SPACE:

Planet X myth debunked

Star next door may host a ‘superhabitable’ world



VIDEO DU JOUR:


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Headlines Du Jour ► New Year’s Day 2014

2013 YEAR-ENDERS

Twelve Months Of Fox
News Race-Baiting

2013 a great year for U.S. stocks

2013: The year in whiteness

2013: The Best of Bad Astronomy

The Year in Racial Amnesia

Universe Today’s Top 10
(or so) Stories of 2013

2013 In Memoriam:
Musicians We Lost This Year

The 20 Worst Fox News
Moments Of 2013

The Seven Most Tiresome
Media Trends of 2013

In 1964, Isaac Asimov
Imagined the World in 2014

I’m sure it comes as no shock to anyone, but it’s a brand NEW YEAR!!! 

Not Now Silly is going to call it Two-thousand and fourteen when frustrated with it, but ’14 when pleased.

Let’s get right to today’s Headlines Du Jour, the very first of ’14.

CONSTITUTIONALLY YOURS:

Life, Liberty, and the Founding Fathers’ Pursuit of Hoppiness
The Constitution was written by men who owned breweries, imported whiskey, and humped cows.

Retired General Wants March on White House and Citizens Arrest of Obama

Dysfunctional Republican Christians Vow To Destroy the First Amendment

THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Oops! Republican Congressman Files Re-Election Papers For Wrong District

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Christie declines to defend N.J. gun laws, sparking criticism

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

Knoxville drivers greeted by banners warning
that diversity is anti-white genocide

TODAY IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

Judge strikes down Florida law mandating drug tests for welfare

OH! OH!! CANADA!!!

Passengers Ridicule Canadian
Airline For Sexist Ticket Policy

RELIGION CORNER:

Franklin Graham: Pope Francis is not the judge, God is the judge

Home Depot founder worries Pope Francis neither loves nor understands rich Americans

HIGH TECH CRIME:

Thieves In Europe Are Using USB Sticks To Clean Out ATMs

VIDEO DU JOUR:

◄ Best News Bloopers of 2013 ►

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Headlines Du Jour ► Tuesday, December 31, 2013

This being the last day of the year means that today’s Headlines Du Jour is the last one for 2013. Join us tomorrow for the first Headlines Du Jour of 2014. Two-thousand and four. It just rolls off the tongue.

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

Fox Anchor: NY Times Benghazi Report ‘Goes Against Much of Fox News’ Own Reporting’

Fox News Wastes No
Time Attacking NY Times
Benghazi Report

TRUE STORY: THE “O” IN GOP STANDS FOR OLD:

Guess which party has a bone to pick with evolution?

Sen. Ted Cruz hires lawyers to renounce his Canadian citizenship

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Guy Reaches For Wallet, Ends Up
Shooting Himself In The Butt

RELIGION CORNER:

Comedian Raised $125K for Atheist Tornado Survivor Just to Piss Off Her ‘Okie-Christian Neighbors’

IN OUTER SPACE:

Sun has ‘flipped upside down’ – Nasa

The Quadrantid Meteor Shower-One of the Best Bets for 2014

FREE THE WEED:

Tommy Chong on marijuana legalization:
Everyone is waking up to the truth

IN FLOR-I-DUH NEWS:

The 12 Craziest Things That
Happened in Florida in 2013

The 32nd Annual The King Mango Strut

WHEN GLITTER IS OUTLAWED, ONLY GLAM STARS WILL BE OUTLAWS:

U.S. police gone mad: Activists
arrested for ‘bioterrorism hoax’
for using glitter on a protest banner

MOTHER EARTH IS GONNA BE PISSED:

Scientists Find 7,300-Mile
Mercury Contamination ‘Bullseye’
Around Canadian Tar Sands

I HAVE AN ORIGINAL PETER MAX POSTER:

‘Antiques Roadshow’ discovers $660
painting is $661,000 van Dyck masterpiece

VIDEO DU JOUR:

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Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, December 8, 2013

While you were sleeping the Not Now Silly news team went creeping and crawling thru’ the internets with one mission in mind: Bring back nothing but the best in news headlines. Let’s get right to it with today’s Headlines Du Jour.

TODAY IN WTF? NEWS:

ANOTHER EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Unarmed Man Shot At By NYPD
Has Been Charged With Assault
Because Bullets Hit Bystanders

IF I HAD TO DO IT ALL OVER AGAIN, I’D BE AN ARCHEOLOGIST:

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:

‘God Help Us’: Fox News Columnist Calls Pope Francis the ‘Catholic Church’s Obama’

ALL I NEED IS THE AIR THAT I BREATH:

Shanghai’s Choking Smog
Registers ‘Beyond Index’

TODAY IN FOLK MUSIC:

Bob Dylan Stratocaster sets auction
record, sells for nearly $1 million

ANOTHER DISPATCH FROM DETROIT, ‘MERKA’S FIRST THROWAWAY CITY:

Axel Foley Is Coming Back To Detroit
In Another ‘Beverly Hills Cop’ Film

THE HEAD BECKERHEAD:

Glenn Beck Says Daughter Brainwashed
into Thinking he is Anti-Gay

◄◄ From the Wayback Machine ►►
The Day I Shook Hands With Glenn Beck

NEWS FROM OUTER SPACE:

Mysterious Alien Planet in
Farthest-ever Orbit Discovered

UA Astronomers Discover
Planet That Shouldn’t Be There

Massive Black Hole Duo: Possible
Sighting by NASA’s WISE

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