When you’ve lost the establishment limousine left, you’re toast.

It seems President Obama has lost the that bastion of the Limousine Left, Mort Zuckerman. For those of you folks in Alamance County, Mort Zuckerman is a really rich guy that owns a lot of big buildings in New York City as well as The New York Daily News and US News and World Report. This piece in The Wall Street Journal is a real hand-wringer, where he decries how America really needs leadership. Never mind that he personally penned the editorial in the NY Daily News exhorting his fellow New Yorkers to vote for Obama. Just saying.

Greeks to default?

Probably. The Euro banks have a lot more to fear that banks on this side of the pond, due mostly to the fact that Fed Chief “Helicopter” Ben Bernacke and TreasSec “Little” Timmy Geithner force dour banks to recapitalize in the wake of the Lehmann Bros. catastrophe. Still, everybody’s 401K will face some choppy times in the coming weeks.

From the “Aren’t you glad cops just don’t sit around and eat doughnuts” department.

Over the weekend, cops have apparently caught the people who stole an entire bridge that they were apparently going to sell for scrap metal. From the Pittsburg Post-Gazette:

Police said that Benjamin Arthur Jones, 24, and Alexander William Jones, 25, used a torch to tear apart the Covert's Crossing Bridge late last month or early this month. The bridge had been in North Beaver Township since at least the early 1900s and was worth an estimated $100,000.

The Joneses, both from New Castle, were being held in the Lawrence County Prison on $25,000 bail, according to court records. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.

Some locals say the bridge was haunted by a young woman that often appeared on Prom Night. Other say, it was haunted by police who catch people what try to steal it.

There’s gold in dem dare hills.

Not exactly, but the price of gold is so high, folks in South Carolina are opening a closed gold mine, in the hopes of cashing in. Nice to remember that the first Gold Rush in the US was in North Carolina.

Cancer vaccine in the future.

Startling news out of Europe, where scientists seem to have linked 40% of all cancers to one form of virus or another. This, of course, leads to speculation that if cancer is caused by a virus, then it’s possible to control with a vaccine. That leads to a couple of questions:

1. If lung cancer is preventable via vaccine, can everybody start smoking again? And,
2. What happens to long term health / retirement funding if 40% of cancer patients never become cancer patients and therefore, don’t die from cancer. Discuss amongst yourselves.

I’m not sure this is a good idea.

Steven Seagal – yes, that Steven Seagal – has been appointed a Sheriff's deputy in Huspeth County, Texas near El Paso. Judging from the picture, he certainly knows where the local doughnut stand is located.

OMG, new Spock is gay.

Jeremy Quito, known for playing a young Mr. Spock in the latest Star Trek™ prequel has just come out of the closet. Don’t know what that means, so label this a factoid.

End of the world rescheduled for 21 October.

Mark your calendars. Harold Camping, the same genius who called for the End of the World last May on his Family Radio Network, has rescheduled the Big Throwdown. Thank goodness I won’t have to endure another season of Christmas shopping.

Why is President Obama sending troops to Uganda?

In a word: oil. Imagine that. Won’t lift a finger to drill here, but will send troops to the other side of the planet to defend somebody elses….And of course, the usual suspects are saying that George Soros’ fingerprints are all over it.