One of the really sad parts of this is now Casey will become an instant celebrity. She’ll get an agent, a book deal, made for TV movie, everywhere she goes from now on paparrazzi will be snapping away. Because in the world we live in today, celebrities are those who make jackasses of themselves, or they kill someone like their own child and get away with it.

Today I was eating a late lunch when the verdict came in. I lost my appetite.

Caylee may you rest in the arms of angels.

More news later…just wanted to share!

If you can crochet a granny square, then she needs you! Check out this post and join the fun while doing something wonderful for someone else.

Wonder if her prison wear will be Dolce and Gabbana?

I’m sure she’ll stay in shock for awhile, but the really sad thing about this is that our society is so warped that even with her much deserved stint in jail, Paris’s popularity will increase because of it. The premise of her fame is being a bad girl. This is a career move for her. It simply fuels the fascination. She can only win with this…and how sad is that?

Westboro Baptist Church, (not affiliated with any national Baptist organization) the anti-Gay protesting group that call themselves a church from Topeka, Kansas is planning on picketing the funerals of the VA Tech victims. This group is known for picketing our fallen soldiers funerals, and now are reaching an even more disgusting low.

Their reason they stated was that shooter Cho Seung-hui was carrying out God’s wishes by punishing the victims who weren’t Christian. Excuse me??

“The evidence is they were not Christian. God does not do that to his servants,” WBC member Shirley Phelps-Roper

I’d like to know what God they are serving? It’s not the same one I know! This group is beyond disgusting, they are vile. All that they do is spill hate and they do it when people are vulnerable and hurting. Have they ever heard that God is love. A pastor friend of mine mentioned that he wished he was in Virginia instead of Hawaii where he lives, because he’d organize as many churches to gather at all the funerals to buffer those protesters out with songs of praise. I have to believe that good will conquer over evil and these hateful people will not prevail.

2,996 is a tribute to the victims of 9/11.

On September 11, 2006, 2,996 volunteer bloggers will join together for a tribute to the victims of 9/11. Each person will pay tribute to a single victim.

We will honor them by remembering their lives, and not by remembering their murderers.

I am remembering Jane Beatty.

Jane S. Beatty was a survivor. When her first marriage broke up, she was thrust into the job market for the first time and found work as a cocktail waitress in Toronto, where she was raised. Then she learned computer skills and switched careers, eventually becoming a technical supervisor at Marsh & McLennan in New York.

Ms. Beatty, 53, faced another challenge more recently when she was found to have breast cancer. By that time, she had left Canada and moved to Belford, N.J., to marry the retired police officer she had met on a blind date while visiting a friend. The friend, Lorraine Greskow, said Ms. Beatty remained upbeat, even after her mastectomy. “She always had a smile on her face, even through all that,” she said.

In August, Jane Beatty and her husband, Bob, went to Atlantic City to privately mark her fifth anniversary of being cancer-free. She told her mother it was too early to make a big fuss. “She said she wasn’t going to celebrate until she was clear for six years,” said her mother, Beth Chrystal.

To visit the other tributes of September 11, push this button….

Profile published in THE NEW YORK TIMES on December 3, 2001.

Steve Irwin, The Crocodile Hunter has hunted his last crocodile. While filming a documentary for Animal Planet on deadly creatures in the Barrier Reef the weather had become to rough to continue filming, so Irwin went out to shoot some shots of the gorgeous coral that the reef is known for, for his daughter’s Biddi’s new TV series. This is where Irwin came in contact with a stingray and the barb struck Irwin in the chest piercing his heart. It is believed he died within minutes. For more on this story, click here.

We enjoyed “The Crocodile Hunter” at our house, he was entertaining, and at times scared the daylights out of me with the things he’d do. When Bubba was younger, he wouldn’t miss the show and “crikey” was a favorite word in our home.

We were really sad to hear the news today of Irwin’s passing, but if it was his time to go, this would be the way the man would want to go out, doing what he loved most.

Rest in peace Crocodile Hunter!

I’m crushed! My teen idol has fallen. How do you go from looking like this….

to this…

It’s so sad to see someone ruin their life because of drugs. Apparently heroin was more appealing than fame. I did see on GMA that he is entering a 30 day rehab….I wish him well.

Man that’s 3 posts in one day! I’m on a roll!!