Religion is the reason for a Supreme Court justice!?

Bush cites religion as reason for picking Miers so, let me get this right, it's no longer important that a Supreme Court justice has experience as an actual judge, what really matters is her religion? Now, if you read the article a little closer the Bush administration has been busy ensuring James Dobson that she is conservative enough, religious enough, and has the right views on abortion. Why is this? Dobson has no elected office, he is merely a right wing religious zealot who feels it is his mission to make all of us live like he says we should.

Shouldn't Bush be trying to convince the senators that will be the ones to confirm or deny his selection to the Supreme Court? Shouldn't they be worrying about actual qualifications instead of religious views? It's amazing, the same Christian morons that think the middle east is such a terrible place because the government is run by religious ideology think it's great when the United States does it because the ideology happens to be Christian instead of Muslim. Why is it a bad thing when Saudi Arabian law makers must consult with clerics, but it's a good thing when American law makers need to consult with Christian leaders? A theocracy is a theocracy, it doesn't matter what the name of the faith is behind it.

Even more important than convincing the senate that Ms. Miers (notice I said Ms., not judge, because SHE'S NOT A FUCKING JUDGE!) shouldn't that piece of shit be trying to convince us that she's a qualified candidate? As of today 28% of the country believe that the country is headed in the right direction and 39% approve of Bush's performance. Now, let me put this in perspective, according to a CNN/Time poll 64% of Americans believe aliens have contacted humans and 80% believe the US government is hiding information about alien life forms. These people are generally labeled extremists, fanatics, or sometimes even worse, so what should we call the 39% that still think that record deficits, unwinnable wars, increased poverty, and tax breaks to the rich is doing a good job? Anyway, back to my point, with poll numbers like these shouldn't Bush be trying to convince the American people that at least one of his decisions wasn't idiotic? It's supposed to be a government OF the people, BY the people, and FOR the people. That's all people, not just rich, Christian people.

An argument for Intelligent Design

This article pretty much speaks for itself. Suffice it to say that it's conclusion is similar to a joke my friend Dean Evans does, basically saying that the religious wrong/Christian coalition/wacko bunch decided that there was a point in time (it seems to be somewhere between the 20's and 50's) that humanity reached some imaginary finish line and that all progress beyond that is evil.

You know, with the intelligent design theory we're no further ahead than the ancient Egyptians. They answered all of their unanswered questions with god. Why does the sun rise and set? The sun god. Why does the Nile flood and recede every year? The river god. Why does the wind blow? The wind god. And so on, and so on, and so on. I guess, according to intelligent design we've actually been wasting our time in science classes and laboratories for the last 6000 years.

We must fight the terrorists, err flu, with all we have

The fascist bastard that's posing as the president of the US doesn't think he's done enough to destroy the few remaining rights that the citizens of the United States have. Now that the American public has pretty much gotten immune to his drum beat of defeating the terrorists he has had to come up with another panic button to get citizens to continue handing over their freedom. The latest on his list is avian bird flu. Quite a brilliant tactic, sadly enough. He's managed to change one invisible enemy to another.

With terrorism you never knew who, exactly, was a terrorist so you had to suspect everyone. You were fairly certain they had brown skin, but it could be a white person too so the government needed to be able to access everyone's records and monitor us without probably cause to make sure it wasn't our neighbor. Now anyone could have AVF, they might have it, but not look sick so we must give the military unprecedented power to ensure that it doesn't spread.

This is eerily reminiscent of 9/11. A major event happened that made everyone panic and trust the government to take care of us. This allowed Bush to take unprecedented and illegal actions, but everyone was so scared they just let it happen. Now, in the wake of hurricane Katrina, which also happened on Bush's watch, people are scared again and I'm afraid are going to be stupid enough to do it again.

Weren't the changes that Bush made supposed to allow the US government to avoid another 9/11? I know the argument has been made before, but if the government couldn't respond effectively to a disaster they saw coming how are they going to respond to one that they can't? After four years, billions of dollars, an illegal and unwinnable war, and a shredded bill of rights we are no safer, but according to Bush we will be if the military get to act as police.