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osua (which is pronounced like a prostitute dancing, “JO-sway”) Luna was arrested Friday afternoon when attempting to cross the US border into Mexico, bring a rather quick end to the on-the-lam life of one of America’s most scummy criminals.

(Allegedly), Luna was the front seat passenger in a 2000 Infiniti (allegedly) driven by his (probably drunk) wife, Claudia Cabrera, when they hit two pedestrians near USC on March 29.  Adrianna Bachan, 18, right, died at the scene, and Marcus Garfinkle, 19, was severely injured, with two broken legs and lung contusions.  Garfinkle  remains hospitalized.

Luna’s infamy immediately followed.  After driving 300 to 400 feet with Garfinkle stuck in the windshield of the car, Cabrera stopped and Luna got out and unceremoniously dumped Garfinkle’s body inthe street. The couple drove off, with their 7-month baby in the backseat.  Lovely family.  Allegedly.

Cabrera was arrested five days later, based on tips that flooded into the police department.  Luna took off, and managed to hide until today.

Now, ready for some more outrage.  Luna, who tried to jump the border to evade justice, posted $50,000 bond Saturday morning and walked out of jail.  Want to venture a guess as to the political affiliation of the judge who presided over that hearing?

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lick here to view the Environmental Protection Agency’s rogues gallery of fugitives from environmental justice.  Quite a seedy bunch they are, like:

Allessandra Giordano, right, who with poppa Carlos fled the country (hopefully in a bright red Ferrari) for importing cars what did not meet EPA’s air quality regulations.

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Wendell Baptiste, left, who I chose primarily because of the fascinating red tint on his mug shot.  Do you suppose he got that way by peddling plutonium on dark corners?  No, Baptiste is a wanted EPA fugitive because he went on the lam after illegally discharging a hazardous substance into waters of the United States.

That’s the most common crime of these losers – dumping oil, sewage or contaminated cargos off their third-world freighters and into our international waters.  That they’ve all fled seems to indicate that EPA Prison is not the most secure detention facility around.

EPA doesn’t want to judge the severity of these crimes.  There is no #1 worst felon among this felonious bunch – at least not one EPA cares to identify.  But the one who gets that dubious distinction is obvious.  It’s not Denis Feron, who fled to Belgium after the hidden pipe dumping gunk from his factory into a creek was discovered, although that’s a pretty heinous act.  Belgium apparently is tolerant of polluters.  And it’s not Albania Deleon, who had a pretty brisk little business going, in which she didn’t properly train asbestos removers, then licensed them and hired them out for a pretty penny. She’s disappeared like asbestos vapors in the wind.

Nope, the award for the #1 EPA fugitive from environmental justice goes hands down to this guy, Mauro Valenzuela.  Nice looking fella, eh?  Hint of a smile, whimsical tilt to the head.  Don’t you believe it. Here’s his write-up:

# Valenzuela was charged in the Southern District of Florida on a multiple count indictment.

# Alleged violations include:

* Illegal transportation of hazardous materials aboard a commercial aircraft
* Making false statements
* Conspiracy

# Valenzuela was a mechanic for SabreTech. He certified that all cabin oxygen generators had been properly removed and replaced on a ValuJet plane. Valenzuela caused these generators to be delivered and loaded on VALUJET flight 592 without proper markings, capping, packaging and other safety measures. The flight crashed into the Everglades shortly after take-off from Miami International Airport killing all 110 passengers and crew onboard.

# Valenzuela fled the country soon after his arraignment. Whereabouts unknown.

Now you’d think they might include murder in there, too, since the oxygen generators caused the fire that caused the horrific, nose-in crash, but that’s someone else’s bailiwick. To EPA Valenzuela is just a lying, conspiring transporter of improperly marked, capped and packaged oxygen generators.

I think there’s a lesson in there about the workings of the mind of the federal bureaucrat … you know, the ones that now run Wall Street and Detroit, and are coming soon to a business near you.

hat-tip to “Alphonse,” who is not too keen on bureaucrats trying to assess evil:

You bring up an inconvenient truth about ranking degree of evil. The criterion should be human life, reduced to cost per life directly or indirectly taken. Most agencies will not touch this. NRC (AEC) tried with one of its early reports, but there was a controversy because it appeared that some lives were deemed to be more valuable than others. [Can't have that, can we?]

The Netherlands used human life valuation for its levee reconstruction: “The optimal failure probability shows a downward trend with increasing number of victims. With this addition, however, the problem of the value of a human life has been introduced. Numerous approximations for this are to be found in the literature. In the present study, it is proposed that the value of human life be equated to the cash value of the net national product per inhabitant of the Netherlands. The opinion is that in assessing acceptable levels of risk, it is advisable to take the possible loss of lives into account in economic terms.” [See, the government really does see you as just an economic entity.]

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s I reported this morning, the NY Times is not covering the beheading of an upstate NY Muslim woman by her husband – even though it’s a state story, even though he owns a TV network designed to overturn “stereotypes” of Islam … and even though IT’S A BEHEADING FOR GOODNESS SAKE!

My lib friend Dan Chmielewski chides me for chiding the NYT:

Being from Upstate NY, I hope you’ll give me some creds here. But unless is a major story, like the plane crash, the New York Times is not going to cover a local crime story which is what this is. Wonder why you didn’t blog on this story …

… and he links to a Fox News story on Jim Adkisson,a Tennessee truck driver who pled guilty last Monday to killing two people and wounding six others at a church because he considered the liberal church “a den of un-American vipers.”

Not wanting to disappoint Dan (who, I’m sorry, gets no cred for being from upstate), I am blogging on that story, but not as he would want me to.  I just re-checked the NYT, and it still has not posted a story on the upstate beheading murder, but lo and behold, it has run no fewer than three stories on Jim Adkisson’s case … way the heck out there in Tennessee:

• Hatred Said to Motivate Tenn. Shooter (July 28, 2008)

• Hate for Liberals and Gay People Drove Gunman, Police Say (July 29, 2008)

• National Briefing – South – Tennessee – Guilty Plea in Church (Feb. 10, 2009)

The July 28 article dedicated a full 28 paragraphs to the story, and the rehash on the 29th managed to come up with 16 more. Last week’s update on the guilty plea was just a paragraph.  Here’s the lead of the the first story:

A man who the police say entered a Unitarian church in Knoxville during Sunday services and shot 8 people, killing two, was motivated by a hatred for liberals and homosexuals, Chief Sterling P. Owen IV of the Knoxville Police Department said Monday.

“It appears that what brought him to this horrible event was his lack of being able to obtain a job, his frustration over that, and his stated hatred for the liberal movement,” Chief Owen said of the suspect, Jim D. Adkisson, 58. “We have recovered a four-page letter in which he describes his feelings and the reason that he claims he committed these offenses.”

The Chmielewski theory that the NYT doesn’t bother with local crime stories elsewhere falls apart here, since two killed with a shotgun, even in a church, isn’t as newsworthy as one person killed by beheading, Muslim or not.  No, what makes it newsworthy is that Adkisson had a “stated hatred for the liberal movement.”  Had a Unitarian shot up a Baptist church because of a “stated hatred of the conservative movement” – newsworthy as that would be on its face – rest assured the NYT wouldn’t have covered it.

The conclusion is irrefutable:  The NY Times will take any opportunity it can to discredit conservatives, particularly conservative Christians, and it will avoid any opportunity to paint Muslims in a negative light.

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‘m beyond words,” said Incredible Daughter #1, who seems to be keeping her conservative sensibilities despite being a senior in college.  Here’s what set her off, from today’s WashTimes:

An Arizona man who has waged a 10-year campaign to stop a flood of illegal immigrants from crossing his property is being sued by 16 Mexican nationals who accuse him of conspiring to violate their civil rights when he stopped them at gunpoint on his ranch on the U.S.-Mexico border.

Roger Barnett, 64, began rounding up illegal immigrants in 1998 and turning them over to the U.S. Border Patrol, he said, after they destroyed his property, killed his calves and broke into his home.

Let’s see here. Private property being trespassed on. Damage to personal property, more specifically, border-crossers tore up water his pumps, killed his calves, destroyed his fences and gates, stole his trucks and broke into his home – all while entering the country illegally. Seems like Barnett would be on pretty good ground. But:

Trial continues Monday in the federal lawsuit, which seeks $32 million in actual and punitive damages for civil rights violations, the infliction of emotional distress and other crimes. Also named are Mr. Barnett’s wife, Barbara, his brother, Donald, and Larry Dever, sheriff in Cochise County, Ariz., where the Barnetts live. The civil trial is expected to continue until Friday.

$32 million? How much is that in Pesos?

The lawsuit is based on a March 7, 2004, incident in a dry wash on the 22,000-acre ranch, when he approached a group of illegal immigrants while carrying a gun and accompanied by a large dog.

Attorneys for the immigrants – five women and 11 men who were trying to cross illegally into the United States – have accused Mr. Barnett of holding the group captive at gunpoint, threatening to turn his dog loose on them and saying he would shoot anyone who tried to escape.

Seems perfectly reasonable to me. After all, they were caught trespassing on private land while carrying out a federal crime. But to the MALDEF attorney for the 16 illegals, he’s just a guy with a gun, a big dog … and a record of turning 12,000 illegals to the Border Patrol in 10 years.

Instead of giving Barnett a medal, U.S. District Judge John Roll let the MALDEF lawsuit stand, and the jury trial is ongoing.

One more thing:

Mr. Barnett said some of the ranch´s established immigrant trails were littered with trash 10 inches deep, including human waste, used toilet paper, soiled diapers, cigarette packs, clothes, backpacks, empty 1-gallon water bottles, chewing-gum wrappers and aluminum foil – which supposedly is used to pack the drugs the immigrant smugglers give their “clients” to keep them running.

I wonder if the Greenies at the Center for Biological Depravity Diversity have filed an amicus brief on behalf of Barnett. After all, they got their start in the Southwestern deserts, have filed endless lawsuits against developers and others, charging their activities will destroy the deserts supposedly fragile habitat.

Probably not.

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avid Ogden, the porn-lovin’, baby-hatin’, Europe-fawnin’ Obama designee for #2 at Justice, is the kind of guy who would salivate at the opportunity to defend the villain in this case – and the fact that he would, and the fact that he would want to wouldn’t stop his nomination, and the fact that this happened in America in 2009 is a sign of our crumbling civilization:

Eighteen and pregnant, Sycloria Williams went to an abortion clinic outside Miami and paid $1,200 for Dr. Pierre Jean-Jacque Renelique to terminate her 23-week pregnancy.

Three days later, she sat in a reclining chair, medicated to dilate her cervix and otherwise get her ready for the procedure. (source)

Not that it really matters to me since it’s obvious that it’s a kid at conception, note that Williams is about as close as you can get to her third trimester, and her baby was on the cusp of viability outside the womb.

Only Renelique didn’t arrive in time. According to Williams and the Florida Department of Health, she went into labor and delivered a live baby girl.

What Williams and the Health Department say happened next has shocked people on both sides of the abortion debate: One of the clinic’s owners, who has no medical license, cut the infant’s umbilical cord. Williams says the woman placed the baby in a plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

Police recovered the decomposing remains in a cardboard box a week later after getting anonymous tips.

Disgusting.  Shocking. But what actually happened was actually even more disgusting and shocking than this account, which, believe it or not, is sanitized. Here’s how events were described in the lawsuit Williams has filed:

The complaint says one of the clinic owners, Belkis Gonzalez came in and cut the umbilical cord with scissors, then placed the baby in a plastic bag, and the bag in a trash can.

Williams’ lawsuit offers a cruder account: She says Gonzalez knocked the baby off the recliner chair where she had given birth, onto the floor. The baby’s umbilical cord was not clamped, allowing her to bleed out. Gonzalez scooped the baby, placenta and afterbirth into a red plastic biohazard bag and threw it out.

It’s just another day at the office for Rodriquez.

As I said, Williams is now suing Renelique – something she has grounds to do, since I’m sure the whole ordeal was far more traumatizing than she anticipated. It’s something no woman should go through, especially an 18-year-old. But in a more cynical view, her lawsuit is just another sign of our crumbling civilization. One minute she was just fine with having Renelique abort and throw out her baby, and in the next moment she sees an opportunity to make some quick bucks through a lawsuit.

Fortunately, our civilization hasn’t crumbled so much that Renelique isn’t at risk of losing his license and Gonzales can’t be charged with murder. The Haiti-trained doctor’s license is indeed at risk, and an autopsy showed there was air in the baby’s lungs, so it was born alive. That makes sticking it in a plastic back and throwing it inthe trash grounds for murder – even if abortion isn’t.

Hat-tip: Jim

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ike Carona, OC’s Sheriff who was tagged with the moniker “America’s Sheriff” by Larry King during the search for a kidnapped  5-year-old, Samantha Runyon, when he called out the unknown kidnapper, saying, “”Don’t sleep. Don’t eat. We’re coming after you,” has all but skated from the corruption charges against him.

(Phew, that was one heck of a sentence!  I plead guilty to public complexity.)

Carona was found guilty of witness tampering but not guilty of a half dozen pretty much bigger charges, like conspiring to use his office for personal gain and being a complete jerk who trashed the public trust because he was way too full of himself.  But that’s not to say the jurors thought Carona was a stand-up guy:

But they didn’t think Carona was innocent – just not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

“I thought he was absolutely guilty,” said juror Jim Ybarra, of Garden Grove. “I really did. But I had to follow the law.”

Another juror, Jerome Bell, 42, of Anaheim, said: “I think he had his hands in the cookie jar. He was just quick enough to wipe his hands of crumbs.” (OC Register)

Carona could get 10 years for the one guilty charge, although his miracle workers attorneys are asking for probation.  Sure, his career’s wrecked, but the jury’s ability to ignore hours of secretly recorded tapes in which he sounded a lot like Rod Blagojevich opened news doors for Carona:  I expect he’ll be suing OC soon for wrongful prosecution, so we, the taxpayers of OC and California, will be able to keep him in the good life.

Rod Blagojevich – sign up Carona’s legal team pronto. There might still be hope.

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h, for the good old days when white colonials ran a pretty good show in Africa! What a mess the black leaders plutocrats have made of Africa. Here’s the latest:

HARARE, Zimbabwe (CNN) — Zimbabwe’s central bank will introduce a $50 billion note — enough to buy just two loaves of bread — as a way of fighting cash shortages amid spiraling inflation.

The country’s acting finance minister, Patrick Chinamasa, made the announcement in a government gazette released Saturday.

Although Chinamasa did not give the date on which the $50 billion and new $20 billion notes would come into circulation, an official at the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe said the notes would be distributed to all banks by the end of Monday.

And all the world’s horses and all the world’s men can’t get Robert Mugabe out.  If the United Nations were indeed united for the good of the people, he would have been out long ago, but it’s really the United Despots, and a majority of delegates are afraid that if Mugabe goes, they’ll soon follow.

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erhaps you didn’t know that the two characters that designate “China” in the incredibly complex Chinese writing system mean “middle” and “kingdom,”  symbolic of the Chinese thought that they are the center of the world and all other peoples are outsiders – even when it comes to corruption.

We may have our Blogojevich, our Jefferson, our Dixon, but they’re pipsqueaks on the margins compared to how things are done in the Middle Kingdom:

Officials from China’s southern Guangdong province are reported to have gambled away more than $3m (£2m) of public money in recent years.
Chinese media reports said more than 50 officials had been investigated and six had been jailed or punished.

The officials lost the money gambling at casinos in Macau, on cruise ships off Hong Kong, and betting on football matches, reports said.

The heaviest sentence was given to Wu Xingkui, the Communist Party of China (CPC) number two in the town of Yunfu.

Mr Wu was handed a four-year jail term for embezzling large sums of public money to finance his gambling habit, the state-run China Daily newspaper reported.

The paper said he was found guilty of losing 520,000 yuan ($76,000) on soccer bets and 70,000 yuan playing mahjong, in addition to thousands of yuan of public money while on a cruise in Hong Kong on 1 January 2004. (BBC)

But look.  I’ve always felt the whole Middle Kingdom superiority thing to be a quaint and amusing historical hold-over.  After all, China may have its Wu Xingkui and other assorted small fry, but rowdy American capitalism gives us the likes of Bernard Madoff and Kenneth Lay.  USA!  USA!

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ot to be a grinch, but hatred of the Christian faith is as much a part of Christmas as joyful celebration of the birth of the baby Jesus.  Rarely do you see compilations the crimes against our faith that occur at this time of year, but here is such a list – and I’m sure it’s just a fraction of the total:

In Sandusky, Ohio a 50-year old figure of the Baby Jesus was stolen from a downtown park; it was found a few days later hanging from a ceiling fan in the apartment of the thief who stole it

A Christian pastor in Loma Linda, California was beaten and left in critical condition while decorating his church

In Orange County, Florida a Christian church’s drive-through nativity scene was completely demolished by vandals

The Blessed Virgin figure was stolen from a nativity scene in front of a home in Colorado Springs, Colorado

Twice within a couple of weeks, the crèche in Norwood, Massachusetts was vandalized

A drive-through nativity built by a Christian church in Stone Mountain, Georgia was destroyed

In Waggaman, Louisiana, a 38-year old man, accompanied by two boys, trashed Christmas decorations at five homes

A 50-year old statue of a shepherd was beheaded in a nativity scene in downtown Kingsport, Tennessee

The Holy Family was stolen from a crèche outside of a home in New Albany, Indiana

The nativity scene in front of a Christian church in Christoval, Texas was splattered with red paint

Figures of the Baby Jesus were stolen from homes or churches in Memphis, Tennessee; Littlestown, Pennsylvania; Valrico, California; Akron, Ohio; Chattanooga, Tennessee; Andover, New York; Sumter, South Carolina; St. Charles, Illinois; Moberly, Missouri; Lehighton, Pennsylvania; Bismarck, North Dakota; Omaha, Nebraska; Paw Paw, Michigan; North Richland Hills, Texas; Eureka Springs, Arkansas; and Independence Mall in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

This particular list came from the Catholic League via blogfriend Stacy Harp’s Active Christian Media.  The complete list – if anyone cared to compile it – would be much, much longer … and show even more vividly why the world we live in needs Christ.

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n an otherwise useless, GOP-slapping, Dem-loving bit of blathering reporting on the Blagojevich insanity, Salon’s Joan Walsh passed along this gem in her coverage of yesterday’s too-short press conference:

Obama looked like the happiest man in history ever to be called a “m—–f—–.”

But a more significant line might be this one from Capt. Ed, about the clip below, made even more significant now that Rahm Emanuel isn’t showing up for work because of “death threats.”

Emanuel has been acting like someone advised him to keep quiet to keep from making incriminating public statements, and this may be the reason why.

Here’s the clip – all about Emanuel’s many conversations with Blagojevich about filling Obama’s’ Senate seat.  Sure, Emanuel would be the point man on such a deal … but just as sure, he wasn’t forthcoming about it, and he’s just another Chicago pol who’s been swimming in the Chicago political cesspool throughout his career, and he’s next to the prez-elect.

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