Lane County is named after Joseph Lane, Vice-Presidential candidate for the pro-slavery South, the Confederacy, back in the mid-1800s. He and many of his like-spirited friends later moved to this area, many more racists migrated here during the Great Depression. Word is, many of their grandchildren are doing a good job of reversing that heritage. Would they support a renaming of Lane County? What a fine symbolic act that would be! Those most supportive of one’s courage to change are often equally willing. Please sign below:

The gridlock in Washington DC has been frustrating for all Americans. NOW is the time for Republican leaders in Congress to roll up their sleeves and work WITH President Obama to solve America's fiscal issues.

Recently the CEO of PPJ decided that the underpaid sometimes part time workers do not deserve the benefits of the Affordable Care Act. It is my contention that if this is his postion. Our positions should be his company does not deserve to have customers

Our country should be focusing on the many who are experiencing poverty, homelessness, hunger and devastation. Our elected officials speak often of caring for those who are most in need and this is a time in our lives to make a difference. The resources spent on the one day of the Presidential Inauguration should be used in ways to help those in dire need. Former adminstrations that have taken this action were Presidents Wilson and Harding; President Carter also streamlined the events. By cancelling these extravagant parties, and chanelling the resources to those in need would be a life-changing experience and this action would speak volumes to our children. This is a petition to call on Washington, D.C. to make a difference in the lives of many of our fellow citizens and cancel these parties.

Arizona has a rodeo that allows animal abuse.This needs to be banned.This has been reported in our news.

While we recognize that Texas is a great state, characterized by its independent citizens, there are many citizens that do not support secession from the United States. A petition has been filed with the White House for Texas secession that has reached the 25,000 signature goal it needed to be looked at by the White House. Although it is extremely doubtful that Texas would be granted the approval to secede by such a petition, we would still like to recognize that there are many people in Texas that feel differently, whether we agree with the current administration or not. Rick Perry as the President of the Republic of Texas does not sound good to many of us. Plus, we recognize that things like NASA and federal defense contracts contribute quite a bit to the economy we like to brag so much about. Please sign so other voices in this debate are heard.

Stockbridges at Tanglewood a condominium association located in Colesville/Silver Spring,MD will rule on 11/28/2012 the decision to enforce All pitbulls INCLUDING American Staffordshire Terrier, American pitbull terrier,American Bull terriers & Bull Terrier.This is CLEARLY discrimination to this breed! Nothing aboutany other breed such as German Shepard's, Akita breed, Pomeranian, Chow,Jack Russell terriers or Poodles.. Again I say...This is CLEARLY discrimination!! Please, PLEASE help us to NOT let this happen to our four legged friends. Sincerely, American Staffordshire Terrier Owner Silver Spring, MD 20904

Locksmiths across the USA are going out of business because of a Nationwide locksmith telecommunications and internet fraud as seen on Google: $15,$19,$25 or 10% off Locksmith (every city name) All part of the Dependable Locksmith Fraud, Bronx New York call center, all Middle East Foreigner run. Thousands of fake locksmith listings in 411, which intercept all local locksmith calls See: Google-Denver Channel 31 video Locksmith fraud. This is in its 4 year now, ask the FCC and FTC why! Locksmith Fraud - US Postal complaints hotline 314-539-9441 Affadavit of US Postal Inspector which details money being sent to El-Ad Group (real estate company) in Israel. Telecommunications and Google internet and Maps fraud. Seattle has 7,689 fake locksmith listings DEX white pages. The El-Ad Group is a subsidiary of Delek Group, owned by Yitzhak Tshuva, businessman with assets around $4 billion, focuses on the IT market since 1982. Has offices in New York city. STOP the Fraud!

As a follow up to the "Dump the Trump" at Macy's petition, equally we should implore NBC Universal to not renew Donald Trump's Celebrity Apprentice show slated for March 2013 for the same reasons. Mr.Trump has proven to be a public embarrassment and help to spur incendiary and antagonistic rhetoric about our country's election process and also about the President of the United States. Although in the court of public opinion everyone has the right to free speech, and we as viewers have the right to choose what we shall or shall not watch on our televisions, there is some responsibility on the part of the company or corporation(in the case NBC Universal) to monitor and address issues that run counter to their network policies and affect viewers and shareholders adversely. Therefore, we should call on CEO & President Steve Burke of NBC Universal to cancel the upcoming season of Celebrity Apprentice and tell Donald Trump "Your Fired!" Here's the latest commentary in the media and blogosphere supporting the idea of this petition: -Scott D. Pierce, Television Critic for the Salt Lake City Tribune http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/55269990-223/trump-nbc-doesn-network.html.csp?page=1 -Alyssa Rosenberg, Culture Reporter for ThinkProgress.org; columnist for Slate; correspondent for TheAtlantic.com http://thinkprogress.org/alyssa/2012/11/13/1164271/nbc-donald-trump-the-apprentice/ Add you support of this petition! I need to reach a goal of 50 to move this forward! http://signon.org/sign/trump-your-fired-tell

Florida Sunpass system is a very unfair toll system. The bill your tag and if you don't get the notice in time you receive a uniform traffic citation and your drivers license get suspended. Also the traffic citation is considered a moving violation. This is also very unfair because a lot of citizens lost their jobs as toll collectors.

I was the artist that lived in the Los Angeles Arts District for 30 years and was unfortunately next door to Joseph Pitruzzelli's business, Wurstkuche Restaurant when they arrived in 2009. Joseph Pitruzzelli leased the AIR loft next to my studio and began to illegally use it as a commercial warehouse for his restaurant next door. I sued Joseph Pitruzzelli for that illegal commercial use of an Artist in Residence and I won. But Joseph Pitruzzelli refused to stop his commercial use of that legal Artist's loft. He turned it into a 24 hour nightmare for any artist actually trying to live and work there. Joseph Pitruzzelli would not stop his illegal use and had the case appealed because I sued him personally and didn't sue him as his republican corporation, Wilson, Pitruzzelli Investments, LLC. The city of Los Angeles cited Joseph Pitruzzelli's business for the illegal use of that AIR loft as well as Paul Solomon, the owner of my building. But rather then do the right thing and be the least bit considerate to his artist neighbors, Joseph Pitruzzelli refused to stop his illegal use, at which point I was forced to fight my landlord who was also cited by The City of Los Angeles for Joseph Pitruzzelli's illegal use of that legal AIR loft next to me as a 24 hour noisy commercial nightmare. That was my home and my studio for year before Joseph Pitruzzelli showed up and disrupted the arts district with no regard what so ever for the actual artist trying to live and work there. Having Joseph Pitruzzelli as LARABA's president is total hypocrisy. I ended up leaving the arts district because of this on going and growing nightmare Joseph Pitruzzelli and his partner Tyler Wilson brought to the Los Angeles Arts District. And his illegal commercial use of that loft in the heart of the LA Arts District continues to this day. Joseph Pitruzzelli's business has no permits to use that loft commercially. But he still does not care because he has chased the artist around him away. This man should not be the president of any artist association. LARABA must fire Joseph Pitruzzelli. Hypocrisy is not leadership.

Jon Rappoport, investigative journalist, states that OVER A MILLION votes on Prop 37 (the GMO labelling initiative) in CA have gone uncounted to date. Since the margin of "victory" is about 600,000 votes, this means Prop 37 could actually have passed. If we want to do something about this, NOW is the time. This petition seeks ACTION by the CA Secretary of State to count ALL the votes cast on Prop 37. If you cast a vote on Prop 37, make sure it gets counted by signing this petition, requiring the CA Secretary of State to do her job. *** A little background: On November 8, two days after the election, Jon Rappoport found that many votes in California remain uncounted. He decided to try and find out just how many, and contacted the Secretary of State of CA, responsible for elections in the state, who apparently doesn't know. He was informed that all counties in California have been asked, but not ordered, to report in those figures, but it is apparently voluntary. So Rappoport decided to pick the largest counties and called their voter registrar offices and these are the results he obtained: Santa Clara County: 180,000 votes remain uncounted. Orange County: 241,336 votes remain uncounted. San Diego County: 475,000 votes remain uncounted. LA County: 782,658 votes remain uncounted. In other words, in just those four counties, 1.6 million votes remain uncounted. It is still unknown how many other votes are uncounted in other Californian counties. *** About Rappoport: Nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, he has worked as an investigative reporter for 30 years, writing articles on politics, medicine, and health for CBS Healthwatch, LA Weekly, Spin Magazine, Stern, and other newspapers and magazines in the US and Europe. Rappoport has delivered lectures and seminars on global politics, health, logic and creative power to audiences around the world.