In April of 2013, planes began flying over my northern California home, turning our blue sky into a white haze. As I began to research and connect with others, I learned that this aerosolized spraying is happening not only over all areas of the United States, but that it is happening in many other countries as well. I also learned that it has been happening for many years in some areas. Initially, the spraying we experienced here severely affected my health. It continues to cause breathing problems for my children and for me. I care about ALL of the children of this world and I believe they deserve better than what our government is doing. Solar Radiation Management (SRM) is a geoengineering technique being "proposed" by scientists to slow down global warming by dimming the sun. Clearly, however, it is out of the "proposed" stage and is already under full-scale implementation. SRM is not an answer to climate change. It will benefit fossil fuel companies that want to continue with business as usual, and it will benefit chemical companies and big pharmaceutical companies, but it is destructive to the health of people, animals, and the environment. And cooling the planet by dimming the sun in a haze of intentional pollution is shrouding the grave issue of ocean acidification. The children of this planet will inherit this mess and the health and environmental issues it creates. We can do better.

The KMPH FOX 26 News was outraged after an investigation reveals the Veterans Affairs Hospital in Fresno was caught blocking the "Fox News Channel" from a hospital waiting room. Let me remind Fox news and everyone that the Fresno VA Hospital is a military establishment not a civilian establishment and is regulated by military standards. All military personnel have taken the oath, and to abide by the oath which they were sworn in! The oath stated… I, (NAME), do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; and that I will obey the orders of the President of the United States and the orders of the officers appointed over me, according to regulations and the Uniform Code of Military Justice. So help me God. Any establishment like the likes of Fox news that constantly belittles, disrespect the president of the United States, and constantly promoting, siding with domestic terrorists like the likes of the Arizona rancher, it’s willing to raise arms against the flag should be banned not only in the Fresno establishment but and every military establishments and federal building.

The public needs to be better informed on how well the administration of each political party handled these two disasters and the extent to which there was full disclosure to the public or a politicized one.

Washington Post editorial page editor Fred Hiatt sees nothing wrong with a column that claims rape victims are privileged, that most assaults are made up, and that the stigma of victimhood is actually a status symbol.

The old growth redwood trees in Armstrong Redwoods State Natural Reserve are endangered by a proposed water system project from The California Department of Parks and Recreation. The plans will disrupt the ancient and delicate root system of thousands of years old growth redwoods, to pump millions of gallons of water per year for the humans that use the park! The trees cannot handle the loss of water nor the huge physical damage that would occur with the use of heavy equipment within it. Although public pressure has managed to postpone the project until September of 2015, a united stand against it is the only way to kill the plans all together.

Clearly the results of military endeavors throughout the world have caused untold agonies, sorrow, and destruction. It is absurd to continue to repeat the same actions, just with "better" weapons, and believe that we will create a better and safer world. I believe it is past time to try another avenue, allowing our citizens to lend their weight to Peacekeeping rather than arms bearing. Call me, we will talk.

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