WASHINGTON — The political vision of a summer gas tax holiday died a quick death in Congress, losing to a view that federal excise taxes on gasoline and diesel fuel — far from dropping — will have to go up if they go anywhere.


NO NO NO! You quit your damn spending and cut somewhere else!

I can still remember walking into 3601 c st. Exxon's office in the Calais building midtown in Anchorage. I was there to receive a check from Exxon Shipping. This was in July of 1989 before they decided to slam closed their checkbook. I was ushered into a room with a desk and a seated before a man who was in charge of distribution. They had some sort of formula they were using to determine the amount I should be paid based upon past performance and participation. Behind the man and the desk there was a two foot square map of the state of Texas and right in the middle of the map was a two INCH square map of Alaska and underneath that was a statement that read, IT,S NOT THE SIZE OF THE STATE THAT MATTERS IT,S THE SIZE OF THE MENTALITY.
Now I have never done anything to Exxon, perhaps purchase some of their gas. I didn't ask them to spill oil all over the enviroment without a viable plan to deal with it.
They wrote me a check for thirty two thousand dollars and I signed a document saying I still retained the right to sue them.
The previous year nineteen eighty eight I had made eighty thousand dollars and I knew right then I was embarking on a long and painful voyage against one of the largest corporations in America. The sign on the wall said it all I believe,They didn't give a damn about me, couldn't care less. They were Texans and still hated Alaska for lifting their bragging rights out being the biggest and the best.Exxon's CEO a Mr. Raymond didn't even make an appearance. Couldn't care less about a bunch of stinky Alaska salmon fishers....Just business.
It took allot of litigation just to get some compensatory damages from them.And now Nineteen years later that sign still angers me. For sixteen years Exxon profitted by ignoring their responsibilities and sworn promises to the members of congress. The placard on the wall of their office is what it is, it's for all practical purpose a "Hate Crime" Their self proclaimed legal defence was "We'll Outlive You" and they are doing just that.

I am a plaintiff to the recent Exxon Supreme Court Decision. I also have sent an email to Senator Leahy expressing my concerns regarding the upcoming judicial review on July 23. I ask that Senators Ted Stevens, Lisa Murkowski and Congressman Don Young on behalf of your Alaska constituents who are plaintiffs in the Exxon case to please start the legislative process to undo this gross injustice. The recent opinion by Judge Souter is a law made from the bench. It is the task of congress to pass laws for "We the People"and for the Supreme Court to enforce those laws at the direction of Congress. The Constitution declares, for all there will be "Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". It is not the job for SCOTUS to infringe on such rights and to make law and legislate from the bench. I ask you Senators and Congressman to get this injustice reversed. It can be done. Thank you. Clarence Selig

Dear Senators and House Representatives,
I continually here everyone talk about the possible "solutions" to our oil crisis, and most answers include the use of "battery power" for automobiles. Why is no one in Congress passing a bill to allow for the water combustible car? This would solve MOST of our oil/gas consumption issues if the goverment would allow an automobile to run on WATER. It is feasible, its been proven, and just to make a point, JAPAN AND CHINA already have a working model as of July 2008! This is really an option that someone needs to make on the floor and pass so that we can actually decrease our need on gas/oil for transportation needs. I hope that someone takes this idea/option and seriously looks at it as a viable solution.

In policy turnaround, U.S. will reportedly announce plans to station diplomats in Tehran for the first time in 30 years

That's what we need is to kiss and make up after those bastards have killed our soldiers in Iraq and it's a good start to building up another group for them to take hostage for a few years!

What the hell is Bush thinking?

Is this what you would do?

Many of my countrymen and I are absolutely in favor of a policy of diplomicy with Iran. We are adamantly opposed to any type or semblance of unprovoked acts of war against the nation. We believe this kind of activity irresponsible, illegal, and unethical. We recognize that an offensive strike on the Arabian Peninsula or anywhere else in the world is nothing more than a vicious, selfish sign of weakness.

We believe that talking with Iran is an especially needed sign of respect.

Please take these statements into consideration.

So it takes 5 years to bring oil to the market if we start drilling now... How many years will it take if we DO NOT start drilling now???? Start drilling NOW... Even if all of our cars run on water, we will still need oil. Give your head a shake.. Support the President and drill, drill, and drill.. Phil and Cindy

Please end the U.S. government’s Arabian peninsula domination scam once and for all. I know you can do it.

The people won’t rest until you put a halt to all the wartime wickedness, so you might as well stop your wicked reluctance.

Obama is for a lack of change…he won’t lift a finger to stop anything bad. Congress will need do what it was hired to do.

Senator McCaskill
In response to your letter on energy production. That the oil companies already have 68 million acres of leased land to drill on, Let them have land that there is proven oil on.
Also stating it would not lower prices for years, Well your party has been in power for a couple of years and have nothing of any importance This would at least be a start to energy independence, better than doing nothing while the American people pay over $4.00 for gas.
We want something done now.

In response to your letter on energy production. That the oil companies already have 68 million acres of leased land to drill on, Let them have land that there is proven oil on.
Also stating it would not lower prices for years, Well your party has been in power for a couple of years and have nothing of any importance This would at least be a start to energy independence, better than doing nothing while the American people pay over $4.00 for gas.
We want something done now.

In response to your letter on energy production. That the oil companies already have 68 million acres of leased land to drill on, Let them have land that there is proven oil on.
Also stating it would not lower prices for years, Well your party has been in power for a couple of years and have nothing of any importance This would at least be a start to energy independence, better than doing nothing while the American people pay over $4.00 for gas.
We want something done now.

In response to your letter on energy production. That the oil companies already have 68 million acres of leased land to drill on, Let them have land that there is proven oil on.
Also stating it would not lower prices for years, Well your party has been in power for a couple of years and have nothing of any importance This would at least be a start to energy independence, better than doing nothing and sitting there doing nothing while the American people pay over $4.00 for gas.
We want something done.

My name is John Franklin Carey, Jr. and I am a disabled veteran. I have congestive heart failure, severe manic depression, and diabetes. It is difficult for me to bathe, dress and walk without help. I am on oxygen 24 hours, 7 days a week.

I live on a road that is in dire need of paving. The name to the road is Green Knoll in South Charleston, WV.

If something happens to me, emergency vehicles, i.e., ambulances, fire trucks, oxygen deliveries could not make to my home or anyone else's home to help them. The road is full of holes and overgrown trees and every time it rains the road becomes almost unpassable.

I contacted the West Virginia Division of Highways and talked repeatedly to Mr. Paul Little, Maintenance Assistant, who is in charge of getting the road paved. Mr. Little promised that he would give me a packet so that I can petition my neighbors to get the road paved. I have been complaining about my road for months to Mr. Little, and it seems that he has no concern that I could be in serious risk and danger of dieing if medical personal can not make up the hill on this road to my home. Can you please help me get my road paved. Thank you.

I am writing to you to urge you to support the Free Speech Protection Act of 2008, introduced by Senators Specter and Lieberman, as well as it's House counter-part introduced by Representatives Pete King and Anthony Weiner.

Freedom of Speech is a cornerstone of the United States and must be protected. Foreign courts have no business interfering in the Constitutional rights of American citizens.

With today's global marketplace, books and research by American authors and publishers are available around the world, but the rights of those authors must not be given up to foreign courts with no respect for our Constitution and laws.

I urge you to support this legislation and protect the rights of Americans from infringement by foreign powers.

I urge you to vote in favor of lifting the ban on offshore drilling, We can't let them bankrupt our great nation.

WASHINGTON — President Bush will lift an executive ban on offshore oil drilling, although new oil exploration on the Outer Continental Shelf will remain off limits until Congress also takes action.

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Now what are you all going to do?

If you have any doubts about how the American people feel, propose that two or three options be put on the November ballot for the people to vote on, majority rules. That would give all of you an excuse to do what you should have already done! Just think, then you will have someone to blame it on!

My name is Kellie D. Kvasnikoff. I was a commercial fisherman forced into a career change by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. I am now the Chief Information Technology Officer for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe. In 2006 I published a book on the oil spill entitled “Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting. In that book I said that “justice” for the Exxon Valdez-impacted fishermen should be spelled “Just Us.” The law did not help us in our time of need. It hindered us. The law went any way Exxon wished to pull it.

This latest Supreme Court decision on “punitive damages” (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker) is more of the same. It is a travesty. It is filled with errors. Bad facts, bad law.

Please consider this a petition to open an investigation immediately and without delay into the wrongdoings of the Exxon Shipping Company and specifically the erroneous act of the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. I note that Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, “Congress is far better situated that is this court to assess the empirical data, and to balance competing policy interest, before making such a choice.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer also dissented. Ginsburg wrote: “The new law made by the court should have been left to Congress.”

I hope you will look into and call witnesses on all aspects of this Exxon case: Can you fix maritime law so that it does not wrong-doers? Where does this business of “caps” on punitives come from? How does this Supreme Court calculate the “compensatory damages” that are supposed to figure in the outcome? Did anybody count the natural resource damages “reopener” monies that haven’t even been collected yet and should go to compensate Alaskan natives for cultural damage? And what about the ethics of allowing the Seattle Seven to deal away secretly with Exxon 11% of the original punitive award?

We, the undersigned, request that our elected representatives act in accordance with the Constitution of the United States of America in a legal and expedient manner for an open hearing before the people of the United States and your Congressional law-making bodies. Please leave no stone unturned in exploring this travesty of justice and the particulars of how and why it happened.

In the end, we hope you will be moved yourselves to reinstate the $5 billion award that the jury saw fit to impose. This destruction of an economic asset created by the U.S. jury system should not be undone so cavalierly. While Exxon made it happen, the U.S. let it happen.

We feel it is our patriotic duty to request such action from you, our elected officials, and your duty to respond in a responsible manner.



Sincerely,

My name is Kellie Kvasnikoff. I was a commercial fisherman forced into a career change by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. I am now the Chief Information Technology Officer for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe. In 2006 I published a book on the oil spill entitled “Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting” . In that book I said that “justice” for the Exxon Valdez-impacted fishermen should be spelled “Just Us.” The law did not help us in our time of need. It hindered us. The law went any way Exxon wished to pull it.
This latest Supreme Court decision on “punitive damages” (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker) is more of the same. It is a travesty. It is filled with errors. Bad facts, bad law.
Please consider this a petition to open an investigation immediately and without delay into the wrongdoings of the Exxon Shipping Company and specifically the erroneous act of the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. I note that Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, “Congress is far better situated that is this court to assess the empirical data, and to balance competing policy interest, before making such a choice.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer also dissented. Ginsburg wrote: “The new law made by the court should have been left to Congress.”
I hope you will look into and call witnesses on all aspects of this Exxon case: Can you fix maritime law so that it does not wrong-doers? Where does this business of “caps” on punitives come from? How does this Supreme Court calculate the “compensatory damages” that are supposed to figure in the outcome? Did anybody count the natural resource damages “reopener” monies that haven’t even been collected yet and should go to compensate Alaskan natives for cultural damage? And what about the ethics of allowing the Seattle Seven to deal away secretly with Exxon 11% of the original punitive award?
We, the undersigned, request that our elected representatives act in accordance with the Constitution of the United States of America in a legal and expedient manner for an open hearing before the people of the United States and your Congressional law-making bodies. Please leave no stone unturned in exploring this travesty of justice and the particulars of how and why it happened.
In the end, we hope you will be moved yourselves to reinstate the $5 billion award that the jury saw fit to impose. This destruction of an economic asset created by the U.S. jury system should not be undone so cavalierly. While Exxon made it happen, the U.S. let it happen.
We feel it is our patriotic duty to request such action from you, our elected officials, and your duty to respond in a responsible manner.

Sincerely,

Kellie D. Kvasnikoff

My name is Kellie Kvasnikoff. I was a commercial fisherman forced into a career change by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill. I am now the Chief Information Technology Officer for the Snoqualmie Indian Tribe. In 2006 I published a book on the oil spill entitled “Exxon Valdez 18 Years and Counting” . In that book I said that “justice” for the Exxon Valdez-impacted fishermen should be spelled “Just Us.” The law did not help us in our time of need. It hindered us. The law went any way Exxon wished to pull it.
This latest Supreme Court decision on “punitive damages” (Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker) is more of the same. It is a travesty. It is filled with errors. Bad facts, bad law.
Please consider this a petition to open an investigation immediately and without delay into the wrongdoings of the Exxon Shipping Company and specifically the erroneous act of the Supreme Court in Exxon Shipping Co. v. Baker. I note that Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his dissent, “Congress is far better situated that is this court to assess the empirical data, and to balance competing policy interest, before making such a choice.” Justices Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Stephen G. Breyer also dissented. Ginsburg wrote: “The new law made by the court should have been left to Congress.”
I hope you will look into and call witnesses on all aspects of this Exxon case: Can you fix maritime law so that it does not wrong-doers? Where does this business of “caps” on punitives come from? How does this Supreme Court calculate the “compensatory damages” that are supposed to figure in the outcome? Did anybody count the natural resource damages “reopener” monies that haven’t even been collected yet and should go to compensate Alaskan natives for cultural damage? And what about the ethics of allowing the Seattle Seven to deal away secretly with Exxon 11% of the original punitive award?
We, the undersigned, request that our elected representatives act in accordance with the Constitution of the United States of America in a legal and expedient manner for an open hearing before the people of the United States and your Congressional law-making bodies. Please leave no stone unturned in exploring this travesty of justice and the particulars of how and why it happened.
In the end, we hope you will be moved yourselves to reinstate the $5 billion award that the jury saw fit to impose. This destruction of an economic asset created by the U.S. jury system should not be undone so cavalierly. While Exxon made it happen, the U.S. let it happen.
We feel it is our patriotic duty to request such action from you, our elected officials, and your duty to respond in a responsible manner.

Sincerely,

Kellie D. Kvasnikoff

Sirs & Maam
We appose any inclusion of any provision linked to NAIS We urge you not to support NAIS in any way!
It has been a common practice to attached Bills unrealated to one another just to get them passed . This indeed is a decptive practice and one that tax payers did NOT elect there representives to do! We the people are disinchanted with what our goverment is doing!
Bill & Betty Rodgers
Campo , Co.

I have received lots of e-mails complaining about the comparison of benefits given to illegal immigrants and American Citizens.
I would like clarification please.
If an immigrant is over 65, they can apply for SSI and Medicaid and get more than a woman on Social Security, who woreked from 2944 to 2004.
She is only getting $791 per month because she was born in 1924 and there is a "catch 22".
The federal government provides a single refugee a monthly allowance of $1,890. Each can also
obtain and additional $580 in social assistance, for a total of $2,470 a month.
This compares to a single pensioner, who after contributing to the growth and development of America for 40-50 years, can only receive a monthly maximum of $1,012 in old age pension and Guaranteed Income Supplement.
Maybe we can cut back the refugees to $1,012 and raise the pensioners to $2,470. then we can enjoy
some of the money we were forced to give to the government.
Let's put congress back on Social Security and give them the same benefits we have. I did not have the right to set up my own security package as did congress nor did I have the opportunity to vote on my raises. I received increases per my performance and with the current performance of congress there should be some serious cut backs being contemplated.

I'M ASKING FOR YOUR HELP. I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT I NEED TO DO TO CHANGE WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDCHILDREN. I'M A GRANDMOTHER OF FOUR GRANDSONS. THE OLDEST JUST TURNED 7 HIS NAME IS BRYSON FORD. HE WAS BORN WITH A BAD HEART. THE DOCTORS DID AN EXPERIMENTAL SURGERY THAT SAVED HIS LIFE.THE DOCTORS THOUGHT HE WOULD DIE WITHIN 5 MINUTES ON THE OPERATING TABLE. HE'S HAD SEVERAL MORE OPERATIONS SINCE THAT DAY. I WAS HIS BABYSITTER THE FIRST THREE YEARS OF HIS LIFE. THE TWO OF US BONDED OVER THESE THREE YEARS. I'VE ALSO BECOME CLOSE WITH BRYSON'S TWO BROTHERS ASHTON 5 AND JACOB 3. I LOVE MY GRANDSONS WITH ALL MY HEART. THE PROBLEM IS MY DAUGHTER KNOWS HOW MUCH I LOVE MY GRANDSONS AND USES IT AGAINST ME. IF I DISAGREE WITH MY DAUGHTER OR DON'T DO WHAT SHE WANTS. I DON'T GET TO SEE THEM. I DECIDED TO FILE FOR GRANDPARENTS VISITATION RIGHTS IN DENVER COLORADO. I WAS SHOCKED WHEN I READ THESE LAWS ON VISITATION. I COULD FILE FOR VISITATIONS IF MY SITUATION FELL UNDER ONE OF THESE REQUIREMENTS. 1. THE MARRIAGE OF THE GRANDCHILD'S PARENTS HAS BEEN DECLARED INVAILD OR DISSOLVED, OR COURT HAS ENTERED A DECREE OF LEGAL SEPERATION;OR 2. WHEN LEGAL CUSTODY OF THE GRANDCHILD HAS BEEN GIVEN TO A PARTY OTHER THAN THEIR PARENT, OR THE CHILD HAS BEEN PLACED OUTSIDE OF AND DOES NOT RESIDE IN THE HOME OF THE PARENT (BUT DOES NOT COVER A CHILD WHO HAS BEEN PLACED FOR ADOPTION OR WHOSE ADOPTION HAS BEEN LEGALLY FINALIZED);OR 3. WHEN THE GRANDCHILD'S PARENT, WHO IS THE CHILD OF THE GRANDPARENT, HAS DIED. GRANDPARENTS HAVE NO RECOURSE IF THE CHILD AND THE PARENTS ARE AN INTACT FAMILY. THEY CAN ONLY SEEK VISITATION IF 1 OF THE ABOVE SITUATIONS IS PRESENT. THEN THE GRANDPARENT HAS TO PROVE IT'S IN THE BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD THEY BE GIVEN VISITATIONS. THE COURT MAY PLACE AN ORDER WITH OR WITHOUT A HEARING DENYING OR GRANTING VISITATIONS. WHAT ABOUT PARENTS WITH AN INTACT FAMILY WHO WON'T LET GRANDPARENTS SEE THEIR GRANDCHILD. FOR NO GOOD REASON. FOR EXAMPLE ,WHEN THE GRANDCHILD'S PARENTS FIRST MET THE GRANDPARENTS DIDN'T WANT THEIR DAUGHTER DATING A MAN THAT JUST DID 10 YEARS IN PRISON, HE DOESN'T HAVE A JOB, HE DOESN'T HELP AROUND THE HOUSE AND HE'S VERY RUDE. THE TWO OF THEM END UP HAVING A CHILD . NOW LIKE HIM OR NOT HE CAN BE RUDE. IF THE GRANDPARENT SAID THEY DIDN'T WANT THIS MAN IN THEIR HOUSE. HE CAN WALK IN THE DOOR. IF THE GRANDPARENT DOESN'T LET THE PARENTS DO WHAT THEY WANT THE PARENTS WON'T LET THE GRANDPARENT SEE THEIR GRANDCHILD. SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE TO CHANGE THESE REQUIREMENTS. IT'S IN THE CHILDS BEST INTEREST TO HAVE GRANDPARENTS IN THEIR LIFE. IT'S HAPPENING MORE AND MORE. GRANDPARENTS AREN'T ALLOWED TO SEE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN FOR NO GOOD REASON. PARENTS ARE ABUSING THE LOVE A GRANDPARENT HAS FOR THEIR GRANDCHILD. IF PARENTS WON'T LET A GRANDPARENT SEE THEIR GRANDCHILD. THAT SHOULD ALLOW THE GRANDPARENT TO FILE FOR VISITATIONS WITH THEIR GRANDCHILD. PARENTS SHOULD HAVE TO PROVE WHY THE GRANDPARENTS SHOULDN'T BE ALLOWED TO SEE THEIR GRANDCHILD. THIS DECISION SHOULDN'T BE MADE WITHOUT A COURT HEARING. I FILED FOR GRANDPARENTS VISITATIONS ALMOST A YEAR AND 6 MONTHS AGO. I CERTIFIED MAILED MY DAUGHTER AND THE FATHER. MY DAUGHTER SIGNED AN RECEIVED THE MOTIONS. THE FATHERS WAS RETURNED TO ME WITH STAMP UNABLE TO DELIVER ACROSS THE FRONT AND THE BACK. I NEVER RECEIVED A RESPONSE TO MY MOTIONS FROM MY DAUGHTER WHO HAS FULL CUSTODY OF MY GRANDSONS AND ALL RIGHTS TO DECISIONS MAKING WITH MY GRANDSONS. I ASSUMED SHE WASN'T GOING TO DENY MY REQUEST. I FIGURED MY DAUGHTER KNEW I HAD PROOF (POLICE REPORTS) OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE IN THE HOME. I HAD LETTERS FROM TWO OF MY SONS. STATING WHAT KIND OF RELATIONSHIP I HAD WITH MY GRANDSONS. I HAD A LETTER MY DAUGHTER LEFT IN THE TRUNK OF MY CAR WHEN SHE USED MY CAR. IT WAS A LETTER TO HER BOYFRIEND SHE WROTE ABOUT HOW SHE WAS TIRED OF THE WAY HE WAS TREATING HER HIS DRINKING AND DRUG USE. THE PHYSICAL & MENTAL ABUSE HE WAS PUTTING HER AND MY GRANDSONS THROUGH. MANY MORE THINGS WERE LISTED MY DAUGHTER REFERED TO IT AS A LIVING HELL. I WAS SO SURE OF MYSELF. ALL MY HARD WORK IS FINALLY GOING TO PAY OFF. I HAD EVERYTHING I WOULD NEED TO WIN THIS CASE. THERE WAS NOTHING MY DAUGHTER COULD DO TO STOP ME FROM SEEING MY GRANDSONS. AFTER 90 DAYS I WOULD GET A LETTER FROM THE COURTS SETTING UP MY VISITATIONS WITH MY GRANDSONS. I THOUGHT I FINALLY DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH HER USING MY GRANDSONS AGAINST ME. IT WILL ALL BE SET UP THROUGH THE COURTS. I GET MY MAIL I NOTICE A LETTER FROM THE COURTS. I WAS SO EXCITED. I HADN'T SEEN MY GRANDSONS FOR MONTHS. I OPEN THE LETTER I SEE A BIG RUBBER STAMP WITH THE WORD DENIED. THE JUDGE COULDN'T HAVE DENIED MY VISITATIONS. MY DAUGHTER DIDN'T EVEN RESPOND ASKING FOR THE JUDGE TO DENY ME. I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. THERE HAD TO BE A MISTAKE. AS I PAGED THE PAPERS I NOTICED A PAPER WITH MY DAUGHTERS REQUEST THAT I BE DENIED VISITATION ( SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS). NO DOCUMENTS WERE ATTACHED TO THE PAPERS I RECEIVED IN THE MAIL. MY DAUGHTER HAD MARKED ON THE PAPER A COPY OF HER RESPONSE WAS CERTIFIED MAILED TO ME. IT WASN'T TRUE. THE NEXT PAGE IS THE FATHERS RESPONSE ASKING THE JUDGE DENY MY VISITATION. HE HADN'T EVEN RECEIVED THE MOTION IT WAS RETURN. I STILL HAD IT WITH THE STAMP ON THE FRONT UNABLE TO DELIVER. THE FATHER ALSO HAD SWORE THAT HE HAD CERTIFIED MAILED ME HIS RESPONSE ALSO. I KNEW BOTH OF THEM WERE LYING AND I WOULD CALL THE COURTS AND SEE WHAT I COULD DO. THAT NIGHT I WHEN I GOT HOME I SAW A BIG PRIORTY MAIL CORNER STICKING OUT OF MY MAIL BOX. IT DIDN'T HAVE ANY POSTAGE ON IT. I KNEW MY DAUGHTER MUST HAVE RECEIVED THE DENIED PAPER WORK THAT DAY TO. THATS WHY SHE WAS LEAVING HER RESPONSE IN MY MAIL BOX. I WASN'T PREPARED FOR WHAT I WAS ABOUT TO SEE. SEE ATTACHED DOCUMENTS. THE DOCUMENTS WAS A POLICE REPORT THAT MY DAUGHTER HAD FILED. IT WAS FILED AROUND THE TIME I FILED FOR VISITATIONS. THE POLICE REPORT HAD MY BOYFRIEND NAME ON IT A STAMP ON THE PAGE SEXUAL ASSUALT. MY DAUGHTER HAD FILED A POLICE REPORT STATING MY BOYFRIEND HAD SEXUALLY ASSUALTED MY GRANDSON BRYSON. NOT ONE POLICE OFFICER, NO ONE CAME AND TALKED TO US. I WENT DOWN TO THE POLICE STATION TO TALK TO THE DETECTIVE WHO'S NAME WAS ON THE CASE. I ASKED HIM ABOUT WHY WE WERE UNAWARE OF THIS REPORT. NO POLICE OFFICER OR ANYONE CAME TO HOUSE TO ASK US ANY QUESTIONS. THE DETECTIVE SAID BECAUSE NO CHARGED WERE FILED AND THE CASE WAS CLOSED. THIS IS WHAT WAS USED SO I WAS DENIED GRANDPARENTS VISITATIONS. I HAVE TO WAIT TWO YEARS BEFORE I CAN FILE AGAIN. THIS WOULDN'T HAVE HAPPEN IF THERE WOULD HAVE BEEN A HEARING. IF THE LAW REMAINS. IT ALLOWS PARENTS TO USE THEIR CHILDREN TO CONTROL THE GRANDPARENT. IF GRANDPARENTS DON'T DO WHAT THE PARENTS WANT. THE GRANDPARENT WON'T BE ALLOWED TO SEE THEIR GRANDCHILD. THIS IS HAPPENING AGAIN AND AGAIN. I REFER TO IT AS CHILD ABUSE. GRANDCHILDREN DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING. WHY ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY CAN'T SEE THEIR GRANDPARENT. WHAT ABOUT OUR GRANDCHILDREN'S RIGHTS? THE RIGHT FOR GRANDCHILDREN TO HAVE GRANDPARENTS WHO LOVE THEM AND THEY LOVE BACK. PARENTS ARE ABUSING THE RIGHTS OF THEIR CHILDREN TO SPEND TIME WITH THEIR GRANDPARENTS. THIS SITUATION NEEDS TO BE ADDED TO GRANDPARENTS VISITATIONS. IF PARENTS WON'T ALLOW GRANDPARENTS TO SEE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN. THIS WOULD ALLOW GRANDPARENTS THE RIGHT TO FILE FOR VISITATIONS. THE PARENTS WOULD HAVE TO PROVE WHY IT WOULD NOT BE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF GRANDCHILD NOT TO HAVE GRANDPARENTS IN THEIR LIFE. HOW HAVING GRANDPARENTS IN GRANDCHILDS LIFE COULD CAUSE CHILD HARM? FALSE ACCUSATIONS HAVE BEEN MADE SO I WOULD BE DENIED VISITATIONS. OUR SYSTEM KNEW IT WAS A LIE. THAT'S WHY NOTHING HAPPEN. PARENTS WHO DON'T WANT GRANDPARENTS TO SEE THEIR GRANDCHILDREN FOR A GOOD REASON WON'T HAVE PROBLEM GOING TO COURT TO PROVE IT. IT'S THE PARENTS THAT DON'T HAVE A REASON TO NOT LET THE GRANDPARENTS SEE THE GRANDCHILDREN ARE THE ONES COMPLAINING THAT IT TAKES THEIR RIGHTS AS A PARENT AWAY FROM THEM. I HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I LOOK FORWARD HEARING BACK FROM YOU. I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES TO GET THIS LAW CHANGED. IF I GO TO MY GRAVE TRYING. I'M NOT GIVING UP.
KELLY

Top Pakistani diplomat says no U.S. or other foreign military personnel are on the hunt for the Al Qaeda leader in his nation, and none will be allowed in to search for him

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CUT OFF PAKISTAN"S MONEY NOW! We are throwing it down a black hole and it is probably making it's way to bin laden.

Congressional Job Approval

RCP Average: Spread -55.0%

* Approve
* 18.5%
* Disapprove
* 73.5%
Are you doing your job? I say no and I believe I am in the majority on this one. When are you actually going to start keeping count of what your constituents want and quit guessing. Bring your asses to the middle of your district/state and hold meetings and actually talk to the people who actually make up our great state. Start at 8am and go until every last person that came to see you has done so. Sure set a limit on time but try it for once, you'll be surprised and you might learn something. Maybe even learn how to set up an automatic email response that at least lets the people who email you know that you got it.

Please support HCR 40. The fate of the nation is at stake.

Attention all members of Congress:

It is time to start listening to all of the voters that have put you in office. Many of us are slowly dieing due a combination of high fuel prices and problems with mortgage. My wife and I are caught in this hole she was in an accident that put her in a wheelchair part of the time due to this we had to get cars that wheelchairs into now we are sitting at a point were out mortgage is about to adjust to a rate of who know's what and can not refi due to being arround 59% DTI. I am not asking for a handout what I want is for all of you to do your job and start to make progress at least with the fuel issues, or you will loose the next election to someone who states they will if it is only in speaches.

Congressman McCarthy:

After one year, and after speaking to Vincent Fong, I finally received your response to my concern about the footbaths at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. In your letter of response you state:
"THE FUNDING TO PAY FOR THE PROJECT WAS DRAWN FROM STUDENT FEES THAT CONTRIBUTE TO CAMPUS INFRASTRUXCTURE."

Very interesting.

As you know student fees are just that...fees students pay in the form of tuition and various other monies which go into an infrastructure "general fund." Hers' my glaring concern:

Picture, if you will, (just as an example) a white or Hispanic sutdent who is paying his/her own way through college. He/she pays tuition and student fees from the wages earned by washing cars, flipping burgers, etc. Why should ANY of that money be spent to accommodate a small but very vocal group of students?

What would happen if the Jewish students demanded Kosher food only in the cafeterias?

There MUST come a time when we, as a country, realize that we will have to step on some toes and do something "politically incorrect." Maybe now is the time.

I would be very interested to know your thought on this matter. Please don't make me wait another year.

Respectfully,

John Strand
3232 Denise Drive
Lake Isabella, CA 93240

American borders are falling apart and it is time to protect them. I urge you to co-sponsor H.R. 4987. The Fence by Date certain Act--leading to the Construction of a 700 mile double layer fence that enhances our national Security and Provides the first step in Comprehensive Immigration Reform. Also Please keep ENGLISH our NATIONAL LANGUAGE.

Enough is enough. I want to see drilling in every possible place where there is oil. The people of America are hurting because of the increase in gas, food and related products. It is time for immediate action. It is also time that the people of America comes first. The current politcal scene has shown us that it's the politician who counts and not the people he is supposed to serve.

It is time the Senate and the Congress acted for the people. It's time they acted like loyal Americans.

I would appreciate some decisive action taken by these two great institutions.

Thank you

As a citizen, I fear for the security of our nation when elected officials, who send troops to other parts of the world to provide security, cannot do the same right here. Instead, we are being invaded by those looking to steal our jobs, sell illegal drugs, or siphon benefits reserved for taxpaying citizens!

We are demanding a permanent solution, and it starts with the construction of the border fence as promised (double-layered).

I am urging you to listen to your constituents and co-sponsor H.R. 4987, The Fence by Date Certain Act.

This is a vital piece of legislation that must be supported to protect our sovereignty and security.

Please know that I will be closely monitoring your actions on H.R. 4987.