As the Turkish community in California and around the world we are strongly opposing bills and resolutions regarding the so-called Armenian Genocide · AB 659 · AJR 1915 · AJR 35 · SJR 41 · SJR 21 · SB 1380 United States has ratified 1948, United Nation Convention and became law in the land. In order name any event Genocide should have international court ruling. Otherwise it is slandering. Every single court in US and Europe rejected Armenians claim. What ever your personal feeling is on this issue, we urge you to comply with US Federal law. The so-called Armenian Genocide has no HISTORICAL OR LEGAL BASIS. For your personal and political gain you are slandering Turkish nation is ILLEGAL, UNETHICAL and IMMORAL. Please take the necessary steps to stop slandering and propagating ancient hatred and passing it generation to generation. Instead we are urging you to build bridges promote peace.

What has happened to Mary G. Sykes, can happen to you. American society--and our judicial -- is teaching our children what is theirs is theirs and what is yours is theirs. Protecting your golden years is not a spectator sport. My mother, at 90, filed a petition for a protective order to stop her eldest daughter, Carolyn Toerpe, from financial exploitation and willful deprivation of her liberty, property, human and civil rights, and Toerpe hired attorney Peter Schmiedel (law firm of Fischel and Kahn in Chicago) and along with two guardian ad litems, attorneys Cynthia Farenga and Adam Stern, railroaded Mother into a guardianship (in 2009). Schmiedel, Stern, Farenga, and Judges Jane Louise Stuart and Maureen Connors have not only successfully sanctioned the laundering all of mothers (over 1 million dollars) estate (sold her home, too) but also, stolen and converted all of my assets and estate, which included a medical account of at least $210,000, to be used to pay attorney Peter Schmiedel and the law firm he's associated -- and not, as Toerpe claims, for mother's care! Please WATCH: http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/video/mickey-rooney-testifies-elder-abuse-actor-control-finances-stripped-health-13042199 My mother now 95, is unnessarily drugged, prevented from access to the Courts and cannot appeal, and isolated from all family and friends for almost 5 years. Mother invited me to visit her on June 22, 2013 where she was illegally confined at the Senior Living facility in Naperville, Ill and the first thing my mother said when she saw and heard my voice, was "I knew you didn't abandon me. I knew you'd come save me". Toerpe arrived 40 minutes later, and while facility staff watched, she overtly physically abused Mother, and told her that she'd "NEVER see" me again. What has happened to my mother and me can happen to you: court sanctioned abuses of the elderly and disabled must stop! Attorneys like Schmiedel, Stern, Farenga and Judges Connors and Stuart are dangerous because they are empowered by our judicial and agencies like the Illinois Attorney Registration and Discipline Commission. (The attorney of my mother choice, Kenneth Ditkowsky, her friend, was sanctioned for trying to help her!) Carolyn Toerpe was estranged from the family and like a thief in the night, stole everything my Mother and Father worked their entire lives for including her freedoms and liberties -- and then, having retained the right attorneys, (Fischel and Kahn law firm) and with two supporting Guardian ad Litem, pauperized me too. The next step in the Cottage Industry's plan, is to over or under medicate or suffocated my Mother: cremate her, although not Mother's advance directive. Yes, this sounds unbelievable, but it's the biggest scam against the elderly and disabled -- an American Holocaust. Please help save my Mother and in doing so, will save the lives of millions of elderly and disabled people! Mary G. Sykes wrote letters to the Judge and anybody who would listen, but Judge Maureen Connors and Jane Louise Stuart turned a deaf ear: WATCH: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wcAU3Svl_SQ

I've heard a lot of things from Rep. Steve King, but recently he reached an ultimate low. He said children of immigrants who came to the US children without papers should be immediately deported instead of allowed to serve in the military. While discussing the ENLIST Act, a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to join the army and eventually earn citizenship if they arrived before they were 15, Rep. King said: "As soon as they raise their hand and say, 'I'm unlawfully present in the United States,' we're not going take your oath into the military, but we're going to take your deposition and we have a bus for you to Tijuana." "We have a bus for you to Tijuana?" Who says that about kids -- especially kids who want to join the military? This is outrageous! These comments about aspiring members of the military are unacceptable. Rep. Mike Coffman, a Republican from Colorado responded by saying, “As a Marine combat veteran, I believe there is no higher expression of citizenship than serving our nation in uniform.” and I agree! The Reason Rep. Steve King gets away with his horrible rhetoric in Congress is because Tom Latham and other leading Republicans in Iowa refuse to stand up to him. Why are Republican members of Congress in places like Colorado publicly condemned these comments -- but we have heard nothing from Rep. Latham from here in Iowa? Please join me in demanding that Rep. Latham condemn these comments.

Making sure ALL kids have access to great education early in life is a smart investment for Colorado -- and it's the right thing to do. Let's tell state lawmakers we want them to make sure everyone, including corporations, pays their fair share so that we can invest in priorities like high-quality preschool for all!

On 11/20/09 William Levea intentionally and repeatedly rammed Christopher Spacks truck until he lost control and was hit by oncoming traffic on RT 370 in Cato, NY. Chris lost his life at the early age of 41. This was INTENTIONAL NOT AN ACCIDENT!!! This man should not be released from prison due to medical conditions. Do they release other MURDERERS for medical conditions? This man has a violent history and should not be released for any reason!!!

Last year, the oil industry succeeded in stopping anti-fracking measures in the California Legislature. Since then, fracking has continued to expand in California, putting our communities and the climate at risk. But now it’s our chance to fight back. Senators Holly Mitchell and Mark Leno introduced SB 1132, a strong moratorium bill that, if passed, will protect California from fracking. The oil industry will spend huge amounts of money and exert tremendous political pressure fighting this bill, so we need to speak out to make it clear that we expect our elected officials to vote for a fracking moratorium.

There are countless people in need of equality. It is every citizens right to marry who they wish.

We have showed you numbers, and a lot of data. Yvonne, has the exact same data we share.with you online. When she can't see the numbers and the number of voters don't match. It's time for her to go.

The closure of the plant in The Bronx causes letter carriers to deliver mail after dark. This is a serious safety hazard. Processing away from The Bronx facility slows down the service standards of the mail causing mail to be dramatically late.

Soon I will be graduating and I plan on going to the service but, the job I would like to go into only applies to men only. Women and men should not have a limitation on jobs based on gender qualifications or opinions.

My husband’s tragic story began when he was just 5 years old, when he became the victim of a 7 year long vicious and violent rape. The rapist showed up at his childhood home while he was there visiting and threatened my four children with the same fate. He had another man with him in the passenger seat. My husband told him to leave and he refused. My husband entered his parents’ home and returned with a pistol to run them off. The passenger pulled a loaded sawed off shotgun on my husband and told him again that they would not leave. My husband defended himself and my children, and has since lost his life, and the life of our family. Due to a lack of proper presentation and an inadequate defense at best, he was treated as a criminal and not the victim that he is. Instead of going to trial like he should have, he was presented with a plea bargain that would treat him for PTSD; which 4 forensic evaluators said he had due to the childhood rape. The evaluations also said that when the rapist threatened our children, it was considered a "trigger" which created his response. The evaluations continued on to say that they believed his actions were made in self-defense. A plea bargain designed to treat him for PTSD sounded fair and reasonable. However, since agreeing to this plea, he has been unfairly punished in cruel and unbearable ways. While in the hospital supposedly for PTSD, he has been subject to unrelenting punishment and judgment. His 1st, 2nd, 5th, 8th, and 14th amendments; guaranteed to him and every American Citizen by the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution, have been violated and denied to him. Our family, like every other family in America has had to endure a major depression on top of everything else, and we have not been able to hire an adequate lawyer to represent him. I ask all of you, “What would you do to defend your children against a rapist, who raped you from the ages of 5-12. What measures would you take? Is there anything you would not do to defend your children against such a crime?? Why is my husband being punished like a criminal and not the victim and/or hero that he is??” He saved my children from the same fate he suffered as a child, and now is being punished and denied his civil and constitutional rights. Because there is opposition from the man who threatened my husband’s life at his childhood home, his parents’ house, we are being prevented from owning property in an entirely separate county (it is a rent to own agreement with a suitable house to raise all of our children and 3 acres). To be specific: the incidence occurred in Monroe Co; the man who objects lives in the easternmost part of Greenbrier Co; and our property is located in Fayette Co. My husband has finally found full time work, and is being forced to quit the job; even after only finding part time employment up until this point. I know what power the people of this great country possess. It is time to change the laws that give a child rapist and a man who threatens another mans life on his own property, MORE rights than the victim of childhood rape. Please help me end the absurd and brutal circumstances which are preventing him from fathering and supporting our children. Since writing this petition, WITHOUT a chance to even present his case to the judge and without being heard: my husband has been forced to leave his family, his full time job, and his home, and is now being mandated to return to a town with no permanent residency, no job, no family, and no support system. This is a travesty, a tragedy, and a crime. Please help!!

If you pick the weekend shuttle up at W-lot it will take you a whole 30 mins to get to campus, 5 times longer than it would during the week. That's an entire How I Met your Mother episode, with commercials! We want a weekend shuttle that will get you to where you want to go quickly and efficiently so you can spend your weekend how it was meant to be spent. Watching Netflix.