Woman sends "I curse you all" Christmas cards

News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:55 AM EST

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The text, accompanying a sparkling, snowy image of Kelo's iconic pink house in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood, reads, in its entirety:

Here is my house that you did take
From me to you, this spell I make
Your houses, your homes
Your family, your friends
May they live in misery
That never ends.
I curse you all
May you rot in hell
To each of you
I send this spell
For the rest of your lives
I wish you ill
I send this now
By the power of will

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Steve Andrews

That is one bitter woman!

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4 votes

#1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:20 AM EST

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Captain Nemo

And, I might add, one lousy poet...

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4 votes

#1.1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:12 PM EST

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oldfogey

I would say she has reason to be bitter. Take my home from me so that the local tax base can be increased by allowing others to profit from my castle and I would be bitter also. In fact, I am bitter because they did this to her.

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11 votes

#2 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:26 AM EST

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Steve Andrews

I agree oldfogey, what happened to her was wrong.

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6 votes

#2.1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:28 AM EST

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munzilla

Yeah, I don't the woman for being bitter.

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3 votes

#2.2 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:51 PM EST

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munzilla

I don't blame the woman is what I meant to say.

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4 votes

#2.3 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 12:52 PM EST

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Danny McGee

Yes, but casting a spell on them and their family and friends that they may live in "misery that never ends" is a bit overkill.

It's a good thing witchcraft is bull@!$%#.

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8 votes

#2.4 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:16 PM EST

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munzilla

Right, she's not exactly going about it in the most loving way, but I'd be pretty pissed if someone took my house away from me.

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1 vote

#2.5 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:31 PM EST

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Captain Nemo

It's a good thing witchcraft is bull@!$%#.

Someone cast a spell at me recently, and I ca

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10 votes

#2.6 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:14 PM EST

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Wolfanoz

Someone cast a spell at me recently, and I ca

Claus? Wow... that spell IS effective. ;)

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3 votes

#2.7 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:48 PM EST

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Lucid

I don't know. I feel bad for her, but other's have it a whole lot worse.

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#2.8 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:25 AM EST

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Joe Blow

Send this to all your friends and they will all quickly disappear.

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1 vote

#3 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:52 AM EST

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Steve Andrews

I feel like "go to hell" would have been more effective than "I curse you all"

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3 votes

#3.1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:11 PM EST

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forddorr

I feel like "go to hell" would have been more effective

I kind of doubt we would be talking about it now if she had done that.

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1 vote

#3.2 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:27 PM EST

{"commentId":441233,"authorDomain":"danish"}

Captain Nemo

I feel like "go to hell" would have been more effective than "I curse you all"

LOL. They should write that back to her...

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2 votes

#3.3 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:30 PM EST

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kurtstack

Wow, and merry christmas to all!!

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5 votes

#4 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 2:27 PM EST

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insert_name_here

I feel like the original article, and this one too, should point out exactly who Ms. Kelo is and why she has reason to be angry. (The City of New London took her land by its powers of eminent domain in order to give the land to a developer to increase the city's tax base. She sued all the way to the SCOTUS, and lost.)

Granted, the paper is from New London, so maybe they assume that everyone knows what happened.

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3 votes

#5 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:06 PM EST

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oldfogey

This is insane and I believe the suit before SCOTUS must have been made on the wrong grounds. If not, it is time for a 21st Century American Revolution. Somebody tell me where the kegs of tea are stored.

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5 votes

#6 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:12 PM EST

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AdipicAcid

The Kelo decision made big waves last year when it was decided. I'm a little surprised you missed it. Here's Wikipedia's backgrounder on it.

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2 votes

#6.1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:18 PM EST

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oldfogey

AdipicAcid, I did not miss the news of the Kelo decision. I was dumbfounded but sure it would be revisited by SCOTUS. (And it may be.) I am so excited and anguished here because of my renewed concern for the victims of our system.

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1 vote

#6.2 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:31 PM EST

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AdipicAcid

SCOTUS ruled. They don't revisit cases. The one opening they left is that the states have the leeway to do what they will and many states are in the process of changing their eminent domain laws to specifically forbid this type of behavior. It's probably the best we'll get for a while, since O'Connor and Rhenquist were both in the minority on this one I think, so the new appointments changed nothing.

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3 votes

#6.3 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:38 PM EST

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oldfogey

There is a large disparity in the way SCOTUS views various portions of our Constitution. I submit they may revisit this case under the equal protection clause.

It will have little effect in the eight states that specifically prohibit the use of eminent domain for economic development except to eliminate blight: Arkansas, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maine, Montana, South Carolina and Washington.

Why should the citizens of Arkansas be granted protections not afforded to a lady from New London? Don't tell me because those states have specific laws, they all are required to adhere to the equal protection clause. AS IS the State of Connecticut.

I then suggest that if the people are not upheld by the Supreme Court, the Supreme Court needs to be drastically and quickly changed by whatever means available and possible. The tea kegs, please.

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4 votes

#6.4 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 3:51 PM EST

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AdipicAcid

Why should the citizens of Massachuessetts be granted protections (same sex marriage) that citizens in Virginia aren't? They've ruled that Kelo type takings are Constitutional. Whether a state chooses to encumber its powers even further is a matter for the citizens of that state to decide.

Personally, I think that a few candidates should run in Connecticut explictly on the platform of amending the state constitution to withdraw that power from the state. An eminent domain taking for a bridge or hospital is at least sensical. For a shopping mall/condo development it is dumb.

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1 vote

#6.5 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 5:08 PM EST

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JeezyChreezy

"SCOTUS" has always sounded dirty to me. And not hot and sexy dirty. Just kind of mildewy and skanky dirty.

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2 votes

#6.6 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 6:24 PM EST

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Wolfanoz

Since it's the Christmas season.. it's only appropriate to quote the Man Himself:

Anyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life in him.
1 John 3:14-16

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2 votes

#7 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 4:07 PM EST

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Darrell J. Rohl

Eminent Domain seizure of property is bull@!$%#. Like others, I don't blame this woman for her bitterness.

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5 votes

#8 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 7:05 PM EST

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Patriot

Bravo! Bravo! to Mrs. Kelo!

Not only did she find a creative way to tell the people that stole her property from her to piss off, she managed to do it in a way that was legal, and is reminding all of us of the travesty that was the Kelo Decision.

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3 votes

#9 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 10:41 PM EST

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Celestina

Nice, very nice.
I hope she remembered to include a little of the hair she had snipped from all of them...for effect, you know.

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2 votes

#10 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:45 PM EST

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Brian White

And I thought I was being all edgy with my "Happy F%#cking Holidays" and snowmen screwing wrapping paper. She's got me so beat.

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4 votes

#11 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:52 PM EST

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spiffie

Nothing like a woman scorned, or so they say. I don't even know that you were playing in her league. ;-)

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2 votes

#11.1 - Thu Dec 21, 2006 11:55 PM EST

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Brian White

The headline for this article is so great. I'm picturing "I curse you all" anniversary cards, "I curse you all" graduation cards, etc. Hallmark, are you listening? There's an untapped market out there of angry amateur witches who are currently resorting to making their own cards.

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4 votes

#11.2 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 1:06 AM EST

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evhan

There's gonna be a whole line of hate cards popping up... Instead of "Get Well Soon!" you'll have "Go Ahead And Croak!," and in place of "Happy Thankgiving!" you can have a picture of a turkey with "I Hope You Choke" scrawled underneath.

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2 votes

#11.3 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:55 AM EST

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DeFex

Eminent domain is just the big and visible version of the government helping corporations to steal from you.

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4 votes

#12 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 2:40 AM EST

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spiffie

Pseudo-legal reverse Robin-Hood-ism. I think that's the technical term.

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3 votes

#12.1 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 3:06 AM EST

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juxtaposition

I found it absolutely disgusting, though not surprising, that those that were interviewed for the article kept expressing how "childish" she was being, because after all, she received a lot of money for her house.

Money fixes everything and salves any wound, they seem to be saying.

She shouldn't be angry about having the state mug her for her home because they handed her cash.

Stop the world, I want to get off.

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2 votes

#13 - Fri Dec 22, 2006 10:23 AM EST

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