We just received this from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett 
Staff Reports
Media Release
February 9, 2010
As many of you know, February 10, 2010 marks the one year anniversary of Haleigh Cummings’ disappearance from her home in Satsuma, Florida. Sheriff Hardy understands the public’s interest in this investigation, and everyone’s desire for the return of Haleigh to […]

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This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
February 10, 2009 was the last time anyone saw then 5-year-old Haleigh Cummings. She was taken from her father Ronald Cummings’ home in Hermit’s Cove near Satsuma where she and her younger brother were being watched by babysitter Misty Croslin.
Croslin claims she woke up in the middle of […]

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Peer Abuse at work continues to be an underappreciated issue in our nation as we continue to enable this problem in our companies and organizations. However, things “down under” seem to be taking a more serious look at this problem.
A recent court decision in Hawthorn, Australia ordered a company, Café Vamp, to pay $335,000 in […]

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This just in from TJ Hart -  Jan Barrett
News Talk 97.3 The Sky has been waiting all day for the “go” sign from the St. Johns County Jail to pick up the reacted audio of Donna Brock, one of five people who were arrested on drug trafficking charges on January 20, 2010 in Putnam and […]

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Jersey Shore? Fuhgeddaboudit. Jersey City is the gem of reality TV. Shore is MTV. Jersey City is FBI. Like, how real is that? Killer videos of pols talking trash and passing cash have been unspooling in federal court in Newark at the trial of Jersey City Deputy Mayor Leona Beldini. Beldini was busted last Summer in an […]

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Drugs have long been part of our culture, many if not all ancient civilizations used them in some way. Hallucinogenic mushrooms, Cacao leaves, the opium poppy, and many other variations. Their use though was usually linked to religious rituals rather than recreation. The use of narcotics is thousands of years old. Todays world is different, […]

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This just in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
February 10, 2009 was early morning when 5-year-old HaLeigh Cummings of Satsuma, FL was discovered missing from her home at Hermit’s Cove.
As we approach the one-year anniversary of her disappearance, not much more is really known as to how she vanished and who might have taken her […]

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The story carries the headline: France: Catholic Church Rejects Ban on Full-Face Veils
Except the “Catholic Church” did no such thing. The Bishop in charge of “interreligious dialogue” in France made a statement, but his opinion is not the opinion of the Catholic church.
“If we want Christian minorities in Muslim majority countries to enjoy […]

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This just in from TJ Hart - Jan Barret
BREAKING NEWS: New Audio from SJCO Jail Tommy Croslin
News Talk 97.3 the SKY Thursday received the recordings of 6 calls Misty Croslin recently made from the St. Johns Jail in St. Augustine, FL and the raw audio from Tommy Croslin Friday.
Tommy sounds tired and very upset at […]

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This just in from TJ Hart. We have not had time to analyze the data, but it certainly is revealing. Misty whines about not having any new socks, and why doesn’t either Padilla or Cobra bail her out? We will have a more in-depth article soon, but we promised to publish the information as soon […]

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There are toxic people in every environment – toxic family, toxic friends, toxic lovers and toxic coworkers.  If you don’t recognize and respond effectively to toxic, bullying coworkers they can make your life miserable, harass you, turn the rest of your team against you, scapegoat you and even get you fired.
For example, Jane is known […]

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This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
Nearly two weeks ago, undercover officers arrested five people in Putnam County for trafficking controlled prescription medications. Most notably among the five are Ronald Cummings, the father of missing 6-year-old Satsuma girl HaLeigh Cummings, and his ex-wife Misty Croslin.
Three others arrested in the sting are Misty’s brother Tommy […]

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When I came to the Philippines, I ripped my CD collection into MP3’s and brought most of my collection here on mp3 CD’s or on my hard drive. I had a fairly nice collection of “elevator music” (to use my son’s description), mainly because I worked in rural areas where it was easier to listen […]

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Even if Rifqa never goes back to live with her parents, she, as a Christian, needs to honor them. She needs to treat them with love and respect. That’s just a fact.

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President Obama, who has overlooked various pork barrel spending projects placed into unrelated bills by the Congress, is reported to have decided to freeze the budget to NASA to prove he can cut the Federal Budget.
To put it bluntly, this means there is no money for the proposed Moon landing under his watch.
“This represents a […]

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Back in the 1970’s, Jimmy Carter was unlucky. He seemed to have a tin ear and do nothing right, and so Teddy Kennedy decided to rescue the party and run against him. Americans who saw the huge increase in gasoline prices, a sour economy, inflation that ate their savings, and mortgage rates of 12 percent, […]

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It’s hard to decide how to start a review about this wonderful book. It is part memoir, chronicling the author’s journey through one of the worst nightmares a woman can face and part how-to: How to face the breast cancer from the first diagnosis, through finding the right doctor and the right treatment, to how […]

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I can’t begin to tell everyone how much it is hurting me right now to write this article but I feel this child deserves his name out here so that we all won’t forget him. If what I am reading tonight is true my heart is breaking.
I went to bed early tonight and as you […]

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You do not represent me, a low income widow with a racially diverse family. You do not represent my daughters, two of whom have had children out of wedlock while still in their teens. We love our babies and would never hurt them. Please don’t pretend to speak for all women.

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On October 17th, 20 year old Morgan Harrington had big plans on attending a Metallica Concert with some of her friends. With the help of her mother, she chose to wear a black Pantera T-shirt, a black mini-skirt, black tights and knee high black boots.She left about noon telling her mother goodbye by using their […]

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One of the neglected areas of my medical education was “ethnic” and “racial” aspects of medicine.
One example of this is lactose intolerance.Only IndoEuropeans (and one small tribe in Uganda) are able to digest milk without problems.In the modern world, this means a lot of folks diagnosed with “irritable bowel” syndrome were actually lactose intolerant; and […]

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Little 7 year old Aja Johnson has apparently been kidnapped after the police found her mother, 37 year old Tonya Hobbs dead in her mother’s RV in Geronimo, Oklahoma sometimes before 9 pm Sunday night.
Aja is believed to have been taken by the mother’s estranged husband, 46 yr. old Lester Hobbs. Lester Hobbs is also […]

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Caylee Anthony is the little girl that disappeared in mid June 2008 but wasn’t reported missing until 31 days later by her grandmother. Yes, her grandmother NOT by her own mother. Her mother claimed she had been doing her own private investigating trying to find her daughter during that time. Casey Anthony claimed she spent […]

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My last post focused on children, teenagers and adults facing moments of choice when they’re targets of or bystanders-witnesses to harassment, bullying and abuse.  People who repeatedly turn away from that call to step up usually develop terrible long-term consequences including increased stress, insecurity, discouragement and depression; increased blame, shame, guilt and negative self-talk; and […]

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I have recently reviewed Jay Rankin’s new book Under The Neon Sky. It is a wonderful peek beneath the skirts of what many call Sin City. I invited Jay to be part of a radio broadcast. I am not sure that he was quite ready for the ‘meal’ I had planned, the other guests […]

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This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
A continuance was sought and granted Monday in the Putnam County trial of a South Florida bondsman/private investigator who allegedly ran foul of the law while searching for a missing then-5-year-old Satsuma girl last spring.
William “Cobra” Staubs was to begin his trial January 25, 2010 on his […]

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An Oklahoma Amber Alert has been issued for an 8 year old child, Aja (which is pronounced Asia) Johnson. She was last seen in Geronimo Oklahoma which is about 15 miles south of Lawton.
The Comanche County Sheriff’s Office believes that Aja was abducted sometime before 9 pm on Sunday, January 24, 2010.
Aja has been described […]

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This in from TJ Hart - Jan Barrett
Not long after the arrests of Ronald Cummings–the father of missing 6-year-old Haleigh Cummings of Satsuma, FL, his ex-wife/babysitter Misty Croslin–the last person to see the child, and three others in a Putnam County drug sting, the interviews started rolling…again.
In an exclusive interview by phone from Ronald’s Flagler […]

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After reading Jay Rankin’s new memoir Under The Neon Sky I decided that it would be interesting to host a round table discussion on the subject of Sex and Drugs in the Las Vegas area. My main question was does Vegas deserve the reputation that it has? Is it any worse than any other […]

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What does one do with a country like Haiti, where years of occupation, corruption, and many different types of aid from outside hasn’t worked?
Lots of “it’s your fault” type stuff all over the internet: a lot of it uses the left wing’s meme of “Blame America” (and the right shouts back “Blame France”). Not mentioned, […]

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