Call on Federal Government to Regulate Stun Guns

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Monday August 26, 2013 · 9:31 PM PDT

2013/08/26 · 21:31

Please consider signing onto this particular White House petition calling on the Obama Administration to have the federal government govern and regulate Tasers and other stun guns in the same manner as firearms and other lethal weapons are regulated, here (screenshot):

150 signatures are needed simply to meet the initial threshold with which to get the petition listed on the White House petition Website.

After that, although the next threshold of 100,000 signatures is quite challenging, it is hoped enough people across the nation will rise to this humongous challenge and bring about a movement by the deadline of September 23rd; this in order for the Administration to review the petition and issue an official response.

In addition, after signing onto the petition, please help spread the word as well.

Together, we can make a difference.

norsehorse

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Thursday September 30, 2010 · 9:44 PM PDT

2010/09/30 · 21:44

*Updated* (with the usual edits)

More and more commercial news media or newspapers of various forms are heading toward creating a fee to read or, more commonly referred to as a paywall model of one sort or another, for either select content or most if not all of their content. Others have already established such.

The free online versions of such news media or newspaper Websites as they currently exist include a revenue-generation model in the form of paid ads on its pages. The fee versions will probably offer the same as well, the only difference will be people will have to be paid subscribers in order to view its content.

Unless online edition readers can gain access to additional quality content that makes it well worth paying for a subscription, it is most likely only those with enough disposable income to afford such will be able to gain access and, those who cannot afford to do so will lose access to content that had been available up until paywalls were or are put in place.

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Will you pay to subscribe for access to online news content?

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Will you pay to subscribe for access to online news content?

Yes

3 votes

Already do

1 vote

Would do so if it could be afforded

0 votes

22 votes

Not sure

0 votes

2010 VT Guv Candidates' Responses to Homelessness & Affordable Housing Questions

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Monday September 13, 2010 · 6:51 AM PDT

2010/09/13 · 06:51

2010 Vermont general election gubernatorial candidates' responses to homelessness and affordable housing questions (here):

Five-Part Question Posed to Vermont 2010 Gubernatorial Candidates:

If the voters were to elect you as Governor of the State of Vermont, when it comes to addressing homelessness and affordable housing across the state, please answer the following five-part question:

What priority would both of these matters hold within your administration?

What concrete steps would your administration take to address these matters?

What are the expected outcomes by which your administration would measure the effectiveness of such proposals?

What timelines would your administration set for addressing such?

How would your administration fund such proposals?

[...]

Read responses received thus far*(1), here.

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Friday August 27, 2010 · 5:56 PM PDT

2010/08/27 · 17:56

Press release from the campaign of Vermont Democratic gubernatorial candidate Doug Racine (here):

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Thursday August 26, 2010 · 1:31 PM PDT

2010/08/26 · 13:31

Considering everything at stake, it is my hope that Doug Racine and his campaign gives serious consideration to requesting a recount as concerns the Vermont Democratic gubernatorial primary election.

Some rank and file Democrats and also others who voted in the election as well, including some supporters of Peter Shumlin, had stated online that a recount should be done when final unofficial results had not yet been called by the press.

They stated their opinions that it was indeed crucial to make sure all votes were properly counted and accounted for so there would be no doubts of whom got the most votes and is rightly the Democratic nominee.

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Should a primary election vote recount be requested?

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Should a primary election vote recount be requested?

Yes

16 votes

13 votes

Undecided

5 votes

An Independent Take on VT Dem Guv Primary Race

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Sunday August 22, 2010 · 5:01 PM PDT

2010/08/22 · 17:01

(cross-posted from Green Mountain Daily, here)

While there is strong support for Deb Markowitz, Peter Shumlin and Matt Dunne among some Democratic primary voters, the weakness for these three is they are each drawing from the same types of voters, whereas Doug Racine -- and while there may also be some overlap there as well -- is also drawing from different types of voters who are less likely to vote for Markowitz, Shumlin and Dunne.

In addition, with a lot of people when they say who is among their top two or three candidates, Racine oftentimes is one of them and the same can not always be said for the other candidates as well, so he enjoys both broader and deeper favorables; plus Shumlin has high negative ratings when it comes to unfavorables, etc.

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