California Fugitive Found After 19 Years On The Lam…Serving Life Sentence

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — A fugitive facing a life sentence for attempted murder was arrested Wednesday, nearly two decades after escaping from juvenile hall.

Baldomero Johnny Diaz, 35, was arrested in Menifee and was being held without bail, the Orange County district attorney’s office said in a statement. He will be transferred Thursday to state custody to begin serving his prison sentence, the statement said.

He does not face charges for escaping from custody, said district attorney’s spokeswoman Farrah Emami.

Diaz was convicted in 1990 of six counts of attempted murder for a drive-by gang shooting in Santa Ana in 1989.

"Hey, Give up already...we know who you are, Diaz! Stop running!"

He escaped from juvenile hall by climbing through a hole in a fence. Diaz was sentenced in absentia to life in prison six weeks after his escape.

Prosecutors said they began investigating Diaz’s whereabouts last month and learned he had been arrested twice in San Diego County under different aliases in the last decade for solicitation of prostitution and driving under the influence.

It was not immediately clear if Diaz had an attorney. William Monroe, who represented Diaz at the time of his escape, is now a Superior Court judge.

B.S. Report–19 years on the run and still only 35 years old.  That means if his health holds up he could spend a “good” 50-60 years behind bars.  Here’s wishing you a nice long life, Diaz!

Lets hope your calendar needs at least 20,000 X's.

B.S. Report–Yes, I understand that “life in prison” does not really mean LIFE in prison.  The reality is that this guy will be paroled, like most felons who are sentenced to life in prison, after serving anywhere between 7 and 20 years.

What I was commenting on was how surprising it was that he’s been on the run for nearly 20 years–yet he’s still only 35!  See, it’s nice to know at an early age what you want to do with your life.  Diaz knew immediately that he wanted to be a career criminal.

Convict–and inspiration of folk ballad escapes…again

Slippery, Isn’t He?  Chris Daniel Gay Escapes Again

KENNESAW, Ga. (AP) — The inspiration for a folk ballad about a man who stole a Wal-Mart trailer to see his dying mother was on the loose Wednesday after escaping from custody in Georgia, authorities said.

Chris Daniel Gay slipped out of leg irons, waist chains and handcuffs and escaped from a deputy Tuesday in Kennesaw, officials say. The officer was transporting him to Tennessee to face charges of stealing the trailer in January 2007, officials say. He also is accused of stealing country singer Crystal Gayle’s tour bus.

Coffee County Sheriff Steven Graves said the officer, a 40-year-veteran, stopped to eat and use the restroom at a restaurant when the 34-year-old Gay escaped, causing a two-hour lockdown at Kennesaw State University. Cobb County police spokesman Sgt. Dana Pierce said Gay isn’t believed to be dangerous.

Chris Daniel Gay...modern Houdini?

Gay, who police say is 5-foot-5 and weighs 140 pounds, was the main character in a 2007 song by Grammy-award winning bluegrass picker Tim O’Brien. He wrote the lyrics to “The Ballad of Christopher Daniel Gay” about the convict’s 2007 journey and set them to the melody of folk singer Woody Guthrie’s “Pretty Boy Floyd.”

News reports and O’Brien’s song said Gay stole the trailer and tried to visit his mother who was dying of cancer. She died weeks later and he never saw her.

“Stole a pickup in Carolina, then a Wal-Mart truck with 18 wheels,” the lyrics say. “He drove toward his dyin’ mama in the Cheatham County hills. And it’s down those lanes and back roads the police made their chase. And he almost made her trailer, he almost saw her face.”

Police say he abandoned the rig within 50 yards of his mother’s home northeast of Nashville. Gay was later spotted driving Gayle’s tour bus in Florida and was arrested the next night.

B.S. Report–We’ve actually got footage of Chris Daniel Gay’s escape…and if you ask me the guard should be fired.  He was about as attentive as a wrestling referee…and he can apparently fall into a deep, nearly comatose sleep instantly.  He’s probably not the guy you want to have guarding a prisoner.

Police Trick Suspect By Dressing As Firemen

NEWPORT, N.H. (AP) — Police in Newport, N.H., say they dressed as firefighters to trick a man and arrest him after he pointed a shotgun at an officer.

Police set off a fire alarm to evacuate an apartment building Tuesday night and arrested 34-year-old Matthew Miller when he opened his door.

"Hi, I'm just a fireman...don't even think I'm a policeman. Now open the door, okay?"

Earlier, an officer knocked at Miller’s door after neighbors complained he was playing loud music. Miller pointed a shotgun at the officer, who talked him into setting it down. But the officer backed off when he saw other weapons and a toddler in the apartment.

Officers returned dressed as firefighters to set off the fire alarm to draw Miller out of his apartment and avoid a standoff. Police say Miller is a convicted felon with a history of violence.

B.S. Report–Excellent trickery by the cops…here’s another case where women were tricked into coming out their homes.  Play the video here.   (Hang in there if they play a :30 second commercial first…that’s why I almost always use YouTube…)

William Ayres and Ward Churchill: 2 Losers to appear at Colorado Student Rally

Ayers and Churchill To Appear At Rally

DENVER (AP) — Former Colorado University professor Ward Churchill was vilified for comparing Sept. 11 victims to a Nazi. Former Weather Underground member William Ayers was vilified as a radical.

On Thursday, they’re due to appear together at a student rally for academic freedom at the University of Colorado at Boulder.

Churchill, Ayers and writer-activist Derrick Jensen are to speak at an event titled, “Forbidden Education and the Rise of Neo-McCarthyism.”

Churchill was a tenured professor of ethnic studies at Colorado University until he was fired on plagiarism charges in July 2007. He denies misconduct and is soon due to go to court in an attempt to get his job back.

In his lawsuit, he claims the university was looking for reasons to fire him because of his comments about the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.

William Ayers and Ward Churchill will appear at a rally at the University of Colorado.

“I’m feeling very good about the case I’m going to present” in the lawsuit, Churchill said Wednesday. He said he couldn’t discuss specifics.

In an essay and a follow-up book, Churchill argued that the attacks were a response to a history of U.S. abuses. He said the victims of the World Trade Center collapse were “little Eichmanns,” referring to Holocaust organizer Adolf Eichmann.

Churchill said Eichmann was a bureaucrat who carried out policies that were planned by others but was still responsible for his actions. The essay triggered a national firestorm and calls for his dismissal.

Ayers was a co-founder of the Weather Underground, a radical anti-war group that claimed responsibility for a series of bombings, including explosions at the Pentagon and U.S. Capitol that didn’t kill anyone.

He was a fugitive for years. After surrendering in 1980, charges against him were dropped because of prosecutorial misconduct.

B.S. Report–These are 2 people that can really make the case for academic freedom.  What possibly could be their gripe?

Ayers shouldn’t even be free at all if it weren’t for prosecution procedural errors back in the days when he was a terrorist with the Weather Underground and being tried for building bombs and blowing up government buildings.

Ward Churchill was finally fired for “serious research misconduct” after the University got tired of his constant lying in both his own past and his writings; not to mention his constant inflammatory statements equating the victims of 911 with Nazi Germany and calling them, “little Eichmanns.”

These two have nothing to complain about when it comes to how this country, which they so hate, has treated them.  They also have nothing to teach about freedom, because they both don’t appreciate the country that has allowed them to engage in it.

Treasury Secretary Geithner Attacks Oil and Gas Tax Breaks…

These guys just won't let up on their attacks.

Treasury Secretary Continues His Offensive Against “Big Oil”

WASHINGTON, March 4 (Reuters) – U.S. oil and natural gas producing companies should not receive federal subsidies in the form of tax breaks because their businesses contribute to global warming, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner told Congress on Wednesday.

It was one of the sharpest attacks yet on the oil and gas industry by a top Obama administration official, reinforcing the White House stance that new U.S. energy policy will focus on promoting renewable energy sources like wind and solar power and rely less on traditional fossil fuels like oil as America tackles climate change.

“We don’t believe it makes sense to significantly subsidize the production and use of sources of energy (like oil and gas) that are dramatically going to add to our climate change (problem). We don’t think that’s good economic policy and we think changing those incentives is good for the country,” Geithner told the Senate Finance Committee at a hearing on the White House’s proposed budget for the 2010 spending year.

B.S. Report–If you can’t see by now that this is a conscious effort to destroy the economy and free-markets by the Obama administration, than you’re either not paying attention or you simply don’t want to admit it.

Look at them!  Every day it’s a relentless attack on big business’ right to make their own corporate decisions, or new definitions on whether an individual or a small business owner is “wealthy,” or new threats to raise taxes on seemingly every segment of the economy.

That is, except for one segment…the chronically unemployed and those citizens who don’t pay any taxes–they will get a check “from the government.”

In Obama’s America, you are now rewarded for doing nothing and penalized for working hard.  The non-productive have the government-given right to steal money from those people who make America work; those people who are trying to better themselves and their families’ situation.

The “American Dream” is now condemned in America.  Welcome to the world of Obama–home of the biggest wealth transfer and legal theft in our nation’s history.

Stoking class warfare and destroying middle class America does nothing to help the “poor.”  It doesn’t do anything to lift up or inspire poor people.  All it does is punish and drag down those who work hard.

Strange Woman Invades Funeral, Hits Dead Man

Very wacky, uninvited funeral "guest"

Laurens County (The Greenville News) – Tammy Fausel said that she and her family were shocked at what happened during her uncle’s funeral in Gray Court.

A Candler, N.C., woman danced in front of the service, waved a wand around the casket, opened the lid, laid her hands on the deceased’s head and struck the body with a wand, according to an incident report from the Laurens County Sheriff’s Office.

Nicole Marie Loretta Leonard, 25, has been charged with disturbing a funeral and public disorderly conduct in Tuesday’s incident, according to tickets.

Fausel said she had never before seen the woman and had no idea why she would’ve been at funeral at Church of God on State 14.

“Everybody was just kind of flabbergasted,” she said. “They didn’t know what was going on.”

The woman took flowers from the top of the casket and threw them at the family before leaving in a burgundy Toyota, according to the report.

Fausel said she called the Sheriff’s Office.

A lieutenant intercepted a burgundy Toyota Corolla heading south on Interstate 385, according to the incident report.

When deputies asked the woman why she acted the way she did, the woman said “she felt that it was the right thing to do at the time,” according to the report. The woman told deputies she knew no one at the church, according to the report.

Fausel said the deceased’s immediate family were in another room at the time of the incident and didn’t witness it.

Leonard, of 117 Davis Creek, was released from the Johnson Detention Center Wednesday, according to jail officials and tickets.

B.S. Report–It’s one thing to go to the mourner’s home after the funeral and grab a meal, it’s quite another to pop the hood of the casket and tweak the deceased.  That has to be bad for your “karma.”

I think she’s a witch and I have a solution…

Israel Considering Military Op Against Iran…Shouldn’t Someone?

Israel Weighing Military Options Against Iran

Israel is seriously considering taking unilateral military action to stop Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, according to a report by top US political figures and experts released Wednesday.

The report also says Israel’s time frame for action is growing shorter, not only because of Iranian advances, but because Teheran might soon acquire upgraded air defenses and disperse its nuclear program to additional locations.

The report, “Preventing a Cascade of Instability,” was put out by the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP). It also argues that international sanctions against Iran need to be intensified urgently for the engagement the Obama administration is planning with Teheran to be effective.

An early draft of the report was endorsed by Dennis Ross before he withdrew upon joining the Obama administration, in which he is serving as a special adviser dealing with various countries in the region, including Iran. Senator Evan Bayh of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and Congressman Gary Ackerman, chairman of the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, were among the signatories.  (Read more.)

B.S. Report–There are some lunatic regimes that you can’t allow to get nuclear weapons…Iran is at the top of that list along with North Korea.

Iran: Our Missile Defenses Can Hit Israel Nuclear Sites…

Iran missiles can reach Israel nuclear sites, Mohammed Ali Jafari, the commander-in-chief of the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards, said Wednesday.

“All the nuclear facilities in different parts of the land under the occupation of the Zionist regime are in the reach of Iran’s missile defenses,” Jafari was quoted by the ISNA news agency as saying.

Iran’s Shahab-3 missiles have a range of up to 1,250 miles, putting Israel within striking distance.

Jafari was quoted as saying that Iran is now a mighty military power to be reckoned with.

Meanwhile, Iranian Foreign Minister Manuchehr Mottaki said Wednesday that its Russian-built Bushehr nuclear power plant would definitely become active in the summer of 2009.

Speaking in parliament in Teheran, Mottaki said it was the government’s duty to finish the project, which he said would be a significant political achievement, particularly considering the heavy international pressure imposed on the Islamic republic to curb its nuclear activities.

Isn’t It About Time We Ban “The Burping Worm?”

Aquatic animals that feed on lake and stream bottom sediments burp out  small amounts of nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas, a new study finds.

While the biological emissions from these critters pales in comparison to the nitrous oxide emitted by fossil fuel burning, their contribution could increase as more and more nitrogen-rich fertilizer runs off into lakes, streams and seas, the authors of the study said.

Nitrous oxide (N2O) is more commonly known to anyone who has sat in the dentist’s chair as laughing gas.

Burp, excuse me. Burp, excuse me. Burp, excuse me.

In the atmosphere it is a powerful greenhouse gas, packing about 310 times the punch as the same weight of carbon dioxide (though carbon dioxide is still the bigger driver because there is much more of it).

Studies of soil-dwelling earthworms had showed that the creepy crawlies emitted nitrous oxide because of the nitrogen-converting microbes they gobbled up into their guts with every mouthful of soil.

Peter Stief, of the Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology in Germany, and his colleagues noticed that no one had ever looked for similar nitrous oxide emission in aquatic animals, so that’s where they turned their attention.

“We were looking for an analogy in the aquatic system,” Stief said.

The researchers found that in a variety of aquatic environments, animals that dug in the dirt for their food did indeed emit nitrous oxide, thanks to the bacteria in the soil they ate, which “survive surprisingly well in the gut environment,” Stief told LiveScience.  (Read more.)

Jim Cramer Responds To The White House

"I beg you, Mr. President, wake up!"

B.S. Report–The entertaining big-mouth and stock-investment guru” is a Democratic Party supporter but even he has had enough of “Obama-nomics.”  He’s been vilified by the Obama Administration, in particular, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs who had this to say about Cramer:

“I’m not entirely sure what he’s pointing to to make some of the statements,” Gibbs said about (Cramer’s) point that President Obama’s budget may be one of the great wealth destroyers of all time. “And you can go back and look at any number of statements he’s made in the past about the economy and wonder where some of the backup for those are, too.”

B.S. Report (cont.)–He has found himself on Obama’s “enemies list,” right there with the likes of Rush Limbaugh.  Now, Cramer is a former “leftie” and a lifetime Democrat who has given huge money to the party in the past.

When guys like this start to turn against the radical economic vision and agenda of the President, you know there is a groundswell movement against him within his own ranks that is beginning to grow.  These people have (had) money, too–and they are not so eager to have “the anointed one” destroy their wealth.

Obama...Fighting against truth, justice and the American way...

What gets me most about these people is how they could have so misjudged Obama; we heard so much talk that he will govern from the middle; that he really is a centrist at heart; that he is a bipartisan who will seek to bring both sides together.

It wasn’t mainstream America that was fooled by this guy…it was strictly the “elites” of both parties.  The Cramer’s on the left; the Christopher Buckleys, Peggy Noonan’s, David Brooks’ on the so-called right.

But Obama is performing as the leftie he has always been.  He was the most liberal Senator and he’s continued right along the same path.  He doesn’t like capitalism, capitalists, free-markets, individualism, the Constitution, and aspects of the Supreme Court.  In short, he doesn’t like America–at least, not the America created by the Founders and Framers.

None of us regular Americans right of center were taken in by this guy’s act…it was almost as if you had to be an “ivy-leaguer” to buy it.

You got exactly what you voted for Cramer...not so funny now, is it?

Read Jim Cramer’s response to the White House here.