The state house voted 94-4 to ban controversial "pray away the gay" practices for minors in Washington. The Senate must pass the bill by Friday to become law this year but the conservative committee chair is refusing to allow a vote.

Bobcats do not need to be removed from the ecological circle as most hunters would argue. Their diet consists mainly of squirrels, rabbits, and other rodents, which helps control those populations. Humans and feral cats are the worst enemies our wildlife faces and we should continue to protect this species to prevent it from being added to the Illinois Threatened List again. By signing this petition you will let the House know that you oppose the approval of HB4226.

My son Joshua has been the target of bullying by the same two children at Pilot Middle School for some time now, Two weeks ago my some came home with bruises where one of these boys caught him in the bathroom and repeatedly punched him, I have been to the school many times and nonthing has changed along with no punishment. I was in a meeting with the principal when my son was in the bathroom, he used his cell phone to record one of these incidents with another child being the target, he came to the office as I was leaving and told me what had just happened, Mrs. Sawyers the principal watched and listened to video knew the children involved there was no punishment handed down to the bully. On the following Tuesday she informed us if she punished the kids involved she would have to suspend my son for recording it. Since this incident I have been made aware that there are other children being bullied by these kids but they are scared to come forward because they know nonthing will get done......PLEASE HELP GET MORE AWARENESS AT THIS SCHOOL AND SPEAK UP THAT WE ARE NOT GOING TO TOLERATE BULLYING IN ANY SCHOOL NOT JUST THIS ONE

The Affordable Care Act extends health care coverage by allowing more Americans to qualify for Medicaid, but the Supreme Court has ruled that states can choose to reject this expansion. Georgia has declined the federal funding, because Republican politicians like Gov. Nathan Deal hate Obamacare. As a direct result, four Georgia hospitals have shut down. These hospitals primarily served rural poor communities, where a closure is devastating. Sign our petition to Gov. Nathan Deal, demanding that Georiga accept the Medicaid expansion—putting the health care of his constituents above partisan politics.

When Alfred Wright — a 28-year-old Black husband and father of three — mysteriously vanished last year in November, it took only four days for the Sabine County Sheriff's Department to give up searching for Alfred's body. The Sheriff's Department never gave Alfred the benefit of a thorough investigation, which is particularly jarring considering Sabine County's notorious history of racial violence directed at Black residents. Our elected officials and leaders in government have a duty to hold law enforcement to a high standard of conduct and ensure that the murders of Black people do not go unsolved.

Arizona SB1154 will allow physical therapists to practice acupuncture with barely any training, leading to potential injury by ignoring the required Sunrise process for increasing their scope of practice. The bill allows physical therapists to take a weekend course and set their own standards, while ignoring public safety. “Dry Needling” is acupuncture and as such is already regulated by the State of Arizona.

We are currently experiencing one of the coldest winters in the past three decades – a factor that is increasing customer bills substantially. Meanwhile, the amount of available LIHEAP funding has actually declined for some community action agencies while increasing only very modestly for others. In addition, the state's recent decision to reallocate nearly $15 million in LIHEAP funds to the relatively small group of LIHEAP eligible customers served by propane, while understandable, has left even less funding available for the far larger number of eligible, low-income customers who reside in the urban and suburban areas of the state.

We are ALL affected when a candidate---or---elected officials lie to us or keep the truth from us---WE PAY THEIR SALARYS---THEY WORK (are supposed to) FOR US--We must make them accountalble for what THEY DO AND SAY!!!--please read below! SEE ROUGH DRAFT of CONTRACT BELOW--- Success of this "Contract With the People" will only be determined when you see them talking about it on TV.--So yes I think I am getting the concept to people who will advance it. "A 10 POINT CONTRACT IS NEEDED" one that will be signed by candidates. It will be "kept simple" It will outlne only 10 points of things the candidate promiss to correct in government if he is elected.. You should send the Contract it to as many people and TV Stations as possible. It will not be any good unless it's A LEGAL BINDING CONTRACT. [email protected] Fool Americans once--Shame on YOU! FOOL Americans TWICE--SHAME ON US!! Subject: printable Contract with the People Contract with the PEOPLE--printable--Have your candidates SIGN IT-- I'm looking at it like the "Contract" would spread by word of mouth and Internet and be signed by most of the candidates and over the years correct all these candidate/political problems of not being truthful to the people---It would be the one way to have them work for us, as it should be. It can be changed to reflect all the things that are wrong now. They would not be allowed to take "BRIBES" in the form of lobbyist's--politicians give the lobbyists money grants--then the lobbyist's give part of money back to the candidates for re-election. The people can't win with this present set up--it's our money they're using to get themselves re-elected---they sure have a sweet deal. That's one issue the Contract would STOP!--It's only a place to start--the hardest part will be making it "binding" so they can't wiggle out of it but I'm sure that legal heads out there could do that. The Contract would say that if they break it they agree to voluntarily leave office and allow someone to take their place--It could be used for local candidates and many other issues also. I'm making an effort to email the "Contract" out at least once a week until election day to as many people as I can reach hoping that it will catch on and the candidates will start talking about who is honest enought to sign it in their debates---they can use the fact that they signed it against their opponent challenging them to sign it--They can say that it shows the American people they are for doing everything they can to make our government controlled by American people--and not large company's. and possibly foreign countrys Well it's just a thought...........we have to start correcting how our ELECTED LEADERS think when they are running for office and how they think and act after they are elected. They now only think about what big business or powerful organizations will give them large sums of money IF THEY PROMISE TO CHANGE A LAW OR VOTE IN THEIR FAVOR--but these changes are very seldom in peoples favor--and usually it's against the citizen.--This must stop! MAKE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR STATEMENTS and Campaign Promises by having them sign the contract. The following is "TheCONTRACT with the PEOPLE" I propose that we make a requirement of our officials when campaigning that they sign a BINDING-CONTRACT with the PEOPLE --it should be kept as simple as possible--only 10 points 1- I will close our borders and make arraignments to document or return illegal aliens by issuing a card similar to cruise ship cards-(easy and Cheap) 2- I will propose and vote to stop all lobbying donations / payoffs. 3- I will make it illegal for government people to leave office and become lobbyists--they will forfite their right when the take office. 4- I will propose and vote for"bills" that they should not contain hidden last minute add on's, only one subject per bill. 5- I will stop our elected officials from passing laws that make them exempt from our laws and will vote to remove any law that now exempts anyone (elected officials, etc) from our citizens laws. 6- I will vote to stop ALL lobbying and will accept only funds from individfual citizens. 7- I will take campiagn funds and others only from individual citizens 8- I will will vote to stop using taxes collected for one thing and being used for something else. Tax money can only be used for the purpose it was created for. People who break this will be fired or serve jail sentnce. 9- I will propose that the government show pie charts each month. One with income segments and one with spending segments, for each tax collected. 10- I will always put the American citizen's best interest above all else. By signing this Binding Contract I agree to step down and resign from my office voluntarily if I do not eagerly pursue and vote in favor of my campaign promises as noted above. The second highest vote getter will be asked to sign this CONTRACT and accept taking my position over my position should I default. Candidates signature__________________________________ I agree to the terms above Second Candidates signature___________________________ I agree witness signature ____________________________________ witness signature ____________________________________ FEEL FREE TO PRINT THIS OUT and PASS THIS ON and have your candidates sign it. Do you have any request you'd like to add? There are so many things our government seems to be doing that needs to be corrected that it's hard to list them all but if we get a list we can see and discuss them better. If we are to get America back on the right track we should have at least 10 points that the LARGE majority of citizens agree with

As a former Camden resident who dreams to see the city of Camden restored, I am using all of the resources that are at my disposal to positively influence this community via the platform of education. They will say, "This land that was laid waste has become like the garden of Eden; the cities that were lying in ruins, desolate and destroyed, are now fortified and inhabited." Ezekiel 36:35

The American people must have a way to STOP candidates from telling us lies just to get votes---Then they do just the opposite and the people are powerless to do anything! We need this LEGAL CONTRACT so we can REMOVE ANYONE FROM OFFICE that lies to us---this contract eventually should be voluntaraly signd by all the candidates if they expect to win office---because NO ONE should vote for them if they refuse to sign. Of course it will take years to get to that point but after trhey see that the only candidates voted into office are ones who signed the contract they will change their mind and sign. When that happens the people of AMERICA will have the people in office WORKING FOR THEM as it shoulfd be---Americans will have CONTROL of their country back!---- SEE ROUGH DRAFT of CONTRACT BELOW--- Success of this "Contract With the People" will only be determined when you see them talking about it on TV.--So yes I think I am getting the concept to people who will advance it. On mondays "Hannity" 12/2/13 show he ended it with saying that he was starting a new web site next month to present the idea that "A 10 POINT CONTRACT IS NEEDED" that will be signed by candidates. It will be "kept simple" It will outlne only 10 points of things the candidate promiss to correct in government if he is elected.. I havn't seen MSNBC or CNN or any of the other government controlled TV stations mention it YET?---lol--that'll be a cold day in hell--lol Are you sending the Contract it to ALL your people?? It will not be any good unless it's A BINDING CONTRACT It still amazes me that some people say FOX TV lies about everything? It's really just the opposite---it is the only one trying to consitantly bring out the "wrong doings of our government" I don't see any other "GOVERNMENT CONTROLLED" TV stations doing this! As a matter of fact---they ignore talking about anything our government is doing wrong.------- [email protected] Fool me once--Shame on YOU! FOOL ME TWICE--SHAME ON ME!! Subject: printable Contract with the People Contract with the PEOPLE--printable I'm looking at it like the "Contract" would spread by word of mouth and Internet and be signed by most of the candidates and over the years correct all these candidate/political problems of not being truthful to the people---It would be the one way to have them work for us, as it should be. It can be changed to reflect all the things that are wrong now. They would not be allowed to take "BRIBES" in the form of lobbyist's--politicians give the lobbyists money grants--then the lobbyist's give part of money back to the candidates for re-election. The people can't win with this present set up--it's our money they're using to get themselves re-elected---they sure have a sweet deal. That's one issue the Contract would STOP!--It's only a place to start--the hardest part will be making it "binding" so they can't wiggle out of it but I'm sure that legal heads out there could do that. The Contract would say that if they break it they agree to voluntarily leave office and allow someone to take their place--It could be used for local candidates and issues also. I'm making an effort to email the "Contract" out at least once a week until election day to as many people as I can reach hoping that it will catch on and the candidates will start talking about it in their debates---they can use the fact that they signed it against their opponent challenging them to sign it--They can say that it shows the American people they are for doing everything they can to make our government controlled by American people--and not large company's. Well it's just a thought...........we have to start correcting how our ELECTED LEADERS think when they are running for office and how they think after they are elected. They now only think about what big business or powerful organizations will give them large sums of money IF THEY PROMISE TO CHANGE A LAW OR VOTE IN THEIR FAVOR--but these changes are very seldom in peoples favor--and usually it's against the citizen.--This must stop! MAKE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR STATEMENTS and Campaign Promises by having them sign the contract. CONTRACT with the PEOPLE I propose that we make a requirement of our officials when campaigning that they sign a BINDING-CONTRACT with the PEOPLE --it should be kept as simple as possible--only 10 points 1- I will close our borders and make arraignments to document or return illegal aliens 2- I will propose and vote to stop all lobbying. 3- I will make it illegal for government people to leave office and become lobbyists 4- I will propose and vote for"bills" that they should not contain hidden last minute add on's, only one subject. 5- I will stop our elected officials from passing laws that make them exempt from our laws and will vote to remove any law that now exempts anyone (elected officials, etc) from our laws. 6- I will vote to stop ALL lobbying and will accept only funds from citizens. 7- I will vote to stop taking funds from special interests--only the people's funds. 8- I will will vote to stop using taxes collected for one thing and being used for something else. 9- I will propose that the government show pie charts each month. One with income segments and one with spending segments. 10- I will always put the American citizen's best interest above all else. By signing this Binding Contract I agree to step down and resign from my office voluntarily if I do not eagerly pursue and vote in favor of my campaign promises as noted above. The second highest vote getter will be asked to sign this CONTRACT and accept taking my position over Candidates signature__________________________________ I agree to the terms above witness signature ____________________________________ witness signature ____________________________________ FEEL FREE TO PRINT THIS OUT and PASS THIS ON. Do you have any request you'd like to add? There are so many things our government seems to...

Child Care Assistance is an effective tool to get families off of public assistance, so it is a a program that saves taxpayer dollars in the long run. Increased access to child care assistance enables low-income parents to work and go to school so they can get a better job.

This is to support Tom Albright who posted recently: Our house burned to the ground two days ago. Nobody hurt. All of my factor 9 was destroyed in the fire. I have two joint bleeds with no access to factor 9 to stop the bleeding. Two days of pain in those joints so far. I won't be able to take factor 9 for a few days thanks to Accredo.