Obama announces his SCOTUS pick at 10:15am (est) .
California Supreme Court announces ruling on Prop 8 appeal at 1:00pm (est).
CNN and USA Today is reporting that Obama will nominate Sonia Sotomayor. If true and if confirmed, she will be the first Hispanic justice. She was nominated to the federal bench by George Bush I. Her wikipedia entry already has the news.
Got any other news you want to drop today? I wouldn’t advise it. I think these two stories may push North Korea to #3.
UPDATE: 5/26/09 – Prop 8 is upheld and but 18,000 current same-sex marriages will continue to be recognized. The ruling in .pdf is here.
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It would do more than just collapse our economy – it would destroy millions of lives and effect the health of millions more – we MIGHT come back, there’s no guarantee. I’d hope we did, but yikes.
Fear and M.A.D. lead to more civilized behavior.
David Blakeslee
Japan and South Korea are close allies. I believe that if either of them are nuked we would respond as if we were nuked.
One thing is for sure. If North Korea starts lobbing Atomic bombs around Japan is going to change it’s constitution, rearm and start building a nuclear/biological arsenal. This would start an arms race between Japan and China and neither country wants this.
China is going to have to step in and get the North Korean’s back in line.
A pretty esoteric conversation…
What are the numbers if an American city is bombed?
What are the numbers if a S. Korean city is bombed? This is a more likely scenario, challenging the will of the UN, testing the civilization we call China.
What are the numbers if a Japanese city is bombed?
Mary
The value of most business assets would plummet after a nuke strike. For example it would be impossible to sell or refinance a skyscraper anywhere in the country. Lots of business activity would instantly stop and tens of millions of jobs would disappear.
Fortunately we would come back. By the end of WW2 Germany was bombed to rubble. 20 years later they were the richest nation in Europe.
North Korea and Iran wouldn’t get off so easy. If they nuked us we would have to assume they have other nuclear or biological weapons and they might use them at any minute. We would be forced to incinerate their entire countries.
Let’s hope they are smarter than they are crazy!
I doubt it would collapse us. There would be new industry with greater impetus to strengthen us.
Jayhuck
If the North Korean’s nuked a major American city it would collapse our entire economy. However in a few years time we’d come back. The North Koreans would only exist in history books.
Drowssap,
Even if N. Korea gets one nuke to the U.S. it will cause widespread devastation and destruction – surely you know this – regardless of whether they are “incinerated” or not. I don’t think we even want to go down that road.
All,
I saw Team America – I laughed, then I cried 🙂
If North Korea launches a nuke at South Korea or the USA they will be incinerated within minutes.
But the country that needs to be scared is Iran. If North Korea starts a nuclear war it will give Israel enough justification and cover to take out Iran once and for all.
More on North Korea:
N. Korea: No longer bound by 1953 truce.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/05/27/nkorea.nuclear/index.html?eref=rss_topstories
Any guilt though?…I had both, over and over.
David Blakeslee
Well… I thought it was funny.
Then again I saw the South Park movie. 😎
What’s worse is that I felt horrible every time I laughed.
South Park seeks to offend…you cannot indulge your narcissism long enough to make it stick, because, sooner or later your pet view is laid to waste.
I guess Cardozo is not counted by current events constructors in the media.
And David, you are not alone – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Team_America_World_Police
@ Don,
Good catch…
In 1932, President Herbert Hoover appointed Cardozo to the Supreme Court of the United States to succeed Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes. The New York Times said of Cardozo’s appointment that “seldom, if ever, in the history of the Court has an appointment been so universally commended.”[5] Democratic Cardozo’s appointment by a Republican president has been referred to as one of the few Supreme Court appointments in history not motivated by partisanship or politics, but strictly based on the nominee’s contribution to law.[6]
Wiki
Sigh…
I am so lonely.
What about Justice Benjamin Nathan Cardozo? Is a Portuguese Jew not considered to be Hispanic? I’m just askin’.
Very racist, David and not funny at all.
Prop 8:
http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D98E21HG1&show_article=1
Weird…cut the baby in half.
We’ll wait for the written decision.
@ Mary,
It is not about people…it is mocking a fiendish dictator…that may not be clear from the lyrics, but it is from the video.
He is self-pitying and narcissistic and meglomaniacal…he thinks, “Maybe if I have more power, people will like me.”
Completely politically incorrect, no doubt…but funny as heck!
Hey David,
Next time you choose to make fun of a person’s accent, be sure that’s what you really want to say about people.
I found the song and video on youtube too!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCmqzrFL26M
And now a word about the UN< Kim Jong Il greet Hans Blix…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b49Iwfp8U-U&NR=1
North Korea is not evil….KIm Jong Il is just Ronrey.
I’m So Ronery
I’m so ronery
So ronery
So ronery and sadry arone
There’s no one
Just me onry
Sitting on my rittle throne
I work very hard and make up great prans
But nobody ristens, no one understands
Seems that no one takes me serirousry
And so I’m ronery
A little ronery
Poor rittre me
There’s nobody
I can rerate to
Feer rike a bird in a cage
It’s kinda sihry
But not rearry
Because it’s fihring my body with rage
I work rearry hard and I’m physicarry fit
But nobody here seems to rearize that
When I rure the world maybe they’rr notice me
But untir then I’rr just be ronery
Rittre ronery, poor rittre me
I’m so ronery
I’m so ronery
DOH!
do you mean 1 pm?