Former inspector general Gerald Walpin who was fired by Obama sues to get his job back.

The inspector general President Obama fired last month filed a lawsuit Friday to get his job back, claiming the firing was politically motivated and broke a 2008 law governing how watchdogs can be dismissed. Gerald Walpin, inspector general of the Corporation for National and Community Service, was removed June 10. In a letter telling Congress of his decision, Mr. Obama said he no longer had confidence in Mr. Walpin, but did not elaborate.

PA man who brought gun to Obama campaign rally found not guilty of several charges.

A western Pennsylvania man has been cleared of criminal charges after bringing his handgun to a campaign rally for President Barack Obama. John Noble, of Industry, wore the 9 mm on a holster and carried a Bible to the August rally to protest Obama’s remark that Americans who felt left out by the system clung to guns and religion. The rally was in Beaver, about 30 miles north of Pittsburgh.

Missouri Democrat Senator Claire McCaskill’s office staff freaks out when Obamacare protesters show up at the front door to express their opinions about this Obamanation. With pics and videos.

Local Tea Party patriots held an anti-Obama Care protest at Senator Claire “ACORN” McCaskill’s district offices on Delmar Boulevard today. The protest was organized by Americans for Prosperity and the St. Louis Tea Party Coalition. McCaskill’s office manager locked the doors, pull down the blinds, called the cops and forced the protesters across the street.

Like everything else these idiots have done, the Obama administration’s foreclosure program is a major failure. Naturally they look to blame others.

The Obama administration’s $50 billion program to curb foreclosures isn’t working, and the White House knows it. Administration officials blame the mortgage servicers charged with carrying out the mortgage modifications and refinancing under the federal program. Many of their Democratic allies on Capitol Hill back them up, but others are criticizing the White House for fumbling the execution.

British man told by doctors he had six months to live so he quits his job, plans funeral and blows a pile of money on fun stuff. Then finds out he was misdiagnosed.

Phil Collins, 61, [No, not the singer/drummer….ed] quit his job, planned his own funeral and blew £18,000 from a pension pay-out after being told he had inoperable gallbladder and liver cancer. He fulfilled a lifelong dream of buying a Triumph motorbike, bought wife Isabel a car and made financial arrangements to ensure she was secure after his death. But when the six month deadline passed he went back to hospital – where further checks revealed the growth on his liver was in fact an abscess.

We need to spend more money to avoid going broke says the guy with the PhD in economics, Joe Biden. Where are all of those media clowns who were calling Palin an idiot?

Vice President Joe Biden told people attending an AARP town hall meeting that unless the Democrat-supported health care plan becomes law the nation will go bankrupt and that the only way to avoid that fate is for the government to spend more money. “And folks look, AARP knows and the people with me here today know, the president knows, and I know, that the status quo is simply not acceptable,” Biden said at the event on Thursday in Alexandria, Va. “It’s totally unacceptable. And it’s completely unsustainable. Even if we wanted to keep it the way we have it now. It can’t do it financially.”

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Stick two fingers in your ears, close your eyes, sing la la la and just be happy says one North Carolina mayor.

Tomorrow, Nickelodeon is beginning its celebration of the 10th anniversary of SpongeBob SquarePants — that absorbent, yellow fellow who lives in a pineapple under the sea — with “The Ultimate SpongeBob SpongeBash Weekend.” As part of that celebration the network has proclaimed tomorrow, July 17th, the first Global Day of Happiness. And it seems that Durham Mayor Bill Bell is on board.

DC police chief whines about iPhone application that warns drivers about location of speed cameras that happen to bring in millions of dollars in revenue.

Area drivers looking to outwit police speed traps and traffic cameras are using an iPhone application and other global positioning system devices that pinpoint the location of the cameras. That has irked D.C. police chief Cathy Lanier, who promised her officers would pick up their game to counteract the devices, which can also help drivers dodge sobriety checkpoints.

Contact lenses for your pets coming to a veterinarian near you.

Lions, giraffes, tigers, rabbits, bears, rhinos and even owls can go blind from cataracts, but an east German firm has an answer: custom-made “contact lenses”. The procedure is delicate, to say the least, and requires special training for veterinarians. But it has propelled tiny S & V Technologies, founded by Bavarian chemist and entrepreneur Christine Kreiner in the former communist east, to global leadership in a highly specialised field.

Awww man, I want to drive a choo choo too!

That’s some joyride! An LIRR engineer let a passenger take the helm of a double-decker city-bound train earlier this month, officials said. A witness to the July 2 incident – who saw the passenger in operating the railcar from the cab of the train – notified police, who are now investigating with the Nassau County District Attorney.

Verizon Wireless, “exclusively arrangement we enter with handset makers will last no longer than six months – for all manufacturers and all devices.”

Verizon Wireless said it will allow small wireless carriers to use the popular cellphone models Verizon offers exclusively more quickly. The wireless phone giant announced the change in a letter to key lawmakers on Capitol Hill who have been pressuring the wireless industry to end exclusive handset arrangements like Apple Inc.’s iPhone multi-year deal with AT&T Inc.

Women catch a break. One company’s male enhancement products are being recalled in Ohio.

A company known as Nature & Health is recalling its six supplement products sold in Ohio under these names: LibieXtreme; Y-4ever; Libimax X Liquid; Powermania Liquid; Powermania Capsule; and Herbal Disiac. They are male enhancement products marketed as dietary supplements, and they’re being recalled because they contain drug ingredients undeclared on their packaging. No illnesses have been reported.

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Big shootout in Jersey City, NJ leaves several cops wounded, two suspects room temperature.

Five police officers and two suspects were hit in a wild shootout in the area of Bergen Avenue and Reed Street on Thursday morning. A total of eight officers were injured. One police officer was shot in the face. Another was shot in the neck and chest. Another was shot in the arm. The officers are expected to survive.

Toddler figures out a terrific way to scare the crap out of his family members.

A toddler who drove his battery-powered toy truck into a river survived by clinging to it as he was swept almost eight miles downstream. Demetrius Jones, who turned 3 yesterday, was rescued from swirling 10ft deep water, insisting that he wanted to get back on his “boat”. “He had told his parents that he had made his truck into a boat and rode down the river,” said Anita Neudorf, his grandmother.

Anchorage Alaska police officer arrested on suspicion of sexual assaults going back to 2006.

A decorated Anchorage Police Department officer has been charged with sexually assaulting six women over the past three years, police chief Rob Heun announced at a press conference Wednesday afternoon. Officer Anthony Rollins, a 13-year veteran of the department, faces 10 charges of sexual assault. He’s accused of raping or forcing various sex acts on women he encountered while on patrol.

Ridiculous news of the day award goes to this story.

Youths who are caught putting their litter in rubbish bins are being handed £5 rewards just for doing the right thing. Council officers are handing the cash incentives to youths in the hope that it encourages other teens to dispose of their litter correctly. Teenagers are rewarded with instant prizes like cinema tickets or £5 shopping vouchers by mystery litter spotters who patrol Ramsey College school routes in Halstead, Essex.

37 year old eighth grade teacher arrested for send nasty pictures of herself to young boy. After seeing her picture I would be upset if she did that to me too.

Eighth-grade science teacher Connie Beth Klewer sports a wide, friendly grin in the faculty photo posted on the Web page for the Lebanon Middle School. Not so in the jailhouse mugshot snapped last week. The 37-year-old is being held without bond at the Southwest Virginia Regional Jail in Abingdon on charges of taking indecent liberties with a child. Obscene photos found on a teenage boy’s cell phone July 9 grabbed the attention of the Russell County Sheriff’s Office, according to a search warrant filed Monday in the county courthouse.

Should police officers caught speeding by enforcement cameras have their citations dismissed?

The four Montgomery County police officers who won’t have to pay their speed camera tickets are undermining the public’s opinion of the police department and the speed camera program, elected officials said. “This is a small group of officers who are refusing to pay when it appears they should have to,” said Council President Phil Andrews, D-Gaithersburg/Rockville. “The public is resentful when public employees are treated different than private citizens, unless there is a valid reason for the action.”

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Gasoline? These don’t need no stinkin’ gasoline!

It could be a combination of 19th-century mechanics, 21st-century technology — and a 20th-century horror movie. A Maryland company under contract to the Pentagon is working on a steam-powered robot that would fuel itself by gobbling up whatever organic material it can find — grass, wood, old furniture, even dead bodies.

Austin Texas talk show hosts kicked off the air for two weeks for using the term “wetback” when referring to illegal aliens.

The hosts of the popular KLBJ morning show “The Todd and Don Show” have been yanked off the air for the next two weeks after a backlash to racial comments made about illegal immigrants during a show earlier this week. Station managers on Wednesday said Todd Jeffries and Don Pryor are suspended without pay after Pryor, a co-host, used a derogatory term several times during a discussion about what to call immigrants during a Tuesday morning show.

Is Visa working with the Obama administration to get some of the trillions in debt they’ve put us in, in six months, paid off by the end of the year?

A technical snafu left some Visa prepaid cardholders stunned and horrified Monday to see a $23,148,855,308,184,500 charge on their statements. That’s about 2,007 times the size of the national debt. Josh Muszynski, 22, of Manchester, New Hampshire, was one Visa customer aghast to find the 17-digit charge on his bill. Adding insult to injury, he had also been hit with a $15 overdraft fee.

Thieving airport workers fall for the set-up, get caught stealing electronics from government planted luggage.

A sting captured by security cameras nabbed two sticky-fingered airport workers who swiped electronics planted by authorities, officials said. Brian Burton, 27, and Antwon Simmons, 26, stole a laptop and cell phone from the decoy luggage as it moved through Kennedy Airport, Port Authority officials said.

We don’t need to depend on any foreign oil imports as we have plenty right here in the good ol USA. Now if we could just round up all the leftists and ship them off to Europe so we could use the stuff.

Dozens of fruitful wells beneath the rich Bakken shale in North Dakota continue to fuel a hunch among oilmen and geologists that another vast crude-bearing formation may be buried in the state’s vast oil patch. Lynn Helms, director of the state Department of Mineral Resources, said recent production results from 103 newly tapped wells in the Three Forks-Sanish formation show many that are “as good or better” than some in the Bakken, which lies two miles under the surface in western North Dakota and holds billions of barrels of oil.

Shacking up before marriage may spell disaster for most when they finally do tie the knot.

Couples who shack up before tying the knot are more likely to get divorced than their counterparts who don’t move in together until marriage, a new study suggests. Upwards of 70 percent of U.S. couples are cohabiting these days before marrying, the researchers estimate. The study, published in the February issue of the Journal of Family Psychology, indicates that such move-ins might not be wise.

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