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A cheating husband was exposed after his wife's parrot mimicked his voice calling out another woman's name. Frank Ficker, 50, has now been kicked out of the family home by wife Petra, also 50, after she heard their 12-year-old parrot Hugo impersonating him on the phone to another woman.Petra, of Freiburg, Germany, said: "Hugo always liked to mimic Frank and he could do his voice perfectly."Frank asking who's at the door, Frank yelling at our nephews, Frank telling me he loved me. And then one day I heard him doing Frank's voice, but saying "Uta, Uta"."Petra turned the house upside...

MIAMI (AP) -- Terry McMillan says she's trying to get her groove back. "I'm not going to end up on the rocking chair by myself," said McMillan, who filed for divorce from Jonathan Plummer in January. McMillan has said that she decided to end her 6 1/2 years of marriage to Plummer, 30, after learning that he is gay. The revelation led her to conclude that Plummer, whom she met at a Jamaican resort a decade ago, married her only to get U.S. citizenship, McMillan has said. Plummer inspired her to write "How Stella Got Her Groove Back," the 1996...

My naive husband was brainwashed at mosques, says bomber's widow By Richard Alleyne (Filed: 24/09/2005) The widow of one of the July 7 suicide bombers believes that her "innocent and naive" husband was brainwashed into carrying out the attacks by extremists at the mosques where he worshipped. Samantha Lewthwaite, 21, described Jermaine Lindsay as a peace-loving father who was always deeply upset when innocent people suffered in war zones. But she said that just months before the attacks he became distant and moody and would spend days away from the family home after visiting mosques in London, Luton and the...

BALAD, Iraq, Aug. 22, 2005 — The separation during deployments can become a dangerous obstacle very quickly when it comes to marriage, but for two UH-60 Blackhawk pilots on Logistics Support Area Anaconda, deployment to Iraq has kept them together. “It feels completely wonderful to be deployed together,” said 1st Lt. Rebecca DeForest, a UH-60 Blackhawk pilot from B Company, 1st Battalion, 126th Aviation Regiment, who deployed Jan. 9 with the South Carolina National Guard. “We can share all of our experiences first hand and we can relate to our jobs and struggles and our accomplishments.” The couple almost missed...

My name is Bob. Let me relate how I handled the situation with my wife, Peacebaby. When I took "early retirement" last year, it became necessary for Peacebaby to get a full-time job, both for extra income and for the health benefits that we needed. Shortly after she started working I noticed she was beginning to show her age. I usually get home from the Golf Course about the same time she gets home from work. Although she knows how hungry I am, she almost always says she has to rest for half an hour or so before she starts...

Well it's time to go and do what I have been called to do. Today I head for to the war for the third time and I have some things to say. To me this is a blessing, a calling from God to do what I can to help our brave men and women in uniform. Also this post is for my family as some of them still don't understand why I am on my third trip to Iraq. First of all:

WIND RIDGE (PA) – A Richhill Township man, apparently frustrated by his wife's refusal to wash the dishes, picked up a rifle and shot her in the head Thursday, state police said. Jessica Petrie, 17, was taken by helicopter to Ruby Memorial Hospital, Morgantown, W.Va., where she was in critical condition late Thursday. Her husband, James Russell Petrie, 27, was charged by state police with criminal attempt to commit homicide, aggravated assault and recklessly endangering another person. He was arraigned before District Judge Lee Watson and placed in Greene County Jail on $250,000 cash bond. A preliminary hearing is scheduled...

JERUSALEM: An Israeli man angry with his wife over money matters set fire to three million shekels ($870,000) on the lawn of his affluent suburban home Wednesday, a news website reported. After reaching the end of his tether in the marital spat, he had opened the family safe, taken out fistsfuls of bank notes, stuffed them in sacks and dragged them outside, said the online edition of Yediot Aharonot. "In 36 years, I have seen nothing like it," one fireman was quoted as saying after four fire engines hurtled through Rehovot, near Tel Aviv, following reports of someone trying to...

My wife finds her anniversary to be pretty important. Well 'duh!', shouts the mulitudes of wives out there. Of course, it is important to me as well. I'm nuts about her, we're about to be parents, and I don't have much to complain about. For example, she has always done the dishes. She likes it that I always do the mowing. On the other hand, our wedding anniversary has always been a bit more important to her than me. Over the years, I dutifully just went along with this, but these last few years, I think I understand the source...

State Sen. Carlos Cisneros' wife spent Monday night behind bars for allegedly attacking her husband with a hammer after finding him with another woman. Patsy Cisneros, 50, was released on an unsecured appearance bond Tuesday morning. She faces charges of aggravated battery against a household member, criminal trespass and two counts of criminal damage to property. She is scheduled to be arraigned in Taos County Magistrate Court this morning. Contacted at her Questa home Tuesday afternoon, Patsy Cisneros admitted to striking her husband over the head with a hammer. And, she added, she doesn't regret it. "It was for a...

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Scripture speaks of foolish women who are always learning and never coming to a knowledge of the truth. Some people never learn because they never take the trouble to learn. Others never learn because they are always learning. But stuffing the facts into your head is a good way to avoid doing. And when a husband avoids doing, he is actually avoiding scriptural learning. James tells us that the man who hears without doing is the man who deceives himself. He thinks he makes progress when he is making none at all. There are three basic reasons why men do...

Liberal Abrams Report started a piece today saying, "Is it time to give parents rights over spouse rights? I say no way." An older and weaker looking Rev. Robert Schuller sat there via distance camera, looking very somber. "I think you've asked the wrong question." Abrams scoffed, and smileless Schuller answered, "We have to be intelligent. We don't make an arbitarary statements [like you just did] without qualifictions. We don't just say yes this way or no that way,[as you are doing]; that's not intelligent." Abrams changed the subject, starting about Terri's husband, and Schuller interrupted: "I can't understand why...

As an innocent life slips away, due to methods used by those of Nazi Germany, the spinning heads of the media circus continue to flap their lips over the case of Terri Schiavo and nothing within this mess makes any sense. Parents who love their children today here in the United States have had all their rights stripped from them by a system that has gone mad. What has happened America to our rights as citizens? What has happened to our freedoms? Where will this case take us America? Where will we end up? Will we end up lying in...

Congress tried to use supeona power in an effort to save Terri Shiavo's live. They may have supeoned the wrong Shiavo. Michael Shiavo has been given a pass by the legally blind Judge Greer and the main-stream media outlets. If the Supreme Court does not make the effort to answer the many questions pertaining to this case as the previous courts have done, then congress and the President must step in just as they had to during the Slavery issue. I believe Congress must demand that Michael Shiavo be forced to answer at least these questions before he be given...

Those in a rush to kill Schiavo ignoring facts of case March 23, 2005 BY JOHN O'SULLIVAN In November 1940, just one month before his assignment was due to end and 13 months before Hitler declared war on the United States, William L. Shirer, an American correspondent in Berlin, began to uncover disquieting evidence of one aspect of the Nazi government's then-unknown crimes against humanity. Oddly worded death notices began to appear in German provincial newspapers. Shirer already suspected that the Nazis were contemplating a policy of the euthanasia of the mentally ill and incapacitated. He looked into the matter...

Husband gets kidney, then flees with lover By ANDY DOLAN 20mar05 Carol Jewell did not hesitate to give her husband, John, one of her kidneys when renal failure threatened his life. But four years later, he showed his "gratitude" by running away with her brother's wife, Marilyn Edmeades, 52. Their world had revolved around local politics. Mrs Jewell is Mayor of Woodley, west of London near Reading, and Mr Jewell, 53, was a member of the same council for 25 years. Mrs Edmeades also was prominent in local politics as a councillor in nearby Bracknell. The Jewells and Mrs Edmeades...

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Early on, I must confess, I didn’t take much interest in Terri Schiavo. All I’d heard was that she was a vegetable, brain-dead, totally unaware of her surroundings. I did hear rumors that her husband Michael wanted her taken off life-support because he could then inherit whatever remained of a very sizeable insurance settlement. But, so what? And so what if he was shacked up with some other woman and had sired two kids with her? No matter what a lout he might be, the only important question was whether Mrs. Schiavo would or would not be better off dead....

March 19, 2005Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Saturday 14 Reading I2 Sam 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16 The LORD spoke to Nathan and said:"Go, tell my servant David,‘When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors,I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins,and I will make his kingdom firm.It is he who shall build a house for my name.And I will make his royal throne firm forever.I will be a father to him,and he shall be a son to me.Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before me;your throne shall...

Absent a further court order, Terri Schiavo's feeding tube will be removed on Friday, and she will starve -- painfully, many say -- to death. Doesn't it strike you as eerie that the court relied on the testimony of an "estranged" husband in making its decision? Doesn't it strike you as horrifying that Terri may very well want to live but they are going to cause her to die, not by removing a respirator, but a feeding tube? Do you really believe that Terri's husband, Michael, who is living with another woman with whom he sired two children, is refusing...

“Man and Woman”, “Wife”, “Husband”, “Widow”, “Widower” Banished From all Ontario Law Terms, when referring to spouses, are banned from all government programs, services, documentsToronto, February 25, 2005 (LifeSiteNews.com) – With the obscenely rapid, three-day introduction and passage of its same-sex “marriage” Bill 171, the Ontario government has advanced a revolutionary change in the way all laws and government programs and institutions refer to marriage and married persons. Everything referring to spouses must now be gender neutral. No longer can a married couple be referred to as “husband and wife” or “man and woman”. The terms “Widow” and “widower” are...

CLEARWATER (FBW)-Michael Schiavo simply won’t give up on trying to remove his 41-year-old disabled wife’s feeding tube, his attorney said after a court hearing extending a stay in the case until 5 p.m. EST today. Photo by Joni B. Hannigan George Felos, attorney for Michael Schiavo, the Clearwater man who wants to begin the starvation process on his wife, Terri Schiavo, speaks to reporters outside of the Clearwater Courthouse Feb. 23. George Felos, the “right-to-die” attorney representing Schiavo told Florida Baptist Witness his client “deeply loves Terri” and cares about her despite cohabitating openly with his fiancée, Jodi Centonze, since...

“I see a flash of colors and the vague outlines of faces. I hear the voices of Mom and Dad as they talk to me, trying to get me to respond. Oh, God, I’m trying so hard to respond. I feel like I’m floating in a murky bubble with no control over my body and no ability to communicate my feelings. I hear my parents talking about my husband’s efforts to let me die, and I can’t state my objection. "I’ve listened to him talk to people about a statement I made many years ago when we were watching a...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colorado (AP) -- A woman concocted a heartbreaking story of how her soldier husband died a hero in Iraq -- and then admitted the story was all a hoax. "I think I need some serious counseling," 24-year-old Sarah Kenney told The Daily Sentinel newspaper on Wednesday editions. "This is the most serious lie I've ever told, but I've been caught in many lies." The touching story of how Spc. Jonathan Kenney took a bullet meant for an Iraqi child on January 29 was reported by a score of Colorado media after a news release was sent to them...

Hillary Clinton changes images with the quickness of Madonna. Like the Queen of Pop, she provokes and reacts, rethinks and reforms, pushes at hot buttons and then cools off with a dip in the mainstream. Madonna moved from "Like a Virgin" to "Married With Children," and began writing children's books. Hillary went from high-octane lawyer in Little Rock who didn't want to stay home to bake cookies to being a first lady sharing her recipe for chocolate chip cookies. She went from standing by her man in a way that Tammy Wynette might have sung about, to standing up for...

Matsui Seeks Late Husband's House Seat SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Doris Matsui announced Wednesday she will seek the congressional seat held for 26 years by her late husband. She immediately received the endorsement of Democratic House leader Nancy Pelosi. With her family by her side just four days after burying Rep. Robert T. Matsui (news, bio, voting record), Doris Matsui said, "I am asking those who supported him to now support me." Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (news - web sites) has set a March 8 primary election and May 3 special election to choose a new congressman for the Democratic-leaning district. The...

SACRAMENTO - Maria Shriver's visit to an inner-city elementary school earlier this month was one of the many ceremonial duties she's assumed as the wife of California's governor. Still, one second-grader's inquiry was a surprise. ``Are you like the governor?'' he asked. ``That's a really loaded question,'' Shriver answered with a smile. Loaded perhaps, but it's a sentiment also murmured privately in the Capitol. Whatever the answer, there's no doubt the high-voltage former television reporter from a legendary Democratic family has emerged as a force in the administration of her husband, Arnold Schwarzenegger. The 49-year-old mother of four, who is...

(excerpt)In the end, Elsie Ann Kost couldn't take any more of the threats from her 60-year-old husband, Edward. She couldn't take the beatings. She couldn't take the verbal abuse. Last Tuesday, the yelling began again. Then came pushing and shoving. He threatened to shoot some of the couple's five Dalmatians and four cats, and retrieved a .357 Magnum pistol he kept stored with two other handguns. Elsie Kost told police her husband set the gun on the kitchen table and walked outside their two-story home, set on 28 acres in an isolated, forested, hilly area of New Sewickley Township. She...

Rochester (AP) Police say a woman went to a Beaver County police station and admitted fatally shooting her husband after he threatened to kill their pets. Elsie Kost was charged yesterday with homicide in the death of her husband Edward. Police say Edward Kost was killed November 16th but authorities didn't find out about the shooting until Elsie Kost confessed to shooting him and putting his body in cistern on their property. Elsie Kost had told others her husband was away at a hunting camp. But New Sewickley police say she told her daughter about the shooting yesterday and they...

McALLEN, Texas - The wife of presidential candidate John Kerry (news - web sites) told a receptive audience in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas that Kerry would seek out all other options before going to war. "John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil," Teresa Heinz Kerry told about 1,200 supporters at the McAllen Civic Center. She said her husband, as president, would be able to approach the families of slain soldiers and say, "'I did everything I could to prevent this, I'm sorry.'...

I light the candles, as I have all the nights before, setting the stage - the pink night-shirt, the furry slippers, the rose-scented ungent with which I anoint my fingers. I loosen my waist-length hair from its clasp and approach the keyboard with anticipation. Who will it be tonight? Bush? Cheney? Kerry? Edwards? They all present delights, but it's not so much the man as the act of campaigning itself that thrills me so. Memories of Reagan suddenly stir - ahh, that brings a jaded tear. How innocent that first fling seems - The bedroom door bursts open; my husband,...

Another Saudi face: TV presenter is beaten up by husband By Robin Gedye (Filed: 16/04/2004) A Saudi television presenter who was beaten unconscious by her husband has allowed pictures of her severely battered face to be published in an attempt to highlight the abuse of women in the kingdom. Rania al-Baz, who works for Saudi Arabia's state television's Channel One, is having a series of operations for 13 fractures to her face. She said she wanted to break the taboo on domestic violence. "I want to use what happened to me to draw attention to the plight of women in...

City Council extends equal benefits to married gay couples By Lornet Turnbull Seattle Times staff reporter E-mail this article Print this article Search archive A month after Mayor Greg Nickels issued an executive order recognizing same-sex marriages, the Seattle City Council yesterday unanimously approved legislation that would give married gays and lesbians on the city's payroll the same benefits that opposite-sex couples now receive. While council members heralded the move as "historic," the change to city ordinance is really more symbolic than it is substantial. Seattle has been offering domestic-partner benefits to same-sex couples since 1989. The value of those...

The Good Wife’s Guide 1. Have dinner ready. Plan ahead, even the night before, to have a delicious meal ready, for his return. This is a way of letting him know that you have been thinking about him and are concerned about his needs. Most men are hungry when they come home and the prospect of a good meal (especially his favorite dish) is part of the warm welcome needed. 2. Prepare yourself. Take 15 minutes to rest so you’ll be refreshed when he arrives. Touch up your make-up, put a ribbon in your hair and be fresh looking. He...

February 20, 2004 Attorney General Says Licenses Invalid By Susan Montoya Bryan The Associated Press BERNALILLO, N.M. — Dozens of gay and lesbian couples descended on this rural New Mexico town to tie the knot Friday after the Republican county clerk's surprise decision to grant marriage licenses to same-sex couples. But hours after the marriages began, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid said the licenses "would be invalid under current law." Madrid's "advisory" opinion came in the form of a letter to state Sen. Timothy Jennings, who had sought the advice after the marriages began Friday morning in Bernalillo. "Until...

<p>A womens group fired the first legal salvo against the Bush administration's marriage-promotion agenda yesterday, filing a civil rights complaint that a government-funded program discriminates against women.</p> <p>The NOW Legal Defense and Education Fund charged that a pro-marriage program, the Family Formation and Development Project in Allentown, Pa., provides employment services to males only. That constitutes a violation of Title IX, the group claims, because the law prohibits discrimination based on gender in any government-funded program.</p>

Laura Bush Defends Husband in Interview Sat Feb 7, 5:06 AM ET NEW YORK - Laura Bush objects to the idea that she is viewed as a 1950s-era first lady and says she supported the decision of Howard Dean (news - web sites)'s wife to stay out of the public eye during Dean's presidential campaign. n an interview with The New York Times published Saturday, Bush said she thought Dean's wife, known professionally as Dr. Judith Steinberg, "made the decision that was right for her." She later told the Times she did not understand the criticism of Steinberg, who has...

SPARKS, Nev. (AP) - The ex-husband of a Sparks judge who was fatally shot at his home told a neighbor before he died that the killer was paid to murder him. Miles Deriso, 44, who died early Monday, recently divorced from Sparks Justice of the Peace Susan Deriso after more than 20 years of marriage. He knocked on his neighbor's door in the northeast residential neighborhood about 2 a.m. Monday saying he'd been shot in the stomach, Sparks police said. An acquaintance of his also was found outside with a minor stab wound but police have declined to identify him....

Michael Shiavo gets Larry King Monday October 27th,2003. This is a change of programming from website!

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Another 9-11 date with death -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Posted: September 4, 2003 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2003 WorldNetDaily.com What do you call a country that sentences its prisoners to death by starvation and dehydration? Barbaric, inhumane perhaps? Fasts, even hunger strikes, often are self-imposed for periods of time. However, no one in his right mind passes up fluids. Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes....

HUNTINGDON, Pa. -- A woman who locked her 3-year-old daughter in the trunk of a car while she visited her husband in prison has been charged with endangerment. Tammy Denise Swittenburg-Edwards, 31, was arrested Saturday at a state prison about 95 miles east of Pittsburgh after prison guards heard crying and yelling from the vehicle and found the girl in the trunk, state police said. Swittenburg-Edwards apparently locked her in after prison officials refused the child's entry because she wasn't on a visitor's list, state police said. The girl was in the trunk for about 40 minutes while Swittenburg-Edwards visited...

<p>PAYSON - A 73-year-old woman was stabbed to death by an alleged robber, who her husband then shot in turn.</p> <p>A man allegedly went to the home of Ray and Annie Friesen in Beaver Valley on Monday and asked to use their phone, saying his car had broken down.</p>

Tuesday June 13, 2000; 12:30 AM EDTHillary: 'Rapists Should be Punished With Full Force of Law' First lady Hillary Clinton has yet to say whether she believes Arkansas businesswoman Juanita Broaddrick, who leveled a rape accusation against the president last year. But on Monday Mrs. Clinton said it should be a "national priority" to see that men who commit sexual assault, rape and other forms of domestic violence are tracked down and punished with the full force of the law. The first lady spoke out in support of congressional reauthorization for the Violence Against Women Act at an event...

"Women and Islam--A Westerner's Perspective" Posted by Doc Farmer Wednesday, June 04, 2003 I've lived in the Middle East region for over five years now. And although I'm not a female nor a Muslim, I think I've got a bit of an understanding of the position of women as regards the religion of Islam. It's not what you've been led to believe, either. First, let's get this misconception out of the way straight up. Female circumcision is NOT sanctioned or supported by Islam. There are some cultures that did this practice far before the rise of the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh),...

IN AN April 30 essay titled "The Libertarian Question," my fellow National Review Online contributing editor Stanley Kurtz argues that laws against sodomy, adultery and incest should remain on the books largely to protect the institution of heterosexual marriage. By stigmatizing sexual relations outside that institution, Kurtz believes "the taboo on non-marital and non-reproductive sexuality helps to cement marital unions, and helps prevent acts of adultery that would tear those unions apart." Kurtz also states that keeping adult incest illegal will reduce the odds of sex between adults and their minor relatives. Anti-pedophilia laws, virtually everyone agrees, should be energetically...

Scott Peterson arrives at the county jail in Modesto, Calif., Friday, April 18, 2003 after he was arrested in the death of his wife, Laci, who was eight months pregnant when she vanished on Christmas Eve. (AP Photo/Modesto Bee/Al Golub, pool) MODESTO, Calif. - Authorities said genetic odds "in the billions" proved that two bodies that recently washed ashore were those of Laci Peterson and her baby, in an announcement that came hours after the missing woman's husband was arrested in their deaths. Scott Peterson, 30, arrived at the Stanislaus County jail just before midnight after being driven there...

<p>PFC Joseph DeWitt, 26, from Suffolk County, N.Y., carries to safety an Iraqi boy who was injured during a heavy battle between the U.S. Army's 7th Cavalry Regiment and Iraqi forces Tuesday.</p>

March 19, 2003Solemnity of Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary Psalm: Wednesday Week 14 Reading I Responsorial Psalm Reading II Gospel Reading I 2 Sm 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16 The Lord spoke to Nathan and said:"Go, tell my servant David,‘When your time comes and you rest with your ancestors,I will raise up your heir after you, sprung from your loins,and I will make his kingdom firm.It is he who shall build a house for my name.And I will make his royal throne firm forever.I will be a father to him,and he shall be a son to me.Your house and...

The brother and sister of missing Modesto woman Laci Peterson appeared on the "Today Show" Monday to talk about the continuing search and their feelings toward Laci's husband. Brent Rocha and Amy Rocha (pictured, right) said that they continue to struggle for answers as to what happened to Laci. "I think it has been a difficult process," Brent Rocha said. "We've taken it in phases. In the beginning, when she first went missing, I think friends and family just really focused on getting the word out. And then as time went by, I think that reality set in that the...