(sticks out tongue and says "SO THERE!" like I couldn't during the May 17th hearing). On May 17th I was working 18 hours a day doing home repairs so where in the hell that pot shot came from, I have not a clue.
Hell, I barely have time to sit down and watch the local news so thanks to LSSI's facebook page, I was able to catch up on a local news story. Congratulations LSSI on your 1000th Facebook "like". I bet if I check my FB status history, I got over a thousand likes for some of the wisecracks I made about the great irony we call life and a fictional drug Robin Williams invented called "fukitol". (note: I said "fukitol" is fictional so there is no way I could possibly ingest it. Don't rush off to write another amended home study since I admitted to joking about a fake drug that I learned about using an application called Status Shuffle).
I also told some pretty good jokes and helped my mafia in Mafia Wars and surely that generated a few hundred "likes" too. I'm pretty sure I got over six dozen "likes" on the after pictures of the house too. My habit of photographing my cooking and posting the photos got several "likes" too. The home made dog biscuit photo was particularly popular. As an aside, I really wonder why so many cats and dogs play Mafia Wars.
http://www.wsiltv.com/p/news_details.php?newsID=11827&type=morning
The brunette caseworker on screen is named Reagan somebody. Wasn't there a Reagan somebody, maybe Nelson, in the Kalab Lay case? Different last name so maybe it's the same chick begging for money to buy presents for foster kids who recently got married. Maybe it's someone else entirely. Reagan isn't a very common name, is it? At any rate, I hope the foster kids had a lovely holiday.
I also got a chance to watch the 60 minutes segment and read all about LSSI's near insolvency in the Marion Daily Republican. Larry Johnson trotted himself out there for the interview but since IL paid their bills shortly after 60 Minutes aired, why LSSI was carrying on like this, I got questions. Rev. Bitner, nice performance. For a moment, I almost felt a tiny smidgen of pity but since I know there is a court decree protecting foster care funding, I just wasn't quite convinced for some odd reason. For good measure, I logged onto Guidestar and looked at all 33 LSSI related 990 not-for-profit tax returns including the J. G. Aigner Foundation. The figures are astounding. Wow on the income coming in. I know for a fact that assisted living apartments pull in good revenue.
Illinois is a deadbeat state. No argument from me on that one.
I'll be uploading our response to LSSI's last motion to dismiss the Sixth Amended soon. Why there is a second motion to dismiss after the court denied the first one still boggles my mind. What I would like to see is an Answer to the Sixth Amended. No, it's not "impossible" to answer the Sixth Amended and no, it's not convoluted. Temporal order, concise paragraphs, nice clean and concise writing. It's past time to go through it paragraph by paragraph, admit or deny the allegation and comply with the court's order to answer. After all, we filed this Sixth Amended on December 23, 2009 and the court ruled back in May.
According to the recent press articles, LSSI didn't lay off very many employees at all and surely the 2000 or so remaining know how to operate a copy machine or scanner. I'm cool if you want to scan it to PDF format even. Saves me the time scanning it myself and I love PDF search engine technology.
I did take a minute to upload a pretty cool photo of what we discovered doing the repairs on the house, which used to be a church. For 16 years, I've been sleeping on the former pulpit and this was over my head every night. What "God Will", we have no idea since the insurance company wouldn't pay to tear out the drywall covering the rest of the sign. I'm content to let that be a great mystery in life and I resisted taking a crow bar to it to find out. Very odd that I couldn't find one single crow bar in the house when that sign was uncovered.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I do have better things to do than blog. House to repair, laundry to do, and maybe if I get lucky, I'll get a few hours of sleep tonight. I'd really like to get this new digital camera software on the computer sometime this afternoon too. I'm hoping that maybe in the next few weeks, I can post some updated photos of the house since LSSI certainly visited my blog and stayed a long time looking at the siding and roof job. I'm going to assume they were so impressed with the transformation and decided to gawk. If LSSI returns, it will be the first time they've seen the interior of the house since our second home study visit in 2001. (see paragraph 9 of the Sixth Amended complaint for details)
POP QUIZ QUESTION: What color was the wall in my master bedroom in 2001? Only a caseworker who did the required home study and foster home licensing visit would know for sure. "I don't recall" will be considered an evasive and non-responsive answer.
