After personally witnessing the lack of respect for living creatures at a local lawn fete I adamantly petition for the ban of giving any live animals as prizes for carnival, lawn fete, or fair games in New York and all U.S. States and territories.

I'm starting this petition to gain awareness of the Satanic activity that is being drawn into our community from religious views put on public display for allowing evil or satanists to be welcomed.

He has been let off too easily by the law.

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I'm starting this petition because I truly believe in the Backstreet Boys and the fans we can and will make this happen!!!! We want everyone else to see them the same way we see them as the loving, caring, amazing, oh so talented performers that they are!!! SO PLEASE SIGN!!!!!

Ed Schultz is an all time favorite of Working Class and Progressive MSNBC viewers. They decided to replace him for purely political reasons, under pressure from Comcast, their biggest financial source. We are starting as of now an indefinite Viewer Boycott of MSNBC, until Ed is allowed to stay at MSNBC, in his current show schedule. Please sign and join our Boycott.

MSNBC wants to dump Ed Schultz Show. I say no, they shot themselves in the foot when they dumped Keith Olberman. When will they learn? This is the clown in charge: Mr. Phil Griffin has been the President of MSNBC Cable L.L.C. since July 2008. Mr. Griffin has been the President of MSNBC at NBCUniversal Media, LLC since July 2008. Mr. Griffin serves as an Advisor at The Cue Ball Group, LLC. He also serves as Senior Vice President at NBC News. He is in charge of the day-to-day operations of MSNBC and NBCs Today. Prior to becoming an Executive Producer at MSNBC, Mr. Griffin was the Senior Broadcast Producer of "NBC Nightly News." He served as an Executive Incharge of Broadcast - NBC Universal, Inc., MSNBC since April 20, 2005. He is a 25 year veteran of NBC News who was with the channel since July 1996. Previously, he served as Vice President of Primetime Programming at MSNBC as well as producing "Hardball With Chris Matthews" from 1999 to 2004.

To save my dog, my best friends life from breed discrimination.

"The only good snake is a dead snake" they say. Every year, Texans catch and kill tens of thousands of rattlesnakes by drowning them in gasoline, stomping on them, shooting them, burying them alive, and many more barbaric tortures. The legislators don't want to do anything about it since it draws such a massive profit. Help us end the senseless mass killing of these dazzling predators.

It's hard to believe – Sen. Ted Cruz just introduced a bill this week to ABOLISH the successful Consumer Financial Protection Bureau! That's the agency that brought Elizabeth Warren to prominence when she first proposed it in 2007. Sign the petition to tell Ted Cruz: Withdraw your reckless plan to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB). Ted Cruz is running for president, and the Wall Street executives funding his campaign *love* this scheme. Wall Street can't stand having an agency dedicated solely to protecting everyday people from getting ripped off by big banks, payday loan sharks, and credit card companies. In just under 4 years since being founded, the CFPB has: • Forced big banks to return more than $10 billion to consumers they had cheated. • Investigated for-profit colleges with deceptive advertising that has thrown hundreds of thousands of students deep into debt. • Just this week, CFPB forced Citigroup to return $770 million to consumers after pushing consumers into taking bad credit cards using deceptive practices. Ted Cruz calls abolishing the consumer protection agency “a step in the right direction.” The only direction it would take us is back to the ‘Wild West’ days of Wall Street bankers running wild and ripping off consumers. Sign the petition to tell Ted Cruz: Stop your attempts to undermine the consumer protection agency!

Sonoma County Libraries have been closed Mondays for more than four years, and there is no end in sight to the largest library funding crisis and hours cutback in history. Last month, as reported in The Sonoma Independent, the Campaign to Restore Library Hours delivered a petition with 1,271 names on it to the Board of Supervisors’ annual budget meeting. The Supervisors refused to allocate our requested funding from the County's surplus to reopen libraries on Mondays. But in an unusual public response, three of the County’s five Supervisors spoke of supporting a financing effort to restore Monday hours, provided that it came from the County’s Library Commission, and that local cities join with the County in co-funding the solution. Both the County and most local cities have sufficient contingency funds should they choose to do this, starting in the New Year. On July 6, the Sonoma Independent submitted to the Library Commission a $1.5 million interim funding proposal to be split between the County and seven cities, that would restore Monday and evening hours starting January 1, 2016. The County would contribute $600,000 annually, seven cities would share the other $600,000 (with Santa Rosa paying $200,000), and the Library budget would add $300,000 more. The Library Commission plans to explore the proposal in its Revenue Committee, and decide whether or not to move forward with a plan to restore hours in the next few months. We urge the Library Commissioners, Supervisors, and City Councils, to commit to resolving this funding crisis this year.

This past weekend, Bernie Sanders held record-breaking rallies in the red states Arizona and Texas, and crowds have been consistently large in other states. Yet the media continues to downplay his candidacy. This must change, or we will start boycotting. Equal time for Bernie!!! If MSNBC is truly an unbiased news source, it will cover ALL candidates equally, not just the ones paid for by corporations!