Meet My Stalker

Meet my stalker. His name is Stephen P. Signorelli.  He is a 43 year old American citizen living in La Ceiba, Honduras, reportedly teaching 7th Grade at a private bi-lingual school.   I can't post from his pictures as they are copyrighted,  but I can link you to them. This what he looks like; and this is what he wishes he still looked like. 

You can go here to get some background on this person's thought processes. He started out by trying to flame someone on the Honduras Living group who posted a comment about him to which he took exception. He became angry at one of the moderators who refused to allow   his own comment because it did not conform to the group's rules on propriety. He was advised that if he reposted his comment after editing it, it would be posted. He has not done so as of yet.

He has committed identity theft, stealing my friend, La Gringa's, identity and posting comments on a news letter/newspaper which is geared to the English speaking community in Honduras. La Gringa is a well thought of, highly respected, journalist/housewife with a very popular blog which you can view here It was apparent she did not write these comments, as they were so completely the opposite of her well-known, frequently published statements about Honduran issues. The comments were traced back to him and were removed. He is blocked from posting anything else in that venue.

Here is one of the private emails he sent me. He sent this after the first couple of blog articles where he called me an old bat and a biddy. As I said before, this didn't bother me, it was true. I do have bat wings, they are under my arms. I am old, and I am over protective of my flock.

STEVE SIGNORELLI

To stonewondercloud@live.com

Soe how does it feel to have lies and bullshit posted about you and not

being allowed to refute it?

just like what the mods on the group have done to me, letting that 

"new person" post total BULLSHIT about some lie about me having some

incident with the police and a 13 year old girl......nice hit piece, I

wonder if it was steve the mod who did it? Probably, since he has to

approve every message and refuses to allow me to post to defend myself 

and point out it was total bullshit. He did it to cause me trouble at work. THANK GOD no one at work fell for it, but the FACT remains your

buddy La Gringa and Steve LET IT HAPPEN and will not retract it.

SO...Patty, I have nothing against you personally, but until that LIE 

is refuted on the group my little hilarious blog shall go on and, just 

like i cannot post on the group, no one else will post on my blog,   (The emphasis is mine. The spelling, grammar, ranting and raving are his)

PLEASE NOTE: He has nothing personal against me, he just picked me out of the crowd to harass, Obviously he thought I would beg and plead with the owner/moderators to please let him post what he wants to so he would leave me alone. Alas, he misjudged me, because I don't take to kindly to being threatened with harassment, especially when I don't have a dog in the fight; and, there isn't a chance in hell I would ask the moderators to make an exception for this piece of slime.

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Here is my reply to him:

Thank you for accelerating your insane postings. If you think by switching to a format you must think is sarcastic humor, you have failed. Your recent comments have resulted in my getting many emails asking me WTH are you and WTF is your problem. People are now laughing, but it is at you, not with you.

What am I supposed to feel? Other than that you are a despicable, sorry excuse for a human being? The people who know me don't believe anything you have to say about me. Those who do believe anything you have to say have my pity. I have done absolutely nothing to you, except refute with facts the lies you have told and to defend my friend. I did not post my comment on HL to defend myself. Please don’t deceive yourself nor underestimate me by thinking that. I don't have to defend myself against a slug like you. I posted my comment simply to show the members of HL, in your own words, what a bold faced liar you are and how ridiculous you are. You made this personal! 

You are well aware of why you are not allowed to post on HL. And you know it is because you cannot comment in a civil fashion. You were given several chances to repost what you had to say in an acceptable manner and you chose to attack the moderator. A mature, intelligent person would have realized they made a mistake, apologized, and reposted their complaint according to the group rules. 

It appears your social growth terminated at about age 6, when most children start realizing that playing tit for tat is nonproductive and playing nice is the way mature people live in society. Life is never about getting revenge, it is about making yourself a better person. You obviously did not learn that concept, nor the ones about forgiveness of those who sin against us. You must have failed in that class that taught good manners. I know you slept through all the classes about common sense. You are the paragon of The Ugly American”.

Steve is not the only moderator for the group. When a moderator takes any action they discuss it with everyone. The moderators support each other’s decisions, especially in cases where a member insists on being vulgar, flames another member, or is inappropriate in any manner. I believe the moderators when they say you were quilty all of those things. I was a moderator at one time, and one of the things I learned is that I do not have the patience to put up with people like you.

As to the incident with the 13 year old, I read your post about the incident with my own eyes. If you were just trying to impress people, then you have no one to blame but yourself if people took you seriously. If it was true, you still have no one to blame but yourself if it came back to bite you. Most intelligent people know you never put anything on the internet you wouldn't want your mother to read.

You were bragging about raping a 13 year old child. You were bragging that she was screaming with pleasure as you were ejaculating. The truth of the matter is, if she was screaming, it was in terror and in pain, not in pleasure.  That disgusts me as a woman, as a mother of daughters, and as a trauma nurse who has had to help try and repair both the physical and the emotional trauma of rape. It is both frightening and disgusting that you have access to children in your workplace. I am eternally grateful I have no children in a school that would employ you ............................(Several paragraphs omitted. I will produce them if you contact me privately)

So, if it makes you feel good to post lies about me, go right ahead. It just makes you look like what you really are, despicably, childishly, ignorant, cowardly, ugly, vile, slimy, unworthy, worthless, wretched bully. Other than that, you're okay.

BTW, my email is for my friends. You are not my friend.

(Read Here for the details of this sexual assault, but be warned, it is ugly.  I don't know if he was blowing smoke or he was telling the truth, but he has admitted he wrote it. You can see where others are discussing his predilections. There is more Here if you really want to read the smut.)

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There is a report that Mr. Signorelli actually cut a plea bargain and plead guilty to statutory rape.  I found this on the internet here.  You have to click on "Show quoted text" and then scroll down the page to find this:

Newsgroups: rec.sport.pro-wrestling

Date: 1999/04/11

4/21/99: Avenger aka Stephen Signorelli pleads guilty to statutory rape:

Barnegat man accepts plea bargain in underage sex case April 21 1999 - Barnegat

NJ

A Barnegat man pleaded no contest to charges that he had sexual relations with

a thirteen-year-old girl. In a plea bargain on Monday, Stephen Signorelli, 31,

pleaded no contest to one count of statutory rape and one count of sodomy in an

Ocean County criminal court. The girl, identified in court documents only as

"Jane Doe", testified that she met Signorelli in an internet chat room hosted

by the online service America Online in November of last year. The two

reportedly met on Christmas Eve for sexual relations in the home Signorelli

shares with his mother. A sentencing hearing will be held on May 15, where the

district attorney is expected to ask that Signorelli be sent to a mental

hospital for evaluation before being placed under house arrest and fitted with

a tracking device. Signorelli's court-appointed attorney produced evidence from

Signorelli's therapist that Signorelli is "emotionally incapacitated" and would

be unable to cope with a jail sentence. In exchange for the plea of no contest,

prosecutors dropped two other counts of statutory rape based on an incident

reported by the girl where she claimed to have engaged in a sexual encounter

with Signorelli and her 11-year-old friend. The friend was unwilling to

testify.
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I have had several emails from Mr Signorelli, consisting in one way or another of his laughing and prancing around the page saying "I win," like a child, but the one that took me from amused to furious was this one:

Subject: Re: how does it feel?

From: steve4nj@gmail.com

To: stonewondercloud@live.com

L TO THE O TO THE L

you keep dancing for me. dance more puppet!

hows vickie? (Emphasis is mine, grammar is his.)

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For those who don't know, vickie (sic) is my teenage granddaughter.  While I know he wrote this with the intention of scaring me or goading me into saying something rash, again he underestimated me.  I do not scare easily, I do get angry, but rarely do I  say or do something rash.

I cannot say with 100% accuracy this man is a pedophile,  because I have no documented proof, yet; but the operative word is YET!  Considering what he has written about himself,  I don't want my beloved grandchild's name in his mouth.

Here is what I do have:

1. The comment he made himself about his sexual experiences with a child.

2. What looks like a newspaper report of his plea bargain to a sexual offense,

3. He goes to Prague for 9 years, where he is reportedly teaching school. The Czech Republic is in the middle of the Eastern Bloc sex trade, and the sex trade there is notorious for providing underage children to its clients.

               

4.  He returns to the US and settles near Orlando, where he reportedly worked at Universal Studios.  What a heaven for someone who reportedly likes children.

5.  Now he shows up in Honduras, where unprincipled people advertise openly that they can fulfill your every fantasy, and he is teaching school.

If you can stomach it, just Google Mr. Signorelli and see what you come up with.

That is Miss PittyPats Truth for the day.

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Myth: The United States Cannot Afford to Insure Its Citizens

This started as a debate on FB with a cousin of mine about how to stimulate the economy and create jobs, then it moved to taxation and spending, and then I decided I should blog about the myths the Conservative Right wants you to believe. While doing some research, I came up on some facts about Infant and Maternal Mortality Rates, and the more I read, the more I found these statistics relevant to the discussion at hand. Here I am focused on Pre- and Postnatal Health, but there is more, and I am angry.

According to Business Pundit, the six countries with the the highest taxes in the world are these: Belgium has the highest marginal tax rate on average workers at 54%; followed by Finland, 46%; Germany, 45%; Denmark, 44.4%; Italy, 43%; and France, 40% on average wages and 50% on highest wages. 

The six countries with the lowest tax rates are Switzerland, 20%; United States, 27%; Australia, 31.5%; Canada, 31.2%; United Kingdom, 32% and Japan, 33%. Even at 33% marginal tax on average wages Japan is considered to have one of the lowest tax rates in the world, and our taxes are lower than theirs. 

Note where the US is on that list, we are in the bottom six.   Note that ALL these countries have high standards of living, and all but one offers womb to tomb benefits for its citizens. Want to bet which country doesn't?

One method used to evaluate a country's standing in the world is it's Infant Mortality Rate (IMR). It is also used as an indicator in assessing the quality and the availability of overall health care to a country's citizens. Guess where we are on THAT list? 

According to the United Nations World Population Prospects Report we are 34th in the world in infant mortalities. That is a SHAMEFUL statistic for one of the richest nations in the world; in a country whose leaders try to tell us we have the best medical care in the world; in a country where people are being told we don't need to provide health care.

Even more embarrassing is the CIA World Fact Book lists our IMR at 46th in the world here and here. Yes, That CIA.  What these figures mean to us is 6 out of every thousand children born in the United States in 2011 died before the age of 1 year. Cuba has a better survival rate than we do, as does Croatia, even in the face of genocide. 33-45 countries lose fewer babies every year than we do, depending on which report you read. This is unacceptable.

High IMR's can be directly attributed to poverty and poor pre- and postnatal care for baby and Mom. They are a direct result of poor prenatal nutrition for mothers, as are many birth defects.

So, whose babies are more likely to die? The very poor have recourse in Medicaid, free maternity clinics and other resources. The working poor, those who work full time, sometimes two jobs, make too much money to qualify for public assistance and not enough to pay for insurance or prenatal care. Rarely do their jobs offer health insurance. Mothers tend to show up on the doorsteps of the ER in full blown labor. They are delivered by doctors who have no prenatal history to rely on and have no clue of the risk factors at hand. There are sometimes some really nasty surprises for the medical team.  I've been there, done that.

The new poor are your neighbor who lost his job, and then his home. He is your co-worker whose unemployment has run out. He is one of the 15.3 million unemployed citizens of our country who cannot find a job. He has no insurance, He and his pregnant wife are not eating, so that their children can. She, too, is unlikely to receive adequate prenatal care. She, too, is likely to deliver prematurely, have an underweight baby, or a baby with a neural tube or other defect which affects the viability of the newborn. 

High rates of maternal deaths occur in the same countries that have high rates of infant mortality, reflecting generally poor nutrition and medical care. In some studies the US is ranked 39th in 181 countries, which translates into 16.6 out of 100,000 births as of 2008.

According to CNN, deaths from pregnancy and childbirth in the United States have doubled in the past 20 years. About 1.7 million women a year, one-third of pregnant women in the United States, suffer from pregnancy-related complications. Most of the deaths and complications occur among minorities and women living in poverty. Most of these tragedies are preventable. Another unacceptable fact for the United States. 

That same source quotes Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA as saying, "Good maternal care should not be considered a luxury available only to those who can access the best hospitals and the best doctors. Women should not die in the richest country on earth from preventable complications and emergencies" As a woman, a nurse, and as an American citizen, I wholeheartedly agree. (Emphases are mine) 

So, what can we do? Many of these problems can be eliminated by implementing the Universal Health Care Act. Insuring that everyone, regardless of socio-economic status, has adequate health care will benefit everyone. Sweden, Finland and Norway have the 4th, 5th, and 6th lowest IMRs in the world. They also lead in maternal health, longevity, and other health parameters. I would say theirs are the models we should be examining, not those of Canada and the UK, although their stats are still better than ours.

The next time someone tries to convince you the country cannot afford the Universal Health Care Act, think about this and tell them that we cannot afford not to implement it. Even one preventable death is one too many.

That's Miss PittyPat's truth for today.

It's STILL a Christmas Tree and the First Daughters DO Get Christmas Presants

I hate to upset my 'Conservative Right' (read Republican/Tea Party) friends, but the White House Christmas Trees are STILL Christmas trees, and there has never been, and still aren't, any plans to change the names.  There is a video showing this year's White House Christmas Tree arriving on a horse-drawn carriage complete with a carriage driver wearing a top hat.  Note it is from USA today.  The video was shown on all three major networks and, believe it or not, Faux News. 

The First Lady and Daughters are seen receiving the White House Christmas Tree in this picture that appeared in the Christian Science Monitor and at least 305 other newspapers.  The sign on the side of the carriage clearly states White House Christmas Tree, 2011.

Courtesy of the Christian Science Monitor

If you are interested, you can check the facts at Snopes.com and at Factcheck.org

The President and the First Lady wished All American citizens a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year in his weekly address to the nation on December 25th, 2010.

The misunderstanding seem to come from the Bush era, when Mrs. Bush began sending out ornaments to States and various other organizations and asking them to decorate the ornaments and return them to Washington to be put on the CAPITOL Christmas Tree.  In 2007, the accompanying information packet  to the organizations clearly states, and I quote:  "Ornaments with religious themes are not acceptable." In 2008, the criteria stated ♦  "Ornaments cannot reflect a religious or political theme."

The criteria has since been changed, and religious themes are acceptable.  But, PLEASE NOTE, this criteria was in place during the BUSH administration, not the OBAMA administration.

The Grinch does not steal Christmas at the White House.  The same people who spread the above misinformation  also bring you the misinformation that the First Daughters do not receive Christmas presents.  They quote a seven page interview of the President and Mrs. Obama in People Magazine in 2008.  What the President actually said was that he leaves the gift giving to Santa.  First Daughter Malia is quoted as saying, "I know there is a Santa because there’s no way you’d buy me all that stuff.” In US Magazine, Mrs. Obama is quoted as saying she gives better Christmas presents than the President.

Then you hear that the President said we were not a Christian country.  What he actually said is that we are no longer ONLY a Christian country, and whether you like it or not, that is true.  We are a country of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists, and a multitude of other religions.

Our Founding Fathers had experienced the effects of government interference in religious practice and thought it important enough to make it the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States. Thomas Jefferson thought his greatest achievement was not the Constitution of the United States, The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson and many of the other great men of his time did not think of themselves as Christians, but rather as Deists, and believed in "the laws of Nature and of Nature's God…." I will probably blog about that at a later date, but if you research the writings of the time it becomes evident.

Finally, it does not matter what religion a President professes. He doesn't have to have a religion. He is guaranteed the right to think and believe what he chooses under the Constitution of the United States of America. Just like for any other American, it is unconstitutional to make adherence to any specific religion a condition for the job.

And THAT is Miss Pitty Pat's truth for the day.

So, why am I in Trujillo, Honduras, watching a funeral service in Miami, ready to chew nails and spit tinfoild?

I am sitting here in Trujillo, Honduras watching the funeral of two Miami-Dade police officers who were killed in the line of duty last Thursday.  Killed in the line of duty...It sounds so cold, so civilized.  What really happened is they were slaughtered when the mother of the killer ask the officers into her apartment and the killer opened fire. 

I'm not going to talk about what fine officers these two were, nor about how many family members are left behind, including children.  That will be covered by the media and during the eulogies being offered.  Suffice it to say the memorial service had to be held in the American Airlines Center, where the Heat plays, to accommodate the crowds of police officers from around the country attending.

What I do want to talk about is, why the hell was this monster on the streets and who the hell is the judge that put him on administrative probation, which means no reporting or supervision, after a warrant for his arrest for homicide was issued?

Now, I know I am suppose to feel sorry for this poor, undereducated young man.  After all, this is a young man that Society has neglected since he was born.  It is Society's fault that this young man has been classified as a career criminal since he was 17 years old.  It is Society's fault  that he felt he had no choice but a life of crime, since all Society did for him was provide subsidized housing; Food Stamps; free school breakfast and

lunch; a free education; free after school care;  free camps in the summer; free medical care and medicines, and money to live on. 

The legal system never gave him a break, a second chance.   The  prosecutors who could have charged him as an adult while he was a teen kept him in the Juvenile system until he was charged with armed robbery.  He had been out of jail three months when he decided to commit suicide by cop, because "they were going to kill me anyway."   If you want a detailed account of the repeated slaps on the hand Simms was given by judges, you can read it here, Miami Herald.

So what can we do?  In Florida we vote on who will sit on the bench.  We can keep a list of the judges who let these criminals go, time after time, and when election time comes we can vote them out.  There are those who think this is not possible because of the campaign money that they have for political ads.  Yes, we can.  We don't have to listen to the ads.  We can listen to the facts. This can be done in other states, too.

We can hold rallies in the streets, as is our Constitutional right.  I am not advocating speech that invites violence, just speeches that convey the message that we want career criminals kept in jail.  We can insist that it is insane that the crimanals are better armed than our police officers.  In this incident, the criminal had a .40 caliber Glock semiautomatic with 17 rounds in the clip.  The officers had 9 mms. 

Let's inform our judges that we want the 10-20-Life laws enforced.  Let's outlaw the sale and use of assault rifles.  Don't tell me that it would interfere with your right to have hunting weapons.  The only thing you can hunt with an assault rifle is a human, and they are not fit for eating.  While we are at it, let's take a page from Honduras's gun laws.  Not only do you have to register the gun, but register the ammunition every time you buy it.  And don't tell me that abridges your right to bear arms.  You have to register your car and have a license to drive it, and it does not interfere with your personal property rights

Let's enforce the laws against aiding and abetting and conspiracy and put the mother's behind in jail.  Her son shot two police officers, and in Florida that means everybody involved goes to jail for life without parole.

This animal had the advantage in that he knew what his plan was, but the police officers did not.  He had the advantage because his mother did not warn the officers that he was in the house and had a gun.  The officers had on their vests, but a vest does not stop a head shot, and the criminal had time to aim. 

So, why am I in Trujillo, Honduras, watching a funeral service in Miami?  Because I have a son-in-law who is a police officer.  He is out there every day, putting his life on the line.  I am watching the funeral out of respect for him and for the respect for the slain officers.

Do I feel sorry for Johnny Simms?  Not one bit.  Do I feel sorry for his mother?  I should, as I have lost a son, but no, I don't.  She knew what her son was and she did not do anything to try to stop him.  Do I mourn him.  Never in a million years.

And that is Miss Pittypat's Truth for the day.