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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...

US suicide rate rises as recession continues New alarming statistics suggest that the number of suicides in the US has increased with the effects of the recession. The latest surveys show the number of Americans killing themselves because of issues related with the economy may be climbing in the recessionary year of 2008 compared with that of 2007. “Suicide among families for financial breakdown is of great importance and certainly preventable. However, it leaves incurable scars in families with such financial situation,” an American psychologist and Press TV contributor Mala Coleman King says. “The growing rate of suicide is rising as recession continues. There were suicides before the recession. The new financial situation added to intensity,” King added. Suicide in the workplace and the nation's military has also shown a steady rise. Calls to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, a government-funded number linked to a network of crisis centers, are on pace to reach about 630...

By Gene Messick On 11 December I wrote an Article for OEN about this: Opportunities to deal with sociopaths in American politics Since then, I've been collecting examples to prove my point. Just recently I discovered one of the most egregious examples to date, described in a recent Mother Jones blog by Jonathan Stine in which he wrote this: " Alberto Gonzales: Pathetic? Deluded? Crazy? Short fiction writer Alberto Gonzales is confused, asking in a recent interview, " What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" If Gonzales is trying this unctuous nonsense in an attempt at image- rehabilitation, he needs to hire a professional PR company. If he's asking this question in earnest, he is demonstrably insane. As Think Progress points out, the answer to Gonzales' question includes: corrupting the DOJ by insiting on ideological purity tests in hiring; firing US Attorneys that refused to toe the Bush Ad...

When I read this article I didn't know whether to laugh or weep. This pathologically disordered man is COMPLETELY disconnected from reality, it seems. Sociopathic types believe that things are reality "BECAUSE THEY SAY SO." And far too many people fall for this because the abusive type just yells louder or becomes belligerent when they aren't believed. I tell all the abuse victims I coach, and I have said it here MANY MANY times: ALWAYS, ALWAYS: Watch their ACTIONS, NEVER believe their words!! If You're On an Aggregator - Click Here to View the Above View ...Says he hopes history sees him as liberator of millions Bush said that every day during his eight-year presidency he had consulted the Bible. After two wars, millions dead and the worst financial crisis in a decade, George W. Bush hopes history will see him as a president who liberated millions of people, who worked towards peace and who never sold his soul for political ends. "I'd like to be a pres...

Was the dinner good? Mine sure was. Yum! Despite my strict diet I still found some things to enjoy and of course my children made me laugh a lot. But I gotta hand it to Dubya... trying so very hard to go out on a good note, but his White House just couldn't make it. They had to do one incredibly stupid thing for the holidays. Thanks Chimpy... for the laughs. The last 8 years have been horrible and the next 4 ain't looking too great either. But I guess pardoning all the drug-related criminals should have been expected. (I lived through the 70s too, dude) Laura, put down the Celexa. The nightmare's almost over. "Slipped through the cracks?" or is George back on the pipe? Oh well, next year I'll have to go by a burka to attend, right? Just incredible. BWWWAAAHHHHHH HAAA HAAA HAAA HAAA By LUKAS I. ALPERT Merry Hanukkah from the White House! The president and the first lady invited leaders of America's Jewish community for a Hanukkah reception at the...

by Larry Johnson (from No Quarter) When I went thru paramilitary training with the CIA 22 years ago I learned more than how to shoot weapons, throw a grenade, reisist interrogation, or navigate rough terrain. I also got a chance to gauge how my classmates reacted under pressure. Most did very well. I learned, for example, I could trust Valerie Plame, Jim Marcinkowski, Mike Grimaldi, Brent Cavan, and others who, because they are still undercover, must remain anonymous. There were a few who cracked under the stress of limited sleep, physical exertion, and psychological pressure. Those folks you wanted to keep in positions where they would not be responsible for the welfare and safety of others. I learned I would like to know ahead of time what someone would do when the chips were down. You normally don’t want to wait until your house is on fire to learn your roomate is afraid of fire. Remember George Bush on the morning of 9-11 after he was informed a second plane had hit a tower of the ...

This excellent post from Ani over at NoQuarter ust about sums up what I have been feeling & thinking for the last few months -- except that she is more more eloquent than I ever could be. She elucidates an emotion I have felt a few times in my life -- and I am feeling it now every time I hear or see Barack Obama. RAGE These past eight years, every time I saw George Bush on television or heard one of his idiotic sound bytes, I felt the bile rise in my throat. What horrid nonsense is this snake oil salesman spewing now? What other inanity can spring forth to pretend the economy is fine or that we can say “Mission Accomplished” about Iraq? And if he says the word ‘nuke-u-lar’ one more time, I will scream!! At the start of 2008, I felt buoyed by a sense of hope. I took out the “Bush” countdown calendar someone had given my husband and actually started leafing through it. This was challenging in itself, because, unlike some stand-ups who use Bush-isms to provide endless fodder for the...

No Crisis Is Immune From Exploitation Under Bush By HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON Tucked away on the Cayman Islands sits Ugland House, an unassuming, nondescript building of modest scale and size. However, according to a recent report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), this five-story office building is home to more than 18,000 corporate entities, nearly half of which have U.S. ties. In the past few years, the number of corporations flocking to places like the Cayman Islands to evade U.S. taxes has exploded. One of these companies, former Halliburton subsidiary KBR, has used offshore tax havens to avoid paying hundreds of millions of dollars in federal taxes. To no one's surprise, instead of cracking down on KBR, the Bush administration has rewarded the company in April of this year with a 10-year, $150 billion contract in Iraq. There appears to be no crisis, tragedy or disaster immune from exploitation under the Bush administration. The examples of the waste, fraud and abuse ...

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