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Let’s say are a judge in a case. Four days before you decide the verdict the defendant secretly approaches you with an offer of a promotion to your dream job. Doesn’t this qualify as “impartiality might reasonably be questioned?”

Read on to find out that this is exactly what happened in the Hamdan case involving a suspected terrorist Hamdan and the President. The President questioned Judge Roberts about a Supreme Court nomination four days before the verdict was decided. Under normal circumstances an ethical judge would recuse himself. In this case though, Robert’s did the opposite, he stayed on and sided in favor of the President. Impartiality reasonably questioned? … You be the judge.

The secret history of U.S. mistakes, misjudgments and intelligence failures that let the Iraqi dictator and his allies launch an insurgency now ripping Iraq apart.
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How long will it take for everyday Americans to start connecting the dots between this Republican administration and the lack of funding for things that matter to everyday Americans (such as communications systems for first responders).

Republican Senate Rejects Stabenow Proposal for First Responders Communications Funding

I think it is time to up the terror alert.

Presidential Approval Ipsos PDF

Do you remember “Help is on the way?” Today on CSPAN I heard Sen. Trent Lott (R-MS) describe how “help is on the way” to the Katrina victims. What about “Stronger at Home, Respected in the World,” another Kerry slogan? Maybe if Bush wouldn’t have cut the funding for the levies in New Orleans to pay for the Iraq war or appointed an unqualified FEMA head (Michael Brown) we might not be in the situation we are today. But through it all, let’s not forget that the buck does stop at the president.

And after all the reassuring that we are more secure and better prepared by the president and public officials, what have they been doing over the past four years? Where is the outrage that we aren’t better prepared? When it takes the 3rd Infantry Division four days to get within 50 miles of Baghdad under fire and in armored vehicals, why does it take the National Guard more than a week to get to a hotspot on our own soil?

This should have been a sweet exposition of just how prepared we are. FEMA, Homeland Security, the National Guard and the president all could have shone. Instead we get ineptness, lack of preparedness, and weakness. I really wish I could say we are “Stronger at Home, Respected in the World” and truly hope “Help is on the way!” — better late than never — maybe in ‘08.

According to Rick Scarborough, a prominent member of the Christian right, this disaster was brought upon ourselves by doing such things as supporting the Jewish pullout of the Gaza Strip, promoting gay marriage and unorthodox sex acts. Really?! I almost forgot God IS vengeful. He drowned all the people on earth (minus Noah and all the animals – which was only like 1.5 million known and named today) in a great flood and he waxed a bunch of people in Sodom and Gomorrah.

And Steve Lefemine, an anti-abortion activist, is blaming the disaster on the sinful acts of abortion in New Orleans.

If these acts don’t make use fearful, I don’t know what he needs to do. One would think the fear of living for eternity in hell with all the wailing and gnashing of teeth would be enough to scare people straight. Maybe he will deem a massive San Franciscan earthquake in order to really take care of the gays. Or maybe it will come in the form of another terrorist attack. I don’t think it will be that bad though, I suspect people are slowly but surely getting his message.