Big week coming up

To begin, North Korea gave me quite an unappreciated birthday present, apparently, with the annonuncement that they detonated an underground nuclear blast in a test yesterday.

Yikes.

Then, today, two more missile tests.

It will be a big week regarding North Korea, then, and how the West is to respond to them.

Locally, we hope to find out the status of the Mayor Mark Funkhouser recall. Reputedly, 7,000 more signatures were turned in yesterday, on top of a vefified 13,000 earlier turned in and we only need 17,000 to get the vote going, hopefully this Fall.

Stay tuned.

California's courts are to respond to the Constitutionality of Prop. 8 today, I believe. Prop 8 was their legislation against same-sex marriages in the state, of course.

And finally--at least for this report--President Obama is said to be ready to announce his selection for the Supreme Court vacancy. That should be worth a great deal of talking and writing this week, once that's told.

So hang on to your seats. It's going to be a bumpy night.