Imagine waking up one day to find yourself in the position of our European cousins that were unknowingly eating horse and donkey meat mixed in with their beef? What are you willing to do to make sure that never happens here in America or elsewhere in the world? Start contacting your Representatives in Congress and ask them to support the SAFE Act to put an end to horse and donkey slaughter once and for all.

A Budweiser affiliate, L&H Distributing of Tullahoma, TN, is to be an official sponsor of the 75th Annual Tennessee Walking Horse Celebration in Shelbyville, TN later this month. This show is the epicenter of the worst horse abuse in the world. At last year’s show, 190 horses were chosen at random by U.S. Department of Agriculture inspectors and 145 of them tested positive for caustic substances that had been used to “sore” the forelegs of the animals to produce the exaggerated front end movement known as the "Big Lick". Soring is illegal in the United States, prohibited by the federal Horse Protection Act. Budweiser’s involvement with the National Celebration comes as a huge shock, but it seems that L&H Distributing Co., located in Tullahoma, has cut a deal with the cash-strapped show to provide alcoholic beverages for the first time ever at what has been previously billed as “a family event.”

Russian Sports Minister Vitaly Mutko stated yesterday that athletes and spectators attending the 2014 Sochi Olympics will be punished if they endorse gay rights in any way. Tell US corporations who are sponsoring the Olympics to withdraw their support.

Politician and Frederick County Commissioners' President Blaine R. Young, 50% owner of Frederick City Cab/Yellow Cab has never served a day in his life for his country. Yet, because his less than 51% partner Jerry Woods has, he advertises ‘A Veteran-Owned Company' on his cabs. Why does 1% matter? A 2009 GAO report found that fraud and abuse allowed ineligible firms to obtain $100 million of dollars in contracts. From the VA Veteran-Owned Small Business Verification Guidelines - Regulation 38 CFR § 74.3: • An applicant or participant must be at least 51 percent unconditionally and directly owned by one or more Veterans or service-disabled Veterans. How do we know? Young has reported his 50% ownership of City Cab/Yellow Cab and affiliates on his annual Frederick County Ethics Disclosure Forms for three years in a row. Both Young and his partner feel they have the right to advertise their falsehood intent upon deceiving nearby Ft. Detrick military staff, contractors, the general public, and (unique to this situation) campaign funding voters. Worst of all, they pretend their ‘Direct Bill’ subcontract arrangement with one of their largest customers, federal contractor SAIC/ALIANT (featuring a Direct Order/Direct Bill contract payment option) and ACH reimbursements from Frederick County Social Services aren’t really contract agreements at all. Yet, each day they remain unchallenged, a more potentially deserving VA and SBA registered ‘Veteran-Owned’ and ‘Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Business’ is neglected and misdirected income is lost. Why then, do AMVETS and more specifically, AMVETS POST #2 ‘The Farm’ in Frederick County, Maryland continue to support and accept funds from Blaine R. Young’s Yellow Cab Picnic for Veterans? I once knew an older and wiser SDVOB who pondered long and hard whether or not to help his business grow by compromising the integrity of his own service by telling a lie or to ask his non-veteran partner to diminish the value of his mutual personal investment in the company they jointly owned. His honor prevailed. BZ to this American hero for a job well done. Blaine Young and Jerry Woods of Yellow Cab, where have your consciences and respect for Veterans gone? AMVETS, you have the power to stop condoning and benefiting from this disingenuous behavior. Please stop the upcoming Yellow Cab/AMVETS Post #2 FARM Picnic and put an end to the misrepresentation. Our petition is asking you to act on behalf of all deserving Veteran-Owned and Service Disabled Veteran Owned Businesses today.

On Sunday the Asbury Park Press revealed that Chris Christie wasted millions in Sandy relief funds to promote himself on television in the run up to the gubernatorial election. Reports indicate that he chose a politically connected firm that was almost twice as expensive as its competitors because it promised to feature him and his family in their ads. Two firms bid on the ad campaign to promote the shore over the summer and fall. One cost $4.7 million, the other cost $2.5 million. But the more expensive firm pitched a campaign featuring Governor Christie and his family, and the less expensive firm didn't. The Christie campaign has more than enough funds to field its own ads, and to misuse Sandy funds for taxpayer subsidized reelection advertisements is unconscionable. They should reimburse the state so that the $2 million can be spent for the benefit of communities devastated by Sandy.

We can't let global financial interests destroy hardworking Americans' pensions, and the dominoes could start falling after Detroit's bankruptcy. If Michigan's pro-corporate governor and "emergency manager" succeed in cheating hardworking American workers out of their pensions, pro-corporate officials in towns and cities throughout the country are much more likely to try something similar. All eyes are on Detroit.

Barbiegirls.com is a shut down two years ago, and we really want to bring it back, but we can't do it alone! We need your help to bring it back! You can call Mattel at- 1-877-322-7243 and tell them how much you want to bring Barbiegirls.com back. Also follow us on Facebook at- Save Barbie, and on Instagram at- savebarbiegirls. With your help we can one day bring Barbiegirls.com back.

This petition is intended to persuade legislators to pass and enact federal, state and local laws that protect retirement benefits from big banks and Wall Street sponsored politicians and contrived bankruptcies.

This team disrespected the American Flag by throwing it on the ground after they won the American Legion Baseball Tournament in Nevada. The schools need to teach Flag etiquette and respect for our Veterans.

Bsl is racism at its finest being supported by the government instead of educating the public it is used to scare them. You cant blame the breed of a animal for the bad choices of a human no more than you can blame a person for the color of their skin . Many people are being forced to choose between their loving family pet and the town in which they live and that is causing over population in shelters and causing hundreds even thousands of good dogs to be killed..

I am a member of your community. Some of the names on this list are part of your developing community as well. We, the people of both your social community AND THE MEANS FOR YOUR BUSINESS have had enough of your lack of ability to perform your jobs to their fullest extent. Below is your list of things that are expected of your company that they are not doing: A) Properly reviewing the content of publicly displayed images. - You have failed to demonstrate your ability to properly review images that are displayed publicly by banning or even disabling users whose avatar display images are not considered "Access Pass Only" (hereafter referred to as AP) or do not go against the terms laid out in your own Terms of Service (hereafter referred to as ToS). B) Properly reviewing products in your catalog that have been flagged by your users. - When an item goes through the Peer Review system, that means that a jury of it's peers has declared that this item is properly rated and is suitable for IMVU catalog. Something’s make it through that are not. However, where the inability of your company lies is in someone reporting an item that has made it through Peer Review already. It is obvious by the refunds and by the products being disabled, along with their creators, that IMVU is not doing their own reviewing properly. Items that have no reason being AP are being flagged as inappropriate and then you proceed to ban it and provide a refund because it has supposedly broken the ToS when there is nothing evident about it that does so. Unacceptable. C) Providing information to those who have been victim to the above. - When someone is victim to the above mentioned failures of your company, you refuse to impart details as to why they have been banned, disabled, or why a product was removed. The only thing you say is that it was reported and upon review was found guilty. Under what terms was it found to break the ToS? How is someone in a leather jacket, which is from your catalog and a “General Access” item (hereafter referred to as GA), breaking your ToS? The pose was not considered AP. They were even by themselves in their picture. So how? D) Not punishing those who are acting out of spite. - There are people who simply report others for fun. There are those who do it out of anger when wronged by another person somehow. These “Serial Reporters” are not being punished for their actions and you are simply feeding into them to keep doing it by not reviewing or doing your jobs properly. You are the final judge on what happens and yet you do nothing to prevent the true criminals from leeching away your community. You, IMVU, are letting down your consumers. The same people who are your users. The same people who are your means of business. The same people who use this as their own means to business. You are failing to properly punish those who are wrong and supporting these false vigilantes in their quest to watch the world burn. We, the community of IMVU, have had enough. We are signing this petition to show to you that you need to fix these problems because we are not going to take this abuse any longer. We are not just bits of data. We are real people and we will not be denied what is properly ours, the ability to use this program without the fear of being banned or disabled because the host company will not do their job properly.

The board of election is not providing candidate John Liu with matching funds inorder to run for Mayor of New York City 2013.