"YOU AINT SAID NUTTIN SLICK TO A BARREL OF OIL..THE TENTACLES OF BIG OIL REACH FAR & DEEP."

More than half of the federal judges in districts where the bulk of Gulf oil spill-related lawsuits are pending have financial connections to the oil and gas industry, complicating the task of finding judges without conflicts to hear the cases, an Associated Press analysis of judicial financial disclosure reports shows.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100606/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill_judge_conflicts Thirty-seven of the 64 active or senior judges in key Gulf Coast districts in Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida have links to oil, gas and related energy industries, including some who own stocks or bonds in BP PLC, Halliburton or Transocean — and others who regularly list receiving royalties from oil and gas production wells, according to the reports judges must file each year. The AP reviewed 2008 disclosure forms, the most recent available.

DO THOSE OF YOU WHO STILL HAVE TRUST IN AMERICAN GOVERNMENT, HONESTLY BELIEVE THAT THE PENDING TRIALS RELATING TO THE BP OIL DISASTER WILL BE "FAIR & IMPARTIAL?"