That is an excellent idea. When our son is old enough I plan to know the subject matter as well. Are the teachers being tested on the material too? That seems like a basic question, but I'd love to know that the person teaching the class also knows the material and doesn't just have the answer key.

Forrest Gump would say, "sorry I ruined your black panther party".
That anchor was awful, stilted questions, rambing statements, oy. She also didn't address the point, wich was that the case was dropped after conviction, but before sentencing.

It makes me remember that Bruce Lee got his first start in the series. Green Lantern better be worlds better than this trailer though.

If folks want to help the animals then they should donate to a respected local charity. If they want to donate to an organization that does national cruelty/lobbying, then HSUS is one of your choices.

Your local 'humane society' is not affiliated with HSUS. They may receive a little bit of money from them, but it will be just a little, like in the case of a specific rescue or cruelty case. Humane society is a general term that some shelters use to get under another organization's reputation. If you're donating to an animal organization be certain that the acronym is where you want the money to go. Lots of organizations have similar sounding names, but may have totally different operating protocols.

There are also several great sources that do free research on non profit organizations. Lastly, any charity should be willing to share their 990 with you, that will give you a great idea of how responsible they will be with your donation

Yes, folks need to really watch where they send their donations.

HSUS does a very good job at marketing. Last year a local television piece profiled an animal shelter that I used to work for. The piece was about how the donations they collect do not support local shelters despite their almost constant airing on television. It was interesting because the piece only aired twice and the station pulled it due to 'copyright violations'. Call that what you will, but either the HSUS put pressure on the station or their followers beat them down because they were questioning how they spend the donations.

At the time I was doing communications for a large animal shelter in Atlanta and the reporter contacted me to see if I was aware of what they do. They aren't doing anything wrong, but it is borderline misleading as what they do is mainly lobbying against animal cruelty or helping awareness, instead of physically helping the critters.

Occasionally they will reimburse local animal shelters when work is done in an emergency or high profile instances.

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