BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Maybe if the courts and government refuse to see the danger here, we need to start an Underground Railroad for these girls! A 17-year old girl who fled from her home, fearing her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity, must go back to Ohio, a Florida judge ruled Tuesday. Judge Daniel Dawson ruled Ohio has jurisdiction over the case involving the teen, Rifqa Bary. Before the girl gets sent back, the judge says he needs immigration papers proving her status in the U.S. and proof from the state of Florida that she can continue her virtual schooling and receive credit in Ohio. She is expected to be placed in foster care when she returns and will also be provided with psychiatric evaluations. Her parents will also receive psychiatric evaluations. Rifqa can be back in Ohio as early as this week, or by an Oct. 23 follow-up hearing. Rifqa fled to Florida after her parents, Mohamed and Aysha Bary, learned that she was baptized earlier this year without their knowledge. The...

CAN WE GET THIS RIGHT BEFORE 2008? This is, in my estimation, the "duh" news. We all knew it. Mark Crispin Miller (whom I've had the priviledge of hearing speak twice now) got this all sorted out and wrote a great book about it: Fooled Again. Yet there's still problems with voter registration & voting machine counts - ad infinitum. This is the 21st Century right? Most of us have a computer in the house and probably about 80% of those have some blog that they tweak and toy with on a daily basis. Dell and Microsoft and H-P dominate the market. So, what's the problem? Is the I.T. Desk in Ohio just overwhelmed and underpaid? Come on, people. Get it RIGHT. This is America! Isn't it? Ohio Secretary of State confirms 2004 election could have been stolen by Harvey Wasserman Ohio's Secretary of State announced this morning that a $1.9 million official study shows that "critical security failures" are embedded throughout the voting systems in t...