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- CAKE RAFFLE -- If you haven't signed our mailing list, do so now to be eligible for random gifts from the band. This month Jennifer Frederick of Allen Park, MI will be receiving a Lance Armstrong Foundation Newsletter autographed by the band.
- Eight quarts of dried beans will feed one hundred people.
- Medical bills are involved in more than 60 percent of U.S. personal bankruptcies, an increase of 50 percent in just six years. Read more about it.
- But have you read the Declaration of Independence lately? Happy Independence Day from CAKE.
- Healthcare reform: Here we go again!
- One out of every six airline flights arrives late.
- Bio-fuels are an important resource, but the zeal of converting forests and grasslands into farmlands could create substantial global warming pollution.
- The reproductive cycle of bees is fascinating - and complex. But could this be why the honey bee seems to be disappearing?
- Take a few seconds each day to help abused and neglected animals. By going to The Animal Rescue Site and clicking the purple food fund box, food will be donated to animals in need. No personal information is needed and it's free!
- Forget about seku hara. Japanese men are changing.
- The United States Department of Energy estimates that if algae fuel replaced all the petroleum fuel in the United States, it would require 15,000 square miles, which is a few thousand square miles larger than Maryland. This is less than 1/7 the area of corn harvested in the United States in 2000.
- Are you still against "gay marriage" because of religious reasons? Deuteronomy 22:28-29, states that if man rapes your daughter, he must marry her and pay the father 50 shekels because she has been "humbled" and her value is diminished. In Samuel 18:25-27, King Saul sells his daughter to David, but rather than asking for shekels, he asks for 100 foreskins from Philistine men. David, being the overachiever that he was, went the extra mile to win the hand of Michel, the king's daughter, by snipping the foreskins off 200 unfortunate Philistines! Later David, now King David, has an adulterous affair with Bathsheba, whom he impregnates, and then arranges for her husband, Uriah the Hittite, to be murdered. He also has at least 10 additional wives and concubines. 1 Corinthians clearly states that women should be silent in church and if they have any questions they are to ask their husbands, but only after church. It is also noted in 1 Timothy, and again in Ephesians, that women are gullible, conniving, and must be submissive to their husbands and fathers at all times.
- The pastor of Kentucky's New Bethel Church is inviting people to bring their guns to church to celebrate the Fourth of July and the Second Amendment. There will be a handgun raffle, patriotic music, and information on gun safety.
- Hearty congratulations to Chris Rogers of San Francisco, who has won a Kim Carnes songbook autographed by the band. If you would like to be a part of our monthly raffle, simply join our mailing list!
- CAKE wholeheartedly recommends This American Life. Subscribe to the podcast. If you haven't listened already, what is wrong with you?
- Covering a toilet seat with paper is needless, since diseases almost never are transmitted by skin exposure in public facilities.
- An estimated 20-40% of all state highways are not wide enough for today's wide trucks, accounting for many collisions with cars.
- Last week Scientists unveiled a 47-million-year-old fossilised skeleton of a monkey hailed as the missing link in human evolution.
- Next to bars, work is where most people find new dates.
- Chances of being involved in a fatal auto accident rise nearly fourfold at night.
- Deaths from residential fires occur most often in one of the lounging areas and bedrooms of the home, with smoking being the chief cause.
- Food cravings, like commands, tell people what to do, but the command lasts only 20 minutes before it subsides.
- If you must have a lawn, don't mow it like a sissy.
- Congratulations to the CAKE Major Yankees on their current first place standing this 2009 Little League season!
- It's time to learn about oxygen.
- The largest mental health facility in the United States is the Los Angeles County Jail.
- CAKE believes in waking up early in the morning. Don't wait until the day is half finished to get up and do things IN SPACE.
- CAKE endorses "Solid Potato Salad."
- CAKE concert tickets for the Los Angeles (8/26) and Pomona (8/27) shows can be purchased with considerably reduced surcharges at the following locations:
Fonda Theater Box Office
6126 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA
Hours: Monday-Friday 10AM - 6PM
Glass House Record Store and Box office
248 W. 2nd Street, Pomona, CA
Hours: Monday - Saturday 3PM - 8PM (open later on show nights)
- CAKE RAFFLE -- This month's raffle winner Kyle Putnam of Shawnee KS, will receive a unique t- shirt designed specifically for the event staff of our concert at Middlebury College.
- RINGTONES COMING SOON -- You may have heard by now that we are recording our first studio album in years. We thought we'd show our appreciation to you, our listeners, by offering you the first opportunity to hear what we are doing for yourselves, on your cellphones--long before the album is even released. We will soon be giving away a series of free ringtones culled from our current studio sessions. If you still haven't yet signed our mailing list, now might be a good time.
- CAKE humbly accepts acknowledgment for our efforts to reduce our impact on the natural environment.
- CAKE recommends that goth people not buy lizards and crank up really loud goth music with the lizards nearby. They have extremely sensitive ears and it damages them.
- Bill Nye "The Science Guy" was booed in Waco, Texas for suggesting the Moon did not generate its own light, but reflected light from the sun. Trouble started when the children's entertainer brought up Genesis 1:16, which reads: "God made two great lights -- the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars," and pointed out that the lesser light was actually a reflector. At this point, several people in the audience stormed out, including woman with three small children who shouted, "We believe in God!" and left.
- Get your religion out of our government? Colorado Republican David Schultheis took a moral stand against HIV testing. For pregnant women. According to the Denver Post, Schultheis said he voted against a bill requiring pregnant women to be tested for HIV because, he said, it would wrongly protect women and their unborn children from the consequences of “sexual promiscuity.” “We do things constantly to try to remove the negative consequences of poor behavior, unacceptable behavior, quite frankly,” he said. In other words, if a pregnant woman has HIV she is bad, and should be punished (which is somehow the government's job) by allowing her to give birth to a baby with (or without) HIV, minus any medical treatment that could (for example) prevent the baby from contracting HIV, which would just end up costing the taxpayers lots of money, by the way.
- Tropical deforestation is responsible for about 20 percent of all global warming pollution. With tropical forests disappearing at the rate of 1 acre per second, it is crucial that we protect this vital resource. Urge your representative, a member of the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations subcommittee, to tell the chair of the subcommittee that this funding must be included in the foreign assistance budget.
- Did you just enjoy paying your taxes? President Obama has proposed a budget that closes the loopholes that allow corporations to set up off-shore tax havens. But lobbyists for many of these powerful interests are lining up to make sure they keep these loopholes intact. Congress is preparing to debate the president's budget right now. They need to hear from us ASAP.
- Were Vikings exceptionally cruel and bloodthirsty? Vikings were indeed sometimes very violent. However, to address exceptionality, the question is whether Christian armies of the time acted in any substantially different manner. For instance, Charlemagne, who was Vikings’ contemporary, virtually exterminated the whole people of Avars. At Verden, he ordered the beheading of 4,500 Saxons. Vikings certainly were not as bloodthirsty as many Christians of their time. Learn more about Vikings.
- This will convert you to Christianity.
- The Red Cross apparently thinks that a number of senior Bush Administration figures belong in jail.
- RINGTONES COMING SOON -- You may have heard by now that we are recording our first studio album in years. We thought we'd show our appreciation to you, our listeners, by offering you the first opportunity to hear what we are doing for yourselves, on your cellphones--long before the album is even released. We will soon be giving away a series of free ringtones culled from our current studio sessions. If you still haven't yet signed our mailing list, now might be a good time.
- Should Asian-Americans be forced to change their names?
- Fire departments report that a common cause of household fires are clothes dryer lint filters which have not been recently cleaned.
- CAKE recommends The Story of Stuff. Hurry, before it's too late.
- Seven in 10 men who earn over $60,000 cheat on their wives.
- CAKE is about to stop giving away trees at shows because tree winners are not holding up their end of the bargain and sending in photos of those trees. If you know someone who has won a tree but not sent in a photo, please admonish them for being a weasel and not keeping their word.
- Dog overboard!
- Night after night, week after week, Fox News' Glen Beck rails against the president while denouncing him or his actions, alternately, as Marxist, socialist, or fascist. He felt entirely comfortable pondering whether the federal government, under the auspices of FEMA, was building concentration camps to round up Americans in order to institute totalitarian rule.
- Hurry, before it's too late. CAKE wants you to learn how to knit.
- The Red Cross apparently thinks that a number of senior Bush Administration figures belong in jail. Its report on “high-value detainees” from February 2007 has just been published by the New York Review of Books. Read more.
- CAKE recommends tonight's Frontline on PBS.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Congratulations to Parker Kelly of San Mateo, CA, our April mailing list raffle winner. He will be receiving an autographed souvenir program from our appearance at the 2005 Fuji Rock festival in Japan. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens -- televisions, computer monitors, cellphones or other devices, according to a new study.
- For those of you who enjoy the fast paced information world of Twitter, we are posting news, updates, and conversation occasionally through the username CAKEMUSIC. Follow along.
- Economist Nicholas Stern believes that without urgent action, we could be committing ourselves to a planetary increase of four to six degrees Centigrade. Even at a more modest four degree rise, Stern predicts that 85% of the Amazon rainforest will be destroyed, leading to catastrophic shortages of fresh water and mass failures of food harvests. As many as half of all species on Earth may become extinct. A 2009 peer-reviewed study published in Science concludes that the planetary effects of Antarctic ice melt could lead to wildly uneven sea level increases. In the Northern hemisphere sea level increases as high as 21 feet may threaten New York, London, and Tokyo with total inundation -- creating tens of millions of refugees.
- 76% of all electricity generated by coal plants in the US goes to operate buildings.
- Biotech companies are blocking scientists from researching the environmental impacts of GMOs. Read more about this seedy move -- then come discuss it.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Congratulations to our March mailing list raffle winner Mickey Collins from Lake Oswego, Oregon. He'll be receiving the very first tambourine ever used in CAKE. The road worn tambourine, originally used in Vince's mom's public school music teaching, will be signed by all the band members. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Some 6 million Americans are monitored by computer on the job, many unknowingly.
- Two in three people will survive their first heart attack. Unmarried victims are three and one-half times more likely to die.
- Grow edible watercress.
- Some 25 million ex-smokers in the U.S. and Canada have switched to snuff and chewing tobacco, which have been linked to mouth cancers, bad breath and serious damage to gums and teeth.
- Men who are self-conscious at public urinals and have trouble urinating while watched will get quick relief by multiplying numbers in their head, a technique developed by the Psychiatry Department at Georgetown University.
- Can this new Hindu soft drink possibly compete?
- If the government transmitted all entitlement payments electronically, rather than by mail, estimated taxpayer savings would be $6 million monthly.
- Let’s rock! Even newborns can follow a rhythm.
- Mothballs are pesticides. They may look and smell like candy to a child, but they are poisonous when eaten and can produce seizures in less than an hour.
- What?! You haven't read Sacramento, CA author Joan Didion's The White Album? We enjoy her sharp observational musings on the absurdity of 60's and 70's California.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Annie Abell of Columbus, OH has won February's raffle! She will receive a rare original rough edit of CAKE's Short Skirt/Long Jacket video autograhed by the band. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- The climate trend that is raising temperatures across most of the world is warming all of Antarctica despite earlier signs that most of the ice-covered continent has cooled during the past 50 years, researchers are reporting today.
- A dash of salt in coffee that has cooked or stood too long will remove the bitter taste.
- Nicks on glassware will smooth out if rubbed with fine sandpaper.
- Unsalted margarines containing coconut oil have more than four times the saturated fat of other margarines.
- Cold water detergents and cold water washes are easier on fabrics and usually work as well as hot water washing, except on extremely dirty or greasy loads.
- CAKE notices how sometimes humor can be prophetic: 8 years ago.
- CAKE salutes Martin Luther King, Jr. Hell yes.
- Six in seven white collar criminals are never charged with the crimes they commit. Among those who are, 75% will serve time.
- We are completely sold out of the orange vinyl "limited edition" Motorcade of Generosity, and have therefore taken this "website special" off-line. We will be offering an enhanced "Motorcade Of Generosity" CD and black 180gm vinyl LP this spring.
- CAKE salutes Gary's RIdgeland Dutchmen.
- Shellac, surprisingly, is made by bugs.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Kit Wyatt of Austin, TX has won January's raffle! He will receive a one of a kind embroidered CAKE beanie made exclusively for the band and crew by the Orpheum Theater. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- CAKE recommends Wilkie Collins' captivating mystery classic, The Woman In White.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Now that John McCrea has a new guitar strap, he is giving away his old one, the one he used exclusively for the last 12 years in literally hundreds of music venues all over the world. It is now falling apart, so he is giving it to Tiffany Ng of Berkeley, CA, this month's CAKE raffle winner.
- Last week, at the behest of the Bush administration, the Consumer Product Safety Commission -- the agency charged with keeping toys and other products safe -- announced they would let manufacturers ignore Congress and allow them to sell toys laden with toxic phthalates until they run out. Send an e-mail today to the CPSC. Tell them to what they are doing isn't pro-life. And certainly not in the holiday spirit
- Are you ready to name your newborn infant Barack?
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Dave Stern of Pittsburgh, PA has won November's raffle! He will receive a one of a kind CAKE hooded sweatshirt autographed by the band. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Because of the great number of wildfires, the summer of 2008 was a rough one for California firefighters. We are grateful for their hard work and sacrifice. Recently, Volunteer Company 61 of Butte county asked if CAKE would perform a benefit concert to help raise funds for a badly needed emergency response vehicle. We gladly obliged at the Oroville Municipal Auditorium on October 18th, 2008. CAKE made a video documentation of this event.
- Coming soon... limited edition 180-gram heavy-weight orange vinyl discs... with distinctive Motorcade poster included... plus a complete digital album download... stay tuned...
- CAKE salutes This Modern World.
- We're hearing a lot about the trumped-up charges against ACORN these days—but very little about the massive voter suppression campaign being orchestrated by the Republicans. The GOP is trying to purge thousands of Democratic voters off the rolls in states like Ohio, Florida, and Colorado. John McCain and Sarah Palin are falsely accusing a community organizing group—ACORN—of voting fraud to distract the media from their own party's wrongdoing. Worst of all: It's working. The truth is, McCain is vilifying ACORN to justify voter suppression—making it harder for Obama supporters to vote. The GOP's voter suppression campaign could steal this election. For over twenty-five years, Republicans have promoted the myth of voting fraud to argue for restrictive voting laws—but Bush's own Justice Department found virtually no organized voting fraud. Now McCain is attacking ACORN in order to justify a frenzy of lawsuits making it harder for Obama supporters to vote. Here's what he's not telling you: The only fraud committed was against ACORN itself. ACORN hired 13,000 workers to register a remarkable 1.3 million new voters. And a few of them turned in registration forms with inaccurate and even made-up names to get credit for work they didn't do. ACORN fired them and turned them over to the authorities. ACORN reported the fraudulent registration forms. In most states, ACORN is required by law to submit all forms collected whether they appear to be bogus or not—that way election officials, not partisan groups, can make the call. ACORN flags cards that may not be legitimate. And in many places, the charges of fraud only came up because ACORN was the one who flagged the cards! This won't have any impact on the election. No one is allowed to vote unless they are properly registered. And there is no evidence of false registrations actually leading to organized voting fraud. We can't let false charges of voting fraud distract us from the very real voter suppression campaign that is already well under way. Republicans are looking for typos on voter registration forms, threatening to challenge homeowners facing foreclosure, and falsely warning that voters with outstanding traffic tickets may be arrested if they go to the polls.
- As soon as possible, listen to Michael Pollan on Fresh Air.
- GOP efforts in Colorado have resulted in 12% of voter registrations being purged.
- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
- www.FollowTheOilMoney.org is an exciting tool that tracks which companies are pumping their dirty oil money into politics, who is receiving it, and how it correlates to key climate, energy and war votes. For the first time ever, you can see exactly how members of Congress who vote in favor of Big Oil also accept over four times more oil money than those who vote in the public interest.
- Just one week after taxpayers bailed out insurance giant AIG with $85 billion, the company blew nearly half a million dollars at the swanky St. Regis golf resort. They spent $23,000 at the spa, $150,000 on meals and wine, and even treated their dogs to the $545/night "Pamper Your Pooch" package. Congress and the Bush administration are handing out billions in taxpayer money to banks and corporations like AIG without adequate safeguards against abuse. In fact, just yesterday they decided to give the company another $37.8 billion.
- What a coincidence that we are now in a such a similar financial meltdown to the one brought on back in the late 80's by the Keating Five, with one of those five, John McCain, now running for President!
- Is healthcare an important issue to you? Read this.
- A better bag! An easily portable substitute for paper and plastic bags, Chicobag multi-purpose bags are now available at the CAKE Store.
- Where do your candidates stand on important environmental issues? Now it is much easier to find out.
- Exceeding climate scientists' worst fears, a new global study shows that greenhouse gas emissions are continuing to rise at dangerous, life-threatening levels. Due to growing public concern and efforts around the world to curb runaway fossil fuel pollution, many climate experts have expected to see CO2 emissions begin to level off or decline. Unfortunately the latest greenhouse gas statistics, just released, covering the period of 2006-2007, indicate a three percent increase in climate-destabilizing CO2 emissions. Three percent may not sound like a lot, but this figure actually exceeds the most dire worst-case projections by a group of Nobel Prize-winning international scientists in 2007. The U.N's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns that a temperature change between 3.2 and 9.7 degrees Fahrenheit will lead to catastrophic environmental changes, including massive flooding, crop failures, starvation, and global conflict. Given the new CO2 emissions data, basically reflecting government inertia and corporate greed in large greenhouse gas polluting giants such as the U.S., China, and India, scientists now project, if current trends continue, a catastrophic global increase in world temperature of 11 degrees by the end of this century. The new data also shows the average U.S. consumer generates more carbon dioxide pollution by far than anyone else in the world. This news comes just days after Arctic scientists discovered that the melting permafrost is releasing millions of tons of methane, a greenhouse gas 20 times more powerful than CO2. The inconvenient truth is that more drilling, coal plants, and resource wars like the bloody occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan, compounded by energy, chemical, and greenhouse gas intensive industrial agriculture, are literally acts of collective suicide. We must make the transition to a green, relocalized, and organic economy ASAP, and help the rest of the world, especially China and India, do the same, or civilization as we know it is doomed.
- The conservative San Joaquin Record has endorsed its first Democrat for President since 1936.
- With the nation's attention turned to the financial crisis, the White House today announced that the president intends to nominate F. Chase Hutto III, a senior aide to Vice President Dick Cheney, as assistant secretary for policy and international affairs within the Energy Department.
Hutto, who has been a leading opponent of environmental regulations within the administration, would be in charge of the department's policies on climate change -- if he is confirmed by the Senate. According to the DOE's website, in this post Hutto would serve as the "primary advisor to the Secretary and the Department on energy and technology policy development," oversee policy analysis, and lead the DOE's international activities.
His name was first floated as the top candidate for the post last month. The Washington Post reported that Hutto "played a prominent behind-the-scenes role in shaping the administration's environmental policies for several years," and helped "to rewrite rules affecting the air that Americans breathe and the waters that oil tankers traverse." Throughout his tenure in the administration, he has opposed regulations on industry, according to those who worked closely with him.
- Why on earth does the new $850,000,000,000 bailout package include tax break earmarks for Big Oil? Register your contempt.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Gina Anderson of Kamas, UT has won October's raffle! She is now the proud owner of an official 2008 Rancho Cordova Little League Player Manual autographed by the members of CAKE. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- Are you still a Sarah Palin fan? Read this.
- John McCain is AWESOME.
- With rising gas prices and America's growing dependence on oil, it is clear that too many politicians in Washington are paid for by big oil. To make America truly energy independent, we call on Congress to boost production of clean energy, end all tax breaks for oil companies, and resist the false promise of drilling in environmentally sensitive areas. We need an energy policy that isn't paid for by big oil.
- Want clean energy? Congress has just let you down: At midnight, two critical moratoriums will lapse: on offshore drilling and oil shale development in the West. At the same time, crucial tax incentives for wind and solar energy have yet to be renewed.
- Want to watch a great movie? CAKE recommends Clockers.
- CAKE RAFFLE -- Seth Quillen of Cottonwood Heights, UT has just won our first raffle! He is now the proud owner of a vibra-slap, autographed by the members of CAKE. Sign our mailing list now to be entered in next month's raffle.
- CAKE MONTHLY RAFFLE -- Many cultures see Monday as an unlucky day, even as a day when people become insane. This may have something to do with the day's association with the moon. In an effort to thank all of you for your continued patronage, we are transforming the first Monday of each month into a time of potential celebration and excitement. Beginning next month, on this day we will randomly select one name from our e-mail list to receive a surprise CAKE collectible. We will give away signed Vibra-slaps, rare vinyl, out of print posters, t-shirts, bumper stickers, even headphones from our studio! If for some reason you haven't yet gotten around to signing our e-mail list, now might be a good time do it.
- Share a ride to a CAKE concert. Check the CARPOOL page to find shared transportation to upcoming CAKE shows.
- John McCain above the influence of lobbyists? You wish.
- As the tallest living things on earth, ancient coast redwoods are extremely inspiring. CAKE recommends The Wild Trees.
- CAKE RECOMMENDS -- Are you tired of mowing your lawn? Do you live in a dry climate? CAKE recommends ripping out your lawn.
- CAKE thanks and congratulates the firefighters in California who have now contained over a thousand fires in our home state.
- Thank-you everyone for your T-shirt design contest submissions. After serious consideration, we have chosen three of our favorites. We have been inspired by each and every entry, so thank-you again for your time and energy.
First place goes to Thomas John. He will win free admission for two to a year of CAKE concerts. Congratulations, Thomas.
Second place goes to Hans Nelson. Congratulations, you win free admission for two to any concert of your choice (during the next year).
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