It's been quite some time since I blogged on this subject. There simply wasn't much news about the case, and I was busy preparing for the birth of our son.
Finally, on December 11th, the announcement came that the remains of a small child had been found in close proximity to the Anthony home. This announcement didn't jar me. I totally expected it and knew it was merely a matter of time. I knew it was Caylee--who else would it be?--and waited patiently for the DNA evidence to confirm what everyone already knew. However, when Dr. G finally made the announcement this past Friday, I burst into tears; partly because it looked like Dr. G was choking back tears herself, partly because my new mommy hormones were still settling, but mostly out of sadness for a beautiful little girl who didn't deserve whatever horrible things happened to her to cause her death. Somehow the finding of her remains rendered her far more real to me than the phantom missing girl in the photos and video clips I'd been seeing for months.
I've only been a mommy a little more than 2 weeks now, but I can't possibly comprehend how anyone could do such a thing to her own child. I know there are those of you who still may doubt whether Casey is responsible or whether Caylee's death was an accident or murder, but give me a break, please. She was buried in a location her mother used as a fucking pet cemetery and, from the sound of things, wasn't even buried with the same care as the pets had been. Bottom line: the little girl died in such a way that her mother felt compelled to cover it up and dispose of her body. This boils down to gross neglect at the very least, and murder at the very worst. The fact that the grandparents have requested immunity (still waiting to hear whether this has been granted) implies some manner of wrongdoing on their parts--even if only obstruction of justice.
I can only hope that everyone involved in Caylee's death and the ensuing cover-up are held accountable for their deeds and sentenced accordingly. In a snippet from one of Casey Anthony's prison phone calls she says that her "gut feeling" is that Caylee is "OK and close to home." At least that last part was truthful.
Ooh, it just gets juicier and juicier. I was becoming frustrated at the media lull regarding the Casey Anthony Case. I admit I was suffering some sick form of withdrawal. I turned my full focus to the presidential election and then... The shit hit the fan today!!!!Woohoo! A secret grand jury (at which her own father testified against her) indicted her on multiple charges including first degree murder in the death of her daughter. Her lawyer had previously mentioned that they would ask the grand jury to allow her to continue searching privately for Caylee (ie, with no police presence). I saw no mention of this request in the original CNN article, so it was either denied or the defense decided to withhold it. As if that weren't enough, after her attorney, Jose Baez, assured the press that Casey "was not running from this," SHE RAN FROM IT!!!! The stink just gets stinkier, gentle readers!! "She's not running from this," attorney Jose Baez said as his 22-year-old client wiped tears from her eyes during an impromptu media briefing before the charges against her were announced. "She's doing her best to stand strong, to stand up to the powers that are working against her. And they threw the kitchen sink at her a long time ago."
After the indictment, undercover officers followed Anthony as she traveled in her mother's SUV. The officers saw the SUV stop under a highway overpass, at which point Anthony got into another vehicle and drove off. Officers made the traffic stop after she entered the second vehicle, the spokesman said.
Prosecutors are asking Anthony be held without bond. Prosecutors asked for her to be held without bond before she tried to pull a Scott Peterson. Tell him she's not a flight risk NOW, Baez!! :)
Yesterday I met up with my BFF, Kayly, her mom, and grandma outside the ABC studio for a live taping of The View. Kayly had applied for free tickets aaaaaaaaages ago and was surprised to find some in the mail a few weeks ago.
I don't normally watch the show because I loathe Elisabeth Hasselbeck and think Sherri Shepherd is a giant waste of space. Sweet, but utterly useless. Still, I thought it would be fun to go to a live studio taping as I hadn't been to one before. We lucked out as far as guests. Both Bill Maher and Dr. Drew Pinski were on the show. So was Kevin Farley, hawking his new right-wing Michael Moore parody An American Carol, but we won't discuss him.
Bill was ruthless in his assessment of Sara Palin (I laughed so hard I almost thought I was going into labor). When the conversation turned to religion, things got even more interesting and not a little heated between Bill, Elisabeth and Sherri. See for yourself.
Mr. T beat me relentlessly the entire episode. I'd like to think he was trying to bust out of my gut so he could choke the living shit out of Sherri and Elisabeth.
Dr. Drew was dreamy. Kayly and I both remarked on how tall he is. Not that he appears short on TV, but he's really, really tall! He's a tall drink of Jewish water. Mm mm mm. He was on with a woman who's a recovering sex addict. There was a wonderful moment where Joy jokingly asked how she, too, could become a sex addict. She stopped laughing when Dr. Drew answered that she'd first need to be sexually abused in childhood. Honestly--do these people not do any research? Even the warm-up guy who keeps the crowd going between segments was cracking jokes about it. Kayly and I just cringed.
Ethan taped the episode for me, but we're barely visible in the audience, small as it is. There's one frame where you can kind of make out the back of my head and part of Kayly's and another frame where I can pick out fuzzy lumps that I know are the 4 of us, only because I know where we were sitting and what colors we were wearing.
There was an awkward moment during Bill's appearance (the first segment on Palin--below) where an audience member with a medical condition (not sure what it might have been, perhaps Tourette's or something similar?) emitted a loud squeal. She had been making similar sounds periodically while waiting in line to be seated. She was escorted out during the following commercial break. It was handled very respectfully by The View staff and her chaperone seemed to be very understanding. I felt badly for her that she wasn't able to see the remainder of the show after waiting in line so long.
However, the girls and Bill had no idea what the source of the noise was, so their reactions are actually quite funny taken in context. It happens around 4:21 seconds into the clip, so feel free to fast forward to that point. Joy sits bolt upright. Sherri's eyes bug out of her head and Bill just tosses a casual glance in the direction of the noise (he's used to disruptions from the audience).
All in all, it was loads of fun. Thanks again to Kayly for the ticket and experience!
Ethan met me at the train station and we had a lovely lunch al fresco at From Scratch where I regaled him with my tales of the day. Then we went home and took a gigantic nap and snuggled in front of the TV to catch up on episodes of Fringe and watch the beginning of The House on Garibaldi Street about the capture of Adolf Eichmann in Argentina by Mossad Agents. Mossad is hebrew for "badass." OK, not really, but it should be...We started dozing off in the middle so we taped the rest of it for tonight.
I had a fantastic day. Between being too tired to go anywhere or do anything and the crappy weather we'd been having for days, it was so good to get out of the house and soak up some sunshine. I didn't realize until yesterday what a horrendous case of cabin fever I had been nursing.
I have a coffee date with my friend Abi tomorrow, so that will get me out of the house once again. Looking forward to it.
And onto my 2 favorite subjects--Casey Anthony and Sara Palin.
If you go to the Orlando Sentinel Web site for the case, you can read a great article on the contents of the recent court documents that were released as well as see photos taken from Casey's Photobucket site. What will you learn from these 2 things? 1) Her parents were extremely suspicious for quite some time before the police were even involved, and 2) Casey is a shameless party girl and, apparently, a proud patriot as evidenced by several shots of her wrapped in nothin' but Ol' Glory!!
I giddily anticipate tomorrow night's Veep debate. I hope it turns out to be just as much of a train wreck for Ms. Palin as I've fantasized it will be. If I weren't preggers, I'd make a game out of drinking every time she drops a G or stops mid-sentence when she realizes that what she's saying makes absolutely no sense and she just sounds idiotic.
It's nice to know so many people out there are as interested in the Caylee Anthony case as I am. It really is one of the most fascinating cases in recent memory. I don't think I've been this engrossed in a case's outcome since Laci Peterson or Chandra Levy. I've gotten 38 hits in the past 3 hours from people searching for updates on the case. That's amazing. I got a slew of hits earlier on today, too. One visitor from Fletcher, NC happened upon my blog by searching "Casey Anthony is a piece of shit." That cracked me up! Thanks for the laugh. Hope you come back soon.
Once again I say that the media is not villainizing Casey Anthony, they're simply reporting the facts. The statements in this video were taken from actual court documents. You can judge for yourself how appropriate her statements and actions were in the days following Caylee's disappearance. I still haven't figured out how to embed videos from CNN directly into my posts. Any advice? Oh, and howdy to Ireland and Jamaica--Dublin and Kingston, no less!! Y'all come back, now.
Protesters put the pressure on Caylee's family This article presents me with a moral dilemma. I don't think private citizens should be harassed in their own homes, even if they are suspected of committing a crime or acting as an accessory after the fact. On the other hand, this case stinks to high heaven. The mother, Casey Anthony, has been uncooperative from the start, not reporting Caylee missing for an entire month and fabricating things out of whole cloth (the non-existent babysitter and co-workers for example). The grandmother, who earlier referred to her daughter as a "sociopath" and told police that the trunk of Casey's car smelled like it had a dead person in it, now suddenly believes she's innocent. If I'm honest with myself, I kinda love the protesters. I think most folks following this case are outraged at Casey's refusal to cooperate with police. Who wouldn't be? What mother who wasn't involved in her daughter's death or disappearance would intentionally withhold information and lie to the police? The media isn't villainizing Casey Anthony. She simply is a villain. As such, I think the protesters serve a noble purpose by keeping the pressure on the Anthony family to disclose everything they know and by reminding them of their less-than favored status in the public opinion. This job would normally fall to the police or Feds, but they don't seem to be up to the task. If the coppers can crack hardened criminals and draw confessions out of them, why the hell can't they get the job done with a 22 y/o single mom? She should be a piece of cake! Apparently Dr. Phil disagrees with me on this topic, but he's just a fat media whore and I couldn't give a shit what he thinks.
