I want to bring attention to the dangerous conditions occurring in the private prisons located here in Mississippi. I do not want any more assaults or deaths (staff or inmates) to occur here and those officials who have knowledge of how bad these private prisons are to be held ACCOUNTABLE (State and local officials as well as Bennie Thompson and MDOC Commissioner Christopher Epps).

We need to make sure that victims of domestic violence/ kidnapping are better served by our police force. People have laid stabbed in their home while the police knock on the door and just go away because no one answers. Girls have been held captive in homes where police have come to the door, but don't look inside, and they are never found.

Congress should never vote on their own pay/benefits package. Pay, Raises, Benefits are to be put on ballots and only the people, who elect them, decide what they are worth.

Monsanto is using poison on everything. They are using G.E. Trees now which have poison in their genes. This is spreading across the Earth. It is in the Air, Food and Water. We need to stop this BAD Science. Please watch this short Documentary: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w437uQf_A7c

After two years of false promises, endless repetitive paperwork on a loan modification, all Flagstar Bank did was increase my balance to the point I had to sell my house. I want two years worth of mortgage payments back $50,000

Equal pay for both men and women on television should be a given. Do not forget how many of your viewers are women!

As parents, educators and administrators, we object to the impact of high-stakes testing on our children, teachers, and schools. We oppose the alleged use of our children’s personal data in the private sector. We oppose the dismissal of parental consent and legal rights to refuse the use of this personal information. Measuring our students’ progress by extensive tests imposes developmentally inappropriate expectations on our young learners and limits our teachers’ ability to respond appropriately to our students’ academic needs. To succeed with such extensive tests, teachers must prioritize the test’s narrow content over the exploratory spirit of their students. We believe the curiosity for knowledge, inherent in all young children, must be nurtured and not subjected to unproven methods and mandates. Data collected through these high-stakes tests does not reflect the truth about student progress; rather, it spreads distortion throughout the curriculum, damaging a teacher’s ability to do his or her best work. To judge a teacher by this measure is an extreme disservice to his or her life’s work. The curriculum aligned with these tests was not received at the start of the school year. Our students were expected to demonstrate achievement in these new standards without a learning curve. The scale of this testing makes it impossible to obtain the results until after the school year has ended, rendering its value to our teachers useless. Assessment tools, in the form of tests, will always be a part of public education. However, the curriculum and tests have been changing every year, creating confusion and frustration rather than clarity and accountability. Teachers will be evaluated on student progress as measured by these unproven tests. There is no credible evidence that test scores are an accurate measurement of teacher effectiveness. Yet, they will be held accountable, and 40% of their evaluations will reflect these scores. The classroom is a dynamic place, the test a very narrow window into a child’s understanding. Good teachers are able to draw out abilities and support areas of weakness, while moving the entire class forward. We value our teachers’ ability to uncover the unique path to each student’s heart and mind. To rank children based on their test scores goes against the progressive beliefs of parents and educators that the “whole child” must learn to be a productive citizen of the world. It does not measure the very elements of this generation of children such as their civic mindedness, emotional intelligence, social intelligence, or critical thinking skills. To this end, I call for a moratorium in my loudest voter’s voice!

Our school has been effected co-location by elected public officials who have sign off in agreement of co-locating a failing school into our existing building. They claim that we have space in our building to hold an additional 60-80 students. Our general population which holds 768 students, can hold up to 818 students, elected officials approved this co-location proposal on 4/17/2013 without warning or giving parents, who have children waiting on an existing waiting priority over the in coming school effective as of 9/2013. It is not only happening in Brooklyn, each borough is being affected by co-locations of schools and parents should have a voice in their children's education. Folks who do not have children in the school system, should not have a voice for what is good for them. Parents get on board with your child's education, they will only be left behind if we, as parents of a new generation don't stand up for them.

I am a Civil Servant for the past 10 years (GS-5) and every dollar that is cut from my benefits means I have to pay for the difference. At GS-5 level that makes a big difference as I don't make 100k/year. The furloughs will cut my pay 13% this year and that's hard when your supporting a family. 20 billion in sequester savings (at most) will not make a difference in a multi-trillion dollar budget deficit. Look elsewhere and stop targeting Federal Civil Servants by using us as scapegoats for every financial problem this country has.

Abercrombie and Fitch CEO Michael Jeffries refuses to make clothes for larger women stating that it is against his company's marketing objective.

Nathan Dunlap is scheduled to be executed in Colorado the week of Aug 18, 2013. The death penalty is rarely used [5%] in cases where it would be allowed. Instead execution is used to scare any pleading prisoner into a stiffer sentence .

Continues to raise the cost of our plan, co-pays, x-rays, MRI's and medicine. At the same time they have a hospital in Italy and just built a $10 million hospital in Ireland. They deny us, including family members of their Physicians, certain treatments or equipment, which can improve our health.