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Casey Anthony.
An evangelist says true-believing Christians “can help Casey Anthony find the courage to confess her sins to God and the police by praying for her to do the right thing.”
She's with Jesus now: Christian artist Dick Kulpa's rendering of angelic Caylee Anthony.
“Then and only then can her soul be saved from eternal damnation,” the Rev. Dr. Robert Paul Stack, of Los Angeles, California, told derekclontz.com in an impassioned e-mail.
“The Devil has consumed this woman. I’m not saying she’s not guilty of murder – of course she is.
“I’m saying that we as Christians need to get on our knees and pray for Satan to be driven away so that Casey Anthony, her family, her friends, her community and also everyone else who is interested in this crime can find closure.
“Caylee Anthony is with Jesus now, and God will forgive Casey Anthony if she confesses her sins and rejects Satan.
“I am calling on all Christians to pray for Casey’s salvation. Pray for her in your own time or join me in praying for her every day at noon Eastern time until she repents and confesses, both to God and the police.
“The Devil has controlled this situation long enough. Help me drive him away with the power of prayer and the power of God.”
For those who don’t know, Casey Anthony, 23, has been charged with murder in connection with the death of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony. The tot mom faces life in prison and possibly the death penalty if she is convicted as charged. A date for her trial has not been set, but likely will commence later this year. She is being held without bond in Florida’s Orange County Jail.
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She's with Jesus now: Christian artist Dick Kulpa's rendering of angelic Caylee Anthony.
Tot mom Casey Anthony stunned not one but two eyewitnesses who during a pre-trial hearing on Friday overheard her whispering emotionlessly under her breath as she doodled on a notepad, “I’m sorry … I’m sorry …” at least eight times.
The apologies came less than an hour after a different source reported hearing her tell a member of her defense team she’s “starting to like jail … and … don’t care if I’m convicted or not.”
Casey Anthony.
That same source said Anthony insisted she’s “not guilty of a damn thing … (but) life in prison will have to be better than life (as a free person on the outside) … everybody hates me … even my (friends) …”
Those statements and the “I’m sorrys …” mark a sharp departure from Anthony’s earlier insistence that jail was the pits and she had nothing to apologize for.
“We have conflicting comments here – on the one hand, she says she’s ‘not guilty of a damn thing’ and on the other she’s saying, ‘I’m sorry’ over and over again,” a psychologist and cable news analyst told derekclontz.com exclusively.
“It’s clear she is struggling – finally – with the truth.
“This is a pattern we see with pathological liars, first, lies, lies and more lies. Then, they begin to mull consequences – in this case staying in jail – and toy with the truth, on this occasion, Casey Anthony apologizing, but not with any real emotion.
“The eyewitnesses agree that she was saying ‘I’m sorry’ without a trace of feeling in her voice.
Artist's rendering of what Anthony might look like if a fellow inmate slugged her.
“This is typical, and this is good news. It suggests Casey cannot keep up her charade and will either break down and confess or make a decision to talk calmly to prosecutors and police, telling them at long last what is true.’”
The eyewitnesses who heard Anthony apologizing disagreed about what they saw on the notepad she had been doodling on during a hearing in Orange County, Florida on Friday, on Jan. 30.
One saw “nonsensical scribbing” with nothing intelligible except perhaps “something that looked like a little ‘frowning face’.”
The other says, “I am certain I saw the name ‘Caylee Marie’. I would testify in court to that. I would bet my life on it.”
If the baby’s name is on the paper, a legal expert says that would be admissible in court along with testimony about what the eyewitnesses heard.
As the expert puts it: “The question to explore is, ‘Why was Casey Anthony apologizing to Caylee?’
“It might be because she let her down or harmed her in some way. It might be because she killed her.”
Interestingly, as derekclontz.com was the first to report, the source who overheard Anthony saying she doesn’t care if she is convicted – an insider close to the case – said there was “something different in her voice that I haven’t heard before. I think it was fear.
“It’s like the reality of her trial and the strength of the case against her is beginning to sink in. What Iheard today sounded like someone preparing herself for the worst.
“It was as if she were telling herself, ‘I’m not going to be able to lie myself out of this. I might as well prepare myself for it.”
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Anthony was escorted into a courtroom in Orange County, Florida, at 8:15 a.m. Friday morning with what one observed described as “a Cheshire-cat grin on her face” – a reference to the perpetually smiling cat in Alice in Wonderland.
If convicted, Anthony faces at least life in prison if not the death penalty. Her trial date has not been set, but likely will be moved out of Orange County because the jury pool knows too much about the case from local and national reporting.
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Jesus Christ - or a trick of light - photographed over Obama inauguration?
President Barack Obama has asked a powerful new linguistic task force to find ways to expand the definition of “middle class” to include “lower class” and “upper class” while keeping “the super rich” in a category of their own.
President Barack Obama.
In that way, the president confided to senior administration officials, the true and traditional middle class will feel as if they are the focus of economic initiatives while the lower class will understand that they, as part of the middle class, also are being helped.
Under this semantical scheme, the upper class will see themselves as beneficiaries as well, because, as actual members of the middle class per the linquistic team’s forthcoming redefinitions, they will be on the “handout radar”, too.
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As the so-called fairness state unfolds, the super rich will be reminded that they are comfortably distanced and well isolated from the underclasses, including former upper-class folks who, even though they had been fairly well off, weren’t in a position to pay high-priced accountants to prevent the redistribution of their wealth in the form of tax cuts to people who don’t pay taxes.
For the record, the super rich likely will include all serious politicians, some celebrities and most corporate CEOs.
“The strength of our economy can be measured by the strength of our middle class,” Obama said.
“This is a difficult moment. But I believe, if we act boldly and swiftly, it can be an American moment — when we work through our differences and overcome our divisions to become, truly, a nation of two peoples, the middle classes and the monied classes, working together, as one.”
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Christian artist Dick Kulpa's rendering of angelic Caylee Anthony.
Just minutes before a hearing to determine when she will stand trial for the murder of Caylee Anthony, her 2-year-old daughter, tot mom Casey Anthony reportedly told a member of her legal team that she’s “starting to like jail … and … don’t care if I’m convicted or not.”
Casey Anthony.
She went on to say she’s “not guilty of a damn thing … life in prison will have to be better than life (as a free person on the outside) … everybody hates me … even my (friends) …”
The statements mark a sharp departure from Anthony’s earlier insistence that jail was the pits and she wanted out in the worst way.
The source who overheard the statements, an insider close to the case, said there was “something different in her voice that I haven’t heard before. I think it was fear.
“It’s like the reality of her trial and the strength of the case against her is beginning to sink in. What Iheard today sounded like someone preparing herself for the worst.
“It was as if she were telling herself, ‘I’m not going to be able to lie myself out of this. I might as well prepare myself for it.”
Anthony was escorted into a courtroom in Orange County, Florida, at 8:15 a.m. Friday morning with what one observed described as “a Cheshire cat grin on her face.”
It was reported that she took notes with a pencil throughout the proceeding, although one person who claims to have seen the notepad she was working on said there “wasn’t a word on it, just doodling.”
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As she scribbled away, Circuit Judge Stan Strickland granted defense attorney Jose Baez’s motion and request to visit the crime scene where Caylee’s skeletal remains were found, the mouth of the skull wrapped with duct tape.
Strickland said he will rule on Baez’s request to obtain the records of volunteers who helped in the search for baby Caylee at a later date. Getting that information could help the defense make the case that the tot’s body was dumped long after Casey Anthony had been jailed, legal experts say.
That, in turn, might help the defense prove that she didn’t kill the baby, they explain.
On the issue of a change-of -venue motion, Strickland said he will set a hearing date when the appropriate paperwork is filed.
It was also determined that if the trial is not set for the end of the year, a change of venue motion may not be necessary – and the trial could be held in Florida.
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If Casey Anthony really does have lice, this is what they look like.
Tot mom says she's itching too much to appear at her own trial for murder.
Just days after she complained about a boil on her buttocks and a rash around her private parts, Casey Anthony has told authorities she’s picked up “either scabies or head lice from somebody” – a situation that, she says, “will make it impossible for me to appear in court tomorrow because I’ll scratch too much, and it hurts to sit with the boil and all.”
Whether she will be forced to appear remains to be seen.
But an informed source says officials at the Orange County (FL) Jail “have to take the complaint seriously because head lice would be an issue that might affect other prisoners or staff and people in the courtroom.”
“Does Casey Anthony really have head lice or scabies? I doubt it,” the source told me exclusively. “But they’ll check her out just to make sure.
“She’s been complaining about a boil for several days and also about a rash. I seriously doubt the court will excuse her from court on Friday.
“She’s obviously willing to make any excuse to stay out of the public spotlight and media circus that will be waiting for her at the courthouse.”
As we reported on Wednesday, Casey Anthony has been pestering jail staff and medical personnel with a range of medical complaints.
According to an informed source, she’s been moaning and groaning for a week about an ugly boil on her buttocks.
Prior to that, she had been whining and crying about a rash that broke out around her private parts after she tried to give herself a jailhouse “Brazilian wax bikini trim” without the wax – using Scotch tape instead.
Boils are ugly, but not a medical emergency.
“She’s the little princess around here – at least, she thinks she is,” said our source for that report, an insider who is close to the case and has been from the get-go.
“She’s always complaining about something. For Casey Anthony you better believe it’s all about her. As for that bikini wax job, the joke around her is that Scotch tape wasn’t sticky enough to do the job right.
“She should have used duct tape like she did on her baby.”
Anthony, 23, is set to stand trial in Orlando, Florida, charged with the murder of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, 2, last summer.
The insider’s reference to “duct tape” was a mocking reference to the duct tape that was found wrapped around tragic Caylee’s skull when her remains were found late last year.
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Washington - A disgruntled White House employee reportedly stashed a Muslim prayer rug under President Barack Obama’s desk in the Oval Office hoping to get the Commander in Chief “in trouble with Christians,” a senior administration official confirms.
“President Obama shrugged it off,” the official, a longtime friend of this blog, told me exclusively. “He’s not going to make waves over a sad and stupid prank like this.”
The source declined to name the employee or give additional details other than to say President Obama spotted the well-worn but neatly folded rug under his desk on Jan. 28 after he dropped a pen and leaned over to pick it up.
The source also said “the person who admitted responsibility” has been disciplined and transferred “but won’t be fired over this per the President.”
What do you think? Should the employee be named and fired, or given a break? Vote in our poll and write to us using the comments feature on this page.
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Christian artist Dick Kulpa's gentle rendering of angelic Caylee Anthony.
Alleged baby killer Casey Anthony will answer to a charge of murder in a Florida court of law, but what about her soul, how can she – if, in fact, she is guilty – get right with God?
What do you think? We’d like to hear from people of all faiths, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Hindu, Muslim, Native American, Earth-based … and more.
When commenting, feel free to tell us whether you – personally – can find it in your heart to forgive Anthony for what police allege was the cold and calculating murder of her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee.
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Casey Anthony is pestering jail staff and medical personnel with a range of medical complaints that will shock and amaze you. According to an informed source, she’s been moaning and groaning for a week about an ugly boil on her buttocks.
Boils are ugly, but not a medical emergency.
Casey says her bunky has a boil on it - REPORT.
Just days earlier, she had been whining and crying about a rash that broke out around her private parts after she tried to give herself a jailhouse “Brazilian wax bikini trim” without the wax – using Scotch tape.
“She’s the little princess around here – at least, she thinks she is,” said the source, an insider who is close to the case.
“She’s always complaining about something. For Casey Anthony you better believe it’s all about her. As for that bikini wax job, the joke around her is that Scotch tape wasn’t sticky enough to do the job right.
“She should have used duct tape like she did on her baby.”
Anthony, 23, is on trial in Orlando, Florida, charged with the murder of her daughter, Caylee Anthony, 2, last summer. The insider’s reference to “duct tape” was a mocking reference to the duct tape that was found wrapped around tragic Caylee’s skull when her remains were found late last year.
Other “problems” the insider says Casey Anthony has complained about during her incarceration are:
- Intestinal gas and excessive belching from jailhouse food.
- A sore neck from sleeping on a hard jailhouse mattress.
- Repeated headaches.
- Constipation.
- A hemorrhoid flare-up.
What do you think? Is Casey being a crybaby or just angling for more attention? Vote in our poll and send your comments.
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Casey: It's all about me.
Amazing! Word has leaked from the Orange County (FL) Jail that alleged baby killer Casey Anthony is complaining her jail clothes are “too itchy and scratchy” and she would prefer some “that have been softened by stone washing like they do at the GAP.”
No word yet whether the sheriff’s department will give Anthony, 23, softer clothes. But, as a source tells us: “Unless she breaks out in a really bad rash and a doctor orders softer fabrics, she’s stuck with what she’s got.”
Although Anthony has been charged with one of the most heinous crimes imaginable – killing her own daughter, Caylee Anthony, 2, last summer -” if she truly is suffering from an allergy or some other difficulty that can be linked to the fabric in her jail uniform, the humane response,” added the source, “would be to give her clothes made from a different fabric.
“But I don’t think we should cater to her or coddle her. Not on your life.”
What do you think? Vote in our poll and leave comments now.
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Angelina Jolie
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Alleged baby killer Casey Anthony wants Angelina Jolie to portray her in a TV movie, with her backup choices being up-and-coming film cutie Megan Fox and Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria Parker, reports a tot-mom-trial insider who goes on to say:
“My jaw dropped when I heard that little witch (Anthony) talking about it. It’s like she’s enjoying the publicity surrounding her own murder trial.”
Now that Anthony, 23 – who stands accused of murdering daughter Caylee Anthony, 2, last summer – has weighed in on casting for the TV movie that millions are waiting to see, what do YOU think?
Who would you cast to play Casey Anthony?
Vote now for Jolie, Fox, Parker, troubled actress and singer Britney Spears or comedian, and, as some have said, Anthony lookalike Tina Fey. Or, you can write in your own candidates in our comment boxes. Vote now.
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DOCTORS recommended gastric bypass surgery to help 476-pound Jack Gras lose weight, but when they sliced open his over-ample belly they found they had triple the work – because he had three stomachs in there.
Photo: National Institutes of Health.
“No wonder I was always hungry,” Gras, 33, of Omaha, Nebraska, told me exclusively, noting that he has lost 142-pounds, effortlessly, since his surgery.
“I’d eat and eat and eat and never fill up, and everybody thought I was pigging out because I was a glutton.
“Now I’ve been vindicated. I’m not a slob. I’m more like a freak,” he chuckles, “or at least I was until the operation.
“These days, I feel great and I’m losing weight like crazy. Of course, these days I’ve got only one stomach – and even that one’s been surgically bypassed.”
Surgeons were unprepared to remove the baker’s extra stomachs when they went in for the simple bypass they expected, “but we worked quick,” one told me, “and sliced them right out of there.”
After debating whether to leave a single stomach full-sized and intact or perform the bypass by moving the end of his esophagus closer to the beginning of his colon, they decided to “go with the original plan and shorten things up,” the Read the rest of this entry »
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IF YOU think Jehovah’s Witnesses are pesky when they rap on your door to share the gospel during your child’s first birthday party or with dinner boiling over on the stove, just wait until you open your home to a gang of drug- and sex-crazed Devil worshippers trying to sell you on the advantages of giving your life and soul to Satan.
“If you haven’t met Satan’s Witnesses yet, you will – it’s just a matter of time,” cult expert and police consultant Martin Heller told me exclusively.
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“This is an aggressive group of individuals and as I have warned police departments nationwide, to simply write them off as kooks and nincompoops is the wrong thing to do.”
Agreeing with the expert are hundreds if not thousands of decent, law-abiding, right-thinking Americans who have opened their heart and home to a door buzzer or gentle knocking, only to be confronted with scenes of shrieking Satanic horror – from the decapitation of chickens, puppies and kittens to near unimaginable acts of sexual perversion … all happening right there on their doorstep.
Satan’s Witnesses are, Heller says, “extremely well versed in the arts of shock and terror.”
But police are virtually powerless to stop them because they hide behind the protections our laws provide for all religions – and like it or not, Satanism is a religion.
It is a perversion of the law, yes. But you have to remember, Heller continues, “these are perverted people.”
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Casey Anthony defiantly told a fellow inmate that she will take “truth serum to prove” she didn’t kill baby Caylee, the 2-year-old daughter cops say she murdered in cold blood last summer, a jailhouse source reveals.
“The inmate Casey was talking to is a reliable informant,” the source told me exclusively. “I trust her. If she said Casey said she wants truth serum to prove her innocence – and she did say that – then I believe it.
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Casey Anthony: Artist's rendering of what she might look like if a fellow inmate slugged her.
“I also believe Casey would be crazy to take truth serum, because, let’s face it, she’s guilty, and truth serum would prove it.”
Police deny that Anthony, 23, could have made such a statement to another inmate because, as one veteran investigator put it, “she’s damn near in solitary confinement.”
To which our source said, ”Casey is supposed to be isolated and kept away from other prisoners, that’s true.
“But make no mistake: inmates in every jail devise ingenious ways to communicate, and oftentimes, especially in murder cases based on circumstantial evidence, the authorities find it convenient to look the other way, especially when one of the inmates is working directly for them.
“You better believe Casey Anthony is talking, and you better believe she has a confidante. Unfortunately for her, in this case, the confidante is an informant.”
Taken at face value, her alleged willingness to take truth serum would be the first indication that Anthony, who by all appearances is an unrelenting and pathological liar, is willing to cooperate in a serious interrogation, as truth serum – scientifically known as sodium pentathol – historically has been used with some success in criminal cases and also in military investigations of prisoners of war and spies.
Tapes, videos and transcripts of such a drugged interrogation would not be admissable in court, legal experts consulted by derekclontz.com agree.
But they still could prove to be valuable by giving police and prosecutors details and information a defendant such as Anthony previously may have withheld.
And the follow-up investigations based on such new information would be admissable in court as long as acceptable investigatory procedures and protocols were adhered to.
“The chances of anybody giving Casey Anthony sodium pentathol are slim to none,” said an expert who contributes regularly to a cable news show covering the murder case. By contract with the cable network, the expert must remain unnamed in print and Internet reports not associated with the show.
“But if she’s really so confident that she can prove her innocence,” continued the expert, “why not take a lie detector test?
“We all know the answer to that. She couldn’t pass a lie detector test, she knows she couldn’t pass a lie detector test – so she isn’t about to agree to a lie detector test.
“But she can say she would take truth serum because she knows full well police aren’t going to give it to her.
“Look, Casey Anthony isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer, but she certainly is one of the connivingest. Truth serum? I can just imagine what would come out of her mouth … she’d be retracting every word she ever spoke. She is a deeply troubled young woman for sure.”
“Casey is supposed to be isolated and kept away from other prisoners, but make no mistake: inmates in every jail devise ingenious ways to communicate.
“You better believe she’s talking, and you better believe she has a confidante. Unfortunately for her, in this case, the confidante is an informant.”
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Your favorite foods are a window to your soul, says a psychologist, adding: They really do reveal your true personality, including interesting but hidden traits that you might not be completely aware of yourself.
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“All foods are filled with unique symbolic meanings,” Dr. Leonine Toler told derekclontz.com exclusively.
”The foods you yearn for carry a secret message that can speak volumes about who you are.”
The psychologist gave this analysis of what a craving for certain kinds of foods reveals about people:
ETHNIC FOODS: These foods carry the message, “I’ll take you back to a time and place when you were part of a large and happy family.”
People who crave ethnic foods are sentimental and romantic and view the past with nostalgia. They seek to establish a link with their heritage and have a feeling of belonging.
DESSERTS:
These are the “reward” foods which carry the message, “You’ll be reassured … you’ve done well.”
Sweets appeal to people who want more recognition than they normally get. They are hard workers who are often modest and do not get full credit for their efforts.
STEAKS AND ROASTS: “I’ll make your life exciting” is the message. These appeal to people who are often too cautious and conservative to risk trying something new, and so suffer boredom.
They see entertaining distraction in exciting foods.
FRESH FOODS: The message is, “You’ll live a long and happy life.” Fruits, greens and vegetables are irresistible to people who are usually energetic, enthusiastic and want to live life to the fullest.
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George Anthony needs your support and encouragement to weather the most hellish of emotional storms, the murder of his beloved granddaughter, Caylee Anthony, 2, at the hands, allegedly, of his equally beloved daughter, Casey Anthony, the tot’s 23-year-old mom.
To make matters worse, through no fault of his own, his home in Orlando, Florida, is a crime scene and the focus of a media circus. Just days ago Mr. Anthony alarmingly slipped away in the wee hours. Alerted by the family’s attorney, cops found him in the nick of time, preventing the distraught grandfather from killing himself because the pain of circumstances was too much to bear.
Heartbreakingly, as he contemplated taking his own life, he reportedly said in a text message that he “wanted to go to be with Caylee.”
Today, we ask our family of readers to use the comment box on this page to let Mr. Anthony know that he is in our thoughts and prayers, and that God really does heal all wounds, even those that cut as deep as his surely do.
Please take a moment to let Mr. Anthony know you care. We will send all comments to him daily to help him through his crisis.
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By RAGAN DUNN/derekclontz.com writer
A prolonged recession will knock a lot of people for a financial loop, but our expert has some tips that can help you battle the bad times ahead – and come out smelling like a rose.
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“The important thing is to plan, don’t panic,” says consumer expert Derek Clontz. “Keep a tight rein, a sense of control over your life.”
Clontz offers these suggestions for weathering the financial storm:
- Learn new ways to have a good time without blowing a lot of money. Have fun with family and friends. Instead of shopping or eating out, organize an old-fashioned picnic or take a stroll in the park.
- Barter or develop other ways of acquiring needed goods and services without shelling out scarce money. If a neighbor can cut your child’s hair, offer to mow his lawn or wash his car in return.
- When financial trouble arises, attack the problem and not the person. Don’t blame yourself or others for tough situations that can’t be controlled. Spend your energy finding ways to get out of the hole you’re in.
- Be constantly alert for new ways to economize by organizing a car pool or making meals out of leftovers.
- Seek ways to add to your income. Taking in a boarder might ease your financial burden without increasing your workload.
- If you feel your job is in jeopardy, get additional training to improve. Find out exactly what your supervisors expect of you and make plans to satisfy them.
- Be very wary of loan consolidation in times of soaring interest rates. It’s cheaper to pay part of most bills than to take a high-interest consolidation loan.
Send your ideas for beating the recession – your tips can help derekclontz.com’s 200,000-strong family of readers live better, happier, healthier lives – even when money is tight.
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Charles Manson reportedly has asked family members who are not in prison to deliver a few words of encouragement to alleged baby killer Casey Anthony: “Be true to yourself. Don’t let society beat you down because (they) will never understand people like me and you.”
HANG IN THERE: Charles Manson's reported message to Casey Anthony.
And he went on to say that when a “Helter Skelter” civil war between white and black Americans finally does break out as he predicted it would back in 1969, he’d like to spend some time with her “and you can have my baby.”
“This is an outrageous statement from one of the most wickedly brilliant human beings in the history of the evil – Charles Manson,” said ex-cop and Manson expert Roland Fennemore, of London, England.
“I have no opinion about Casey Anthony as I have not been following the case. But if she is, in fact, guilty of the crime she is charged with – murdering her own daughter in cold blood – then I would put her in Manson’s league.
“Not that she has his mind, Manson is, after all, a diabolical genius and from all appearances, she is a good liar but not necessarily bright.
“But she would certainly seem to be right up there with him in terms of sociopathy. He has no compunctions or conscience. And, if guilty, she, it would seem, doesn’t have them, either, a fact that would suggest that she, like Manson, would be capable of commiting heinous acts without giving them a second thought.”
Manson, 73, is serving a life sentence in Corcoran State Prison in King’s County, California. He seldom talks to reporters, but he often sends coded messages to members of his murderous “family” as well as younger fans and disciples who seemingly are ready, willing and able to do his bidding.
Authorities say at least 15 of the original family members are still alive. And it is estimated that as many as 500,000 teenagers and adults consider Manson to be a political prisoner who committed no crime and never should have stood trial for anything, much less the multiple brutal murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and others that landed him in prison for life.
It is unclear which family member or groupie released Manson’s purported statement to Casey Anthony, who is being held in Orange County, Florida as she faces a charge of first degree murder in connection with the disappearance and death of Caylee Anthony, her 2-year-old daughter, last summer.
But an FBI source tells us exclusively, “We first heard about it on Wednesday through an e-mail from a known Manson follower. As far as investigating, there’s nothing to investigate. Even Manson and his friends are entitled to free speech. He can say anything he wants to.”
Sources at the Orange County Jail say Anthony hasn’t said anything to suggest that she has heard the message. “The last thing she needs is to start a conversation with Manson,” said one. “The last thing.”
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Alleged baby killer Casey Anthony kept a gruesome “paint by numbers” diary describing how, when and where she murdered her 2-year-old daughter Caylee, says a source who claims prosecutors will enter the 14-page, hand-written journal into evidence at Anthony’s trial for murder.
“… the little snot … I’ll fix her …” the diary is alleged to say in part.
“First, a little cloroform (sp) and then (illegible). She won’t know. She’ll be a lot better off …”
Authorities declined to comment on the source’s report, but they did say that “anything pertinent to the case will be presented” as evidence in court.
Friends of Anthony, 23, are on record as having told Orange County, Florida, sheriff’s investigators and reporters that she had spoken of a journal prior to her arrest for murder last fall.
But, until now, nobody had ever suggested that such a document had been found.
A blow-by-blow account of murder, in a defendant’s own handwriting, would be damning, say legal observers, especially if, as claimed by the source, the journal was written in advance of the killing.
“That’s premeditated murder in the first degree, and that puts the death penalty on the table,” explained a legal expert who contributes regularly to a cable news show and, by contract, must remain anonymous in non-cable reports.
“I hope to God the diary is legit,” the expert continued. “If Casey Anthony is guilty, I don’t want any ambiguity in the courtroom. Her family deserves closure. The stronger the evidence, the better for everyone involved.”
Anthony was arrested and charged with the murder of her daughter, Caylee, after the little girl went missing last June. Her skeletonized remains were discovered just weeks ago.
Coincidentally, earlier this week, a psychic claimed to have ” seen in a vision” Anthony murder baby Caylee with bug killer and chloroform.
The source who leaked information about Anthony’s alleged ”murder diary” says authorities believe the illegible diary entry following the misspelled word “cloroform” in the excerpt reprinted above is, in fact, “pesticide”, which is, of course, bug killer.
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This is the photo the liberal media doesn’t want you to see: a faint but indisputable image of Jesus Christ towering 500 feet over the inauguration of President Barack Obama in Washington, D.C. on January 20.
And the photographer? A 53-year-old grandmother of six who just happened to be at the right angle in the right light at the right moment – and snapped the picture with a $125 point-and-shoot digital camera.
“I tried to give it to ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News but they laughed at me and said nobody wants to see Jesus Christ – they want to see Barack Obama,” said Jerri K., who asked that her last name be kept secret to avoid reprisals and harrassment “from non-Christians and haters who don’t love and worship our Lord Jesus.”
“Mr. Clontz, you’re the only journalist who’s taking this seriously. I hope people appreciate what you do.”
Jerri, of Columbia, S.C., told me she had traveled to Washington, D.C., to “witness the historic moment of an African American being sworn in as president.”
She also is African American, and brought along with her two of her grandchildren.
“We were in the crowd and people were cheering and singing and dancing around when my youngest grandchild started tugging on my coat and screaming at the top of his little lungs, ‘Grandma – it’s Jesus!’ And he was pointing to the sky.
“At first I didn’t see anything, but my grandbaby kept yelling, ‘Take his picture! Take his picture!’
“So I did. For a split second, I could see Jesus through my camera, and then he was gone. I looked around and started asking people, ‘Did you see that?’ Nobody knew what I was talking about.”
Jerri said she showed the image to field producers for ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox News, all of whom were on the ground in D.C., mingling with crowds and shooting film for news shows that aired on the various networks.
“I showed them the picture but they didn’t want it even when I offered it to them for free. A woman from NBC laughed at me. A woman from ABC told me, ‘Nobody came here and stood in this freezing cold to see Jesus in a cloud, they came to see Barack Obama. He’s the man of the hour.’
“The Fox person was nicer – at least he looked at the picture and thought about it. But he didn’t think it really was Jesus. He said it probably is just a reflection on the lens of my camera, or dust or vapor in the atmosphere.
“He said it’s like when people find a Jesus or Mary in a taco shell or on the bark of a tree, it’s something that just happens by coincidence.
“I still think it was Jesus and I praise God for letting me take this picture. I think he came here to tell the world that he will help President Obama make peace in the world and fix this terrible economy for people of every color.”
What do YOU think? Is Jerri right – is the image Jesus? And what about the network producers – do you think it was right of them to make fun of the grandmother and her photograph? Weigh in using the comments box on this page.
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President Barack and first lady Michelle Obama were dressed to the nines when he took his oath of office on January 20. But beneath the fancy designer threads they were wearing something considerably less distinguished – the very same “lucky underpants” they sported on their wedding day 17 long years ago, on Oct. 18, 1992.
Barack and Michelle Obama: Supremely confident in their lucky underpants.
That’s the word from a close friend of the couple, who said the Obamas have worn the white “jockey-style “briefs (him) and white cotton panties (her) “probably 20 times over the years, when their daughters were born, on all of their interviews for jobs, on election nights and, of course, on their anniversaries.
“They make no secret of it among friends, and I don’t think they’ll mind letting the American public in on their little ‘ritual’ either. Some might think it’s a silly thing, but it’s one of the ways Barack and Michelle show their solidarity as a couple.
“When they pull out the lucky undies, they’re a team like no other. They wink at each other in public when they’re wearing them, as if to say, ‘You and me, baby – we’ve got the power!’
“And you’ve got to admit, to some extent, their lives together have been charmed. In just a few short years they’ve gone from a middle-class couple to the most powerful man and woman in the world.
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“Did their lucky underwear have anything to do with that? Who knows?
“But I will tell you this, with the U.S. and world economies in a tailspin, with everybody needing a new financial deal and greater opportunities for themselves and their children, I, personally, am thrilled that Barack and Michelle are leading the way.
“If their lucky underwear will help, I’m all for it. We need all the help they can get.”
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Ray-Bird, left, and Pele, right, come when you call them (smart) - but they also roll in poo (dumb).
Pets aren’t as smart as you think they are, especially when they do idiotic things like chew on live electrical cords or greedily lap vomit off the floor fearing you’ll get it before they do.
But not even those lapses in judgment can compare with the stone-cold stupidity of the critters that have just been named The World’s Dumbest Pets by Doody Treats, Inc., Dallas, Texas-based company that makes poo-flavored snacks for, who else? – pets that like to eat that stuff.
“People like to think their animals are smart, but, in fact, pets act like pea-brained idiots most of the time,” says Doody Treats spokesman Candace Miller.
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“For every bright thing they do, like bring in the morning paper, they’ll do 10 dumb things – like shred the side of your new couch with their claws or chew the seat belts in your car because you left them alone for two minutes while you ran into a 7-11 for a candy bar.”
And that’s mere child’s play compared to the shenanigans the firm’s contest winners pulled. Here they are:
o 36-24-36 – and don’t forget the gold! A burglar who broke into an upscale home in San Francisco couldn’t have found better accomplices than Tammy the Mynah Bird and Petey the Parrot.
Tammy told the crook where to find her bound-and-gagged owner’s wall safe – and gave him the combination to open the lock.
The parrot chimed in, “Check the hall closet! Check the hall closet!” – alerting the criminal to a metal chest stuffed with gold coins valued at $27,000!
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By Dr. DONNA SCHWONTKOWSKI
4-Page Media, Inc. Health Editor
If you have chronic fatigue, I have a lot of compassion for you. I suffered from it myself for years, along with fibromyalgia.
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Often vitamin and mineral deficiencies are the cause of chronic fatigue. In fact, after evaluating many multi-vitamin/mineral formulas on the market, I’m amazed at how many of them leave out specific nutrients that give us energy.
Vitamins like biotin, often found at 33% of the RDA. Minerals such as molybdenum (from lentils and almonds) which prevents panic attacks and worry attacks. Essential elements such as germanium that oxygenates the system.
You can’t possibly have enough oxygen in the tissues without germanium. And even CoQ10. Now that one is the most interesting of all.
The reason why is because if you’re on most prescription medications, including ones for high blood pressure, heart disease, diabetes, high cholesterol – a total of more than 100 medications – then those medications deplete CoQ10 levels in the body and some can do it in a few weeks.
You’re left with fatigue instead of that ready to go, get in the car now kind of feeling.
What I Do – Works Every Time
Here’s a vitamin/mineral tip I use if my energy levels are not what they should be: I take germanium (a good natural source is the South America rainforest herb, Suma), and three CoQ10 capsules (100 mg each) and go to bed. By the way, if you’re going to try this, don’t mix it with medication.
The germanium makes your medication more potent. The CoQ10 mixes well with any medication, however.
Anyway, the next morning, I’ll jump out of bed, humming and smiling and so can you.
Obviously, I’m not giving medical advice here, just telling you what I do. Each case of chronic fatigue is a little different.
If you try it, let me know how you benefit.
Chronic fatigue could also be caused by a B vitamin deficiency so if you’ve had your hands in the cookie jar, or more than your eyes scoping out the kids’ candy, it could be what you’re suffering from. Sugary snacks deplete B vitamins.
The best way to beat chronic fatigue is to eat balanced meals with more wholesome snacks in between.
Here’s an herbal formula for chronic fatigue:
Red clover: a blood cleanser.
Milk Thistle: cleanses the toxins out of the liver. Chronic fatigue can be from a dirty liver or dirty blood.
Chornic Fatigue Support Kit: Feel better.
Cat’s Claw: anti-microbial activity. Chronic fatigue can be due to an infection of any kind.
Eleuthero: more antimicrobial properties. Kill all those bugs causing infection of any kind in your body.
Hawthorne: great for the heart. If you’re out of shape in the cardiovascular department, this herb does wonders to increase your stamina without exercise.
Licorice Root: a kidney cleanser. The better you can move toxins out of the body, the better you’ll feel.
Garlic: Antimicrobial actions are excellent. (Keeps away vampires, too!)
Ginkgo Biloba: Brings circulation to the brain for mental energy, clear thinking.
Suma: Good natural source of germanium, a cellular and tissue oxygenator.
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Smile of the Day:
Just to warn you, I like blonde jokes.
So, two blonde guys were standing at the base of a flagpole, looking up. A woman walked by and asked them what they were doing. “We’re supposed to measure the height of this flagpole,” said blonde guy number one, “but we don’t have a ladder.”
The woman took a wrench from her purse and loosened some bolts. The guys helped her lay down the flagpole. Then the woman got a tape measure from her pocket, took a measurement and said, “Eighteen feet, six inches,” and walked away.
Blonde guy number two shook his head and laughed. “Isn’t that just like a girl? We ask for the height and she gives us the length!”
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Health Tip:
Put a smile on your face the minute you wake up and “catch” yourself smiling at least three more times during the day. Every time you smile or laugh, chemicals called endorphins are produced in your brain that decrease pain, boost your immune system, help your digestive system, and just make you feel great!
Have you ever noticed that babies smile most of the day and night? That children find many things funny and smile many times during the day and night? What happened to adults?
Often, adults feel weighted down with problems and end up with frowns on their faces that end up causing permanent changes in the corners of their mouth! Stop this now with a smile. Look for funny things during the day and you’ll find them. Smile!
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Nutrition Tip:
One great food for allergies: kefir milk. Many of my patients notice big improvements in sinus allergies in one day. Get the plain kefir milk, not the flavored one. Add your own flavors such as lemon extract, cinnamon, pumpkin pie spice, chocolate or vanilla.
Til next Monday, friends …
Dr. Donna
Dr. Donna Schwontkowski is Doctor of Chiropractic (retired) and Master Herbalist and she also holds a Masters Degree in Nutrition. In her personal practice, lectures, seminars and as a health writer and consultant, she has helped thousands of people find optimal health and wellness. Questions? Comments? Write to Dr. Donna using the comments box on this page, or send a personal e-mail to her in care of 4page@earthlink.net. She reads and responds to every letter.
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O.J. Simpson has weighed in on the Caylee Anthony murder case, reportedly saying tot mom Casey Anthony “is guilty as sin” in connection with the murder of her 2-year-old daughter last summer.
O.J. Simpson believes Cayce Anthony killed her daughter, says pal.
That outrageous tidbit comes our way from a pal of the former football great, who in 1994 stood trial for, but was cleared in, the murder of ex-wife Nicole Simpson. He’d now cooling his heels in prison following his conviction for an unrelated armed robbery late last year.
“O.J. can say anthing he likes, but he knows better than anyone that you aren’t guilty until a jury of your peers decides you are guiltyt,” an Orange County (Florida) Sheriff’s Department insider told me exclusively.
“Aside from that, what else can I say? This is pretty much a case of the pot, O.J., calling the kettle, Casey Anthony, black, in a case that gets stranger by the day.”
In the 1990s, Simpson also stood trial for the murder of a Nicole friend, Ronald Goldman. Exonerated in criminal proceedings, he went on to face civil charges for which he was convicted and order to pay restitution.
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Casey Anthony might not be responsible for daughter Caylee’s death even if she killed the baby in a vicious and calculating act of cold-blooded murder – because Anthony, 23, may be possessed by an evil spirit that made her act against her wishes, a leading psychologist says.
Dancing with the Devil. Is Casey Anthony possessed?
“Many people are possessed by earthbound spirits – the spirits of those who have died but have not gone into the afterworld at death,” Dr. Massey Meldin, of Perth, Australia, told me exclusively.
”Instead, they have stayed on Earth and remained just as they were before they died – with the fears, pains, weaknesses and other problems that they had while they were alive. They are drawn to unite with the living, and they can make the living miserable and sick.
“They can even drive them to commit heinous crimes.
“If Casey Anthony killed her daughter, and yet, feels no remorse, that suggests a spirit might have been manipulating her like a puppet on a string. She’s very cool. She seems to believe that she had nothing to do with little Caylee’s disappearance even though the evidence against her seems damning.
“This jibes with possession. Her body might have killed the baby without her even knowing it. Her hands might have strangled the child, or held a chloroform rag over her mouth – but perhaps she wasn’t in control of her hands … perhaps an evil spirit was.”
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The expert says that most victims of earthbound spirits become possessed at times of vulnerability – when they are sick, emotionally upset, drugged or under stress.
She says any of the following symptoms could indicate possession:
- Low energy levels (Casey Anthony was too lazy to hold a job, say reports).
- Sudden onset of physical problems, anxiety or bouts of depression. (Casey Anthony’s behavior, including boozy nights and fits of temper, suggest difficulty with anxiety and depression, say reports.)
- Character shifts or mood swings. (Casey’s friends say she has changed so much they barely recognize her, according to reports.)
- An inner voice or voices that speak to you. (Insiders say evidence that this was occuring to Casey likely will come out in court.)
- Alcohol or drug abuse. (Photographs, lots of them, show Casey in close proximity to beer and liquor.)
- Impulsive behavior. (A great deal of evidence has been presented on TV talk shows and in news reports to suggest Casey is highly impulsive.)
- Weight gain with no obvious cause. (News reports that Casey is gaining weight are sweeping the Internet.)
-Poor concentration. (Police have made it clear that Casey can’t even keep her own lies straight.)
Law enforcement officials declined to comment for this report, although one privately quipped: “Possessed? Casey Anthony isn’t possessed. Casey Anthony is the Devil herself.”
Concluded psychologist Meldin: “If Casey Anthony’s defense team is smart, they’ll bring in an exorcist to analyze her behavior and perhaps cast the spirit out.
“If she is possessed, and the spirit leaves, she will be free to tell police exactly what happened, exactly how Caylee was killed – and how she was killed. Right now, if she is possessed, she couldn’t tell them the truth if she wanted to … the spirit wouldn’t let her.
“The question we have to ask if possession is proved, is this: ”Is Casey Anthony guilty if she had no control over her behavior at the time the baby was killed?’ That’s a tough one, and it’s for a jury to decide.”
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Stainless-steel "throne" where Casey Anthony "does her business."
Reports that Casey Anthony clogged the toilet in her jail cell with pages ripped from a pocket-sized version of the New Testament have not been confirmed and likely won’t be, says a law enforcement official in a position to know, “because minor plumbing problems aren’t matters of public record regardless of how high the profile of an inmate might be.”
The report has been characterized by reporters as “jailhouse scuttlebutt coming from low level employees.”
More if – and when – the story develops. Anthony, of course, is being held without bond in Florida’s Orange County Jail, accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee Anthony, last summer.
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Alleged baby-killer Casey Anthony appears in photographs to have gained so much weight in jail that some observers are saying she must be pregnant.
Casey Anthony pregnant? YOU be the judge.
And they’re even naming names with unfounded but intriguing speculations on who might have had sex with the 23-year-old alleged murderess in the days, weeks or months following her arrest in connection with the death of her firstborn child, baby Caylee Anthony, last summer.
Sources close to the case categorically deny the wildest Internet gossip – that a cop, jail guard or member of her legal team might have shared intimacies with Anthony in the past three months.
In the interest of fairness, we are not naming those individuals, at least two of whom are fairly high profile, Web hearsay suggests.
“I don’t think she’s pregnant – God forbid it,” said a reporter who has followed the case of first missing andthen murdered baby Caylee since last July.
Cops will neither confirm nor deny that Anthony is pregnant, but one thing, said the reporter, is clear.
“Sooner or later, the truth will be known. You might be able to hide a pregnancy at one month, two months or even three. But once you get up to the fourth or fifth month … well, the tummy will be out there for everyone to see.”
A lawyer who helps a major cable network analyze and report the murder case says “a pregnant Casey Anthony would cut a surreal image in a courtroom in which she is being tried for the murder of her first child.”
“It’s a sickening thought,” said the legal expert. “A sickening thought indeed.”
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Thousands of seemingly sane and sensible Americans are standing in line for gender-enhancement surgery that will turn them into hermaphrodites, giving them the physical attributes and sexual firepower of both sexes in one “fully-accessorized body.”
And even though many medical experts are convinced that the trend is just a passing fad, gender-bending “herms” themselves say “boy-girls” aren’t just “a topic du jour.” They’re here to stay.
“I used to be all man, now I’m all woman, too,” gloats Bob aka Marcia Kaylor-Fenlyn, a former college football star who underwent “herm surgery” in Asheville, North Carolina, last July and is over the moon with the results.
“And the great thing is, I’ve always got a date. If I feel like being a guy, I give one of my lady friends a jingle.
“If I feel like being a girl, I get one of my guy pals on the horn to find out if he’s free for the night.
“It doesn’t even matter if they tell me to get lost. I never find myself wanting for male or female companionship, because, when push comes to shove, I’ve always got myself.”
Nobody knows for sure where the hermaphrodite fad got its start.
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Police psychic Marlon Michaels-Richter says a nightmarish vision of nationally reviled tot-mom Casey Anthony snuffing the life of 2-year-old daughter Caylee Anthony with a witch’s brew of homemade chloroform and bug killer “shook me to my soul.”
Police psychic Marlon Michaels-Richter: Vision of tot-mom Casey Anthony is not for the faint of heart.
And in an emotional appeal to prosecutors in Orlando, Florida – where Casey Anthony, 23, has been charged with first-degree murder in connection with the June 2008 disappearance and subsequent death of baby Caylee - Michaels-Richter says:
“Don’t be fooled by her cold-hearted lies and calculated deceptions … in a chilling vision, I watched tot mom Casey Anthony murder baby Caylee with bug killer and homemade chloroform.
“She soaked a cloth in a bucket of the liquid and then clamped the cloth over the baby’s mouth and nose with the palm of her hand. Caylee struggled and batted with her arms at first, and then she went limp.
“Then Casey wrapped silver duct tape around the baby’s head. I’m not sure what happened next – I was in a deep trance, meditating on the murder in the hope that I could help police solve the crime.
“I remember coming back around as if I were waking from a deep sleep and realizing that I was in my office in New York City. Then, for a few seconds that seemed like hours, I was back in the trance.
“The images were fuzzy in my mind and everything was in slow motion. But I saw someone who looked like Casey Anthony getting out of a car. Her face wasn’t visible to me, but her body shape and hairstyle were just like hers.
“She was lugging a garbagebag into a wooded area, and she was whispering in a sing-song, ‘I’m going to paaaar-ty … I’m going to paaaar-ty.’