In years past, World Wars and the military draft did a lot to familiarize and equalize people from different ethnic, social, and economic backgrounds in this country. I believe our sense of an overall American ethos would be regained if we instituted compulsory service of some kind for everyone.

Show some respect and refer to our president as President Obama. All talking heads are paid and good manners are important!

GoApe is a zipline course renting municipal park space in Indianapolis and other states. There are no safety regulations requiring helmets or padding on the trees. On September 30, 2012, I sustained a traumatic brain injury, whiplash, concussion, neck and shoulder injuries while on their zipline course. Children participate and are at risk, similar to the unregulated inflatable domes rented to families, where thousands of children are injured each year.

From what I have heard, General Petraeus is an exceptional general, and as such, it is in the best interests of all of us in the country to have him working for us. Let's not let his personal issues remove him from service he is willing to provide for our country.

I get tired of unwanted automatic calls with recorded voice.

Arizona Senator John McCain, falsely accused U.S. UN Ambassador Dr. Susan Rice of deliberately misleading the public regarding her explanation on national TV of the tragic attacks on our embassy in Benghazi, Libya. We urge the US Senate to apologize to Dr Rice as a body and censure Senator McCain for his actions to slander a fellow public servant.

I paid for a smart phone via a 2 year plan with Verizon and continued with plan another year. No they won't unlock my phone so I can go elsewhere with it. I paid for it.

Citizens of The United States, The Republic; especially from the State of Tennessee believe that most of America should have a reasonable measure of faith that their Congressman is an Honorable custodian of their Districts well-being- Whereas Mr. Scott Desjarlais has likely violated ethics and professional codes of conduct and likely lawful criminal statutes; we call on his resignation. Sooner than later, whereas a special election shall be conducted that will prevent carpetbaggers from moving to the district and replace him with out residency challenges.

The censorship of photos of the caskets of returning war dead.

We strongly urge Princeton University to stop torturing primates and small animals in Princeton’s Green Hall. The tri-state area Anti-Vivisection Alliance says that Princeton University is one of the Garden State's most heinous sites of wanton animal torture for a multi-million dollar grant. Emily Aronson, the university’s spokesperson in 2010, presented the research as "significant discoveries that benefit humankind." Matt Fair discovered this study two years ago via the NIH and wrote an article, stating "Princeton University filed projects to study multi-sensory integration of faces and voices in primate-temporal lobes." Primates' throats, hands, and feet are permanently clamped to chairs, their heads scalped so their brains show, metal sensors are thrust into their eyes and ears. Some wake during the operations due to insufficient anesthesia. They're often denied water for 1 - 3 days, causing dehydration, burning throat, muscle cramps. This research won’t cure human disease. Instead, it teaches students not to feel compassion, to feel instead a cynical indifference to suffering. And these students will become our surgeons! Using computers makes more sense and is more reliable. Consider whether a three- or five-year-old human child might think, "Why are you doing this to me?" So does a primate! Tell Princeton to shut down this outdated, horrendous, unwarranted animal testing program, “… a profit-driven parody of empirical science, resulting in horrible suffering and death for the primates, rabbits, cats, guinea pigs and other sentient animals trapped in Princeton's laboratories of vivisection torture,” atrocities routinely occurring due to Princeton "researchers" carelessness and cynical indifference to the precious living beings at their mercy.”

1,000s of Phoenix families are in debt due to medical costs for treatment of health disorders caused by mold contamination of their rental units. Many of the Landlords which rent these living spaces know of hazardous conditions in their properties but continue to rent them to tenants as the sick families, financially devasted from the medical costs of treating their mold disorders, move out and the new families move in. Breaking this cycle of disease, bankruptcy and death is crucial to stabilizing and growing our economic success. We need to toughen the regulations which require Landlords to maintain their rental units in a livable condition and help tenants who sue to recoup their mold contamination related medical costs, or unfortunately, funeral costs.

It was just announced that AM 1090 will drop progressive talk and switch to an all sports format after the first of the year. Progressive radio listeners in the greater Seattle area are appalled at the prospect of losing the great progressive radio shows hosted by Ed Shultz, Thom Hartmann, Norman Goldman, Randi Rhodes, Stephanie Miller and others. Please join us in letting AM 1090's advertisers know that we, their customers, want progressive voices be heard! We need AM 1090 to stay progressive...or for another local station to take its place as Seattle's progressive voice.