Badass chihuahua is badass (with bonus badass chihuahuas, including mine)

Badass chihuahua runs off some robbers in his human's store




Here is my badass chihuahua in her devil costume on Halloween




Here she is again being a badass to my son's dog for wearing a fairy costume




This chihuahua is a badass dancer




Loves me some badass chihuahuas :)

Good Riddance

Hopefully she never comes back



The local TV coverage of the release was pretty entertaining, though - I'm glad I tuned in - 'twas good for many laughs :)

Flipped on the TV a few minutes after midnight after getting a tweet that it was about to happen, then I decided to pee really quick and missed it! No biggie though as her 10-second walk with Baez was rerun ad nauseum as the media tried to figure out what to do next. As helicopters began to follow the SUV down I-4, Channel 9 reporter Kathi Belich was asked what the situation was on the ground at the jail. She replied, almost dejectedly, "Well, it looks like people are getting in their cars and leaving." Poor news media - all camped out ready to cover all the drama, but these frackin' people actually behaved themselves! How boring and uncoverable.

The true hilarity ensued, however, during the car chase via helicopter a la O.J. in the white Bronco. The SUV containing the baby killer pulled in to the downtown parking garage of one of her lawyers, Cheney Mason. Apparently MOTY (Mother of the Year) switched cars in there, and some other decoy cars went out also. The helicopters continued to follow a vehicle believed to be transporting the murderess to Orlando Executive Airport (a small airport used by private jets and private plane owners), but when the SUV didn't take the exit it should have to go there, all the reporters on live TV simultaneously realized they were following the wrong car and had lost track of her. D'OH!

Undaunted, at about 1 am they turned their cameras on a small plane on the tarmac at OEA with its doors open and crew in place, looking as if it was awaiting passengers. Reporters breathlessly noted that they believed this was the plane that would be taking MOTY to parts unknown. Helicopters followed vehicles driving toward the plane. The anticipation was palpable - is this the plane taking babykiller away? And to where?

Then people got out of the vehicles and started unloading a bunch of golf bags. Apparently these were some wealthy tourists preparing to fly home from a golfing vacation in Orlando. D'OH!

After this the TV stations gave up and returned to regular programming. HAHAHA! An appropriate finale to the circus this case has been.

Some sites are reporting that MOTY did board a plane at OEA at 3 am or so and that she is now in Ohio. (Ohio? - ok, I seem to remember she has some relatives there) Good for them - they can have her. Will they take the rest of her family too, please?

Again, good riddance.

The verdict is in

Wow, what a day. Casey Anthony was acquitted. Still stunned by the verdict, but here are a few initial thoughts…

Thinking back on the last three years and the trial, I guess it’s true that the prosecution didn’t do their job, as many are saying. I thought they proved their case (perhaps not beyond ANY doubt, but yes, beyond a reasonable doubt, but that’s another discussion). I did wonder from time to time, though, if they over-sanitized their case to keep it simple for the jurors. A lot was left out, including a big fight that Cindy and Casey had the night before the first 911 call (Fathers’ Day – Cindy had taken Caylee to the nursing home where Cindy's father resided for a visit, and unknowingly took the last photos and video of Caylee alive that day). Cindy allegedly choked Casey that evening, and brother Lee witnessed this and broke it up. Cindy actually testified about this evening in court and described it as a lovely evening where she and Casey shared bonding time while looking at the photos and video. The jurors never heard about this fight. Did the prosecution think it was too difficult to explain and leave it out for this reason? Maybe. Did they think that would feed directly into the defense’s reliance on the “dysfunctional family” approach? Maybe. Maybe it’s neither here nor there. I don’t know.

More egregious, though, is how the Anthony family (specifically Cindy Anthony) not only tried to connect Casey’s friends to Caylee’s disappearance and drag them through the mud by name in the media, but attempted to defame Texas EquuSearch and its founder and leader, Tim Miller, a passionate advocate for missing and exploited children who came here and organized multiple searches for Caylee which he was subsequently vilified by the family for. (Tim Miller interview prior to the verdict.) Many Central Floridians and others hiked for hours and days through muck, thorns and storms participating in these searches because they cared about this little girl and wanted to by some slim chance find her either alive or allow her to rest in peace, and for what? To help these liars perpetuate this lie, this fallacious reality? It makes me ill to recall. A slow, collective devastation was felt by many here as it gradually seemed to be the case that Caylee died at her mother’s hand and desire, accidentally or not (not). We believed them all initially, and wanted to help, but things gradually began to smell, kind of like the trunk of that Pontiac Sunfire.

To me, this is the most painful aspect of this whole thing. As a community, we opened our hearts to this family, as well as our wallets and other resources to help them find their “kidnapped” daughter/granddaughter and hopefully catch the perpetrator. We hung their flyers, passed out their buttons, wore their T-shirts and wrote our checks. It is true that they are dysfunctional, but isn’t every family at times? However, Jose Baez hammered the jury with this perception repeatedly in his opening statement and revisited it throughout the trial, and judging from an interview with an alternate given to CNN today (one of only two, and the actual jurors who deliberated haven’t spoken at all), they bought into this argument from the get-go, and it was effective.



It is repulsive to me that Jose Baez actually “won” this thing, although it may have been different if the prosecution had not overreached and put the death penalty on the table. I’m sure if I were a juror here I would not have voted for death. Caylee most likely did not suffer, and was not tortured or dismembered (until after death, by wildlife), and Casey has not killed anyone else. Premeditation? Possibly, but not conclusive. By overreaching and not accurately reading how well slimy Jose Baez was leading the jury down his yellow brick road, the State of Florida lost their case, and Caylee did not receive justice.

This is hard to swallow.

Here is Jose Baez at the courthouse today just before the verdict came in

 

Good Lord, I hate this guy. He just won the lottery today, though.

Jurors are now deliberating in the Casey Anthony trial

I have avoided writing about this here since May during jury selection, but this trial has been an extraordinary phenomenon to observe as it has taken over our city. It has been inescapable these last several weeks - it is on every local TV channel all day long every day. Walk in any waiting room or lobby anywhere and there it is - Casey Casey Casey in your face - truly, since every channel shows a split screen with one camera on Casey all the time. If videography counts as photography, Casey has to be rivaling Princess Diana as the most photographed woman of all time.

I vented my frustrations about this in LOLcat form in a recent fark Caturday thread. People seemed to enjoy them so here they are

The Casey Anthony trial in LOLcats























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