DFMoore hosts this week’s Carnival of the Capitalists.

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Here is today’s story from the Dog Trainer on the funeral for murdered LAPD Officer Ricardo Lizarraga. I attended the funeral yesterday, and posted about it in the post just below this one.

The Dog Trainer mentioned Cardinal Mahony’s forceful statements about providing funding for law enforcement:

But it was Cardinal Roger M. Mahony who spoke most forcefully, taking up a cause the mayor and the police chief have clearly sought to keep in public view.

“There is no question we need more police on the streets,” Mahony said. “We can count more murders here than soldiers who have died in an active war in Iraq. Something is terribly wrong.”

Then Mahony homed in on the city’s spending priorities as several members of the City Council listened. “Public safety should be carved out and given special priority” in budget negotiations, Mahony said.

Interestingly, the paper doesn’t quote Mahony’s hypocritical statements (discussed here yesterday) about citizens’ duty to come forward with evidence of crimes.

But this oversight does not appear to be attributable to any desire on the part of the Dog Trainer editors to protect Mahony. After all, the paper published a story today which reports:

A national independent panel investigating sexual abuse by priests in the Roman Catholic Church criticized Los Angeles’ Cardinal Roger M. Mahony on Friday for refusing to turn over documents to a grand jury probe.

I can only conclude that the irony of Mahony’s comment was lost on Jill Leovy, the reporter who wrote the story about the LAPD officer’s funeral.

I attended the funeral of murdered LAPD Officer Ricardo Lizarraga today. It was very moving, and difficult to sit through. I felt I owed it to the men and women on the Los Angeles Police Department to show my respect.

I was a little amazed, however, to hear Cardinal Roger Mahony pontificating about how we need to work to fight crime in the city. He’s right, of course, but I couldn’t help but notice a large flashing sign over his head that said “HYPOCRITE!” when he urged citizens to help the police fight crime, by coming forward as witnesses — and by providing all relevant information that might help court cases against criminals.

Hey, Roger! Wouldn’t such information include the church records on pedophile priests? You know — the records that the District Attorney’s Office has subpoenaed from you, but which you have resisted turning over?

Yeah, that’s what I thought.

I am honored to have received a Blogopoly piece.

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The winners have been announced. Congratulations (again) to “dog pornographer” Xrlq for the winning Council entry, Doggie Weddings in Frisco, and to Fried Man for the winning non-Council entry, Haiti, a slow motion catastrophe.