The Facebook page, "Homophobia Exposed" (HE), was created with the sole purpose of harassing, discriminating, stalking, making false statements and false reports about the page Heterosexual Awareness Month and it's supporters. The page (HE) is a vehicle of hatred and harassment hidden under the title of a notable for anti-discrimination. Please take this page down. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Homophobia-Exposed/263465237056167

We have three crack military academies but NO, NADA, ZIPPO, peace academy where we could train top negotiators, teach tolerance of those not like us in politics, religion, etc.

Why is Chick Fil-A, sponsor of hate groups to the tune of $5,000,000, sponsoring children's programming on PBS? I find that totally inappropriate of PBS. Would they accept sponsorship from the Klan or Fred Phelps?

From the media coverage, you'd think that the only two candidates running for President were Romney and Obama. But they're not. Jill Stein is running on the Green Party ticket and Gary Johnson is running on the Libertarian ticket. Let's see if we can get them invited to participate in the upcoming Presidential debates.

President Obama's goal of greater engagement between Americans and Cubans is endorsed by two-thirds of our country and is the most effective way to foster democracy, friendship and mutual understanding. However a determined minority of mostly Republican Cuban Americans opposes all travel and successfully exploited the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) to create bureaucratic obstacles to licensing and renewal of people to people programs. [See http://cubapeopletopeople.blogspot.com/2012/08/people-to-people-in-bureaucratic-danger.html ] Fortunately this problem has been addressed, at least in part and after unconscionable delay licenses are being renewed and granted. The President has the power to permanently open the door by authorizing a general license (no application required) for all purposeful non-tourist travel–just as he did for Cuban Americans, universities and religious organizations. By ending discrimination, the President will free every American to participate in special interest guided tours and professional and cultural exchanges or to travel with their families and independently, using less expensive public transportation, rental cars and privately owned bed and breakfasts. To encourage nationwide participation, all US travel agents and tour operators must be allowed to promote and book transportation, accommodations and programs instead of only a near monopoly of 250 mostly Cuban American Florida-based Travel Service Providers.

All candidates for elected federal offices (Congress, Senate and President/VP) shall be required to disclose income tax returns for the previous five years as part of the application process for the office they seek. No exceptions shall be permitted.

Over 1/2 million legally registered voters in PA are at risk for losing their right to vote this November. Getting a Pennsylvania State ID is especially difficult for seniors, who in many cases have been voting legally for decades. PennDOT locations are not convenient for non-drivers and their hours are limited causing excessively long waits. We respectfully ask for a "stay of execution" of this law until after the election to give everyone the time to comply. Rep. Metcalfe said: "I don’t believe any legitimate voter that actually wants to exercise that right and takes on the according responsibility that goes with that right to secure their photo ID will be disenfranchised... If individuals are too lazy, the state can’t fix that." Yes, but maybe us, as voters, can fix stupid. This law doesn't stop fraud, it only stops voting. We cannot count on the Courts. The Dept of State keeps changing the requirements, confusing everyone. We, the people, have to take action so please sign and share so the PA assembly pays attention when it is delivered to them in Harrisburg next week. Check out the new petition/pledge to vote for Atticus Finch in the 52 districts where assembly members who voted for voter ID are running unopposed in Nov. http://signon.org/sign/pa-vote-atticus-finch

A little known & unpublicized fact most consumers are not aware of between the realtor & seller allows the realtor to keep the earnest deposit if the deal does not close.

Employers that hold over 30 employees should be mandated to pay their full time female employees who have worked for them over a year a min of 6 weeks of maternity leave. There are many employers who currently do provide paid maternity leave to their employees but many who do not. Government employees currently have to use their sick/vacation time in order to take maternity leave. If they do not have the time they may be allowed to take advance leave that must be paid back when they return to work. The other option if you do not have vacation or sick time is to take leave without pay. Missing even one paycheck can send a family into poverty. Also when you are on leave without pay the government does pay your health insurance premiums but they make you pay them back when you return to work. This of course will put the family in further debt. So again, I am pushing for all employers, including the federal government to pay their female employees 6 weeks of paid maternity leave at their regular rate of pay.

Many wealthy Americans are avoiding taxes by stashing their money in Swiss bank accounts and other offshore accounts. How is this fair? If any American makes money in any financial account anywhere in the world they should declare that as income and pay their fair share of taxes.

I've seen in NY how employees who reach an agreement on unpaid wages, or overtime with an employer, receive their settlement pay, but this is heavely burdened by unpaid taxes, which is not the employee's fault. I think that the necessary legislative modification should be made in this respect, and make the employers pay those deductions instead of the workers. In this sense, it is the employers who illegally retain wages by not paying regular minimum wage or over time,and therefore avoding taxes, which means that they broke the labor law primarily. So, when a settlement supervised by a court, or court ruling is achieved, the corresponding employees' tax withholdings that were not deducted in time due to the employer broke the labor law, should be transferred to the employer as a punishment for all the time they did not legally pay minimum wage or overtime, and let the worker obtain a just and compensatory relief, instead of a thin check after taxes which wouldn't reflect the hardship many workers go through due to the employer primarily breaking of the law. This proposal may involve legal intricacies for it involves not only the Labor Law but the IRS and other possible legal codes. However, I am certain that the employer should not be left off the hook once again, especially when it comes to employ undocumented workers.

From September 6-15, some 10,000 environmentalists will converge on Jeju Island to attend the World Conservation Congress (WCC) organized by the oldest environmental organization, the International Union of the Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The WCC will take place only a few minutes away from Gangjeong where the construction of a naval base is threatening one of the planet’s last great soft coral reefs and other coastal treasures, assaulting numerous endangered species and destroying a 400-year old sustainable community of local farmers and fishers. Unfortunately, the IUCN leadership has ignored or whitewashed the naval base. You can help give voice to the Gangjeong villagers who have been beaten and silenced, not just by their own government, but now kept out by the world’s largest environmental organization. Add your name to this letter to IUCN Director-General, Julia Marton-Lefevre and President Ashok Khosl, to be hand delivered by Gangjeong village mayor Kang Dong-kyun at the IUCN Congress.