President Obama's State of the Union highlighted fracking for gas and oil as a way to tackle climate change and deal with our energy problems. But, nothing could be further from the truth. In Pennsylvania, Texas and many other states, communities' drinking water has been poisoned by toxic chemicals used in the fracking process. Communities in Wyoming have severe smog problems, leading to more asthma and respiratory problems. And, now there is talk of fracking in the midst of our National Parks and Forests—some of the most beautiful and treasured parts of the US. If we allow fracking to continue to expand, we will imperil the future generations that President Obama so passionately invoked. And the same generations we are trying to protect from climate change, will be left with poisoned aquifers, devastated parks and forests, and more air pollution. That's why we urge President Obama to reverse course on fracking, focus on the significant environmental and health problems, and make sure our health and environment comes first.

The manufacture of the iPad is catastrophically bad for the world. From the manufacture of batteries that destroy our environment (and the burning of fossil fuels to supply them with power) to the Chinese slave labor that has to build them to the oceans that are destroyed by container ships, there is not one thing about this product that we consider to be environmentally or humanitarianly friendly. As a result, we are burying our iPads underground to give them back to the earth from whence they came and planting flowers over top of them. This will continue until congress forbids the import of this awful piece of "technology".

Move the canon into the center and make it bigger

Anti-depressants are illegal all over the world because of their close ties to both psychoses and suiciidality. Why are Colorado doctors and nurse practitioners still able to prescribe junk medicine (see e.g. Whitaker, Robert, Anatomy of an Epidemic, New York: Crown Publishers 2009).

HB 2787 needs to move out of committee and onto the House floor.

My father lived a full and vigorous life of 84 years, but he was not allowed to die in peace. Even in the excellent hospice facility he chose for his final days, he was forced to die in agony because the law didn't allow his doctor or care-givers to administer enough morphine to end his terrible suffering. Instead, very slowly, over a period of days, he drowned in his own body fluids. No-one should ever have to suffer that way. No family should ever have to watch helplessly as their loved one passes from this world in such pain. We don't even make our pets endure such needless anguish. Montanans must be given the option to die with dignity. Terminally ill patients must have the right to alleviate unnecessary suffering in their last days. We must pass SB220.

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Celebratory Gunfire is a reckless and Intrusive threat to human life in Georgia. Every year in Georgia Innocent people are wounded and or killed due to this activity. Marquel Peters and Sergio Martinez are just a small representation of people that lost their lives due to this activity in Georgia. This must stop.

We worry about violence in our country and across the world. Why can't we believe we can be inadvertantly causing it when Mutilation, Murder and Rape are all commonplace in our entertainment at any time of day. Can't we protect ourselves and our children's future?

Every day 34 Americans are murdered with guns, more than one every hour. Every day without action by Congress is letting the equivalent of another tragedy like Sandy Hook, or Aurora, or Tucson, or Virginia Tech happen. It's past time for you to help stop the senseless gun violence. Stand with the safety of our children and communities instead of the NRA and the gun and ammo industry.

There is NO safe way to do horizontal hydraulic fracturing ("fracking") for extraction of natural gas. Ground water supplies are poisoned in the process, and the trucking of materials involved, as well as the escaped methane, create greenhouse gases that worsen global warming. This largely unregulated procedure has already caused death and illness to large numbers of people and animals, and has caused environmental degradation wherever it is located.

At the Newtown Memorial Service you declared, for the death of twenty children and seven adults, “I’ll use whatever power this office holds…in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.” Since you spoke those words, more than 50 fellow human beings have been murdered in Chicago alone, where last year’s gang-connected violence excelled 18 times the number in Newtown, where “since 2001 Chicago has recorded more than 5,000 gun-related deaths.”* “Tragedies!” Because we empathize with the suffering of others and value human life as do you, we believe you have the power and the courage to transform your words “enough is enough,” to l’chaim – for life!