90 thoughts on “Happy National Cake Decorating Day!”

  1. Good Morning All!

    In high school, I won the language bake off every year by making a German chocolate cake (base) and then cutting and shaping and decorating it. I made a castle, a beer stein, and Hansel and Gretel. I loved to decorate cakes, but I gave my decorator equipment to my daughter-in-law. She’s made some GORGEOUS cakes!

    with the full moon out there, it looked like snow!! and it’s only 25* here!

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    1. Brrrrr! Only 25?!? Wow! Big drop! It’s 52 here – at least one more day in the mid-to-high 70’s – hopefully, I can get my back yard mowed today before I put the mower up for the winter. Those cakes are amazing! The one with the cup at the top is a real prize! How did they do that?!?!

      “Insanely Anti-Trump Norwegian Nobel Committee Gives Peace Prize to a Woman Who Has Failed to Bring Peace Anywhere — It would be laughable if it wasn’t so sad.”

      JD Rucker, Oct 10, 2025

      ENTIRE ARTICLE: “It is not hyperbole to say President Donald Trump is the “Peace GOAT.” He’s ended more conflicts and saved more lives in the last nine months than any world leader has done in their entire lives, ever.

      But facts alone weren’t enough to sway the ultra-woke, insanely anti-Trump Norwegian Nobel Committee. They instead gave this year’s Nobel Peace Prize to Maria Corina Machado, a Venezuelan opposition leader who speaks out for democratic rights in her country.

      Not to diminish her efforts, but she hasn’t actually accomplished anything. Ever. She’s tried, but Venezuela remains a Marxist hellhole despite her strong influencer status. She hasn’t saved a single life. She hasn’t stopped any wars. She hasn’t even mildly swayed Venezuela’s corrupt government, let alone changed anything. Her Nobel Prize resume has two points: she’s fighting hard and her name isn’t Donald J. Trump.

      According to Joergen Watne Frydnes, chair of the Norwegian Nobel Committee, “She is receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a just and peaceful transition from dictatorship to democracy.”

      According to Fox News:

      During a Cabinet meeting on Thursday, Trump was asked about the Nobel Peace Prize, but did not comment on the award in his response. Instead, he focused on the possibility of addressing Israel’s Knesset.

      Earlier this week, the Hostages and Missing Families Forum, a group representing the families of hostages and terror victims formed after Oct. 7, appealed to the committee on Trump’s behalf.

      “In this past year, no leader or organization has contributed more to peace around the world than President Trump. While many have spoken eloquently about peace, he has achieved it. While others have offered empty promises, he has delivered tangible results that have saved countless lives,” the forum wrote in a letter to the committee dated Oct. 6.

      “He has not merely spoken of peace — he has delivered it,” the forum added.

      Prizes are nice but meaningless. Getting snubbed by hateful morons in Norway does not diminish what President Trump has accomplished. If anything, it highlights how he has achieved so much in such a short amount of time despite the major headwinds he’s faced from a globalist world leadership that despises his efforts.”

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    1. BREAKING: President Trump just made an announcement TERRIFYING Democrats – they screwed up by shutting down the government…

      “We’ll be making PERMANENT cuts to DEMOCRAT PROGRAMS. ONLY Democrat programs. Russ [Vought]…we’ll be cutting some very popular Democrat programs, that aren’t popular with Republicans!”

      “That’s the way it works! They WANTED to do this. So we’ll give ’em a little taste of their own medicine.”

      Russ Vought is being unleashed. Chuck messed up.

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  9. Just The News: “The awarding committee for the Nobel Prize on Friday again snubbed President Donald Trump for its peace prize even as the latest historic deal he brokered took effect between Israel and Hamas.

    The committee in Oslo, Norway gave the award to Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, crediting her for keeping “the flame of democracy burning amid a growing darkness.”

    Trump’s efforts in the early months of his second presidency to secure numerous deals to lessen conflicts around the world from Armenia to Gaza had led to multiple nominations for the world’s top peace prize and accolades from conservatives and even some of his liberal detractors.

    Ironically, the Nobel committee’s snub came just an hour before Israel began withdrawing  troops from Gaza in the first phase of a deal that is expected to result in the release of hostages next week.

    According to the Norwegian Nobel Committee’s records, 21 Americans have won the Nobel Peace Prize, including four U.S. presidents.  

    On Wednesday, Israel and Hamas agreed to a U.S.-backed ceasefire deal led by Trump, which put in place a cessation in fighting, freeing all Israeli hostages held by Hamas in the coming days, and pulling some Israeli forces out of Gaza while swapping hundreds of Palestinian prisoners. This step comes after over two years of brutal conflict, with over 1,200 Israeli deaths since Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack. The nations of Qatar, Egypt, and Turkey also assisted as mediators in the dispute resolution.

    Other global conflicts ended or abated by Trump

    Trump’s global peace powers extend beyond the Middle East and his first-term Abraham Accords. Thus far Trump has significantly de-escalated or fully ended six conflicts, not including Israel’s end-stage war with Iran-backed Hamas, averaging over one success a month since May.

    In September 2025, Trump announced at the United Nations General Assembly that his administration’s diplomacy efforts — leveraging trade incentives — had decisively ended the long-simmering conflict between Serbia and Kosovo, preventing a catastrophic new outbreak and paving the way for peace and prosperity in the Balkans, where long-simmering tensions reached a fever pitch in the last five years. 

    In August 2025, Trump brokered a landmark diplomatic resolution to another long-simmering dispute between Egypt and Ethiopia over the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, averting the threat of armed conflict through White House negotiations that secured water-sharing commitments and U.S. investment pledges, ensuring Nile River stability for millions downstream while boosting regional economic ties.

    On August 8, Trump mediated the signing of a historic peace agreement between Armenia and Azerbaijan at the White House, formally ending their decades-long Nagorno-Karabakh conflict and establishing normalized relations, though ratification by both nations remains pending.

    In July 2025, Trump brokered a ceasefire between Cambodia and Thailand through direct calls to their leaders and threats to halt trade negotiations with each nation unless hostilities ended, halting five days of deadly border clashes that killed at least 35 people and displaced over 260,000, though the truce has since shown signs of fraying amid mutual accusations of agreement violations.

    In May 2025, Trump claimed credit for brokering a ceasefire between India and Pakistan following four days of intense cross-border strikes over Kashmir, citing U.S. mediation and trade leverage to avert nuclear escalation, though India maintains the truce was achieved directly through bilateral military channels without third-party involvement.

    Other presidential recipients  

    Theodore Roosevelt earned the prize in 1906 for his mediation of the Treaty of Portsmouth, which ended the Russo-Japanese War, leading negotiations at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, to secure an agreement that showcased his powers of diplomacy and marked him as the first American recipient, setting a high standard for the award. 

    Woodrow Wilson was honored in 1919 for his visionary leadership in founding the League of Nations, promoting international cooperation to prevent future wars through his Fourteen Points, which laid a foundation for modern diplomacy, despite facing significant domestic resistance that limited U.S. participation in the League. 

    Jimmy Carter received the 2002 prize for his extensive post-presidential work through the Carter Center, tirelessly mediating conflicts in regions like the Middle East and North Korea, advancing human rights, promoting global health, and ensuring fair elections with a sustained commitment that solidified his legacy as a global peacemaker. 

    Barack Obama was awarded the prize in 2009, just months into his presidency, for his “aspirational” efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and promote a nuclear-free world, highlighted by his Cairo speech fostering dialogue with the Muslim world and nuclear arms reduction initiatives. Critics, however, widely argued the award was premature and lacked concrete achievements and a symbolic gesture for potential rather than tangible results.”

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  10. Just The News: “President Donald Trump on Thursday signed a proclamation honoring Columbus Day, highlighting the retention of the holiday’s designation despite ongoing efforts from the political left to rename the holiday to honor indigenous groups.

    “Columbus Day, we’re back. Columbus Day we’re back. Italians. We love the Italians. Okay?” Trump said. He also commented on the press applauding at the decision, saying, “I’ve never seen that happen. The press actually broke out in applause.”

    Columbus Day honors Christopher Columbus, the man who discovered the New World for European civilization. The holiday is popular with Italian Americans and Catholics.

    Some states and left-wing groups have opted to rename the holiday to “Indigenous Peoples Day.”

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  11. Just The News: “Turning Point USA announced on Thursday that it would host an alternative half-time show during the 2026 Super Bowl amid conservative disinterest with the choice of “Bad Bunny” to headline the main act.

    “It’s true, Turning Point USA is thrilled to announce The All American Halftime Show. Performers and event details coming soon,” the organization announced. The organization plans to celebrate “faith, family, and freedom.”

    Bad Bunny is a Latino rapper who has urged the NFL audience to learn Spanish to understand his songs.

    TPUSA is currently holding a poll on the kind of music their prospective audience wants to hear, with “anything in English” as an option.”

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  12. Just The News: “The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2026, a $925 billion bill setting funding levels for America’s national defense spending passed in the Senate Thursday night and included more than a dozen amendment votes. 

    The legislation authorizes roughly $879 billion for the Pentagon and about $35 billion for national security programs in the Department of Energy. It also sets aside nearly $11 billion for other defense activities.

    “We’re ready to show on both sides of the aisle that the Senate can act in the interest of national security and get something done on a bipartisan basis,” Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman Roger Wicker, R-Miss., told lawmakers Thursday. “We have a great product before us,” Wicker added. “It makes huge changes, significant changes, and we need to send the signal that we can do this, get it then coordinated with the House version, which has already been passed, and move it to the President of the United States for his early signature.”

    Multiple new offices, groups, and positions within the DOD would be established under the bill, including those focused on cybersecurity; nuclear security, deterrence, and energy; and AI innovation and oversight.

    Hundreds of billions of dollars for munitions stocking and defense infrastructure are included, as well as billions for American defense activities in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the Middle East.

    The bill also includes significant accountability reforms to how the DOD contracts with third parties and how it fulfills statutory reporting requirements. Additionally, it requires the Pentagon, which has failed seven consecutive audits, to report on current audit progress as the 2028 statutory deadline approaches.

    Military members would receive a 3.8% pay raise, and education services for their children would receive a $50 million boost.

    Senators will begin voting on dozens of amendments to the 1,454-page bill Thursday evening. Given the current government shutdown, lawmakers may have to delay a vote on passage. Once the bill passes, the Senate must conference with the House to ensure the lower chamber’s version of the NDAA matches their own.”

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  13. This is pure BS! It’s none of their fricking business!!!

    Just The News: “A federal judge has granted The New York Times’ request for a list of Elon Musk’s security clearances. The Times filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York early in President Trump’s second term, requesting a two-page document that listed any security clearances granted to Musk, after the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency denied the newspaper’s Freedom of Information Act request, Mediaite reported.

    The DCSA refused to provide the list to the Times on the grounds that it would “invade Musk’s privacy.” District Court Judge Denise Cote, a Clinton appointee, rejected the DCSA’s argument on Wednesday and ordered the document to be released, pending an additional review for specific redactions.

    “Musk’s numerous public statements regarding his own drug use and contacts with foreign leaders only enhance the public interest in disclosure,” wrote Cote, citing the DCSA’s “duty of ‘continuous vetting’ to ensure that individuals granted security clearances ‘continue to meet clearance requirements and should continue to hold positions of trust.’”

    She also said Musk’s company SpaceX has been “awarded numerous contracts” by the federal government for years, making it “one of the largest federal contractors,” and that it “is not disputed that SpaceX handles sensitive government information,” including its subsidiary Starlink, which has government contracts to provide satellite-based internet services for the U.S. military.

    Cote noted multiple public comments made by Musk, in which he said he had “a top secret security clearance” and other clearances, as well as his posts on his X account of “issues relevant to [DCSA security clearance review] topics, including his personal drug use and contacts with foreign leaders.”

    A Times spokesperson told Mediaite in a statement: “The Times brought this case because the public has a right to know about how the government conducts itself. The decision reaffirms that fundamental principle and we look forward to receiving the document at issue.”

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  14. These people are insane!!!! SMDH

    “SCOTUS To Decide If Free Speech Applies To Biology-Affirming Therapists And Their Clients — Colorado’s law bans counselors like Kaley Chiles from helping minors realign their thoughts and feelings with their biological sex — even when that is the young person’s counseling goal.” 

    The Federalist, By: Lathan Watts, October 10, 2025

    Kaley Chiles counsels a client

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “On Oct. 7, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Chiles v. Salazar. This is the latest in a seemingly unending series of cases from Colorado that my colleagues at Alliance Defending Freedom have argued. The cases stem from the state’s apparent aversion to the First Amendment.

    Not content with their failed attempts to coerce speech from artists like Jack Phillips of Masterpiece Cakeshop or Lorie Smith of 303 Creative, and not deterred by clear rebukes from the Supreme Court in those cases, the state of Colorado has set its sights on professional counselors.

    The law in question bans specific, voluntary counseling conversations, silences the viewpoint disfavored by the government, and leaves struggling youth and their parents with only one government-approved option. Colorado’s law bans counselors like Kaley Chiles from helping minors realign their thoughts and feelings with their biological sex — even when that is the young person’s goal for counseling.

    Counseling that affirms so-called “gender transition” is fine by Colorado. Counseling that affirms biological reality is fined by Colorado, up to $5,000 per offense, and could include the loss of licensure.

    This is not just an esoteric debate for law school faculty lounges; children’s health and well-being are at stake. Colorado’s defense of this blatant viewpoint discrimination and government censorship hinges on the contention, without a hint of irony, that the state is regulating conduct, not speech. How do Kaley Chiles and her clients engage in the “conduct” of talk therapy without it being speech? Perhaps a high-stakes game of charades? The notion would be laughable if the consequences were not so serious.

    If government places an authoritarian thumb on the scale, allowing only one viewpoint, invading the vulnerable space between counselor and client, and dictating one outcome, the victims are children and their families. If the Supreme Court does not protect the speech of counselors like Kaley Chiles and her clients, children in Colorado and more than 20 other states with similar censorship laws will be trapped on a one-way journey to the perils of “gender transition.”

    The eventual destination is one of irreversible physical damage, potential sterilization, and a lifetime of being a patient. Our nation’s struggling youth deserve compassionate counseling directed by their goals with assistance from loving parents and professionals, not a government-sponsored pathway to chemicals and surgeries that can leave permanent mental and physical scars.

    Adding rhetorical insult to injury is the fact that under Colorado’s law, counseling clients to align their feelings with their biology is deemed “conversion therapy,” while counseling a client to transition from his or her sex to the opposite sex is “gender affirming care.” The assault on common sense and the English language may pale in comparison to the harm suffered by Chiles and her clients, but the First Amendment protects speech because words matter, truth matters, and any attempt by government to silence citizens matters.

    The words of C.S. Lewis hold no precedential weight in the courtroom, but in the courtroom of public opinion, where public policy begins, his wisdom can be insightful, if not prophetic, for those willing to listen:

    Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    In Colorado, the omnipotent moral busybodies have decided that on the topic of human sexuality, there is only one acceptable conversation for counselors and their clients. Thankfully, the Supreme Court will have the last word. Here’s hoping the last word is in favor of free speech and spoken so clearly that it is unmistakable, even in Colorado.”

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  15. Charles Dodgson

    October 10, 2025 8:36 am

    Antifa Portland calling for mass aiming of pointer lasers at ICE aircraft. Someone runs the blog Andy Ngo linked to. Arrest them immediately. This is a clear and present danger and not covered by freedom of speech, no matter who does it. Coming from a terror organization, doubly so.

    Andy Ngo on X: “A Portland Antifa blog has announced that at 9 p.m. on Oct. 11, they plan to organize a laser attack to try to crash a federal aircraft flying over the ICE facility. Antifa plan to gather at multiple locations across the city and deploy lasers in an attempt to ground all “spy https://t.co/kDCxBeeqOU” / X

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  16. Hmmm….POTUS going to WRAMC for a semi-annual physical and while he is doing that, the 1st Lady will be making an announcement from the WH, w/the subject matter unknown…..

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      1. I’m guessing it’s about spaghetti noodles and breaking them. From what I understand, that is a no-no for real Italians.

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  20. Eric Daugherty
    @EricLDaugh
    🚨 BREAKING: Speaker Johnson is FURIOUS after learning that Schumer plans to keep the government closed until AFTER an Antifa-involved “No Kings” rally in DC on Oct. 18

    “It’s being told to us they can’t reopen the government until after that rally, because they can’t face their rabid base!”

    “They have a Hate America rally scheduled for Oct. 18 on the National Mall. Pro-Hamas, Antifa people, they’re all coming out. House Democrats selling T-shirts for the event.”

    “I have HAD it with these people. They’re playing games with real people’s lives.”

    Absolutely disgusting.

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  21. didn’t watch it. have no use for this man.

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  32. “Never forget – Peter Navarro was shackled (handcuffs + leg irons) and perp walked for refusing to testify against President Trump – which at most, is a misdemeanor and MSM didn’t have a problem with that. At that time he was 72 years old (turning 73 a month later). He was not given a chance to voluntarily surrender. He then persecuted by the Biden adminstration and served four months in jail.

    Steve Bannon was also subjected to prosecution/persecution and served time in jail for not testifying against J6 and President Trump.

    These men are heroes for standing up against a corrupt justice system. Never forget this shameful episode of American history.

    “Hell had three doors. In two rooms Hitler and Stalin sat listening to an ugly harpy forever….. Third room Comey sits with Taylor Swift. I said Now wait a minute ,this is how Comey is being punished.? Satan replied Who said Comey’s the one being punished?”

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  37. 1940 Dorand GII Gyroplane

    “This woman worker at the Vultee-Nashville is shown making final adjustments in the wheel well of an inner wing before the installation of the landing gear, Nashville, Tenn. This [is] one of the numerous assembly operations in connection with the mass production of Vultee ‘Vengeance’ dive bombers,” by Alfred T. Palmer, 1943

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  41. …sigh….the mower is still starting/stopping…..I made it around the back yard 3-4 times before it cut out on me. I called Jerry and he said to try loosening the gas cap, which I did…..it ran long enough to make it around the west end of the yard twice before it cut out again. Then it would start/stop, start/stop, start/stop…..sigh. It’s almost like it’s getting too hot or something…..by the end of the day, hopefully, I’ll get the mowing done and the mower in the shed for the winter….then we can tackle it next spring…..maybe I can convince Jerry to contact Troy Bilt over the winter and see if they can provide any guidance.

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      1. Well, it’s probably similar to mail between me and my Mom – she’s less than an hour south of me but mail between us has to go thru Omaha, then back.

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  43. “Pride Event CANCELED and Trans Director FIRED after LoTT Reports”

    Libs of TikTok, Oct 10, 2025

    ENTIRE ARTICLE: “There is a major epidemic of LGBTQ propaganda being pushed into our institutions and into the lives of American families. This week alone, Libs of TikTok reported on two major developments that resulted in some BIG WINS for common sense and public decency.

    The first story came after we reported on Paula Sophia Schonauer, a man pretending to be a woman, who worked as the Director of Counseling at Oklahoma City University.

    Schonauer made posts online saying he got “satisfaction” from Charlie Kirk’s assassination and “vindication at the death of an oppressor.” One month later, Schonauer was FIRED from his position after we exposed him for justifying Charlie’s assassination.

    But this wasn’t the only far-left extremism that got exposed this week…Libs of TikTok also exposed a FREE “all ages drag show” pride event taking place in the city of New Braunfels, Texas.

    Flyer for NBXTX Free Pride Event 2025 on October 11 from 10 AM to 5 PM at Comal County Fairgrounds in New Braunfels Texas. Lists live music vendors food activities and youll means all rose performance. Features drag queen performer in white outfit with red hair and another in colorful attire. Includes community first health plans faith all sponsors hw all sponsors rainbow sponsors thunder express family simons tanger outlets. Website riversidepridetx.org follow us on fb and ig.

    This drag show was set to feature multiple drag queens who produced sexually explicit and suggestive content on their social media accounts, and would have been performing in front of children. Within a day of our report going viral, the Comal County Fair & Rodeo CANCELED hosting the New Braunfels Pride Festival, which forced the pride event to relocate to a different venue.

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    The Comal County Fair & Rodeo also committed to revising its contracts to align more closely with its “nonpartisan” mission.

    Across the country, far-left LGBTQ activists have embedded themselves in the very institutions that Americans are supposed to trust. Education, medicine, public entertainment, government systems, and more have been subject to the onslaught of radical gender ideology.

    Libs of TikTok is working every day to EXPOSE these woke activists wherever they are. Children must be kept safe from this harmful ideology that grooms, sexualizes, and confuses them. Have a great weekend and stay safe!” – LoTT Team SUPPORT US

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