Judge Korda No Jurisdiction over Dannielynn

Florida Judge denies jurisdiction concerning Paternity testing on Anna Nicole Smith's child, Dannielynn. Korda says it's possible under florida law for a child to have TWO FATHERS.

Yeah, sure, in any state it is possible: an adoptive father, and a biological father.

The Judge didna't even consider the child is a citizen of these United States of America because she was born of a mother who is a U.S. citizen.

Heaven forbid if a mother who is a U.S. citizen and is in the latter stage of pregnancy visits relatives in a foreign country and suffers early delivery and dies in the course of the delivery. Her child won't be considered a U.S. citizen.

What people are missing is Smith wanted the biological father to be wealthy G. Ben Thompson! He's the man who Larry Birkhead testified Smith visited in South Carolina for a couple of months. When she returned she told Birkhead she might be pregnant and was thinking the child would be Thompson's. However, Birkhead testified that man had a vasectomy, and couldn't father a child. (Well there are other methods.)

Birkhead however gave enough testimony to show he is the likely biological father since health professionals gave a time frame for conception which fits him.

Meanwhile, the child is growing up without knowing her biological father's identity and bonding with him.

Anna Nicole Smith was one vindictive gold-digger.

Records prompt call for new Ramos-Compean trial
Congressman has DEA reports confirming smuggler in 2nd drug incident
Posted: February 28, 2007
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., plans to reveal today Drug Enforcement Agency investigative reports that confirm a previous WND story presenting evidence the drug smuggler given immunity to testify against border agents Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean was involved in a second smuggling incident.

The DEA documents and Department of Homeland Security investigative reports already presented by WND contradict the prosecutor, U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who repeatedly has insisted to the public that smuggler Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila was not a suspect under investigation in a second drug incident.

Sutton gave Aldrete-Davila immunity to testify as the prosecution's chief witness regarding the Feb. 17, 2005, shooting incident on the Texas border that led to prison sentences for Ramos and Compean of 11 and 12 years respectively.

In a statement released by his office, Rohrabacher said, "Upon review of these new documents, it is obvious that U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton knowingly presented a false picture of the drug smuggler in order to justify his ruthless prosecution of Border Patrol agents Ramos and Compean."

Rohrabacher plans to hold a press conference today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time in the House TV Gallery, H-321, in Washington.

A spokeswoman with Rohrabacher's Washington office confirmed to WND the congressman now has evidence Sutton's office was notified by the DEA of Aldrete-Davila's direct involvement in a second offense.

"Sutton chose to disregard the information, despite the evidence produced by the DEA," Rohrabacher told WND. "Sutton's continuous attempts to paint a benign picture of the drug smuggler is not only disingenuous but amounts to misleading the jury and the public when questioned about the second offense."

Rohrabacher's spokeswoman, Tara Setmayer, told WND the congressman considers the recently obtained DEA reports sufficient basis to demand a new trial.

WND has confirmed with Sutton's office the information contained in the DEA reports matches the information from a Nov. 21, 2005, memo by DHS Special Agent Christopher Sanchez, which was highlighted in a WND story.

According to both reports, Aldrete-Davila brought a second load of 752 pounds of marijuana across the border in bales packed in a 1990 Chevy Astro van he drove Oct. 22, 2005.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54473

Lou Dobbs Tonight

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/lou.dobbs.tonight/

Greenhouse sceptics to congregate
Katharine Murphy and Brendan Nicholson, Canberra and Richard Baker
February 28, 2007
HARD-CORE global warming sceptics will descend on Canberra today for the release of a book claiming environmentalism is the new religion.

Former mining executive Arvi Parbo will launch Ray Evans' new publication, Nine Facts About Climate Change, at a function at Parliament House.

The book claims climate change is nothing new and declares Howard Government investments in solar power and in cleaning up coal a "complete waste of taxpayers' money".

"Environmentalism has largely superseded Christianity as the religion of the upper classes in Europe and to a lesser extent in the United States," Mr Evans says in the publication.

"It is a form of religious belief which fosters a sense of moral superiority in the believer, but which places no importance on telling the truth," he says.

"The global warming scam has been, arguably, the most extraordinary example of scientific fraud in the postwar period."

The function is organised by the Lavoisier Group, founded in 2000 by Ray Evans and former mining executive Hugh Morgan to test claims that global warming is the result of human activity.

http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/greenhouse-sceptics-to-congregate/2007/02/27/1172338625822.html

Climate Panel Recommends Global Temperature Ceiling, Carbon Tax
By Peter Heinlein
United Nations 28 February 2007

A panel of scientists has presented the United Nations a detailed plan for combating climate change. VOA's correspondent at the U.N. Peter Heinlein reports the strategy involves reaching a global agreement on a temperature ceiling.

A group of 18 scientists from 11 countries is calling on the international community to act quickly to prevent catastrophic climate change.

In a report requested by the United Nations and partially paid for by the privately funded U.N. Foundation, the panel warns that any delay could lead to a dangerous rise in sea levels, increasingly turbulent weather, droughts and disease.

The report was issued three weeks after the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concluded that global warming is real and caused in large part by human activity. But unlike the IPCC report, this latest document makes policy recommendations.

Panel member John Holdren of Harvard University says the world must be mobilized immediately to avoid catastrophe. "Climate change is real, it's already happening, it's already causing harm, it's accelerating and we need to do something about it, and we need to do something about it seriously, starting now. Our specific conclusions are that if the world were to go past the point of an increase above pre-industrial temperatures greater than 2 to 2.5 degrees Celsius, we would be in a regime where the danger of intolerable and unmanageable impacts on well-being would rise very rapidly," he said.

The panel's recommendations include a series of steps to cut the rate at which temperatures are rising. Chief among them are a global agreement on an acceptable ceiling for temperature rise and finding ways of adapting to cope with the damage already done.

Holdren, however, says even these measure will achieve very little unless they are accompanied by a global tax on greenhouse gas emissions. "We don't think ultimately society will get it right in terms of the full range and scope of activities needed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, until there is an additional incentive in the form of a price on greenhouse gas emissions, either through a carbon tax or a cap and trade approach," he said.

The United States is the biggest emitter of greenhouse gasses, but is not a party to the cap and trade system contained in the Kyoto Protocol on climate change.

Nevertheless, the Bush administration has set a target of cutting U.S. greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012, and is spending $3 billion a year on climate change research.

Peter Raven, the head of the Sigma Xi Scientific society and co-author of the latest report, says success in limiting the effects of global warming will require private sector leadership, and a combined effort by the U.S. and the international community.

http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-02-28-voa2.cfm

A Chilling Tale of Global Warming
Katherine Mangu-Ward | February 2007 Print Edition

The United Nations has ventured into children’s publishing with a scary story about a small boy who loses a dogsled race because of global warming. In November the odd little picture book cum policy brief, Tore and the Town on Thin Ice, made the rounds at the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Kenya.

http://www.reason.com/news/show/118218.html

Free trade and funny math
Patrick J. Buchanan
Posted: February 27, 2007

To the devout libertarian, free trade is not a policy option to be debated, but a dogma to be defended. Nowhere is this truer than at that lamasery of libertarianism, the Cato Institute.

But with America running the worst trade deficits in history, the monks are having a hellish time of it. Hence, like the neocons who cherry-picked the intel to bamboozle us into believing national survival hung on invading Iraq, they feed us irrelevant truths and deny us the whole truth.

Case in point – the Feb. 22 column in the Washington Times by one Daniel Ikenson, "associate director at the Cato Institute's Center for Trade Policy Studies." Bewailing the "barrage of hyperbole and misinformation about trade and its relationship to jobs and economic growth," Ikenson assured us, with impressive statistics, that globalism is working out wonderfully well for America.

"[T]he Census Bureau data show that U.S. export growth was phenomenal in 2006, increasing by 14.5 percent. ... Exports to Europe increased by 15.2 percent and to China by nearly 32 percent. The growth in exports to Japan was a slower 7.5 percent, but it grew. Since 2001, U.S. exports have increased by more than 42 percent."

Wow. Phenomenal indeed. And it does sound like we are cleaning those foreigners' clocks. But Ikenson ignored the other side of the ledger.

That the U.S. trade deficit in 2006 rose to an all-time record of $764 billion. That the deficit in goods hit $836 billion. That the deficit with China rose 15 percent, from $203 billion in 2005 to $233 billion in 2006, the largest trade deficit ever recorded between two nations. That the deficit with Japan rose to $88 billion, the largest ever between us.

Under Bush, the U.S. trade deficit has set five straight world records, as has the U.S. trade deficit in autos, parts and trucks. So reports Charles MacMillion of MBG Services, who has for years tracked the decline and fall of American manufacturing.

For manufactured goods, our trade deficit rose to $536 billion, from $504 billion. In Bush's six years, America has run a total trade deficit of $2.6 trillion in manufactured goods, as 3 million U.S. manufacturing jobs have disappeared and wages in that sector have fallen 3 percent in three years.

Query to Ikenson: If these numbers represent a successful trade policy, what would a failed trade policy look like?

Recall NAFTA. In 1993, we had a trade surplus with Mexico. Some of us warned it would be gone with the wind if NAFTA passed. And NAFTA did pass, through the collaboration of Clinton Democrats with Gingrich Republicans, over the opposition of the American people.

Since 1994, we have run a trade deficit with Mexico every year. In 2006, it hit a record $60 billion. Grand total: almost $500 billion in trade deficits with Mexico since NAFTA. Mexico now exports more than 900,000 vehicles to the United States every year, while the United States exports fewer than 600,000 cars and trucks to the entire world.

This is success?

Where did Mexico get an auto industry? Is it good that our auto industry is being exported? Has the price of a new car plunged because Mexicans get paid a fraction of what U.S. autoworkers earn?

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54454

Anna Nicole Smith child United States citizen, first

According to the laws of the United States, a child born of a citizen of the United states is automatically, and naturally, a United States citizen.

A child born of a non-citizen of the United States is only a natural citizen of the United States if the child is born on United States soil.

Anna Nicole Smiths daughter, Dannielynn, was born of a United States citizen, and so first legally and constitutionally, Dannielynn is a United States citizen.

It puzzles me why Court TV and other notable news reporting never seems to mention first and foremost, Dannielynn is a United States citizen.

She is subject to the laws of the United States when and if she returns to the United States soil. The U.S. Constitution surely is also protective of her rights as a U.S. citizen.

The first and foremost best interests of the child would include determining natural parentage, the biological father, for the specific reason of biological health issues over the course of the child's lifetime.

The biological father could have a history of good health or a history of bad health. It is imperative the child have health information for the proper choices to be able to be made on her behalf until she reaches the age of consent, 18.

The baby is a United States citizen, contrary to Court TV Live.

Letter to Court TV

Jamie Floyd: You have interviewed a Nancy Chemtob who gave misleading and incorrect information in her comment that Dannielynn is NOT a United States citizen. A child born of a mother who is a United States citizen is automatically and naturally a citizen of the United States. It wouldn't matter whether Dannielynn was born on a boat or an airplane over open seas (no nationality), or on foreign soil. Her first right is to citizenship of the United States because her mother is/was a U.S. citizen. ... Please look to the U.S. Constitution for confirmation...


Bahama Pundit explains, under Bahamian constitution, Anna Nicole Smith's daughter does not possess Bahamian citizenship... furthermore, Anna Nicole Smith herself did not obtain Bahamian citizenship. The permanent residency she acquired is under scrutiny per requirements of land/property ownership.

http://www.bahamapundit.com/2007/02/anna_nicole_sha.html#comment-61824256

The Constitution of The Commonwealth of The Bahamas

http://www.bahamas.gov.bs/bahamasweb/aboutthegovernment.nsf/Subjects/The+Constitution+of+the+Bahamas

Bahamas Immigrations
Bahamas Residency
Working in The Bahamas

http://www.the-bahamas-islands.com/immigration.html

Key players in Anna Nicole Smith case
By Mark Schwed
Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/accent/content/accent/epaper/2007/02/20/a1d_anna_cover_web_0220.html

Note more accurate use of residency, versus full citizenship in this article, Anna Nicole Smith Dead Months After Securing Bahamas Residency. Also, we have yet to discover confirmation Anna Nicole Smith denounced, renounced, voided her United States citizenship. It is unlikely she would have legally done so since there was pending litigation over the estate of her former husband Howard Marshall...

Anna Nicole Smith Dead Months After Securing Bahamas Residency
POSTED: 12:02 AM, February 9, 2007AUTHOR: news@Hardbeatnews.com

MIAMI, FL -- Just months after Anna Nicole Smith obtained permanent residency under controversy in the Bahamas, the former Playboy playmate and voluptuous Marilyn Monroe look-alike is dead.

http://www.islanderonline.com/news/story/100861/Anna.Nicole.Smith.Dead
Was Smith granted citizenship in the Bahamas? That is a point of contention, since Bahamian law in this regard is reportedly based upon the purchase of property.

Did Anna Nicole Smith seek and obtain "permanent residency" in the "Bahamas? The answer to the first part is yes, Smith sought to obtain permanent residency. Did she gain permanent residency? That matter as well is under scrutiny and currently being challenged by the reputed owner of the house, G. Ben Thompson, so her status as a permanent resident is also in dispute...

Check out this blog Bahama Pundit

Bahamas Cabinet Responsible for Anna Nicole Smith Affair
by Sir Arthur Foulkes

http://www.bahamapundit.com/2006/11/bahamas_cabinet.html

News articles don't back up headlines New Bahamian citizen Anna Nicole Smith... Did Anna Nicole buy her Bahamian citizenship?

More

Anna Nicole & Shane Gibson, Alfred Sears & Bahamian Teachers, BTC & Customers
by Larry Smith

http://www.bahamapundit.com/2007/02/anna_nicole_sha.html#comment-61812832
Neither article says anything about legal and written proof of Smith's citizenship.

New Bahamian citizen Anna Nicole Smith is dead

MIAMI, USA, February 9, 2007 - Just months after Anna Nicole Smith obtained permanent residency under controversy in the Bahamas, the former Playboy playmate and voluptuous Marilyn Monroe look-alike is dead...

http://www.caribbean360.com/News/Caribbean/Stories/2007/02/09/NEWS0000003984.html

Did Anna Nicole buy her Bahamian citizenship?
Plus, Weird Al sticks it to the man; Posh and Katie go shopping

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15066223/

November 3, 2006! Status of citizenship was unclear after discussion on Nancy Grace program way back in November, 2006. The discussion raises a lot of excellent points on the issue of when Smith might return for a visit to the U.S. and the potential for serving of papers regarding the paternity testing!

Anna Nicole Smith`s Troubles Continue
Aired November 3, 2006 - 20:00:00 ET

VELEZ-MITCHELL: We`ll have to see who is telling the truth on this. Now, I got to tell you that he is trying to serve legal papers on her. Let`s go to defense attorney Kathleen Mullin for insight on this. She is in the hospital, suffering from pneumonia, apparently got some serious illness going on right now. Does it make it harder to serve legal papers on somebody when they`re in the hospital?

KATHLEEN MULLIN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes. It makes it -- not only does it make it harder, but it -- you know, it`s a little bit rude. I mean, she`s lying there in the hospital. I`m sure that whatever your fervor is to get back into, quote, "your house," another day or two until she gets out of the hospital will not make or break you.

I think that this one is going to be decided pretty quickly on the documents. The person who can produce a properly recorded deed for this property will take the presumption in this case. And we`ll see how she develops her claim of gift, whether or not there`s anything to substantiate that or support it. But I think a properly recorded deed is going to kick off this legal fight, and we`ll see what happens from there.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, you have a very interesting point because the government of the Bahamas right now is trying to decide whether or not to have a public inquest into the death of her son, Daniel, who, according to an independent pathologist, had up to seven drugs in his system, including methadone. So I`m wondering -- and let`s go to Paul Henderson, San Francisco deputy DA, on this -- is all this drama surrounding the house going to impact the decision of the government of the Bahamas as to whether or not have this mini-trial, in essence, this public inquest?

PAUL HENDERSON, SAN FRANCISCO DEPUTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Well, I think it is, actually, and here`s why. And while she`s in the house right now, all that really gives her is tenancy. Unless she can prove ownership -- ownership is what gives her status to stay in that country, and that`s how citizenship comes through the Bahamas, if you own a property there. If she doesn`t have that, that`s one less guard that she`s going to have to use in order to fight potential jurisdiction of the United States, if a family law court rules against her and actually orders a paternity test for her child.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: And Jean Casarez, what I find fascinating is that all of these controversies seem intertwined. The house is intertwined with the paternity battle, the LA photographer, who says he`s the real father of her new baby girl. And that`s also somehow intertwined with the whole controversy over why methadone was found in her son`s system when he died in the hospital in the Bahamas.

CASAREZ: it`s amazing because if she does not have legal ownership of that home, she doesn`t have legal residency. What does that mean? She`s going to be deported. That means she comes back to this country. That means the paternity suit can possibly go forward, that suit in California, because there would be jurisdiction once she would get in this country.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: Well, let`s go to investigative journalist Art Harris, who`s been tracking all of this. Let`s say she does get deported and ends up in the United States. What happens to her? What`s the legal fallout? And does it depend on what state she goes to? If she goes to California, could she be in more trouble than if she goes to Florida, per se?

ART HARRIS, INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER: Well, you know, every state, Jane, does have -- not extradition, but they have, you know, an ability to get papers served. If she`s in the States, she does not have the immunity that she might enjoy in the Bahamas, as we know. But if she winds up in California, you know, she could be forced to take a paternity test.

We now have some indication that -- I don`t know, I talked to some real estate people down there, Jane, and if she goes to Florida, she could technically land and come back and be, you know, a temporary resident. That might afford her some immunity. But she can live in the Bahamas for up to eight months without being a permanent resident just by getting her visa or turnaround with a plane ticket.

VELEZ-MITCHELL: But Kathleen Mullin, defense attorney, let`s try to nail this down. If she gets back to the United States, what does it take for Larry Birkhead, the Los Angeles photographer who said he is the father of her newborn baby girl, to drag her into court to get that child tested, a DNA test for paternity? What has to happen legally for him to get his way?

MULLIN: He wants to get jurisdiction over her. And you`ve seen it before in high-drama legal cases, right? What you`ve seen is the wanted celebrity type landing at the airport, and what has to happen is that Birkhead`s process server has to be standing at the airport gate. And when she walks through the gate, he`s got to slam her with some papers that order her to appear before the court.

Now, if she arrives in Florida and you`ve got a California court ordering her to appear, I don`t know that she`s going to be all that willing to abide that order. And if she doesn`t abide it voluntarily, I`m not really all that sure there`s too much anybody can do about it.

But the first step is for him to try to get some papers into her hand. And Like I say, in these high-drama cases, we`ve seen it before, the lurking service -- process server standing there in the airport, waiting for the victim of his service to come off of the airplane, and as soon as they come into the terminal, bam, you`ve got service of papers, and now at least you`ve got the star of the process.


http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0611/03/ng.01.html

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February 27, 2007
• Court to Hear Oral Arguments on Anna Nicole Burial

February 26, 2007
• Court Halts Anna Nicole Burial

February 23, 2007
• Anna Nicole Battles Rage on in Three Jurisdictions

February 22, 2007
• Weeping Judge Rules on Anna Nicole`s Body

February 21, 2007
• Legal Brawl Over Anna Nicole`s Body

February 20, 2007
• Anna Nicole`s Mother and Lover Testify in Burial Rights Hearing

February 19, 2007
• Climbers Rescued on Mt. Hood; Legal Showdown Looms Over Anna Nicole`s Burial

February 16, 2007
• Anna Nicole`s Will Released

February 15, 2007
• Attorneys Joust Over Anna Nicole Smith`s Remains

February 14, 2007
• Court Battle Over Anna Nicole Smith`s Remains Continues

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/14/ng.01.html

February 13, 2007
• Reports Anna Nicole had 105 Fever Before her Death

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/13/ng.01.html

February 12, 2007
• Anna Nicole Smith Saga Continues

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/12/ng.01.html

February 09, 2007
• Zsa Zsa`s Husband Disputes Paternity Claims for Anna Nicole`s Baby

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/09/ng.01.html

February 08, 2007
• Cover Girl Anna Nicole Smith Dead of Unknown Causes
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/08/ng.01.html

February 07, 2007
• Accused Astronaut to Be Evaluated in Houston

As court sends Anna Nicole Smith's remains into limbo, battle continues over custody of her baby
By Emanuella Grinberg
Court TV
Feb. 26, 2007
...Smith's ex-boyfriend, Larry Birkhead, also attended the hearing in the Supreme Court of the Bahamas to ask that a judge incorporate his paternity claims into the guardianship hearing.

The California-based freelance photographer, who claims Smith told him he was the father, testified in the burial hearing last week that Smith admitted to fleeing to the Bahamas to escape his paternity claims.

Bahamian attorney Godfrey "Pro" Pinder, who represents Smith's friend in his ownership claims to Smith's home, told reporters that the judge granted Birkhead's request, effectively allowing him to join the guardianship dispute if he is determined to be the father.

After the hearing, Birkhead smiled while his lawyer, Debra Opri, gave a thumbs-up sign to a cheering crowd on the way to their car.

http://www.courttv.com/people/anna-nicole-smith/022607-pm_ctv.html

TMZ coverage includes reputed photograph of deceased Anna Nicole Smith's painted feet with Florida body tag!

http://www.tmz.com/category/anna-nicole-smith/

Crimes of Unnecessary War Need Specified

The state of New Mexico needs to be much more specific in its allegations against George W. Bush. There were weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. None were found when the United States finally got to Iraq. The U.S. actually supplied some of these WMD long before, and the United Nations was supposed to track the weapons after a U.N. Resolution was enacted against Iraq around 1993 and onward.

The weapons were moved starting the minute Congress authorized President George W. Bush his war powers, October 2003, and before U.S. troops arrived months later.

There is satellite documentation the weapons were moved.

More coming. The Downing Street Memo, we have compiled information that shows the growing possibility that was a fake memo, and could have been interpreted quite differently depending on language interpretations.

With much more teeth, is the refusal of George W. Bush to enforce the laws of the land regarding illegal aliens and protecting our borders all around the country.

New Mexico Resolution to Impeach Bush and Cheney in Senate Rules Committee
47 min 56 sec - Feb 23, 2007 - Concentric Media and Arthouse Productions

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4529463175813468205&hl=en

Saddam's secret weapons exports revealed

http://celebrate10.wnd.com/?q=node/32

Libertarian Town One-Way Our Way Highway Philosophy Contrary

Well, the concept of a Libertarian town is interesting, but what happens if someone moves in and doesn't believe everything everyone else professes to believe? What if someone believes 80 percent of what the Loving Libertarians believe, but not the remaining 20 percent which might include such controversial issues as abortion, which even Libertarian Party members are split on...

The philosophy being promoted by this one town, one way of thinking, is contrary to Libertarian thought...

That thought pertains to an individual's right of property, self, thought, etc. as unquestioned with the exception of those rights intruding on another individual's right.

Bad idea to form an area of the country which only permits those people who think one way, our way, or the highway...

"We are looking for ways of restoring freedom to Loving County, Texas. The primary emphasis will be on a libertarian philosophy with pro-choice. The focus of discussion will be on practical matters of restoring freedom (To Loving County)."
Source: Committee to Restore Freedom to Loving

Alleged Conspirators Respond to Foiled County Takeover
Larry Pendarvis

http://www.davickservices.com/pendarvis_responds.htm

Wikipedia Resource Banned History Department

A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
By NOAM COHEN
Published: February 21, 2007
When half a dozen students in Neil Waters’s Japanese history class at Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong. The Jesuits were in “no position to aid a revolution,” he said; the few of them in Japan were in hiding.

He figured out the problem soon enough. The obscure, though incorrect, information was from Wikipedia, the collaborative online encyclopedia, and the students had picked it up cramming for his exam.

Dr. Waters and other professors in the history department had begun noticing about a year ago that students were citing Wikipedia as a source in their papers. When confronted, many would say that their high school teachers had allowed the practice.

But the errors on the Japanese history test last semester were the last straw. At Dr. Waters’s urging, the Middlebury history department notified its students this month that Wikipedia could not be cited in papers or exams, and that students could not “point to Wikipedia or any similar source that may appear in the future to escape the consequences of errors.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

Audit: Fla. Voting Machines Didn't Err

Audit: Fla. Voting Machines Didn't Err
By STEPHEN MAJORS, Associated Press Writer
Friday, February 23, 2007
(02-23) 15:08 PST Tallahassee, Fla. (AP) --

An audit of touch-screen voting machines at the center of a dispute in a congressional election found no evidence of malfunction, the Florida secretary of state said Friday.

The audit was conducted after more than 18,000 ballots were cast in Sarasota County without a selection in the District 13 congressional race in November between Republican Vern Buchanan and Democrat Christine Jennings. Buchanan was the certified winner by 369 votes, but Jennings sued, alleging that the machines malfunctioned.

"Governor Crist and I are committed to ensuring that every Floridian's vote is counted and I am confident that the race in Sarasota County was fair and accurate," said Secretary of State Kurt Browning in a statement about the official audit report.

Buchanan was seated in Congress in January, but Jennings has yet to concede the race.

Third-party voter advocate groups, along with Jennings, have been asking to examine the machines' source code, or programming chips, to find out whether they malfunctioned. The audit report released Friday said an independent study of the source code of the machines used in the election found no evidence of malfunction.

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/02/23/national/a150810S18.DTL

Related of Interest

mentions Alan Dechert

Chuck Garner There are none so blind...
In today's OpEdNews, Alan Dechert has posted two articles promoting the use of computers in elections... Chuck Herrin's "Hack the Vote"...

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/8/46708.html?1172385401

http://www.opednews.com/

http://www.chuckherrin.com/hackthevoteFAQ.htm

Mexico trucking America

Mexico trucks gain ease of entry to the United States transportation of goods.

Not all the trucks coming into the country are inspected prior to crossing the Mexican and U.S. border. "Giving Mexican drivers a pass on stringent inspections... cannot inspect every vehicle coming in..." says Rep. Ted Poe interviewed on Fox News on Sunday.

Intricacies of new voting legislation

The voting machine certification Ponzi scheme by Nancy Tobi

(text conversion requirement in Rush Holt amendment to Help America Vote Act known as HR 811)

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/ponzi-46704.pdf

http://www.bbvforums.org/forums/messages/1954/46701.html?1172404480

Nancy Tobi is the author of numerous articles on election integrity, including "The Gifts of HAVA: Time to Ask for a Refund," "What's Wrong with the Holt Bill,"and the newly released "We're Counting the Votes: An Election Preparedness Kit." She is co-founder and Chair of Democracy for New Hampshire and Chair of the Democracy for New Hampshire Fair Elections Committee. Her writings may be found at

www.democracyfornewhampshire.com

Where is Anna Nicole Smith Baby Book?

MSNBC Anna Nicole Smith coverage ongoing on Saturday, as lawyers - some 18 - are getting needed rest...

when you are the biological father, it isn't automatic that the child - in event of mother's death - goes to the father's custody...

Right, we all know that... but shouldn't the starting point be who is the biological father of the child?

In the custody of the child, the best interests of the child are the focus.

Duh, yes and that's exactly why Howard K. Sterns "enabling," of Smith's drug habits, as Judge Seidlin stated, his assistance at the hostpital when Smith was in the mid-term of her pregnancy to supplement her with drugs, according to the testimony of Larry Birkhead, and that videotape Stern took of Smith painted up like a clown will be central to determination of whether or not Stern would have the best interests of the child.

What kind of father - named as such on the child Dannielynn's birth certificate - as shown in the videotape allows a minor child to be present face-painting when noting the mother-to-be looks like she is having a mushroom trip?

Furthermore, Anna Nicole Smith according to Larry Birkhead kept a Baby Book in the hospital wherein she had Birkhead, and Stern put in their thumbprints.

Mom thumbprint hers.

Daddy thumbprint Larry Birkhead

Uncle Howard thumbprint Howard K. Stern

where is the Baby Book diary?

MEDIA MENTIONING THE BABY BOOK

Larry Birkhead: Anna & I Talked About Marriage
WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2007 07:25 PM EST
By Alex Tresniowski

Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole Smith's former boyfriend who claims to be the father of her 5-month-old daughter Dannielynn, took the stand on Wednesday during the ongoing hearing to decide who will get custody of Smith's remains.

The Los Angeles-based photographer testified that Smith told him they were having a baby together – and he also claims to have witnessed Smith's attorney, Howard K. Stern, giving drugs to the former Playmate while she was hospitalized.

According to Birkhead, he and Smith lived together from August 2004 to April 2005 – and in January 2005 Smith told him she was pregnant, but a month later suffered a miscarriage.

Birkhead also described visiting a pregnant Smith in the hospital in April 2006, when, he says, "she was trying to get off medications," and he says he witnessed Stern taking pills out of a duffle bag and giving them to Smith.

"She was taking medication before and during her pregnancy," Birkhead testified. "I was very concerned...We had a couple of clashes in the hospital because she and Mr. Stern brought in a duffle bag...They would take [these drugs] on top of the drugs they gave her at the hospital."

On another occasion during Smith's stay in the hospital, she had Birkhead put his thumbprint in a baby book that listed him as the father. Birkhead said he "felt sorry for Mr. Stern," who also claims to be the baby's father.

According to Birkhead, Smith added Stern's name the baby book, as "Uncle Howard."

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20012497,00.html

LARRY KING LIVE

More On The Battle Over Anna Nicole Smith
Aired February 21, 2007 - 21:00 ET

COMMERCIAL BREAK) (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BIRKHEAD: She maintained a baby book in the hospital where she wrote my name in as the daddy. And I put my thumbprint. And she put her thumbprint as the mom. And I felt sorry for Mr. Stern, because he had no role and I knew he -- but I knew his interest in her and I knew his level of interest and I didn't want to offend him.

So at that time, I asked her, I said, you know, Howard is over here. I feel kind of bad for him.

And she said, "Come here, Howard."

And she said, "You put your thumbprint here." And she wrote 'Uncle Howard' in the baby book.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

http://edition.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/21/lkl.01.html

Photographer presses case that he's dad of late playmate's baby
By Mark Schwed Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
Thursday, February 22, 2007

Two men claiming to be the father of Anna Nicole Smith's baby squared off in court Wednesday and battled over paternity and profiteering...

For the first time, Los Angeles photographer Larry Birkhead testified in open court Wednesday that he was the father of 5-month-old Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

He said that he and Smith, 39, even bought a baby book and put their names and thumbprints in the pages under father and mother. Howard K. Stern, Smith's longtime companion and lawyer, put his thumbprint in the book, too, as "Uncle Howard," Birkhead said.

http://www.palmbeachpost.com/state/content/state/epaper/2007/02/22/m2a_ANNA_0222.html

Judge rules kids stay for lessons contrary to religious beliefs

This action should be entitled for what it is:

A judge has mandated children remain for school lessons contrary to personal religious beliefs

How this will in any way pass a Constitutional review is beyond me. Even if one doesn't belong to a particular religion, individuals have the inalienable right to hold personal religious beliefs.

Government is not supposed to intrude on your individual "religious" rights.

To make an individual under the legal age of consent sit in a classroom to be "taught" something contrary to a personal religious belief has to be an intrusion on that individual's person right.

Where is the ACLU on this one?

What if you hold a personal belief that it is wrong to kill a sick elderly person requesting to die? What a state legislature passes legislation that makes assisted suicide legal? Then what if the state school system determines it's okay to teach the process of assisted suicide?

What if you hold a religious belief it is wrong to abort your unborn child? What if the state school system determines as part of its safe-sex program that it's okay to teach abortion? Should a minor-age child be forced to sit through a class that specifically teaches abortion is legal and here's how you can have one?

Curriculum of a school matters. Better find out what your school board directors adopt as such for elementary, junior-high, and high schools.

This goes the other way, too. A state school should not be teaching specific religious beliefs, say a belief in Jesus Christ.

This ruling is contrary to the foundation of our country, by the way, the country was not founded as a democracy as the judge states.

The United States is a republic... representative government, and the rule of law apply.

Judge orders 'gay' agenda taught to Christian children
Rules kids need teachings to be 'engaged and productive citizens'
Posted: February 24, 2007
By Bob Unruh
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

A federal judge in Massachusetts has ordered the "gay" agenda taught to Christians who attend a public school in Massachusetts, finding that they need the teachings to be "engaged and productive citizens."

U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf yesterday dismissed a civil rights lawsuit brought by David Parker, ordering that it is reasonable, indeed there is an obligation, for public schools to teach young children to accept and endorse homosexuality.

Wolf essentially adopted the reasoning in a brief submitted by a number of homosexual-advocacy groups, who said "the rights of religious freedom and parental control over the upbringing of children … would undermine teaching and learning…"

David and Tonia Parker and Joseph and Robin Wirthlin, who have children of school age in Lexington, Mass., brought the lawsuit. They alleged district officials and staff at Estabrook Elementary School violated state law and civil rights by indoctrinating their children about a lifestyle they, as Christians, teach is immoral.

"Wolf's ruling is every parent's nightmare. It goes to extraordinary lengths to legitimize and reinforce the 'right' (and even the duty) of schools to normalize homosexual behavior to even the youngest of children," said a statement from the pro-family group Mass Resistance.

It also is making available background information about the lengthy dispute.

"In the ruling, Wolf makes the absurd claim that normalizing homosexuality to young children is 'reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy.' According to Wolf, this means teaching 'diversity' which includes 'differences in sexual orientation.'

"In addition, Wolf makes the odious statement that the Parkers' only options are (1) send their kids to a private school, (2) home-school their kids, or (3) elect a majority of people to the School Committee who agree with them. Can you imagine a federal judge in the Civil Rights era telling blacks the same thing – that if they can't be served at a lunch counter they should just start their own restaurant, or elect a city council to pass laws that reflect the U.S. Constitution?" the organization said.

Lawyers for the families said they already had planned an appeal of the judge's opinion.

But Wolf's claims followed very closely the reasoning submitted earlier in a brief by Human Rights Campaign, the ACLU, Massachusetts Teachers Association, Gay & Lesbian Advocates & Defenders and other advocates for the "gay" agenda.

Earlier, Mass Resistance President Brian Camenker had wondered why such national groups were "so interested in a parent's right to decide what moral issues are taught to his children by adults in elementary schools, especially regarding homosexuality."

"They must see David Parker's case as quite a threat to their ability to push their message on children," he had said. His organization has posted information about the judge's ruling on the Internet for readers to review.

But the judge concluded that even allowing Christians to withdraw their children from classes or portions of classes where the religious beliefs were being violated wasn't a reasonable expectation.

"An exodus from class when issues of homosexuality or same-sex marriage are to be discussed could send the message that gays, lesbians, and the children of same-sex parents are inferior and, therefore, have a damaging effect on those students," he opined.

"Under the Constitution public schools are entitled to teach anything that is reasonably related to the goals of preparing students to become engaged and productive citizens in our democracy," the judge wrote. "Diversity is a hallmark of our nation. It is increasingly evident that our diversity includes differences in sexual orientation."

And, he said, since history "includes instances of … official discrimination against gays and lesbians … it is reasonable for public educators to teach elementary school students … different sexual orientations."

If they disagree, "the Parkers and Wirthlins may send their children to a private school …[or] may also educate their children at home," the judge said.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54420

http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker/index.html

Federal judge Mark Wolf dismisses David Parker’s civil rights lawsuit.
Outrageous ruling goes further -- reinforces right of schools to teach homosexuality without parents’ consent or choice to opt-out
This bizarre ruling is every parent's nightmare. But more than that, it's a complete abandonment of right and wrong, civil rights, or even common sense. It's hard to imagine a person sworn to uphold the law could write this. How bad is it? Read on.


Excerpts from ruling by Federal Judge Mark Wolf, with analysis:


http://www.massresistance.org/docs/parker_lawsuit/order_to_dismiss.html

Stay Order for Anna Nicole Smith

Court TV News Live

Net the truth Online
from first hand observation Court TV News

Filed, but not acted upon. Stay order entered in Florida on behalf of Anna Nicole Smith's mother, Vergie Arthur today. The judge who would be tendering the stay order is Judge Larry Seidlin, who could not be found on the premises, according to reports.

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Anna's Mom Wants the Body: Round Two
Posted Feb 23rd 2007 4:14PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith

Virgie Arthur, the mother of Anna Nicole Smith, has filed court papers asking a judge to issue an emergency order stopping the release of her body to the court-appointed guardian of Dannielynn.

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/23/annas-mom-wants-the-body-round-two/

Anna Nicole Document a Fake
Posted Feb 23rd 2007 2:35PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith

TMZ has learned that a document circulated to reporters in Miami that purports to be an order coming from the Los Angeles County Superior Court -- is a fake.

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/23/anna-nicole-document-a-fake/

Was Anna Nicole About to Change Her Will?
Posted Feb 20th 2007 7:35PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Celebrity Justice, Anna Nicole Smith

TMZ has obtained the cover sheet to a fax, sent six days before Anna Nicole Smith died, and it raises questions about Anna Nicole's intent to change her will...

The cover sheet shows the fax was sent on 02/03/2007 at 02:18. The fax contained the existing will of Anna Nicole. It lists a phone number with the initials RAR -- we believe that to be Ron A. Rale, Howard Stern's lawyer. It is unknown to whom the fax was sent, but as far as TMZ knows, Rale's only connection to Smith was Howard K. Stern.

We know Stern was concerned for Smith's well-being. TMZ has obtained a statement from Smith's former nanny in which she alleged Smith tried to take her life twice after Daniel died. Under the will, Stern was not protected. Daniel was the only beneficiary with Stern as trustee. As a result, Smith's infant daughter would inherit her mom's property outside the will, and unless Stern could prove he was the father, he would probably lose his claim to serve as trustee...

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/20/was-anna-nicole-about-to-change-her-will/

Anna Nicole Baby Book Reveals Father of Dannielynn

Net the Truth Online report
from first-hand observation proceedings Judge Larry Seidlin courtroom via video Live Court TV News, Fox News, MSNBC
transciption of streaming video from CNN follows

view video segment
(Watch Birkhead testify Wednesday about a duffle bag of drugs )

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/22/smith.hearing.ap/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/law/2007/02/21/sot.birkhead.testimony.cnn

Net the Truth Online

In Judge Larry Seidlin's court Wednesday, the former boyfriend of Anna Nicole Smith, Larry Birkhead, also taking legal action seeking paternity testing to prove his fatherhood of Smith's child, Dannielynn, testified Anna Nicole Smith kept a baby book in which she wrote the names Mom, Daddy, and Uncle Howard.

In the mid-term of her pregnancy, in April, 2006, Birkhead testified Anna Nicole was rushed to the hospital and he was called to her side. During the phone call, Anna Nicole Smith said she was okay and the baby was okay, did he want to know the sex of the baby.

Birkhead testified he arrived at the hospital, slept in the room with Smith, while Harold K. Stern stayed on a cot in the room.

According to Larry Birkhead, Anna Nicole had "good days and bad days depending on the medication."

While in the hospital, Birkhead said, Anna Nicole Smith maintained a baby book.

She put her own thumbprint in the book and wrote, mom.

She had Larry Birkhead put his thumbprint in the book and wrote, daddy.

She had Howard K. Stern put his thumbprint in the book and wrote, Uncle Howard.

There was no indication Birkhead knew of the location of the Baby Book.

Birkhead also testified about a suicide watch for Anna Nicole Smith while in the hospital.

The one document everybody seems to be ignoring is the existence of Anna Nicole Smith's Baby Book.

A handwriting expert could confirm the produced book is in Smith's own handwriting. Larry Birkhead could confirm his own thumbprint, or if need be, a court could make comparisons of thumbprints.

Friend of Anna Nicole Smith, Ford Shelley, testified on Thursday, it was he who arranged for Anna Nicole Smith to seek a move to the Bahamas, for the purposes of leaving US to avoid a paternity suit, already filed by Larry Birkhead.

Shelley further testified he knew who the father was, Anna Nicole Smith said the father was Larry Birkhead.

In her own hand, Anna Nicole Smith left written evidence of the identity of her child's father.

It's in print in a baby book.

exclusive Net the Truth Online report N/A from net resources aside from streaming video of CNN as noted

CNN VIDEO unofficial transcript regarding baby book

In april of 2006, she called me to come to a hospital, she was rushed to the hospital she said don't worry I'm ok and the baby is ok... do you want to know what the baby is... she was in the hospital for two weeks to ... get off medications...

then what happened if anything...

at the same time she was in the hospital she had good times and bad times depending on the medications

she maintained a Baby Book...where she wrote my name in as daddy and my thumbprint and put her name in as the mom and he felt sort of sorry for Harold K. Stern...she said you put your thumbprint in and she wrote Uncle Howard in the baby book.

http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/law/2007/02/21/sot.birkhead.testimony.cnn

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Former boyfriend says Smith on drugs while pregnant
POSTED: 5:51 p.m. EST, February 22, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/LAW/02/22/smith.hearing.ap/index.html

Anna Nicole won't submit baby for DNA test
Attorney says reality TV star won't let ex-boyfriend ‘run her life’

Updated: 10:40 a.m. PT Oct 20, 2006
NASSAU, Bahamas - An attorney for Anna Nicole Smith said Friday the reality TV star has no intention of submitting her six-week-old daughter for paternity testing as demanded by an ex-boyfriend.

A lawsuit filed by photographer Larry Birkhead seeks a court order for Smith to bring the girl to California for a DNA test. A birth certificate lists her current boyfriend, Howard K. Stern, as the father of Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15348184

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Anna Nicole Baby Shocker
Posted Oct 23rd 2006 3:54PM by Harvey Levin
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith
http://es.tmz.com/2006/10/23/anna-nicole-baby-shocker/22

Larry King Live read the exchange carefully between King and lawyers for Harold K. Stern

Judge Rules on Anna Nicole Smith's Body
Aired February 22, 2007 - 21:00 ET

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0702/22/lkl.01.html

Anna Nicole's Custody Battle -- Anna Challenged
Posted Oct 4th 2006 12:51PM by TMZ Staff

http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/04/anna-nicoles-custody-battle-anna-challenged/

Birth Certificate for Anna Nicole's Baby
Posted Oct 16th 2006 1:15PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Anna Nicole Smith

TMZ has obtained a copy of the birth certificate for Dannielynn Hope Marshall Stern, Anna Nicole Smith's newborn baby daughter.

http://www.tmz.com/2006/10/16/birth-certificate-for-anna-nicoles-baby/

Global Warming Report racheted back sea level increase

Appearing on Fox 'n Friends this morning, Governor du Pont stated global warming is cyclical, the Climate Change Report noted the sea level increase was scaled back by the agency and went from 36 inches to 17 inches... data shows both warming and cooling since the Ice Age...

this is what we noted in earlier posts, but the decrease info was absolutely ignored by the mainstream media...

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/gore-charge-slanderous-says-global.html

Cut & paste: UN report contradicts exaggerations by Al Gore and co

February 08, 2007
Environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg, in Project Syndicate, on the panic mongering over global warming

LOST among the hype [that greeted the report of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change last week] is the unexciting fact that this report is actually no more dire than the IPCC's last report, issued in 2001. In two important ways, this year's effort was actually less dire...
First, the world's scientists have rejigged their estimates about how much sea levels will rise. In the 1980s, America's Environmental Protection Agency expected oceans to rise by several metres by 2100. By the 1990s, the IPCC was expecting a 67cm rise. Six years ago, it anticipated ocean levels would be 48.5cm higher than they are currently. In this year's report, the estimated rise is 38.5cm on average.
This is especially interesting since it fundamentally rejects one of the most harrowing scenes from Al Gore's movie An Inconvenient Truth. In graphic detail, Gore demonstrated how a 20-foot (6m) rise in the sea level would inundate much of Florida, Shanghai and Holland. The IPCC report makes it clear that exaggerations of this magnitude have no basis in science, though clearly they frightened people and perhaps will win Gore an Academy Award.

The report also revealed the improbability of another Gore scenario: that global warming could make the Gulf Stream shut down, turning Europe into a new Siberia. The IPCC simply and tersely tells us that this scenario - also vividly depicted in the Hollywood movie The Day After Tomorrow - is considered "very unlikely". Moreover, even if the Gulf Stream were to weaken over the century, this would be good, as there would be less net warming over land areas...

Climate change is a real and serious problem. But the problem with the recent media frenzy is that some seem to believe no new report or development is enough if it doesn't reveal more serious consequences and more terrifying calamities than humanity has considered before.

Indeed, this media frenzy has little or no scientific backing. A 38.5cm rise in the ocean's levels is a problem, but by no means will it bring down civilisation. Last century sea levels rose by half that amount without most of us even noticing.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21188104-7583,00.html

True Guardian Anna Nicole Smith baby should be known

Peter Johnson, Jr. Fox News analyst catches on... the Guardian ad litem should now appear in a Florida court on behalf of Anna Nicole Smith's child and argue that actions in the best interest of the child include the knowledge of the child's biological father.

Exactly. And isn't that what Judge Larry Seidlin has been ranting about since Day One of the custody case of Anna Nicole's body?

Isn't that what Seidlin has been referencing each day during proceedings? When Seidlin presented his final day's order, he made it a point, an emphatic one, to call attention yet again to the child's needs, among those was 'doing right by the child... get together and get the paternity testing completed... stop the baloney..."

Seidlin obviously trusted the Guardian he appointed.

Another aspect of Judge Seidlin's handling of the case is troublesome, however.

During Larry Birkhead's testimony, Birkhead alleged Howard K. Stern had access to medications from a dufflebag brought to the hospital where Anna Nicole was undergoing medical treatment mid-term of her testimony.

Allegedly, Stern helped Anna Nicole to these drugs to supplement the drug treatment detox she was undergoing.

According to Birkhead, a private nurse was also in the room at times. This nurse too was obviously aware of what was happening.

Now doesn't an officer of the law, the Judge, have an obligation to call for an investigation of all of these people who either assisted smith in taking drugs not provided to her through hospital care, or those who stood by and watched as she took such medications?

What liability as well does the hospital have?

Was the child ever tested for status of any drugs in her tiny body?

There are serious questions here, and Judge Seidlin ignored these questions and finding answers to them.

For instance, what if the child had died in childbirth? Wouldn't there be an investigation? The hospital would have been under investigation as well.

What is also disturbing is information came out that Anna Nicole underwent at least one previous miscarriage. Were drugs a contribution to that?

Smith Paternity Dispute Going to Court

Feb 23 9:04 AM US/Eastern

...Birkhead testified during the hearing that he had urged Smith to seek drug treatment. When he visited the Bahamas home Smith and Stern shared last year, he said he became increasingly concerned about her medicine use.

"They kept bringing more and more drugs in the house," Birkhead said, adding that Smith told him she needed the prescriptions to live. When he suggested Smith enter drug rehabilitation, he said she told him: "I'm not a drug addict and quit calling me one."...

http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/02/23/D8NFF9201.html

Birkhead talks about Anna Nicole Smith drug use

http://www.redorbit.com/video_rmm_m_3/?mid=16391&category_id=3&release_time=&page=1

David Glazer
Have to follow the laws of intestacy regarding the will in the jurisdiction where Anna Nicole Smith resided... Court TV Live Feb. 23, 2007

Yes, but there is a dispute concerning her residency in the Bahamas as that may be based on the purchase of a house there...

Florida Judge to Rule On Jurisdiction, DNA in Paternity Hearing for Anna Nicole Smith Baby
Friday, February 23, 2007


http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,254028,00.html

Judge Seidlin Weepy But Sly

Update Feb. 27, 2007

The stay order to hold the body of Anna Nicole Smith has been authorized. Counsel for Virgie Arthur initiated proceedings to have the body held until an appeal to the ruling of Judge Larry Seidlin/

The trial court departed from the letter of the law... when he asserted jurisdiction over the child by appointing an non-family member as guardian for the child when there was a blood relative present and seeking custody over the remains of the body...another strong argument according to Court TV News is the court should not have recognized Howard K. Stern as a party in the custody proceedings...

Appeal of Judge Larry Seidlin's ruling reportedly was entered by counsel for the mother of Anna Nicole Smith within minutes of recess of the court.

The action may keep the body of Anna Nicole in Florida for enough time for the California (United States)order for DNA testing of Anna's baby daughter to be submitted to Bahama authorities and carried out.

Judge Larry Seidlin ordered the Guardian ad litem custody of Anna Nicole's body on behalf of Smith's next-of-kin, her minor daughter, Dannielynn.

The Judge had said repeatedly in court during the first day's hearing in Judge's chambers he needed to know who the biological father of Dannielynn is. Over the course of the next days, Seidlin continued to proclaim the fathership should be determined, but he refrained from assuming jurisdiction on a California order regarding DNA testing of Dannielynn, Anna Nicole Smith's daughter.

He got in contentious argument with counsel for Larry Birkhead, Debra Opri over the matter of paternity tests.

We believe Judge Larry Seidlin has known all along the end game would have to be to obtain the identity of Dannielynn's biological father.

What Judge Seidlin did by his action today, indicating the court's Guardian ad litem as custodian of Smith's body, is to set a precedent so to speak that the next of kin to determine Smith's final resting place would be Dannielynn. However, because she is a minor, the next of kin under his scenario would be her biological father.

Debra Opri, counsel for Larry Birkhead attempted to argue Judge Seidlin did have jurisdiction over the paternity issues, but Judge Seidlin did not relent.

During today's proceedings as he handed down the order over custody of Smith's body, he repeated he believed the biological father should be known. He said there was enough baloney on that matter and it should end in the interests of the child.

video

http://www.wftv.com/video/11085191/detail.html

The matter is now in Florida Family Court, Judge Corda.

Attorney Nancy Hess for Larry Birkhead speaks to Court TV Live about the California court's orders for the DNA testing of Dannielynn. Counsel has submitted documentation for the Florida Family Court to domesticate the matter, to reach out to Bahamian Court to help them to enforce the standing California Court order.


Fox News
Judge Grills Anna Nicole Smith's Ex-Boyfriend Larry Birkhead
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253341,00.html

CNN
Smith's Bahamas home claimed for ex-boyfriend
POSTED: 7:19 a.m. EST, February 11, 2007

http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/02/10/smith.bahamas.ap/index.html?eref=rss_us

TMZ

http://www.tmz.com/category/anna-nicole-smith/

Court TV News Blog

Jack's take

http://blog.courttv.com/inside/2007/02/jacks_take_7.html

Guardian ad litem awarded custody

Judge Larry Seidlin ordered Guardian ad litem, who had been appointed early on in the proceedings to determine custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body, to meet with the three parties... with Millstein's sole discretion handling matters given to him!

Yes this Judge made the absolute right decision - the custodian of the body should be the court-appointed guardian for Dannielynn.

She's going to be with her son and have her son next to her, Judge Seidlin says amid some tears and choking up.

It's in Millstein's hands.

No problem, really, when Birkhead is declared the father, he will be able to have the bodies exhumed - should he so choose - on behalf of his biological daughter and legal charge, Dannielynn, and moved wherever in the world he determines, or he can purchase property in the Bahamas himself.

Seriously, folks, since Judge Seidlin ruled in this specific way, giving merit to the argument that the next of kin, Anna Nicole's minor daughter, Dannielynn, custody of Anna Nicole Smith's body, it is not a stretch of the imagination to think that the real, biological father should actually be the guardian.

The court's Guardian ad litem is a stand-in in lieu of the natural guardian of the child who would be the father.

Brilliant also, was the move of Debra Opri in court, to attempt to continue to press for Judge Seidlin to assume what she called his jurisdiction over the paternity issue.

Opri believed according to the statute the court's own Administrator ad litem cited for procedure, the natural father would have to be identified. Opri believes that father is her client, Larry Birkhead.

Judge Gives Custody of Anna Nicole Smith's Body to Her Baby's Court-Appointed Guardian
Thursday, February 22, 2007
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — The judge presiding over the Anna Nicole Smith burial hearing ruled Thursday that Smith's remains should be given to the court-appointed guardian ad litem representing her 5-month-old daughter, Dannielynn.

Broward County Circuit Court Judge Larry Seidlin said the guardian, attorney Richard Milstein, must consult with Smith's estranged mother Virgie Arthur, her companion Howard K. Stern and her ex-boyfriend Larry Birkhead when he makes his decision about where Smith will be buried.

But the judge said he wants Smith buried next to her late son Daniel in the Bahamas.

"I want her to be buried with her son in the Bahamas. I want them to be together," he said, weeping while he explained his decision.

Smith's mother wants her buried in her native Texas, while Stern wants her laid to rest in the Bahamas.

"I have suffered for this, I have struggled with this, I have shed tears for your little girl," Seidlin said to Smith's mother about 15 minutes before he ruled.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253662,00.html

Smith judge rules in favor of baby’s guardian
Emotional Seidlin tells lawyer Milstein he wants model ‘buried with her son’

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - Blubbering as he announced his ruling, a judge said Thursday he hopes Anna Nicole Smith will be buried in the Bahamas, but he left the decision up to the guardian of her baby daughter.

Circuit Judge Larry Seidlin steered a surprise middle course in the dispute, which became more urgent by the day when the medical examiner warned that the centerfold’s body was rapidly decomposing from her death two weeks ago.

Smith’s estranged mother wanted her buried in her native Texas, while Smith’s boyfriend wanted her laid to rest in the Bahamas...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17276661/

Judge Appoints Lawyer to Advise on Custody of Anna Nicole Smith's Body
Friday, February 16, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252134,00.html

Judge Seidlin Rules Anna Nicole Smith burial

Judge to Rule momentarily on the disposition of Anna Nicole Smith's body.

Net the Truth Online report
from first-hand observation of Court TV News, MSNBC Live, Fox News Live
2:32 PM EST

Judge Larry Seidlin acknowledges there were a lot of he/she said testimony. He hopes all respond to his final decision with decorum which Anna Nicole Smith should have... Seidlin takes a fifteen minute recess...

Fox News Shepard Smith... what just happened, he's got the candles burning, his wife is waiting... Shepard Smith himself feels like somebody has put him through a strainer. He sees celebrity hangers ons, lawyers falling down, Anna Nicole Smith accused of being on mushrooms in the last month of her pregnancy...

Day One this could have been determined... who is the nearest relative, next-of-kin, the child, says commentator, under the law the legal guardian of the child should be the one to determine the best interests of the child...

Shepard Smith hit the nail on the head, this isn't about where she will be buried, however, it's about who will get the custody of the body.

Very interesting. Judge Seidlin did appoint a Guardian ad litem for Anna Nicole Smith's daughter, Dannielynn.

Judge returns 3:50 PM

Crystal clear once the order is signed, all are done with Seidlin, he says. The paternity issue is remanded to another court.

Custody goes to:

The Court concludes one issue of concern who is entitled to the custody of the remains... one equitable solution is it would be Dannielynn... based on court's review orders custody to Dannielynn. Stern denied Arther denied.

Richard Millsteen esquire as guardian ad litem is awarded custody of Anna Nicole Smith

Previously, how events in court unfolded

Acting on behalf of Vergie Arthur, counsel John Q. Quinn, proferred a long-distance phone call be made to the purported biological father of Daniel Wayne Smith, Anna Nicole Smith's son. Identified as Billy Smith, the man at first said he'd like his son to be in Texas, where he resides. That would be difficult, though, to exhume the body.

After a couple of questions from Judge Seidlin, Billy Wayne Smith said he thinks Anna Nicole Smith wanted to be buried by her only son.

Earlier, a witness for Anna Nicole Smith's mother Vergie Arthur, a friend of Anna Nicole Smith, had testified to his knowledge of her potential burial wishes.

Ford Shelley finally said Anna said she wanted to be buried beside her son. Notwithstanding that he thinks the biological father is Larry Birkhead, he said, Howard K. Stern, is representing her wishes in that.

Witness for Smith Mother says wanted to be buried beside son

Friend of Anna Nicole Smith, Ford Shelly testifies he facilitated Anna Nicole Smith's locating to the Bahamas... for paternity-avoidance purposes... he knows who Anna Nicole Smith said the father was, Larry Birkhead.

Shelley also testified about the contents of a videotape Vergie Arthur's counsel obtained. The previous day, after court was just recessed, counsel for Larry Birkhead noted the existence of a tape which would go to Smith's potential state of mind.

Shelley's daughter, Reilly had visited Smith with Howard K. Stern present. the child painted Anna Nicole's face to look like a clown.

In the the video the voice of reportedly Harold K. Stern can be heard saying

Reilly thinks you've lost your mind. Is this a mushroom trip. Is this a mushroom trip... this film is worth money...

Shelley testifies it is the lst week of August when his daughter visited Anna Nicole. Reilly asked to call her father and was denied so, Shelley says, by Howard K. Stern.

Christa Barth questions Shelley... the house is not in Shelley's name, but in G. Thompson... his father in law... how did he come in possession of this tape...

finally, questioned about where does he think she should be buried. Anna told him she wanted to be buried in California but she couldn't go back then because she feared being served with paternity papers by Larry Birkhead, told him she wanted to take her items...

OK Birkhead's attorneys...

Really, when they have a chance to ask about Stern allowing Anna to look like she's on mushrooms with an underaged child present...

do you have any writings, diaries, journals, emails, any of those with him. Can they be proffered to see if she made any contemporaneous writing about her wishes...

Yes. And the Broward County sheriff's office has other material. But he doesn't think they would show where she wanted to be buried.

...the issue is moot... doesn't matter as none of the items contain her wishes for burial.

Finally, Anna said she wanted to be buried beside her son, says Shelley. Notwithstanding, that he thinks the biological father is Larry Birkhead, Shelley said, Howard K. Stern, is representing her wishes in that.

Will faxed earlier?

Faxed Will Fuels Anna Nicole Smith Death Debate
By Staff
Feb 22, 2007

Reports that a will was faxed to the home of Anna Nicole Smith just days before she died has fuelled conspiracy theories into her tragic death earlier this month (08Feb07).

http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_21265478.shtml

http://www.topix.net/who/anna-nicole-smith

Anna Nicole Ordered to Move Out
MONDAY OCTOBER 23, 2006 03:30 PM EDT

By Rob Howe

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,26334,1549601,00.html

Videotape of footage on site

Anna Nicole Stoned -- Stern Sees $$$$
Posted Feb 20th 2007 12:03PM by TMZ Staff
Filed under: Wacky and Weird, Anna Nicole Smith

A stunning video shows a barely functional Anna Nicole Smith, stammering and stuttering, as Howard K. Stern rhapsodizes about how much money the clip will be worth...

The tape, which aired Monday night on Greta Van Susteren's show on FOX News Channel, shows an eight-months pregnant Smith, her face painted like a clown and clearly stoned out of her mind. As she talks to a doll in a baby carriage as if it's real, Stern repeatedly says, "Is this a mushroom trip?" He then adds, "I'm kidding."

http://www.tmz.com/2007/02/20/anna-nicole-stoned-stern-sees/

Anna Nicole Smith Burial Place Tourism Cash Cow

this thought just dawned on me.

Harold K. Stern and Smith were buddy-buddy with the Bahama authorities since their arrival...

Is it possible the burial site of Anna Nicole Smith will become a Tourism Cash Cow for the Bahamas?

The home in which she was living, whose ownership is under dispute, became exactly that, a tourism draw.

Anna Nicole Smith's Bahamas home becomes hot tourist site
By JESSICA ROBERTSON
Associated Press Writer

NASSAU, Bahamas — The gated, waterfront Bahamas mansion where the late reality TV star Anna Nicole Smith lived has become one of the island chain's hottest tourist attractions.

For days, tour buses and taxis that rarely venture to the exclusive eastern corner of Nassau where Smith lived have been shuttling hundreds of tourists to the street outside the estate called "Horizons."

The mansion's ownership is in dispute, as is the paternity of the former Playboy Playmate's 5-month-old daughter, who could inherit a multimillion-dollar fortune. Three men have claimed to be Dannielynn's father, and Smith's estranged mother wants to be declared the legal guardian.

Smith died at a Florida hotel Feb. 8 at age 39. The cause of death is still under investigation.

http://www.statesman.com/news/content/gen/ap/Anna_Nicole_Smith_Bahamas.

html

Anna Nicole Smith Sad Selfish Mother-to-be

Nobody at the court proceedings will say this because all of course have something to gain, whether it is excitement, news stories, photographs, the ability to say they were there, or ultimately a piece of any forthcoming monies from Anna Nicole Smith's likeness in the future.

We will say it: Anna Nicole Smith does not deserve this amount of time spent on where she finally goes in the ground. the woman was rushed to the hospital in the middle of her pregnancy, and was obviously treated for detoxification of drug use.

Whether addicted to prescription meds or not, the woman had a choice to get off the drugs for the sake of her unborn child.

Larry Birkhead tried his best to keep her on track now that she was in the hospital, but she wanted her whatever to continue even while she was in the hospital being treated for drug use.

That reveals Anna Nicole Smith did not have the best interests of her child in her mind, not even in the back of her mind.

Judge Seidlin Adamant Doesn't Want Dannylynn DNA test ordered

Court agrees with Millstein. It's court's interpretation of the law that he doesn't have jurisdiction over obtaining a DNA sample from Dannielynn.

Judge Seidlin Admits Deal with Howard K. Stern

Net the Truth Online report
from first-hand observation Court TV News Live, MSNBC Live, Fox News Live

During an interruption of the testimony of Larry Birkhead, Judge Larry Seidlin said he had all along wanted to know the biological father's identity. He has refrained from pressing the issue with Howard K. Stern because he wanted input into the matter of the disposition of Anna Nicole Smith's body.

Seidlin admitted he made a deal with Stern, and he abides by his deals. He won't demand any taking of DNA that might resolve the matter.

At one point during Birkhead's testimony, the matter of paternity arose again. Debra Opri attempted to say the Judge could order the DNA for purposes in this case which would go to the heart of where to place Anna Nicole Smith's body.

The Judge squashed her attempt, again.

I'm getting the feeling the Judge is hiding his hand. He knows darn well, darn well, that there are shady circumstances surrounding Anna Nicole's life, let alone her death. He's no dummy.

He knows what California courts have also ruled to date. He knows what the Bahama authorities are doing... Seidlin is an illusionist, and he has everyone but us looking elsewhere...

Judge Seidlin wants justice, and even if he had to make a deal with Howard K. Stern, he is going to get justice in the end.

Now that he's told Larry Birkhead to not make any more references to Howard K. Stern, we have to change this opinion.

What on earth is any Judge telling somebody how or how not to testify?!!!

I'm sorry, if that were me on the stand, I'd raise a citizen objection to the Judge telling me how to testify.

Assuming you are the father, where would you place the body of Anna Nicole Smith?

Asking Larry Birkhead...

Please Larry Birkhead, say if it is proven he is the father of Dannielynn Judge, he would want Danny the son to be placed with Anna Nicole who he would want to be placed near him and Dannielynn. It couldn't be simpler than that.

Did he send an email that says she was sleeping with everybody... yes he sent the email...

But Opri argues from her seat the issue is exclusivity during the time she became pregnant... Birkhead says the doctors told him and Anna Nicole there was a three-day window and he fits into that window exclusively...

Major reason obtain Howard K. Stern DNA is he good Dad material

Legal commentators are right to point out it isn't really Harold K. Stern's DNA which is needed for a paternity test to determine the biological father of Dannielynn. What is needed is Dannielynn's DNA. That has already been ordered actually by California judge to be taken, and the order has not yet been complied with.

An overlooked reason to obtain Stern's DNA - is he on drugs, and/or was he on drugs at any time during his companionship with Smith?

Net the Truth Online report
from first-hand observation Court TV News, MSNBC Live video, and Fox News

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=cc3da169-2072-4500-87df-77e9005fb38d&p=hotvideo_m_edpicks&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17238177/&fg=


There was a videotape says Debra Opri and allegations that her client's cup was removed - the Judge stops her in mid-sentence.

The testimony of Larry Birkhead continues.

In May of 2006, Anna Nicole went to S. Carolina and then to the Bahamas. He stated his concern about Anna Nicole Smith taking any drugs during her pregnancy.


Judge Seidlin interrupts the testimony to give an overview of Villains and Heroes in the case, he goes over each of the parties in the case... the mother, Larry Birkhead, and Howard K. Stern.

Judge is accusing Howard K. Stern as being some sort of an enabler... if he put his foot down she might have taken flight from Stern!

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17121980/

Ford Shelly: to testify Anna Nicole Smith Drugged Out

According to MSNBC Rita Cosby Live

Witnesses for Vergie Arthur, mother of Anna Nicole are expected to be in court this morning... Among them is friend of Anna Nicole, Ford Shelly who is to testify Anna Nicole Smith was often strung out, drugged out in the last year from his observations... days ago a video surfaced showing Anna Nicole having her face painted where she looks very strung out, on drugs.

See our previous coverage noted below.

What hasn't come out is the videotape was shown on Greta van Susterin's Fox program On the Record during an interview with the Shelly's.

See Fox News transcript



Wednesday, February 21, 2007
Judge Larry Seidlin Anna Nicole gift in death

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/judge-larry-seidlin-anna-nicole-gift-in.html

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Film Shows True Face

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/film-shows-true-face.html

Wednesday, February 21, 2007
What to ask Howard K. Stern about Anna on mushrooms

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/what-to-ask-howard-k-stern-about-anna.html

Brad Blog: False Dichotomies Being Used by Democrats...

"The False Dichotomies Being Used by Democrats and Their Public-Advocacy Group Supporters to Prop Up the Failings of the Holt Election Reform Bill"

Misrepresentation of the 'Opposition,' Fear of Failure, and a Bizarre, Unsubstantiated 'Civil Rights' Argument All Employed to Avoid Legitimate Debate on the Dangers of the Pending Legislation...

We've been discussing the pros and cons of Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform bill (HR 811 [PDF]) since it dropped two weeks ago in the House.

There is, no doubt, much more to say about the specific pros and cons in detail here as we move forward. For the moment, allow me to first address three false dichotomies opportunistically and/or disingenuously and/or naively being used by supporters of Holt's legislation in order to help see it passed by Congress.

In doing so, I'll share some of what I've learned over the past several weeks via my personal investigations into why the Democrats who support the bill, along with their closely-allied public advocacy groups, are currently unable or unwilling to show the necessary courage to insist upon the banning of disenfranchising, failed DRE/touch-screen voting system technology from all American elections.

The inability, or unwillingness, of such groups to stand up and call for what most know to be the right thing is occurring despite the fact that most of those groups actually agree --- and will admit privately, if not always publicly --- that DRE technology has no place in our electoral system and is a grave menace to true Electoral Integrity.

Collectively, these three arguments are being used to shore up support for a bill which offers much good (DISCLOSURE: I participated in the drafting of the bill myself, and did what I could --- sometimes successfully, sometimes not --- to improve its language and provisions), yet ultimately may prove to be as dangerous as the disastrous Help America Vote Act (HAVA) and risks becoming known as HAVA 2 by 2008. And, as I've pointed out before, this time the Democrats won't have the Republicans or Bob Ney to blame.

FALSE DICHOTOMY #1:
It's Either Holt or Hand-Counted Paper Ballots...

The first of the three false dichotomies being forwarded by some of the bill's supporters is to suggest that there are only two choices: Pass the Holt bill 'as is,' or continue an unwinnable campaign for all hand-counted paper ballots (HCPB).

The now oft-repeated intimation is the very definition of a strawman, a canard, and a truly disingenuous false dichotomy. ...


While Hand-Counted Paper Ballots might be swell and offer maximum transparency and citizen oversight --- as well as not being nearly as difficult or unwieldy to accomplish as many under-informed folks may believe --- the majority of Holt detractors, including myself, are not fighting for hand-counted paper ballots at this time. Rather, we are fighting for a necessary ban on the failed and disenfranchising technology of DRE/touch-screen systems, which succeeded spectacularly in 2006 in ensuring that thousands (or perhaps millions) of legally registered voters were unable to cast a vote at all, much less have that vote counted either accurately or transparently.

Banning DREs does not mean all votes must be counted by hand. Most supporters of the Holt Bill know that --- or should, if they don't --- yet seem to be using the false argument when convenient to distract from the real shortcomings and concerns of the Holt legislation.

Optical-scan systems, while also presenting their own security and accuracy concerns, could easily and (fairly) safely be used with publicly-disclosed source code and a mandatory random hand-audit protocol of a sufficient number of ballots to achieve 99% scientific certainty that the reported results of any optically-scanned election are correct.

I say this knowing that those who support nothing less than 100% HCPB would likely disagree.

In either case, suggesting that those who understand the need for a complete ban on failed DRE technology are actually demanding HCPB is a cheap and unsubstantiated political tactic, unworthy of this necessary debate. It serves only to confuse at a time when all well-meaning Election Integrity advocates (and I include Holt in that group) ought to be having a legitimate discussion/debate about these most important matters...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4163

BLOGGED BY Brad Friedman ON 2/14/2007 12:00PM
Holt Election Reform Bill Continues to be Supported by Democrats and Their Public Advocacy Groups, While Being Criticized by the Election Integrity Community
Flawed Bill Continues to Fast-Track While Supporters Ignore the Concerns of Those Who Know the Issue Best
HR811 On Schedule to Become 'HAVA 2' Unless Radically Amended, Improved...
Blogged from the road by Brad Friedman...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4150

Maxine Waters Pulls Sponsorship Rush Holt Election Reform Bill

EXCLUSIVE: REP. MAXINE WATERS ANNOUNCES INTENTION TO WITHDRAW CO-SPONSORSHIP OF HOLT ELECTION REFORM BILL!

Calls for a Return to Paper Ballots During Commemorative MLK, Jr., Keynote Address in Santa Cruz!
California Congresswoman is First of Bill's 192 Co-Sponsors to Pull Support Amid Heavy Criticism of Legislation by Election Integrity Advocates...
Guest Blogged by Emily Levy of VelvetRevolution.us with additional reporting by Brad Friedman

During a question and answer period after a speech at a Black History Month event last night sponsored by the University of California Santa Cruz, Congresswoman Maxine Waters (D-CA) announced that she plans to withdraw her co-sponsorship of Rep. Rush Holt's Election Reform Legislation, (HR 811).

Citing the bill's failure to require paper ballots, allowing for uncounted "paper trails" instead, Waters replied to a question of mine that she would be "glad to withdraw [her] name from the bill" when she returns to Washington on Tuesday in the wake of recent conversations she's had in California with Election Integrity advocates. The announcement drew an enthusiastic round of applause from those in attendance at Tuesday night's 23rd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Convocation at UCSC which was keynoted by Waters.

Waters would be the first of the bill's current 192 House co-sponsors to withdraw her support...

http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4170#more-4170

Anna Nicole Smith clown face painting video to come into hearing

MSNBC legal analyst Tony... raising the issue of the potential effect on the child of any drugs Anna Nicole Smith was taking allegedly during the months of her pregnancy.

Has the baby been tested for residual drugs in her own system?

The Judge has said he has the welfare of the baby at heart. Analyst says let's just get the biological father identified, just order the DNA testing conducted on the baby. Is she safe? She needs baby shots at six-months, he says. Has she had them?

The analyst makes a reference to the videotape showing Anna Nicole Smith having her face painted to look like a clown.

Yesterday during proceedings in court, cousel (either for Vergie Arthur or Larry Birkhead) brought out the existence of a videotape showing the face-painting and the testimony of friends of Anna Nicole Smith, Ford Shelly, regarding the tape and other matters.

Judge Seidlin indicated we will see the tape.

See our posts:

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Anna Nicole Smith clown face painting video to come into hearing

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/anna-nicole-smith-clown-face-painting.html

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Film Shows True Face

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/film-shows-true-face.html

Affidavit: McVeigh had high-level help
According to Oklahoma bombing conspirator, ranking officials were involved in the attack By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune

Article Last Updated: 02/21/2007 01:03:43 AM MST

Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols says a high-ranking FBI official "apparently" was directing Timothy McVeigh in the plot to blow up a government building and might have changed the original target of the attack, according to a new affidavit filed in U.S. District Court in Utah.
The official and other conspirators are being protected by the federal government "in a cover-up to escape its responsibility for the loss of life in Oklahoma," Nichols claims in a Feb. 9 affidavit.
Documents that supposedly help back up his allegations have been sealed to protect information in them, such as Social Security numbers and dates of birth.
The U.S. Attorney's Office in Utah had no comment on the allegations. The FBI and Justice Department in Washington, D.C., also declined comment.
Nichols does not say what motive the government would have to be involved in the bombing.
The affidavit was filed in a lawsuit brought by Salt Lake City attorney Jesse Trentadue, who believes his brother's death in a federal prison was linked to the Oklahoma City bombing. The suit, which seeks documents from the FBI under the federal Freedom of Information Act, alleges that authorities mistook Kenneth Trentadue for a bombing conspirator and that guards killed him in an interrogation that got out of hand...

http://www.sltrib.com/SEARCH/ci_5271117

Larry Birkhead: believes, knows Dannielynn his child

Judge Seidlin asks Larry Birkhead if he were the father of Danielynn and he were to make the decision where would he bury Anna Nicole seriously, Larry Birkhead is very intelligent, and appears honest as the sun is bright. He would bury Anna Nicole in California, and he knows Daniel would not want to be buried in the Bahamas. But since Daniel is there in the Bahamas...

If and when he gets the daughter that he knows and believes is his child, would he want to bring Daniel from the Bahamas, he doesn't know... he would not want to separate Anna Nicole Smith from her child Daniel.

The judge publicly says he is impressed by his testimony. Judge Seidlin says larry Birkhead put a lot of meat on this picture.

Stern: "...she was more impaired than that..."

MSNBC: doing a dynamite job, no interruptions over some four hours of late-evening testimony. Hope the transcripts reflect all!

Net the Truth Online Report
from first-hand observation

Howard K. Stern has an exchange with Judge Seidlin over Stern's opinion of Anna Nicole's appearance on the tape wherein she is angered at her mother for charging Anna Nicole and Howard with the murder of Daniel...

Stern's slip of the tongue as he faced the judge: what you see on the video, that's how Anna Nicole would talk... there were times she was more "impaired" than that...

Judge Seidlin: more impaired than that?

Stern immediately attempted to backtrack when the Judge pressed asking whether that meant she was on drugs during the interview talking about Vergie Arthur...

Stern continued to testify that Anna Nicole knew what she was saying, knew what she was doing...

Bombshell: Larry Birkhead made allegations before Judge Seidlin that in April 2006 when Anna was in the hospital for two weeks being weaned off prescription drug medications during her pregnancy, he staying 24/7 by her bedside in the room, he observed Howard K. Stern had a dufflebag that he dipped into for drugs to give to Anna Nicole aside from the medications Anna was getting from the intravenus medications.

Rita Cosby: ... Howard K. Stern didn't come across as being honest

The Judge seemed to love Larry Birkhead... letting him talk about Anna Nicole... and was asked about where to bury Anna Nicole... not a good day for Howard K. Stern.

Rebecca Woodlin ...The thought that Howard K. Stern is bringing in drugs and adding to her iv, that is damaging to Howard K. Stern.

See MSNBC VIDEO

Exclusive with Anna Nicole's mother

http://video.msn.com/v/us/msnbc.htm?f=00&g=73b6c092-c46d-42ea-bd0d-726540ed738c&p=hotvideo_m_anna&t=m5&rf=http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/&fg=

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3096434/

Rita Cosby videos

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/8828200/

Fox News report
Judge Grills Anna Nicole Smith's Ex-Boyfriend Larry Birkhead
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253341,00.html

Judge Larry Seidlin Anna Nicole gift in death

Just after Judge Seidlin recessed court for the day shortly before 7 PM EST, counsel for Larry Birkhead offered another witness not to be forgotten. Ford Shelly, friend of Anna Nicole who would testify about a video taken of his daughter painting Anna Nicole's face to look like a clown.

Judge Seidlin says we may be able to see this video.

well, we are right on with that. This Judge is a match to Anna Nicole Smith. He may get animated, and he may be loud, but one can tell - the man has a heart.

In our opinion, the video will show exactly how Howard K. Stern permitted Anna Nicole Smith to appear as if on mushrooms (drugged) while a child was painting her face to look like a clown.

At one point in the film, Stern, who is taking the video, as he can clearly be heard on the video, says: this will bring in a lot of money.

Fox News Greta van Susterin interviewed the Shelly's just a day ago!

See our post

Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Film Shows True Face

http://netthetruthonline.blogspot.com/2007/02/film-shows-true-face.html

Anna Nicole's Friends Comment On Disturbing Tape
Tuesday, February 20, 2007

This is a partial transcript from "On the Record," February 19, 2007, that has been edited for clarity.

GRETA VAN SUSTEREN, HOST: Ford and Gina Shelly were very close to Anna Nicole. We spoke with the Shelly's a short time ago.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

VAN SUSTEREN: Had you ever come to learn that maybe the day was not a particularly normal one?

FORD SHELLY, FRIEND OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH: We've later found out and we didn't know it, that Anna wasn't up (INAUDIBLE) herself that day. Anna was — Anna had — must have taken something to calm her down, but Anna wasn't herself that day.

VAN SUSTEREN: That day was taped, do we have some clips of it? Who taped it?

F. SHELLY: Howard.

VAN SUSTEREN: What do those tapes tell you? I mean, what do you notice about — I mean, you know Anna Nicole, I mean, what do those tapes tell you? What was going on?

F. SHELLY: Well, it was almost like Howard was taping these so he could sell them, because he — on the tape, he made reference to — it was going to be worth some money. You know, the tapes show a time when my little girl was scared and she asked to call me and he didn't let her.

And Anna wasn't herself. Anna was acting like a child. She thought she'd already had the baby and my little girl was scared and Howard had to calm her down. And tell her, say, "Anna, you're scaring Reilly. You're scaring her. You're scaring her."

And she didn't understand. Anna didn't mean it. But, Howard is a grown man, and he's sitting there videotaping this and watching Anna. She needed help. She didn't need that.

VAN SUSTEREN: And your little girl said, "Howard."

GINA SHELLY, FRIEND OF ANNA NICOLE SMITH: "Please call the doctor, Howard. Let's call the doctor, Howard, please. Something's wrong with ‘Bunny.'" She called her "Bunny." And Howard's like — Reilly's like, "I'm going to call my dad." And Howard's like, "That phone doesn't work, honey, the one in the kitchen does." And when Reilly ran out to call, Howard tells Anna, "You're scaring Reilly. You're scaring Reilly, Anna. You really need to straighten up. You're scaring her." You know, so.

VAN SUSTEREN: But, what does the tape show? What does the tape show?

G. SHELLY: It shows them having a party and Reilly painted her face like a clown and they had face painting and they started playing baby dolls. And then Anna's believing that this baby is her baby. And Reilly's trying to say, "This is not your baby, Anna. Your baby's still in your tummy." And Anna is convinced that that baby is her baby.

VAN SUSTEREN: The doll?

G. SHELLY: The doll baby. And then Reilly keeps going up to Howard saying, you know, "Howard, tell her it's got a battery. Let's go get a screwdriver and take it out and show Anna this is not a real baby." So, I mean, this went on for probably about an hour. Until...

F. SHELLY: Well, that's all we know.

G. SHELLY: That's all we know. Until finally Howard convinced Anna, you know, you're freaking Reilly out, you need to stop this....

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,252979,00.html