Top News Monday - Open Thread

Russia Reportedly Seeks NATO Meeting Over Georgia Crisis: In face of Georgian call for cease fire Russia continues attacks.

Gas prices down for the 24th straight day...No thanks to San Fran Nan and Co. Join the #DONTGO Movement!

Edwards' Ex-Mistress Held Particular Scorn for Elizabeth Edwards....Well that makes sense for the supposed EX mistress to hold scorn for the wife, what's new....but how EX is she... I mean they just hooked up for over 5 hours a couple of weeks ago. Doesn't sound like some little thing that happened 2 years ago to me.. HOW FRAKKIN DUMB DO THESE PEOPLE THINK WE ALL ARE????

Obama VP Announcement Near....."An e-mail just sent out says Obama "is about to choose a running mate." And when word comes, it will come by text message, e-mail and on the campaign website." Who cares?

Dollar at crossroads amid brighter US outlook..Uh Oh not good news!!! OH NO NOT GOOD NEWS!!!! "The dollar index, which measures its value against a basket of six major currencies, put in its best performance for over three-and-a-half years last week and boosted the dollar to its highest level for four months."

Al Franken dissed....Only ONE person showed up to a round table chat.

And last but not least....The French once again show just how classy they are. Now loser Alain Bernard boasted,"The Americans?" "We will smash them."

"Several of Bernard's teammates followed his lead, even going to far as to suggest that the Americans were scared of the French."

ROTFLMAO.... reeeeeeeaaaaalllyyy??? "Lezak.....out-touched the Frenchman by eight-hundredths of a second to win gold in a world-record time of 3 minutes, 8.24 seconds." Suck it Frenchie.