Howard K. Stern

What is this moron so afraid of? He and his legal team make me want to regurgitate! First, they say that "only Bahamian law" controls; now that they are about to seat a jury for the inquest into Daniel Smith's death, he wants to "rewrite" Bahamian law. What a creep and sleaze he is; a hanger's on; a poor excuse for a man---one who rides the coattails of someone who pays his way through life and all he had to do was keep pumping the drugs and keeping her under control.

Anybody remember the "mushroom" video? How he was laughing when she was stoned out of her mind and two months from delivery? Remember what he said? "This is worth a lot of money." And she slurringly asked, "what, the camera?" His reply: "no, the video." If he cared about her he would never have let her appear on ET the night before she died when she couldn't even form a sentence. And this is who the courts are considering as the parent for this poor baby who probably has problems from the plethora of drugs her mother took?

I think he needs to be disbarred and that what he has done is criminal. And any attorney who would sit there, with a straight face, and tell the world that the "clown" video was a "play" video for an 8-year-old must think we all fell off a turnip truck! And the South Carolina man, son-in-law of the Bahamian official, said that he would never forgive him for filming that in the presence of his eight-year-old daughter, and not allowing her to call home.

What a despicable piece of humanity.

And these "doctors" and "nurses" who prescribed every drug known to mankind in every name under the sun, all picked up and doled out by HKS, ought to lose their licenses and be brought up on charges, too.

Of course, she died before anyone could get her to the hospital! God forbid that HKS would stop his shopping for a yacht with Anna's check and see about the "woman he loved more than life itself," who was running a 105 temperature.

I pray this baby goes to the care of her father, Larry Birkhead. God help her if she is given to Howard K. Stern to raise. She'll be on drugs before she gets out of Daycare.

Things that irritate me

If I hear one more newsperson use the terms, "went missing" or "the emotionalism," I think I will scream! What in the world happened to the words "disappeared" or "vanished"? And what happened to "emotion"? The same applies to football when they use the term "intercept" instead of interception. Intercept is a verb; interception is the result. And "further" instead of "farther," "affect" instead of "effect," etc. Affect is a verb; effect is the result or can be a verb when used (to effect change). Lord, I could go on forever. Please, people, check your spelling and grammar rules. Remember to use "me" instead of "I," as in "he threw the ball to Jane and me," not "Jane and I." You don't throw the ball to "I." !!!!

Okay, this may be trivial to most but it is a burr in my saddle.

I promise to sound off on more important issues!!!! :)

John Couey's Death Conviction

I couldn't believe there was no mention in today's Montgomery Advertiser of the death conviction in Florida of John Couey yesterday for the murder of Jessica Lunsford. So, I thought perhaps I had missed it and went back and looked at the A section again.

Instead:

Front page--Blue Gray Tournament Begins Today: In light of the fact that the news of the four Ohio students who were killed in Atlanta was relegated to the sports section, why not this one, too?

3A--Laurens, S.C.--Educators accused of selling beer to students.

Billings, MT--Unicorn claim incorrect.

4A--Dallas, TX--Methodist council oks SMU land for Bush library.

5A--Male gorilla causing baby boom in zoos.

The Adam Walsh Act was passed last July and I wrote then that I was disturbed that there was no mention of it in your paper. It was landmark legislation, but unless Washington and state legislators put teeth to the rhetoric and fund it, as well as the Jessica Lunsford Act, the Acts will die on someone's desk and no one will fund our law enforcement and courts to go after the John Coueys of the world. Instead our local legislators seem to care more about giving themselves a 60% raise than they do about fighting sex predators in our state, and Washington seems to care more about passing "pork" legislation, such as bridges that go nowhere.

Your child or grandchild could be next. The verdict in the Couey case just saved another child who may have crossed his path.

Mark Lunsford

I am so proud of this man; he was thrust into the limelight through the most horrific of circumstances--just an everyday Joe, truck driver who loved to ride motorcycles. With John Walsh's help, he has learned everything he can about these child predators and has fought all the way to D.C. and continues to march the halls of Congress and go state-to-state.

He said the reason he is in court is to not only fight for Jessie, but for every child. "Not many parents can speak publicly about what has happened to their child but I will break my heart a hundred times a day if it will save one child."

He said that when he testifies before State Legislators, quite often people leave because they can't bear hearing it. But you have to hear it, you have to know the face of evil and know how the Federal and State systems failed Jessica Lunsford and countless others.

I pray God brings justice and peace to this family; Lord only knows, there will never be closure; but out of his pain, God has given him the strength to fight tooth and nail to rid the country of the John Coueys of this world. We should contact our legislators, our congressmen, never let up. Voting for a law, and not providing funds, is no win. Sure, they passed the Adam Walsh Act but they haven't funded it yet. It just angers me so to think that so much money in this country is wasted on so much pork and our leaders don't have the wherewithall to do the right thing. I am sick to death of rhetoric.