Most important news story of the week (ending May 29, 2009)

[ColbertWatcher]

Most important news story of the week ending May 29, 2009

A: California State Supreme Court can't tell its ass from a hole in the ground. First it says everyone in the state can marry, then it upholds the right of the majority to deny that right to a minority as long as it's done through the initiative process.

B: North Korea experiences unusual seismic activity. US officials attempt to check for the tell-tale signs of an underground nuclear test, but are denied first by the weather, then by the North Korean government when it launches more missiles^{New York Times}

C: Myanmar allows journalists and diplomats to observe Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of Burma's National League for Democracy, as she attends their latest trial against her.

D: California's Playtime governor threatens to go "full Norquist" by selling off state assets and laying off thousands of workers as the fifth largest economy spirals deeper into a recession under his "governorship"

E: Texas denies creationist a seat on the state Education Board

F: New South Wales, Australia covered in flood water; Honduras hit by http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/recenteqsww/Quakes/us2009heak.php">7.3 earthquake

G: Obama selects Second Circuit Court Judge Sonia Sotomayor as his first nominee to the Supreme Court

H: The Zimbabwean government responds to their on-going out-of-control inflation and famine by denying citizens food aid.

I: One of the last-minute "incidents" that are a part of the Friday document dump (please see which in my reply)

J: Other (please see my pick for most important new story in reply)

[ColbertWatcher]

1. Kick. n/t

[bigwillq]

2. A

For me, anyway. Obama was going to pick a more left-leaning judge anyway, no matter who it was.

[Rhythm]

3. Seconded

Obama's SCOTUS pick wasn't a seismic event... the worst he was going to do was pick a centrist.

[ColbertWatcher]

5. Good point. n/t

[ColbertWatcher]

4. Countdown kick. n/t