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George and Cindy Anthony on GMA Today


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Anniversary of Caylee’s Disappearance

It’s been two years today since Caylee Anthony disappeared and her parents marked the anniversary by going on Good Morning America and speaking. It was gut wrenching for me, because I can only imagine the pain they must experience knowing their granddaughter will never return, and their daughter is now facing the death penalty for their granddaughter’s murder. Cindy made a statement that they have now lived without Caylee as long as they lived with her.

Read moreI feel people have been unfair to the Anthonys and very harsh on them, because the Anthony have lashed out in their pain with sharpness, or they reverted to denial to cope — Cindy more so than George. So many people believe the Anthonys are lying, and I couldn’t disagree more.

The Anthonys have gone in and out of denial, and it now looks like they are in complete denial. I am not surprised in the slightest.

Denial is a coping mechanism that helps us deal with circumstances when emotionally we are unable. The Free Dictionary.com gives a medical definition: “A primitive–ego defense–mechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a …stress-producing reality in his environment.”

Many people confuse denial with lying, when the two are very different animals. Yes, sometimes people deny things consciously, and that is not denial. That is lying, but that is not what we are witnessing in Cindy Anthony.

While Cindy likely was not the perfect mother, I don’t think we can blame her for what Casey did or for “raising Casey wrong” as so many people suggested. If you’ve never witnessed the wrath of a psychopath, you have no clue how incredible challenging they can be. You can never win when you compete with fairness and honesty with a psychopath. You can win if you lie with a psychopath. There is no winning, period. They will always make sure you lose. They are master, cunning manipulators that I believe are a result of a genetic flaw.

I believe Cindy loved little Caylee so much that Casey was jealous and ended Caylee’s life because of it. Casey had been the center of her parents world up until Caylee arrived and Casey resented losing that spotlight. In all the videos we see, it is quite clear that Cindy is the one who cared and financed everything for Caylee and gave her the beginnings of normal childhood. There is no doubt it, the Anthonys doted on little Caylee and truly loved her, yet they wanted Casey to take responsibility of being Caylee’s mom, which I suspect sparked a lot of fights and ultimately Casey to let it out on Caylee.

If Cindy Anthony were still “covering” for her daughter as many people have said, we would have never seen Casey write about them so cold and callously as she did in her jailhouse letters. Casey wrote about her mom:

Come to find out that she put a trademark on Caylee’s name months back, never told me, and even talked about doing the same with mine. This is the same time she publicly states that she plans on writing a book about this! B-E-T-R-A-Y-A-L!!! I’m so sick to my stomach even thinking about this. I’m the only person who has tried to protect Caylee throughout all of this, and it kills me!

Casey goes on to write:

I’ve officially lost my entire blood-related family in the blink of an eye, in the middle of mourning my daughters death, trying to exonerate myself, and figure out what steps to take in achieving these things, and I get [expletive] over by my entire family.

I believe Cindy absolutely put a trademark on her granddaughter’s name, and perhaps Casey’s, too, and it wasn’t to profit! Casey knows this, but she is twisting things to get sympathy. Cindy likely did it because a company made little Caylee dolls and starting selling them in the heat of the search for Caylee’s body, and this was the legal way to stop this from every happening again. Did Cindy ever talk about writing a book?

If Cindy was in on this with Casey, she would have never called the cops and been so honest when she made that 911 call — talking about the car smelling like a dead body. It never, ever would have happened. Cindy would have coached Casey and hid the body and waited for someone else to discover that Caylee was missing, but that never happened. I am surprised people have such a hard time seeing this.

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Shopping Experience: Is this deceptive?

A week ago (10 days ago), I ordered a bathing suit online at JcPenneys. They advertised it was on sale $10 off the full price, and since I found a free shipping coupon online, I ordered it. It arrived. I don’t live near a store.

Yesterday I realized that I was going to a dentist near a Penneys, so I decided to go in and look at what they were charging locally. I went in, found the suit, and low and behold the suit was $20 off the regular price.

It’s sad to say that I expected as much.

Read moreOnline they give you one price and at the store, you find another. Some times the store is cheaper, sometimes online is cheaper. You never know which it will be, so I check frequently when I am able to.

I went up to the register with my receipt and I asked for a credit. The woman at the check out counter told me that she couldn’t help me. The catalog business she explained is not the same as the store. I immediately piped up in front of the other waiting customers that this was a deceptive practice!! You should have seen their faces…

I said if you are one store, you should sell the product for the same price across the board. The customer service rep then said to me, “Well, did you get free shipping?” I acknowledged I did and shot right back at her, “Yeah, so does that make it right–charging me for shipping underhandedly?” Everyone around me was tense because I laid my thoughts on the table. People looked away! It always amazes me. The customer service rep told me to go to the catalog department to find out what could be done.

So I trucked on over to the catalog department and said, “I want a credit. This is $10 less than what I paid in the past week or two”. She promptly informed me it was not their policy to price match in the store. I said fine. Ring up this suit here, and I will be back tomorrow and I will bring you the other one so you can give me a credit. I’m not paying ten dollars more for nothing. You’ll just have to do more work– that’s your choice. She told me she would give me a credit, though it was against their policy.

Do you find these practices deceptive? I sure do…

I think as consumers we need to speak out against this and stop it!