Today is the Jewish High Holy Day of Yom Kippur, commonly referred to as The Day of Atonement.  Making ammends for our wrong doings is a serious responsibility.  Sometimes making ammends is as simple as just being truthful.

Unfortunately it appears that Casey Anthony, the mother of missing 4 year old Caylee Anthony, is not ready to make ammends.  She has continued to refuse to cooperate in the search for her daughter and apparently my suggestion hasn’t been taken by authorities (c’mon… its Florida… you can SEE Guantanamo Bay from there… just like you can see Russia from Alaska… and all that).  She is currently being held on house arrest for writing fraudulent checks while the Florida State Attorney prepares to go to a Grand Jury next week seeking either murder or manslaughter charges.

Even if the State Attorney doesn’t get a Grand Jury to indict her on those charges, they do have a very good case against her for the use of checks that she stole from her friend Amy Huizenga.  Those 13 charges could send her to jail for 65 years if she’s convicted.  Now sure that’s some serious jail time, but I have to wonder if that’s enough to atone for the lies and deceit she has perpetrated upon the public and to the detriment of her child.

As much as I personally would like to believe that Caylee Anthony is alive, I think that with no true signs of life 4 months after the day she disappeared makes that belief a lie upon myself.  I think we may never definitively know but I believe that something horrible happened to her.  I think that with the lies, deceit, and uncooperative nature for which she has not made ammends, Casey Anthony is to blame along with those who have enabled her behavior.  I know those thoughts make me sick.

Your atonement is overdue Casey Anthony.  If not for the public, or your family, or your friends for whom your lies have done untold or known damage to… then atone for your daughter… for mother is the name for God on the lips of all children*… and you have behaved like the Devil instead.

Did you catch the new episode of Cereal Wednesday yesterday?  If not… shame on you!  It’s a good one… albeit long… but still good.  In other Cereal Wednesday news, it turns out that The Blogger’s Choice Awards for 2008 are coming to an end October 16 and Cereal Wednesday is in the Top 3 Finalist group for Best Video Blogger.  Now I honestly have no idea how I ended up in the Top 3 again this year… unless its because we’re just that damn good…

So if you have a free moment and want to throw a vote my way, you can do so here.