Please help end religious privilege and help reduce the national debt by taxing all religious organizations!

We’re asking you and your friends to please help us to take the next step and save over a million sea creatures by signing this petition to the Department of Fisheries. Your names and comments were included in the Navy’s Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) application if you signed the previous petition. Now the US Navy wants to radically increase this testing and they must have a permit from the Department of Fisheries to do it. The estimations of how many animals will die has increased dramatically in the past five years. The US Navy currently has a permit to kill or maim as many as 7,956 whales per year, as well as over 100,000 dolphins yearly in the California-Hawaii region alone, and there are many other locations world-wide in which the US Navy is testing, covering much of the Earth’s oceans! Your name and comments will be submitted to the Department of Fisheries asking them to cease issuing permits to continue this practice. Without pressure from the public, meaning you, the Department of Fisheries will issue a permit to the US Navy in early December 2012, which will allow this devastation of our sea life to escalate! Please sign this today (even if you already signed the previous petition) and pass it onto your friends who can help us network this world-wide. In the fate of our oceans lies the key to life on Earth. Thank you for taking a stand for our earth’s oceans! We all hold the fate of our oceans in our hands.

I know how important this election is even if my voting age kids are a bit oblivious. Obama needs to stop thinking everybody should love him. He needs to be a fighter, to MAN UP! Go after Romney, not defend his punches.

Usually, the old bait and switch tactic refers to telling lies to get you to buy something and then switching products. Tonight was saw the switch take place BEFORE buying the product in an opposite approach. All along, he's told us the truth about what he would do with taxes, Medicare, foreign policy, etc., but tonight, he switched before we could take the bait because the bait wasn't working. Nobody was buying. Easy fix: change the product to look more like the winning team even if the real Romney plan bears no resemblance. Personally, I was appalled at the gall of a man running for the highest office in the land to blatantly deny his own plans and policies. I think it might have even thrown Obama off his game to actually hear Romney deny and lie to the President and the people of this country. I was saddened by the extent he went to improve his chances. It was a terrible example to set for his 5 sons, if nothing else.

I think the President needs to get a more "punchy" debate style: strong, on the offensive about the flip/flops, the 47% remark, the lack of specifics and not let Romney nor the moderator take over. BE the President and be strong and in your face. Also look at Romney more and not down so much. Jump on his weak points and press press press him for specifics.

Plastic is everywhere! It's plentiful, and it can be useful. But plastic waste that is left in landfills won't biodegrade - it breaks into smaller bits that stay around for a long, long time. Some of this plastic ends up in the oceans (search for The Great Pacific Garbage Patch), and in animals like fish and seagulls. Plastic disposable items - razors, bags, packaging (think about the plastic that wraps around your vitamin bottles, candy wrappers, CD's) that aren't recyclable are never "disposed" of. But we can change that! Let's make the plastic that we dispose of either recyclable or biodegradable - keeping it out of the landfills and out of the food system. Sign this petition to ask our Governor to make all disposable plastic - from razors to wrappers - recyclable or biodegradable.

Mr. President, I am tired of watching you not fight back. Tonight's debate was a perfect example of this. You were constantly on the defensive rather than attacking. Mitt Romney should not be able to share a stage with you, let alone dictate the conversation while on it.

For the love of all that is right and just in this world, Jim Lehrer cannot moderate another debate. We need a moderator with guts. Someone who can hold his own. We need James Carville

Governor Mitt Romney practiced bullying tactics during the first presidential debate. He cut off the moderator, Jim Lehrer, and the President himself. The Commission on Presidential Debates needs to enforce their own rules on debates.

We are parents who believe that any new Boston Public Schools assignment process must provide children in every neighborhood with equitable access to a quality school.

During political debates I have trouble figuring what candidates are giving for answers. The biggest problem is remembering what the question was as the candidates drone on. All video broadcasters of political debates should display the text of the ACTUAL question asked during the answer period.

denial of early voting on weekend