Sen. McConnell recent statements have removed all doubt about who he represents in Washington. It's not the people of Kentucky. It's members of the top 1% like the Koch brothers. It's time to retire him.

Congress supports tax inversion to the detriment of individual US tax payers. It can and should stop.

Last week, nine-year-old Antonio Smith ran out of his house on the South Side of Chicago, angry that his mother wouldn't let him have a cupcake. It was about four o'clock in the afternoon. A few minutes later, Antonio was shot to death on the street a few blocks from his home by an unidentified gunman, for no apparent reason. Antonio's family has invited the public to the funeral. Funeral location: Evening Star Missionary Baptist Church, 2050 W. 59th Street, Chicago Date: Saturday, August 30 Time: 11:00 am Sign the petition to serve as a memorial to all victims of violence and to demonstrate that you demand an end to the violence.

Because I'm tired of the blame solely put on the Obama administration.

Fast food workers across the country are on strike. We’re striking because no one who works for a living should be forced to live in poverty – not when we work for hugely profitable corporations. We’re striking because McDonald’s and the fast food giants continue to dismiss us, and refuse to give us the respect that any human being deserves. We aren’t just striking for better pay and respect though, we’re striking to survive – and we have no other choice. We’re willing to do whatever it takes to win $15 an hour and the right to form a union without intimidation. Stand with us by adding your name to our petition and share it far and wide after you have.

One in 4 girls and 1 in 6 boys will be the victim of child sexual abuse (CSA) by their 18th birthday. There are more than 42 million survivors of CSA in the United States. Three million of these survivors are still children. These children could fill 46 national football stadiums. Ninety-three percent of the time sexual abuse is caused by a person who is supposed to protect you - a person in a position of trust or authority. In almost every case, the only witnesses to this crime are the perpetrator and the victim. Perpetrators often tell the child this is a secret and no one will believe them. Children rarely report abuse immediately. Often, they feel the abuse was their fault. In these cases, delayed disclosure is the norm. Most victims never tell anyone until several years after the abuse, if they ever tell at all. The four states that passed this law already are IN, IL, MO, ME, MI, AR, MS, and NV

This is about all prisons, not just the ones mentioned here. Now some of these things have been resolved, but it still occurs in other places. This petition is being started for two reasons. My friend is a prisoner at Potosi Correctional Center in Potosi, MO. He and two other prisoners have been written up because the prison officials think that my friend strong armed them into sending money to me. (Which is not true, the other prisoners contact me from my flyers that are circulating in the jail). I do prisoner's services out of my home, prisoners higher me to do research for cases and look up things for them. Now just because I am on my friend's visiting list (which I didn't know I was because in 2006 I got Denied), they think that my friend was involved in a conspiracy to get money in his account . Which is far from the case. I have sent in evidence to the contrary in the form of letters from the ones that hired me. The Caseworker Mike Laden had found all three men not guilty, yet the Warden over turned this action and found them guilty. This is not fair. I know prisoners have done their crime, but at the same time they are human just like everyone else. I am trying to get these guys out of the solitary or seg. The other reason for this petition is the fact St. Louis City Jail, in St. Louis, MO, had an inmate who was called by medical for a medical reason and that inmate didn't respond, so who let's them lay in a cell for 2 1/2 hours without anyone checking on them? ST. LOUIS CITY POLICE....They may deserve to be in jail but they are still human.

I would like to propose a reduction of the speed limit on the streets surrounding North Main Street in the Village of Monroe. This is a residential area and should not be grim thoroughfare for fast-moving cars and large industrial vehicles. Last year on Halloween a child was hit by a car right near North Main Elementary school. Most of the residents of the area surrounding the school would like to live on a quiet safe street where children can play outside and walk to school safely. The area has significant pedestrian traffic and a large number of students who walk to school. For many of our neighbors walking is the primary mode of transportation. At 20 mph, drivers make eye contact with the people in the street they are passing through. At speeds over 30 mph, drivers disassociate from the area they are passing through – treating it principally as a traffic thoroughfare for getting quickly from A to B, rather than a neighborhood where children are playing. A reduction of the speed limit may result in a decrease of the inappropriate road use. We have large numbers of trucks using our street as a thoroughfare. I have counted up to 25 in an hour. This is hard on our roads and effects the tenor of the community. The North Main is a residential area not an industrial zone.

Comcast's' lack of real time billing integration is critical to customers like myself who receives erroneous bills and have their services interrupted. Comcast capitalizes on customers who move and transfer services and attempts to disguise it (or code it)as a termination of service. They then send you out a bill which you can ill afford, and terminate your services when it is not paid. If equipment is collected at the time of termination of service, Comcast schedules a pickup but has no real time technology to track it, or so they said when they attempted to charge me $1100.00 for that incident alone . Their practices are unlawful and unfair and they should be required by law to have real time integration in all areas so that their customers are billed in real time for the right amount at the right time. Their customer service is not required to return your call if you receive a hang up which are many when calling in an issue so it goes unresolved due to countless hang ups which then impacts a customers daily life and ability to conduct business as your services will now be interrupted They should not be allowed to do this it is illegal and unfair and they are price gouging their customers. Internet, Phone and Alarm systems are critical to any household, but how can a customer maintain these services with a company that continuously persists in bad billing practices which are unlawful and creates unnecessary hardships for customers

To keep the monarchs from becoming extinct.

This petition is to change the Bartow County zoning ordinance to allow the right to reasonably keep backyard chickens on less than one acre in residentially zoned areas. Backyard chickens provide chemical-free pest control, consume all organic waste from the household, produce fresh wholesome food, and provide a sense of purpose and responsibility for young children. **an example of what "reasonably kept" means: in neighboring counties/cities, the ordinance has been modified to allow up to three hens on less than one acre. No roosters. Shall be maintained within a covered enclosure and fenced area set back a minimum of ten (10) feet from all property lines and no less than twenty five (25) feet from any residential dwelling.

Please share your heart. Call out to your friends and family to bring about a great healing through the millions that will sign this petition!