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Caylee Anthony's Grandfather Says 3-Year-Old Has Been Kidnapped
www.wftv.com ^ | 08/12/2008 | Staff

Posted on 08/12/2008 11:14:36 AM PDT by Red Badger

OVIEDO, Fla. -- It's been 28 days since now 3-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing. Caylee's grandfather told Eyewitness News on Tuesday that she was kidnapped and the people that have her are being watched.

George Anthony told Eyewitness News he was supposed to meet in Oviedo on Tuesday morning with "people assisting outside the normal scope of things" and he seemed to suggest that the people are doing surveillance on kidnappers who he believes have his granddaughter.

"These people know they are being watched. They know it," George told Eyewitness News on Tuesday morning.

"Who are these people?" WFTV reporter Derrol Nail asked.

"I really can't get into that with you," George said.

"Are there people out there who can help you find these people?" Nail asked.

"Yeah, you would think that the people who have my granddaughter right now would be smart enough to turn this girl back in to her family. I don't want anymore of this going on," he said.

"You really believe that, George, with all the evidence out there to the counter?" Nail asked.

"Oh, deeply. You know something? Stuff that's out there so far, I hope I can say this as politely as I can, evidence that's out there is circumstantial. Evidence that's out there is being drawn up in someone's mind. Just because some things look like it's going in one way, it could go in a totally different way," he said.

During his time in Oviedo on Tuesday morning, he passed out shirts and fliers to random strangers who came up to him, but the person who he said he was supposed to meet in Oviedo didn't show up.

Eyewitness News asked if he has hired a private investigator and he would only say that the people who are doing the surveillance are private people who are helping him.

After his brief conversation with Eyewitness News, George hit the road with a Caylee billboard in tow. He said he plans on driving it to Sanford and possibly Daytona if time allows....


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1 posted on 08/12/2008 11:14:36 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: Red Badger
Wow, I know if MY grandkid was missing, you'd certainly find me towing a picture of him around town. Yep, that'd do a lot of good. /sarc
2 posted on 08/12/2008 11:17:25 AM PDT by blu (Last one out of Michigan, please turn off the lights.)
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To: Red Badger
He says that the location of these fictitious kidnappers is known - in other words, he claims he has hard information on where his granddaughter is.

Yet he is driving around with a billboard ostensibly in order to have the public help him find out where she is.

All these lying Anthony scum should be in the clink.

3 posted on 08/12/2008 11:18:50 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: blu
...but the person who he said he was supposed to meet in Oviedo didn't show up.

Maybe because they don't exist, George?......................This whole family's nuts.............

4 posted on 08/12/2008 11:19:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: wideawake
He says that the location of these fictitious kidnappers is known......

Could it be that the murderer of Nicole Simpson and Ron Brown have turned to kidnapping?

5 posted on 08/12/2008 11:21:02 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: 1Old Pro

Heh heh.


6 posted on 08/12/2008 11:22:07 AM PDT by wideawake (Why is it that those who call themselves Constitutionalists know the least about the Constitution?)
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To: Red Badger

This is a double tragedy. I have two glorious grandkids, a girl 4 and a boy 17 months. I would crawl over glass to help them. Even if the road led to thier parents including my own daughter.

I get the sinking feeling probably like most here that little caylee is now in the arms of our lord.


7 posted on 08/12/2008 11:25:34 AM PDT by waxer1 (What exactly is meant by "we are going to take our country back")
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To: Red Badger

Man, was I wrong. After watching some of his court testimony, I thought this guy might be the only sane one in the family.

Now I’m thinking this is a clan of grifters, from top to bottom.


8 posted on 08/12/2008 11:28:19 AM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: waxer1

This whole episode is just so bizarre, that it defies all reason. Yes, I believe little Caylee is with Jesus, now..............


9 posted on 08/12/2008 11:29:05 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: 1Old Pro

Ron Brown?...........


11 posted on 08/12/2008 11:30:16 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: waxer1

Yea. My heart hurts. I don’t think the old grand father is involved in anyway. I just think they are trying to believe hard enough and work hard enough to make a different reality. It’s horribly sad.


12 posted on 08/12/2008 11:30:40 AM PDT by GulfBreeze (Vote for John McCain along with Tom DeLay, John Cornyn and the majority of conservatives.)
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To: Red Badger
Sounds to me like he's just cracking under the strain of denying in his own mind that his daughter murdered his granddaughter.

It's too big a horror to admit to himself, so he's pretending that he believes her insane stories.

13 posted on 08/12/2008 11:31:18 AM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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To: waxer1
I have two glorious grandkids, a girl 4 and a boy 17 months. I would crawl over glass to help them.

I think most people feel that way. I had some sympathy for the Anthony grandparents at first, but no longer. They're helping their evil daughter get away with murder, as the longer it takes to find Caylee's body, the less likely it is that they can determine who and what caused her death.

The grandparents have all the loyalty in the world for their evil, twisted daughter and none for their helpless, innocent grandchild. No one in the family is standing up for the innocent child.

14 posted on 08/12/2008 11:31:38 AM PDT by Glenmerle
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To: Red Badger
the people who are doing the surveillance are private people who are helping him

Why not share with the police? They and the community seem willing to help.

15 posted on 08/12/2008 11:34:55 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: savedbygrace

What is a grifters?


16 posted on 08/12/2008 11:35:22 AM PDT by aimee5291
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To: dead

It’s totally abstract, like a Picasso painting. Reality is what is happening at the moment of contact, not in the mind of the person speaking. They seem to be so far in denial they can’t even see the shore...............


17 posted on 08/12/2008 11:35:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: savedbygrace

For a minute I thought the call letters were WTFTV


18 posted on 08/12/2008 11:35:40 AM PDT by JohnnyP
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To: stainlessbanner

This guy has lost what little mind he had..............


19 posted on 08/12/2008 11:36:48 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: blu
If it was my grandkid, I'd be waterboarding my daughter for answers. And my kids know I would do it.

/johnny

20 posted on 08/12/2008 11:37:52 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Bless us all, each, and every one.)
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To: Red Badger

I used to think Cindy (Caylee’s grandmother) was holding info back. But the more she and George speak, the more I think that they are just in deep, deep, DEEP denial that their daughter killed their granddaughter and they have thrown reason out the window.

Wouldn’t kidnappers contact the family? Why would Casey be afraid to contact the police or the FBI for a kidnapping she had nothing to do with? Wouldn’t she be at least a little distraught over her “kidnapped” baby and not out partying? Wouldn’t she at least tell her boyfriend du jour that her baby is missing, not “friends” who say they hadn’t spoken to her in years?

But denial is a very, very powerful thing.


21 posted on 08/12/2008 11:41:38 AM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: aimee5291

A grifter is a conman and/or thief.


22 posted on 08/12/2008 11:43:09 AM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: retrokitten

i agree. no one is reacting NORMALLY to this situation. and didn’t the parents say when it all comes out, casey will be thought of as MOTHER OF THE YEAR? yeah, right. how can anyone believe them, when they deny she was fighting and cursing at them the weekend before she took off with caylee, yet the neighbor told mark fuhrman that casey had a “helluva” temper and that he would never dream of talking to his parents the way she addressed her’s, and as recently as that father’s day weekend. Greta asked Fuhrman if the parents corroborated that fight, and of course they lied and said there wasn’t one. we have heard the tone and profanity she has used with her parents on the tapes.


23 posted on 08/12/2008 11:45:32 AM PDT by xsmommy
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To: retrokitten

I think that the grandparents are in the know about everything and that they, as a group, concocted this whole story, as bizarre as it is............


24 posted on 08/12/2008 11:47:01 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Red Badger

a pathological liar is often raised by people who aren’t so cozy with the truth themselves.


25 posted on 08/12/2008 11:47:46 AM PDT by aynrandfreak (The Left hates America)
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To: retrokitten

Caylee Marie Anthony Disappearance Timeline
Tuesday, August 12, 2008 6:03:41 AM

Aug. 10: Casey cancels a scheduled meeting with her parents, the second time in three days she has refused to meet with her family.

Aug. 9: Caylee’s third birthday comes and goes with no new leads on the missing girl’s whereabouts.

Aug. 8: Casey refuses to see her brother, Lee, for a scheduled meeting. Lee’s visit is rescheduled for Tuesday.

Aug. 7: Investigators serve a search warrant at the Anthony home and remove a number of clothing items belonging to Casey, which her mother said had been in Casey’s car. Some of them has been washed by Cindy Anthony because they had a foul odor.

Aug. 7: Deputies confirm that the last time Caylee was seen by anybody other than Casey was on June 15. There is video from that day and investigators found pictures from Father’s Day on Casey’s computer.

Aug. 7: Investigators say a call Casey said she got on July 15 in which Caylee talked to her probably didn’t happen. Phone records show ther was no call to Casey’s cell phone at the time the call was supposed to have taken place.

Aug. 1: The Orange County Sheriff’s Office take several bags of evidence from the Anthony home.

July 31: George and Cindy Anthony are interviewed by the FBI.

July 30: The Fifth District Court of Appeals in Daytona Beach deny Baez’s appeal of the $500,000 bond, asking that it be reduced to $10,000. That appeal was denied.

July 29: Casey Anthony’s attorney, Jose Baez, asks a judge to bar the release of jail house recorded conversations, 922 tapes and visitor logs to the media. That request was denied.

July 22: A bond hearing is held for Casey Anthony. Her mother, father, brother and a detective in the case all testify. The judge sets bail at $500,000.

July 17: Casey Anthony is officially charged with child neglect, lying to investigators and interfering with a criminal investigation. The judge denies bond because she showed a “woeful disregard for the welfare of her child.”

July 17: The Sheriff’s office starts to search the backyard of the Anthony house.

July 17: The Sheriff’s Office takes possession of the car and finds evidence of possible human decomposition. The car is sent to the forensics bank.

July 16: Casey Anthony is arrested.

July 16: The car found abandoned is picked up by the Anthony family from the wrecker company

July 16: Police talk to Zenaida Gonzalez who says she does not know Casey Anthony. Police also take Casey to Universal Studios where she said she worked. After leading them to a building, she admitted she was no longer employed there.

July 12: After they had not seen Caylee for some time, the girl’s grandparents got concerned and confronted Casey, convincing her to go to the sheriff’s office.

June 30: The car Casey had been using is towed from the Amscot store on Goldenrod Road and Colonial Drive.

June 24 or June 25: Detective Corp. Yuri Melich testified during Casey Anthony’s bond hearing that a witness came forward who said he had talked to Casey on the phone on either June 24 or June 25 and that he heard Caylee in the background. The witness said that at one point in the conversation Casey told Caylee to get down from the table.

June 9 - July 12: Casey Anthony tells her parents that she had been going to work every day and that Caylee had been staying with friends or nannies.

July 15: The Sheriff’s Office is notified that Caylee Anthony has been missing since June 9.

June 15: Caylee’s grandmother, Cindy Anthony, revised her estimate to this date as the last time she saw the girl in her testimony in Casey’s bond hearing in July. Cindy Anthony said video of Caylee reading a book helped her remember that Caylee went with her to visit her father at an assisted living facility on Father’s Day.

June 12: George Anthony says Caylee was spotted by friends of the Anthony family in a shopping area near the Orange-Seminole county lines. She was wearing a pink and blue outfit and white-rimmed sunglasses.

June 9: Casey Anthony said that on June 9, she dropped Caylee off at a babysitter who lived at the Sawgrass Apartments. She said the babysitter’s name was Zenaida Fernandez Gonzalez.


26 posted on 08/12/2008 11:54:07 AM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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“Oh, deeply. You know something? Stuff that’s out there so far, I hope I can say this as politely as I can, evidence that’s out there is circumstantial. Evidence that’s out there is being drawn up in someone’s mind. Just because some things look like it’s going in one way, it could go in a totally different way,” he said.

Yeah, DAT’s da ticket!


27 posted on 08/12/2008 11:56:57 AM PDT by jagusafr ("Bugs, Mr. Rico! Zillions of 'em!" - Robert Heinlein)
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To: 1Old Pro

OJ was hired to do the surveillance. He really experienced at finding criminals.


28 posted on 08/12/2008 11:59:28 AM PDT by ASA Vet
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To: Red Badger
17: The Sheriff’s office starts to search the backyard of the Anthony house.

I hope they drained the (above ground) pool and looked underneath the middle.

It would not be difficult for Casey to drain the pool overnight, bury the baby underneath the liner, and then refill it.

29 posted on 08/12/2008 12:00:36 PM PDT by Wil H
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To: xsmommy
I hadn't heard that story about the fight, but it doesn't shock me at all. She's a sociopath. I was looking up the DSM because I earlier had read something about how they have a calm exterior, but are capable of explosive anger, but I found this very informative and terrifying web page Profile of a Sociopath.

Here is the DSM-IV definition of a sociopath:

A. Repeated acts that could lead to arrest.
B. Conning for pleasure or profit, repeated lying, or the use of aliases.
C. Failure to plan ahead or being impulsive.
D. Repeated assaults on others.
E. Reckless when it comes to their or others safety.
F. Poor work behavior or failure to honor financial obligations.
G. Rationalizing the pain they inflict on others.

30 posted on 08/12/2008 12:01:12 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: aimee5291

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/grifter


31 posted on 08/12/2008 12:03:27 PM PDT by savedbygrace (SECURE THE BORDERS FIRST (I'M YELLING ON PURPOSE))
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To: Red Badger
This is NEWS? More 'story time' form this family? More fantasy based on denial. More cover-up? This is not news. . .it is a 'gotcha' and cruel, soap opera. Spare the Grandfather; and spare us as well.

When you find this child; or indict the Mother. . .and who knows else; shout it/print it.

32 posted on 08/12/2008 12:03:44 PM PDT by cricket (Damn Political Correctness; before it damns us all. . .)
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To: retrokitten

Gee, rk you could substitute Politician for Sociopath and no one would know the difference.


33 posted on 08/12/2008 12:04:03 PM PDT by CholeraJoe ("You don't eat meat, and drive electrical cars. Ur so gay, you don't even like boys.")
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To: Wil H

It would be difficult to hide...........


34 posted on 08/12/2008 12:05:20 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: CholeraJoe

Scary, but true.


35 posted on 08/12/2008 12:06:39 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: Glenmerle

Amen to that. Everybody knows damn well that the daughter has a lot to do with the dissapearance of that child. Shame Shame on the grandparents (if they can be called that)


36 posted on 08/12/2008 12:11:59 PM PDT by waxer1 (What exactly is meant by "we are going to take our country back")
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To: Red Badger

What is so strange to me (and I think might be a huge clue) are the different dates given for the last time anyone saw Caylee. I can’t get past it.

Casey says she dropped her off at the phantom babysitter’s on Monday, June 9. Later, they find the video of Caylee that was taken on Father’s Day, Sunday June 15. NOBODY remembered the Father’s Day visit??


37 posted on 08/12/2008 12:12:01 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: Red Badger

Oh! Something that needs to be added to the timeline, Casey’s theft of the gas cans from the tool shed around June 24th. She claims to have run out of gas.


38 posted on 08/12/2008 12:16:38 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: CholeraJoe; retrokitten
Gee, rk you could substitute Politician for Sociopath and no one would know the difference.

My brother would have made a great politician.......thank God he became a gigolo instead............

39 posted on 08/12/2008 12:18:25 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: retrokitten

ALL of those fit my brother to a tee...............plus some others they don’t list...............


40 posted on 08/12/2008 12:19:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Glenmerle
[T]he longer it takes to find Caylee's body, the less likely it is that they can determine who and what caused her death.

In a hot, muggy state like Florida it only takes about four weeks for a body in a shallow grave to decompose, leaving nothing but bones. IMHO, Casey caused her death, disposed of the body where it would decompose quickly, and sat on the story long enough for the body to decompose. If Casey keeps her mouth shut, just like Gary Condit, she's not even going to be indicted for murder because there won't be enough evidence.

41 posted on 08/12/2008 12:24:17 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: Red Badger

It’s scary. I’m sure we all know at least one person who fits all the characteristics and they have injected massive chaos into our lives at some point.


42 posted on 08/12/2008 12:27:40 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: retrokitten

A Closer Look at the Caylee Anthony Disappearance Timeline:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,401921,00.html


43 posted on 08/12/2008 12:27:51 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: retrokitten

Some other things not listed:

He’s always the victim, usually of a conspiracy or plot against him, by people or persons unknown or unnamed.

His actions are no worse than anybody elses in the same situation.

He delights in making YOU feel bad because YOU have hurt HIM................


44 posted on 08/12/2008 12:30:59 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: libstripper

A person can be convicted of murder/manslaughter without a body..............


45 posted on 08/12/2008 12:32:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Red Badger

The whole family makes me sick! I can not believe that this incredibly stupid Casey has so many people jumping thru hoops and can’t be broken by a shrink or cop. They all keep repeating these idiotic stories of kidnappers and I can’t say any more and people are watching and on and on! How they can cover for this psychopath daughter knowing their grand daughter is dead and buried or whatever she did with the body makes me sick to my stomach! I’d go in the jail and grab that b—— by the throat and shake it out of her!


46 posted on 08/12/2008 12:39:58 PM PDT by LYSandra
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To: LYSandra

Orlando is a quasi liberal town, so be patient.............


47 posted on 08/12/2008 12:42:21 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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To: Red Badger; xsmommy

If they admit that their daughter is a pathological lying murderer, the donations to help find Kaylee stop coming in..........Yeah, that’s exactly what I think of the entire family.


48 posted on 08/12/2008 12:45:47 PM PDT by WhyisaTexasgirlinPA (It's the Vast Wright Wing Conspiracy - labeling all whites as racist.)
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To: Red Badger

I totally agree. I would also add grandiose ideas and a sense of entitlement and superiority.


49 posted on 08/12/2008 12:54:14 PM PDT by retrokitten (A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. Bill Cosby)
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To: retrokitten
I would also add grandiose ideas and a sense of entitlement and superiority.

The only grandiose idea my brother ever had was how to scam some South Florida widow out of a few grand.................

50 posted on 08/12/2008 12:56:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (All that carbon in all that oil and coal was once in the atmosphere. We're just putting it back.....)
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