Saturday, July 24
John Kerry- Born to Run?
CNN is running a special on who is probably their preferred candidate in November- John Kerry. One has to wonder though, who in the Kerry office allowed the infomercial title-'John Kerry Born to Run'?
This should just reinforce the idea that Kerry is an elitist from the North-East, who expects the country to be handed to him because he went to school in Switzerland, summered with the Kennedy's and married the Heinz money.
Lack of oversight is a wonderful thing.
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This should just reinforce the idea that Kerry is an elitist from the North-East, who expects the country to be handed to him because he went to school in Switzerland, summered with the Kennedy's and married the Heinz money.
Lack of oversight is a wonderful thing.
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Korea to get first female supreme court justice
The Chief Justice of the Korean Supreme Court, Choi Jong-young, has recommended to the President that Kim Young-ran be appointed to fill the vacancy on the bench. If the President agrees, and the National Assembly passes her nomination Kim will become the first woman to serve on the bench of the Supreme Court.
There are female judges in lower courts, in fact Kim is currently a judge in Taejon High Court (similar to a state supreme court), but none have ever made it through the strict vetting process to get to the highest bench. The vetting covers important areas:
" such as health, ability, personality and work attitude..."
Past judgments also played a part in her selection. Kim is seen as satisfying the public call for reform in the judicial system. She is a prominent advocate for minority groups. One famous ruling she ordered a school to pay compensation to a student who had bullied by other students.
In a move that will have men in Korea scratching their heads, Kim's husband, a former public prosecutor and now Seoul lawyer has said he will quit his job and support his wife from home!
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There are female judges in lower courts, in fact Kim is currently a judge in Taejon High Court (similar to a state supreme court), but none have ever made it through the strict vetting process to get to the highest bench. The vetting covers important areas:
" such as health, ability, personality and work attitude..."
Past judgments also played a part in her selection. Kim is seen as satisfying the public call for reform in the judicial system. She is a prominent advocate for minority groups. One famous ruling she ordered a school to pay compensation to a student who had bullied by other students.
In a move that will have men in Korea scratching their heads, Kim's husband, a former public prosecutor and now Seoul lawyer has said he will quit his job and support his wife from home!
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Refugee wave incoming
In a move that is bound to cause waves in Pyongyang, South Korea next week will accept 450 North Korean refugees. They are coming to South Korea from an unidentified Asian third country.
The group will be the largest single intake of North Koreans since the end of the Korean war, and some local officals are voicing concerns that it may be disruptive to take so many at once- it is almost the same number as all of last year.
However, the South Korean government had little choice but to take them all at once. It is reported that the third country hosting them on the way to South Korea told the government if they didn't take them all soon, they would be returned to China. The Chinese would them send them all back to North Korea.
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The group will be the largest single intake of North Koreans since the end of the Korean war, and some local officals are voicing concerns that it may be disruptive to take so many at once- it is almost the same number as all of last year.
However, the South Korean government had little choice but to take them all at once. It is reported that the third country hosting them on the way to South Korea told the government if they didn't take them all soon, they would be returned to China. The Chinese would them send them all back to North Korea.
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