The state of Florida has issued an Amber Alert for a missing four-year-old girl who disappeared from her bedroom at some point last night. Police say that Haleigh was staying with her father (who was at work at the time of her disappearance) and his girlfriend. There was no sign of forced entry into the house but they are not sure if all the doors and windows were locked at the time.

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Updated - The memorial service for Caylee Anthony has just ended. More of the update at the bottom of the post.

It's been quite awhile since I posted anything about the Caylee Anthony case. It's one of those things that has been discussed, dissected and bisected and beaten like a dead horse. I still keep up with it but there are plenty of discussions going on around the net and news coming from sites far better equipped for it than here.

Cindy Anthony hasn't made any kind of public comments since her granddaughter's body was found back in December and she wrote this eulogy which was published in the Orlando Sentinel yesterday. They are holding a public memorial for Caylee tomorrow.

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After posting that Eulogy for Caylee Anthony earlier today I was going to update a couple of the posts I have here on the little girl's murder but rather than do that I decided to put up a list of links that I have found useful. Some of them are to news sites and some are to other blogs. If you have a link that should be added to the list feel free to contact me. I won't promise that I will add it but if it looks particularly useful I will.

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40-year-old Reyna Valentino and her husband five children live in Hamtramck, Michigan. They've just recently moved into a house in the area and while neighbors describe a happy family little did they know the hell that some of the children have been treated to.

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46-year-old Elvis Alonzo Barrett was arrested this past Thursday and received more than 50 traffic citations among other charges.

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http://...com/3sbaxt Debra Chapell and James Seevers Weren't the Cleanest Folks around...

Tests show that a decomposing body had been kept in Casey Anthony's Trunk. More details here....

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• Where is Caylee Anthony?

I left work around a quarter till two this afternoon to head for the grocery store and pick up a few vittles for this fine Fourth of July. A nice thick tenderloin, red onion to grill up in garlic butter and a six pack of Corona. I love Sam Adams but it's just too fucking hot for it right now. The wife and girls are out of town again. They left the house around four this morning and headed to Panama City Beach with a couple of friends and their children. All total four adults, seven kids. Fuck that noise. I will miss the hell out of my family but I won't miss the other ones. I would be pulling my hair out after a couple of hours.

So here I sit listening to net radio, some '80s hair band station, and relaxing. Hopefully I won't have to go back in to work tonight. As long as all goes well. There is something like a 30% chance of rain tonight so hopefully it won't storm too bad, although I would love to have the rain. It might even rain out the fireworks. That would suck but it would lessen the chances of me having to go back in to work.

My hot neighbor came over a little while ago to borrow an adjustable wrench. It seems that they are moving and needed to unhook the washer and dryer. Damn, that sucks. She had broken up with her boyfriend, who seemed like a slacker, and had the house on the market but then decided to not sell and make a try of it. Apparently she is leasing it out to some dude. She said he 'talks alot' but seems alright otherwise. I know I saw some creepy old dude nosing around yesterday afternoon. I guess that would be him.

Just what I need. Some creepy old fucker living next door. Hell, he's probably a perfectly nice guy. Might even be a blogger (are they nice?) that will get offended. Just let the fucker mess with my girls and I'll be feeding him his fucking scrotum. I guess once I find out his name I'll have to get online and check the dude out. Damn I hate getting new neighbors...Just as long as this guy isn't some type of pedophile we'll be just fine.

I've uploaded a bunch of new photos to flickr.com/shadowscope, go check it out if you want and I will be posting about the trip this afternoon as well.

We spent the weekend in Nassau, The Bahamas and had a great time. I put on photo up and will be posting more at my Flickr site as well as my main blog since I don't seem to update this very often.

Stop by and leave a comment if you have the time.

The wife and I are heading to the last day of the Ren Fest on Sunday, I know that at least one of my blogger friends will be there, so anyone that wants to hook up to hang, come on down!

I've added a few new widgets to my about me section. Nothing spectacular, but they are there.

Like most of the candidates Ron Paul has a MySpace page set up, but if you haven't heard of him yet you might want to check him out.

I get bent out of shape and rant and rave about all sorts of stuff, but this is one story that almost made me cry. Perhaps it's because I have three children myself, one of whom is four years old herself.

Last Thursday three year old Maddie McCann disappeared, most like abducted, from her bed in an apartment in Portugal. She and her younger brother and sister as well as their parents were on vacation. Her parents do like most parents and check on their kids every twenty or thirty minutes.

When her mother checked on them at 10PM she discovered that the window was open and Maddie was missing. A witness claims to have seen a bald man and a woman walking quickly away from the area with a young blond girl. Portuguese Police are suggesting that it is possible that Maddie was abducted for a pedophile ring. Just the thought of it makes me want to cry or perhaps go shoot one of those stupid pedophiles.

Thanks to Princesse Ecossaise for the story and the links. Since my blogs are all US based I may be of no help whatsoever, but this story really touches me and anything that I can do to help is still very little. I also got the picture from her site as well.

I am going to cross-post this at all of my sites, www.shadowscope.com, www.theapp.net, newhomessales.net, and blogs.myspace.com/shadowscope and since he is out of town I will post this over at Eric's place as well.