Headlines Du Jour ► Sunday, November 24, 2013
We have this day to blame for Sarah Palin.

While you were getting your beauty rest, the Not Now Silly interns were set loose on the internet. Their instructions? Do not return unless they have collected a bucketful of Headlines Du Jour. Once they returned the headlines were culled so that only the most interesting are used for the Sunday edition.

TODAY’S TOP HEADLINE DU JOUR:

Bomb squad says suspicious item was a burrito
Foil-wrapped object was brought in for analysis

TODAY IN EDUCATION:

Colorado school board member calls
for castration of Transgender students



Texas School Board Adopts Accurate Biology Books,
Rebuffing Last-Ditch Campaign By Creationists

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

Grosse Pointe Park cop admits taking
demeaning video, is removed from duty

Posthumous pardon in 1931 Alabama rape case
The Scottsboro Boys receive official pardons more than
80 years after being wrongly convicted by all-white juries.

11 of The Most Racist Movies Ever Made

AWKWARD!!!

Washington State GOP Chair Accuses Party Of Playing Into ‘War On Women’

TODAY’S EXCITING EPISODE OF COPS GONE WILD:

Seventeen-year-old shot in the head while in police custody

FOX “NEWS” IN THE NEWS:   

Glee Transgender Character’s Actor Fires Back at Bill O’Reilly

False Fox News Story About ‘Banned’ Pledge Of
Allegiance Results In Death Threats (VIDEOS)

Mike Huckabee Renews Assault on Sanity of a Living Wage

WOMEN’S CORNER

The Conspiracy Against Women

GUNS, GUNS, GUNS:

Federal Court OKs Lifetime
Gun Bans For Those Convicted
of Domestic Violence!

Michigan man misses at
suicide attempt and fatally
shoots woman instead

Texas GOP Lawmaker Charged With Felony In Airport Gun Incident

WHEN YOU WISH UPON A STAR:

The Disneys: Not the
happiest family on Earth

FREE THE WEED:

11 Pounds of Marijuana Mistakenly Delivered to
Florida Keys Couple: Monroe County Sheriff’s Office

CRACK CORNER:

Rob Ford and the centre of the universe
Toronto has never witnessed a global media circus of this scale.
A look at the appeal of a story at once bizarre and strangely refreshing.

Rob Ford: Concern for staff helped push
efforts to cut mayor’s budget, councillors say

A desire to allow stressed staff a “graceful exit” was one impetus to
take action against the mayor, according to Councillor Jaye Robinson.

Rob Ford: the director’s cut. A montage of two years
A three-minute video montage captures the most intense moments of the Rob Ford saga.

Remember when Palin said “reload” and put a
gun sight on 20 different politicians? Remember
when one of those politicians was shot in the head?

Remember “blood libel”?

Remember her recent remarks on slavery?

I can see her stupidity from my porch.

CRACKED CORNER:

It Is The Mainstream Media’s Fault That America is Plagued By Sarah Palin

RELIGION CORNER:

America Spends $71 Billion Annually Subsidizing Tax-Exempt Religion

Breaking: Federal District Court
Declares A Religious Income Tax
Exemption Unconstitutional

North Carolina Christian school orders families to sign anti-LGBT ‘Biblical Morality’ pledge

LET’S ALL GO TO THE MOVIES:

‘Bettie Page Reveals All,’
A Close-Up Look at the
Pinup Goddess and Sexual Icon

VIDEO DU JOUR:

The Stuff They Don’t Want You to Know About Nikola Tesla


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