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Monsanto’s disregard for human health is evidenced by their hazardous GMO crops and herbicides, but a shocking new report has revealed the company’s illegal ‘slave-like’ working conditions.
Newsflash for January 28, 2012
George Mason University Green Machine plays Rage Against the Machine.
Newsflash for January 26, 2012
Schaefer beer and Moog synths, CAKE hopes nobody has a spill.
Add a stylish shirt to your wardrobe! Increase the purpose of this earthly life with the verse on the front. You can buy this week's featured item for only $14.99 now until Wednesday, February 29th!
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.
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?
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.
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.
Newsflash for December 8, 2011
Portion of the increase in U.S. corporate profit margins since 2001 that has come from depressed wages: 3/4
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.
Turkey's name for turkey is "hindi." In Hindi, the name for turkey is "peru." (In Peru, Turkey is "Turquía" and turkey is "pavo.") Turks call India "Hindistan," which translates to Turkeyland; to Turkey, India is Turkey.
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
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.
Newsflash for November 14, 2011
Americans did not lose their British accents. Rather, the British gained their accents in the last few hundred years, thanks in part to public (private) schools teaching children "received pronunciation."
Starting today, all purchases from the CAKE STORE will receive a free holiday gift! The gift includes a variety postcard pack featuring seven "Showroom of Compassion" images. Order now, this free gift is only offered until December 20.
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).
Newsflash for November 8, 2011
Over the past decade, the big five oil companies – BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell – have enjoyed more than $900 billion in profits. And yet, they are also getting billions of dollars in taxpayer-funded subsidies. Most Americans, regardless of their political views, strongly favor ending these subsidies. Congress, stuffed with campaign donations from fossil fuel companies, is ignoring the will of the people. Please sign a petition asking Congress to eliminate the tens of billions of dollars in free money to the fossil fuel industry.
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.
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).
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.
In America today, 400 people have more wealth than the bottom 150 million combined. That’s not because 150 million Americans are pathetically lazy or even unlucky. In fact, Americans have been working harder than ever -- productivity has risen in the last several decades. Big business profits and CEO bonuses have also gone up. Worker salaries, however, have declined.
“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
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.
Newsflash for October 6, 2011
CAKE now taking the train to tonight's show in Davis, CA.
Americans would rather be unemployed than pick blackberries: $200,000 worth of blackberries on one farm alone will spoil because Mexican laborers have returned to Mexico. The farmer has tried hiring locally, but even with the current unemployment rate, he's out of luck.
"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.
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.
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.
Maybe education is actually very important? In August, 33% of small businesses reported having few or no qualified applicants for job openings, according to a National Federation of Independent Business survey.
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%.
"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?
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)
"Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment" -- Rumi
There are 23 million Americans who can't find full-time work, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. There are 50 million Americans who can't see a doctor when they are sick, according to the Centers for Disease Control. There are more than 15 million American families who owe more on their mortgage than their homes are worth, according to Zillow. That's almost a third of all the families who own homes
Newsflash for September 1, 2011
Texas, now in the worst drought since record keeping began 116 years ago, has been declared a disaster area.
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