I have a little cross
It's here for all to see;
It dangles from my mirror,
And sets my conscience free.
When I feel the chill
Of a cold December wind,
I focus on my little cross-
Thank God, I'm not like them.
They shiver at the bus stop,
They work low-level jobs;
But I've been blessed with college-
My license lets me rob.
The work I do is legal
So no one can complain-
My little cross reminds me
I need not be ashamed.
My passion is the poor-
I bind them in red tape.
Law partners call it 'counsel;'
But clients call it rape.
I make a filthy fortune
When my friends divorce.
My cross absolves me of my guilt-
I never feel remorse.
If Jesus wore a nicer suit
And drove an S.U.V.,
There'd really be no difference
Between my Christ and me.
The poor will always have their debt;
The rich will always wed.
I'm thankful that they pay me well-
I'd have to sue instead.
So when I leave my office
So very late at night,
And drive to my McMansion
To my children and my wife,
I thank the Lord and praise Him
For my law degree.
I know my little dashboard cross
Will hide my sins from Thee.
Monday, December 21, 2009
Saturday, December 19, 2009
A Poem for Woody, Pete, and All the Good Ol' Boys at the Courthouse
I think I'll buy myself a judge.
Yeah - that'll teach her...show her who's boss.
He's just a kid - he'll never know about all this.
He's just a kid.
I'll shut him up with toys and ballgames and expensive summer vacations.
But her - SHE'S the one who screwed everything up.
She rejected me - she walked away after he was born.
She needed me, dammit!
I told her over and over, but she wouldn't listen.
She's just getting what's coming to her -
Like my Mom, when Dad left with me.
Look at him now - living in that trailer park on the Mexican border.
Women in and out of his life all these years
While Mom worked at the Wal-Mart.
He sure made her struggle...you've got to make 'em pay.
Yeah, he taught me how to be a real man.
Don't make a baby with me
And think you're just gonna walk away and have a life!
You stupid woman!
Look at the one I've got now!
Two kids later, and she's obsessed with the gym and can't stop shopping.
She knew a good thing when she saw it -
All it takes is a Range Rover and a meal ticket to keep her satisfied.
Throw in a little religious talk,
And she feels too guilty to leave me.
Stupid b*itch - I pardon a few indiscretions and she thinks she owes me for forgiving her!
HA! And I just keep nailing my office staff - stupid girls...
They keep me from getting bored with her constant complaining and her drinking.
She sees what'll happen if she tries to leave me.
Yeah, I'll buy me a judge.
That'll make me a real man.
Yeah - that'll teach her...show her who's boss.
He's just a kid - he'll never know about all this.
He's just a kid.
I'll shut him up with toys and ballgames and expensive summer vacations.
But her - SHE'S the one who screwed everything up.
She rejected me - she walked away after he was born.
She needed me, dammit!
I told her over and over, but she wouldn't listen.
She's just getting what's coming to her -
Like my Mom, when Dad left with me.
Look at him now - living in that trailer park on the Mexican border.
Women in and out of his life all these years
While Mom worked at the Wal-Mart.
He sure made her struggle...you've got to make 'em pay.
Yeah, he taught me how to be a real man.
Don't make a baby with me
And think you're just gonna walk away and have a life!
You stupid woman!
Look at the one I've got now!
Two kids later, and she's obsessed with the gym and can't stop shopping.
She knew a good thing when she saw it -
All it takes is a Range Rover and a meal ticket to keep her satisfied.
Throw in a little religious talk,
And she feels too guilty to leave me.
Stupid b*itch - I pardon a few indiscretions and she thinks she owes me for forgiving her!
HA! And I just keep nailing my office staff - stupid girls...
They keep me from getting bored with her constant complaining and her drinking.
She sees what'll happen if she tries to leave me.
Yeah, I'll buy me a judge.
That'll make me a real man.
Monday, December 14, 2009
Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Thursday, November 19, 2009
Diagnosis
by Sharon Olds
By the time I was six months old, she knew something was wrong with me.
I got looks on my face she had not seen on any child
in the family, or the extended family,
or the neighborhood.
My mother took me in to the pediatrician with the kind hands,
a doctor with a name like a suit size for a wheel: Hub Long.
My mom did not tell him what she thought in truth, that I was Possessed.
It was just these strange looks on my face—
he held me, and conversed with me,
chatting as one does with a baby,
and my mother said, She’s doing it now! Look!
She’s doing it now! and the doctor said,
What your daughter has is called a sense of humor.
Ohhh, she said, and took me back to the house where that sense would be tested and found to be incurable.
"Diagnosis" by Sharon Olds, from One Secret Thing. © Random House, Inc., 2009.
Sunday, November 8, 2009
Saturday, November 7, 2009
Friday, November 6, 2009
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Poem II (untitled)
How she must feel –
Knowing the love of another
Yet having to come home to you.
You, with your callous tongue
And heartless affection;
She knows momentary affection
And counts it as love
And escape.
She drinks
So she’ll sleep.
The girls will come to her rescue
When she needs to forget,
And laugh.
She won’t leave you –
Who would dare?
Your arms are cold and clinging
Tight and emotionless.
Love is a contract, not a goal.
Paid to negotiate during the day,
You negotiate at night, too.
It’s always your way.
Should she decide to speak
You’ll remind her of the other one –
The one who is still paying
For not loving you.
An investment with no returns
Is unacceptable
To you.
Knowing the love of another
Yet having to come home to you.
You, with your callous tongue
And heartless affection;
She knows momentary affection
And counts it as love
And escape.
She drinks
So she’ll sleep.
The girls will come to her rescue
When she needs to forget,
And laugh.
She won’t leave you –
Who would dare?
Your arms are cold and clinging
Tight and emotionless.
Love is a contract, not a goal.
Paid to negotiate during the day,
You negotiate at night, too.
It’s always your way.
Should she decide to speak
You’ll remind her of the other one –
The one who is still paying
For not loving you.
An investment with no returns
Is unacceptable
To you.
Poem (untitled)
Remember when you loved me?
You tore my heart and made me cry.
Who knew we would never be ‘you and i?’
Back when I dreamed of your lips,
You held another, and only loved me
For my eyes, my hands and hips.
The benefit of the doubt was your standard excuse.
I’d beg and cry – why won’t you
Turn me loose?
Holding me in arms that were cold,
You told
Me I would never love another like you.
True.
When you learned that I no longer wanted you,
You protested so much.
I thought it was love,
But you had no such
Sentiment.
How it must feel to have empty arms now.
How you must feel, knowing that I learned how
To be
Joyful and healthy and free.
Occasionally, you inject yourself into my life.
Out of the blue,
There comes you.
A forgotten sin – a forgiven lie.
I will go to sleep until you subside.
You tore my heart and made me cry.
Who knew we would never be ‘you and i?’
Back when I dreamed of your lips,
You held another, and only loved me
For my eyes, my hands and hips.
The benefit of the doubt was your standard excuse.
I’d beg and cry – why won’t you
Turn me loose?
Holding me in arms that were cold,
You told
Me I would never love another like you.
True.
When you learned that I no longer wanted you,
You protested so much.
I thought it was love,
But you had no such
Sentiment.
How it must feel to have empty arms now.
How you must feel, knowing that I learned how
To be
Joyful and healthy and free.
Occasionally, you inject yourself into my life.
Out of the blue,
There comes you.
A forgotten sin – a forgiven lie.
I will go to sleep until you subside.
Saturday, October 24, 2009
FUMC volunteers in front of the new Cummings home in Allendale
Thanks to all the churches, volunteers and donors who contributed to this new Fuller Center home! Happy Make A Difference Day!
Monday, October 19, 2009
Saturday, October 17, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
Saturday, October 10, 2009
Kammer - Miciotto - Nesbitt - Booker information
Monday, October 5, 2009
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College, originally uploaded by debchrisjoseph.
Image: Joseph Kammer
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College, originally uploaded by debchrisjoseph.
Image: Joseph Kammer
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College, originally uploaded by debchrisjoseph.
Image: Joseph Kammer
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College, originally uploaded by debchrisjoseph.
Image: Joseph Kammer
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College
detail of one of Cunningham's works @ Meadows Museum of Art/Centenary College, originally uploaded by debchrisjoseph.
Image: Joseph Kammer
Sunday, October 4, 2009
Debbie Engle, Alan Dyson, Frances Fontaine, Shreveport
Two of my favorite people!
Photo: Robert Trudeau
Saturday, October 3, 2009
ATTENTION: ALL WOMEN ARTISTS!
November 8, 2009 - Robinson Film Center, Shreveport, LA
Screening of the documentary Who Does She Think She Is.
It's "about women artists, and we're going to have a live, virtual Q&A with the artists from the film - simulcast from a big screening in New York City - after ...the screening," per Chris Jay, Director of Marketing & Programming at the RFC.
Be there, and leave your stupid make-up at home.
Dress comfortably.
And if your ex - like mine - has used your art against you in a custody battle, smile politely while giving him a free ticket to this film!
Preview here - http://www.whodoesshethinksheis.net/
Monday, September 28, 2009
Louisiana Organization for Judicial Excellence
http://www.loje.org/problem.php
I wonder if they could help me bring Joseph back home?
It's probably hard to prosecute a judge who, because he was under investigation, abruptly quit his job.
Woody Nesbitt = Sarah Palin with no hair.
(Please see notes in the sidebar to the right!)
I wonder if they could help me bring Joseph back home?
It's probably hard to prosecute a judge who, because he was under investigation, abruptly quit his job.
Woody Nesbitt = Sarah Palin with no hair.
(Please see notes in the sidebar to the right!)
NEWSFLASH!
My ex's attorney (Ron Miciotto), and the judge (Woodrow Nesbitt) who took away my son, are now law partners!
What a nifty coincidence!
See for yourself:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=woody+nesbitt+attorney&fb=1&gl=us&hq=woody+nesbitt+attorney&hnear=Shreveport,+LA&view=text&ei=2NHASt7aKoff8QbYkdC4AQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=more-results&resnum=4
and
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&abauth=11ead829%3A3L4pjQIhipcNe436W5wGTGON9_U&view=text&hl=en&gl=us&q=ron+miciotto+attorney
Didn't I also read that Miciotto co-signed on Nesbitt's judicial campaign loan?
What a nifty coincidence!
See for yourself:
http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&source=hp&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=woody+nesbitt+attorney&fb=1&gl=us&hq=woody+nesbitt+attorney&hnear=Shreveport,+LA&view=text&ei=2NHASt7aKoff8QbYkdC4AQ&sa=X&oi=local_group&ct=more-results&resnum=4
and
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&abauth=11ead829%3A3L4pjQIhipcNe436W5wGTGON9_U&view=text&hl=en&gl=us&q=ron+miciotto+attorney
Didn't I also read that Miciotto co-signed on Nesbitt's judicial campaign loan?
Friday, September 25, 2009
People Accept Anger In Men, But Women Who Lose Their Temper Are Seen As Less Competent, Study Shows:
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Saturday, August 22, 2009
Top 20 Craziest Things On Record During My Ongoing Custody Battle
1. "The (psychological) testing stated that she (DBE) had the attitude of being very healthy when she is in fact very ill." -Ron Miciotto, attorney for my son's father (Charles H. Kammer, III, who is also an attorney), Sept. 4, 2008
2. "Deborah Lynn Buchanan Engles (sic) has no right to litigate these orders." -Ron Miciotto, Aug. 20, 2008.
3. "Debbie became highly agitated, very emotionally labile, argumentative, and absolutely fragmented...she demonstrated no insight into her behaviors and projected blame onto others....and ran out of the office crying loudly....exhibited severe emotional liability (sic) in the session, ranging from sarcasm, anger, sadness, anxiety, calmness to hostility. She was unable to fully process the issues...Debbie had a very hard time taking responsibility for her own actions." - Shelley Booker, LCSW, June 3, 2006
4. "Pete and Stacey Kammer made no disparaging remarks about Debbie..." -Shelley Booker, LCSW, June 3, 2006
5. After I opposed being ordered to pay thousands of dollars for cosmetic orthodontics for my son: "...Orthodontia care, or however you say it, is a part of what is the standard bunch of stuff that a kid is supposed to have. And people that challenge it do so...they run out and they claim it's for cosmetic purposes only....normally they're just people that want to litigate for sport...he (the father) has the right to implement all of this...it's not major medical, it's not an emergency...I'm assuming that you would agree with that...That's why I jumped past all the stuff that just really doesn't matter. Are you with me on that?...It's routine medical care that is engineered into our law by the legislature. Why haven't you paid?" - Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
6. Judge Nesbitt: "I don't have time to read all the reports...and because of the problem of the suit record not being locatable...We can't find your suit record. We have no idea. It's been around. We just can't find it....Is this at the warehouse?"
Clerk: "We've called several times and they said it was checked out to you."
Judge Nesbitt: "It was. It was but don't ask me, I've looked high and low. I thought it was being kept in my office...."
Clerk: "It's probably buried somewhere in your office."
Judge Nesbitt: "What color is it? Does anybody know the color of the file?" -June 23, 2006
7. "She (Shelley Booker) has recommended basically that the Court take immediate steps to essentially seclude, to remove the child from your, if you will, emotional outbursts....I've received hundreds of reports from Ms. Booker and they're usually factually extremely accurate. Sometimes I go with it, sometimes I go opposite. I do commitments monthly....and I have done massive amounts of reading on my own....but all of this is strongly suggestive of very serious what are called personality disorders being onboard with you. You're not being railroaded." -Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
8. Me: "Can I say some words in my own defense?"
Judge: "I'm sorry....you need to just drop it...(Ms. Booker) doesn't make this stuff up....you're going to have to get a grip on the problems that may be onboard. I'm not a diagnosing physician but I tend to be pretty accurate...you do not have the capacity because you just don't understand it and accept it...your kid is an emotional wreck. I'm not going to have your kid testify. I'm not going to talk to him....the road you're on is to be visiting with your child through a plexiglass wall with a court-ordered supervisor at your side at every visitation. I hope you don't have a diagnosed problem called borderline disorder....I'll let (DBE) read it (DBE's defense statement), but I may not give it any weight."
Following that, Judge Nesbitt never let me defend myself, he excused all my witnesses from the courtroom, and never let them return. He stated: "I don't give a hoot who these people are or what they're going to say." -June 23, 2006
9. Me: "Is there no way that we can get an objective party (to act as a mental health/custody expert)?...(Mr. Kammer) had his attorney call me and ask me (to agree to use Shelley Booker, his neighbor & personal friend, as our custody-visitation evaluator)...."
Judge Nesbitt (interrupting): Hang on. Hang on. He didn't pick anybody. You've got to dismiss that. Never happened....He did not have anything to do with Ms. Booker at all...he didn't pick Ms. Booker."
Me: "So if there was only one other alternative (evaluator, according to Judge Nesbitt) besides Ms. (Sandi) Davis then why did he have his attorney call me and ask if I would agree to use Booker?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I don't think that's quite how it happened. I appointed Ms. Booker."
Me: "I'm under oath. Why would I lie?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I'm not worried about it. It's not an issue. Stop creating fictional issues. That is one of the typical personality traits of people with the borderline problem and other personality disorders." -June 23, 2006
10. "I'm going to ask Mr. Miciotto, Mr. Kammer to confer and I'm going to let Mr. Miciotto tell me, recommend, suggest to me something that would be acceptable as recommending and asking that I do in terms of modifying the visitation....I'm going to take Mr. Miciotto and Mr. Kammer up on their offer and since they offered it, I think that is the appropriate interim order." - Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
11. Me: "Do you know that I was - in 2003 (& 2004), I was a court-mandated child abuse reporter? She (Shelley Booker) left that out of her report. I worked for the...."
Judge Nesbitt (interrupting): "We're talking right now." -June 23, 2006
12. Me: "Can I respond to this (Shelley Booker's report)?
Judge: "Yes, go ahead."
Me: "What she did not report was that while I was in the office for about 15 minutes with Joseph in front of Ms. Booker that we talked about some behavioral issues that he had been having at school with his conduct, we talked about the fact that none of this was Joseph's fault that we were going through all this stuff (custody suits filed by Mr. Kammer) that we've had to go through for so many years. We talked about a lot of different things. I patted Joseph on the shoulder, I was nurturing with him, he looked at me and we laughed a couple of times about some things. I mean she put one thing in here and she left out everything else from the whole visit."
Judge Nesbitt: "....you're arguing - you're arguing a pointless point."
Me: "That she excluded important information?"
Judge Nesbitt: "Ma'am, you can find something that has not been input in anyone's report..." -June 23, 2006
13. Me: "(Mr. Kammer) has been suing me for 10 years. He sued me because I had a pond on my property. He filed a motion against me...in 2004 alleging that I owed Joseph's school over $8,000 and dropped it (the lawsuit) within the next few days. I mean he just has a pattern of doing this to me, harassing me via the court system because he can. He knows I don't make as much money as him. He knows it's going to be hard for me to find a lawyer to represent me.
Judge Nesbitt: "Your perception of him harassing you I understand and respect it but that's your perception but trust me, he ain't harassing you."
Me: "But we've got all the court history to back it up."
Judge Nesbitt: "Trust me. You don't have a clue what can be done if that's all he wanted to do was harass you." -June 23, 2006
14. Me: "All these things that I haven't been able to read in defense of myself, can I submit these here & now and have something - put them in the record?"
Judge Nesbitt: "What are these things?"
Me: "This is my defense for myself against the allegations that she (Shelley Booker) makes in her report."
Judge Nesbitt: "....Do you have a copy?....How many pages is that -ish?....Let's do this. Michelle, would you grab this and shoot a copy......" -June 23, 2006
15. "They are not to discuss any aspect of anything involving litigation, custody, anything negative about either parent or anybody in anybody's household. I don't care if you live with a herd of gypsies or bikers, (Joseph)'s not going to say bad things about the bikers and vice-versa." -Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
16. Judge Nesbitt: "Do you have any questions at all right now?"
Me: "I wouldn't know what to ask."
Judge Nesbitt: "Ok. I want you to take a deep breath and I want you to know that everybody in this system is here to work with you..." - June 23, 2006
17. "Throughout this litigation, the Applicant (DBE) was given numerous times to exercise her rights. The problems with the hold up in the litigation was that the Applicant (DBE) would not cooperate with the court appointed (sic) mental health evaluator....Despite the court's request to place this matter back on the docket to resolve the pending issues, the Applicant (DBE) has taken no action since July 2007." -Ron Miciotto, April 15, 2008
18. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) added to the Interim Order from the June 23, 2006, hearing, provisions that were not a part of the Court's June 23, 2006, rulings and which were not discussed in open court.
19. On September 29, 2006, the Court (Judge Nesbitt) signed an ex parte order based in part on the language added after the fact from the June 23, 2006, hearing entirely suspending my visitation with my son. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) failed to timely rescind this order or set a hearing.
20. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) refused to set a hearing after I formally requested one on December 12, 2006.
One last goof recorded nearly half-way through our 2006 custody hearing:
Ron Miciotto: "Your Honor, I may have missed this. Has she (DBE) been placed under oath?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I don't know....Let's oath everybody." -June 23, 2006
2. "Deborah Lynn Buchanan Engles (sic) has no right to litigate these orders." -Ron Miciotto, Aug. 20, 2008.
3. "Debbie became highly agitated, very emotionally labile, argumentative, and absolutely fragmented...she demonstrated no insight into her behaviors and projected blame onto others....and ran out of the office crying loudly....exhibited severe emotional liability (sic) in the session, ranging from sarcasm, anger, sadness, anxiety, calmness to hostility. She was unable to fully process the issues...Debbie had a very hard time taking responsibility for her own actions." - Shelley Booker, LCSW, June 3, 2006
4. "Pete and Stacey Kammer made no disparaging remarks about Debbie..." -Shelley Booker, LCSW, June 3, 2006
5. After I opposed being ordered to pay thousands of dollars for cosmetic orthodontics for my son: "...Orthodontia care, or however you say it, is a part of what is the standard bunch of stuff that a kid is supposed to have. And people that challenge it do so...they run out and they claim it's for cosmetic purposes only....normally they're just people that want to litigate for sport...he (the father) has the right to implement all of this...it's not major medical, it's not an emergency...I'm assuming that you would agree with that...That's why I jumped past all the stuff that just really doesn't matter. Are you with me on that?...It's routine medical care that is engineered into our law by the legislature. Why haven't you paid?" - Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
6. Judge Nesbitt: "I don't have time to read all the reports...and because of the problem of the suit record not being locatable...We can't find your suit record. We have no idea. It's been around. We just can't find it....Is this at the warehouse?"
Clerk: "We've called several times and they said it was checked out to you."
Judge Nesbitt: "It was. It was but don't ask me, I've looked high and low. I thought it was being kept in my office...."
Clerk: "It's probably buried somewhere in your office."
Judge Nesbitt: "What color is it? Does anybody know the color of the file?" -June 23, 2006
7. "She (Shelley Booker) has recommended basically that the Court take immediate steps to essentially seclude, to remove the child from your, if you will, emotional outbursts....I've received hundreds of reports from Ms. Booker and they're usually factually extremely accurate. Sometimes I go with it, sometimes I go opposite. I do commitments monthly....and I have done massive amounts of reading on my own....but all of this is strongly suggestive of very serious what are called personality disorders being onboard with you. You're not being railroaded." -Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
8. Me: "Can I say some words in my own defense?"
Judge: "I'm sorry....you need to just drop it...(Ms. Booker) doesn't make this stuff up....you're going to have to get a grip on the problems that may be onboard. I'm not a diagnosing physician but I tend to be pretty accurate...you do not have the capacity because you just don't understand it and accept it...your kid is an emotional wreck. I'm not going to have your kid testify. I'm not going to talk to him....the road you're on is to be visiting with your child through a plexiglass wall with a court-ordered supervisor at your side at every visitation. I hope you don't have a diagnosed problem called borderline disorder....I'll let (DBE) read it (DBE's defense statement), but I may not give it any weight."
Following that, Judge Nesbitt never let me defend myself, he excused all my witnesses from the courtroom, and never let them return. He stated: "I don't give a hoot who these people are or what they're going to say." -June 23, 2006
9. Me: "Is there no way that we can get an objective party (to act as a mental health/custody expert)?...(Mr. Kammer) had his attorney call me and ask me (to agree to use Shelley Booker, his neighbor & personal friend, as our custody-visitation evaluator)...."
Judge Nesbitt (interrupting): Hang on. Hang on. He didn't pick anybody. You've got to dismiss that. Never happened....He did not have anything to do with Ms. Booker at all...he didn't pick Ms. Booker."
Me: "So if there was only one other alternative (evaluator, according to Judge Nesbitt) besides Ms. (Sandi) Davis then why did he have his attorney call me and ask if I would agree to use Booker?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I don't think that's quite how it happened. I appointed Ms. Booker."
Me: "I'm under oath. Why would I lie?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I'm not worried about it. It's not an issue. Stop creating fictional issues. That is one of the typical personality traits of people with the borderline problem and other personality disorders." -June 23, 2006
10. "I'm going to ask Mr. Miciotto, Mr. Kammer to confer and I'm going to let Mr. Miciotto tell me, recommend, suggest to me something that would be acceptable as recommending and asking that I do in terms of modifying the visitation....I'm going to take Mr. Miciotto and Mr. Kammer up on their offer and since they offered it, I think that is the appropriate interim order." - Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
11. Me: "Do you know that I was - in 2003 (& 2004), I was a court-mandated child abuse reporter? She (Shelley Booker) left that out of her report. I worked for the...."
Judge Nesbitt (interrupting): "We're talking right now." -June 23, 2006
12. Me: "Can I respond to this (Shelley Booker's report)?
Judge: "Yes, go ahead."
Me: "What she did not report was that while I was in the office for about 15 minutes with Joseph in front of Ms. Booker that we talked about some behavioral issues that he had been having at school with his conduct, we talked about the fact that none of this was Joseph's fault that we were going through all this stuff (custody suits filed by Mr. Kammer) that we've had to go through for so many years. We talked about a lot of different things. I patted Joseph on the shoulder, I was nurturing with him, he looked at me and we laughed a couple of times about some things. I mean she put one thing in here and she left out everything else from the whole visit."
Judge Nesbitt: "....you're arguing - you're arguing a pointless point."
Me: "That she excluded important information?"
Judge Nesbitt: "Ma'am, you can find something that has not been input in anyone's report..." -June 23, 2006
13. Me: "(Mr. Kammer) has been suing me for 10 years. He sued me because I had a pond on my property. He filed a motion against me...in 2004 alleging that I owed Joseph's school over $8,000 and dropped it (the lawsuit) within the next few days. I mean he just has a pattern of doing this to me, harassing me via the court system because he can. He knows I don't make as much money as him. He knows it's going to be hard for me to find a lawyer to represent me.
Judge Nesbitt: "Your perception of him harassing you I understand and respect it but that's your perception but trust me, he ain't harassing you."
Me: "But we've got all the court history to back it up."
Judge Nesbitt: "Trust me. You don't have a clue what can be done if that's all he wanted to do was harass you." -June 23, 2006
14. Me: "All these things that I haven't been able to read in defense of myself, can I submit these here & now and have something - put them in the record?"
Judge Nesbitt: "What are these things?"
Me: "This is my defense for myself against the allegations that she (Shelley Booker) makes in her report."
Judge Nesbitt: "....Do you have a copy?....How many pages is that -ish?....Let's do this. Michelle, would you grab this and shoot a copy......" -June 23, 2006
15. "They are not to discuss any aspect of anything involving litigation, custody, anything negative about either parent or anybody in anybody's household. I don't care if you live with a herd of gypsies or bikers, (Joseph)'s not going to say bad things about the bikers and vice-versa." -Judge Woody Nesbitt, June 23, 2006
16. Judge Nesbitt: "Do you have any questions at all right now?"
Me: "I wouldn't know what to ask."
Judge Nesbitt: "Ok. I want you to take a deep breath and I want you to know that everybody in this system is here to work with you..." - June 23, 2006
17. "Throughout this litigation, the Applicant (DBE) was given numerous times to exercise her rights. The problems with the hold up in the litigation was that the Applicant (DBE) would not cooperate with the court appointed (sic) mental health evaluator....Despite the court's request to place this matter back on the docket to resolve the pending issues, the Applicant (DBE) has taken no action since July 2007." -Ron Miciotto, April 15, 2008
18. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) added to the Interim Order from the June 23, 2006, hearing, provisions that were not a part of the Court's June 23, 2006, rulings and which were not discussed in open court.
19. On September 29, 2006, the Court (Judge Nesbitt) signed an ex parte order based in part on the language added after the fact from the June 23, 2006, hearing entirely suspending my visitation with my son. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) failed to timely rescind this order or set a hearing.
20. The Court (Judge Nesbitt, et al) refused to set a hearing after I formally requested one on December 12, 2006.
One last goof recorded nearly half-way through our 2006 custody hearing:
Ron Miciotto: "Your Honor, I may have missed this. Has she (DBE) been placed under oath?"
Judge Nesbitt: "I don't know....Let's oath everybody." -June 23, 2006
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