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Since WFTV cut into Jeopardy last night, I have heard nothing else about DNA test results. I think they jumped the gun.

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WFTV just broke into Jeopardy to report the DNA results are back on the hair and stains found in the trunk of Casey Anthony’s car. The results indicate the samples belong to young Caylee, and that Caylee was dead.

Half an hour ago, WESH reported that the air sample test results were back, the air taken from the car, and showed there was a decaying body inside that car.

WFTV reported that investigators delivered the news to the family about an hour ago (I’m pretty sure we watched that live on WESH during yell at the tv hour).

So… will Casey confess? Will we ever know what happened to that sweet little girl?

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First, the grandma who held a teen burglar at gunpoint and ordered the kid to call 9-1-1 and report he was committing a crime, and now this:

When Susan Kuhnhausen returned home from work one day earlier this month, she encountered an intruder wielding a claw hammer. After a struggle, the 51-year-old nurse fended off her attacker by strangling him with her bare hands.

Neighbors praised the woman for her bravery, and investigators said they believed the dead man — Edward Dalton Haffey — was burglarizing Kuhnhausen’s home.

But after an investigation, police now say the intruder Kuhnhausen strangled was apparently a hit man hired by her estranged husband — Michael James Kuhnhausen Sr. — to kill her.

Yay for a woman being able to defend herself!

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Because we haven’t had enough rain lately, looks like TS Gustav has his site set on Florida.

I hate technology, btw. I just took a handful of Advil and am drinking a Coke to try to beat back my head ache.

More later. Work…

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Because I was very much looking forward to finally having the opportunity to be the person to take RTY to school.

Orange County schools closed on Friday

Due to worse weather conditions than earlier on Thursday, Orange County Public Schools decided to close schools on Friday, August 22. Those conditions include excessive storm water standing on roadways Thursday night, the uncertainty of safe road travel in the early morning and numerous patches of power outages around the county including several schools.

The decision was made in the best interest of safety after review of weather advisories, reports from school sites and assessments of road conditions by district staff and other authorities including Orange County Public Works.

12-month employees of OCPS are expected to report to work on Friday.

The lost school day will be made up Friday, October 24, 2008.

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Is this a good thing?

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Ugh! Raise your hand if you are sick and tired of all this rain. ::WAVES ARMS IN AIR::

I think I speak for all Orlando when I loudly proclaim: GO AWAY FAY!

This is day three of non-stop rain. I am thankful, however, to not be in the town that has had so much rain their sewage is contaminating the standing water. Blech. Remember after one of the 2004 hurricanes when poor Duane and Margaret had to abandon their apartment due to a sewage back up completely flooding their first floor? Yeah, blech. The stench. The germs. Toss in a few spiders and you have my worst nightmare!

So, thank you, Fay, for not (yet) contaminating my pond with fecal matter.

But please, please, please stop raining on me. You are really bringing me down, and I already struggle with that nonsense. (That man could depress a hyena. Name that movie.)

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As I read this article (H/T Renegade), I kept expecting to see the name of the psychotic rampage murderer to be my ex-husband. I was always so scared riding in a car with Idiot Boy; he took road rage to a different level. But, not to this level… yet.

The violence apparently unfolded after [26-year old Casey Weldon] Till’s minivan slammed into a stopped car being driven by Cespedes’ daughter, 19-year-old Ivon Despaigne, and her boyfriend, 21-year-old Angel Gonzalez, of Kissimmee. When the couple got out to check the damage, Till allegedly slashed Gonzalez’s throat and stabbed Despaigne in the neck.

Investigators say Till then got into the couple’s car and repeatedly rammed the vehicle ahead, occupied by Cespedes, her husband, 41-year-old Mario Despaigne, and their 6-month-old granddaughter.

The couple got their granddaughter out of the car seat and Cespedes was trying to flee with the baby in her arms when she was killed, Mario Despaigne said in an interview with The Ledger, which was conducted through an interpreter.

Mario Despaigne said Till drove over his wife’s leg, then ran over her again after seeing she was still moving. Despaigne said he grabbed the baby. Then Gonzalez got into Till’s van and hit him, then tried to back over him, but Till rolled out of the way, according to the arrest report.

Till then allegedly ran back to his van, ignoring commands to stop from a Lake Hamilton police officer who happened upon the scene. Till sped off, hitting officer David Hurst in the arm and midsection with the van’s open door.

Till had locked himself in his bathroom and cut his wrists by the time investigators found him, the report said. He allegedly admitted the attacks to his wife and mother.

Another perfect candidate for Human Piñata!

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TS Fay is brewing. Good times on the horizon then, eh?

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This was way too close to home. A man attacked a woman bicyclist last night as she stopped to drink some water. He had a knife and apparently tried to rape her.

Gatlin & Kennedy is not a bad area. I’m pretty sure my darling SIL’s parents live in that neighborhood, but I’ve only been to their home once.

As for me, I run with pepper spray. I run with my iPod volume way low so I can hear you trying to sneak up on me. But maybe now my husband will start riding his bike to supervise me while I run!

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I have been ranting about the evil poison Gardasil for a year. I get so angry every time I hear commercials for it. I receive emails from people who have found my little blog by searching for information about the negative side effects of Gardasil, Gardasil as a poison, and other search terms. These people share horror stories with me. And, frequently leave their horror stories in my comments. It breaks my heart.

It is good, then, to finally see something like this up on CNN.

There are online support groups for women and girls who have suffered negative side effects.

Please please please don’t poison yourself or your daughter. Please. It’s too early to understand all the effects of this totally unnecessary drug.

(yes, I’m slow posting the video… my internet has been intermittent, and I just now finally watched the video)

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H/T poker buddy Fred.

The feces really hit the, um, power lines and a green house in Switzerland.

A giant inflatable dog turd by American artist Paul McCarthy blew away from an exhibition in the garden of a Swiss museum, bringing down a power line and breaking a greenhouse window before it landed again, the museum said Monday.

Leave it to an American artist to think feces is art.

The art work, titled “Complex S(expletive..)”, is the size of a house.

Is “Complex S(expletive)” really a better term in writing than just writing out “shit”? Really? Because I look at that and see only “complex sex,” which carries my mind right down the drain and into the sludge in the gutter.

The wind carried it 200 metres (yards) from the Paul Klee Centre in Berne before it fell back to Earth in the grounds of a children’s home, said museum director Juri Steiner.

Look! Up there in the sky! It’s a bird! It’s a plane! It’s… it’s… SHIT!

The inflatable turd broke the window at the children’s home when it blew away on the night of July 31, Steiner said. The art work has a safety system which normally makes it deflate when there is a storm, but this did not work when it blew away.

Is anyone else giggling over this giant flying turd having a malfunctioning safety system?

Steiner said McCarthy had not yet been contacted and the museum was not sure if the piece would be put back on display.

Pity. I think giant inflatable feces is just the kind of art exhibit people would flock to.

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Brilliant! Why has no one thought of this before?! Someone in Buffalo, NY realized all they had to do was go to Ask.com and type in this search term.

::drumroll::
where is caylee anthony
::cymbol crash::

The question lead to me. Crap. Does this make me a suspect?

Our Orlando police detectives should learn from this internet investigator. This is the proper way to conduct a missing person investigation!

Seriously, though, Caylee is still missing. She turned three on Saturday.

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You no doubt heard charges were filed against mom Casey Anthony this week.

Yesterday, CSI detectives spent several more hours inside grandparents George and Cindy Anthony’s home. They removed several more bags of evidence.

They’re going to start dredging the ponds in that general area.

There was also some speculation about someone trying to broker an immunity deal for Casey. I think that bodes especially badly for missing toddler Caylee Anthony.

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Today is, I believe, twenty or twenty-one days since it was first reported that Caylee Anthony was missing. That means it is more than fifty days since Caylee actually went missing. For two weeks, the local media reported almost no other news; all Anthony all the time. Frankly, I share grandma Cindy Anthony’s belief that the media has been way off base. Instead of the media’s intent being to keep Caylee in the news, they are more interested in the melodrama of what’s going on with mom Casey Anthony. We hear plenty of reports about her jail conversations, but precious little about what is being done to find the missing child (who will be three years old this week).

Now, as someone who has been following this case as presented by the media, I personally believe young Caylee is not in this world. However, I hope I am wrong and hope for the safe return of this child to her family. I think the media has the focus completely wrong. They need to do less of what Casey is talking about to her jail-house visitors and more about finding Caylee and keeping Caylee’s picture on the television.

That being said, we took a ride past the grandparent’s residence this afternoon. I wanted to see the media circus, to see if it is still prevalent, nineteen or twenty days after the story broke.

In 2000-2001, sherlock and I rented a house not three blocks away from the Anthony residence. We know this neighborhood and I, for one, really miss the house and neighborhood. We had hoped to be able to buy the house, but the owner was only interested in renting. It’s a great neighborhood. It was disconcerting, then, to see the circus in town:

This is the view from one end of the street. You can see the tent set up by the media so that they can be in the shade and protected from rain while pointing their cameras across the street at the Anthony residence.

These two are taken from the other end of the street.

It just seems so intrusive to have so many media vans staking a claim in this peaceful, beautiful neighborhood.

(yes, I recognize that I’m guilty of the same thing I just complained about, and I felt more than a little awkward taking the pictures of the media. However, I justified it by telling myself I was only taking pictures of the media vehicles, and made an effort not to photograph the Anthony residence.)

Updated: I’m watching channel 9 (the news is not yet on for some reason on WESH), and they’re reporting from in front of the Anthony residence. And the text on the screen lists the street name the Anthony’s live on. I think that’s so wrong. Granted, it’s super easy to find their address online, but I think it is so wrong to list the street name on television. Honestly, you’re just encouraging people **cough**like me**cough** to drive through their neighborhood and gawk.

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