Are there any similarities between these two? What do you mean, what are you getting at? Diane has not done anything wrong and has not been charged with a crime. Duke Cunningtham has been charged with a serious bribery crime. Confessed, convicted and sentenced.

“Cunningham acknowledged a conspiracy to commit bribery, mail and wire fraud and tax evasion. He also pleaded guilty to a separate tax evasion violation for failing to disclose income in 2004.”

“Prosecutors said Cunningham had taken bribes from contractors, which enabled him to buy a mansion, a suburban Washington condominium, a yacht and a Rolls Royce.” That’s what Duke did. CNN reported it in November of 2005.

“The citizens who elected Cunningham assumed that he would do his best for them,” said U.S. Attorney Carol Lam. “Instead, he did the worst thing an elected official can do — he enriched himself through his position and violated the trust of those who put him there.” “ He served on a powerful defense appropriations subcommittee that approves spending for defense programs.

Basically, that’s the story of Duke Cunningham. While sitting on a powerful defense appropriations subcommittee he recommended and voted on the awarding of defense spending to contractors. By being on this committee it put him in a place where kickbacks for a vote is against the law, as it should be, but the lure of the money was too much for his integrity. He sold himself out for a buck or two million or so.

Now where does Diane Feinstein come in? Well, it appears that the Senator from California was on a military construction appropiations subcommittee (MILCON) until March when she resigned. This committee not only supervises military construction, but it also oversees “quality of life” issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Do you remember the outrage not long ago at the Walter Reed Hospital? “Two years ago, before the Washington Post became belatedly involved, the online magazine Salon.com exposed the horrors of deficient medical care for Iraq war veterans. While leading MILCON, Feinstein had ample warning of the medical-care meltdown. But she was not proactive on veteran’s affairs.” Read the report here. George Bush got the blame for the horrible conditions at Walter Reed, not the committee responsible for oversight of the Veterans Hospitals.

For six years Sen. Feinstein was the chairperson and ranking member of the committee, and you know that during those six years there were many contracts awarded to numerous contractors for work on military construction projects for which she, either investigated and recommended contractors, and/or voted on the awarding of these contracts. Right? So, what’s the big deal? She resigned in March, a month ago. Now why would she resign as chairperson of such a powerful committee? Did she resign just because of the neglect of the conditions at Walter Reed, which her committee was directly involved in overseeing it’s maintenance etc? Or, could there be some more to this story?

“Perhaps she resigned from MILCON because she could not take the heat generated by Metro’s expose of her ethics (which was partially funded by the Investigative Fund of the Nation Institute).”

It comes to light now that the husband of Senator Feinstein, Richard C. Blum owned and had a majority stake in several companies that received contracts for military construction while Diane was the chairperson on the committee. There is no record of Diane excusing herself from the vote on any of these contract awards. And, common law has it that the spouse has joint ownership rights along with the husband of any properties held separately or jointly. She knew of her husbands interest in these companies at the time of the award by the committee. Would you consider this as a conflict of interest? A stupid question.

“As of December 2006, according to SEC filings and www.fedspending.org, three corporations in which Blum’s financial entities own a total of $1 billion in stock won considerable favor from the budgets of the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs:”

“You would think that, considering all the money Feinstein’s family has pocketed by waging global warfare while ignoring the plight of wounded American soldiers, she would show a smidgeon of shame and resign from the entire Senate, not just a subcommittee. Conversely, you’d think she might stick around MILCON to try and fix the medical-care disaster she helped to engineer for the vets who were suckered into fighting her and Bush’s panoply of unjust wars.”

But yet, the mainstream press has given Senator Feinstein a pass. Little has been said in congress. How come? Why has there not been an official investigation by the ethics committee of the Senate? Remember how Nancy Pelosi came out and said the new congress was going to end the culture of corruption in Washington. Diane did her bit and resigned, so that ends the culture of corruption. Surely there is enough evidence to raise suspicion of a conflict of interest, of a personal gain, a personal enrichment of stock portfolio or whatever, while voting on a contract award. Duh. Here is the link to the story that started all this and it came out in January of this year, 4 months ago. Do you think the political party of Diane has anything to do with this story being looked over, or just outright buried hoping it will go away? Cunningham was a republican Congressperson. Feinstein is a democrat Senator. No, CNN is not interested, nor has the ABC’s picked it up, so I guess the story is just all made up garbage by the republican right wing hoping to discredit the good reputation of a very fine Senator. You think?

Sorry, but this will not go away. “–he enriched himself through his position and violated the trust of those who put him there.”

Why does Diane continue using her maiden name instead of changing her last name to that of her husband? It’s been that way in traditional marriages for a long long time, so can we conclude that her marriage is one of convenience, of power, of retaining name recognition above the commitment to each other for a unity of two people in a mutually loving relationship. Secular liberal feminist progressiveness. These seem to define her values.

Now this is a story that has not been publicized by the liberal left, the progressives, nor the mainstream press, nor was this hero on David Letterman, Oprah or The View. Why not? If a student or two had done what this kid did, how many of the faculty or students at Va. Tech would still be living? I don’t mean to be insensitive to the students at Va. Tech, as they are the products of the culture of this country, which says that guns are bad, self-defense is not expected, and the government will take care of you. Let the police handle any disagreements. Go to the courts and solve your differences legally. Well yes, that’s true, in most situations that’s where we should go to solve differences. But then what do you do when you are in a situation like the kids at Va. Tech, Columbine, or in other situations such as a home intruder, a car jacking, an attempted rape, or a gang banging bunch of teen-agers corralling a woman in an alley. What should you do? It’ll be all over before the police get there. You are on your own baby.

Here’s the story that is bringing on this rant.

“A young man in a black trench coat, his hair spiked into thorns, walked into Red Lake Senior High in northern Minnesota carrying three guns. Jeff Weise shot and killed eight people and wounded seven more in the deadliest school shooting since Columbine. Sophomore Jeff May, armed only with the pencil he’d used for algebra, tried to stop him. May ran at the gunman and jabbed him hard in the side. The two struggled; May was shot in the face. The police showed up, exchanging gunfire with Weise, who then killed himself. May’s teacher, Missy Dodds, is sure he saved his classmates’ lives — and hers.”

It happened in Red Lake Minnesota. Jeff May was featured as the Readers Hero of the Year 2006. More. But that’s all. As I mentioned above, why was this kid and this story NOT a national news feature? Why? Where was CNN? Why were they not up in this town for two weeks turning over every rock to find out what was wrong with the killer? Why? Media bias.

We need more kids like Jeff May. We need more mammas packing concealed weapons. We need more dads packing a concealed weapon. We need more teachers and administrators packing a concealed weapon. We need the bus drivers packing a concealed weapon. We need the pilots of our airplanes packing a concealed weapon. We need the security guards at the malls and banks all across America packing a concealed weapon. We need more single women packing a concealed weapon. All of them licensed and trained and a background check performed on them all first, and then load it and be ready to use it in situations such as Va. Tech, rapes, robberies, and the like. Would you feel safer? And then this news is broadcast all over the networks letting the criminals know that just possibly that security guard at that bank may have a gun, the guards at this school and a teacher or two may have a gun, that just possibly that woman walking by herself may have a concealed weapon, that regular people by the thousands out there are beginning to arm themselves. Would you feel safer?

These are perilous times in America and around the world, which is going to require a different mentality to confront the danger of these times. As you have seen in these situations, the government cannot and will not be there to protect you and this mentality must go along with the idea that self-defense is going back to Cowboy and Indian days of the wild west. The liberals love to bring on that argument. The liberals like to paint a picture for you of citizens walking through malls wearing belts and holsters and a big Colt 45 daring anyone to cross the line or even look him in the eye. It’s not just the concealed weapons permits that is needed, but an attitude change by the media and the general population to think of oneself as responsible for own protection.

Go through the training and licensing process to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. Be responsible with it, secure it at all times, and know how to use it. Know that you may have to use it and what you might have to do and then be ready to do it. Your own safety is in your hands, it is not the responsibility of the government.

I’ve got to give Neal Boortz credit for bringing this story to my attention.

And that’s as I see it now.

That’s a first.   Who would have thought the UN would do such a thing?

An extreme Muslim organization is complaining and has carried out a terrorist attack on a United Nations school in the Gaza Strip, because they say the school was “spreading Christian missionary activity.” Yes, it really happened. A rational person could not make it up. The UN is spreading Christianity?   Wow.

“The UN is spreading Christian missionary activity. We will keep hitting them and trying to kill them. They are trying to convert our Muslims under the cover of an international organization,” said the statement, signed by the group Jihadia Salafiya.

“Yesterday’s attack was the latest in a string of violence against Christian and non-Muslim establishments in Gaza since Israel withdrew from the territory in 2005.”

“In response to the uproar, Hamas chief in Gaza and former foreign minister Mahmoud al-Zahar told WND: “I hardly understand the point of view of the West concerning these issues. The West brought all this freedom to its people but it is that freedom that has brought about the death of morality in the West. It’s what led to phenomena like homosexuality, homelessness and AIDS.”

Now there is a statement you could almost agree with. It is true that our freedoms have brought a decay of morality in the west. It is true that our freedoms have brought on the expansion of the sexual revolution, feminism, homosexual rights and the like. And, it is also true that the removal of God from our public square has contributed to this revolution, but, we still do not want a Theocracy, but the Muslim community does, it desires to impose the law of sharia.

Certainly there are disadvantages to freedoms. However, we learn to live with the few disadvantages and work to enjoy the many benefits like: “You shall know the truth and the truth shall set you free,” and how about this one: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” So, you Muslim mullahs should get over denigrating our freedoms because we are not about to give them up to your Islamic Theocracy, a government controlled religious climate under sharia law. Forget it.

And, the Muslims must condemn terrorist attacks killing innocent people. Until then, this group must be considered the enemy and taken out. And what is wrong with Christians desiring to present the truth to non-Christians in a peaceable manner, rather than the Muslim coerced conversions over non-Muslims under the threat of perhaps a beheading, a stoning, or just strong intimidation and coercion techniques etc. etc. and etc. or, if you do not convert, then the payment of the Jizyah is required.   It’s Islamic law.

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