To change karaoke...? People in Europe, and people who work on Saturdays (like Scraner) would be able to come to karaoke if this happens :D

Our fathers fought against communist in the Congo, Africa. They have never been recognized publicly for what we believe is the only war we have won. A lot of our fathers never came home and we now ask for the proper recognition for their bravery in helping our country maintain the freedom for which we came here. They are our families and our country's heroes and deserve the highest honors as any other heroes of American wars.

1 in 100 children are affected by a Congenital Heart Disease in South Dakota, with 1 in 4 of those being critical. Only 1/3 are diagnosed before they are born. A simple and painless test using a pulse oximeter prior to discharge would save the lives of many children.

An out of town developer proposes 50 dwelling units on Sombrero Beach Road from Publix to Marathon High School. We need your help to save our community character and our well used community path. It's NOT A DONE DEAL! Please show your support to protect our gateway to beautiful Sombrero Beach at our next City Council Meeting: Tuesday, January 13 5:30 P.M. @ Marathon Government Center Please attend the meeting above, forward this petition to your friends and colleagues, and write or call your city councilmen.

Congresswoman Wasserman-Schultz took control of the DNC in May of 2011. And while she has been comfortably “tucked in bed” in her own district, her complete lack of messaging and dissemination of available resources has cost us two consecutive congressional defeats. She also distanced herself from the President and his policies in the 2014 election. We got crushed. And now, what can only be described as the debacle of the Democratic debate schedule unfolds. The obvious structuring of this schedule and its limited number seem to prove Ms. Wasserman-Schultz has ulterior motives. We Democrats cannot have a person of such electoral criticality so compromised by her personal preferences, and ambition. Every second that this leadership is in place is another second the Democratic Party concedes congress to the Republicans. She never took any responsibility for her miserable failures in our previous two elections. Our current message in news cycles is invisible as is she. And I believe that this now even jeopardizes our crucial need to hold onto the White House in 2016. Honorable people who have failed so miserably in their mission would hurry to apologize and get out of the way. But apparently, Ms. Wasserman-Schultz’s hubris will not allow her to do so. Please sign this petition to remove Debbie Wasserman-Schultz as the DNC Chair.

Dairy Creek West was pulled into the urban growth boundary by a back-room deal. A meeting with developers and elected officials occurred on February 23, 2014 in the City of Hillsboro that was not advertised to the public. The meeting had no minutes and no attendance sheets. None of the landowners of Dairy Creek West were invited to this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated Statewide Planning Goal #1 that encourages public involvement through the entire planning process. This bill was passed on February 28th, 2014 five days after this meeting giving no reasonable notification to landowners of what transpired at this meeting. House Bill 4078 violated the landowners of Dairy Creek West 5th Amendment right of due process on their land. It also went around the public process listed in Title 11 and 14 of Metro Code. This code requires notification of landowners when their land is being considered to be placed into the urban growth boundary because of the monetary and livelihood impacts to landowners. It evens offers the opportunity for the landowners to say whether they want their land to be included in the urban growth boundary and why. Since the passage of House Bill 4078, it has placed undue stress on the landowners of Dairy Creek West as they now must try to protect their rural lifestyle. Find out more at http://www.334thavenue.org/

During his tenure as a Senator from Colorado, Mark Udall has been a champion of government transparency: on privacy and government surveillance, secret law, torture, and drone strikes. Sen. Udall lost his re-election bid this November, which puts him in a unique position to carry out one final mission to advance government transparency. News reports have indicated that the Senate Intelligence Committee’s CIA torture report details not only brutal abuse the CIA perpetrated on detainees, but also illegal deception CIA officials conducted on Congress and other executive branch officials about the program in order to evade democratic and legal accountability. The CIA has been preventing the report from becoming public. This is information the public deserves to know—and there is a way to get it to the people without the approval of the CIA. In 1971, Sen. Mike Gravel, frustrated with attempts to make the Pentagon Papers public through ordinary channels, used a key provision of the U.S. Constitution to get the documents published. According to the Speech and Debate Clause, members of Congress have an absolute free-speech right on the floor or in committee—even if what they say includes classified information. [1] So Gravel—along with an aide—read the entire Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record, which is published for anyone to read. Government transparency advocates are now urging Sen. Udall to follow Gravel’s lead and read the Senate intelligence committee’s torture report into the congressional record. [2] The worst punishment he’d face would be censorship or expulsion by his colleagues—but since he is out of office in January in any event, he has little to fear. Urge Senator Udall to use this unique opportunity to defend the public interest and let the American people know about the CIA’s use of torture by signing our petition. References: 1. “Senator Who Put Pentagon Papers Into Public Record Urges Udall To Do Same With Torture Report,” Dan Froomkin, The Intercept, November 10, 2014, https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/10/mike-gravel-senator-put-pentagon-papers-public-record-urges-udall-torture-report 2. “Mark Udall's loss is a blow for privacy, but he can go out with a bang: 'leak' the CIA torture report,” Trevor Timm, The Guardian, November 5, 2014, http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/nov/05/mark-udall-loss-privacy-cia-torture-report

AARP, whose own "R.I.G.H.T Ethical Decision-Making Model" demands that they "hold their decisions up to the mirror" must do so with it's current business partnership with Walmart, who is selling the AARP RealPad Tablet and whose labor practices are infamously poor, unethical, immoral, unjust and unfair. As recently as January of 2014 the National Labor Relations Board issued a complaint against Walmart, asserting that it had broken U.S. labor laws during the Black Friday strikes of 2012 and 2013. AARP should stop doing business through and with Walmart and remove the AARP RealPad from Walmart shelves and it's online catalog.

Experiments on great apes are permitted only if they are absolutely necessary to improve human health, if no other animal should be used instead, and it is impossible to conduct studies on men for reasons ethical. Apes therefore are likely to continue to be used for research of vaccines against hepatitis C and the development of monoclonal antibodies. Studies on the behavior and genetics of great apes including chimpanzees and must obey strict clauses regarding their habitat and their conditions of detention. Thus, because of the need for primates (as men) to maintain social relationships, they should be kept in groups of at least 7 monkeys, with 100 square meters of space per animal and the ability to climb when they wish. The next fight for American animal rights associations will be with private laboratories and US universities, which still retain 350 chimpanzees for research.

To investigate possible Treason and High Crimes committed by the Bush Administration on September 11, 2001, and the far reaching Cover Up of those Crimes. To take Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Rice, Powell and Wolfowitz into custody during their trial in "Saleh v Bush" in NW District Federal Court, San Francisco, CA. November 13, 2014. (ref Comar Law)

Now that there is lacrosse at the middle and high school level, Clear Creek needs its own youth program to feed into those. Mtn Area Lacrosse has been an option in the past, but they are at least a 20 - 40 minute drive for Clear Creek residents. We need a program closer and more convenient for our families.

As the costs of housing, food, health care and other basic necessities continue to rise dramatically, Georgia’s minimum wage has stalled at its 2002 level of just $5.15 an hour -- the lowest of any state in the country. Georgia has one of the highest percentages of minimum wage workers in the country -- 6.4 percent of Georgia workers earn minimum wage vs. 4.7 percent of workers nationally. And about half of all minimum-wage workers nationwide are over the age of 24. In Georgia, a minimum-wage worker at the federal rate of $7.25 an hour would have to work 79 hours per week in order to afford a two-bedroom apartment at fair market rent. A majority of Georgia voters support raising the minimum wage, which would benefit hundreds of thousands of Georgia workers, their children and their families, while giving a huge boost to local economies.