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Mary Jo Buttafuoco's New Book Aims to Help Others Living With 'Sociopaths' By LEE FERRAN Seventeen years after she was shot in the face by her then husband's teenage lover, Mary Jo Buttafuoco called her ex-husband Joey Buttafuoco a "sociopath and a liar." "I believed him when he said he had nothing to do with her [shooter Amy Fisher]," Mary Jo told "Good Morning America" today in an exclusive interview. "He was a very good sociopath and a liar. ...When I thought about it and looked it up on the Internet, and looked at sociopathic tendencies ... I said 'Oh my God.'" Joey filled all the criteria, she said. In May 1992, Mary Jo Buttafuoco answered her front door at her Long Island home to see 16-year-old Amy Fisher point a gun at her face and fire. Fisher had been having an affair with Mary Jo's husband, Joey, who was more than twice Fisher's age. Mary Jo Buttafuoco miraculously survived the close range shot...

A HEARTFELT THANK YOU TO READERS OF SANCTUARY FOR THE ABUSED!!! This week Sanctuary for the Abused got it's 467,000th hit. That's 467,000 hits in the 6 years since I opened that site to the public. I am honored and awed that so many have found resources and answers there. I am moved often to tears by the thank you letters I get from women & men who found the strength and information they needed to reclaim their lives there. I started that blog in November, 2003 as a way to keep my own personal research on abuse private and out of view from people around me, including my abusive ex. As a voracious reader and a research junkie... I needed answers and I got them. Five years ago I was 'emotionally raped' by a narcissistic sociopath. Someone who I had cared for and felt I was friends with for more than 1/2 my life and yet - had no idea of his true nature for those 28 years. Someone who, to this day, tells a very backward, upside-down and twisted version of the truth (...

SAYING KADDISH. AT LAST. Holocaust survivor learns father's fate By ARON HELLER In 1942, 8-year-old Moshe Bar-Yuda walked hand-in-hand with his father to a collection point in his hometown in Slovakia and watched him being shipped off to a Nazi labor camp. The boy never saw him again, and for 66 years was left to wonder about his father's fate. Because of a newly opened Nazi archive, the mystery has been resolved. Bar-Yuda, now 74, was one of the first to obtain Nazi documents now available to the public after they were stashed away for more than 60 years in a secret German archive. Up to now, only limited queries were answered. The Bad Arolsen documents — transportation lists, Gestapo orders, camp registers, slave labor booklets, death books — contain references to about 17.5 million people, Jews and non-Jews. It is the largest registry of Holocaust victims ever. The archive showed that Bar-Yuda's father, Alfred Kastner, was killed in a Nazi gas chamber at the Majdanek de...

THANKS TO THE DISABILITY BLOG CARNIVAL Thanks to ANDREA'S BUZZING ABOUT for my mention in the Disability Blog Carnival. “ON HOLIDAY!” : Disability Blog Carnival #20 "Ah, the crowd’s starting to build up … the hurry-up-and-wait part of events makes me nervous, and there’s only so many times I need to check my To Do list, or line up the dishes and flatware on the serving buffet (but look, I lined up the napkins in rainbow order!)..." To check out her blog and her links to all the great blogs about being disabled and living with a disability - CLICK HERE. Thanks again Andrea! PLEASE CLICK HERE TO JBLOG ME

THE ASSAULT ON REASON I just got a copy of this and barely started. (I tend to have 2-3 books on the go at any one time minimum) This piece is pure Gore. He mentions the silence of Bush's Senate. Yes, of course they were silent - they were power hungry, money mad yes-men. The current administration surrounded itself with armies of rubber stampers and sycophants. These people work for us - and we still have no idea what the truth is. Bush will say one thing and do another; just whatever is best for him and his buddies at the time. Gore's on the money about Internet Providers squelching information. Its already happening as I posted HERE . People who run sites are also filtering, deleting, promoting, squelching and spinning their information too. (Which is why I believe its so important to read every side of the aisle's opinion and think criticially not emotionally about them.) Please read this one, even if you aren't a Gore fan. He makes some fantastic points a...