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.

We are residents of Cherrydale and nearby neighborhoods. Many of our children are directly affected by the middle school overcrowding crisis facing Arlington County Public Schools. As taxpayers, we are also impacted by the manner in which the school system addresses this crisis.

Washington Post editorialist George Will recently opined that rape victims enjoy "a coveted status that confers privileges". In the face of widespread calls for Will to be fired, Fred Hiatt defended that stance as "within bounds of legitimate debate" and "very healthy and exactly what a good opinion section should be offering its readers". Apparently Mr. Hiatt thinks his newspaper is operating in the Taliban controlled areas of Afghanistan rather than the modern West. As Iraq again explodes into heartbreaking deadly violence, it's important to remember that this same Fred Hiatt oversaw an editorial page that penned 27 columns urging the US to invade that country. His page rarely saw fit to host "healthy debate" on that important decision and savagely mocked Al Gore when he spoke out against the idea. Over 600,000 innocent civilians lost their lives as a result. Hiatt has never apologized. Yet he considers whether or not rape victims are "privileged" to be within the bounds of debate. As Mr. Bezos tries to return the Washington Post to its former glory and credibility using a subscription model, he would do well to stay mindful of the values of its readers. He can start by updating his editorial page to something more fitting with the 21st century and the decency of its readership.

Thoroughbred racing needs a thorough stable cleaning. The essentially unregulated drugging of race horses is both incredibly dangerous and cruel. Unlike their human counterparts, these equine athletes have no choice and no voice. Please ask your members of congress to speak up for these magnificent creatures and their riders today.

After doing my own research on why food was making me sick , and severe allergies climbing in children I found out that the Pesticides used have been causing us all to get very sick as well as the GM food. I woke up yesterday morning to find out my lovely Organic Garden had been contaminated by the spraying of Roundup in the early morning hours. I am no longer willing to wait for the world to stop and see what is going on, I am going to help spread the word and make my town a safer place for all our children and grandchildren (hopefully!).

BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE NEED TO RESOLVE PROBLEMS. THEY WANT FRACKING, PUT IT IN THEIR HOME AREAS. OTHERS DON'T, SO TAKE IT AWAY FROM THEIR HOME AREAS.

Iraq is an articial nation put together as a French Mandate (Colony) after WWI. It will always be unstable until each of the three groups (Kurds, Shite and Suni Arabs) which were stuck together get their own sovereignity. Let the end pay itself loss of another American life. Our last lengthy venture thee cost oone trillion dollars and solved nothing.