Helping disabled veterans http://www.causes.com/causes/473055-helping-disabled-veterans

The 2012 Senate Appropriations Bill for the Department of Health and Human Services includes troubling cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Board of health members are responsible for approving local health agency budgets and should be concerned by the continued cuts to public health funding.

To rally global audiences around Black Cinema to demonstrate the economic viability of films made for, by and starring persons of African descent. 81% of the theater going audience is Black, and less than 0.8% of films made in 2011 featured an African American cast, storyline or lead Black star.

Our country is at war. Over 6200 young men and women have died in Iraq and Afghanistan and the numbers grow daily. Why then, does the evening news start with a story on Lindsey Lohan? Every newscast and newspaper in this country should devote a moment or space to naming and honoring these young men and women who die everyday. A photo and a sentence. They deserve it. And the people of this country need to see the reality of what is happening.

Daylight Savings Time is an outdated relic from another era long since passed. It is confusing, useless and unnecessary. DST disrupts your internal clock & biorhythms, in addition to it being completely annoying changing the time on every last appliance that has a time display. So along with other useless wreckage and lumber (ie. dial up internet, typewriters and betamax) it is LONG overdue time for DST to be thrown onto the scrap-heap of history!

SEC. 2. PROHIBITION ON SHIPPING, TRANSPORTING, MOVING, DELIVERING, RECEIVING, POSSESSING, PURCHASING, SELLING, OR DONATION OF HORSES AND OTHER EQUINES FOR SLAUGHTER FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION.

Do you want to live down the street from a Detention Center? CCA is in the process of getting final approval for a massive 2000+ bed immigration detention center on 196th Avenue and Sheridan Street, literally blocks from our homes and schools. And all this WITHOUT any input from YOU.

It is well known that most people who get a DUI are forced to go to AA. What is not well known is that AA has been declared a “Religious Organization” more than once in court, and such assignments are unconstitutional. There are recovery programs aside from AA, including secular ones, and these options should be made available. Smart Recovery, Rational Recovery, Secular for Sobriety (SOS) Woman For Sobriety, and Lifering, The Clean Slate, and Hank Hayes’s 5 Master Keys Formula. The Time is now that average citizens are given a choice. AA has no safety measures in place to protect members from Sexual Harassment, Financial Scamming, or Sexual Battery and is proving to be a dangerous place to send unsuspecting citizens.

There are millions of pages of information, videos, scientific reports, news articles, personal accounts, expert testimony, and a generally overwhelming volume of information on the known and yet-unknown dangers and proven health risks of consuming GMO products and the millions of tons of highly toxic pesticide, RoundUp, with which they are drenched. Please sign this petition insisting on our basic human right to know and CHOOSE what we ingest. Demand mandatory labeling of all GMO ingredients (including animal products from animals fed GMO) so we can exercise our freedom of CHOICE!

SignOn.Org now has no option for editing the petition text without deleting it or omitting the recipients listed. The president of The Conservancy has communicated to me that it's membership's wishes are that there be no name change and no one's name appear on the title of The Coast to Crest Trail and Jerry's wife concurs. I hereby withdraw my pursuit in changing that trail's name, and this petition will not be delivered to either recipient. This petition will be left online for now, and if you support honoring Jerry Schad in a positive way proportional to the magnitude of his contributions that has the blessings of those who were closest to him, then sign this petition. I'll leave it to others to decide what that will be, and will decline any leadership role in that process. http://rparky.tumblr.com/post/11004273422/honoring-jerry-schad

The Love Declaration is a personal transformation covenant whose purpose is to be a bridge to our awakened conscious unity. It is a spiritually-initiative portal through which all beings are invited to pass via the authentic setting aside of the illusion of a separate self. It is a powerful and unambiguous thought form, and is intended to be freely shared, moving as a gift from heart to heart as timed and guided by the Good That Is. It’s mission is to inspire unifying miracles by rigorously voicing---without exceptions, backdoors, loopholes, or exits of any kind---a fundamentally true knowing living deep within every created sentient being. Regardless of any failures to actually BE it moment to moment, The Love Declaration stands for the possibility of knowing ourselves as our Word in exactly the same way that life’s Creator knows itself as it’s Word. This Declaration, by including and going beyond the present tense simple into the future-promissory (I am and I will be) languages for the benefit of our personal awareness the actively compassionate voice of our universal relatedness. It is a tool providing the limitless non-comparative reality of Absolute Love a trustable anchoring presence for our hearts and minds. Beyond suggesting daily remembrance, and that its usage be public, shared, and communion-generating, The Love Declaration, being universal, comes “without instructions”, because guidance regarding its use is available within every being directly for the sincere asking, whatever our individual cultural backgrounds, faith persuasions, or other life-contextualizing paradigms. Thank you for recognizing that your life, and the creative, intentional, and contributive way you live it, is a blessing absolutely essential to the wholeness of Life. There is only One of us here. (more info at: www.thelovedeclaration.org)

Quoting Roberta Smith in The New York Times 9/19/11: "Please. Someone, everyone, do something to save the American Folk Art Museum from dissolution and dispersal. Or at least slow down the process, so that all options can be thoroughly considered. New York’s contemporary artists, and New York as a whole, need the creative energy of this stubborn, single-minded little institution, its outstanding exhibition program and its wondrous collection, an unparalleled mixture of classic American folk art and 20th-century outsider geniuses.