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  • George Mason University Green Machine plays Rage Against the Machine.

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  • Schaefer beer and Moog synths, CAKE hopes nobody has a spill.

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  • Between 2005 to 2010, a U.S. service member took his or her own life every 36 hours, according to a new report by the Center for a New American Security.

Newsflash for January 18, 2012

  • CAKE believes learning a new dance in the new year revitalizes the soul.

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  • The amazing Astor Piazzolla!

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  • Push it real good.

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Newsflash for December 30, 2011

  • This is how it feels to be in the band, CAKE.

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  • Charlie Chaplin: ahead of his time?

Newsflash for December 27, 2011

  • Republican presidential candidates Rick Perry, Herman Cain, Michele Bachmann, and Rick Santorum each have detailed stories about where and when and what they were doing when God instructed them to run for president. Why is God doing this?
  • Are you patriotic enough?

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  • Festive Greetings from CAKE

Newsflash for December 23, 2011

  • George Morgan sings "Blue Snowfall"

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  • War on Christmas? The pilgrims, English separatists that came to America in 1620, were even more orthodox in their Puritan beliefs than Cromwell. As a result, Christmas was not a holiday in early America. From 1659 to 1681, the celebration of Christmas was actually outlawed in Boston. Anyone exhibiting the Christmas spirit was fined five shillings.

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Newsflash for December 14, 2011

  • CAKE extends sincere thanks to all who participated in the Movember Mustache Contest. Winners will be announced shortly.

Newsflash for December 13, 2011

  • A group of unicorns is called a blessing.

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Newsflash for December 10, 2011

  • Dylan Ratigan urgently shares the truth.

Newsflash for December 9, 2011

  • After putting a sheet set through the laundry, store the sheets (and one pillowcase) inside the other pillowcase. You'll never search for the matching sheet/pillowcase again.

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  • Stegosaurus lived twice as long ago as Tyrannosaurus. In Tyrannosaurus' time, there were Stegosaurus fossils in the ground that were as old as T-rex fossils are today.

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Newsflash for November 30, 2011

  • There's good reason to be a Charo fanatic.

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  • If you enter your neighbor’s grainfield, you may pick kernels with your hands, but you must not put a sickle to their standing grain. -- Deuteronomy 23:25

Newsflash for November 20, 2011

  • Come see all of the new items we've added to the CAKE STORE and meet your holiday gift needs! All purchases from the CAKE STORE will receive a free holiday gift of our variety postcard pack featuring seven "Showroom of Compassion" images. Order now, this free gift is only offered until December 20!

Newsflash for November 18, 2011

  • 800,000 pets in the US have health insurance.

Newsflash for November 17, 2011

  • "The less government we have the better- the fewer laws and less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal government is the influence of private character, the growth of the individual." -Emerson

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  • How could you not like country music? What is wrong with you?
  • People say "no two snowflakes are exactly the same" but except for elementary particles (like electrons and protons) no two of ANYTHING are exactly the same.

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  • Eggs!

Newsflash for November 11, 2011

  • Butterflies don't urinate. Any extra liquid they have is expelled as pure water mist.

Newsflash for November 10, 2011

  • CAKE strongly recommends Banksy's Exit Through the Gift Shop.
  • Pew study released last week:
    In 1984, those 65-and-older had 10 times the net worth of of those 35-and-younger.
    In 2009 that jumped, with the elderly 47 times more wealthy than the young.

Newsflash for November 9, 2011

  • Many businesses have removed the "take a penny, leave a penny" jar because it is a convenient way for cashiers to count how many dollars they short customers (and embezzle at the end of the day).

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  • The number of possible ways to arrange a 52 card deck is about the number of atoms in the galaxy.

Newsflash for November 3, 2011

  • Humans are the greatest long distance running species. Some tribal hunters use this to their advantage and instead of outrunning prey, they tire them out by keeping pace until it can't run any more.

Newsflash for November 2, 2011

  • The number of people under 75 who die from curable illness was almost twice as high in the U.S. as in the countries that do best on this measure: France, Japan, and Spain.

Newsflash for November 1, 2011

  • ‎Almost 93% of Sumatran tiger habitat in Indonesia has been lost to deforestation. Meanwhile, the 400 remaining tigers are clinging on for survival in what’s left of their home.

Newsflash for October 31, 2011

  • ‎# of kernels of corn it takes to make the corn syrup used in one kernel of candy corn: 3
  • Total cost of malpractice suits in the U.S., including insurance premiums, big dollar verdicts, and defensive medicine, adds only 1 percent to our health care costs.

Newsflash for October 29, 2011

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  • Is everyone ready to see Tinariwen with CAKE and California Honeydrops this Sunday?
  • The Amazon Rainforest loses an area the size of Switzerland every year.

Newsflash for October 27, 2011

  • Lightning strikes 6,000 times per minute on Earth.

Newsflash for October 26, 2011

  • The declining sea ice off Greenland is now too thin for dogsleds, leading some Inuit hunters to shoot their dogs.
  • Many well-educated people still mistakenly believe that heavier objects fall more quickly than lighter objects.

Newsflash for October 25, 2011

  • America’s 400 richest people – who earned an average of $300 million last year, and who have more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans put together – now pay at a 17 percent rate (according to the IRS).
  • Faster than a Porsche 911?

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  • Weeds are now becoming immune to herbicides, according to researchers at Iowa State University at Ames, thanks to the popularity of herbicide-resistant bioengineered crops and the increased use of herbicides like glyphosate.

Newsflash for October 22, 2011

  • A lion's muzzle is like a fingerprint -- no two lions have the same pattern of whiskers.

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  • Kurt Vonnegut on the shapes of stories!

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  • “CAKE’s laid-back sound hasn’t changed much (they maintain a Steely Dan-like consistency), nor have they aged or grown very stale. If anything the extra time, like yesterday’s stew after a night in the fridge, has deepened the blend of flavors.” –Chicago Sun Times

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  • Tattoo?
  • Controversial Republican billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch -- who have spent untold millions bankrolling right-wing candidates and causes -- are now the subject of a new Bloomberg investigation that shows Koch Industries profited from doing business with Iran. This is all despite American trade sanctions against Iran and the country’s known links to financing terrorists. House Republican Leadership’s response: Silence. Bloomberg reported that Koch Industries benefited from bribes to win business and sold millions of dollars of equipment to the Iranian regime which is known for their sponsorship of terrorism and calls of "death to America." Charles and David Koch who run Koch Industries are the same billionaire brothers who have fought for taxpayer subsidies for their own Big Oil interests and advocate privatizing Social Security. Hmmmm.

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  • Music!

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  • We have more heroes, we have more hope.
  • Hmmm.

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  • "Showroom of Compassion," serves Cake just the way fans like it: dry and crumbly. Dry as in slyly humorous, and crumbly as in loosely structured and seemingly informal. The unconventional group layers traditional rock instrumentation with trumpet, synthesizers and more. Frontman John McCrea's nasal vocals seesaw between singing and speaking, and when he zigs one way, harmonic backing vocals zag the other." --Seattle Times

Newsflash for September 28, 2011

  • Only 2% of adoptions in Japan are of children. The other 98% are of males in their twenties.

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  • ‎1 in 4 Africans you meet outside of Africa are Nigerian.

Newsflash for September 24, 2011

  • Animals and plants are moving rapidly away from the equator to escape global warming's rising temperatures. A new study of more than 2,000 species shows that they're headed toward the poles at an average rate of a mile per year--about three times faster than scientists previously predicted. They're also migrating uphill to cooler elevations at a rate of about 4 feet per year. The findings, study co-author Camille Parmesan of the University of Texas tells the Associated Press, are "independent confirmation that the climate is changing." The last decade was the hottest ever recorded. In the U.S., bark beetles are thriving in warmer Rocky Mountain temperatures, devastating pine forests there, and they're headed north to the dense forests of Canada. Mosquitoes carrying dengue fever have moved from the tropics into Key West, Fla. The egret now thrives in Great Britain, which it used to find too cold, while species of butterflies and spiders are showing up hundreds of miles north of their previous habitats.
  • King Crabs are now colonizing warmer Antarctic waters for the first time in 40 million years.

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Newsflash for September 22, 2011

  • Rep. John Fleming (R-LA) appeared on MSNBC with Chris Jansing this morning to attack President Obama’s new deficit reduction plan, which includes some tax increases on the wealthy. Taking up the typical GOP talking point, Fleming said raising taxes on wealthy “job creators” is a terrible idea that kills jobs because many of these people are small business owners who pay taxes through personal income rates.
  • Awesome.

Newsflash for September 21, 2011

  • Using plastic bottles to light homes.

Newsflash for September 20, 2011

  • Black pepper is the most popular spice in the world.

Newsflash for September 19, 2011

  • Jehovah's Witnesses believe that death is a state of non-existence with no consciousness.

Newsflash for September 17, 2011

  • For TX residents, the odds of dying in a plane crash are 5.85*10^-5%, whereas the odds of being executed "by" Rick Perry are 8.33*10^-5%.

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  • "Sporting undeniably tight, immediately familiar tunes, one can only fault them for turning in an experience that's over far too quickly." – Music Connection
  • Is keeping tax breaks for multi-millionaires and tax loopholes for oil companies just another approach to stimulating the economy?

Newsflash for September 14, 2011

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  • Is Las Vegas NV the spiritual core of America, providing purpose and meaning to the West in ways that Mecca does for the East?
  • How Walmart bankrupts farmers.

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  • Cats kill more than a thousand times more birds than do wind turbines.

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  • "Showroom of Compassion mixes up great rock, funk and folk music. It is so relaxed, like only California music can be."
    (Stern *****) - Germany

Newsflash for September 7, 2011

  • If you've missed any road journal videos, they can always be viewed on our Band page.

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  • Churches throughout the U.S. are attaching GPS tracking devices to their nativity statues of the baby Jesus. In recent years, there's been a nationwide spate of thefts of nativity statues. (The Week)

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  • Texas, now in the worst drought since record keeping began 116 years ago, has been declared a disaster area.

  • "The cool Californian elegance personified" - Les Inrockuptibles


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