Cuyahoga Juvenile Court Judge Alison Floyd  had ordered several teen rape survivors to take polygraphs.  Disregarding the rape shield laws, the polygraph admissibility laws, and the sheer struggle for women, young or adult, to enter the court system to even help with bringing rape charges, this Judge has ordered that the victims take these tests, even though a couple were not on her court docket. Maybe this judge would benefit from an examination for fitness for duty.

Story below.

Will it ever happen?  The last public action was July, 2009 read more

 Catholic priest, the Rev. Bob Begin, challenges Bishop Richard Lennon on church closings

 This saga of Frank Giglio has been one of the more interesting concerns that I have worked on recently. There is such a layer of legend, rumor, and downright deceit that one's head could spin.

 Frank Giglio has made regular payments on the larger of two parcels, under a plan hammered out by Giglio and the Cuyahoga County Auditor staff. This staff reassured him that the other parcel had so little tax due that foreclosure was not on the radar. Then the auditor and the office of Bill Mason started a foreclosure proceeding on the $184, and refused to stop it even though those taxes were paid in full. The date of that is hearing is 3/26/10.

 According to pages 63 to 74 of this plan, ODOT is taking out Frank Giglio. spinternet.dot.state.oh.us/projects/ClevelandUrbanCoreProjects/Innerbelt/CentralViaduct/Presentations/77332_2009-10-22_SubcoPresentation-web.pdf

 Both Representative Fudge and Representative Kucinich were sent e-mails from me. Please send yours. Both are involved in the use of federal funds for the inner belt project. The contact information is 

Marcia Fudge fudge.house.gov/index.cfm

Dennis Kucinich kucinich.house.gov/Contact/

The body of my e-mail included this: 

 The summit today on health care, called by Obama, was illuminating. There are videos posted on the net, hours long debates, with the conservative Republicans showing their true colors. This story, by Steve Pearlstein, of the Washington Post, sums up the summit.

"I'm not sure what else was accomplished at Thursday's Blair House summit, but surely one result is that we learned what Republican "leaders" really think about health care and health insurance.

 The latest story in the Plain Dealer is one more nail in the Dimora coffin as a small time operator cuts a deal. The feds seem to be building an ironclad case, getting the small fish to plea bargain, and will reel in the public official number one at some point.

PD story by Peter Krouse here (read it before it disappears).

 Two years ago, we had to listen in  horror as people debated how far to go in the torture of prisoners. George W Bush thought the sky was the limit.

In this report investigating  the memo of authorizing torture, Bush terror advisor speaks to this. An exceerpt from the story: 'The investigators found that Berkeley law professor John Yoo committed "intentional professional misconduct" when he advised the president that such techniques, which many consider torture, were legal." 

 Here is some more food for thought. It is important to not focus only on this issue (charter schools) that Sanders is pushing Cleveland towards, but the whole plan, the unfunded plan. The plan that hopes for a piece of the stimulus funding pie; the plan that Sanders says will need an additional levy to carry out, and the state money is drying up. Neighborhoods are being left without schools, and Sanders plan for transportation is to "work" with RTA. How far are we going to let him run with this plan? 

 "In an astonishingly offensive speech, cheered by the Tea Party crowd, Tancredo declared that "people who could not even spell the word 'vote' or say it in English put a committed socialist ideologue in the White House. His name is Barack Hussein Obama."

Even worse, if that's possible, Tancredo harkened back to the Jim Crow South that denied the right to vote to African Americans on the basis of "literacy tests" that called for potential black registrants to answer questions that would have stumped PhDs. in political science.

 Some comic relief on a cold night in Cleveland : Stephen Colbert on Sarah Palin.    watch video here.

From Ohio.com www.ohio.com/news/break_news/83477022.html

 During the long 8 years that George W. Bush held reign over the country, people actually debated how much torture was allowed, and what kind of torture was acceptable. The public came to know what water boarding meant. The people of Massachusetts last night voted into office a person who will fight Obama's intent to close down Guantanamo Bay prison, throws away the keys to those accused of terrorism, and thinks that water boarding is not torture. This is what may have got the guy elected, not health care reform. No steps forward, many steps backward.

First Energy wants to continue to dump mercury in our lake, saying that it costs too much, $10 million, to do what is necessary to do the right thing. Will people fall for this? What is $10 million to First Energy?

Last year at this time, tens of millions had high hopes for 2009. Americans had just elected the first African American president, whose campaign message, "Change We Can Believe In," heralded a new direction for the country - more decent, more peaceful, more just.

From Daily News.Com BY RICHARD HUFF

DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

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 (My comment: one more step toward 2012)

 If you have any visually impaired family or friends, check this out. It is good news for those who have had to give up their favorite authors. This is an excerpt, the entire article link is at the bottom.

Blio

 I labeled this so that if you just can't stand one more posting on the subject, it is easier to skip over......

 Nurses are at the forefront of health care in the U.S. Advance Practice Nurses provide primary care as well as speciality care through out the country. Registered nurses are the backbone of the hospital system, giving care to the sickest of patients. The ANA supports health care reform.  For more information, visit

 http://www.nursingworld.org

 Washington Post......

Democrats: Stop screaming and pass health reform

Jacob Hacker,  from the New Republic 

 From the Jobs with Justice blog, a little long, but a worthwhile read