Veterans returning with loss of limbs and life-long deteriorating physical conditions .. have to serve minimum of 20 years in order to just get 50% of their pay... : Why do politicians receive full pay in retirement after serving one term and our military after serving 20 years gets only 50 percent of their pay? How do we change it to have it done more equitably?

Forced feeding violates the laws guaranteeing the right to refuse medical treatment. Yet, Obama continues to force this treatment on prisoners at Guantanamo because of personal and political expedience: their deaths would be politically damaging and personal anguishing for Obama. If we continue to deny them the freedom our own government says that they deserve, then we should not violate the law in order to deny them a death that they find meaningful. Sign this to end forced feeding now.

More and more and younger and younger are the children who are affected by bullying. It seems every week incidences of bullying are in the headlines and should be treated as top priority. Our children are our future whether they are straight, lesbian, homosexual, bisexual or transgendered. As the mother of an openly gay daughter, I feel we aren't doing enough to protect these children.

I live near a busy street in the San Fernando Valley. It is sickening the way people speed and don't care if they hit a poor dog or cat. People have stopped in the past only to drag the poor injured, screaming dog onto the side of the road to get him out of the way. I believe that there should be a law that people must stop and get medical aid for the dogs and cats they have hit with their cars. At the very least they should stop and contact animal control. Many times people are killed by hit and run drivers and the drivers claim "Oh I thought I had only run over a dog." They run over people and don't stop because they think they can get away with the excuse "I thought it was only a dog." I believe that this law would not only help dogs and cats, but also help pedestrians who are getting killed by hit and run drivers all the time.

President Obama's good intentions are ruined by the party of NO. I want to say "No" to the party of NO.

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It's the fans and their money that support the team through good times and bad. They shouldn't have to pay out more of their hard earned cash to watch their team on t.v. If your city's team is playing it needs to be broadcast on a local station.

The majority of Americas want the same rights as people from other countries, namely the right to know what we ingest. We want all food to include labeling stating whether or not the product was manufactured using GMO's or GE's.

The emergency financial manager in Detroit now indicates, if Detroit goes into bankruptcy, the art in our 130 year old internationally renowned Detroit Institute of Art could be sold to pay debts!

The Illinois Legistlature has passed a huge bill to update election laws. Included in that bill is a requirement that Lake County create an Election commision. This unfunded requirement will cost Lake County taxpayers $600,000 that we do not have. The text of the paragraph relating to the creation of the election reads: "any county with a population of more than 700,000 persons … that borders another state and borders no more than 2 other Illinois counties." Lake County is the only county inthe State of Illinois that meets that specific criteria.

Food trucks are everywhere in NYC and their noises and fumes are destroying the quality of life and unfairly competing with stores that pay rent and respect their neighbors.

JESUS CHRIST PLUS NOTHING EVERYONE who is the aggresors and the ones on the receiving end, and no one wants to talk about it. Plus being black i no longer want to be in the positons of when pelo's se us and think that we are fine with being profiled for the prision sysmtem like that's we are supposed to be ok with this.