The suffering these animals endure to gain data that is for the most part inconclusive at best, is cruel unnecessary & barbaric. It is also funded with taxpayers dollars who HAVE NO SAY to thier ethical objection to these practices. SHAME ON YOU!!!

ubject: Post911 GI bill. The bill has served many active duty members and their dependents well. Unfortunately, the bill falls short of offering the retired veteran the same degree of appreciation. The current version of the bill prohibits veterans from transferring their educational benefit. In part, the law states that the transfer of benefits from individuals eligible for the Post-9/11 GI Bill to certain family members is allowed if you are currently a member of the Armed Forces (active duty or Selected Reserve) on or after August 1, 2009. This wording effectively eliminates the retiree from making the transfer. In the end, this prohibition is unnecessary and unfair to the veterans who have served and defended this great nation. This bill is permanently authorized and supported through mandatory funding. And it requires no additional appropriations for a retiree like me to hand the benefit to my child just as a service member. Recently, I read that the U.S. spent $34 million to build a facility in the Helmand Province of Afghanistan that will never be used. And more than $770 million was spent on aircrafts that the Afghan forces will never fly. Not to mention, the $350 million bridge to nowhere. I could go on giving examples like this. Nevertheless, people can’t understand how we can give so much aid to other countries and balk at allowing vets to transfer their earned benefit. Especially, since additional funds are not required. By allowing this transfer, thousands of our American children will have the opportunity to receive a college education. And without it, many will unnecessarily struggle to attend and even more will not be able to afford it. Who can be against that? All the while being in support of giving billions to other countries to feed and educate their children. The monies from the 3 examples above could have educated more children than what the mind could imagine. So, the questioned asked by all of us is why prohibit it? Congress modify the Post911 GI bill to read: “Veterans who qualify for the Post911 GI bill is allowed to transfer their educational benefit to their spouse or dependent children”. It is the only and the right thing to do.

Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio is about to take office. He has spoken out in support of so many fantastic education policies. We’re hopeful that as he starts to put his policies in place, he can work to lower the high stakes of the New York State tests for New York City students and teachers. We have put together this petition urging him to do just that. And we need your help to spread the word. Time is of the essence, as we anticipate many of the new educational policies that will ensue under this new administration will start to go into effect shortly following the transition. We believe that valid assessments used thoughtfully by teachers and schools can be extremely useful. But we also believe New York’s testing program – as currently designed and practiced in grades 3-8 – is not educationally sound and should not be used to make high stakes decisions for students, teachers, principals, or schools. While there are many things about the high stakes tests that we would eventually like to see changed, there are three specific aspects that Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio has direct control over and will be able to change: 1. Ending promotion tied to test scores 2. Ending middle and high school admissions tied exclusively to test scores 3. Ending school report cards based primarily on student test scores These changes won’t fix everything. But they’re a great start – and they represent changes Mayor-elect Bill de Blasio would be able to make himself. So join us in reaching out to him and urging him to help us lower the stakes surrounding testing in NYC… and lowering the weight they are currently placing on our teachers and our students by signing this petition.

Join us as we embark on this quest to bring about cerebral change. Too many texts, calls, and snapchats have expressed discontent with Enrique's grooming habits. Help us, help Enrique. He needs you, all of you.

Newspapers need to stop publishing letters that deny climate change.

Poor desperate immigrants try and come to the United States to earn money for their families back home, but are instead taken advantage of and sold as sex slaves. They are extremely traumatized and have no where to turn to for financial and psychological help.

To help fund the U.S. Army JROTC program at Fort Hamilton High School

At a public hearing on November 5, 2013, the Spencer School Board unanimously voted to demolish Reynolds School. Members of the Spencer Historic Preservation Commission had toured the building earlier in the month and sent a letter to the School Board asking that the building be restored. The Reynolds School Building was built in 1926. It is locally significant as a local example of architecture designed by the firm of Beuttler & Arnold in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth–Century Gothic Revival style. Historic buildings such as Reynolds School serve as a public and physical reminder of our city’s heritage and on-going commitment to education. Reynolds School is not only architecturally significant, but a point of pride for our community, linking generations of residents to our common value of education. Historic places are fundamental to defining the identity of our communities and should be preserved, not torn down in the name of “progress." Please join us in telling the Spencer School Board and the Spencer Historic Preservation Commission to work together to find an adaptive reuse for the building. We do not want this important building torn down!

We are trying to let the Orange Airport and the town of Orange know we want the Drag Races back where they started!

Brian is a beloved character for the show.

This holiday season, 2 million people in Illinois, including 886,000 children, will have less to eat because of recent cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamps). Now, some in Congress want to cut another $40 billion from an effective anti-hunger program that helps families put food on the table. We need to act quickly so that Rep. Rodney Davis understands that taking food from kids and other vulnerable populations is just wrong.

Should America's flagship Catholic university take a million dollars from the Koch brothers to spread their right-wing, anti-poor agenda? The billionaire Koch brothers are the biggest funders of the tea party movement and the anti-government think tanks that are waging war on anti-poverty programs. But even though the Koch brothers' efforts are clearly out of step with Catholic social teaching, the Catholic University of America just announced a million dollar donation from Charles Koch to their business and economics school. The Koch brothers' past donations to universities have come with strings attached -- Charles Koch used a similar donation to veto most of the professors another university wanted to hire with his donation. Catholic University needs to put its academic integrity and commitment to social justice ahead of the Koch brothers' radical agenda.