To stop animal abuse and neglect in the State of Main, people who are repeat violators should be put on a habitual offenders list so we can stop them from hurting animals!

My Huffington Post article 'Bernie Sanders hints Elizabeth Warren as Vice President' has gone viral. In less than 24 hours it has gotten over 40 thousand likes and it is an extremely popular topic of discussion.

As former students and concerned citizens of Mashpee we stand united and demand that the Mashpee School Committee take immediate action to terminate Brian Hyde. The public record has proven that Brian Hyde is unfit to serve in his current role as superintendent.

At a town hall forum on Maine's heroin epidemic on January 6, Gov. LePage said: "Now the traffickers ... These are guys with the name D-Money, Smoothie, Shifty, these types of guys. They come from Connecticut and New York, they come up here, they sell their heroin, and they go back home. Incidentally, half the time they impregnate a young, white girl before they leave." These blatantly racist comments are unacceptable in today's political debate. I urge Gov. LePage and the Maine GOP to apologize for and repudiate these deeply offensive comments. UPDATE (JAN. 8): The governor gave a news conference in which he blamed the media for covering his remarks and claimed they were a slip of the tongue. He also said he apologized to "Maine women," who he made a point of saying were virtually all white. It's not clear what he was apologizing to them for. Because of the fundamental insincerity of this statement, we're continuing to urge the governor to give a full and honest apology for his racist statements without blaming others for his actions.

The Department of Justice has said they plan to ignore the take over of a Federal Building in Oregon. This will allow it to grow and fester to a point where action will be needed.

President Kiir committed genocide and human rights atrocities, violates peace agreements and UN sanctions.

Because we can do better as a society, and Peace on Earth is not impossible at all <3 <3 <3

Cruelty towards street animals in the Bodrum peninsula must be stopped and perpetrators must be brought to justice for their crimes. We cannot sit by any longer and allow this carnage to continue. Looking at all these lovely dogs murdered in Yalikavak a couple of days ago is heartwrenching and was totally unnecessary. They never did anything but ask for love and attention

Over the past two years, the server has declined in population. Shops in the /mall have gone inactive or in some cases sit empty, towns go inactive and fall far behind in debt (such as a few towns in the 2012-2014 map which fell as much as 100,000 dei in debt), and new players only stick around for a few days before leaving the server - most of them never come back. Long-time players and veterans of the server have widely noticed this downfall - mostly because the focus nowadays is on minigames servers, some of which have opened servers with the Towny plugin, which has more features than Kingdoms 2 minus the /t warp's, and that is what the little kids (most of the new players to Minecraft) mostly like to go to, when compared to the beta days where it was mostly building cities and towns. I, and some of the active players on the server, have proposed some initiatives in an attempt to bring players back and revitalize the server: expanding the amount of vote sites we actively vote on, fixing the inactivity and constant out-of-stock issues in /mall by evicting inactive shop owners and putting their shops on the auction block, increasing the shop auction frequency to once a month and automating the process, and a three-tier shop size system to allow merchants with Vendor rank to have a mall shop, and to complete the third tier of the class system, with almost all currently unplaceable blocks allowed in the craftsmen third tier with free placing of the 1st and 2nd tier rank blocks, nobility salary tripled and possibly moderator range logblock in the third tier of nobility class, and the biggest mall shops in a three-tier mall shop size system and the most auctions at once for the third tier of the merchant class. The first step in improving the server is to expose the server to more voting sites other than the current two: Minestatus and Mcserverstatus. Most of the other servers that I've seen that are popular are on multiple voting sites, with some servers being on as much as 10 voting sites! Some of these servers also have perks such as "crates" where you get rewards from "opening" them in a certain place, usage of WorldEdit in creative for a certain amount of time, and more for voting on all of their voting sites in one single day. These servers are popular and have more than 100 people on them on any single day. By putting ImDeity Kingdoms on more voting sites, and implementing a system for rewards for voting on ALL of the sites in one single day, it would be the first step in the revitalizing of the server. The second step to the server's improvement would be to overhaul the mall shop system by implementing a three-tier approach to shop sizes and an automated script to kickstart shop auctions once a month and evict inactive shop owners (preferrably 30 days inactive shop owners). The automated script would, on a per day basis, check the time the shop owners were last online, and if it exceeds 30 days, they would lose their shop, and the contents of the shop would be Worldedited out. Existing shop owners who do not want to run a shop anymore can also type in a command to put their shop up for auction. These empty shops would then be auctioned on the shop auctions page on the portal, which would occur once a month, to newer and active players to give them a chance to participate in the economy and supplying the nobility and craftsmen with key materials such as stone, wood, flora, and tools to help them build their towns and creations on the main world. To improve accessibility to shops for Vendors, and to give merchants on the future highest tier (the Tycoon rank of the Merchant class) a considerably bigger shop than the current mall shops, a three-tier shop size system would be proposed. The first tier (renovations to /mall purple and /mall blue) would be for those merchants with the Vendor Rank and would be 5x5x3 in size, totalling 75 cubic meters of shop space. There would be 20 of these stalls in each of the two mall areas assigned for first tier shops. The 2nd tier would comprise of 12 5x5x6 shops - these shops will hold merchants of the Financier rank. /mall green and /mall red would be assigned the 2nd tier shops, and the only modification needed to the shops there would be to raise the stall ceilings up 1 block. The third tier of the mall shop size system would be for merchants of the Tycoon rank, and they would have the biggest shops, which are 10x10x6 in size. There would be six of these shops in two new mall areas, which would be /mall orange and /mall yellow. The third and final step in improving the server would be to complete the class system by completing and releasing the third tier of each class: Architect for Craftsmen, Duke for Nobility, and Tycoon for Merchant. The third tier Craftsmen class, the Architects, would be able to place, for a hefty price, currently unplaceable blocks and items, most notably sticky pistons and lava, and place blocks granted to the Laborer and Artisan classes for free. Artisan class would be modified so that placing Laborer rank blocks would be 50% off their current placing price and possibly a dei reward for great constructions, which would make a comeback. The dei reward for great constructions for Architects would be double the Artisan's reward. The nobility class can be improved by implementing the third tier, Dukes. Dukes would get 3x the nobility salary of Lords, paid 6 times a day compared to four, and would get range logblock ability similar to what moderators have. Counts would have their nobility salary doubled and paid 5 times a day in the new system, and Lord's salary would remain unchanged. Merchants would get a third tier added to their class ranks, the Tycoon rank. The Tycoon rank can be able to run five auctions simultaneously, sell up to four horses at any given time, and get the biggest shops in the new three-tier shop size system. Financiers would mostly remain unchanged, while Vendors would get the additional benefit...

The people of New Britain and Bristol deserve better! We need a newspaper that serves the public good and not its own political agenda. The New Britain Herald and Bristol Press is nothing more than fake journalism that systematically fails to find and seek the truth, that isn't fair and balanced, that plagiarizes, and that's in the pocket of the right wing conservative elite. We deserve a newspaper that serves the community and not one that serves Michael E. Schroeder and Sheldon Adelson!

According to a recent observer.com article. DNC Chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Shultz has ignored 3 Democratic Congressional Candidates and has chosen to support her Republican Colleagues because she calls them "friends and has to work with them in Congress." The ONLY person who has the ability to remove or appoint the next DNC Chair is the Next Democratic President of the United States.

During Debbie Wasserman Schultz's tenure as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Party has suffered drastic losses at every level of government from state legislatures, governor's offices, and both houses of the U.S. Congress. With the exception of the 2012 presidential election, Democrats have suffered losses which have demonstrated that our party's leadership is weak, feckless, and incompetent. After these losses, Republicans have waged an almost endless war on the progress this country has made over the last century. Wasserman Schultz has sown division in the Democratic Party at a critical moment in the election cycle, and the only remedy is her immediate removal from her position of Charwoman of the DNC. From her decision to have less Democratic debates at any point in history to her decision last week to cut off the Sanders campaign's access to voter files critical to the running of his campaign, she has demonstrated that she does not serve the interests of the Democratic Party as a whole, but rather the interests of the Clinton machine. After these deep divisions within the Democratic Party, it is absolutely essential that we heal said wounds, move forward, and unite as a party. It's critical for us to express whom we wish to run our party. The only leader around whom all Democrats would rally and who would remain impartial for the remainder of the primary season is U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren. She has demonstrated an unwavering commitment to Democratic principles and would undoubtedly run the Democratic National Committee in a fair, equal, and unbiased manner. She is the leader our party needs during this time of great political turmoil. One would think that the Democratic establishment would learn from the losses in the past elections; however, the Democratic establishment has made clear that its priority in the upcoming election cycle is not to take back either house of Congress, but to continue the Clinton dynasty and line their own pockets with cash from the Clinton machine. Though every electoral loss cannot be laid solely at one person's feet, there is absolutely no doubt that the leadership of the Democratic National Committee under Debbie Wasserman Schultz should be held accountable after such drastic and historic losses at the polls. These losses are but one of many instances which demonstrate that Debbie Wasserman Schultz is no longer qualified to run the Democratic Party. Senator Elizabeth Warren is the only clear choice for real change in the Democratic Party and for the party to take back both houses of Congress. Please sign this petition asking President Obama to replace Debbie Wasserman Schultz with Elizabeth Warren as Chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee.