Yes. Watching my mother die and having advance directive, but she did not have enough power to end it. Made me think about me being next.

My name is Victoria, and I’m 13 years old. I recently found out that girls as young as me are being sold for sex by people using a classifieds website called Backpage.com. You can buy and sell stuff on Backpage.com, look for an apartment, or find a job. That is all cool. But pimps are using Backpage.com to advertise girls my age to men twice their age and older, and that’s not okay. It makes me so upset to think that every night while I sleep safely in my bed, there are other girls who are spending the night being raped and abused. Backpage.com is owned by Village Voice Media. They read the news – they know that pimps have advertised girls for sex in the adult section of their website, but so far Village Voice Media has refused to take down the section. That's why, with the help of my mom, I started a petition to tell Backpage.com to close the adult section so that girls aren’t bought and sold for sex by sick people using the site. I recently became friends with a girl who was advertised by her pimp on Backpage.com. She's 13 years old just like me. What happened to her is so scary. I don’t want any other girl to experience that. Kids deserve to play, to be free, and to go to bed each night and have sweet dreams. Let’s help them do that. Please sign my petition and share it with all your friends. --Victoria, age 13 (and Mary Pannell, my mom)

Obama Care has benefited my Son by enabling him to reinsure his Sons' health care until age twenty-six. The passing of my Son's wife leave him to as the sole provider of his young childern. Without that benefit we would be in dire financial position.

Even though the Americans with Disabilities Act went into effect in 1990, too many employable Americans with disabilities are still out of work. The outrageously high number of employable Americans with disabilities is unacceptable in a modern economy. It's clear that people with disabilities have the highest unemployment rate among any group, and have been left behind in the economic expansions since the ADA became law. We must work to make the dream of our nation's 41st President, George H.W. Bush, of people with even minor disabilities to become part of the economic mainstream of the United States, come true. Strengthening the ADA to ensure more employable people with disabilities obtain good-paying professional jobs should include the following: 1) Adding those with high-functioning autism spectrum disorders, such as Asperger's Syndrome, to the list of people protected from discrimination in employment and accommodations, under the ADA. This sub-group has the highest unemployment rate among the group of employable people with disabilities. 2) Deny employers who discriminate against people with disabilities in employment the right to bid on federal government contracts. 3) Encourage employers to hire people with disabilities, especially those whose only source of income is disability benefits from Social Security, who have college degrees, for professional jobs, and pay them competitive wages. 4) Institute a minimum $1,000 fine (up to as much as $10 million, depending on the company's size) if a company is found to have discriminated against an applicant with a disability in employment and/or accommodations. 5) Make it easier for a person with a disability suing a would-be or former employer to prove discrimination on the basis of disability by taking into consideration the economic damage done to that person due to that particular act of discrimination rather than the damage done to the company. 6) Make it illegal for the agencies charged with administering Vocational Rehabilitation programs to place persons with disabilities with college degrees in low-paying stereotypical jobs, such as supermarket courtesy clerks (grocery baggers), janitors, and working in sheltered workshops. 7) Increase the tax credits for hiring people with disabilities, especially in professional employment, and raise taxes on employers who won't hire people with disabilities. People with disabilities who are employable can, and must, work. Stronger disability rights laws will ensure the dignity of the employable person with a disability, and secure his or her future, both socially and economically.

Legalize Marijuana 2012.. Richard Nixon was the Jerk that started the War On Drugs Dont you think our jails an prisons would be better filled up with Violent Offenders We Not some Group of Children that needs BIG BROTHER watching our every move counting every little bit of medication when you have a MEDICAL MARIJUANA LICENSE ... Bar coded .. DEA certified doctors.

Too many people are shot to death every day in America. This is preventable if we only but let our politicians know we want our communities to be safe from gun injuries and deaths. We can do better by passing sensible state and federal gun laws.

In 2008, Dan Two Feathers made the choice to help a friend, who had a secret partner that Dan didn't know about. These two had devised a scheme to defraud investors. These investors lost their money and Dan discovered all too late that it was a scam. Seeking to accept responsibility for his part, Dan on March 7th 2012 plead guilty to 4 counts related to securities fraud. On Friday, June 15th, Dan was sentenced to 6 years in prison. After 60 days of incarceration Dan will lose his VA Disability Pension until he is released and reapplies for it, which will take a year or more to get it, which means that he will end up living on the Streets in Montana for a year or more, in a wheelchair with his medical conditions. This was known to the Courts at the time of his sentencing since they had Medical Records, letters from Medical Professionals and a letter from the Veterans Administration confirming the time period after release. Dan simply asked to serve his time under house arrest so that he could continue receiving medical attention from Doctors that are familiar with his medical conditions. The Court denied this request and now the sentence equates to a Death Sentence for a Non-Capital Offense which is a violation of his 8th Amendment Rights which protect against Cruel and Unusual Punishment.To add insult to injury, Dan’s Attorney from the Federal Defenders of Montana’s Office refused to express to the Court the results of such a sentence and to champion Dan’s case to the Court to convince them otherwise. While Dan has asked his Attorney to Appeal the sentence, if his Attorney fights for him with the Appeal as he did at time of sentencing, Dan will certainly lose the Appeal. Dan has no other choice but to allow him to do the Appeal since Dan has no way to hire an Attorney that would truly fight for him. Dan’s Attorney informed Dan that he only had 2 choices, one, which was whether to go to trial and two, whether to appeal or not. Dan asked him to file for a Stay of Sentence during Appeal’s process and to file to correct the sentence based on the 8th Amendment but the Attorney refused. Dan is simply asking that his sentence be commuted to serving at House Arrest. He can be restricted to his home except for Medical and Counseling appointments only. He can make arrangements for someone to go grocery shopping for him, as well as still parent his six year old daughter Trinity. Serving his sentence under House Arrest will do several things. It will allow for the punishment to be served for the crime committed, it would allow Dan to continue receiving his Disability Pension, and it would allow him to have a roof over his head and food to eat. Serving his sentence at House Arrest would also prevent him from having to spend a year or more on the streets in Western Montana and will save taxpayers monies that would be need to house and treat him while in prison. Under current statistics to imprison a healthy person for 6 years it cost the taxpayer approximately $286,000.00, a prisoner in Dan’s condition would cost approximately 3 times that amount. Had he known from the beginning, what his friend was really engaging in, Dan never would have agreed to participate. His losses will be more than financial. For a non capital crime, Dan is at risk of losing his life. Without the regular care of his doctors, six years in prison is tantamount to a death sentence. Recently, in the state of Washington a bus driver was charged and convicted of five counts of molestation, to which he received thirty days per count in the county jail. In the News within the past year there was Citigroup that defrauded investor of over $1 Billion and to avoid prosecution to any of their Executives all criminal Charges were dropped after they paid a fine of approximately $250 million. Or Glaxo-Smith-Kline who defrauded the public on some medications and they were allowed to pay a fine so that all criminal charges would be dropped against their Executives. Surely these are more grievous crimes. Dan Two-Feathers sentence is not justice; please sign this petition asking the court to reconsider its current stance of a six year sentence for a non violent offender and commute it to House Arrest. Thank you, and please pass this on to your friends.

The Patriot Act was pushed through congress by the Bush Administration, and was strengthened under Obama. The ill-named act allows the government to spy on Americans without just cause. This is completely anti-Constitutional and must be rescinded.

Loopholes that are constructed or accidental often have lasting and unexpected results. All laws and contracts should include a clause that eliminates loopholes and attaches criminal penalties to anyone that takes advantage of the loopholes. This penalty applies to everyone under consumer and constitutional protection. That is, a legally binding contract can not have a loophole that is not clearly defined in the language of the contract or law. Similarly, if a loophole in the contract or law is discovered and some entity circumvents or takes advantage of the loophole, they must adhere to the language, retroactively.

Give every President One (1) eight (8) year Term.

I want people boycotting Sean Hannity's advertisers the same way they did with Rush Limbaugh's.

Taiwanese-Americans are asking ALL Americans to help us in a situation where the US has a lot of influence: Taiwan's current President Ma Ing-jeou and his ruling Kuomintang Party ("KMT") have thrown the last democratically elected President Chen Shui-bian in prison on trumped up charges of corruption, which he is not able to adequately defend since his imprisonment. President Chen's health is rapidly deteriorating, as evidenced by the expert opinions of local and international medical teams who have seen him recently in his tiny jail cell, where he is NOT able to even sit in a chair, or have a bed, nor move about to exercise. This sets a dangerous precedent for future elections of presidents, in a fragile new democracy such as Taiwan, where direct Presidential elections were held only since 2000, when President Chen was elected. Under Human Rights laws, President Chen should be released immediately on medical grounds, and to prepare an adequate defense to the KMT accusations of corruption. The KMT has a long history of "white terror" and corruption on the island of Taiwan, since their military dictatorship of almost 40 years. Their current ill treatment of ex-President Chen (democratically elected in 2000, and re-elected in 2004) is in keeping with the KMT's long tradition of un-democratic behavior.