The COD community deserves a remastering of this great FPS, especially for next-gen.

We don’t have to hear anti-LGBT nonsense in California too often. Certainly not during Pride month. But when Texas Governor Rick Perry visited San Francisco this week, he had this to say: "I may have the genetic coding that I'm inclined to be an alcoholic, but I have the desire not to do that, and I look at the homosexual issue the same way." It’s just wrong to compare homosexuality to a destructive addiction like alcoholism. Governor Perry needs to apologize. Add your voice and we’ll let him know his comments are unacceptable. Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom

I'm start this petition to shed some much needed light on the misrepresentation of Black America on reality TV. The only way this is going to stop is if we start by doing something about it.

BECAUSE I CARE ABOUT THE FUTURE FOR MY CHILDREN AND THIER CHILDREN!! ONE EARTH! ONE PLACE TO LIVE!!!

My ex left 5 years ago, as the breadwinner, he left behind a full time mom/ part time income earner with two boys, ages 10 and 12. It was almost a year later before any child support was put into place. Partly because I believed the man I had been married to for 12 years would help his family and not let them go hungry or homeless, and partly because of the cost, up front, for a lawyer. After the shock wore off and I was faced with the reality of a lifestyle that was maintained by a two- income family, I downsized as much as possible and worked more hours. I also went back to school and retooled as a nurse. During that time i was on foodstamps , free school lunches and student loans. But, if there had been a safety net in place, as soon as my ex decided to leave the family, his income could have been garnished to support his children. There are child support worksheets already in place. This tool should be implemented within 30/60? days of the change in income due to the person abandoning the financial responsibilitied of the family. The family needs to be considered as an entity, therefore anything that disrupts the financial stability needs to be addressed in a timely fashion. This is something I am very passionate about and I am just starting. I am putting this out there as a grass roots movement to protect our families left behind.

Here are many reasons for you to sign this petition: We the people spoke in 2010 and defeated Proposition 16 that PG&E spent $46 million on in an attempt to kill their small but growing competition. Now they’re back, with another stealth attempt to kill the competition with a bill in the legislature called AB 2145, which was introduced by Steve Bradford, a former executive of Southern California Edison, one of the profit-centered utility monopolies. The legislature passed a law in 2002 authorizing Community Choice Energy programs, which provide competition to California’s three profit-centered utility monopolies: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric. Marin County has had one of these competitive programs up and running since 2010, saving their homes and businesses nearly $6 million just in 2014. Sonoma County is just coming on line with one of these Community Choice Energy programs, and citizens of other cities and counties are working toward one, including the cities of San Francisco, Lancaster and San Diego, and Alameda County and several others. Besides providing competition–which, after all, is the American Way–the Community Choice Energy programs benefit consumers in many ways: > reduce global warming generated by fossil fuel power plants > give control to their communities, rather than the profit-centered monopolies > encourage sourcing of power from renewable resources such as wind and sun > enable a new local cottage industry of rooftop solar generation by actually paying homeowners and small businesses who generate more electricity than they use. PG&E has rarely if ever paid for such excess generation > provide more dependable electricity because it comes from numerous local installations rather than via wasteful high-voltage lines carrying power from huge distant fossil fuel plants > provide a vehicle which allows many homeowners and small businesses to join together to get a better deal on rooftop solar installations > by providing the vehicle for homeowners and small businesses to join together, Community Choice programs can stipulate that solar installations will be by workers who are unionized and local > homeowners and small businesses who want to stay with the profit-centered monopoly receive numerous notices telling them how to do that by “opting out” > generally save homeowners and small businesses money on their electric bills

I have been threatened and my mother is mentally ill and the neighbors ha ve threaten to do harm to my mother who is 78 years old and my daughter. These individuals are getting away with murder with a silent killer.

43,000 kids hang in the balance as Gov. Jerry Brown decides whether or not he will get them access to quality preschool, or leave them on waiting lists. Every kid deserves the same strong start. Early learning programs not only help kids do better in school, but also increase their chances of going to college and getting a good job. On June 15, the Legislature approved a budget that will create 43,000 new full-day preschool slots over a multi-year period and make investments to improve the quality of early learning programs. This is a big step forward for our kids, but we still need Gov. Brown to sign it. In his original budget Gov. Brown didn’t allocate any additional funding for early learning, leaving our kids shut out and behind. We need more people to speak up and show the governor this is a priority. We’ve only got a few days to convince Gov. Brown to invest in early education. Our littlest learners are depending on us to push him to do the right thing.

Serial killers of wildlife ( trappers, hunters, hounders ) have controlled state agencies as killing business for a century. Wildlife is our commons and we all have a responsibility to pay for and steward our wildlife humanely. Fair Pay/Fair Say/ Fair Play. If 90% of the public are wildlife watchers and do not kill, they get 90% of the public land safe from harm. If 6 % kill, then they get 6% of the public land for killing, and since .0015 % of the public traps - that is the percentage for trapping. But we all pay equally and are represented proportionately in wildlife, land, air and water decisions.

I have been disabled now for 18 years, my husband a Veteran of the United States Of America passed away 9 years ago with Kidney Cancer. My only source of income is from Social Security Disability. I had insurance with my husband's former employer, Arkansas Best Freight. My insurance ended a few years ago and now I am told by the employees at Social Security Administration in Downtown Fort Worth, Texas that I will be penalized for 18 years of not taking Medicare when I first became disabled, ( something that I was not aware of. I can not afford the fee for Medicare Part B, nor the penalty percentage of 140%) that's being accessed today. I have asked to file a appeal on numerous occasion regarding this. Please help me and other disabled Americans that are disabled in body and mind. I am not the only person that's being forced by our Government to pay for services that we did not receive. I'm not the only person that's being insulted and demeaned at the Social Security offices. Where in America do we pay for services not rendered and then are penalized? Social Security is at a all time low, and our yearly increases are not enough to survive. I want to continue to live, but I must have food, shelter,and medicine for my blood clots, diabetes and other illnesses. Please stand with me, and others and sign this petition. Thank you

Fallujah. Mosul. Baghdad. Hearing these names again sends a chill down my spine. As a Marine who served in Iraq, I know well the bloody costs paid by Americans and by Iraqis in these and so many other cities over the past decade. I have friends who to this day remain on the front lines of a sectarian conflict that is tearing their homeland apart. And I am saddened to see the renewed and growing violence once again gripping Iraq. But I also know that the solution to the chaos in Iraq is not another American military intervention. The president was right to end the Iraq War in 2011, and it would be a tremendous mistake to restart it now. The United States and Iraq have already paid dearly for George W. Bush’s disastrous decision to launch the Iraq War. With Iraq once again descending into violence, we must not repeat the mistakes of the past. No military intervention, whether a massive invasion like the one in 2003 or the limited airstrikes some are calling for today, will solve the deep and complex challenges Iraq is facing. Iraq’s problems can only be solved by Iraqis, not American bombs. Launching another military intervention in Iraq would only throw more fuel on a fire that is raging. Even worse, it would once again risk American lives in a fight that is not ours and that we cannot win. Over the past few days, the news has been filled with stories of a swift insurgent advance through northern Iraq. Sunni militants, under the banner of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), have taken over city after city in northern Iraq. These militants, fresh from the fight in neighboring Syria, have made dramatic progress, capturing American-made weapons and supplies left behind by the fleeing Iraqi security forces. Their advance is fueled in no small part by the repressive sectarian policies of Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. The situation may get worse before it gets better, but one thing is clear: American bombs are not the solution. Even more chilling than watching the violence in Iraq is listening to the pundits here at home. The very same men and women who lied to the American public and sent thousands of my fellow men and women in uniform to their deaths are now leading the charge for another military intervention. Many of these men should be in jail; none of them should be listened to. If my friends in Iraq are to ever find peace, if their children and their grandchildren have any chance of growing up without the butchery of beheading knives and the carnage of car bombs, peace will come through negotiation and settlement, as it briefly did post-2007, and not through an American strategy of choosing sides, choosing winners and losers, and indulging in the self-satisfactory, self-indulgent, guilt-erasing, yet illusory, medication of bombing.

To address the ever growing need for an adequate, intensive nationwide mental health program to aid in the prevention of deaths by gun violence. The safety of our schools and our public in general should be a top priority. Funding for background checks and a mental health data system and mental health treatment/intervention can come from increasing the sales tax on guns, since our government seems unable to stop the sale of guns, which often end up in the hands of the mentally ill.