The Median Sib

I’ve been amused the past couple days to see a comment on one of my Mary Winkler posts from someone who is either an adolescent posing as a married male, or a married male stuck at an adolescent mental age.  Later I looked at my site meter and followed the link to the referring website and found the funniest - and most pitiful - website.  I won’t give the URL here because I don’t want to give them any traffic.  The website is a “hate” website, and the object of their hate is American women. 

This is their view of the American woman.  They discuss my website as an example of evil feminism. . .  Which is funny to anyone who knows me.  They dislike me because I wrote that there was a possibility that Matthew Winkler might have had an overbearing “man is the boss and the woman had better submit” attitude - given his COC affiliation and knowing that church’s beliefs.  Just speculation, but apparently what a typical feminist nazi would write.  So they’ve posted my blog address for their readers to see how evil I am…and I’ve had a few hits from there today. 

The posts and comments I read are like tantrums.  Supposedly grown married men blaming American women for all their troubles - and complaining about how badly married men are always treated.  Reading a few posts, you’d think that American women were the cause of all the ills in the world.  The men who post belly-ache endlessly about what terrible and useless wives American women are.  It’s the funniest and most pathetic and transparent example of projection I’ve seen in a long time.  Maybe not projection - but a lack of taking responsibility for their own actions and lives.  It’s sad to see people use a negative experience with one person (usually their ex-wives) to label and denigrate an entire group of women.  Can you imagine being married to one of them? 

Apparently they go to other countries to find properly submissive wives.  These are men who have such overwhelming neuroses and insecurities that they’re incapable of maintaining healthy relationships with women, and their only perceived option (since they can’t accept responsibility or any blame for their failures themselves since that might mean they’re not masculine enough) is to blame American women. Yes, that’s it.  They were perfect in their marriages.  It was just those damn overbearing, greedy, immoral, feminist American women who were impossible to please.

And while it is sad, it is also funny to read the adolescent nature of their site.  My sister and I were talking about it earlier, and I’ve been chuckling about it all day.

I just paid $40 for a locksmith to spend five minutes repairing my front door lock.  As soon as he looked at the lock, he turned to his assistant and said, “Look at that!  It still has the plastic thing in it.”  The builder had left a plastic space-holder in the lock rather than putting a screw in it.  No screw - No wonder the lock was wobbly and turned in circles.

So that $40 added to the almost $400 I paid to the plumber last week to repair two leaks in the crawlspace that were most likely there since the house was built less than two years ago, along with $74 for the official termite inspection I had to do.  And don’t forget the AC repair.  This move is getting more and more expensive.

Everything (except the termite inspection) are things that the builder SHOULD have handled.  If you live in Tennessee - never buy a home from the Jones Company in Tennessee.  I don’t know if they’re in other states or not.  I’ve owned several homes and have had to deal with home builders and repair folks, and I’ve never seen any worse than them.  The absolute worst home builders I’ve ever dealt with - bad workmanship and complete failures in dealing with customers.  Plus, the guy who handled my initial walk-through when I bought the house and also handled my one-year punch list flat out lied to me - both times.  Apparently it’s a pattern with him, and he does it very convincingly.  They have so many people trying to buy their homes that they don’t care about the quality of their work or the satisfaction of their customers.

My only consolation at this point is that what goes around comes around.  It will eventually come back to bite them in the butt . . . I hope. 

The latest news about Mary Winkler - admitted killer of her husband, Matthew Winkler.  

This is from THE TENNESSEAN.

By TONYA SMITH-KING The Jackson Sun, SELMER, Tenn. — The minister’s wife accused of killing her husband shot him in the back as he lay in bed the morning after the couple argued about financial woes stemming from a check-kiting scheme, according to testimony at a bail hearing Friday.A Tennessee Bureau of Investigation agent read from a statement authorities said Mary Carol Winkler gave TBI agents in Orange Beach, Ala., shortly after her arrest. “I’d gotten a call from the bank, and we were having troubles, mostly my fault. Bad bookkeeping,” Mary Winkler’s statement said. “He was upset with me about that. I was upset at him because he had really been on me lately, criticizing me for things, the way I walk, the way I eat, everything.“It was just building up to this point. I was just tired of it. I guess I just got to a point and snapped.”Mary Winkler appeared Friday before McNairy County Circuit Judge Weber McCraw and asked for bail; the hearing lasted almost three hours.Mary Winkler’s attorney, Steven Farese Sr., said he expects McCraw to make a decision on the bail request by some time next week.Winkler, 32, is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Matthew Winkler, pastor at Selmer’s Fourth Street Church of Christ. Her trial is set for Oct. 30.It is not clear whether prosecutors plan to seek the death penalty. They have until 30 days before the trial to decide.Church members found Matthew Winkler’s body March 22 in the bedroom at the parsonage after the Winklers failed to show up for an evening church service. A nationwide Amber Alert was issued for Mary Winkler and the couple’s three young girls. They were located the next day in Orange Beach.TBI Special Agent Brent Booth read Mary Winkler’s statement Friday, revealing chilling details about the shooting.

Winkler said in the statement that there had been increasing problems in the last year and a half of the couple’s 7-year marriage. The alarm clock went off at about 6 a.m. or 6:30 a.m. the morning of the shooting, the statement said.

Mary Winkler said she got up, and, while her husband was still in bed, she went to the closet and removed his 12-gauge shotgun from its case.

“I don’t remember going to the closet or getting the gun,” the statement said. “The next thing I remember was hearing a loud boom. I remember thinking it wasn’t as loud as I thought it would be.

“I heard the boom and he rolled out of the bed onto the floor, and I saw some blood on the floor and some bleeding around his mouth.

“I went over and wiped his mouth off with a sheet. I told him I was sorry and that I loved him, and I went and ran. I do remember me holding the shotgun, hearing the boom and then a smell.

“He asked me, ‘Why?’ I just said I was sorry. I was scared, sad and wanted to get out of the house.”

The statement went on to say Mary Winkler fled with the couple’s three girls in the family’s van.

She headed to Orange Beach because she wanted to take the girls to the beach to play with them as long as she could, the statement said.

“I planned on coming (back) when we were through,” the statement said. “I knew we would be caught … I didn’t tell the girls the truth that I had shot daddy. I said he was in the hospital, just anything to make up him not being with us. I eventually got stopped and arrested by the police.”

Booth revealed during his testimony that Mary Winkler had multiple bank accounts and that some checks going through those accounts were unusual.

Booth said Mary Winkler had “deposited into accounts in Canada, Nigeria … totaling $17,500.”

Checks had been deposited in Regions Bank in Selmer and First State Bank in Henderson, Booth said. The account in Henderson had been set up in her name only, he said.

Assistant District Attorney Walter Freeland asked Booth if he was familiar with the term, “check kiting,” and Booth said he was.

“Where a check is written on one bank, deposited into another account at another bank and then withdrawing funds from the bank where the check was deposited before it cleared the bank it was written on,” Booth said.

“Did you observe any such irregularities in your investigation in the bank records of Mary Winkler?” Freeland said.

“Yes,” Booth said.

“She was writing checks on the bank, First State Bank in Henderson, Tennessee, depositing those checks into Regions Bank in Selmer, Tennessee, and then withdrawing funds through the ATM on Regions Bank in Selmer, Tennessee, and also First South Bank in Selmer, Tennessee.”

The bank discovered what was going on and phoned Mary Winkler about it the day before her husband was shot.

Defense attorneys said Mary Winkler had been the victim of a Nigerian check scam.

Defense attorneys presented witnesses who testified they believed Winkler would obey any rules she was given if she was released on bond.

Kathy Thomsen of McMinnville testified Mary Winkler would stay with her family and work at a dry cleaner, where a job has been secured for her.

She fell for the Nigerian check scam?! That’s the one, isn’t it, where you get an email telling you that some rich guy died and left millions of dollars — and that all you have to do is send the writer of the email a few thousand dollars and you’ll get part of the millions. Is there REALLY anyone who would fall for such idiocy?

I have to take back most of what I’ve written before about Mary Winkler. I’ve lost my sympathy for her. The woman is not only dishonest in the check-kiting thing, but she’s apparently stupid, too.

A little levity amidst all the serious stuff going on.

Warning:  Consider yourself warned - Female problems post ahead! 

I wrote last week about going to the dentist and being on antibiotics - and how, for me,  antibiotics always lead to a yeast infection.

Well, of course, my body followed the usual protocol and so I went to the pharmacy and bought a one-dose “insert” (their terminology - not mine).  As I opened the package to extract the syringe with the medication, I noticed the warning in large print:  DO NOT TAKE BY MOUTH.

I won’t go into the mental image that evoked - but I’m still giggling about it.