What Shall We Bake Today?

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Today’s offering is Hummingbird Cake!

Ingredients

For the Cake

2 cups all-purpose flour

1 1/3 cups granulated sugar

1 tsp. ground cinnamon

3/4 tsp. salt

3/4 tsp. baking soda

1/4 tsp. baking powder

1 cup canola oil

2 large eggs, beaten

1 1/2 tsp. vanilla extract

2 8-oz. cans crushed pineapple in juice, undrained

2 ripe bananas, chopped

1 cup chopped pecans

Nonstick baking spray with flour

For the Frosting

3/4 cup unsalted butter, softened

8 oz. cream cheese, softened

4 cups powdered sugar

1 tsp. vanilla extract

Pinch of salt 

For Decorating

1 cup toasted pecan halves

Directions

For the cake: Preheat the oven to 350°. 

Whisk together the flour, sugar, cinnamon, salt, baking soda, and baking powder in a large bowl. Stir in the oil, eggs, vanilla, and pineapple until evenly combined. Mash the bananas then add to the bowl with the pecans. Stir to combine. 

Spray 2 (8-inch) round baking pans with nonstick baking spray (or, butter and flour the pans). Divide the batter evenly between the prepared pans. Bake in the preheated oven until a wooden pick inserted in the center comes out with just a few small crumbs, 33 to 37 minutes. Cool the cakes in the pans on a wire rack for 10 minutes. Invert the cakes onto the wire rack and cool completely, about 1 hour.

For the frosting: Beat the butter and cream cheese in a stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment on medium until smooth and creamy, 2 to 3 minutes. Add the powdered sugar then mix at low speed just until combined. Scrape the sides and bottom of the bowl. Add the vanilla and salt. Beat frosting on medium-high speed until light and fluffy, about 2 minutes.

Place one of the cake layers on a serving plate and top with about 1 cup of the frosting, spreading evenly to the edge. Top with the second cake layer. Spread the remaining frosting on the top and sides of the cake. 

To decorate the cake: Press the pecan halves along the base of the cake and around the top of the cake to create a ring. Slice and serve. 

Enjoy!

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140 thoughts on “What Shall We Bake Today?”

  1. Morning All!
    it’s a very chilly 38* (!!!) out there this morning with the same thick cloud cover we’ve been having. we are going back to winter instead of moving into summer!

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    1. Morning, Pat! 48 here this morning, still cloudy but not nearly as windy, thankfully. Had to refill the feeders again this morning and one of them sat on the trellis and waited while I was at it! As soon as I came in, there were 4 of them on the feeder! Why is this called a “Hummingbird” cake?

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      1. Morning Filly!

        no idea why it’s called that…lol

        wow…I use the bottom inch that i cut off of a sour cream container as my jelly feeder…lol. yesterday between the orioles and the grosbeaks they ate 3/4 of it. you must have dozens of orioles!!

        I bet it’s so pretty when they are there eating!!

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            1. Oh, I see tons of ’em scavenging underneath the hanging seed block (same with the Turtle Doves and the occasional Blue Jay), plus I have another seed feeder with a cage that only allows the small birds to get in that I originally bought in VA. They throw out a lot of seed onto the ground from that, too. I just ordered an upside/down feeder & some seed blocks, as well as another case of BF’s from Amazon. That puts the order on a level that I don’t have to pay any shipping. It’s scheduled for delivery by next Sunday, which means I’ll probably get it Friday or Saturday.

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        2. Oh, and there are even more now that I’ve moved it over next to the Honeysuckle – they like to climb around in the branches and hide.

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          1. our wild honeysuckles are out of control. they used to be bushes, now they are like trees!
            years ago, we woke early one spring morning and could see from the window (the only one in the back of the house) a mama bear and her cubs eating the honeysuckles. she bent a branch down for them to eat. now? she’d have to climb the bush to get to the lowest branch.

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            1. Yeah, the wild ones grow faster than my specialty peach-colored honeysuckle. The newest one I ordered to replace the one that died is taking much longer to spread.

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  7. Homeland Security
    @DHSgov
    ICE Washington, D.C. arrested Guatemalan national, Mykol Santos-Santos, in Fairfax, VA.

    It is inexcusable that Fairfax County refused to honor 16 separate immigration detainers against Santos. This forced ICE to make an at large arrest resulting in an officer being injured.

    ERO Washington D.C.
    @EROWashington
    ICE @EROWashington
    DC arrested Mykol Santos-Santos an illegal Guatemalan alien and member of MS-13. Local authorities refused to honor 16 ICE detainers over 3 years. Santos had more than 30 arrests for crimes including assault & battery, burglary, credit card fraud, & drug crimes

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  9. Winston
    Winston
    May 20, 2025 8:34 am

    Bribery Charges Sink Retired Admiral In Navy Ethics Scandal
    May 19, 2025

    https://www.zerohedge.com/political/retired-admiral-convicted-navy-bribery-case-marking-historic-fall-top-military-official

    Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the Navy’s second-highest-ranking officer, was convicted Monday on bribery and related charges, marking the first time in history that a four-star U.S. military officer has been found guilty of committing a federal crime while on active duty.

    Burke, 63, of Coconut Creek, Fla., was found guilty by a Washington jury after a five-day trial and three days of deliberation. Prosecutors said he steered a Navy training contract in 2021 to a New York-based company, Next Jump, in exchange for a $500,000-per-year job he was to begin after his retirement in 2022.

    “This is the man who issued the standards of conduct for the entire Navy,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Trevor C. Wilmot told jurors during closing arguments.

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  10. Case1030🇺🇸✝️☘️
    @CASE103060
    More importantly how did the medical specialists at @WalterReedArmy
    overseeing the POTUS annual physical miss it🤷‍♀️ Not just the WH doctor running cover … but a team of the best medical minds at the country’s premier military medical hospital with their top-of-the-line equipment and state-of-the-art tests? Not a chance in hell this diagnosis was ‘missed.”
    @POTUS
    @SecDef

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  11. EXCERPT: “A Pennsylvania judge tossed a lawsuit that prosecutors in a Philadelphia-area county brought against six of the nation’s largest oil companies. The judge noted that his opinion adds to a “growing chorus of state and federal courts” ruling that such cases aren’t meant to be brought at the local level, while expressing concern about the county’s handling of the targeted lawsuit.

    In a scathing rebuke of the lawsuit filed by Bucks County, Pa., in March 2024, Judge Stephen Corr of the Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas dismissed the case with prejudice late on Friday and wrote that emissions caused by petroleum are regulated at the federal level, not the state level. Corr also expressed concerns with how Bucks County hired outside counsel and filed its complaint with minimal public feedback.

    The judge noted that at oral argument, the county’s attorney “conceded that the advertising, production, transport, and sale of Defendants’ fossil fuel products in Bucks County did not cause any harm to the County.”

    The dismissal is a significant blow to a broad nationwide effort that targets oil companies in state courts and seeks court injunctions forcing them to pay hundreds of millions—or billions, in Bucks County’s case—of dollars in environmental damages. After they filed their initial complaint in the case, Bucks County officials said they sought to “shift the financial burden of the climate crisis from the taxpayers of Bucks County to the companies responsible for creating the crisis.”

    The defendants in the case were BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, Phillips 66, ExxonMobil, Shell, and the American Petroleum Institute. The county argued defendants intentionally deceived the public about climate change and, as a result, its residents “will continue to suffer the catastrophic impacts of climate change, including an emerging pattern of increasingly severe, damaging and at times deadly weather events.”

    “It is unconscionable that while we were working hard to reduce our impact on the climate crisis, some of the biggest companies in the world were deliberately undercutting those efforts through their deceptive business practices,” Bob Harvie, the current chairman of the Board of Bucks County Commissioners, said at the time….”

    https://freebeacon.com/energy/pennsylvania-judge-dismisses-climate-change-case-against-major-oil-companies/

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  12. “CAIR Leader Who Serves on California State Civil Rights Panel Cheers Biden’s Cancer Diagnosis, Says Trump’s ‘Time Will Come’ — Zahra Billoo says Biden’s cancer diagnosis is ‘God’s wrath’ for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war”

    (Miriam Alster/Pool via Reuters/File Photo)

    Free Beacon, Chuck Ross, May 19, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “An official with the anti-Israel Council on American-Islamic Relations who also serves on a California state civil rights board is cheering former president Joe Biden’s cancer diagnosis and expressed hope that President Donald Trump’s “time will come too,” citing the presidents’ stances on Israel’s war against Hamas.

    Zahra Billoo, the executive director of CAIR’s San Francisco branch, said on social media that Biden’s cancer diagnosis was “God’s wrath” for his handling of the Israel-Hamas war. Billoo added that she’s praying Biden’s cancer will be “as aggressive” as Israel’s military actions against Hamas.

    Her remarks came after Biden announced he was diagnosed last week with a highly aggressive form of prostate cancer that has spread to his bones. Other anti-Israel activists cheered the grim prognosis. Former Bernie Sanders surrogate Shaun King called Biden a “genocidal monster,” adding that, “I hope his final days are painful.” Former Washington Post reporter Taylor Lorenz wrote that “Hopefully [Biden] rots in hell and rests in piss.”

    Billoo’s remarks could put pressure on Governor Gavin Newsom, whose office appoints members to the California Civil Liberties Program, which provides “insight and expertise in ongoing civil liberties and civil rights issues.” Billoo was appointed to the panel in 2018 by Newsom’s predecessor Jerry Brown. A spokesman for the California Library, which oversees the panel, says it has not met since last year due to lack of funding, but that Billoo still serves on the board. Newsom’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

    Billoo and CAIR have extensive histories of inflammatory rhetoric and terrorist sympathies. Last year, Billoo mourned the death of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, saying that “his martyrdom is not in vain.” In December 2023, CAIR director Nihad Awad said he was “happy to see” Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, in which 1,200 Israeli civilians were slaughtered.

    Despite that rhetoric, Newsom’s office has worked closely with CAIR to combat what the organization claims to be an epidemic of “Islamophobia.” Days after the Hamas attack on Israel, Newsom’s office quoted CAIR official Hussam Ayloush in a press release that announced statewide grants to bolster security at houses of worship. Newsom met with Ayloush and other CAIR leaders in January 2024, weeks before Newsom called for an Israeli ceasefire in Gaza.

    Newsom, a 2028 presidential hopeful, has claimed to support Israel in its fight with Hamas. But his administration has awarded millions of dollars in state grants under an antiterrorism program to mosques and Islamic groups that have cheered Hamas and called for the annihilation of Israel.

    The administration has given $500,000 in grants to the Islamic Center of San Diego, a mosque linked to two 9/11 hijackers whose imam said the Hamas attack was “justified,” the Washington Free Beacon reported.

    CAIR’s San Francisco branch didn’t return a request for comment.”

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      2. And Trey Gowdy….don’t forget that he put a CAIR rep on the investigative committee on Benghazi after Chaffetz was removed.

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          1. Well, at least Gowdy isn’t there any more – he has a show on Fox, which I refuse to watch! Ole Rooster Head!

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  13. Well, of course!!! This has to stop!!! So many of the rules are just stupid. Back when HB was 8 years old and I was struggling to keep food on the table, I asked about food stamps. But because I had a truck that was less than 10 years old, I didn’t qualify, even tho I had a large loan payment every month in order to keep that truck! She told me sell the truck and I could qualify; but then I wouldn’t be able to get to work, since I lived in the country w/no transportation options, and would also have to go on welfare. She just shrugged…..SMH.

    Just The News: “A new poll released Monday found that the majority of respondents believe able-bodied people who are on food stamps should be required to work, instead of simply relying on government handouts.

    The poll, conducted between May 14-15, found that 73% of respondents believe able-bodied people should be required to work if they receive federal benefits. 

    The majority of respondents (62%) also believe that a big problem is that people are not getting the federal assistance that they need, while nearly one-third of respondents (30%) believe too many people receiving food stamps is an even bigger problem than people not getting the assistance.

    The survey was conducted by pollster Scott Rasmussen for the Napolitan News Service, and questioned a total of 1,000 registered voters online. It has a margin of error of +/- 3.1%.”

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    1. that’s frickin nuts!

      i don’t know what the answer is. any reform will be met with resistance. BUT the rampant fraud with ANY government giveaway is off the charts. if you only allow them the ability to buy decent food, they’ll sell their cards to get cash to buy cigs or booze. if you try to require them to use an id card with the food stamp card, they’ll scream racism and just fake the ids anyway. you can’t have a central food depot type of arrangement because that would be demeaning and there’d be tons of people who couldn’t get there. (plus the administrative nightmare and fraud THAT would entail.

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  14. Just The News: “The American Legislative Exchange Council is launching a task force on voting. “It’s time to safeguard the electoral process through the principles of federalism, transparency, and constitutional integrity,” ALEC CEO Lisa Nelson said. “For more than a decade, we’ve watched the rise of misinformation, media manipulation, and coordinated campaigns designed to undermine faith in elections. Now is time to act.”

    The task force will discuss strengthening voter ID requirements, limiting foreign influence and addressing concerns about the late arrival and counting of mail-in ballots.

    Katie Thompson will lead the task force. “Governments’ processes and procedures serve as the guardrails for democracy,” she told The Center Square. “We must ensure the rules of government are made fairly and executed for the betterment of the American people.”

    ALEC has adopted model policies such as the Only Citizens Vote Act, the School Board Election Date Act and the Safeguard American Votes and Election Act. Lee Schalk, ALEC’s senior vice president on policy, said polling shows that Americans want voting protections so the rules of engagement are clear.

    “They want it to be easy to vote and hard to cheat,” he said. Thompson said the group will be discussing issues ranging from ranked choice voting to what questions are on the next U.S. Census questionnaire. Thompson noted that voters in Arizona and other places have rejected ranked-choice voting.

    “They don’t like the system,” she said. “I think any system that confuses the majority of the electorate is bound to fail.”

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    1. with privileges should come responsibility, you want a mail in ballot? you have to request it in so many weeks ahead. sign it in all the places you’re required to and have it back 3 days before the actual election. no excuses. failure to do any of those things and your ballot is rejected.

      if your ballot is not received in the system, 3 days before they election, you may vote a provisional ballot.

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      2. The local paper would print the request form in the paper, which was filled in and mailed to the CH. They sent a large manila envelope with the ballot and a pre-paid return envelope that had to be sealed, with your signature in ink over the seal.

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          1. As far as I can recall, NE has always had their count ready by the end of the night.

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  15. Ah! Since I don’t pay attention to holidays any more, I forgot that Jason & Christina work for the City getting the cemetery ready for Memorial Day. I called and left a msg that I was concerned something had happened to them and he just called to remind me of that. They expect to be done and ready to get to their regular customers by Thursday so I’ll finally get my trellis installed. The grocery store also called to let me know the case of jelly has arrived – right on time! I’ve got 1.5 jars left….I’ve been going thru a 32 oz. jar every 2-3 days!

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  19. Ah, hell’s bells! I can’t help it – that Redheaded WP perched on the hook, looking here, there and everywhere for the seed block….I felt like he was staring directly at ME so I caved and put it back out – when it’s gone, it’s gone! I’ve got 5 more coming…..I’m such a sucker! SMH

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  21. Just got back from picking up my jelly – I think a good number of people in town have heard about my birds! LOL – this town loves to gossip so go ahead, have at it! “that crazy lady on Line street” no doubt!

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  22. Negotiations Between Russia and Ukraine Will Begin ‘Immediately’ – Trump on Putin Call

    US President Donald Trump has said the conversation with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin “went very well,” and that talks between Moscow and Kiev will begin “immediately.” The two leaders spoke for over two hours on Monday, primarily about the Ukraine conflict. Putin also described the talk as “very useful.”

    In a post on Truth Social shortly after Monday’s talks, Trump wrote that the tone and spirit of the conversation were “excellent,” adding, “If it wasn’t, I would say so now, rather than later.”

    “Russia and Ukraine will immediately start negotiations toward a Ceasefire and, more importantly, an END to the War. The conditions for that will be negotiated between the two parties, as it can only be, because they know details of a negotiation that nobody else would be aware of,” the US president stated. – RT

    Our Take: The Vatican, as represented by the Pope, has stated that it would be very interested in hosting the negotiations. Let the process begin! President Trump has chosen the Vatican as the stage for his meeting with Vladimir Putin. – GhostofBasedPatrickHenry

    ***

    Another Take: Behind the scenes look at the phone call between Trump and Putin this morning. – Jon Herold

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  23. I don’t trust him, personally….and it seems I’m not the only one!

    The Talented Mr. Vance

    J. D. Vance poses a problem, and at its core is a question about character. In the years after the 2016 election, he transformed himself from a center-right memoirist and public speaker, offering a complex analysis of America’s social ills and a sharp critique of Donald Trump, into a right-wing populist politician whose illiberal ideas and vitriolic rhetoric frequently out-Trump the original.

    According to Vance and his supporters, this change followed a realization during Trump’s first term that the president was lifting up the fallen working class of the heartland that had produced young J.D. To help his people, Vance had to make his peace with their champion. According to his critics, Vance cynically chose to betray his true values in order to take the only path open to an ambitious Republican in the Trump era, and as a convert under suspicion, he pursued it with a vengeance.

    In one account, a poor boy from the provinces makes good in the metropole, turns against his glittering benefactors, and goes home to fight for his people. In the other, the poor boy seizes every opportunity on his way up, loses his moral compass, and is ruined by his own ambition. – The Atlantic

    Our Take: When you realize Donald Trump seems to be the only person purporting to represent the America First movement who has decidedly NOT anointed JD Vance his heir apparent … and combine that with JD chasing his shadow around the world, things get … interesting.

    Wars within wars. – Burning Bright

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  24. The Stuttgart Ballet Returns to Kennedy Center After More Than 30 Years

    Last seen at the venue in 1992, The Stuttgart Ballet returns to Kennedy Center in Washington D.C. with their production of John Cranko’s Onegin. This event is even more notable as 2025 marks the diamond jubilee of this balletic interpretation of Alexander Pushkin’s 1825 novel in verse Eugene Onegin.

    Tchaikovsky’s score will fill the Opera House between October 8 and 12, 2025, opening the 2025-2026 ballet season at the Kennedy Center.

    “The Stuttgart Ballet and John Cranko’s Onegin were a staple of Kennedy Center ballet programming in the 1970’s and 80’s. The timeless relevance of Cranko’s choreography and Pushkin’s storytelling made this ballet an instant classic, and to be able to welcome this glorious company back to the Center decades later, especially as the work celebrates its 60th anniversary, is such a special moment for Washington audiences.” – Jane Raleigh, Director of Dance Programming for The Kennedy Center. – Ballet Herald

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  25. “St Louis, a house after a tornado hit it…

    It ripped the wall off but left the clothes neatly folded on the shelf… And there’s Mom sweeping up all the dust! LOL…

    Tornadoes and severe weather tore through the Upper Midwest and the Mideast U.S. on May 16 killing more than 30 and leaving many damaged homes and downed power lines. Nature is sure crazy!”

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  27. People think by feeding the animals they are doing a good thing when it’s exactly the opposite!

    The bear, weighing approximately 400 pounds, had overturned multiple large, bear-resistant dumpsters and accessed human food and trash at popular locations, including Old Faithful, the Nez Perce Picnic Area, and the Midway Geyser Basin parking lot.

    “There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.” – Yosemite National Park ranger…

    https://www.denver7.com/science-and-tech/animals-and-insects/yellowstone-park-officials-take-action-grizzly-bear-euthanized-for-repeatedly-accessing-trash

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  28. Just The News: “Food and Drug Administration plans to require new clinical trials before approving annual COVID-19 vaccine boosters for healthy Americans under 65 years old.

    The plan appears in a paper published Tuesday in the New England Journal of Medicine, in which FDA Commissioner Dr. Marty Makary and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s vaccine chief, wrote any new COVID shot must undergo placebo-controlled clinical trials, NBC News reported. 

    This means that the release of updated COVID vaccines for healthy children and adults this fall will likely be delayed.

    While the original COVID shots underwent placebo-controlled trials, the updated boosters only went through smaller studies. Makary and Prasad wrote that the COVID shot policy “has sometimes been justified by arguing that the American people are not sophisticated enough to understand age- and risk-based recommendations.”

    “We reject this view,” they added.”

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    2. The FDA has gotten more and more corrupt thru the years. I don’t think it is laziness, personally! Good afternoon, Katherine!

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        1. I understand but personally, I’ve always gone with honest over polite unless I’m talking about a personal friend – then I try to be gentle while still being honest.

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            1. Not here, my friend! We value honest opinions but we do strive for decency. I’m probably the most brutally honest person here or at Marica’s blog but I do try to moderate it out of respect.

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              2. It would probably be wiser for me to do the same but I’m a “shoot from the hip” kinda person and yes, that has come back to bite me in the ass! LOL

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        2. Unfortunately, there is a revolving door between Big Pharma and the FDA, followed by another revolving door into Congress, where they govern the agencies they actually worked to corrupt.

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          1. That’s why I made such a big stink when the Supreme Court voted to let Pfizer win its battle against Susette Kelo in 2007. GW Bush had just appointed John Roberts as head of the Court, and he cast the deciding vote.

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            1. Unfortunately, I wasn’t paying the slightest bit of attention back then. I never even voted until after 9/11 and even then, I just voted for whichever R was popular at the time because my family was Republican. When Obama came on the scene, I was initially pleased that it appeared racism was behind us. Then I read one of his books and I knew immediately – I warned my daughter then that I wondered if he was actually THE anti-Christ.

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  33. Judge Jeanine already in action!!!

    Daily Caller News Foundation

    “A retired four-star Navy admiral was convicted Monday for using his position to route a deal to a defense contractor in exchange for a cushy gig at the firm.

    Retired Adm. Robert Burke was convicted of conspiracy to commit bribery, bribery, performing acts affecting a personal financial interest and concealing material facts from the U.S. after attempting to award a slew of contracts to a company called Next Jump in exchange for a job with an annual salary of $500,000 and a grant of 100,000 stock options upon his private sector retirement. Burke served as the commander of U.S. naval forces in Europe and Africa from 2020 to 2022, when the bribery scheme took place.

    Burke is one the highest-ranking military officials to be convicted on bribery charges, according to The New York Times.

    “When you abuse your position and betray the public trust to line your own pockets, it undermines the confidence in the government you represent,” interim U.S. Attorney Jeanine Ferris Pirro said in a statement. “Our office, with our law enforcement partners, will root out corruption – be it bribes or illegal contracts – and hold accountable the perpetrators, no matter what title or rank they hold.”

    From 2018 to 2019, Next Jump provided a training program to Burke’s command component, with the contract ending officially in late 2019, according to the DOJ. However, Burke continued to meet with the company in 2021 despite instructions from the Navy for the company to not contact Burke.

    In 2021, Next Jump worked out a deal to leverage Burke’s position in the Navy to push a contract forward in December 2021 in exchange for a cushy job, which he assumed in December 2022 after he retired from his posting, according to the DOJ. The contract awarded in 2021 was worth $355,000, but the company had discussed future contracts for training Navy personnel that could be worth “triple digit millions,” according to the NYT.

    Burke was also alleged to have lied to the Navy about the nature of his dealings with the company, according to the DOJ. Timothy Parlatore, Burke’s defense attorney, told reporters Monday that Burke plans to appeal the conviction, according to the NYT.

    “They presented a tiny, tiny sliver of evidence,” Parlatore told reporters. “We do think this is a case where a wrongful conviction was obtained because the jury was prevented from hearing the whole truth.”

    Sentencing is scheduled for August, and Burke could face up to 30 years in prison, according to the NYT. The Navy did not respond to the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request for comment, and Next Jump did not respond immediately to a request for comment.”

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  40. 2023 Chevy Corvette Stingray

    1969 Chevy Corvette Stingray

    1973 Chevy Corvette Stingray

    1982 Chevy Corvette Stingray

    1971 Chevy Corvette Stingray

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          1. This one?

            “Jay Leno uncovered a 1956 Mercedes-Benz Alloy Gullwing, one of the rarest Mercedes models ever made. One of only 29 produced, it’s a rare iteration of a car that’s already rare to begin with. It was kept hidden away in a Los Angeles storage garage for nearly 60 years.

            And yet it feels like this beauty is only a car wash trip away from becoming showroom-worthy again. The Alloy Gullwing is a track-inspired, all-aluminum iteration of the Gullwing Mercedes.

            The engine is a 3.0-liter, 215HP NSL engine, but of course, the main point of the model is the body shape with the gullwing doors.

            It’s such an iconic car.

            Jay Leno 1956 Mercedes Alloy Gullwing rare classic
            Jay Leno’s Garage

            As Jay Leno pointed out in the video on his YouTube channel, this was the world’s first fuel-injection car, a type of technology that, at the time, was reserved for fighter jets.

            Also, again according to Leno, this, not the Lamborghini Miura, is the world’s first supercar. Which could explain why this car is worth around $10 million. And while that’s not cheap, it’s still relatively ‘average’, believe it or not, for these cars.

            Jay Leno 1956 Mercedes Alloy Gullwing rare classic Mercedes-Benz
            Jay Leno’s Garage

            A while back, a 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR, which in a way is distantly related to the very car you see here, sold for a staggering $142 million. To be fair, that vehicle was sold under unique circumstances. It was a private auction organized by Mercedes themselves, and it was for a vehicle that had been sitting in a Mercedes museum for ages until then.

            Even so, nine figures for a car is truly outrageous. Alternatively, there are cheaper, or perhaps we should say, less expensive, variants which sometimes go for ‘just’ seven figures. A heavily modified Mercedes 300 SL recently went for $1.6 million.

            But then again this is one of those vehicles where the year, or a different letter in the name – any detail, as minute as it might look – can make a difference and affect the value.

            This one in particular, even in this condition, is worth at least $10 million.”

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  41. 1986 Zimmer Spartan II

    1937 Packard 120 (in Westchester, PA)

    1961 Dodge Dart

    1959 Ford Thunderbird

    1937 Cadillac Series 85

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  42. “You recognize that, right? As 20-year-old sweethearts, Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly were immortalized as the poster (flower) children of Woodstock. A photograph of the couple — wrapped in a tender embrace and a pink blanket — became the cover of 1970’s “Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More.” But at the time, they had no clue that photographer Burke Uzzle had even captured the shot at the festival, which took place the weekend of Aug. 15 to 18, 1969.

    “I don’t know how it happened,” Nick told The NYPost a few years back. Yet the photo endured — and so did the love story. Fifty four years after Woodstock, sadly, Bobbi passed away in 2023. 

    “It’s a moment I treasure still this day,” said Nick. “When we first saw each other in the morning, that’s the first thing we did. We gave each other a hug and a kiss, and we stood there for about a minute or so, hanging on to each other.”

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  43. “The list of coverups and just plain lies that mark his Presidency as one of – if not the – worst in our history is undeniable. A perfect example of the bullshit he promoted, and/or hid, during his term is this new data:

    — New numbers from the Bureau of Labor and Statistics show 800,000 jobs from last year never existed.

    — The Biden admin repeatedly overestimated jobs and quietly revised them down

    — For the period of March 2023 to March 2024 the BLS revealed downward revision of 598,000 nonfarm payroll jobs . This means job growth was over-estimated  by nearly 600,000 jobs during this period.

    — August 2024 Revision: BLS announced it adjusted job growth for the year ending March 2024 downward by 818,000 jobs, Meaning 818,000 jobs never existed. This was the largest downward revision in 15 years.

    — July–September 2023: The Biden administration claimed to have added nearly 400,000 jobs from July to September 2023, but revised data shows these jobs “never existed.”  Instead, over 160,000 jobs were lost during this period, according to BED data.

    So, I ask again – will history speak kindly of this doddering old fool? More than likely it will. And that’s a shame…“

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  45. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Tuesday announced that the administration had settled upon a design for the “Golden Dome” missile defense shield it hopes to build and that it would be operational by the end of his term.

    The “Golden Dome” was inspired by the Israeli “Iron Dome” defense shield. “This design for the golden dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term,” Trump declared.

    “We will truly be completing the job that President Reagan started 40 years ago, forever, ending the missile threat to the American homeland,” he added. “And the success rate is very close to 100% which is incredible, when you think of it, you’re shooting bullets out of the air.”

    “I’m also pleased to report that the one big, beautiful bill will include $25 billion for the golden dome to help construction get underway. That’s the initial sort of a down positive, and we have probably, you’re talking about general we’re talking about $175 billion total cost of this when it’s completed,” he added.

    He further indicated that the Canadians were interested in working with the U.S. to include their territory in the defense grid.”

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    1. H/T Marica

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  50. NF: I have no idea where this is located.

    Battleship guns under construction at the Washington Navy Yard, 1917

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