It was a product of a different era, really.  Yet the fact remains that Reading Rainbow is no more.  But don’t take my word for it. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6j8EiWIVZs

Oh, Top Gear challenges. This one here is the best one, but there are many others.

Oh, Dick Morris.

It was wrong to do it. This trip gives North Korea the ability to act like the good guy in world public opinion by releasing people they shouldn’t have seized in the first place. Considering their record, bomb explosions, and missile tests, we should not be in the business of letting North Korea score propaganda victories.

One: the two people released were journalists.  Don’t you think that they would have some decent reporting to do about the justice system of North Korea, and areas of improvement with regard to, um, justice?

Two: Bubba got a free-roll on intel regarding the health (physical, mental, otherwise) of Kim Jong-il.  That might be somewhat useful to Barry et al.

Three: See that picture up there?  That’s the photo going to 99.9% of the world right now.  Pictures speak louder than words.  In particular, yours.

So: a propaganda victory?  Dude.

CNN has confirmed that Laura Ling and Euna Lee are, in fact, out of North Korea and on the plane with Bill Clinton.

All snark about Bubba succeeding (and perhaps showing up Bill Richardson in the process) aside: allow me to say the only thing that matters.

They’re coming home.  Thank God.

As has been well-documented by this point (most lately by Fearless Leader Nojo), the Kenyanish birth certificate is a flat-out sham.  But: it was presented in a federal court as grounds for seeking an order that would make Hillary Clinton turn over documents.  And this is where Orly Taitz gets into deep trouble.

By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper — whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it — an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances… the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery….

Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 11(b)(3), ladies and gentlemen.  And Orly is caught.  “Inquiry reasonable under the circumstances” does not mean “finding what some crank posted on the internet without inspecting the actual document,” for example.  There’s more to Rule 11(b) than this, but this is the clearest foul. 

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Boy, if there were ever an appropriate time to post this video, this is the time.

In response to the Orly Taitz motion to depose Hillary to prove up the forged birth certificate, the other side should simply say: “I’m sorry, mack.  The lady of the house ain’t home.  And, besides: we mailed you people a check last week!”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXU9SntbatE

DEVELOPING HARD: Mark Buehrle, of the Chicago White Sox, throws a perfect game this afternoon.  Twenty-seven up, twenty-seven down. It’s happened 17 times (including today) in the past 110 years.

In response, the following comment appears on the Chicago Sun-Times website:

nobama08 wrote:
Now that the Sox have one, Obama can tax perfect games, too.

I fucking give up.