Examples of double standards have been occurring more frequently as time goes by. Can you imagine the hullabaloo if the baptists had asked for a place to be set aside for their private use for prayer at airports? Can you imagine what would happen if children of Conservatives did the type of demonstrations that have been occurring recently at colleges and universities when Conservative speakers were asked by Conservative students to speak? As usual, the liberals and their media hound dogs would scream to the world that free speech was being taken away.

You have seen over the last few holiday seasons where double standards have been applied. Some places, a menorah can be setup, but not a Christian symbol. Muslim articles can be placed anywhere, but not the Ten Commandments. Public funds must never be utilized for anything religious. We must keep separate State and religion. But a university is using public funds for foot baths for Muslims. Muslims are allowed to have licenses for driving cabs, but also allowed to discriminate in their use of that license. Pharmacists have a law passed that they have to dispense the day-after pill whether they agree with it’s use or not.

Christian religious articles are mocked, shown in very vulgar ways by individuals and museums all over this country. I don’t believe you will see that done to Muslims’ articles of faith. If you will recall, a short time ago a cartoon came out disparaging Mohammad. Remember what happened? There were riots and at least one murder by Muslims. I don’t know how anyone should be surprised at this. After-all, they kill each other every day - innocent children, women, old people, blind, and crippled. These are not warriors fighting for their rights, but mad-dog killers with a lust for blood. The American Flag is burned, urinated on, and used in other demeaning ways. But don’t let this happen to a Muslim flag, or else! Wouldn’t you think that American citizens should have as many rights as citizens of other countries that come here?

Double standard - Pockets Berger VS. Scooter Libby - who did the media defend, and who did they excoriate? Trent Lott drummed out of his position in the Senate for an innocent statement he made, yet there remains Robert Byrd, who used a racial slur and was an official with the KKK. Now there is Harry Reid, with land deals quite questionable - nothing said. Remember Speaker Wright’s book sold to the unions with mucho blank pages? Diane Feinstein - hypocrite - see attached written by Peter Byrne from metroactive.com …

SEN. Dianne Feinstein has resigned from the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee. As previously and extensively reviewed in these pages, Feinstein was chairperson and ranking member of MILCON for six years, during which time she had a conflict of interest due to her husband Richard C. Blum’s ownership of two major defense contractors, who were awarded billions of dollars for military construction projects approved by Feinstein.

As MILCON leader, Feinstein relished the details of military construction, even micromanaging one project at the level of its sewer design. She regularly took junkets to military bases around the world to inspect construction projects, some of which were contracted to her husband’s companies, Perini Corp. and URS Corp.

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). Or was her work on the subcommittee finished because Blum divested ownership of his military construction and advanced weapons manufacturing firms in late 2005?

The MILCON subcommittee is not only in charge of supervising military construction, it also oversees “quality of life” issues for veterans, which includes building housing for military families and operating hospitals and clinics for wounded soldiers. Perhaps Feinstein is trying to disassociate herself from MILCON’s incredible failure to provide decent medical care for wounded soldiers.

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.

Feinstein abandoned MILCON as her ethical problems were surfacing in the media, and as it was becoming clear that her subcommittee left grievously wounded veterans to rot while her family was profiting from the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan. It turns out that Blum also holds large investments in companies that were selling medical equipment and supplies and real estate leases—often without the benefit of competitive bidding—to the Department of Veterans Affairs, even as the system of medical care for veterans collapsed on his wife’s watch.

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:

Boston Scientific Corporation: $17.8 million for medical equipment and supplies; 85 percent of contracts awarded without benefit of competition.

Kinetic Concepts Inc.: $12 million, medical equipment and supplies; 28 percent non-competitively awarded.

CB Richard Ellis: The Blum-controlled international real estate firm holds congressionally funded contracts to lease office space to the Department of Veterans Affairs. It also is involved in redeveloping military bases turned over to the private sector.

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 smidgen 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.

Can you imagine if a Republican had met with the brotherhood in the middle east like Steny Hoyer did? He was traveling with our new Secretary of State, Nancy Pelosi. One of her traveling band of Democrats, Tom Lantos, said the Democrats had an alternative foreign policy. Then now of course, we have the ouster of Don Imus by Tawana Brawley’s pastor, Reverand Sharpton. However, the rap stars go on, unchecked, and getting dirtier as time goes by. I don’t say that Imus should have made this statement, and I am sure he is truly sorry. I am also sure that the rap stars putting down women constantly will continue to do so, and the money will ROLL in. God forbid the black leaders should make an effort to correct this. Bill Cosby, of course, spoke out - but to no avail.

A story on being put down by someone follows…

When I was a young man already out of service, I made a derogatory statement to my mother, who was the most strait-laced and good woman that I have ever known. I said something about Paulines - a whore house on Clay Street in Bowling Green, Kentucky. We lived about 25 miles from Bowling Green. This lady had come from our local area and was divorced during the depression and had opened this house. She had to provide for her children, which is what my mother, this strait-laced lady said to me. Bowling Green, Kentucky, where the house was on Clay Street, was a university town, and over the years, as students came and went, gained quite a lot of notoriety. In her final years, Pauline appeared on the Johnny Carson show, wrote a book, and married a retired bookie. When the red brick house was demolished years ago, the bricks were sold for five dollars each, and most of the other demolished items were sold. Requests came in from all over the country, for instance: a request for a piece of the wallpaper from certain rooms, the top of the stairs, and so forth. Ever since this conversation with my mother, I have had much more compassion for single mothers and their struggle to care for their children.

Rappers should stop and think how they are putting down their own. Do you think they must get part of their regard for black women from their mothers and sisters?