For those watching the Casey A. trial.....

[DammitJanet]

Oh...I know. I also had no issue with the snake part myself. I live with males and they all would be much more interested in a snake than any trash bag. Heck, Tony actually stopped the work van one day on the way home to pick up a big rattle snake that had been run over and brought the stupid thing home so he could skin it! This was years ago. We played toss the skin away for about two years (I would throw it away, he would go get it out of the trash) until I finally managed to get it gone for good. Now I have two skinned, tanned and mounted copperheads on boards that Jamie gave to us. Ugh.

Males and snakes!

 

[HaoZi]

DJ, in some parts of Florida we just stretch out the snake and hang it on the front fence for the neighbors to gawk at. After a while there is no saving it (provided something hasn't come along and eaten it).

 

[DammitJanet]

That would just keep me from coming over...lol. I am completely phobic of snakes. Hence the snake skin trashcan dance. The only reason these two copperhead skins are still here on these two damnable boards is that 1) Jamie made them and 2) they are stacked in the corner facing the wall!

Tony is convinced that one day he is going to be able to win me over into allowing him to build them into the sides of the fireplace...lmao. Stupid man.

 

[donna723]

Snakes seriously creep me out! This is completely off subject, but when I worked for the prison we had inmate crews who went out and worked on the sides of the road and they killed A LOT of snakes. Our recreation director was also in charge of the arts and crafts program. The road crew supervisors would bring him all their dead snakes and he would take them home and drop them into a bag in his freezer ... bet his wife loved that! When he had a whole bag full of snakes, he would bring them in to work and let the inmates skin them and make the skins into belts, hat bands, etc. He came in to my office one day with a paper bag and left it in my office while he went down the hall to talk to someone else and I didn't think much about it. But after a while I noticed that the bottom of the bag was getting wet, and pretty soon there was a little stream of pink-tinged water running across my floor ..... Had I known what he had in the bag I would never have allowed him to set foot in my office! Even if they're dead, they're still SNAKES!!!!

 

[klmno]

Eeeewwww......YUK!

 

[DammitJanet]

Im telling ya...men, snakes! There is something about the whole ...well..I dont want to get into the what IT resembles concept...lmao.


ETA: obviously the closing arguments cant get here fast enough if we have degenerated this badly...lmao!

 

[1905]

I've been watching the re-runs of the testimony from last week, that's how addicted I am. As for Kronk, I agree, he already called the cops, they're the professionals, and the cop hollered at him! So after thinking it over, he went back and checked it out again. He was already told it was nothing, so what would the harm be? Plus, it's a good spot to smoke a joint, kill some time, pee and check out a cool dead snake. He better get that reward money. His name's dragged through the mud for nothing. The defense wants people to think he brought her home and put her back later.

If it was one of us.....a cop would have tried to holler at us, and we would be our typical selves and SHOW him what the heck we saw. A man would not do that- right? They would just say nothing, wonder about it, and check it next time they felt like going there. Kronk was so stoic on the stand also. Poor guy, I hope he gets another job soon.

 

[1905]

We're going to a hotel for rehab? Good, we'll sit by the pool and have drinks, my treat!

 

[Nancy]

Rofl

Nancy

 

[klmno]

Well at least we don't have to worry about a subject to talk about. Nancy, reservations and costs please! Do you plan on coming to our southeast mini-meet? We need DJ, UAN, Nancy, DDD, and a few others for our CATA group "meeting" by the pool. I'll be happy to buy a round, too.

 

[DammitJanet]

I will be bringing bubble gum cigars most likely to that mini-meet. Hopefully that new baby will have made its arrival by then.

Oh....on the topic of trials...did you guys hear that Jacey Duggard is going to do her first interview on the 10th of July. Not sure which network but I will be watching it. That poor child/young woman. I know that man and his wife will rot. No question there.

 

[Nancy]

klmno I may be able to join you just not sure yet. We are actually driving to Hilton Head the last week of July, me, husband, easy child and her boyfriend. It's the first time we have taken a vacation in seven years because of difficult child. If we weren't going on vacation I would for sure come, but not sure about making two trips in such a short time. But if I can at all swing it I will. It would be a blast to join you all.

Ashton's closing was brillant. Watching Baez now. So glad they made him take out the 15 year old picture from the exhibit.

Nancy

 

[1905]

Baez-OMG, He's getting her convicted. He's talking down to them. Oh heck no! Dimwit. Loved Ashton though, he was on target, just brilliant.

 

[donna723]

I'm trying to listen to his summation but he's making me mad and I just want to backhand him! I find myself mentally "objecting" to almost everything he says, twisting things around and lying! I hope the jurors aren't dumb enough to fall for that!

 

[klmno]

Nancy, I'd love to meet you in person!

I just got home from visiting difficult child and am waiting to see what's going on in court after their lunch break so once things are over today, I can go back and listen to this morning's arguments. I hear on tv that the preosecution team was brilliant.

 

[DammitJanet]

Did Baez really just negate the fact he told everyone that the child died by drowning? Really?

"oh...no one can say how that child died." Excuse me, YOU told us the child died by drowning when her mother let her get out of the house!

I am so darned sick of him trying to blame George. In my estimation, if ANYONE helped her, it was Cindy. I think poor George was out in left field somewhere playing with dandelions. She was much closer to her mom and as we have seen, her mother is a much more skilled liar. I think mom's are much more apt to try to save a child than a father...just sayin. I am betting if anyone kept getting Casey out of trouble, it was her mom.

I also think Ashton must have been reading someone's posts somewhere because he said exactly what we said about Caylee becoming able to talk more fluently. Remember that? I firmly believe that is why she did it. Caylee was starting to say things that Casey knew others could understand. I remember the video and I could just understand her a bit because I have a little one. I remember that age.

 

[klmno]

Oh you can bet both teams read the blogs from the public. That gives them an idea of how everyday people/layman (aka the jury) are interpreting things and which way they are leaning and what loopholes might be left open by unanswered questions.

 

[klmno]

How many hours did each side get for closing arguments?

 

[Marcie Mac]

They each get 4 hours and you can bet Baez will use every second

 

[klmno]

I think he's going to bore them to death. Is there a wait before sentencing if she's found guilty of charges less than first degree murder?