The Military Service Buyback Bill (AKA 'Veterans Equality Act'), was overwhelmingly supported by 57 (of 57) NYS Senators and 133 (of 134) NYS Assembly Members over the Summer (June/July 2014). It waited months to be called for by Governor Cuomo (before election day) only to be promptly vetoed AFTER the election and notably right BEFORE Veterans Day. This bill would provide all Veterans the equality they deserve and is in need of a two-thirds vote by the Assembly and Senate in order to have Governor Cuomo's veto overridden. Let's show Governor Cuomo that Veterans and their families are important and that we will not allow him to make fools of them by toying with their votes or underestimating their ability to enact change in spite of him. They fought and continue to fight for our freedom, let's fight for their equality! Thank you!

my slender-identity issues people tell me to just accept the reality which tells me that i am not big and strong. who are they to judge? have they walked a mile in my shoes? i feel like i should be big and strong. furthermore, much like i feel that i should be famous (which i will elaborate on later), i feel like i was born with the identity of a big and strong "lumberjack" type of man with abundantly hairy armpits and a hairy chest. as a boy, i had never felt comfortable being skinny and weak. i was a strong man in a weak man's body. my small penis made me uncomfortable, my skinny wrists and arms made me uncomfortable, and i was especially never comfortable in the locker-room with my smooth armpits out for all the owners of hairy armpits to see. if i had the money that chastity bono's parents had, i would have gotten an armpit-change operation so that i would have felt comfortable with myself. i'm sorry, but walk a mile in my shoes and you'll see that any "pin the hair on the armpit" game is just as legitimate as a "pin the penis on the girl" game is. furthermore, just as much as i listened to adam ant's "strip" record, i was adamant that i wasn't going to go to a head-doctor to learn to accept the reality of my hairless armpits. likewise, i am not going to go to a head-doctor to learn to accept the reality of not having the body of a big and strong lumberjack/football player/manly man. my identity is my identity, some would say it's a mistaken identity, but those people are hateful to tell me that it is a mistake to see myself as a big and strong and mighty superman. didn't tom petty say "you don't know what it's like to be me," or something? if my brain's identity will make me regard myself in a way that is contrary to reality, then it is reality that needs to change...and NOT ME. in 1978, the movie "grease" was released the day after i turned 4. you'd have seen me doing my best to emulate john travolta's "greased lightning" dance. in 1983, when i became obsessed with michael jackson, you'd have seen me doing my best to emulate his "moonwalk" or "huevo" moves. in 1984 or 1985, a long obsession with madonna began. in 1990, i had memorized her whole "vogue" dance a month before seeing her "blond ambition world tour" - actually, i used the vcr to record mtv's entire "blond date with madonna" weekend. i have always had the identity of a famous person. at 4 years old, gosh - i was 9 or 10, and i had processed 9 or 10 years worth of information, before i realized that i was "born gay". well, for that reason alone, i can honestly say that it's more legitimate for me to be famous than it is for me to be gay. now, given that feelings i have about myself were there from an early age, i can honestly say that i was born this way. it would be a mistake to hire a psychologist as a way to get me to stop feeling the way i feel about myself. the mirror does not represent WHO I AM, regarding the big and strong hero of a man who is the only man i have respect for. the mirror is my enemy because i have no respect for myself, but i would love myself if i'd get some props surgically implanted on my body like chastity bono's fabricated gender was implanted on her body. if the government pays for prisoners to have sex-change operations, if the government spends money to legitimize gender-identity issues harbored by the trash-heap of society, then they should also spend money to legitimize the slender-identity issues of wimps who want to be heroes. especially if the wimps have never been in jail. NEWSFLASH: i have the wrong body - why should prisoners get sex-change operations paid for - damn it, i should look like the football heroes who are matthew muchnok and tim tebow! i have the talent to be a leading man in a movie, i have the talent to record a duet with madonna, and it is the government's job to see to it that i become a star. if the government is going to pay for any prisoner's sex-change operation, thereby legitimizing one mistaken identity, then who is the government (or anybody) to say which mistaken identities are legitimate enough to spend money on? the government should make me famous ON ACCOUNT OF the way i see myself. do i have to rape a politician's wife with my "slick willie" and go to jail, just so that i'd be set free of my identity crisis? it is the government's job to cater to my slender-identity issues BY SEEING TO IT that medical doctors turn me into the big and strong man that i want to be. it is the government's job to cater to my famous-identity issues BY SEEING TO IT that warner brothers approaches me with a contract to sign. dylan terreri, i www.jaggedlittledyl.com

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I have been bullied by fellow employees for years while management turned a blind eye. My immediate coworkers laughed in agreement of the verbal abuse, sometimes joined in and stated that they would not testify to the abuse if asked. The general consensus at work is that to advance in the workplace, you have to remain silent. Since victims cannot rely on the testimony of eye witnesses, they should be allowed to secretly record their abusers, especially if it involves management. There must be a way to root out bullying in government agencies.

Underprivileged children in need. The Angel Tree has been removed from Regency Square Mall in Florence, Alabama. The Corporate Headquarters has stated that no non-profit business may set up in the mall. They state that is "Solicition". This is profit for the store inside the mall so how is that not a profit for them. It pays their rent. No one is being told or made to shop for these children. They have been doing the Angel Tree for 20 years. Why all the sudden have they changed their minds? Please sign the petition and let them know we mean business.

In the Fall of 2012, I became a home owner for the first time thanks to Fannie Mae. witnessing first hand the important role the GSE's play in creating and maintaining a healthy middle class and economy through home ownership, I invested the remaining of my savings into Fannie Mae.

The owners are regular, common Americans plus the pension funds of teachers, firemen, policemen, factory workers, etc. In the chaotic reaction to the financial crisis in the early 2000's, decisions were made in haste and mistakes were made. We are asking for these mistakes to be corrected and that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac be returned to hardworking Americans. Thank you!

Liberty Natural Gas (Liberty LNG) is proposing to build ‘Port Ambrose,’ a deepwater port that would bring combustible liquefied natural gas tankers to the NY/NJ region. Under the Deepwater Port Act, this facility could be used for both the import and export of liquefied natural gas (LNG). This proposal is concerning for several reasons: 1. LNG tankers and facilities pose serious security risks, as they are vulnerable to terrorism and hijacking in the busiest port on the east coast and near JFK airport. 2. LNG is a disaster for our climate: methane has an effect on climate 85 times more potent than carbon dioxide over a twenty-year period. 3. Liberty Natural Gas is a secretive corporation of nameless backers based in the Cayman Islands that refuses to disclose who they are and their financial investors. 4. Port Ambrose will likely become an export facility. Once approved for import, it can be flipped to export without further public input, worsening the industrialization of the marine environment, affecting fishing, and intensifying climate change. 5. Port Ambrose will create only six (6) long-term jobs. A real green energy future, including energy conservation and renewables, will create thousands of high paying, permanent jobs.

The city of Adelanto is already home to the High Desert's Prison Industrial Complex. Within the small city that is Adelanto, there are 4 jail facilities with over 9,325 cages in total. Yet somehow, the City is looking to expand.... Adelanto plans to rush approval for a 3,264-cage jail project on Wednesday, November 19th. A vote that has not received adequate public input or consideration and is to be held before the new city council members take their positions! Records have reported that crime rates are at their lowest and Proposition 47 is expected to reduce the prison population in CA. Is there really a need for new prisons when crime rates are down and prisons will be significantly reduced? NO! Instead the project is a product of the interest of the biggest for profit corrections agency, the Corrections Corporation of America (CCA). Their developer Buck Johns is the main individual trying to push this new prison onto the city disguised as a request of LA County, which is far from it. LA County is not requesting a new prison. Adelanto needs to end with the shady deals. We demand more transperency amongst the City and better educational and economic opportunities, not more jails or Prisons! Enough is Enough! YA BASTA!

In the recent November 4 elections, voters across the state of Illinois were asked to vote yes or no on whether the state should raise its minimum wage. This referendum passed with a huge mandate: 67% of voters—over 2 million Illinoisans—approved it. Republican and Democratic areas—urban, suburban, and rural—saw overwhelming majorities of support. The question received a majority of yes votes in almost every one of the state’s 118 House districts. Members of the General Assembly: The people of this state have spoken. We need a higher minimum wage, and we need it now. If we raise the wage to $10 an hour, over 1 million working people will get a raise. They cannot wait. Over 100,000 working single parents will get a raise. They cannot wait. One in four African-American workers, one in three Latino workers in our state will get a raise. They cannot wait another day for a paycheck they can actually live on. The will of the people is clear. We urge you to do your job, to serve your constituents, to call a vote on HB 3718 and SB 68 during this upcoming veto session.

Last year, in two executive actions, President Obama raised the minimum wage of federal contractors to $10.10 an hour, and ordered firms to disclose labor law violations when applying for federal contracts. Now, workers are calling on Obama to build on his prior executive actions with something bigger and more comprehensive. A new executive order would prioritize contracting with fair pay, workplace protections, and good safety records. That would have a huge impact. In 2013, the U.S. government spent $437.5 billion on domestic federal contracting. In a new analysis, Demos Senior Policy Analyst Robert Hiltonsmith shows that, $175 billion of those dollars went to contractors with a major workplace violation in the past 15 years. In Demos' original report, Underwriting Good Jobs, we showed such an order would benefit over 20 million Americans. The federal government should follow the American people and prioritize the type of contractors that do the right thing. Treating your workers fairly should be a prerequisite of receiving our tax dollars.

House Resolution 707 - Condemning all forms of anti-Semitism and rejecting attempts to justify anti-Jewish hatred or violent attacks as an acceptable expression of disapproval or frustration over political events in the Middle East or elsewhere. This is a BLATANT VIOLATION of our 1st Amendment Rights! Every Congressman who voted for this TRAVESTY has VIOLATED their Oath of Office, and should be RECALLED from Office, as they are unfit to serve! Amendment l Congress shall make NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the FREEDOM of SPEECH, or of the PRESS; or the RIGHT of the PEOPLE peaceably to assemble to PETITION the Government for a redress of grievances. I urge everyone to sign this Petition or create their own Petition at MoveOn.org for the RECALL of these misguided Congressmen from their Offices for NOT upholding the Constitution of the United States of America. They have VIOLATED our sacred trust and should NEVER BE TRUSTED AGAIN!