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A former attorney to President George W. Bush was arrested Wednesday at his Connecticut home and accused of trying to kill his wife, according to the New Canaan Police Department. Police said they were responding to a “panic alarm activation” at the home of John Farren, 57, when they were redirected to another house nearby. A resident there had placed a 911 call saying an injured woman was at her home after being “involved in a domestic dispute with her husband” at the couple’s residence. Police said they found the woman “bleeding about her head, face and body.” Farren was arrested at the couple’s home a short time later, police said. His lawyer had no comment when contacted Thursday by CNN. Farren was “charged with Criminal Attempt at Murder and Strangulation 1st degree,” according to a police statement. He was arraigned Thursday in Norwalk Superior Court and is being held on a $2 million bond. Sgt. Carol Ogrinc, a New Canaan Police spokeswoman, confirmed that the 43-year-old woman w...

from WONKETTE: Former Republican Missouri House Speaker Beats Up, Chokes Mistress During Sex In an incident in which the perpetrator should have considered that he would become a household name on Wonkette before going through with it, former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton is facing assault charges for allegedly beating the shit out of his mistress while having sex. His ladyfriend had not uttered the “safe word,” probably because Jetton was beating her unconscious. The Scott County court clerk confirms a felony complaint has been filed against former Missouri House Speaker Rod Jetton for an incident that allegedly took place Nov. 15 in Sikeston, Mo. [...] The complaint alleges Jetton “recklessly caused serious physical injury to ——- by hitting her on the head, and choking her resulting in unconsciousness and the loss of the function of part of her body.” UPDATE, 3:50: The affidavit attached to the probably cause statement alleges Jetton went to the home of the victim No...

A new study in Qatar shows that 42% of women support the use of violence against them, prompting calls for an education campaign in the Gulf emirate with the popular tribal saying that "A sister is one hair in her brother's beard." The study conducted by the Supreme Council for Family Affairs in Qatar revealed that 41.97% of Qatari women believe they deserve the physical abuse at the hands of their male relatives. "Many of these girls have suffered rape and sexual harassment, but violence also includes beating and psychological abuse," said Kulthum Al Ghanem, Professor of Social Sciences at Qatar University and author of the study. The study revealed that husbands rank first in the list of abusers, followed by brothers and fathers. Beating and physical assault is the most prevalent form of domestic violence (65%), followed by insults and name calling. The study also registered other forms of abuse, such as deprivation of basic rights, rape, forced pregnancy, div...

I know, unfortunately, what brainwashing, manipulation & coercion can do. You do things that are well outside your normal and even acceptable range. Your emotions and psyche are played with. Are these Islamic Women brainwashed by their culture? Into saying O.K. to the extermination of their own children? I don't know and I can't imagine it for myself. But is it possible that these coercive men literally abuse and beat these women into submission and agreement with the bloody compact of honor killing? It's a Stockholm Syndrome that turns my stomach... but I would have to make an educated assessment that yes - it is possible. However, nothing and no one would ever convince me that makes it RIGHT. MURDEROUS MOTHERS: THE HIDDEN FEMALE FACE OF HONOR KILLING by Phyllis Chesler Texas-born Patricia ("Tissie) Said, formerly of the Owens family, is the mother who lured her two teenage daughters, Sarah and Amina, to their deaths at the hands of their own father this past...

UN-CIVILIZATION What the he** is going on these days? I've heard about three shootings in the U.S. this week alone? Is that right? I was thinking a lot today about a couple other stories in the news I'd heard about in relation to the almost complete destruction of appropriate behavior in our society. I fear for my kids because it seems the world at large has become a Lord of the Flies sort of tribal system where no one is safe. People are beaten for the most inocuous or hateful reasons, in broad daylight, in the U.S.A. I wait to see someone walking through my neighborhood with an assault rifle looking like Michael Douglas in FALLING DOWN. I'm just disgusted. Seems we've become the society of: I never apologize I am never wrong Someone else is always to blame They did it too I don't like your: hair, skin color, religion, shoes, coat, purse, smell, eyes... (pick one or add your own here!) I am a depressed loser so I will shoot up a: shopping mall, college campus,...