A couple has a dog that snores. Annoyed because she can't sleep, the wife goes to the vet to see if he can help. The vet tells the woman to tie a ribbon around the dog's testicles and he will stop snoring. "Yeah,right," she says.
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2006/3/28
@ 05:00 AM (27 months, 20 days ago)
Unhappy couples sometimes say their spouse makes them sick. As it turns out, they may be right.
Bad marriages can be detrimental to one's health -- especially, new research shows, as aggravated couples age.
The study, financially supported by the federal National Institute on Aging, reports that marital strain is a key source of stress, which can affect one's immune system. But unhappiness also affects people's opinion of how healthy they are.
The findings are not necessarily a call for divorce. Indeed, much research indicates that marriage is good for people, helping them live longer, happier and more prosperous lives. Instead, the study should be considered "yet another reason to identify marital difficulties and seek to improve marital quality" because "your very health may depend on it," according to Debra Umberson of the University of Texas-Austin, the study's lead researcher.
Conflict makes people feel sick
In the paper, titled "You Make Me Sick: Marital Quality and Health Over the Life Course," Umberson and her fellow researchers analyzed 1,049 married folks in three waves of interviews.
In determining quality of marriage, the researchers asked, on a five-point scale, "How satisfied are you with your marriage?" They also asked whether the respondent's spouse was willing to listen to problems, and how much their spouse makes them feel loved.
The married participants were also asked how often they feel "bothered or upset by your marriage" and how often "the two of you typically have unpleasant disagreements or conflicts."
The answers were compared with the participants' responses reflecting how they describe their health.
The researchers acknowledge that it is possible, in some couplings, the scenario works backward: poor health affects how people feel about their marriages. The stress of caring for an ill person or the orneriness of a sick spouse can turn once-happy marriages miserable. But the researchers say more often it's a case of personal conflict making people feel sick.
This is particularly the case as people get older -- "marital difficulties appear to matter more for our health as we age," the researchers say.
Why? For one, spouses become more important psychologically as people age because of the loss of other key figures in their life, the researchers say.
Worse than divorce?
Umberson notes earlier research that has found evidence linking good social relationships to health and long life.
"The married do exhibit better health than the unmarried but it is not the case that any marriage is better than no marriage at all when it comes to health benefits. The quality of relationships is also linked to health," she wrote.
Previous studies have found that individuals in "low quality" marriages exhibit "an even greater health risk than do divorced individuals," Umberson said.
Scientists have known that marital difficulties are often a source of chronic stress, but bickering "may have long-term consequences for overall health status," she adds.
The study appeared in this month's Journal of Health and Social Behavior, a publication of the American Sociological Association
Yesterday, a beautiful 8 year old child was murdered. Had it been a slow news day across the country, you probably would have read about it or seen it on a national media network. Explaining how a man, who was her father murdered this precious gift of life. Who knows, perhaps Lauren would have grown up to be a doctor or maybe a scientist discovering a cure for a fatal disease, we will never know. And although she didn't receive national attention for being killed by her father, her death should have more importance to each of us as parents, grandparents, neighbors and teachers. This could have been your neighbor next door. A quiet family, that no one really knew. A neighbor who played with your kids or sat next to them in school. This is just a reminder to all of us that life is precious. We can't predict if we will see the sunrise the next morning. So in memory of Lauren lets all remember to give our kids a great big kiss and tell them how important they are each and every day.
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2006/3/27
@ 04:33 AM (27 months, 21 days ago)
NASHVILLE, Tenn.- Doctors performing abortions on girls younger than 13 years old would be required to preserve a sample of the fetal tissue for law enforcement purposes under a bill passed by the Senate on Thursday. The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation could use those samples for DNA tests to help prosecute rapists, said Sen. Roy Herron, the bill's sponsor. 
"Whoever has sex with a child 12 years of age or younger is committing rape, whether force is involved or not, and they ought to be prosecuted," said Herron, D-Dresden. Sen. Randy McNally, R-Oak Ridge, asked whether the tissue sample requirement would still be necessary if emergency room physicians were able to get body fluid samples immediately after a rape occurs. "The short answer is yes," replied Herron. "Most of the time these rapes that take place are not acts of somebody who does not know the victim; they are perpetrated by people who do know the victim. "And often the rapes are not reported and not discovered until days later, or weeks later _ sometimes even months later," he said. The "Child Rape Protection Act of 2006" passed the Senate on a 29-0 vote. A companion bill has lingered in a House subcommittee for a month and is not scheduled for discussion until April 4. Similar legislation was signed into law in Kansas last year. Keri Adams, of Planned Parenthood of East and Middle Tennessee, said her organization supports any measure that helps protect children against rape. "We just want to be sure it follows privacy laws," said Adams. The bill would require records be kept of the names and residence of the victim and parent or guardian. The Senate Judiciary Committee knocked down the penalties against doctors found to violate the proposed rules from a misdemeanor to a civil penalty of $500 for the first violation, and from a felony to a misdemeanor for the third violation.
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2006/3/26
@ 04:18 AM (27 months, 22 days ago)
A lot of discussion and ink recently over the Debra LaFave case (the teacher who had sex with her student) has prompted the state of Florida to add an educational overview to teachers "urging educators not to have sex with students." According to a 2004, Department of Education study, 9.6% of children grades 8-11 reported unwanted sexual contact by a teacher. If you stop and think about it, one child is one too many. It makes me wonder how many other cases have gone unreported. This past week, yet another teacher confessed to having sex with a student. I'm certain that the legal system will demand jail time in this case. Just think if he were as attractive as LaFave he could plea out using the "bipolar" defense strategy. Teachers are the new sexual preditors/molesters in what use to be the safest place for our children. Because they have a college degree, society looks upon them as making a bad decision. It is a crime, a felony and it warrants serious jail time.
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@ 03:35 AM (27 months, 22 days ago)
In a spectacularly quick flame-out, Red America, Washington Post.com's brand-new attempt to offer a conservative blog, is apparently no more, the second blow to the digital Post's credibility in recent times.
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2006/3/25
@ 04:43 AM (27 months, 23 days ago)
Children throughout the Western world are getting heavier, according to new international studies. The studies are confirming what most of us can see for ourselves, simply by going to a shopping mall, school or any other public place where children are present.
Dr. Philip James, chairman of the International Obesity Task Force, says children are "being bombarded . . . in the West to eat all the wrong foods. The Western world's food industries without even realizing it have precipitated an epidemic with enormous health consequences.''
I don't get this part. ''Being bombarded'' conjures up images of passivity, helplessness and victimization. To have bombs dropped on you means, metaphorically, to have no say or control over the disaster that's happening to you.
I recognize that ultimately adults, not children, bear the responsibility for what children eat. Yet I am unaware of any actual restaurant managers or owners who are physically shoving the food into the children's mouths. Do any of you see this happening in restaurants? Maybe I don't get out enough and I'm missing something. I have not read about, heard or seen any corporate bigwigs from Burger King, nor any individual restaurant employees or managers from a McDonald's, driving kids to and from the place where they get all the food that makes them fat. For all I know, some of these bigwigs or employees might want to do such a thing, but I feel sure that they aren't actually doing it.
So what gives? Why are the respected experts, such as Dr. Philip James, talking in terms of kids being ''bombarded'' by food businesses when it's not the businesses doing the culinary bombing? It's the parents who are driving the kids to the restaurants, ordering the food for them, and paying for it. They are the ones who must be held responsible. They are the ones who can change the food industry by eliminating or at least greatly reducing all those trips to the restaurants.
I don't know about you, but I am fed up -- no pun intended --with all this pretense to the contrary.
Suit Brought Against Downtown Niketown
- In CHICAGO A federal judge granted class-action status Thursday to a lawsuit accusing a flagship Niketown retail store on Michigan Avenue of discriminating against and harassing its black employees.
Eighteen current and former employees of the athletic apparel retailer claim in the lawsuit that store managers used racial slurs to refer to black workers and customers. They claim the store segregated black employees into lower-paying jobs as stockroom workers and cashiers rather than giving them lucrative sales jobs.
The plaintiffs also allege managers made unfounded accusations of theft against black workers and directed store security to monitor black employees and customers because of their race.
One of the plaintiffs, 26-year-old Larry Posey of Chicago said he was falsely accused of credit card fraud by a Niketown manager in 2001. He said he was suspended, but eventually allowed to return to work as a sales clerk when managers failed to prove the accusation.
"I'm just trying to work through it," Posey said Thursday. "It's just real hard the way they follow black and minority customers all the time and deny them certain privileges like simple returns."
Nike spokesman Vada Manager said the Beaverton, Ore.-based company has not decided whether to appeal the class action certification made Thursday by U.S. District Judge Milton Shadur in Chicago.
Two store managers implicated in many of the plaintiffs' allegations no longer work for Nike, Manager said.
Company employment records show that black employees occupied 63 percent of sales jobs at the store from 1999 through 2004, he said.
"We just don't believe the allegations made in the case are consistent with the culture of inclusion and respect we've tried to develop, not just at this store, but throughout the company," Manager said.
Chicago attorney Ines Monte, who is representing the plaintiffs, said at least 230 current and former Niketown employees could be included in the lawsuit. The suit covers blacks who were employed at the store from Dec. 17, 1999, to the present, she said.
"It is particularly appalling that a corporation like Nike that caters to an African American clientele and capitalizes on African American professional athletes has treated its African American employees and customers at it Michigan Avenue store in such a deplorable way," Monte said.
The lawsuit was filed Dec. 19, 2003, by a former employee who was representing himself.
The Judge set a status hearing in the case for March 29.
Source (AP)
@ 04:37 AM (27 months, 23 days ago)
Somewhere in the State of New York Senator Clinton and the Former President......
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2006/3/24
@ 06:33 AM (27 months, 24 days ago)
On Wednesday, I went to A High School in Wisconsin to speak to Seniors on safe relationships and legal issues that affect their lives. I arrived a bit early. I was taken to the class and seated in the back row until the movie that was playing ended. I sat there in my seat confused. I was watching the last few minutes of "Gangs of New York". Maybe I was brought to the wrong room, I thought the sign on the class door said "American Government." The class ended and a new group of students took their seats. I thought that since Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin had been in the news it would be a great way to begin things. So I asked the class "What they thought of the Sen. Feingolds call to censure the president? Blank stares, the room was silent. So I asked if they thought it was a good idea. A student raised their hand and said "No, we watched the "Gangs of New York in yesterdays class." I felt the students were missing out, this is the most precious time in their lives when they are receiving public education. But were they getting one?
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2006/3/23
@ 07:51 AM (27 months, 25 days ago)
Can anyone Identify this Person? 
Today, the supreme court ruled that if two people live in the same home, one invites the cops in and the other denies access, a search warrant is needed.
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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court appears poised to make it far harder to prosecute cases of domestic violence when victims are unwilling or unable to testify in court.
Today, the court will hear the appeals of two men who were convicted of assaulting women based, in one case, on a recorded 911 call, and, in the other, on a police officer's testimony of what the victim told him.
Over the past two decades, prosecutors in domestic-violence and child-abuse cases have relied heavily on testimony by police officers and counselors who interviewed the victims when those victims could not or would not appear in court.
But those prosecutions have a formidable foe in Justice Antonin Scalia. He insists the Constitution guarantees all defendants a right to confront their accusers in court, and he sees no basis for an exception in cases of domestic violence or child abuse.
Two years ago, Scalia wrote an opinion for the court that all but barred the use of out-of-court statements at trials when the victim fails to testify.
The only sure test of whether "testimonial statements" are reliable, Scalia concluded, "is the one the Constitution actually prescribes: confrontation." As he noted, the Sixth Amendment says, "In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to be confronted with the witnesses against him."
His opinion in that case, Crawford v. Washington, sent a bolt through prosecution units around the nation.
"It had a huge impact," said Victoria Adams, the deputy who heads the Family Violence Division for the Los Angeles County district attorney's office. "In most of our cases, the victims are reluctant or afraid to testify."
Since the Crawford decision, she said, prosecutors have relied more on recorded 911 calls and on "spontaneous" statements given to police officers who arrive at a crime scene. The theory is that these statements are uniquely revealing and distinct from formal testimony and, therefore, should be allowed in court.
But the Supreme Court appears ready to close that option in the pair of cases to be heard today. Scalia wrote for a 7-2 majority in the Crawford case, and the two dissenters — Chief Justice William Rehnquist and Justice Sandra Day O'Connor — are now gone.
The National Network to End Domestic Violence and several women's rights groups filed a brief that warns the court about the dire impact of requiring in-court testimony in all cases.
"This would make it very difficult, if not impossible, to prosecute the vast majority of domestic-violence cases," said Joan Meier, a law professor at George Washington University, who helped write the group's brief. The victims are "traumatized and terrorized by the defendants themselves, and they can threaten them so they don't testify." One study found that many victims are threatened with the kidnapping of their children if they testify, she said.
Prosecutors in 27 states have joined with the Bush administration in urging the court to permit the use of 911 tapes and crime-scene statements in domestic-violence cases.
In most states, trial judges permit the use of "spontaneous statements" given to a police officer at a crime scene. Other states specifically allow the use of "excited utterances," such as an emergency call to a 911 operator.
Civil libertarians and criminal-defense lawyers, in briefs filed with the court, urged the justices to uphold the confrontation right set out in the Constitution.
"In this country, we haven't allowed people to be prosecuted based just on what someone said to a cop on the street," said Richard Friedman, a law professor at the University of Michigan, who is representing one of the two men whose cases will be heard today. "There is not a domestic-violence exception to the Constitution."
In Crawford v. Washington, the court overturned the assault conviction of a man who was found guilty based on his wife's recorded statement at a police station. Scalia said such "testimonial statements" may not be used against a defendant if the witness refuses to testify, but he did not define what was a testimonial statement.
The court agreed to hear the two new cases to resolve that question.
In the first case to be heard today, a recorded call to 911 near Seattle provided the testimony that convicted Adrian Davis of violating a restraining order. "He's here jumpin' on me again," a woman later identified as Michelle McCottry told the operator. Her ex-boyfriend was there, she said, and "he's using his fists."
She failed to appear at the trial, but a prosecutor played the tape for the jury. "She left her testimony on the day this happened," the prosecutor said. "It is right here in her voice." The defense lawyer objected, saying Davis had a right to cross-examine the witness.
The Washington State Supreme Court upheld Davis' conviction and said an emergency report or an "excited utterance" is different from the "testimonial statements" to which Scalia referred.
The second case began when two police officers responded to a domestic-disturbance call in Peru, Ind. At first, Amy Hammon appeared too scared to talk. But when one officer took her to the front porch, she said her husband, in a rage, had thrown furniture and a lamp at her and had shoved her into the broken glass on the floor.
She, too, did not testify, but based on her account to the officer, Hershel Hammon was convicted of domestic battery. The Indiana Supreme Court upheld the conviction and said the crime-scene report was not a "testimonial statement."
@ 04:36 AM (27 months, 26 days ago)
According to the web site www.prochoice.com they have provided an important warning to those women considering taking the drug that in recent weeks has taken the lives of 6 women, 2 of whom died this past week.
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2006/3/21
@ 04:20 AM (27 months, 27 days ago)
Somewhere in cyber space, those bloging in Femi Natzis Land take a much needed brake!
Three years since the war in Iraq started. Almost 3000 American soldiers killed. Good Morning America is talking about the last three years on the TV this morning and they interviewed Cindy Sheehan, the latest poster girl for the anti war effort, live, giving a statement "in support of our troops."
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2006/3/20
@ 04:19 AM (27 months, 28 days ago)
Just as the person was finishing their blog post yesterday a photographer caught a United States Government Employee leaving their workplace in Washington, D.C. with an unidentified "Chimp" from the Democratic Party.
Chicago Woman Marries Brandon Teena Killer
- LINCOLN, Neb. A Chicago woman has been granted a marriage license to marry one of the killers portrayed in the movie "Boys Don't Cry."
Justine Mirth, 32, says she can't wait to marry Tom Nissen, who is serving life in prison for the 1993 slayings of three people in a farmhouse in southeast Nebraska.
"I'm dying to go see him. I want to hold him," she said. "He's the man I love. I want to spend the rest of my life with him."
The crime inspired the award-winning 1999 movie starring Hilary Swank, who played one of the victims, 21-year-old Teena Brandon, who was born a woman but lived as a man in southeast Nebraska under the name Brandon Teena.
The couple have never met in person. Mirth and Nissen have learned about each other through long letters and scores of 15-minute phone calls -- the maximum allowed by the prison.
When she saw the film, Mirth said, she identified with the characters who played Nissen and his co-defendant, John Lotter, who is on death row. She had grown up "in a small, stupid town in Indiana," she said, and escaped by running with a rough crowd.
"These were people I would hang out with in real life," she said.
Prosecutors said Teena was killed in a farmhouse, along with two witnesses, because he reported being raped by Lotter and another man after they discovered his biological identity.
I can hardly wait when sometime in the near future the blusing bride appears on Larry King Live to give her intimater details of "love behinf Bars". YUK!
2006/3/19
@ 05:33 AM (27 months, 29 days ago)
Finally, two liberal democrats who will be drawing the winning number for a date out on the town with Millard.
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@ 04:18 AM (27 months, 29 days ago)
A statue of Sir Winston Churchill in a straitjacket was unveiled his past week despite opposition from the wartime leader’s family.
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2006/3/18
@ 05:47 AM (28 months, 13 hours ago)
Before cops threw the book at him, Jakub Fik threw something unusual at them -- his penis. Fik, 33, cut off his own penis during a Chicago rampage. When confronted by police, Fik hurled several knives and his severed organ at the officers. Officers stunned him with a Taser and took him into custody.
"We took him out without any serious injury, with the exception of his own," said a Chicago Police Officer. Doctors at Northwestern Memorial Hospital reattached Fik's penis Wednesday, sources said. He was listed in good condition Thursday, according to hospital spokesman.
Smashing car windows
Fik, is charged with two counts of aggravated assault and one count of criminal damage to property. He told paramedics he was distraught over problems with his girlfriend in Poland.
Police arrived on Fik's block at 8:20 a.m. after receiving reports he was smashing car windows. Fik then broke into a house down the block. A group of six or seven officers assembled in front of the house.
The occupants were not home.
Fik was bleeding when the officers arrived and may have already cut off his organ.
"At that point, this guy came running out, naked, with a handful of knives . . . and started throwing knives at the police officers that were 10, 20, 30 feet away," Officers said.
Fik threw his penis during the confrontation. He then went back into the house and re-emerged with "another handful of knives".
An officer sneaked to the side of the bungalow's front steps and stunned Fik with the Taser. Fik fought back when officers went to restrain him.
"About 10 feet from the front porch, right on the sidewalk, was his penis."
Dr. Greg Bales, associate professor of urology at the University of Chicago, said severed penises are uncommon but surgery usually works.
"As long as the penis is placed on ice and reattached within a few hours, the success is usually pretty good," Bales said.
OUCH!
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
@ 04:52 AM (28 months, 14 hours ago)
For over a decade, Hustler magazine has been sending a copy of every new issue to each member of Congress, free of charge, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Some members have sued to stop it, to no avail. Others describe it as an "abuse of the system" and say they throw away the copies when they arrive. Larry Flynt, for his part, sees it as a part of keeping congressmen, and women, informed.
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2006/3/17
@ 05:16 AM (28 months, 1 day ago)
Abortion is one of the most savage, irrational acts of injustice and violence against humanity that there is. On July 1, 2006, South Dakota will have enacted into law, banning abortion that provides saving the life of the mother as the only exception, and at least 10 other states are considering legislation seeking to ban abortion or limit abortion access. No doubt, this case will be heard in the Supreme Court by the Pro Choice Groups jumping up and down crying foul.
Under the law signed by South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds, doctors could get up to five years in prison and a $5,000 fine for performing an illegal abortion. The organization Planned Parenthood, which runs South Dakota's only abortion clinic, immediately said it would challenge the new law.
In an attempt to take the law into her own hands and act as some sort of "Angel of Mercy" a woman who goes by the name of Molly has created an irresponsible on line abortion manual. More like her own "Home Brew Abortion Instructions". This in and of itself is dangerous.
I'm not going to list her site, but I will provide some of what she has posted for all the world to see. And I also blame the web site for allowing this dangerous material to be posted and lives potentially lost all because a woman named Molly doesn't agree with the new law. Groups against abortion should also file a lawsuit against both the site and the author.
For the women of South Dakota: an abortion manual
I understand that you're probably really angry right now. Maybe you're reading a blog expressing that anger -- the anger that your state thinks it knows better than you what to do with your body. Maybe you're anxiously wondering where the nearest abortion clinic is, now that you will have to leave the state to get to one. If you have a serious medical condition, you might be doubling up on birth control methods, leading to a lot of worry and possibly negative side effects.
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2006/3/16
@ 04:16 AM (28 months, 2 days ago)
- According to an AP news wire- ROLLING MEADOWS, Ill. A judge ordered six months in jail and an additional two years probation Thursday for an Illinois State Police trooper convicted of forcing a couple to strip after he found them in a parked car along a Cook County highway last June.
Once released from the Cook County Jail, 32-year-old Jeremy Dozier will spend a year under curfew and subject to random drug testing, said Tom Stanton, a spokesman for the Cook County State's Attorney's office.
Stanton said Dozier also will be required to perform 300 hours of community service and undergo psychiatric evaluation.
A jury found Dozier guilty Jan. 30 on four counts of bribery and four counts of misconduct, all felonies.
Dimitry Baum, 23, and his fiancee, Maria "Masha" Boyko, 19, testified during the trial that Dozier, a 10-year state police veteran, gave them Breathalyzer tests then ordered them to disrobe and urinate in a roadside ditch. Boyko said they took off their clothes but sped away when Dozier stepped away from the car.
Dozier contended that Baum and Boyko stripped on their own. He testified that he ordered them to stop before he returned, embarrassed, to his squad car.
Dozier's attorneys were "bitterly disappointed" and considered the jury's decision an "unjust verdict," said defense attorney Ralph Meczyk.
Dozier also faces felony charges in Lake County related to a similar incident April 29 in Gurnee, when he allegedly confronted a couple in a parked car and told them to take off their clothes and run around a construction site.
2006/3/15
@ 04:02 PM (28 months, 3 days ago)
Hillary Clinton and her driver were cruising along a country road
one evening when an ancient cow loomed in front of the car. The driver tried to avoid it but couldn't and the aged bovine was struck and killed.
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@ 04:40 AM (28 months, 3 days ago)
Like a Hollywood film star. Osama bin Laden has his own online fan clubs, And they’re thanks in part courtesy of former U.S. Vice President Al Gore.
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2006/3/14
...The night before she died, she told Burke she had until 11 a.m. the next morning to choose between her husband and her job, the affidavit said. She also told Emmert her husband was abusing her. Emmert told authorities Dennis’ husband threatened to “kill her and make it look like she did it,” arrest papers said...
Dennis Described As Good Cop (Dallas Texas)
The Citizens Voice By Heidi E. Ruckno
By the account of Dallas Township Police Chief Robert Jolley, Jeffrey Jerome Dennis is a fine police officer.
The 15-year veteran had a good service record and had little need for discipline, Jolley said.
But his controlling personality reportedly led to a tumultuous home life, according to arrest papers.
Dennis was placed on administrative leave after his wife of nine years Carli was found murdered inside their home at 159 Ninth St., Wyoming on Feb. 27. He was charged Friday with criminal homicide in connection with her death.
Dennis was arraigned before District Judge Joseph Carmody, West Pittston, and committed to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility, where he is being held without bail.
A relative who declined to be identified suspected problems in the marriage. The couple hardly ever called or wrote, and they did not spend much time with Carli’s family.
“I wish the poor little thing would have come to me and said something,” the relative said.
Court documents confirm the Dennis’ marriage was failing. Arrest papers paint Jeff Dennis as a jealous husband who threatened his wife repeatedly.
The affidavit states that shortly before her death, Carli Dennis told her husband she was having an affair with a co-worker, a fellow dispatcher at Luzerne County 911. He got violent with her after hearing the news, the co-worker told police.
Carli Dennis also confided in co-workers Adam Burke and John Emmert.
The night before she died, she told Burke she had until 11 a.m. the next morning to choose between her husband and her job, the affidavit said. She also told Emmert her husband was abusing her.
Emmert told authorities Dennis’ husband threatened to “kill her and make it look like she did it,” arrest papers said.
Reports of Dennis’ controlling behavior date back several years. Jeff Trusa, a former communication center employee, said Carli told him in 1999 that her husband would kill her if she ever had an affair.
“I guess she was cooped up like a caged animal,” Trusa said.
After Carli Dennis died, officials at Luzerne County 911 requested extra security at the communications center in Hanover Township. Luzerne County Sheriff Barry Stankus had a deputy stationed at the communications center until last Wednesday.
For his own safety, Jeff Dennis has been separated from the rest of the inmates at the prison.
Incarcerated police officers are locked down in a unit by themselves in what is known as “administrative custody,” prison officials said.
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The sad reality in cases where an officer of the law either abuses or kills their girlfriend or wife, we still have a long way to go within law enforcement agencies across the country. Why? Case after case, it's the same old excuse
"He was a great Cop" or "It was an isolated incident" or "we are shocked and obviously stung by the events and the loss of a great officer". Once again, the press needs to be more responsible in reporting these cases. Especially for those married to law enforcement who are already trapped because they have no place to turn for assistance in many situations.
Through the years it has been difficult to remain positve and upbeat for victims in relationships with officers. I always offer hope and assistance and yet my own pleas for serious changes within a system that continues to look away
get burried with each victim, murdered.
The solution comes from the criminal justice system, the National Fraternal Order of Police and other law enforcement agencies who continue to remain silent. It is only when they begin to deal with their own departments and create a zero tolerance policy, that departments across the country will begin to pay attention.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence toll free hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE
Susan Murphy-Milano author of "Defending Our Lives" getting away from domestic violence & staying safe and the daughter of a Former Police Detective.
@ 05:13 AM (28 months, 4 days ago)
In todays economy most American's only care about low prices, which without a doubt Wal-Mart is King. However, you need to ask yourself as a consumer, at what cost is Wal-Mart giving us these great deep discount deals? One way Wal-Mart is making their prices so low is they are actually encouraging their employees to go on Welfare so they can pay their full-time managers and corporate officers while they turn around and pay their full time help/staff employees wages so low they're eligible for such programs as Medicad. Last year alone, Wal-Mart employees used $25 million in Medicaid, which was paid for by you, the taxpayer.
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2006/3/13
NEW YORK New York City police commissioner Raymond Kelly said today, authorities would seek an indictment against a parolee with a long rap sheet, the prime suspect in last month's gruesome slaying of a graduate student. Blood found on the plastic ties used to bind Imette St. Guillen has been matched to a bouncer at the bar where she was last seen alive, the New York Police Department commissioner said. "This is very significant development. When you talk about DNA here you are talking about the certainty of 1 in a trillion, so it's a very important piece of evidence for us," NYPD commissioner Ray Kelly said. "The investigation is going forward and has certainly not reached a finality. There's a lot more work to be done." Kelly said authorities would take that match and other evidence to a grand jury to get an indictment against Darryl" Little John". He didn't give a date for when the grand jury would get the case. "Little John", in custody at a Rikers Island jail on a parole violation, had not been arrested in connection with St. Guillen's death as of this afternoon afternoon. The 41-year-old maintains his innocence. His attorney, Kevin O'Donnell, who has been on just about every national news outlet, said the parolee " feels like a scapegoat" and is "upset" because his picture has been published in newspapers across the country. "Little John" who doesn't look so little from his mug shots was a bouncer at The Falls bar, where manager has told police he ordered him to escort the woman out when she stayed sipping a drink past the 4 a.m. closing time; he recalled hearing the pair arguing before they disappeared through a side door.
He has been in and out of prison for 20 years, and has used a different alias for nearly every crime. Two names he went by were "John Handsome" and "Jonathan Blaze," which also is the secret identity of comic book character "Ghost Rider," according to newspaper reports. He was sentenced to 8½ to 10 years for a 1995 Long Island bank robbery. Sometime during the next 17 hours, the student at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in Manhattan was raped, strangled and suffocated. Her naked and bound body was found in a remote section of Brooklyn on Feb. 25 with a sock stuffed in her mouth and her head wrapped with packaging tape. There are no words to descibe this type of slaying. Kelly said the plastic ties were used to bind the 24-year-old's hands behind her back. He wouldn't comment on how blood got onto the restraints but said, "It is a very important piece of evidence for us." Kelly said witnesses also reported seeing "Littlejohn" and St. Guillen leaving the bar together and records put his cell phone near where her body was found. His aunt Addie Harris has tried to defend him publicly in the St. Guillen case, arguing, "Many people have a record, but that doesn't mean he committed that type of crime." DNA, thank God, does not lie. According to news accounts, Littlejohn shouldn't have been working at the bar St. Guillen visited because the job kept him out past his 9 p.m. parole curfew.
I'd like to believe that "justice" in this case came down on the wings of an angel, who was herself a criminal justice student, murdered and tortured by a man, who I pray will never see daylight.
Imette St. Guillen (File)
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2006/3/12
@ 07:02 AM (28 months, 6 days ago)
Has everyone in the Wisconsin Legislature abandoned common sense?
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2006/3/11
@ 04:22 AM (28 months, 7 days ago)
Bored with pitting his wits against the Joker and the Riddler, Batman is setting his sights on a more challenging target: Osama bin Laden. Frank Miller, the famed Batman writer, sees the caped crusader facing off against al-Qaida operatives who attack Gotham City in Holy Terror, Batman!
Miller, who has inked his way through 120 pages of the 200-page opus, told a recent comic book convention that the novel was an unashamed "piece of propaganda" in which Batman "kicks al-Qaida's ass." The driving force behind the work, Miller said, was "an explosion from my gut reaction of what's happening now."
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2006/3/10
@ 05:47 AM (28 months, 8 days ago)
A Chicago street fight is raging in the City Council, and among the ranks of active and retired Chicago police officers, following a move to rename a street after a slain Black Panther leader.
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2006/3/9
@ 05:50 AM (28 months, 9 days ago)
A Communist big shot is making a publicity appearance at a grade school. This "man-of-the-people" asks the children what they want for their birthdays. All goes well until one precocious little tyke says: "A windshield wiper for our TV screen."
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2006/3/8
@ 06:39 PM (28 months, 10 days ago)
 Once again, another propaganda video has surfaced in Iraq, showing abducted members of the Christian Peacemaker Teams. “Arab television broadcast a new videotape Tuesday showing three Christian peace activists taken hostage in Iraq last year, but a fourth the only American abducted was not seen in the footage,” reports ABC News. “The four had not been heard from since a videotape aired by Al-Jazeera television on Jan. 28, dated from a week before. A statement purportedly accompanying that tape said the hostages would be killed unless all Iraqi prisoners were released from Iraqi and U.S. prisons. No deadline was set…. The four workers disappeared Nov. 26. The previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades claimed responsibility for kidnapping them.”
It only takes a small bit of Google sleuthing to gather enough information about the “previously unknown Swords of Righteousness Brigades” and arrive at a possible conclusion as to why the Iraqi resistance, or a shadowy group claiming to be part of the resistance, would kidnap and threaten to kill peace activists instead of Iraqi officials or “coalition” forces.
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2006/3/7
@ 06:03 AM (28 months, 11 days ago)
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