This thread will not yield. The Gentleman is out of order and is correct in sitting down.
- The Krazy Kims, acting up once again, as the North Korean soccer team was publicly humiliated in a six-hour ordeal:
The entire squad was forced onto a stage at the People's Palace of Culture and subjected to criticism from Pak Myong-chol, the sports minister, as 400 government officials, students and journalists watched.
The players were subjected to a "grand debate" on July 2 because they failed in their "ideological struggle" to succeed in South Africa, Radio Free Asia and South Korean media reported.
- Hilarity from CA-03 and its incumbent Republican, Dan Lungren, who was pulled over for speeding in the middle of a radio interview:
"Uh, uh, I have to get off the phone just a moment here. ... I'm sorry, I'm talking with a police officer here," Lungren told the hosts of KFBK Morning News just after being introduced on the air.
Lungren, who was on his way to his Washington office from his Alexandria, Va.-area home, quickly explained that he had just been pulled over for driving "probably just slightly over the speed limit" as he was chatting behind the wheel (he said his phone was in his lap).
The officer could be heard asking Lungren to get off the phone -- "Can you hang up the phone sir? ... You need to hang that up."
Even worse for Dan Lungren: His red-to-blue Democratic opponent Ami Bera has outraised him for four straight quarters and just released a site attacking him for circumventing ethics rules. This is a race to watch.
- This can't be said enough, because it's an unheralded success story of this administration:
The telltale numbers for grading the auto rescue now are the first-quarter profits posted by GM and Chrysler while overall industry sales were still rotten -- compared with the horrific losses in pre-rescue years when people were buying cars like crazy.
These are stunning results. Obama is right to celebrate them. We all should.
Republicans, though? They would have been happy to see the American automobile industry fold if it ensured Obama would be a one-term President, because they don't care about this country.
- What does it say about the current state of the country when sweeping reforms to the offshore drilling industry can only pass by a thin party-line vote?
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