CapeCodToday Blog Chowder

The Fox News report, and the statement from the principal, both fail to state whether or not the embryos were human or mouse, or cow, or what.

Why am I reminded of the I Love Lucy episode where she's working at the candy factory?

Tom, wow this discussion got off track. It's all about purchasing power. Until marketing data show that fathers make any significant purchasing decisions vis a vis raising children, media content will be geared toward women.

In fact, most all magazines are geared toward women. Men don't read as many magazines or book as women, this is a fact. I read some men's magazines like Esquire and if you took every bikini clad woman out of it, it would be half as thick.

When do men watch TV? At night. What kind of commercials are on at night? Not diapers and Lean Cuisine, but cars and cell phones, one of the few purchasing decisions that men make.

So, in a nutshell, guys don't buy diapers, do buy cars and won't read anything unless there's a bikini-clad woman in it ;)

You're doing just fine. In life, sometimes you're bored, hungry or thirsty for an hour and there's nothing you can do but put up with it. The kids need to learn how to deal with being hungry for 5 minutes of their life, it won't kill them.

I think the business community of Cape Cod must have done something collectively to anger the gods. 2009 started off with the economy in the pits. Then, rain on Memorial Day weekend. Then, rain throughout June. The, widely reported shark sightings in August. Now, in order to ensure that no one can make up for lost business over Columbus Day, we have widely reported bridge work going on which will surely drive away people from coming here.

HELP WANTED: $25/hr. 3 am - 7 am. How many applicants would I get? Lots.

Yes, there is no beer stare for folded laundry, but I do like to gaze at my kitchen after I've made it immaculate (this does not happen often). I also like to stare at rooms and closets that I've cleaned out and organized and will make a point of stopping in to take a 5th or 6th look at them on my way to somewhere else in the house. I find that men are slow at folding laundry--they take too long to spot the sock matches and just don't fold shirts very quickly. I once tried to put up a shelf in our bathroom and made about 18 holes in the wall.

my kids who are 8 and 11 (yours will be there before you know it)--i haven't dealt with any urine or feces issues in about 4 years.

i only gagged once when dealing with diapers and that was when i was pregnant. never came close to vomiting no matter how bad the mess was.

suhsuh: he's a psychopath. Psychopaths are more charming, polite and "nice" than we non-psychopaths. That's how they are able to lure their victims.

One day I hope to live in a society in which people who repeatedly physically and sexually harm women and children are incarcerated as long as murderers are.

If aliens who were able and liked to rape grown men were suddenly unleashed on this earth, do you think they would be on out parole, or do you think they would be frying in the electric chair?

I'm enjoying this blog. Your kids are at a high-maintenance age but in 4 years they will be much less work and much more fun. I think what you're doing is very hard considering your wife is away so much.

It's difficult to be alone with bodily fluid-spewing small children for days on end.

Back in my playgroup days, the few dads who were the primary caregivers were much less neurotic and worried about everything than the moms. They took good care of their kids but they didn't apply hand sanitizer to the kids 15 times an hour and ruin over to the kid in 2.5 seconds every time the kid fell on his heavily diapered bottom.

Their kids weren't tied to their mother's apron strings, so to speak, because dads don't have apron strings. Their kids were way less whiny and demanding because the dads didn't cave in and crumble like the moms did (not me though).

Great story, Bethany. People should understand that meat doesn't start out in styrofoam and shrinkwrap.

Sounds like you'll have some dee-lish chicken dinners soon from hormone and antibiotic-free birds who got to walk around outside and live a chicken life instead of being one of a million Perdue birds crammed in a building.

He's beautiful, congratulations.

1. People who block the aisles in the supermarket with their carts while they ponder the varieties of ketchup--I usually just gently push their carts aside instead of waiting for them to notice me.

2. People who pull out into your lane waiting for the traffic in the other direction to clear, thereby blocking an entire lane.

3. Old retired people who can shop any time who shop on Saturdays making it even more unbearable.

4.People with multiple disgusting piercings whose faces look like tackle boxes. It makes me sick to my stomach.

5. Hairy fat men wearing tank tops.

Check out the "Pet Passings" section of the site (near the top) and give us an obit, sorry for your loss. I love border collies.

How is a reporter supposed to report fairly when the parties involved refuse to speak to him/her? Our reporters make every effort to give people a chance to make a statement, but if they refuse to make any statement, all we can do is say they refused to talk to us.

I personally don't have a problem with the director making 94K, there's a lot of money and staff and homeless he has to deal with and you need to pay well to get someone good.

I do have a problem with his lack of response to a reporter's questions. What's up with that?

“The state pays per shelter per day a rate of about $130 to $150 per family.”
Erm, why? That's what a room at a pretty nice hotel with a pool,maid service, and free breakfast costs on Cape Cod, even in August. Not a homeless shelter.

More digging needed and welcome. Strange they won't return the reporter's calls.

Buzz, LOL. Barbara Kingsolver's book, Animal Vegetable Miracle sheds a lot of light on this topic, not so much about animal rights but about sustainable, healthy agriculture which indeed includes raising animals for milk, eggs, and meat.

The point of the book is that if people started buying more locally produced food from small farms, although it may cost a little more, the quality of the produce and animal products is far superior and far healthier than Frank Purdue. In general, these animals on small farms are raised in much more humane conditions.

In general, Americans eat way too much meat anyway. But this book is a nice balance against extremism like PETA embraces. It says, yes, humans can and probably should consume some animal proteins regularly. But we should think about where they come from and try to get better-tasting meat produced locally, instead of the dirt-cheap, mass-produced flavorless chicken breasts you buy at BJ's.

Reminds me of the part in Spinal Tap when Nigel accidentally scribbles that he wants the Stonehenge set piece to be 12" instead of 12' tall. And the set pieces were used on stage and were "in danger of being trod on by a dwarf."

And the band confronts the manager Ian who said he simply delivered the piece per Nigel's instructions, and David says "Well, you're not as confused as Nigel, are you? It isn't your job to be as confused as Nigel."

Actually Guidestar does not charge to look at 990's. They hit you up at many points along the sign up process and also the searching process to upgrade to see more, but IMO the upgrade isn't worth it, I've tried it.

Great ideas all, Christy, The size of the public sector has to be contained or it becomes unstoppable and we'll end up like California or France, where so many people work in the public sector that any measures to contain it get voted down. Even the Governator can't stop it.

Maybe they don't like the salt air, you just can't trust off-Cape hens, as the old Cape Codders say. I say start cutting up carrots for stew.

Not that she hasn't heard this a thousand times before, but her husband is a lucky man. I hope mine doesn't read this--he'll encourage me to take up this practice.

I agree, Bruce. At the very least, BNI weeds out the many species of weeds which proliferate on the Cape and elsewhere--the dilettantes, the dabblers, the big talkers, the lazy. Anyone who shows up at 7:30 in the morning week in and week out, as BNI members are required to do, has a good work ethic. Plus, prospective members are screened and must have references.

The Trotting Park Road house, according to neighbors, is empty. For the past few months it was occupied by Jeannine's mom, Carol Hanson, who had a phone number at that address but doesn't any more.

This house has beautiful landscaping. The stone with Windle etched in, along with Jeffrey the lawn jockey is still there.

One thing's for sure, just because the Feds have ordered it to be forfeited doesn't mean it's up for auction next month. The Florida and Duxbury houses were "seized" months ago and nothing has happened.

Falmouth: pretend you're a business that has to show a profit, and figure out how to get more done with less.

I rarely indulge in "if women ran the world..." speculation, but let me tell you, if grown straight men, and not women and children, were the ones getting raped, I would bet all my wordly goods that the sentence for a first time offender would be life in prison, period.

smahkcep--I fail to see what Christy's Greek heritage has to do with the price of tea in china, or the price of gas on Cape Cod. The basic laws of supply and demand apply to gas on Cape Cod as well as to Frosted Flakes in Peoria.

Somehow the guy who complains about getting gouged is the one who is too lazy to drive over the bridge.

There is no conspiracy, "gouging" or anything of the sort going on here. There is no top-secret Alliance to Gouge Cape Cod Gas Customers. If Christy and Cumbies et. al. got together in their mythical secret room in Christy's basement and decided to charge us $10/gallon, we'd all find the time in our busy days to drive over the bridge to get gas and then they'd be out of business.

Instead what happens is, a difference of about 30 cents per gallon, which for a 15 gallon tank is less than $5, seems to be the point at which people are content to sit on their behinds and complain about price gouging rather than just drive over the bridge. It's also the price of a gallon of gas.

bipr: here's the video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXAVoSEQthw

plus it's now linked in the above story.

Thanks Opinionator, very sweet of you to say that.

I have just been informed that Channel 5 is in hi-def. Too bad, I would have preferred soft focus.

snuffy--I realize that Cape Wide News was particularly popular with the public safety community (police and fire personnel)and it continues to be a showcase for the great work they do.

As stated earlier, CapeCodToday has a large audience and of course is willing to publish any information or photos given to us by local police and fire departments. We've received information from several local police and fire departments and are working with the others to get more coverage. We have an unlimited capacity to publish as much information as provided; but what we do not have is an unlimited budget to pay freelance photographers for coverage.

So far, it appears other local media outlets have limited budgets as well-- after all, we're all businesses and get no grants of any kind from public tax dollars or other entities to fund this kind of coverage of exclusively police and fire news.

The local police and fire departments want to publicize their work and are increasingly providing the information and photos to us. We're thrilled to provide the audience.

twincamdeuce: I'm the president of the company (eCape) which runs this site which is only one of over 200 blogs which are all available in one place at http://CapeCodTODAY.com. Thanks for taking the time to share your thoughts.

We recently changed the way we are covering police and fire news in order to cut back on expenses. You may be confusing the police and fire news as all the news on this site. In fact, we now have more original news stories than ever before, on a variety of topics of interest to many more groups of Cape Codders.

The plain fact is that eCape is a small (we're talking 7 employees) family-owned company. With gas prices, etc., the way they are, the amount of money we were spending per year in paying our great freelance photographers, was an amount unsustainable for a business the size of ours, really and truly. We're talking about the price of a car much nicer than mine, every year, no joke.

The Cape Cod Times is an $11+ million a year company. They have limited space to print the photos we used to run. And the police and fire personnel themselves are welcome to send in any photos they want and we will run them all, every one of them.

Well, the hospital is in a difficult position. They needed to expand to serve an increasing population. They couldn't expand sideways, so the only option is to build upwards. The recommendation by some consulting committee recently that an exit 6 1/2 is unnecessary is another blow to the hospital's plans to completely relocate and move closer to the highway.

This isn't another big-box store seeking to go in and turn a profit, it's a hospital. Community leaders of Cape Cod, put your heads together and find some acreage for this hospital --just fly over Cape Cod, there's plenty of it-- and get the damn thing built.

Stop with your endless environmental impact studies and other roadblocks, just build it like the rest of America seems to have figured out how to do. Build it twice as big as you think we need, because we will need it eventually.

'crant, I saw the Daily Show last night and it was hilarious showing the flip flops of Karl Rove and other GOP pols on the "inexeperience" of Palin versus Obama.

The VP debates--Biden versus Palin--now that should be on pay-per-view and will be good entertainment.

Nice catch-up on one of my favorite writers. That he chooses to live here, of all the places in the world, is a real complement to Cape Cod.

LOL!!

The Marshside in Dennis. The incomparable Nonnie's Country Kitchen in Orleans. Whatever the place is across the street from the Mobil Station on Route 6A in Brewster. Larry's PX in Chatham. They're all great. I love to eat breakfast out but don't do it too often, because when I go out to breakfast, I'm going to order the works, not just a fruit plate.

As if Iraq / the Middle East isn't enough of a quagmire now and has been for decades, now we have Russia rearing its ugly head again, and of course both messes are rooted in oil. Is Obama up to the task of dealing with all this? Not many people are.

Nice conversation starter, Don. I agree with everyone who has commented to some degree. Cape Cod, and New England and the Northeast in general, is indeed an expensive place to live, compared to many parts of the country.

Cape Cod's lack of sprawling developments, and lack of many other things which achieve an economy of scale, are one of the many things that make this peninsula a beautiful and desirable place to live, hence driving up real estate prices.

The free market dictates that if you have the education or job skills no higher than the lowest common denominator which can be found anywhere, then you don't get to live comfortably in one of the most desirable real estate areas of the USA.

I agree that taxes could be lower and that town and state government should quit paying themselves the bloated pensions and bennies which we in the private sector don't enjoy by mandate.

"Losing your house" is just a transition from being a homeowner to a renter, it's not the same as homelessness.

Buzz--actually, PSD is not a paid advertiser on this site. They have a free link in our links directory. This reviewer, I think, harbors somewhat irrational prejudices about the square footage of houses.

PSD has clients who want large houses. There's nothing wrong with a person who can afford it building a large house. If it's built using the latest energy -efficient technologies, it's certainly no worse for the environment than the 1000's of overloaded septic systems all over the Cape.

I personally wouldn't want a 6000+ sf house, but I'd take a 3500 sf house fully loaded with every gizmo known to mankind -- which would probably make my carbon footprint larger than that of a crusty old miser living in Eastham in a 600 sf cottage and freezing through the winter with a wood stove.

No offense intended toward Eastham, it's one of my favorite towns.

snowleopard: I did not say "schwartze" as a racial slur against Obama from me personally. I never use this word personally in a serious way; it is meant here as a joke, albeit tasteless one. I meant it on several levels:

One, it's a Yiddish word which like most Yiddish words has its roots in German and the the word for black in German is schwartz

Two, I heard this word all the time when i lived in Boston used by many people, not just Jews. It's not nearly the same as the n-word. It's like someone using the word "negro" today. It's not used to directly insult a black person; it's more of a whispered comment about a particular neighborhood, etc. It definitely is derogatory, though.

Three, I don't know if Germans use it in the same way.

Four, most people on Cape Cod would not even get what schwartze meant

Five, interestingly, I was friends with Jewish families when I grew up in the south and thought that schwartze was the Yiddish word for "maid" until I moved to Boston. Now *that's* racist.

Scary thing #1: More than 100 Germans in one place at the same time.

Scary thing #2: More than 100 Germans in one place at the same time cheering a schwartze.

I think Obama lost the Jewish vote with this move.

Rich, thanks for commenting. Your son was smart to stay on his board. clamshelli, amen.

Well, Solon I have learned a lot from reading these comments and I hope you have too. See how many alternatives there are to the fuddy-duddy approach of passively paying your bill, watching and waiting for some stock quotes to float by, waiting for some news to float by, all the while driving yourself insane listening to commercials. This is how people watched TV in the 50's thru the 70's.

Now, replace any or all of your Comcast watching with the following activities:

-Getting up-to-date information from the Internet

-recording your regular shows using TiVo and skipping the commercials

-Renting DVD's of past shows and series from video stores, libraries, and Netflix. Ditto for movies--bleep the pay Comcast on Demand--it sucks

Comcast is never going to lower its rates no matter how much we gripe. If you're so hooked on the conventional tube that you have 6 TV's and are unwilling to change your viewing habits, then your addiction is costing you an extra $18/mo. Not bad. $216/yr, and if you live another 40 years, that's $8640 total. Not a lot of money really.

No psycho analysis intended--why would you get news, weather, and stock quotes from TV when you can go online and get all the same information, plus more, when you want, without annoying commercials--way less time-consuming, without the relentless interruptions of idiotic commercials.

Maybe you just like looking at the FOX news bimbos--and who can blame you?

Comcast is simply doing what any company with a government-sanctioned monopoly would do--gouging the customers. I agree with you--the government should stay out of this business and allow competition. There is a lot I don't like about Comcast--that's why I use the Internet more than I watch TV.

The problem is that you have 6 TV's. That's not normal;) That may or may not mean that you are watching TV for the news, which is sooo 20th century. Which means you may or may not be watching commercials, again sooo 20th century.

The not-so-new way to watch TV is to TiVo or use Windows Media Center to record the shows you want, and then that way you can watch shows on any computer and you can fast-forward through any commercials. We have one digital cable box which runs through one computer and we can watch shows on our one TV or two computers.

Of course, if you're a Red Sox addict and can't miss a pitch, and need to have TV's in multiple rooms, then $18/mo. is a small price to pay for an addiction.

I think this a great step ahead for Massachusetts. It's rational, civilized, and great for business.

Here's my analysis of the numbers: $111 mill. divided by $2000 per wedding = 55,500 weddings. Many people spend significantly more than that. Some couples will just come here and make a long weekend of it and spend $500.

It will definitely boost off-season visitors. I see a bump in tourism for two years and then a fizzle. My company owns gayweddingsoncapecod.com and we are doing a big marketing push. The better we market, the more couples will get married here on Cape Cod.

Cape Cod is not a far drive for many thousands of gay couples, and lest we "breeders" forget, for nearly every miserably married straight couple, there is a gay couple who can't wait to jump into legally wedded bliss. Bring it on!

Nice of you guys to save the bees, we all need bees.

Gotta check ya there, Matt. While everything you say about the South is basically true, it's a bit smug to say, "Where would you rather live?" I'm from the south and have been visiting Georgia for three days.

If you are an obese, gun-toting divorced parent of illegitimate children, the south is a dandy place to live. If you're from the north and don't like obese, gun-toting, divorced people, than your Yankee dollars will buy you a fine house in a neighborhood where you won't have to see such people, so what's the problem?

People from the south don't care what northerners think any more than vice versa.

I can't name any southerners who would trade their fried chicken and gravy for northern winters, although I can name a few northerners who would trade in their snow shovels for a shotgun;)

Love the cicada. Next year I'm going to the Cotuit parade--there is a lot more creativity than in the others towns' parades. It's practically the Burning Man of Cape Cod.

What color are they in Provincetown?

Right on, vic.

This is very touching, Greg, and you look a lot like her.

Many women have much bigger problems than not being allowed to hit a little white ball around with a bunch of fat guys in loud pants.

Problems like: my child is sick, I hope I'm not pregnant again, I don't have enough money for groceries, my husband beats me. Those sorts of things.

If Ms. Joyce wants to do something for women, is she willing to donate 100% of the legal settlement to the Independence House?

I read the article in the CCV about O'Keefe over the weekend. Very well researched. IMHO, the most egregious thing the article brought to light is that the DNA samples extracted from people who happened to be guilty of being a male living in Truro were never destroyed by the DNA lab, as promised.

This kind of invasive violation of civil rights should never have been conducted in the first place --it had a very small chance of finding the killer, who could have been from anywhere--and on top of it, they promised the guys who had their cheeks swabbed while picking up their mail at the post office that their samples would be destroyed after the investigation, and they weren't.

I applaud the Voice for this piece. IMO, anyone whose paycheck comes from taxpayer's dollars should be subject to intense scrutiny 24/7.

I'm glad the Cape Cod Commission was notified that a property owner intended to exert her rights and build a new house on her property which conforms with zoning laws ;)

It's best to nip this kind of outrageous and egregious behavior in the bud. If you don't, then property owners all over Cape Cod will get the idea that it's okay to just do what they want with their property as long as they conform to zoning laws, and that would lead to anarchy and environmental havoc the likes of which has never been seen ;)

This kind of ridiculous bureaucratic roadblock is more akin to what you would find in a third-world country where all officials are on the take, than in the USA. The real estate market already has enough trouble right now without scaring buyers away with this kind of nonsense.

I have a fair number of mom friends who "don't drink coffee" as if it's against their religion or something. These are the same gals who are always complaining that they are tired and can't stay awake past 9 pm.

Suck it up and suck it (coffee) down, ladies. Mother Nature makes the coffee bean, man makes the ships to bring it to our northern climes, and you have the audacity to refuse it?

The high housing costs and lack of jobs here doesn't seem to deter the thousands of Eastern Europeans and Jamaicans who fly thousands of miles to work 3 jobs apiece here.

Methinks these 4 guys are simply what the Brits call "bone-idle"; i.e., they are work-averse and you can find guys like them everywhere in the world.

What enables them to live like this is Mommy and Daddy (probably just Mommy) allowing them a free place to live past the age of 18. And if they're under 18, why are they allowed out at midnight on a school night?

Welcome aboard, Jeff. Between Laconia and P'town, you should be able to write a book after a few more years.

jswindle--We've been waiting for you to chime in--is this Jeff or Jeannine? LOL

I have just had an eyewitness (sounds so serious) in Florida email me that the pictures of the front of the house don't do it justice; that tons of landscaping and trees have been added since those pics were taken. (Many thanks still to the source who sent me those pics.)

Still nothing in either of the local dailies in Florida about this. I guess people who allegedly embezzle $12 million are a dime a dozen in Florida?

cape5mom, you're trying to understand Jeffrey's alleged crimes as if he were a rational person. But if he is guilty of these crimes, it is clear that he is not a rational person. What rational person buys 7 cars and 6 boats and 4 houses with allegedly stolen money?

In Saudi Arabia, Jeffrey would've been minus both hands before he ever worked for Cambium.

Many "white collar" guys are in prison for insider trading or things that are somewhat vaguely defined and somewhat "victimless" and difficult to get caught at. They tried to be smart, but they guessed wrong and got caught.

There was nothing vague or victimless about Jeffrey's alleged crime, and it is very easy to get caught at, especially to the tune of millions. The fact is, there was money wired directly from a Cambium subsidiary to boat vendors for boats which Jeffrey then took possession of. The boats weren't for you or me, they were for him. So either God, Santa Claus, or someone else wired the money. Let's leave out God--he would be mad at Jeffrey for his supposed shenanigans at the church. That leaves Santa Claus or someone else.

I think geo-caching, like letterboxing, is completely safe for the environment. What difference could a few small plastic boxes buried in the woods possible make in the face of global warming, cruise ships dumping kaka in the oceans, you name it?

Isee, I must agree with you. 7 cars? 6 boats? 4 houses? All the boats and cars in the world can't replace the most precious commodity in the world, your children, and getting to see them grow up. So we are all as rich as kings compared to Jeffrey right now, because we have our freedom. He had it all and threw it away.

Mav--I must dispel the myth that Jeannine's dad "owns half of Harwich", which is one of the many untrue rumors which circulated about the Windles, as people attempted to explain their wealth.

I have searched the Town of Harwich assessor's database under Jeannine's maiden name and come up with very little. I have heard from sources which say that her parents actually had financial trouble; hence, Jeffrey building out a compound in Florida with one house for Jeff & Jeannine and one for her parents.

In addition, owning "half of Harwich" doesn't mean you're rich, it just means you own a lot of property. I know people who are land-rich--they do not have lawn jockeys or angels on their front door.

Wow, some moms have been drinking and typing I think. I think Jeannine chose not to ask any questions. I would have some pretty hard questions after my husband bought his 4th or 5th boat, but that's just me.

All these material possessions couldn't possibly make up for the fact that your husband is in jail, will probably be in jail for years, and that the father of your children is in jail. If Jeffrey is convicted and serves the 7 years he is supposed to get, his daughter will be graduated from high school by the time he gets out. A mother needs to choose a good father for her kids, and make sure he stays good. And leave him if he turns bad. For the rest of their lives, the kids will carry the knowledge that their father was a criminal and will come to the conclusion, in time, that their mother chose not to ask serious questions.

Hey Rockhopper--if you email us a pic of yourself in that lemon yellow suit, we'll put it in this blog posting.

Here at CapeCodToday, we have nothing but the highest standards of photojournalism ;)

I would also like to see any pictures of you and your dad in the sherbet suits; just take digital pics of the photos and email them to me at julie@ecape.com

In the likely event that Jeffrey goes to prison, I would, if I were Jeannine, change my name and the kids' names back to my maiden name and relocate to another state, such as Florida. Oh, and get a job. And try to make ends meet as a single working mom. Ouch. And try to find another guy to marry me who will take on two kids , one approaching obnoxious adolescence, who are not his and whose dad is in federal prison.

Buzz--I have no connection to the Windles, just an interest in the story.

ccgrl: Thanks for giving me the vanity plate letters. Although the house was restored fairly tastefully, at least as it appears from the outside (IMHO) certain things are a bit over the top, like the swoopy fence by the driveway.

The whole house presents somewhat similarly to a house very nearby, at the corner of Harbor Road and Route 28, which was built by some Big Dig guy (I'll look it up later).

Also, couldn't photograph this on a drive-by, but there is some sort of large wicker-y angel-y thing hanging on the Windle's front door facing the street.

Old Harwich Port money does not hang things on their front door except a wreath at Christmas, that's it.

Hey, back off on Mariah. She's so smart that she married her record producer (so she can get screwed in more ways than one.) Plus, he was almost twice her age, Italian, and controlling. But at least she divorced him.

Amen, Samantha. In your story I hear the pain of having a family member with a drug problem, I also hear the trauma of a young girl who had policemen breaking into her house in the middle of the night to arrest a 17-year-old for a non-violent crime. Sounds like the KGB raiding the home of an alleged dissident.

If you choose to, please answer this question: what were the drug charges against your brother when the police arrested him the first time, and what town did your family live in at the time?

I may very well be wrong, but I have not heard any of the three presidential hopefuls address the problem of drugs in this country in any serious way. It's a huge, huge problem.

Thanks, Rockhopper, for your comments re: the need for churches (and all non-profits) to audit early and often.

I ran a criminal background check on Jeffrey yesterday (for the state of MA) and he comes up clean. His tax crime is federal. If the church ran a check on him (doubtful), would they have spent the bucks for a nationwide check for all state crimes and federal crimes?

Forget the dinky church, what about the $100 million+/yr. company called Cambium Learning which hired a guy who was a landscaper to be their Budget Director? I'd love to see the resume he submitted for the job, if he submitted one.

Of course, Estonia, formerly part of the wildly successful Soviet Union, is still in its infancy when it comes to sensible taxation policy, if there is such a thing.

murr--LOL. I agree--7 years is a pittance. When he gets out, what are the chances he'll steal again? 100 out of 100.

I'm not saying there was anything necessarily anything shady going on with the fundraising; I think it's funny that her name is on this plaque at the school. It's not the school's fault.

What's not funny is the fact that this couple had kids and the fact that a venerable old church and a private company got ripped off.

Almost everything else about this whole case is interesting to me and I hope others find it so. My point is that Jeannine stayed married to a man whom she knew forged documents for the IRS and turned a blind eye when he later bought a $2 million house and five boats.

She didn't steal it, but she sure did spend it--how, I'll tell in subsequent posts.

Thanks for writing about the good work these people do. I am definitely going to check out the Hope Chest, it looks much better than a lot of thrift stores. I'm sure it will do well; it's in a great location.

Who has a great rack? Jeannine? Inquiring minds want to know.

I say just ask any woman because you can't play dumb with another woman. Men readily believe that a woman "just had no idea" about whatever. Women know better.

Mav, your chivalrous notion of the innocent bride unaware of her husband's doings are noble but naive.

Just ask any woman.

I was told that Jeannine Windle the caregiver for the developmentally disabled is in fact a different Jeannine from our Harwich Port Jeannine Windle. So I removed that reference. Sorry, other Jeannine--this case is heating up and you may want to think about changing your name.

Mav--in my investigating so far, I have heard a quite different impression of Jeannine than yours. Quite different.

Really--the wrong Jeannine? I stand corrected, then. Are you saying there is more than one Jeannine Windle, or that the Jeannine Windle I'm writing about is not Jeffrey's wife? Both could be possible; I just figured, what were the chances. I make no pretense that this is anything but armchair Googling and not even close to journalism. Please let me know where I'm wrong and I'll correct it.

In the CCTimes article, they mention his being sentenced to jail in 1997 for filing false tax returns. They have Nexis which I do not have access to. There actually isn't a heck of a lot else out there that I could find from the comfort of my desk.

Solon: with a name like yours, you have to be a good boy because you're so Googleable.

Really great post. Thanks so much.