The Hip Hop Community is made to look like buffoons who do not care about their own well being let alone that of the country. However, there is a more dominant thriving community of entrepreneurs who we call Hip Hop Citizens of all races, nationalities and creeds who contribute largely to the American Economy (684 Billion dollars) and deserve to be recognized outside of the entertainers who do not represent our interests. We will be launching our Hip Hop Voter Issue Survey and we want to know where the candidates stand with respect to the issues we hold dear.

People who are driving a vehicle should only be allowed to use "hands - free" devices, so both hands are available at all times. People are not allowed to text or call using their hands while the vehicle is moving.

For several years HUD has had the legislation to enable reverse mortgage. However, they still haven't written the "letter" to enable it for Co-Ops. They have enabled it for condominiums, but co-ops have been neglected.

I've been a mother for 14 months now and a restaurant patron for a whole lot longer. Any parent of a baby will tell you that when you are eating out, there is a high probability that the baby will need a diaper change before the meal is over. Since my son was born, my husband and I have encountered numerous challenges when it comes to diaper changes because of a lack of changing stations in restaurant bathrooms. When there is a changing station, it is most likely only in the women's restroom, leaving the woman to be the only one to have to get up from the meal to change the baby or leaving a single dad without a place to go at all. The lack of changing stations is challenging and frustrating, especially when eating in a "family friendly" restaurant. And the location of diaper changing stations only being in the female restroom is not only extremely sexist, but also a hindrance to fathers. If a father is single, widowed, gay, or just out to eat with his child alone, he has nowhere to change the baby's diaper. My suggestion is to require that all restaurants, especially family friendly ones, install diaper changing stations in both the women's and men's restrooms. They don't take up a lot of space and they might even bring in more business, making it a truly family-friendly establishment.

Paul Ryan lied about the closing of the GM plant in Janesville, saying Obama was responsible when it happened before Obama even took office.

Gatekeepers are individuals that block or delay individual or groups efforts to bring forth positive ideas or action steps to stop mortgage lenders (banks or financial institutions) from skirting laws of records from enforcement to keep their job. by pigeon holding applications or "claims of being overwhelmed by the workload!" Or worst petty personality clashes of people evicted from their homes of masny yesrs.

Fresh from giving the leading prayer at the Republican National Convention, Cardinal Timothy Dolan will also be giving the closing prayer at the Democratic National Convention. Given Dolan’s record though, which includes staunch anti-women’s choice positions and allegations that he paid off sexual abusers in the clergy, should he really be on the bill at all? The New York Catholic archbishop, who is also Senior Catholic Cardinal in the United States and President of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops, has been quick to make it known to both the RNC and the DNC that he would not be backing any candidate and that he would not be politicking, only prayerful. This would be more convincing if Dolan did not have a glaring record of aggressive religious conservatism however. When New York passed a law legalizing gay marriage last year, Dolan came out blazing with baseball analogies and a comparison to incest. “Because where then would the tampering stop?” he asked Morely Safer during a 60 Minutes Overtime interview. ”I mean, I love my mom. I don’t have the right to marry her, OK?” He didn’t stop there either. While saying he could never be classed as anti-gay, he also compared gay marriage to frivolous divorce, polygamy, adultery, forced marriages, communist dictatorships, “Orwellian social engineering“ and, sin of all sins, cohabitation. His quarrel with gay marriage perhaps pales in comparison to his outbursts earlier this year over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate. Casting it as a fight for freedom of religion that Catholics had been forced into, Dolan rallied against the Affordable Care Act’s rule requiring insurers and employers to provide preventive care services, including contraception, in a chain of interviews and opinion pieces where he called the mandate “egregiously unfair,” “un-American,” an “unconstitutional detour,” “mandated violations of conscience,” “a radical violation of the First Amendment,” and “morally toxic and an intrusion into the internal life of the church.” He played up to the “war on religion” meme and vowed to take the case to the Supreme Court. So why is this guy speaking at the Democratic National Convention? Some have praised the Democratic party for offering this olive branch as a smart move to undercut the Republican Party’s claim to the Catholic base. However, it seems all those who have had positive things to say about Dolan’s DNC prayer have overlooked Dolan’s actions as archbishop of Milwaukee. It emerged earlier this year during bankruptcy proceedings against the Archdiocese of Milwaukee that there was record of Dolan authorizing payments of as much as $20,000 to sexually abusive priests so that they would leave the priesthood, instead of actually reporting the offenders to the police. Said the The Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) in a statement at the time: ”We know, incontrovertibly, that while Dolan was claiming to heal the Milwaukee Church of the sexual abuse scandal he was instead running a shadow operation to pay off priests who had raped, sexually assaulted or abused children so that they could quietly take this money and disappear into the community unprosecuted, undetected, and unrepentant.” This “laicization” or “defrocking” as it is known, is (staggeringly) not uncommon in the Catholic church. Reports suggest the ex-clergy were also given $1,250 in monthly pension benefits and health insurance until they were able to land a job, this in addition to the $20,000 severance. Dolan initially denied that he made such payments, saying the claims were “false, preposterous and unjust,” and then when proof was offered, Dolan simply would not comment. Of course, given Dolan’s position as a senior Catholic figure it always seemed unlikely that the DNC would actually dare snub him and therein risk cementing accusations that President Obama and the Democratic Party are, en masse, waging a “war on faith.” But when does the tipping point occur? When does a religious figure become too extreme? The answer might just be, it seems, when there isn’t an election to win.

TVA is suddenly enforcing a 1933 reg prohibiting roofs on campers on TVA shorelines. After 15 years, I am stressed out over losing my camping pleasure and privledge in a retirement cottage I can afford. This will impact hundreds of grassroots Americans in their quest for some leisure enjoyment they can afford!

Wells Fargo evicted a man in kidney failure last week from his home of over 14 years instead of working with his family to come to an acceptable loan modification. Now another home sits empty while this hardworking family of 3 who has already dealt with so much due to illness have to go rebuild their lives. Its just not right.

I believe that Barack Obama set a precedent by being forced to show his birth certificate. Due to his integrity by sharing it, I believe all candidates for President, House of Representatives, and the Senate of the United States must follow suit and show the American public their birth certificate. This way we can decide if it is real or not.

Trying to find the truth in all the political rhetoric.

I would like for the Democrats to fact check all speeches made at the 2012 Democratic National Convention. This will show the Democrats as honest when they criticize the Republicans for lying.