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Tue, 28 Oct 2008 20:44:57 -0700

I think about how ordinary American people got the gas prices lowered by simply ceasing to buy. The oil and gas industry had said the prices couldn't be lower, but then, there they were, much lower gasoline prices.

By the way, Do you think the voting machines are fixed? I am quite worried about that since McCain declared on Sunday's Meet the Press that he "guaranteed" he would win the election.

Back to my other main concern: It seems to me that so many people have minds whitewashed with religion that they don't see Constitutional rights as important and distinct from the Ten Commandments.

In the vast majority of forums where I have written about how my condo was taken without due process, one or more Christians have attacked me saying that if I'd paid my mortgage I wouldn't have had any problems. That's a non sequitur, but to the Christians in my experience the main thing is judging.

It baffles me that they do not value due process. I can't figure out if they don't know because of insufficient education what due process is and why it is fundamental to a rule of law country. Or, what.

Recently I thought a Christian Republican, who is also an organic gardener, was going to help me find the Circuit information to use in my Petition for Certiorari, but no, he said it was my fault because I hadn't paid my mortgage (he apparently missed the point that the case was landlord/tenant, not foreclosure) and that what he really meant was that he was going to send me some money.

I pointed out that I didn't want charity, I want to secure the rights of ordinary Americans, and then he really started lambasting me.

I think that attitude must have to do with ensuring a working class. I don't know how all the Christians can have this attitude when many if not most are hardly in a position to use a working class as the upper classes have used it over the centuries.

As an aside, when I was in a federal law library some years ago I came across shelves of books dealing with the law of Master and Servant. I had not known that was a part of the landscape of present day American law.

I'm thinking I may post this on my blog, without saying who I wrote it to. Unless you wouldn't mind if I mentioned your name.

Karen

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Sun, 21 Sep 2008 23:18:31 -0700

Does anyone know, or know a lawyer or law student they could ask:

Do I have to file the Bad Faith part of my counterclaim in my foreclosure as a separate complaint, and then get the two cases consolidated?

Or, can I just enumerate it in my Answer?

Here's hoping!

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Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:35:54 -0700

There was an interesting case being heard before mine in court today. It involved Section 1983, which has to do with civil rights. The city police had apparently broken into a shop and taken a lot of money saying that it was from drug dealing. The FBI apparently contacted the lawyer for the man who lost the money and raised certain questions, because they were investigating the case. So the man wanted to amend his complaint, because no charges were ever brought and the city had refused to give him his money back. The city's lawyer said they'd found the money, it was in a trust account, and the man had refused to pick it up. The lawyer for the man said that was the first he'd heard of it, and it was, small puff of indignation, "Bogus." I loved it.

In my case I did very badly because I could not quickly enough get my mind around what was going on. I couldn't find my notice of hearing so I called to find out what was being heard, and I was told a totally different thing than was actually heard.

What matters is that I didn't lay out what the rules say, so they got trampled on yet again.

I could see it, I just couldn't say it because of how slow my thinking is now.

What this brain injury in that situation feels like, is being in a strong wind and everything is flying past and I know what the things are but I can't catch them.

It wasn't a hearing that in itself is particularly bad. It was a presentment hearing, so this is where the order got signed saying, basically, that Wells Fargo did not have to serve me the summons. Which means that if I hadn't happened to find the case on the internet they would have foreclosed behind my back again, saying that I had failed to answer and they should have judgment against me by default. Only, who is ever going to answer when they haven't been served?

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Fri, 29 Aug 2008 23:04:23 -0700

Things appear to be turning around. While the stress from the foreclosure (where Wells Fargo didn't serve me, apparently aiming at getting my home foreclosed by default) was so bad that it was affecting my nerves so much that shooting pain made me nearly fall, a lot, yesterday I received a paper from the NM Supreme Court ordering the opposing lawyer to respond to my Petition for Rehearing. That is a vast improvement from having my Petition for Writ of Certiorari denied.

After my Petition for Writ of Certiorari was denied I discovered that the next place to bring my appeal was not the federal court or the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, but the US Supreme Court. That's a bit daunting. But, on the other hand I had three months to do it, and I got the impression they grant free process pretty frequently.

Still, the US Supreme Court only takes 1% of the cases submitted, and they don't take cases to correct errors in the lower court for a given person; rather, they take cases that address some public concern.

So, I wrote my Petition for Rehearing so that it framed my problem within the larger picture of all pro se parties trying to get justice, and I contrasted the decisions handed down to lawyers with those handed down to pro se parties, and the contrast was stark.

I was going to post my Petition so people could read it but I've been so affected by the stress that my left arm has been hurting a lot and I've been exhausted from the time I get up, which I don't think is a good thing.

I wish I didn't take it so seriously. I wish I felt as free within this as I used to feel when I hitchhiked. Before I hitchhiked for the first time I went to confession so that if I was killed I'd go to heaven, so I felt really relaxed even when a driver was careening along Highway 1 on the California coast as if no car could possibly be oncoming in the other lane.

I remember how beautiful it was and how I felt that if we were in an accident and I was killed I'd become a part of the beauty.

So, what's happened to me that now I stress out and nearly kill myself with worry?

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I should do a web page with what I found in my garden the other day... I think it would make you smile.

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 17:20:16 -0700

Thanks very much to those of you who sent me mental/psychic support.

MUCH appreciated.

I meant to write that earlier.

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 12:05:08 -0700

Whew!

Well, the hearing was interesting.

The judge began by reading me the riot act and saying he would not set a hearing for me if I submitted the kind of Request I had submitted.

I pointed out that he had set a hearing for September and please would he vacate it since this hearing was dealing with everything.

He had sent me back a different Request for Hearing that I had submitted along with a letter saying I had not followed the package rule. The rule is extremely hard for someone with a brain injury because you have to include all the things that were filed in relation to the motion... and I'd forgotten some of the Requests for Hearing filed at the wrong time by the Plaintiff.

What is funny is that he set the hearing for Plaintiff who asked for the hearing without allowing me to Reply to their Response... the Package Rule says that the package is not supposed to be submitted until all of the times have past, and the reply is supposed to be submitted as well as the Response.

So he clearly favors the Plaintiff.

The really good thing is that I allowed myself to be amused rather than getting angry and as a result I am happily home and not in jail for Contempt. Whew!

He did not order personal service, but the time to reply counts from today.

It could have been worse, so overall I'm happy and next week I'll work on my Petition for Writ of Certiorari.

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Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:45:02 -0700

July 18, 2008 - 11:40 a.m. - This will be the first hearing in my foreclosure of my home.

If any of you see this to send me some good thoughts it will be appreciated.

This hearing is about the fact that I was not served the summons and foreclosure complaint. When I happened to find the foreclosure on the internet I filed something complaining that I hadn't been served.

The lawyer responded by filing an affidavit that said my door had cobwebs on it and no sign of life so they went to another property that was shown in some records under my name. (The lawyer's firm was responsible for sending the payoff figures on it to the closing company a few years ago, so to try to serve the summons there doesn't seem an honest attempt.)

I replied with affidavits from two of the volunteers who bring me meals 5 days a week and with pictures showing my door which does not have cobwebs.

My feeling is that the lawyer wanted to avoid serving me so that she could say I never answered the complaint and therefore should be foreclosed by default. She and other lawyers have been successful in the past using this tactic.

She also tried to foreclose my home by listing my "unknown spouse" as a defendant. Since I'm not married nor ever have been there would be no one to respond, so she could foreclose by default and I'd have that on the title.

I filed something saying that there was no unknown spouse so no unknown spouse was going to reply.

The lawyer then moved to dismiss the unknown spouse and I immediately� responded in agreement and signed the proposed order and sent it back and filed a copy.

The lawyer then submitted a hearing package saying that she had sought concurrence and I had not responded.

So I filed:
NOTICE
IT IS SPURIOUS OF SHARON HANKLA TO WRITE ON THE PROPOSED ORDER,
"CONCURRENCE SOUGHT BUT NOT RECEIVED" AND
TO FAIL TO INCLUDE WITH HER REQUEST FOR HEARING MY RESPONSE TO HER MOTION TO DISMISS
AS WELL AS THE COPY I SENT HER OF THE PROPOSED ORDER THAT I HAD SIGNED

Because of my brain injury and disability I make mistakes with the Ceritificates of Service rather often, so I always have to correct them. This has turned out to be lucky, I think, because I can now show the court that when a paper was returned to me with the wrong address I took a photo of my error, corrected it and sent and filed my correction.

While I can't show a photo of what was newly sent I can show that I sent it initially with the lawyer's old address and it came back and I corrected my Certificate and sent it again. I hope that shows that the lawyer is pretending that I don't send things out and am basically non-responsive.

I hope the Court orders her to serve me personally. That is what I hope.

Wish me luck! (please)

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 09:19:09 -0700

Last night I saw an owl, it was like a thick white cross sailing across from one side of my house to the other where it disappeared going toward the mountains.

They mean imminent death to some people.

Maybe if I have some coffee I will feel better.

It's hard to want to live
in a country so driven by lies.

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Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:38:29 -0700

I saw an owl fly overhead last night, it made a missile sound and I looked up and there it was, large and white flying overhead. I wonder if it means my death is near. I keep working to save my home, but in the last two foreclosures I was denied a hearing, and so far in this foreclosure they tried to break in two weeks ago, saying the foreclosure was complete and I'd vacated... I love my garden so much, I feel as if without my garden to walk in I will die, literally.

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Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:53:00 -0700

Email from Robert Wexler re impeachment:

"Last Thursday the largest newspaper in my congressional district - the South Florida Sun-Sentinel - published an editorial lambasting my enthusiastic support for immediately holding impeachment hearings for President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney. Numerous letters to the editor have also criticized my support for this movement.

Below, you'll find the original Sun-Sentinel editorial, followed by my response, which was printed yesterday.

I assure you that I will not back down from this fight - no matter the consequences or political cost. The only thing that maters is that we deliver accountability for the Bush Cheney Administration and defend our government and our constitution.

If you would like to write a letter to the Sun Sentinel, you can email letters@sun-sentinel.com "

I received that email yesterday.

Let's get busy!