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while that beautiful baby lies moldering in some dank, swampy area of Central Florida! I am so sickened and disgusted by the circus side show this whole investigation has taken. High profile bondsmen, main stream magazines and now a movie production company out of TN is rumored to have paid the little beotch's bond AGAIN! Perhaps like Padilla, they will quickly learn that is too much money to put in jeopardy for that whole family.
I did, at first feel sorry for Cindy Anthony. I know how I would feel if it was one of my grandchildren that was missing, but my sympathy has quickly turned to complete disgust!
How does any sane person tell the convoluted lies this woman is spouting? She has completely lost touch with reality, and that reality is that her daughter, one she freely and openly admitted was a lousy mother and human being, has either murdered that precious baby, or by her negligence caused that child's death, or she gave that child away or sold her. Either way, that baby is gone and Cayce knows where she is and exactly what happened to her, and I have yet to see that creature shed a single tear, except of course when she heard the amount of her bond and it dawned on her that her limelight would be limited to the jail.
If Cayce was my daughter, she'd tell me where that baby was, or I'd know the reason why! What kind of people are the Anthonys to support that daughter of theirs knowing full well that she has done something awful to their own flesh and blood?
And, why do they feel the need to solicit such a high priced attorney  if they are guilt free?
How sad that finally the truth be known, that little Caylee's life has a price tag and that price is fame and fortune, no matter how fleeting both will be.
People do some horrific things for money, but this takes the cake!

needs to do some investigating into their hourly workers! This morning for the first time in a week, I took my dogs over to Paw Park. This has become a morning ritual for me and several others. It's a chance for the humans to socialize while the dogs run free, chasing each other and expending all that pent up energy that accumulates from days cooped up inside weathering Fay.
This morning, we all got to stand outside the park while the city workers did some clean up. Nothing really major, some fallen branches, small ones I might add, and a lot of moss that got ripped from the old oak trees.
We were told when we arrived at 7:30, which is when the park opens that it would be an hour before the workers would be finished. Not good news to us, or the dogs, who were straining at their leashes for the gate.
Okay, being good citizens, we gathered outside the gates, waiting patiently for the work to be done. It soon became painfully obvious that was NOT going to happen any time soon. There were five workers standing around leaning on rakes or shovels, and no work was being was done. When one did actually use a rake, it was like watching a movie in slow motion.
But, we waited... and waited...and waited. At nine o'clock, we all were disgusted and not a little bit aggravated.
"Can we just come inside and let the dogs run?" asked one of our group.
"No, some of the guys are scared of the dogs." was the sullen reply.
And so we left. The dogs were voicing their objections, but some of us actually have jobs that we actually DO! If we worked the way those city workers did, I rather expect a pink slip would be forthcoming, but hey, that's our tax dollars at work. Aren't you just so proud ?

Can someone tell me exactly how they came to this brilliant conclusion?
OCPS is pushing to have the middle and high schoolers exchange starting times, claiming that by so doing they will be saving over three million dollars a year. How? I guess I'm just too dense to figure this one out. I mean, so they send the middle schoolers out at 6:30 a.m. to catch the bus for school, and the high schoolers get to sleep in until 8:30, how pray tell does that equate to a three million dollar savings?
Are they hoping that a third of the high schoolers will drop out because of the change, thus eliminating a few thousand students, therefore eliminating the need for the buses that transport them?
How do they figure that switching the times is going to make a dimes worth of difference?
They will have the same number of students riding the same buses, just at different times.
OCPS has come up with some stupid ideas in the past, but this one takes the cake.
Guess most of them are HRC supporters, blue collar, lower educated, and dodging sniper fire, and apparently like HRC, math is not their strong suit.

I was a bit surprised to learn that the Texas Rangers had an informant INSIDE that compound for over four years! So, my question is, why did it take four years for them to finally get a search warrant?

I know that in America folks are free to worship as they please, but does that include the right to break the law? Polygamy is illegal, so those practicing it, even if it is a part of their religious beliefs are breaking the law. So,why was this allowed to continue for so long?

I have a writer acquaintance who wrote two books on this practice a few years ago. One is called Sister Wife, the other is Wives and Sisters. When she wrote the first one, the LDS church condemned her. They were pretty upset that she was speaking about church affairs. Her book SisterWife, released in 2001 was an eerie preview of the Elizabeth Smart case that took place just a year after the book was released. (You can read all about Natalie's experiences on her blog. Pretty chilling stuff, really.)

Personally, I think that when Warren Jeffs was arrested and convicted , that was the time to get the warrant, not wait for months while other children and women continued to be abused. It just never ceases to amaze me the extreme's some religious groups go to, and it continues to amaze me the way the authorities keep turing a blind eye to these practices; all in the name of religious freedom.

Pretty disgusting, but what else can we expect? People watch these things, comment on them, give the 'stars' their fifteen minutes, so what can we expect?

Now there is speculation, or whispered rumors that the victim is preganat and these lil rednecks are facing murder charges if she loses the baby as a result of the beating. So, I have to wonder if their fifteen minutes is worth the time they're facing as a reult of their little video.

Can anybody tell me what earthly good You Tube or MySpace does anyone?

Polk County Sheriff Grady Judd is pushing to have these 'children' tried as adults and if the victim is pregnant and does lose the baby, do you think he's right to charge the eight kids involved with murder?

I can hardly wait to see the replies to this one. There are so many homophobes out there this should bring them screaming out from under whatever rocks they live.

No, he's not a man. At least he wasn't born one. He was born a female with all the appropriate parts and he/she underwent sex re-assignment. He is married to his long time girlfriend, who has been with him since he was a 'woman'. Even though he had the surgery, he still has his ovaries, his uterus and his womb, and he was artificially inseminated. Now they are expecting a baby girl.

And everyone is screaming for his head.( I call him he because that is how he refers to himself.) Why? Does it really matter all that much if a gay couple or a trans-sexual couple or a trans-gendered couple become parents as long as the child has a loving home with two parents to love, protect and nurture it? Should a child be denied love and security because the people who choose to give it life are not what society calls normal?

I'm curious as to how you all react to this news. Comments?

I saw something on the news this morning that  absolutely blew my mind. I know, it wouldn't take much, but be that as it may, this was just too silly for me.

Apparently, and I'm not too clear on the details on this because I searched the channel's website to get the whole story and couldn't find any link to it, so hopefully I was still dreaming.

It seems the FL Legislature is considering a bill that will eliminate Capital cases from the court docketts and abolish the death penalty. They said that it costs the State too much money to try these cases. They said some cases could cost as much as $500,000.00 to try.

So, my question is, what do they plan to do with the murderers and child rapists and the like that commit these crimes? Are they going to be tried as misdemeanors and then slapped on the wrists and set loose on the public or do they plan to ship them out of state for someone else to deal with?

How does a state decide to abolish capital cases from their courts?  And do they mean to tell us that abolishing the death penalty is going to save the state money?  If it costs Florida taxpayers upwards of $35,000.00 a year per prisoner on death row and most of them stay there for what , sometimes as much as 20 years, exhausting appeal after appeal, which by the way we also pay for, we're looking at what ,7 million dollars to keep that murderer alive? So, how is abolishing capital cases and the death penalty going to save the State and taxpayers money?

 Any ideas on this one?

The following is an excerpt I found while reading other blogs in the bloggoshpere.

HRC was fired by the lead attorney  in the Nixon impeachemtn proceedings because he found her to be unethical and dishonest.

"My own reaction was of regret that, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.

Hillary as I knew her in 1974

At the time of Watergate I had overall supervisory authority over the House Judiciary Committee's Impeachment Inquiry staff that included Hillary Rodham-who was later to become First Lady in the Clinton White House.

During that period I kept a private diary of the behind the scenes congressional activities. My original tape recordings of the diary and other materials related to the Nixon impeachment provided the basis for my prior book Without Honor and are now available for inspection in the George Washington University Library.

After President Nixon's resignation a young lawyer, who shared an office with Hillary, confided in me that he was dismayed by her erroneous legal opinions and efforts to deny Nixon representation by counsel-as well as an unwillingness to investigate Nixon. In my diary of August 12, 1974 I noted the following:

John Labovitz apologized to me for the fact that months ago he and Hillary had lied to me [to conceal rules changes and dilatory tactics.] Labovitz said, "That came from Yale." I said, "You mean Burke Marshall [Senator Ted Kennedy's chief political strategist, with whom Hillary regularly consulted in violation of House rules.] Labovitz said, "Yes." His apology was significant to me, not because it was a revelation but because of his contrition.

At that time Hillary Rodham was 27 years old. She had obtained a position on our committee staff through the political patronage of her former Yale law school professor Burke Marshall and Senator Ted Kennedy. Eventually, because of a number of her unethical practices I decided that I could not recommend her for any subsequent position of public or private trust."

The link is:  http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/31689p>

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Clicking on the link will provide you with the rest of the story. You'd think if I could ferret this crap out, the media could as well, which just goes to show you that the Clinton's  are the media darlings.

in Idaho, Montana and Wyoming.  The powers that be in the aforementioned states have decided to go ahead with hunts aimed at thinning the Gray Wolf populations in those states.

The wolves, recently removed from the Federal Endangered Species list after facing near extinction for years has once again become the targets of hunters, and will doubtless be returned to the list after this first and hopefully only legal hunt.

Livestock owners in Montana, Wyoming and Idaho attribute the killing of some of their livestock and pets to the wolves, but I have my doubts. Of course you'll never convince these people that their livestock and pets are NOT the natural prey of wolves, unless they are facing a serious lack of natural prey.

It breaks my heart that these beautiful, gentle animals are once again caught in the cross hairs of some hunter.

AS the owner of a hybred wolf, I am violently opposed to the proposed hunt. These guys are gentle, loving, protective, social animals who are loyal and mate for life. They are NOT vicious predators, and they are not dangerous unless cornered.

The Govenors of Montana, Wyoming and Idaho are sanctioning these hunts, and no matter what excuse they give, it's wrong.

If we don't find a way to prevent these hunts, the Gray Wolf will soon join the ranks of thousands of other speicies man has managed to drive to extinction. How many more animals are we willing to deprive our children and grandchildren the awe and beauty of?

That was just amazing to me. How does anyone walk into a hospital these days and walk out with someone else's baby? Where is the security?

That mother and father had to have been terrified and who can blame them? Did this woman cut the hospital i.d. bracelet off the baby? How on earth did she just walk out the door?

And did you see the woman? You gonna sit there and tell me that the security guards couldn't stop her? Did they even try? If they couldn't prevent that woman from walking out the door with someone else's baby, then they need to find new careers, because obviously they aren't fit to guard anything as precious as newborn babies.

You gotta give props to the cop that finally nailed the woman. Right place, right time, and he did so with no one being harmed. Good job.

I am just flabbergasted. Hospital security is top priority, or it should be.

Like the old ones weren't trying enough, the Vatican has decided to issue new ones; not to replace the old ones, but to be included. So now we are up to 14 deadly sins.

The new ones are:

1.Genetic modification- I'm not sure what that means exactly, but I'm sure we have dozens of experts around to clarify that one for us.

2.Human experiments. Hmm, so it is now a sin to cross breed monkeys with man? I think that one's already been done. At least I know of a few.

3.Polluting the environment. Now THAT one I agree with. But, as always it comes dangerously close to too late. The damage has already been done.

4.Social injustice. Yep, another day late, dollar short one.

5.Causing poverty. You mean by signing NAFTA into effect and costing thousands of American's their livilhood? Yeah, that's definitely a sin.

6. Financial Gluttony! Oh boy, now that's a good one coming from the wealthiest church in the world.

7. Taking drugs. "S'plain please! Are we talking illegals drugs or just drugs in general?

This comes from the Catholic.org website: "Modern advances in life sciences make it especially critical to note that human experimentation and genetic modification in the pursuit of a greater common good are serious immoral occasions that degrade the sacredness and dignity of human life. "

Hunh? So doctors working to improve the health of human beings and working to eradicate deadly diseases like cancer and AIDS are degrading the sacredness and dignity of human life? Now that one I really don't get!

And then there's this bit, also from Catholic.org: Girotti is second in command at the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Vatican body responsible for confessions and absolutions.

In his L'Osservatore interview, Girotti said pollution and genetic engineering, as well as drug dealing, abortion, pedophilia, social injustice and extreme wealth were now on record as mortal sins, those the Church <http://topics.cnn.com/topics/The_Roman_Catholic_Church
> deems most offensive to God and those that could land you a spot in hell without repentance.

I wonder if he is including all the Priests that the chruch is bailing out for their 'indiscretions?

Anyway, so what do you all think of this newest list of deadly sins? What else could we include?

 

During my wandering down the information super highway yesterday, I came across the entire 'sermon' by Jeremiah Wright that has created a firestorm of controversy around Barack Obama and scored a damaging( but not fatal) hit to his campaign.

What I read was not only shocking, but infuriating and once again places the media in a bad light.

While Fox News was quick to bring us the 'news' of Jeremiah Wrights' apparent racist remarks, what they failed to do, and I can only assume it was by design, (whose though is another question) was to report the ENTIRE sermon, portions of which came directly from the Bible.

The quotes that caused the most ire with the voting public : "God Bless America, no God DAMN America" and "America's Chicken's have come home to roost" were not even Jeremiah Wright's but those of US Ambassador Edward Peck, a white man who served as US Ambassador to Iraq under Jimmy Carter. Peck spent 32 years in the US Foreign Service.

Another part of the sermon that was not reported: "I heard Ambassador Peck on an interview yesterday," Wright declared. "He was on Fox News. This is a white man and he was upsetting the Fox News commentators to no end. He pointed out, a white man, an ambassador, that what Malcolm X said when he got silenced by Elijah Muhammad was in fact true: America's chickens are coming home to roost."

Wright went on to list other American endeavors that he found particularly unsettling, namely the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 

On further investigation, I discovered that many PROMINENT Americans: Dwight Eisenhower, Herbert Hoover, and Albert Einstien to name a few, were horrified by the idea that American's would result to such drastic measures to end a war that by all reports was already won.

The surrender of Japan was all but a fait accompli when the decision to drop the bombs was made.

Wright's commented that the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki  "killed far more people than the few thousand that died on 9-11, and we never batted an eye", and in that he was correct.

Wright went on to say: " Violence begets violence; hatred begets hatred, and terrorism begets terrorism." And he ended his 'faith footnote" by attributing his comments to the man who made them, Edward Peck, "A white ambassador said that yall, not a black militant, not a reverend who preaches about racism, an ambassador whose eyes are wide open and is trying to get us to wake up and move away from this dangerous precipice... the ambassador said that the people we have wounded don't have the military capability we have, but they do have individuals who are willing to die and take thousands with them... let me stop my faith footnote right there."

Now taken out of context as these quotes most certainly were by Fox News, it is easy to see how Jeremiah Wright's words have inspired such passion and aroused such anger in the American public. But, when you take the time to read the entire sermon, then the 'clear' cut picture of Wright as a racist and anti-American becomes a bit cloudy.

Fox News knew the entire truth, they had the whole sermon and yet they chose to present only the most damaging portions and failed to attribute those quotes to the man who actually made them, a white man no less.

As to the other comment about the US of KKKA, still digging around on that one. But given the sin of omission committed by Fox News, nothing would surprise me there.

This biased reporting against Obama had one Fox News anchor man get up and walk off the set. Brian Kilmeade walked off the set after a dispute with co-hosts Gretchen Carlson and  Steve Doocy. and "Fox News Sunday" host CHris Wallace railed against "Fox and Friends" for what he termed "Obama Bashing." This was reported on the Huffington Post.

One has to wonder who's pocket Fox has snuggled down in. If you're going to report the news, report it accurately, and without bias. Let the American public make their own decisions about controversial reports, don't make it for us.

We want factual reporting, not sensational journalism. We don't care about your ratings and we certainly don't care about your personal political preferences. You are supposed to be un-biased, but Fox has proven themselves to be anything but.

Does Fox owe Wright and Obama an apology? I don't know and it's not my decision to make, but I do think they owe the rest of America one. Stop lying, and start doing your job, which is to report the news accurately and truthfully, with the emphasis on 'fully'.

I watched a special on National Geographic yesterday that was very interesting. It was about this planet AFTER a meteor strike.

I've always maintained that humans are little more than parasites on this planet. Parasites with brains, perhaps, but parasites nonetheless. AS a species we are at the top of the food chain, but then so were the dinosaurs and we all know what happened to them.

But, we scoff at the idea that one day we too could become extinct. Why? Because we are arrogant and believe that we can overcome any threat to our existence.

But can we? What if a meteor slammed into Earth in the Gulf Of Mexico? What would become of the U.S.? We'd be toast, that's what. In this special, that's exactly what did happen. A huge meteor hit the Gulf of Mexico and the end began. Not slowly, not easily, but violently and abruptly. We are not equipped to handle such a disaster. Huge sunamis slammed into the Gulf coast from Mexico to Florida, wiping out the entire state of Florida, moving inland hundreds of miles, leaving death and destruction in its wake. That huge wall of water proceeded up the east coast, drowning New York City and then traveling east to eliminate Ireland, Great Britain and parts of Europe.

And after the flood? Was it over? Not by a long shot. There followed a wall of fire that destroyed what the water left, the fallout from that plunging the Earth into perpetual darkness. Anything that was fortunate enough to survive the first two effects of the meteor struggled to find food and shelter from the acid rain. Plant life all but disappeared because there was no sunlight. Photosynthesis stopped and nothing could grow.

The few humans that survived all of that were now faced with frigid temperatures. The sun's warmth blocked by the thick layer of radiation and dust that surrounded the planet and plunging the Earth into another ice age.

The only hope to survive, keep moving, heading toward the coast. The ocean would provide warmth. Not much, but enough to survive. Along the way, a constant struggle for food and warmth. Many died, succumbing to disease because their immune systems were completely compromised,

Mankind's chances for survival were marginal, but you know what? We did survive. A precious few of us will survive to begin again. Hopefully, we will have learned from our mistakes. Hopefully, we will learn that we are not indestructible, that we can and one day will go the way of the dinosaur. We are not eternal, nor were we meant to be.

I watched the videos of the Rev. right that have flooded the interent and they are a pretty touigh pill yo swallow, but swallow it we must.

Even if we completely hate the message, there isn't any point in shooting the messenger.

I think the problem that most people are having with the Rev. words are not so much that they are vile, but that they are, in large part, true.

Race relations in this country are a long, long way from the ideal picture we want to paint.

Bigotry, mistrust and even hatred is still alive and well in the good old US of A and if you doubt that look at the results of the votes in Mississippi. Clinton got what 90% of the white vote, Obama 95% of the black votes and it had nothing to do with their politics and everything to do with their race.

If you 'polled' the whites in Mississippi as to why they voted for Clinton over Obama knowing how dirty she is, they'll tell you, quite honestly and even proudly that they'd rather vote for a dirty white politician than an intelligent, and virtually clean black man.

Yeah, race is an issue in this election, even though we all know it shouldn't be.

But, back to the Rev. much viewed pulpit rants. I saw very few young blacks in that congregation. His message of anger and yes, even hatred was listened to primarily by the older blacks, who like Obama said in his speech lived the horror of segregation. They were taught hatred and mistrust by not only their parents,but by white America as well.

The younger generation is struggling with racial issues too, but let's give the younger generation credit, the hatred and mistrust is no longer being taught by most.

Our only hope to unite this country and ease racial tensions is to allow Rev Wright his rants and try to understand exactly why he feels as he does.

All we whites really need to do is put ourselves in a black man's place, and try to imagine how we would feel if the shoe was on the other foot.

Try to imagine your fear if you were Rosa Parks on that bus, or how about that black man in Texas that was chained to the back of a pick-up truck and dragged to death down a dark country road.

Yes, these images incense us, but not to the degree that we are willing to do whatever it takes to insure that it never happens again. And that I find truly sad.

Do these polls drive the rest of you as crazy as they do me? It's no wonder the political system is so screwed up. If politicians base their campaigns on the results of those things, its no wonder this ridiculous Democratic race is still going on and beginning to grate on the nerves of most sane people!

This morning on GMA  they gave the results from two separate and supposedly accurate polls. The CNN and the Gallup. In the Gallup poll, Clinton had surged ahead of Obama by a margin of 49 to 43 percent with a 3 percent margin of error. In the CNN poll taken during the same time period, the CNN poll shows Obama ahead  52 to 45 percent with the same margin for error. USA Todays/Gallup poll for March 16th shows Obama ahead 49 to 42 percent.

So, my guess is that the media has decided to keep this nonsense alive and kicking through June by conducting these ridiculous polls. Now, as anyone who has ever voted in one of those polls knows, the people you ask directly dictate the outcome of the poll.

If I stood outside of a Clinton Campaign office for three hours and polled those who came in or out of the place,, and then walked over to an Obama Campaign office and stood there for an hour polling those who walked in and out of that place, it's a pretty safe bet that Clinton would come out on top in that 'scientific' poll.

Polls are rigged, just as everything else in these campaigns. The media in this case is having a field day. They get to keep the attention on their various newscasts by conducting these polls and keeping people tuned in to see who's ahead.

Regardless of these rigged polls, Obama is clearly ahead in pledged delegates and in the popular vote and all the polls in the world aren't likely to change that.

So, here's my very own poll.

"What do you think of polling results?"