Banks have taken control of the appraisal business to the detriment of the homeowner and the appraiser. The proud independent profession of appraisal has been undermined by the banks- they are making money off of the independent appraiser. No more meritocracy. The homeowner is totally ignorant of this fact at closing.

The picture ID's now required by some states is social, racial and economically discriminating. If a State passes a Photo ID Voters Law they must IMMEDIATELY notify their citizens of this and provide an easy, effective, FREE way to obtains such a credential before this November election.

I think our Senators and Representatives are so dysfunctional that they don't deserve to have most of the benefits we pay for them to enjoy: pensions, budgets, health care. Let's take away their health care so they can begin to understand how things are outside the bubble they live in.

Teachers work tirelessly on behalf of students every day. Yet, in an attempt to promote his brand, Kenneth Cole posted a billboard in New York City that pits teachers against students, falsely claiming that teachers' rights conflict with those of the students they cherish and serve. We need to tell this company that teachers and students stand together-- that we ALL stand together in support of our schools and our future.

You are what you eat and people deserve to know where the food they are considering comes from, how it is made, and what it is made of, accurately and honestly in complete detail.

This petition is about repealing the GPO/WEP this law was pass in the 80s, in some states if you are a public worker, this law take away most of your Social Security, it also take away your spouses Social Security, some of us paid into Social Socurity for many years and into SERS pension, i feel this law is unfair and needs change.

Our Supreme Court has over the line of partisan idealology from defending our Constitution. We have only begun to see the buying power of Super PACs and billionaire sugar-daddies. We the People can overturn the Court by a constitutional amendment to clarify the founders' intentions that corporations are not people and money is not speech.

The President has wrongly said "We are looking forward and not backward." If that had always been the rule, no criminal could ever be punished because a crime is immediately in the past. We could not have punished the criminals at Nuremburg. The people who authorized and advised torture must be arrested and put through the court process. We executed Japanese officers for waterboarding in WWII, and our waterboarders should at least see the inside of a prison cell.

Make sure everyone who commits a crime is afforded a trial! Just because you are not in this country legally does not mean you get to commit any crime you want, then when caught just deport yourself and avoid prosecution.

Equal Rights does intrinsically not discriminate -right? except in some cases - wrong! Bigotry is not dead, just head for the nearest Republican and/or Right Wing group (in person, on the internet, at rallies and parades, and yes, friendships!) and discuss a favorite issue - taxes. Because the current law does not allow a legal agreement defining marriage as available option to same sex couples these brothers and sisters, friends and family, are denied, the same economic benefits that are offered to heterosexuals, the current "reigning group" majority. The old mantra of exposure to children, illness, lewdness (sooo old fashioned and out-dated) and against mainstream religion has been taken apart, dissected by every group from social psychiatry to following the pack mentality to ignorance. In this century, in our lifetime, how absurd to deny any sect of people a denial or refusal to love and cohabit and form a family.

My son is active in the Army, and he is on his 3rd deployment. The flat rate APO boxes r nice but they dont hold very much, and when you have to send many it gets a little costly, dont get me wrong I would take my last dollar to send a package to any deployed soldier. I have 3 I know including my son that is deployed now. And about every 2 weeks i send the 5-6 boxes and at 13.45 a box! Then in between those weeks I send 1 or 2 just to keep them stocked since it takes so long to get there. I know there is many other people out there that in the same position that I am in. If they cant give free shipping at least give us a bigger box. I think our soldiers would be able to get more stuff sent from home if this was to happen.

Federal law enforcement has been raiding medical marijuana producers and dispensers, even in states where it is legal. This only hurts the sick, and forces them back into the black market to get their medicine. Its time for this abhorrent misuse of federal resources to stop, so that states who've chosen to permit the sick to use medical marijuana can administer their programs unhindered.