CNN looking to dump Piers Morgan? “Sources tell FTVLive that CNN Boss Jeff Zucker is ‘actively looking for a replacement for Piers Morgan.’” Does the replacement need to be able to speak? Because we were thinking a lump of turd should work just fine. And after all, this is CNN, the airport & waiting-room no-sound channel, we’re talking about.

Government Shutdown Hype. “…the suggestion that ‘the government could miss interest payments on Treasurys, triggering a first-ever default by the U.S. government’ is equally nonsensical. US treasuries would be the last thing that would go unpaid.” Ummm, lies, damn lies and journ0lism.

Student suspended for keychain. “…a seventh-grade student in Coventry [RI] public schools has been suspended for three days after his friend took a two-inch keychain shaped as gun from his backpack.” He shoulda just told the teacher the keychain symbolizes his fight against global warming in doorlocks – anyone this dumb is sure to believe it.

Detroit’s Pension Madness. Between 1985 and 2008, pension trustees handed out roughly $1 billion in annual holiday “bonuses” to workers, retirees and the City of Detroit. “Had they been invested, one estimate says those funds would be worth almost $2 billion today – or more than half the current shortfall…” Yeah, but Detroit broke because raaaaacism.

Obamacare effects hit local governments, small businesses, temp staffing agencies. “Birmingham, Mich. Commissioner Gordon Rinschler may have summed up best the reaction that countless businesses and governments are having to ObamaCare, saying: ‘We simply can’t afford the Affordable Care Act.'” Something rotten for everyone!

Climate change: A cooling consensus. “…climate scientists were previously very confident that the planet would be warmer than it is by now, and no one knows for sure why it isn’t. …it is a crisis for climate-policy advocates who based their arguments on the authority of scientific consensus.” The science is unsettled and there’s no reason at this time to make the drastic changes they’ve demanded.

Hagel asks Indian professor if he’s member of the Taliban. A ship of fools would be an improvement. At least Hagel didn’t ask him if he ran a convenience store.

Chicago teachers union chief faults “rich white people” for city’s education mess. Other people’s money is not enough to pay us what we want so other people gotta pony up more. And she made a baseball analogy: “When the Cubs lose a game they don’t call for Wrigley Field to close down. They don’t want the entire team dismantled.” Yeah, but they also don’t pay the same people more money for losing. They fire the manager and hire better players. Check it out.

Bill Ayers: Try Obama for war crimes. A man with absolutely NO sense of the ironic. [Video at the link.]

Hidden camera catches wireless company employees passing out ‘Obama phones’ to people who say they’ll SELL them for drugs, shoes, handbags and spending cash. “The biggest beneficiary other than low-income consumers is billionaire Carlos Slim Helu, whose TracFone has collected $1.5 BILLION to date.” No need to give your money to panhandlers, the FCC is doing it for you.

Poll: Obama Worse than Bush on Civil Liberties. “Just 35% of Americans approve of Obama’s handling of government surveillance on citizens. 61% disapprove. This is 13 points worse than President Bush scored in the Spring of 2006…” There’s a cancer on Barack Obama’s presidency… and turns out it’s Barack Obama! Well, mystery solved – thank you and good night.

App pays you to spot illegally parked cars. “SpotSquad is a mobile phone application in the works that allows users to report illegally parked cars and get a cut of the fine paid as a reward.” Yeah, this is gonna make life a whole lot better.

Kim Jong Un hands copies of “Mein Kampf” to top officers. We would’ve guessed “Dreams From My Father” but what the heck.

Democrat convention organizers claim $500K of lost electronics. “Organizers of the Charlotte, N.C., convention have filed a police report for lost and stolen electronics, some of which they appear to have valued at as much as 62 times the listed market prices. A reportedly stolen 13-inch MacBook Pro laptop? $75,537. The price listed on the Apple website is $1,199. A lost iPhone? $30,503. A lost Blackberry? $54,250.” Leopards, spots, yada yada yada.

Secret beaches of Malibu: War erupts over app that directs users past obstructive wealthy home owners. “Homeowners in Malibu – include some of the wealthiest and most famous people in the country – have long used a variety of means to keep the beaches to themselves including padlocks, gates, menacing signs, security guards and lawsuits.” #Occupy Malibu – now there’s a bowel movement we’d like to see the MouseStreamMedia get behind.

Detroit creditors brace for haircuts, or worse, at meeting to avoid bankruptcy. “…reports say that [Detroit emergency manager Kevyn] Orr will push creditors in his restructuring report to take as little as 10 cents for each dollar the city owes.” If they balk, they may get LESS in court if the city files for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The first dead canary in the coal mine…

IRS refunds $4 billion child tax credits per year to illegal immigrants whose kids do not live in US (and may not exist at all.) It’s a great country if you’re not a Tea Partier or other nasty conservative type.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3eQZoXAU7X0#!

Obama’s snooping excludes mosques, missed Boston bombers. “Since October 2011, mosques have been off-limits to FBI agents. No more surveillance or undercover string operations without high-level approval from a special oversight body at the Justice Department dubbed the Sensitive Operations Review Committee.” Well, maybe we’ll all have to change the names of establishments to “mosque” as in “Joe’s Bar and Mosque” and the “Republican National Mosque.”

Biden: Gore won the presidency in 2000. “He was elected president of the United States of America. But for the good of the nation, when the bad decision in my view was made, he did the right thing for the nation.” We heard that in college, Biden once ran a 100 yd dash but never finished – he got lost along the way. Well, we didn’t really hear that… but we wouldn’t be surprised if it really did happen.

PRISM class-action lawsuit filed: $20B, injunction sought against “complicit” companies and officials. Defendants are the nine companies and their CEOs plus AT&T and Sprint plus Obama, Holder, the NSA director, the NSA and DOJ. $20 Billion? There’s probably more than that in Bernanke’s couch cushions.

MSNBC genius mislabels late Alabama gov George Wallace as Republican. “Of course, as most of us know, George Wallace was a Democrat, as were most racist politicians of that time.” It wouldn’t surprise us a bit of the majority of the post-modernist educated media idiots don’t know that. If it doesn’t fit the narrative, it ain’t worth knowing.

The problem is not just IRS lawyers – the problem is all federal government lawyers. “…The IRS is near the top in terms of partisanship, but does not stand out as being markedly different from the other agencies. Some agencies, such as the Department of Education and the NLRB, did not have a single lawyer who contributed to Mitt Romney, even though dozens contributed to Barack Obama.” The notion of a non-partisan civil service system is another myth shot to hell. Time to bring back the old patronage system – at least you can get some non-Democrats in there occasionally.

Who goes Nazi? A parlor game from Harper’s Magazine, August 1941, seeks to predict which people at an imaginary cocktail party will join the Nazis: “Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t-whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi.” Thought-provoking article which may be relevant again.

Venezuelans use smartphone app to find toilet paper. Socialism can fix that – once the benevolent gubbermint starts controlling the price of smartphones, those will vanish as well.

Catalytic converter thefts on the rise in NJ. Thieves crawl under vehicles with high ground clearance, like SUVs, and remove the converters in broad daylight with battery-powered saws. Platinum goes for $1500 an ounce these days – it’s a lot easier to steal a buck this way than with copper wire.