It is rumored that the parole board spends 4 minutes or less reviewing each case and with the data presented in the Fiscal Year 2012 and 2013 Statistical Annual Report it is realistic to assume that is close to the reality of their ability. As a result of discriminatory regulation and lack of resources, the current system unjustly binds many inmates who are ready for reintegration to the confines of their unit without merit; specifically with regard to youthful offenders, first-time offenders and other individuals that have proven through their daily choices and actions over a period of time that they can be successful members of society if given the opportunity. We are not asking that you agree with all our points but that legislators look into all areas related to parole which are currently failing or have been identified as concerns. See the attached for full details of our concerns: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2YznLO7rQAiM0o3aXFLN3ZMZk0/edit?usp=sharing Additional parole reform petitions can be found at: 1.Mandatory Short-Way Release for: 3-G Offenders for the State of Texas; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mandatory-short-way-release 2.Reduce the Parole Eligibilit Requirements for Texas Prisons; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/reduce-the-parole-eligibilit 3.Mandatory Short-Way Release for All First Time Offenders; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mandatory-short-way-release-1 4.Reform Texas the Texas Parole System Now; Petition by Unknown http://www.petitiononline.com/tcb123/petition.html UPDATE 10/07/2014 Details on recent indictment of Texas Parole Commissioner Pamela Freeman: https://www.texastribune.org/2014/10/03/parole-commissioner-indicted-falsifying-inmate-rec/ http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2014/10/parole-commissioner-indictment-points.htmlr More information about our story can be found in the Century Films documentary directed by Nick Leader and broadcast in the U.K. by Channel 4, Married Behind Bars. #MarriedBehindBars #ShawnAndApril https://youtu.be/rSaMeBxxiQQ ________________________________________________________ Reforma de libertad condicional de Texas - ahora es el momento para el cambio! Serán entregados a: la casa del estado de Texas, el Senado del estado de Texas y el gobernador Rick Perry DECLARACIÓN DE LA PETICIÓN Reforma de libertad condicional ha sido un tema de preocupación por un tiempo... el momento de actuar es ahora; estas preocupaciones han sido pasadas por encima y empujadas a un lado por mucho tiempo. Fondo de la petición Se rumorea que la Junta de comisionados que deciden la libertad condicional gastan 4 minutos o menos revisar cada caso y con los datos presentados en el informe estadístico anual de año Fiscal 2012 y 2013 es realista asumir que está cerca de la realidad de su capacidad. Como resultado de la regulación discriminatoria y falta de recursos, el sistema actual une injustamente muchos reclusos que están listos para la reintegración a los confines de su unidad sin mérito; específicamente con respecto a delincuentes juveniles, los delincuentes primerizos y otros individuos que han demostrado a través de sus decisiones diarias y acciones durante un período de tiempo que pueden ser miembros exitosos de la sociedad si se les da la oportunidad. No estamos pidiendo que esten de acuerdo con todos los puntos contenidos en la carta adjunta pero que los legisladores Miren en todas las áreas relacionadas con la libertad condicional que actualmente están fallando o han sido identificadas como preocupaciones. Vea el adjunto para los detalles completos de nuestras preocupaciones: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2YznLO7rQAiM0o3aXFLN3ZMZk0/edit?usp=sharing Las peticiones de reforma condicional adicional pueden encontrarse en: 1.Mandatory Short-Way Release for: 3-G Offenders for the State of Texas; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mandatory-short-way-release 2.Reduce the Parole Eligibilities Requirements for Texas Prisons; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/reduce-the-parole-eligibilit 3.Mandatory Short-Way Release for All First Time Offenders; Petition by Edna Watts http://petitions.moveon.org/sign/mandatory-short-way-release-1 4.Reform Texas the Texas Parole System Now; Petition by Unknown http://www.petitiononline.com/tcb123/petition.html ACTUALIZACIÓN 10/07/2014 Detalles sobre la reciente acusación de Tejas Parole Comisionada Pamela Freeman: https://www.texastribune.org/2014/10/03/parole-commissioner-indicted-falsifying-inmate-rec/ http://gritsforbreakfast.blogspot.com/2014/10/parole-commissioner-indictment-points.html Puede encontrarse más información sobre nuestra historia en el siglo películas documental dirigido por Nick Leader y difusión en el Reino Unido por Channel 4, casado tras las rejas. #MarriedBehindBars #ShawnAndApril.https://youtu.be/rSaMeBxxiQQ

Yoville is one of the best games on the internet. Please reconsider closing Yoville. Yoville has over 6 million likes on Facebook, and over 500,000 monthly users. Many people have spent hundreds of dollars on yocash and yocoins. I think you should keep the game open.

The City of Gretna,LA has a budget shortfall and is using restrictive speed limits and mobile speed traps to generate revenue instead of running the city in a fiscally responsible manner.

Exploration wells to find natural gas are already in the ground in NW Georgia. Based on the experience of citizens in other states, the air, land & water pollution, the health issues, Georgia should ban all exploration that results in the creation of injection wells. To obtain natural gas, large injection wells must be built that are forced through layers of soils, rock and possible aquifer layers. These then pump great quantities of water and unknown, unidentified chemicals through piping to force the gas to the surface. At every stage of the drilling process fracking puts our air, land and and water at risk of contamination. Fracturing rock releases hazardous gases from beneath our land, such as hydrogen sulfide, sulfur dioxide, and methane. Quantities of these chemicals are known to serious cause blood disorders, negative neurological problems and reproductive challenges. Fracking uses up to seven million gallons of water per injection well and by using this resource for these wells decreases the amount of drinking water available for us. Chemicals used to blast through rock layers are highly toxic and are present in the waste water produced. Not only is this water forever polluted, cracks in the wells and piping used will allow the polluted water to leak into our ground and will contaminate the ground as well as our aquifers and stream beds. The health, safety and welfare of our citizens is at risk; the welfare of our ecosystem is at risk. We want to ban the exploration and use of natural gas in the state of Georgia so that our citizens continue to have clean and safe water, air and land. We want to keep our state clean. We encourage the exploration and use of sustainable energy using clean energy sources such as wind and water movement and solar power.

David Swift is a retired veteran of the U.S.A. service who has lost many of his rights for non-violent crimes he committed in his youth. His son Dustin is an outstanding citizen fighting to support his father as the county and local governments seek to harass (today they euthanized his german shepherd as a "danger" though the dog was an older docile creature) and run him out of the county. The Swifts have very few resources and like many of us, subside on a modest life-style. This petition is started by a friends and neighbors who appreciates their neighborhood watch and concern for local citizens.

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The MTA is outsourcing the Verrazano Bridge renovation, North America's longest suspension bridge, to a Chinese steel fabrication manufacturer. Not only does this deal ship good-paying manufacturing jobs overseas, it returns inferior building and construction materials for a bridge millions of New Yorkers use everyday. In 2002, California commissioned a Chinese steel fabricator to expand the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge and shoddy steel and faulty welds delayed construction for months, costing taxpayers thousands of dollars for cheap "made in China" steel. Add your name to the petition to tell the MTA to stopping racing to the bottom at the expense of domestic jobs and buy American.

PROPORTIONAL PUNISHMENTS are required for individual and corporate responsibility. Current law allows the worst offenders against humanity to pay minuscule fines instead of facing punishments that deter crimes. My proposed law would make responsibility paramount in every industry and act as a REAL deterrent to violations of regulations and laws. It would also make individual punishments equal by fining people a percentage of their wealth and not continue to have a system that allows unequal punishments for identical crimes. Deterrents to crimes are only effective if punishments are more just and equal, and based on the wealth of individuals and corporations. All people and corporations should face proportional punishments based on their wealth when they commit a crime, violate a regulation or violate any law. As an example, currently corporations violate regulations with impunity and consider fines as just another expense in conducting their business. Current punishments have zero detrimental effects on crimes for the very wealthy. If we used proportional punishments a corporation's first offense could be say 1% of their total wealth. A 2nd violation would increase the penalty to 5% and so on. Since corporations or the wealthy can only be forced to adhere to laws and regulations by hitting them in the only area that truly hurts them then proportional punishments would act as a perfect deterrent to their crimes. In another example, if a poor person gets a littering ticket any fines should be proportional to their net wealth, which if close to zero, the fine would be say $5. If a billionaire committed the same offense their penalty would be a proportional one based entirely on their wealth. If their wealth was $1 billion and the percentage of the fine was 1% then their resulting fine would be $10,000,000. I've seen warnings that if an individual poured even one can of used oil on the ground they can be fined up to $25,000 and face time in jail. Corporate executives do not face any repercussions when their corporations release toxins into our air, land or waters because they know government oversight is lax because of gutting of enforcement and lack of adequate laws that would deter such heinous acts. My proposed law would make personal & corporate responsibility a reality because only when the wealthiest face severe financial punishments corporate carnage against people and the environment will these crimes become less frequent. Since fines and punishments are supposed to be deterrents to violations of laws and regulations then the only way to enforce them fairly and equally is through proportional punishments. Financial punishments that are identical no matter what a person's or corporation's total wealth are currently ignored. The current system is regressive and punishments only truly affect the poorest in society. Fining an unemployed person $200 & a billionaire $200 isn't equality under the law. It's a regressive punishment which can devastate the poorest. The wealthy couldn't care less if they receive a $200 fine. It doesn't provide a penny of deterrent. To make proportional punishments even more effective corporate fines should be also paid by the entire executive level of corporations and their boards of directors. Currently, CEOs, CFOs, COOs and the like suffer no punishments for the unlawful actions by the corporations they run. Fines against corporations now are merely added on to the cost of products corporations make so we the cunsumer pay 100% of a corporation's wrongdoing while the poorest individuals pay 100% of any fine they receive. Individuals cannot pass on fines as expenses to others. Corporate executives should be forced to pay a percentage of their personal wealth in addition to any corporate fines. If an executive presiding over a corporation has a net wealth of $100 million and their corporation violates a regulation or law they should face the identical punishments based on a percentage of their wealth. If a corporation has commited multiple offenses and the proportional punishment percentage has risen to 10%, the the CEO with a net worth of $100 million would be forced to pay a fine of $10,000,000.00. Only then would a corporate executive act responsibly to have his corporation adhere to the law. Except in a minuscule number of cases corporate executives are 100% protected from any financial punishments no matter how heinous the acts of the corporations they lead. Executives are fully aware that they don't have to have any personal responsibility because they are insulated from ramifications of any offenses they or their corporations commit. To have a fair & equitable deterrent to violations of regulations and laws THAT HAS TO CHANGE. Currently, if a corporation has 20 violations of regulations or laws executives are often rewarded with even greater salaries and perks. Executives benefit from a defective system by willfully violating laws knowing they will suffer zero consequences. Until we have PROPORTIONAL PUNISHMENTS our country will continue to deteriorate because the worst offenders are shielded and all fines are paid for by the customers of any corporation. We must force executives who benefit from willful violations of regulations and laws to be held personally responsible, and in addition, corporations must also face financial punishments that increase with each infraction. The proportional punishment law I am proposing doesn't affect any other laws or regulations. The punishments I am advocating are in addition to all existing laws. Anyone who is opposed to my proposal is in effect against corporate & personal responsibility and opposed to equitable punishment under the law.

North Carolina Republicans—who control both houses of the legislature and the governorship—are on a rampage to pass some of the most right-wing laws in the country. They have ended unemployment benefits for 71,000 people, passed a voter suppression law that disenfranchises college students and people of color, and pushed a draconian abortion bill even worse than the one in Texas. But since April 29, a coalition led by the North Carolina NAACP has been staging weekly nonviolent protests at their statehouse, called Moral Mondays. So far, more than 900 have been arrested—but more keep coming back each week to keep up the pressure. Join Daily Kos in thanking these protesters for their persistence.

Republican House Majority Leader Eric Cantor said this week that Republicans might be willing to repeal the sequester - but only in exchange for cuts to Social Security and Medicare. The sequester is bad policy and I've voted to end it. But cutting Social Security and Medicare is not the answer. Social Security and Medicare embody our nation’s promise to our seniors, and we must not abandon our obligation to care for our retirees and the millions who depend on these vital safety net programs. I hope you'll join me in telling Eric Cantor and House Republicans that cuts to Social Security and Medicare are unacceptable.

Imagine waking up one day to find yourself in the position of our European cousins that were unknowingly eating horse and donkey meat mixed in with their beef? What are you willing to do to make sure that never happens here in America or elsewhere in the world? Start contacting your Representatives in Congress and ask them to support the SAFE Act to put an end to horse and donkey slaughter once and for all.

My wife and others are having to wait for treatment drugs because of delays in manufacturing. This is wrong, people should know that drugs are available to help in their fight against cancer.