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Product Type: Print of painting | Subject: Floral and botanical |
Medium: Paper print | Artist: Vincent Van Gogh |
Orientation: Horizontal | Size: Small 18"-24" |
Style: Contemporary | Shape: Rectangle |
Color: Green | Distressed: Yes |
Primary Art Material: Paper | Additional Materials: Acrylic |
Solid Wood Construction: Yes | Number of Items Included: 1 |
Fade Resistant: Yes | Lightweight: No |
Wall Hook: Yes
| Glass Component: No |
Framed Art: Yes
| Time Period: Impressionism |
Region: Europe | Gender: Unisex/Both |
Room Use: Foyer; Bathroom; Kitchen; Bedroom; Living room; Dining room | Commercial Use: Yes |
Eco-Friendly: Yes | Product Care: Dust the frame and protective acrylic glazing with a soft rag or duster to remove surface dust, then apply on a mild soap solution using a spray bottle, or moisten a sponge or soft rag. To avoid damage to your acrylic glazing, do not use abrasive soaps or any commercial glass cleaner that contains ammonia or alcohol. Wipe the surface gently with a moist sponge or soft rag. Dry with a soft, lint-free rag. |
Country of Manufacture: United States |
Assembly Required: No | Installation Required: Yes
Additional Parts Required: No |
Product Warranty: 30 Days |
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Good Donald from Melbourne, FL– Verified Buyer This was good. Arrived quickly ready to hang. The frame is nice but the glass is too reflective. The painting appears to be a picture matted and framed. Would prefer more of a textured picture, similar to a painting. |
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R | 134 min | Action, Drama, War
April, 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theatre, a battle-hardened Army sergeant named Wardaddy commands a Sherman tank and his five-man crew on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. Outnumbered, out-gunned, and with a rookie soldier thrust into their platoon, Wardaddy and his men face overwhelming odds in their heroic attempts to strike at the heart of Nazi Germany.
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2. Batman Begins (2005)
PG-13 | 140 min | Action, Adventure
After training with his mentor, Batman begins his war on crime to free the crime-ridden Gotham City from corruption that the Scarecrow and the League of Shadows have cast upon it.
Writers: Bob Kane, David S. Goyer, Christopher Nolan | Director: Christopher Nolan | Stars: Christian Bale, Michael Caine, Ken Watanabe, Liam Neeson
3. Thor: The Dark World (2013)
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When Dr Jane Foster gets cursed with a powerful object, Thor must protect it before an army and its ruthless leader try to get their hands on it to take over the remains of Earth.
Writers: Christopher Yost, Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely, Don Payne, Robert Rodat, Stan Lee, Larry Lieber, Jack Kirby | Director: Alan Taylor | Stars: Chris Hemsworth, Natalie Portman, Tom Hiddleston, Stellan Skarsgård
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PG | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Two Jedi Knights escape a hostile blockade to find allies and come across a young boy who may bring balance to the Force, but the long dormant Sith resurface to reclaim their old glory.
Writer: George Lucas | Director: George Lucas | Stars: Ewan McGregor, Liam Neeson, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd
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R | 159 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A New York City doctor, who is married to an art curator, pushes himself on a harrowing and dangerous night-long odyssey of sexual and moral discovery after his wife admits that she once almost cheated on him.
Writers: Stanley Kubrick, Frederic Raphael, Arthur Schnitzler | Director: Stanley Kubrick | Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Todd Field, Sydney Pollack
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Writers: Brian Helgeland, Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris | Director: Ridley Scott | Stars: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow
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PG-13 | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Jack Sparrow and Barbossa embark on a quest to find the elusive fountain of youth, only to discover that Blackbeard and his daughter are after it too.
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Set in 1930s Paris, an orphan who lives in the walls of a train station is wrapped up in a mystery involving his late father and an automaton.
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An imprisoned vampire, Barnabas Collins, is set free and returns to his ancestral home, where his dysfunctional descendants are in need of his protection.
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10. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
R | 116 min | Drama, Horror, Musical
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Writers: John Logan, Hugh Wheeler, Christopher Bond | Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall
11. Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones (2002)
PG | 142 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
Ten years after initially meeting, Anakin Skywalker shares a forbidden romance with Padmé, while Obi-Wan investigates an assassination attempt on the Senator and discovers a secret clone army crafted for the Jedi.
Writers: George Lucas, Jonathan Hales | Director: George Lucas | Stars: Hayden Christensen, Natalie Portman, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Lee
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PG-13 | 125 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Lucy and Edmund Pevensie return to Narnia with their cousin Eustace where they meet up with Prince Caspian for a trip across the sea aboard the royal ship The Dawn Treader. Along the way they encounter dragons, dwarves, merfolk, and a band of lost warriors before reaching the edge of the world.
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14. Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)
PG-13 | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
A mature Queen Elizabeth endures multiple crises late in her reign including court intrigues, an assassination plot, the Spanish Armada, and romantic disappointments.
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PG-13 | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Fantasy
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Writers: Sara B. Cooper, Mike Werb, Michael Colleary, Simon West, Patrick Massett, John Zinman | Director: Simon West | Stars: Angelina Jolie, Jon Voight, Iain Glen, Noah Taylor
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18. Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (2003)
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When a fisherman leaves to fight with the Greek army during WWII, his fiancee falls in love with the local Italian commander.
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A woman faces deadly consequences for abandoning her loving relationship with her boyfriend to pursue exciting sexual scenarios with a mysterious celebrity mountaineer.
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Back when she was still relatively new to MMA, Ronda Rousey was told by an interviewer that she likely didn't have the "strength" to compete with a man. Seconds later, YouTube host Aaron Tru learned a very painful lesson that resulted in some "busted ribs."
The 2011 video was re-posted on Feb. 24 and then went viral this week after Rousey successfully defended her UFC bantamweight title. At the moment, there's no UFC fighter with a hotter career than Rousey.
But before she became the household name she is now, she had her "buttons" pushed by Tru in a big way when he told her, "As a beginner who has never competed in Judo, and who has a white belt on, I've gotta be honest, I don't think you have as much strength and can compete with a man, even though I'm a white belt."
"You know how to push my buttons. That was exactly how to get me to throw you," Rousey replied through her laughter.
And she didn't hold back in proving just how wrong he was (WARNING: Some strong language):
For any other guys out there who think they have a leg up on Rousey just because she's a woman, keep in mind that she also beat the mess out of two "huge" men when they allegedly cornered her in a movie theater after a tense encounter during a screening of the movie "Juno."
After getting beat up, the men actually tried to press charges against Rousey. Police declined to pursue charges, she said.
Basically, don't mess this Rousey, regardless of your gender.
The United States could face a shortage of 90,000 physicians in the next decade, according to a new report from the American Association of Medical Colleges.
The report says that while the number of doctors in the country is likely to grow slightly between now and 2025, demand is expected to skyrocket. That's due to a combination of the average age of Americans getting older and more people having health insurance.
Surgical specialties are expected to be the area with the biggest shortage, followed by primary care.
For the Record investigated the link between insurance and health care, as well as some of the emerging trends in medicine in the episode, "Cashcare: Exposing the Middleman" (Wednesday, March 4, 8:00 p.m. ET on TheBlaze TV).
One of the experts interviewed is William Short. He is the CEO of Ameriflex, which handles services like flexible spending accounts and health care spending accounts for 3.5 million people. He said the current insurance model is a big reason why the number of doctors isn't keeping pace with the number of patients.
"Primary care physicians are dropping out in droves because they can't afford to pay their bills," Short said. "So, yeah, great, everyone gets coverage, but if they don't get care and they don't have access to care what's really the point?"
Short said that financial crunch isn't just hurting doctors; patients are suffering too.
"That primary care physician is dealing with the working capital/accounts receivable death spiral, and where the only way they're going to have a chance of making their payroll, making the bills that are due, is by seeing as many people as possible," Short said. "When you have that churn process you're not getting the care, not getting access to it, you are no longer just a patient."
Short continued, "The reason they have to churn through it has been when they see a patient today and that by the time they pay someone to file a claim, and by the time that claim is repriced by the government or some other third-party payer, it's 30, 60, maybe 90 days before they get paid. So how do they keep ahead of that? They've got to see more. It's like the classic death by volume — I'll make it up in volume. Well, who suffers? The patient suffers. The quality of care the patient gets suffers."
There is now a growing trend of physicians turning away from insurance entirely to avoid that churn. A study by the Heritage Foundation found that the number of "direct primary care" or "concierge" physicians in the U.S. jumped from 756 in 2010 to 4,400 in 2012.
One of those physicians is Dr. James Pinckney, who founded Diamond Physicians in Dallas in 2012. His practice does not accept insurance; instead, patients pay a monthly fee of $95-295 per adult and $45 per child for unlimited visits. That business model dramatically changes the typical patient visit.
"The average doctor visit right now, the face-to-face time between a patient and a physician is eight minutes. Our average face-to-face time is 60 minutes," said Pinckney.
"When a client walks into a Diamond Physicians office, I greet them personally in the reception area. I take them into my office. We sit. We chat. We establish rapport. Then we go into the exam room, I do my exam, then we come back to the office and we recap, we summarize, we go over a plan to figure out how we can move forward, how we can reverse disease, and how we can truly modify lifestyle. That's the way to prevent disease."
Pinckney believes that changing the way Americans view health insurance could make a huge difference in health care.
"When I'm driving in my car and I need gas, I don't make an insurance claim. I swipe my credit card and fill my tank with gas. If I need new windshield wipers, if I need an oil change, or new tires, I pay cash. Well, your day-to-day medical services should be utilized in that same manner. You should pay cash for a flu shot. You should pay cash to see your doctor," Pinckney said.
"Insurance should be utilized for catastrophic surgery, cancer, hospitalizations, motor vehicle accidents. That's when you use your insurance. It's just like when you get in a car accident and you have major damage, thousands of dollars to your car, then you make an insurance claim. And that's why car insurance is relatively low, especially compared to medical insurance."
The House voted Wednesday to authorize another $7.2 billion in spending on Amtrak, the nation's publicly funded rail service that conservatives have criticized as a tax-guzzling entity that needs to be privatized.
Members were considering a bill to authorize Amtrak for another five years, through 2020, and while many Republicans have pushed for an end to the billions of dollars in subsidies that Amtrak gets, their efforts were rejected today. Instead, most Republicans joined every Democrat to maintain subsidies for the rail service at a level of about $1.4 billion per year, the same as the current fiscal year.
The Senate on Wednesday failed to override President Barack Obama's veto of legislation that would approve the Keystone XL pipeline, marking the end of the legislative effort to force Obama to approve a project that has been stalled for more than six years.
Obama vetoed the legislation last week, knowing that his veto was safe given that the Senate approved the bill in a 62-36 vote. A two-thirds majority vote is needed to override a veto, and last week's vote indicated that there was not enough support to accomplish that goal.
Less than a week after the Federal Communications Commission voted to regulate the Internet, 20 House Republicans have proposed a bill to block the FCC rule.
Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) proposed the legislation, which would explicitly ban the FCC from reclassifying Internet serve as a telecommunications service that can be regulated, and also block the FCC from imposing rules on Internet service providers.
The Senate voted Wednesday to overturn a federal regulation that Republicans say will put companies at an unfair disadvantage when their employees decide to hold a union election.
In December, the National Labor Relations Board issued a rule that shortens the time between when union organizers ask for a union election at a company, and when that company must allow the election to take place. The rule could force companies to allow these elections to happen as soon as 11 days after they're notified, which Republicans say doesn't give companies enough time to react.
The Department of Justice this week acknowledged to a federal court that it has already given 100,000 illegal immigrants enhanced legal protection under President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration, before the court issued an injunction against the program.
Earlier this month, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas blocked Obama's action, which is aimed at protecting millions of illegal immigrants and letting them work in the United States. That injunction froze the program while the court hears a legal challenge brought by 26 states, although the Obama administration is looking to remove stay that court order.
The Veterans of Foreign Wars has released a survey showing that the Department of Veterans Affairs is having major problems implementing a new program aimed at ensuring veterans can receive care outside the VA system, and that 80 percent of veterans who qualify for the program aren't being given a chance to use it.
VFW's survey focused on the ability of veterans to use the new Veterans Choice Program, which Congress created last year and the VA implemented in November. Under the program, veterans who can't get VA care after 30 days, or who live at least 40 miles from the nearest VA center, have the option of getting care outside the VA.
Last Friday, ABC's late night host, Jimmy Kimmel, took a slight turn from his typical comedic tone and delivered a semi-serious message about vaccinations. As the father of an 8-month-old baby, Kimmel has a keen interest in the topic.
Kimmel's crew assembled a group of real doctors to create a somewhat tongue-in-cheek public service announcement to encourage parents to vaccinate their kids.
Here's the initial message from February 27:
After the show, Kimmel's Twitter feed was hit with a host of angry, insulting and vulgar messages from the anti-vaccination crowd.
On Monday, the show responded.
Kimmel read a few of the offending tweets and laughed his way through the angriest messages, adding, "Some of these people are demanding I apologize. Which I, of course, will not do."
He then unveiled a new video in response to the anti-vaxxers. Instead of capitulating, the show doubled-down on its mocking of the medical science deniers.
In this clip, Jack and Becky, Kimmel's "community activist team" took to the streets of Los Angeles in an effort to get people to sign a petition supporting "a child's right to choose."
Watch the segment:
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A House Democrat on Tuesday accused Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of trying to instill fear in Americans in order to goad the U.S. into taking more aggressive steps against Iran.
Netanyahu addressed Congress with a set of remarks that warned the U.S. must not accept an agreement that allows Iran to continue its nuclear weapons program. He said the Obama administration is negotiating a "bad deal," and said the world should be demanding that Iran stop its aggressive, terrorist actions as a condition of the talks.
Colleague and Blaze Magazine editor Chris Field has alerted us to the fact that M. Stanton Evans has passed.
Mr. Evans was an anti-Communist researcher and author par excellence, who exposed the mass infiltration of American institutions by Communists and Communist sympathizers prior to and during the Cold War.
He took contrarian and controversial positions in support of like-minded individuals, including Sen. Joe McCarthy on whom he published a revisionist history in an attempt to rehabilitate his image.
Glenn Beck spoke with Evans about Communist infiltration and Sen. McCarthy back in 2010, which you can watch below:
We also recommend this speech from 2013.
You can read more about his long and successful career in conservative journalism at Powerline, and check out some of his particularly poignant books below: (more…)
The top Democrat on the House Select Committee on Benghazi has called on Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) to release hundreds of private emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton related to Benghazi.
The New York Times reported Monday that Clinton never had an official State Department email address while she was secretary, and instead used a personal email account for work. The State Department asked former secretaries for any work-related emails that might need to be turned over to the government, and found about 300 Clinton emails related to Benghazi.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has told Republicans that he would call up and pass a "clean" Department of Homeland Security spending bill this week, and give up the fight to use that bill to defund President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.
The decision marks the end of a standoff that has lasted for several weeks — a standoff Republicans will lose to Democrats when the clean DHS bill passes.
Pop star Taylor Swift posted a video online Monday afternoon, telling her fans that it was the "best thing" she has ever seen.
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) March 2, 2015
The video shows a baby stop crying each time a Taylor Swift song is played. When Swift's music is paused, the baby resumes crying.
At the time of publication, the footage had just more than 77,000 views. It had initially been posted to YouTube on Feb. 21.
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Senate Democrats on Monday night blocked a Republican request to negotiate a Department of Homeland Security spending bill with the House, a move that could signal the end of GOP efforts to use that bill to defund President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.
Republicans in the House and Senate have been pushing for a return to "regular order," in which the two chambers meet in a conference committee to work out differences between legislation. In this case, the differences are huge — the House bill defunds Obama's immigration plans, and the Senate bill doesn't.
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday dismissed a Republican request to hold a House-Senate meeting to discuss the Department of Homeland Security spending bill as a "charade," even though just a few years ago, he hailed these kinds of meetings as a tool that has been used successfully by Congress for more than two centuries.
Republicans are seeking a conference to sort out the differences between the House bill, which would defund President Barack Obama's immigration plans, and the Senate bill, which is silent on Obama's new program.
Secretary of State John Kerry said Monday that the Obama administration is still willing to give Russia several more days to abide by a ceasefire in and around Ukraine that was supposed to take effect on Feb. 15, but has failed miserably so far.
Even in the run-up to the ceasefire, the State Department was complaining that Russia and pro-Russia separatists in Ukraine did not appear to be living up to the ceasefire, which was agreed by Russia, Ukraine, France and Germany.
The folly that is Obamacare is beginning to hit Americans hard. Higher premiums, higher deductibles and less choice are all symptoms of the Obamacare disease. Already conceded by even Obamacare's most shrill apologists are the realities that Americans can't keep their doctors or their plans or that they'll save $2,500 dollars a year for a family of four. We are now graduating into government-imposed fines for people who don't follow their government's edict to buy lousy and expensive insurance. Now, Americans watch as the huge bureaucracy that has already grown around Obamacare gives out wrong information and places the burdens of compliance on a majority of the people who opposed the wrong-headed bill to begin with.
In short, Americans have been screwed by their own government.
The question is, how do we fight back? The opposition party, you say? There seems to be no opposition party on this issue. Many of the GOP elites, with their $12,000 health care stipend in hand, seem powerless or unwilling to fight this cancerous entitlement.
This weekend on The Chris Salcedo Show, we brought together a panel to answer the question that many who have been harmed by Obamacare are asking: How do Americans beat Obamacare? We also talked with a congressman who said Congress has no constitutional obligation or obligation under the law to fund Barack Obama's executive inaction memo.
To hear the medical panel, just click and listen at 42:25.
Conservative Republicans were scrambling on Monday morning to prevent House Democrats from using an obscure rule allowing them to call up and pass their preferred Department of Homeland Security bill — one that funds President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.
Due to the way House rules are set out, House Democrats may have a chance this week to call up a "clean" DHS bill that doesn't touch Obama's immigration plan, and have it pass if just a few dozen Republicans support it. That could happen soon after the Senate votes later today against a House-Senate conference to work out their differences on the DHS bill.
This week, For the Record examines health care and health insurance and finds that they may not be as closely related as you've been led to believe.
While the Affordable Care Act has forced millions of Americans to buy health insurance that covers basic treatments like birth control, a growing number of physicians and nurse practitioners are going an entirely different direction: They're cutting insurance out of their practices entirely.
The number of so-called "concierge" practices in the U.S. jumped more than 500 percent from 2010 to 2012 and has continued to grow.
In this week's "Producer's Notebook" podcast, For the Record executive producer Joe Weasel talks to Dr. James Pinckney, who started one of those practices. Diamond Physicians in Dallas offers clients unlimited visits and 24/7 access to care for a fixed monthly membership fee. Everything is paid in cash, which saves the practice massive amounts of time and money.
You can listen to the podcast below or on the For the Record Soundcloud stream.
"Cashcare: Exposing the Middleman" airs Wednesday, March 4 at 8:00 p.m. ET on TheBlaze TV.
It's that time again. The Church Boys are back with episode seven to talk all about the colors of that obnoxiously viral dress, CPAC, Star Trek and plenty, plenty more.
I also reveal what Chris Field claims is "an ugly secret" from my childhood — and we talk through recent interviews with the Benham brothers, Roma Downey and plenty of others.
Listen to it all unfold below:
You've already seen what happens when Coca-Cola is boiled.
Now, a widely-circulated video on the Internet Friday, shows a new reaction: this time, what takes place when the popular soft drink is mixed with milk.
Viewers responded in a variety of ways, mostly fascinated by what happened.
"Incredible," one wrote.
"This looks disgusting," said another.
The producer of the video offered a scientific explanation for the chemical reaction:
It is a reaction of the Phosphoric Acid contained in the coca cola to the milk. Phosphoric Acid molecules attach to the milk giving them more density and separate out while the remaining liquid that makes up the milk and cocoa cola now being lighter floats on top. The solid matter is basically milk that has been curdled by the addition of the more acidic soda.
Both items are acidic but coca-cola more so. In general, coca-cola has a pH of anywhere from 2.5-4.5 because of the Phosphoric Acid content where milk has a normal pH around 6.7 (almost neutral, milk that is in the base range is usually mastitic).
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The Congressional Budget Office this week told the Senate that passing legislation to permanently defund President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration would increase annual budget deficits, by about $6.3 billion over the next decade.
That's about $630 million per year, a price the GOP seems willing to pay to end a policy they say is illegal and would let millions of illegal immigrants stay and work in the United States.
Is it a dealbreaker if your sister, who you're very close with, won't give approval for your potential spouse to marry you? How about if your mom reveals you've never held hands with a past partner? Or if your brother reveals you're a "wild mustang"?
On the "Married Guys Talk Bachelor" podcast — where two married Blaze employees recap the show — we look at how the hometown dates with Prince Farming led to Chris' ultimate decision that brought us the final two.
Also, as we revealed thanks to extensive research in episode one of our podcast, the big "Playboy" Jade reveal took place during the show. How did that go? (Spoiler: awkwardly.) Listen here:
Also discussed: the non-tropical locales "The Bachelor" contestants visited, the big fall from the top slot by Britt and a look back at how our predictions performed.
Listen to all episodes of "Married Guys Talk Bachelor" on TheBlaze Radio On Demand.


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Fourth of July or French Flag White Sheet Cake With Raspberries
Total Time
15 minsCook
20 minsFrom Cakes from Scratch in half the time. Made this for July 14 (Fete de la France) and used strawberries instead of raspberries.
- 3 large eggs
- 1⁄2 cup soft unsalted butter
- 1 cup sugar
- 2 teaspoons vanilla extract
- 2 cups sifted cake flour
- 2 teaspoons baking powder
- 1⁄2 teaspoon salt
- 3⁄4 cup low-fat milk
Quick Buttercream Frosting
- 1⁄2 cup soft unsalted butter
- 1 large egg yolk (optional)
- 1⁄4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla or 1 teaspoon almond extract
- 4 cups sifted confectioners' sugar
- 6 tablespoons milk
- 1 pint blueberries
- 1 pint raspberries
- Place the rack in the middle of the oven and preheat it to 375°F Spritz a 9x13 shiny aluminum baking pan with Pam or Baker's Joy. Place the unbroken eggs in a bowl of hot tap water.
- Beat the butter and sugar in the stand mixer until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, then the vanilla, and beat until thoroughly mixed, about 5 minutes. Sift the flour, baking powder, and salt onto a sheet of wax paper. Spoon in the flour in thirds, alternately with milk. Mix just until the batter is smooth.
- Pour the batter in the prepared pan and bake until the cake begins to pull away from the sides and a wooden pick comes out clean, 18 to 20 minutes. Cool on a rack.
- Frosting:.
- While the cake is cooling, place the butter in the mixer bowl and cream until soft, adding the egg yolk, salt and vanilla. With the mixer on low speed, add the confectioners' sugar and milk (or cream) alternatively until you have a smooth mixture. Refrigerate until the cake is cool.
- Assemble the cake. Invert the cake onto a large serving platter. Smooth the frosting over the top and sides, using an offset spatula. Make a design on top, using the berries to create a flag. Use both raspberries and blueberries in the upper left quadrant to represent the "starts", then make the "bars" by making alternating horizontal stripes of raspberries and blueberries. Finish by alternating whole blueberries and raspberries all around the base of the cake.
Nutrition Info
Serving Size: 1 (141 g)
Servings Per Recipe: 16
- Amount Per Serving
- % Daily Value
- Calories 373.9
- Calories from Fat 117
- 31%
- Total Fat 13 g
- 20%
- Saturated Fat 7.8 g
- 39%
- Cholesterol 66.8 mg
- 22%
- Sodium 178.6 mg
- 7%
- Total Carbohydrate 62 g
- 20%
- Dietary Fiber 2 g
- 8%
- Sugars 45.3 g
- 181%
- Protein 3.6 g
- 7%
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Study: 34% Of Google Search Results Have Rich Media, 9 Organic Links & 9 Search Ads
Conductor released a study that analyzed the ten blue links at Google showing 34% show rich media, nine organic listings and nine search ads.
34% Of Search Snippets Have Rich Media
The Conductor study showed that there was rich media on the search results page 34% of the time. The breakdown of rich media showed images appear on 28% of search results pages, news 9%, and shopping 1%. You have to keep in mind, rich media in search results is incredibly query-dependent. So, based on the sampling of Conductor's study, 34% was the number they reached.
88% Of The Search Results Contain 9 Organic Results
88% of SERPs have 9 or more natural search links, with 73% having exactly ten organic results. This shows that while many say the ten blue links are gone, that is, indeed, not the case.
56% Of The Search Results Have 9 Search Ads
Finally, Conductor's study says 56% of search pages now have 9 or more paid ads. I posted the breakdown of the study below. But, Conductor adds that despite there being so many paid search ads, "eye-tracking studies show that increasingly, searchers are tuning out ads and focusing on organic results."
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Sambu, Dohrmann named MVPs; Several others claim team awards
December 9, 2014
The Tennessee Tech cross country teams closed out the 2014 season Monday night with an awards dinner, where first-year head coach Wayne Angel and his staff presented several awards. Former U.S. Olympian Jose "Tony" Parrilla was the guest speaker.
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Dohrmann leads balanced effort for Tech women in 10th place finish at OVC Championships
November 1, 2014
Senior Yeshi Dohrmann paced a balanced effort from the Tennessee Tech women's cross country team Saturday morning in a 10th place finish at the 2014 Ohio Valley Conference Championships. Dohrmann posted one of three career-best times by Golden Eagle runners in the 5K race.
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Tech cross country teams look forward to challenge of OVC Championships
October 28, 2014
The Tennessee Tech women's cross country team will look for some personal best times Saturday at the 2014 OVC Championships in Oxford, Alabama.
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Sambu, Dohrmann named OVC adidas Runners of the Week
October 14, 2014
A pair of Tennessee Tech cross country standouts, sophomore Geoffrey Sambu and senior Yeshi Dohrmann, have each been tabbed as the Ohio Valley Conference adidas Runner of the Week.
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HOT STUFF: Tech men sixth, women 10th at steamy FSU Invitational
October 11, 2014
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- The Tennessee Tech men's cross country team placed sixth and the women's squad finished 10th Friday night at a hot and steamy FSU Invitational at Apalachee Regional Park.
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Whole new challenge facing Golden Eagle cross country teams in Florida
October 8, 2014
A whole new set of challenges looms this weekend for the Tennessee Tech cross country teams as they head to the Florida State Invitational. The races will be held at twilight Friday for coach Wayne Angel's runners.
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Dohrmann sets pace, three set PR times in chilly Greater Louisville Classic
October 4, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Senior Yeshi Dohrmann led the way and was one of three Golden Eagle women to set new personal best times Saturday during a cool and chilly outing at the Greater Louisville Classic.
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Tech, seven other OVC teams face huge field Saturday at Greater Louisville race
October 3, 2014
Among the dozens and dozens of teams that will be competing Saturday at the 13th Annual Greater Louisville Cross Country Classic will be Tennessee Tech and seven other Ohio Valley Conference opponents. The field will also bring many of the top-ranked teams throughout the region.
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Angel adds Samantha Linck to cross country, track & field coaching staff
September 19, 2014
First-year Tennessee Tech cross country and track & field head coach Wayne Angel has announced the addition of Samantha Linck to his staff as an assistant coach.
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Five runners set personal best marks as Tech women place 15th at Commodore Classic
September 13, 2014
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Running amongst a strong field, the Tennessee Tech women's cross country team saw five runners establish personal best times Saturday as the Golden Eagles placed 15th at the Commodore Classic hosted by Vanderbilt University.
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Golden Eagle runners facing sizeable challenge at Commodore Classic Saturday
September 11, 2014
The Tennessee Tech cross country teams will be among 29 schools running Saturday morning at the Commodore Classic, hosted at Percy Warner Park in Nashville by Vanderbilt University. The men will get things started at 9 a.m. CT with an 8K race, followed at 10 a.m. by a women&rsquo...
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Golden Eagle women take on tough course, tough foe at Indiana Open
September 6, 2014
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- It was a tremendous learning experience for the Tennessee Tech women's cross country team Saturday morning as the Golden Eagles faced a tough opponent on an extremely challenging course at the Indiana Open.
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TTU Baseball vs NIU - Series Highlights
March 1, 2015
Recap of Tennessee Tech Baseball's three game series against Northern Illinois.
Behind the Scenes: 2015 Baseball Intro Video
February 26, 2015
Go behind the scenes with the Golden Eagle Sports Network as they work on the 2015 Baseball Intro Video.
Leaders for Life - Donnita Hill
February 24, 2015
Local Realtor Donnita Hill offers real life advice at Leaders for Life event.
MBB- Tennessee Tech vs. Belmont Highlights
February 21, 2015
Highlights from the Tennessee Tech Men's Basketball game against the Belmont Bruins on February 21, 2015
WBB- Tennessee Tech vs. Belmont Highlights
February 21, 2015
Highlights from the Tennessee Tech Women's Basketball Team's game against Belmont University on February 21, 2015.
Longwood vs Tennessee Tech - Weekend Series Highlights
February 15, 2015
Highlights from the 2/13/15 weekend series vs Longwood. Tennessee took 2 out of 3 games vs Longwood.
2015 Tennessee Tech Baseball Intro
February 13, 2015
Official Video for Tennessee Tech Baseball Team
MBB - Tennessee Tech vs. Tennessee State Highlights
February 13, 2015
Highlights from the Tennessee Tech Men's Basketball Team's game against Tennessee State University on February 12, 2015.
WBB - Tennessee Tech vs. Tennessee State Highlights
February 13, 2015
Highlights from the Tennessee Tech Women's Basketball Team's game against the Tennessee State University Lady Tigers on February 12, 2015.
2015 Tennessee Tech Baseball Season Preview
February 11, 2015
Golden Eagle Sports Network's Dylan Vazzano sits down with Head Coach Matt Bragga to discuss the upcoming 2015 season.
MBB - Tennessee Tech vs. Jacksonville State Highlights
February 8, 2015
Highlights from the Tennessee Tech Men's Basketball Team's game against Jacksonville State University on February 7, 2015.
One of the largest golf tournaments in the Southeast takes places at three courses over three days.
One of the largest golf tournaments in the Southeast takes places at three courses over three days.
One of the largest golf tournaments in the Southeast takes places at three courses over three days.
Fans are invited to the final scrimmage of fall camp, and the annual Gathering of Eagles picnic in Ticker Stadium.


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What's in a name (change)? Danielle Tate's MissNowMrs proves the answer is 'money'
"I'm not saying every woman should change her name, but if you are going to do it, don't waste your hours," says Danielle Tate, founder and chief executive of name-change site MissNowMrs.com. Michael Ventura
- Cousins' bar stool conversation leads to startup hawking 'stoplight for your face'
- Shake launches its mobile legal contract-writing tool for business
- Tax prep startup aims to provide alternative to big-box shops, do-it-yourself sites
- Want to learn the restaurant biz from a Food Network chef? Now there's a school for that
- I-Chun Chen
- Correspondent
The UpTake: As founder and chief executive of name-change site MissNowMrs.com, Danielle Tate has dealt with pesky name-change paperwork for more than 200,000 women since it was founded in 2006. And it's using that beachhead to expand into a major bricks-and-mortar retail partnership this year.
A s a newlywed, Danielle Tate thought changing her maiden name would be a simple process, but after three frustrating trips to her state's motor vehicles department she found that it could be anything but.
She had taken a day off work and stood in line for hours, only to find out that the forms she had printed out online were outdated. She also didn't realize the marriage certificate she had brought needed to be certified. It took a few tries before she was able to change her maiden name, Rowlette, to her husband's surname, Tate.
"I had basically burned my entire day," Tate says. "I came home and proclaimed to my husband, 'Why isn't there a service? I would pay plenty of money not to deal with this!' He smiled and said, 'You should do that.'"
For more news from Bizwomen, check out I-Chun Chen's work.
Now as founder and chief executive of name-change site MissNowMrs.com, Tate has dealt with pesky paperwork for more than 200,000 women since it was founded in 2006. And she is using that beachhead to expand into a major bricks-and-mortar retail partnership this year.
For $29.95, Tate's service promises to relieve the burden of finding and filling out forms to change a last name, a process that Tate says takes an average 13 hours if a woman were to do it on her own.
"I'm not saying every woman should change her name, but if you are going to do it, don't waste your hours," Tate says.
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Adm. James Lyons Explains Obama, Muslim Brotherhood & ISIS Almost to the Depths
By: Arlen Williams
Gulag Bound
This morning, Andrea Shea King conducted a brief (half-hour) and for the only major media -informed, very revelatory interview with retired Admiral James A. Lyons. It concerned the realities of Barack Hussein Obama, Muslim Brotherhood's Obama-accelerated but longstanding infiltration of American halls of power, the use of the U.S. Department of State, and just a smidge about "our" corrupt (anti-)American exploits in "Arab Spring" lands.
Of special interest to me, at the 16:40 point, Ms. King asks Adm. Lyons why the Gowdy committee on Benghazi is moving at a "glacial pace," and the latter gives more of the answer than one usually hears, about what has become obvious.
Why don't you listen to it, rather than my transcribing?
Get to the Submarines
And I'll have to take the bull by the horns to relate more of it, going where it is not comfortable for most patriots to go, in answer to just such a question. It has to do with the post-Illuminati committees and clubs, with their ever growing globalist, cartel collective state, and their parasitic control by, but hardly limited to, their burgeoning kleptocracy-bankocracy complex.
It is a subject matter so critical to our chief enemy in the world to hush, that from what I see, they pay certain personalities to act buffoonish and otherwise repulsive, who pose as those who would expose it.
For the moment, here are two of our best anti-buffoons:
Andrea Shea King Show,
Friday, February 27, 2015
Admiral James Lyons
On this Friday morning edition we're talking with Adm. James "Ace" Lyons (US Navy Ret.) about the President's radical extremism conference, ISIS, the MB penetration of all our federal agencies and the impact on our policies and strategy. We'll get his take on the Benghazi tragedy, and what he expects will come out of Congressman Trey Gowdy's Select Committee charged with investigating it. Adm. Lyons has speculated the death of Amb. Stevens resulted from a bungled attempt to have him kidnapped by Ansar al-Sharia to facilitate a prisoner exchange resulting in the release of Omar Abdel-Rahman.
We'll get his views on Iran's nuclear program and his participation in the recent Center for Security Policy's Defeat Jihad Summit.
James Aloysius "Ace" Lyons, Jr. is a retired Admiral who served as Commander, U.S. Pacific Fleet from 1985-87. He served in the Navy for 36 years, including as Sr. US Military Representative to the UN and Dep. Chief of Naval Operations.
He's a graduate of the US Naval Academy and received post grad degrees from the US Naval War College and the US National Defense University. He is the CEO of LION Associates.
Lyons has claimed the Muslim Brotherhood has infiltrated every US security agency under the Obama presidency and alleges that John Brennan, Director of the CIA, was a Muslim convert. Lyons alleges that the MB is planning to start a political party to influence American domestic politics.
For more related to James Lyons, see our tag, including articles by Diana West and Roger Aronoff.
More Smoking Guns Confirm Benghazi Cover-up
By: Roger Aronoff
Accuracy in Media
We have repeatedly exposed how the mainstream media consistently ignore the "phony scandal" of the multiple terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, and the unnecessary deaths of four brave Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens. Indeed, the mainstream media shy away from covering this scandal or, alternatively, dismiss efforts to expose the ongoing government cover-up as an attack on Hillary Clinton's presidential chances.
But the media should be furious because they—alongside of the American public—were sold a lie by the Obama administration. And the media became one of the tools through which that lie was disseminated. The latest disclosures have come to light thanks to the ongoing efforts of Judicial Watch.
Document after released document shows that the Secretary of State, the Defense Secretary, the head of AFRICOM, and the President of the United States himself, were informed, shortly after the attack began, that Benghazi was an attack by terrorists. Yet most of the media, such as New York Times reporter David Kirkpatrick, defensively maintain the official narrative years later that the attack "was fueled in large part by anger at an American-made video denigrating Islam."
"The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well," states an email forwarded to Cheryl Mills, Secretary Clinton's chief of staff at the time, as well as Clinton's deputy chief-of-staff for policy and her executive assistant. It is dated September 11, 2012 at 4:07 p.m. EST—about a half hour after the attack in Benghazi began. The argument that senior State Department personnel did not inform their direct superior, Mrs. Clinton, of the facts surrounding the unfolding situation strains credulity.
"State Department emails released through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch show that then-Secretary Hillary Clinton knew as the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists," reports Jerome Corsi for WorldNetDaily. Yet, "Clinton blamed the attack on 'rage and violence over an awful Internet video'" just days later when "she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2014" as the remains of those slain returned to the U.S. She also made similar assertions on September 12, 2012.
Andrew McCarthy, writing for National Review, connected the dots, detailing the anatomy of the attempted cover-up.
While the attacks were still going on, "Secretary Clinton issued an official statement claiming the assault may have been in 'response to inflammatory material posted on the Internet,'" McCarthy writes. He continues, "Secretary Clinton's statement took pains to add that 'the United States deplores any intentional effort to denigrate the religious beliefs of others'—further intimating that the video was the cause of the attack. I have previously recounted that this official Clinton statement was issued shortly after 10 p.m.—minutes after President Obama and Secretary Clinton spoke briefly on the telephone about events in Benghazi, according to Clinton's congressional testimony. The White House initially denied that Obama had spoken with Clinton or other top cabinet officials that night. The president's version of events changed after Secretary Clinton's testimony."
The new emails from Judicial Watch also show that Clinton's top officials were trying to get third parties to echo false information that they were fully aware was incorrect, according to the group's President Tom Fitton, who spoke at a press briefing on February 26. And they stopped talking to the press so that statements about the video would receive more coverage.
Mills asked the State Department to stop answering press inquiries after Mrs. Clinton's statement about "inflammatory material posted on the Internet" was "hanging out there," writing, "Can we stop answering emails for the night Toria [Victoria Nuland] b/c now the first one is hanging out there."
Fitton also said that the released emails leave no doubt that Clinton's closest advisors knew the basic facts about Benghazi immediately, and that Clinton knowingly lied about the YouTube video's role in Benghazi. He cited the failure of the media to have any curiosity about this issue and condemned Congress for not holding the administration more accountable.
The Select Committee on Benghazi contacted Judicial Watch a day before the press briefing regarding its documents and specialized knowledge about Benghazi, said Fitton. Yet the Select Committee began interviewing State Department officials earlier this month, without these documents.
The cover-up by the administration, including by Mrs. Clinton, has only become more apparent with the release of Judicial Watch's most recent "smoking gun" emails from the State Department. Will the media continue to look the other way in an attempt to save Mrs. Clinton's reputation and her White House bid, or will it finally begin to demand real accountability? Unfortunately, I think we already know the answer to that, leaving it up to Rep. Trey Gowdy's (R-SC) committee, and groups like Judicial Watch, and our Citizens' Commission on Benghazi.
The Council Has Spoken!! Our Watcher's Council Results – 02/27/15
The Council has spoken, the votes have been cast and the results are in for this week's Watcher's Council match-up.
Breathes there the man, with soul so dead,
Who never to himself hath said,
This is my own, my native land!
Whose heart hath ne'er within him burn'd,
As home his footsteps he hath turn'd
From wandering on a foreign strand!
If such there breathe, go, mark him well;
For him no Minstrel raptures swell;
High though his titles, proud his name,
Boundless his wealth as wish can claim;
Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, shall go down
To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung. – Sir Walter ScottWars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory. – General George S. Patton
I was only the servant of my country and had I, at any moment, failed to express her unflinching resolve to fight and conquer, I should at once have been rightly cast aside. – Sir Winston Churchill
But the Lord said to Samuel, "Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the Lord sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart. – 1 Samuel 16:7
This week's winning essay, Joshuapundit's – Is President Obama A Christian? Does He Love America? was my reaction to the question raised by former NY Mayor Rudy Giuliani and the media meltdown that followed. Here's a slice:
Former NYC Mayor Rudy Giuliani created a press-fueled tempest in a teapot when he raised those issues at a private dinner. As you know, only Democrats and Leftists are entitled to private conversations and secrecy even the Mafia would envy. And of course, to the freedom to express their opinions no matter how bat sh*t crazy they are. Rudy Giuliani obviously doesn't qualify for that kind of protection.
Of course the press leaped on this. The current administration and its minions are free to refer to 'right wing Tea Partiers' as terrorists and to deride a serving US General commanding a combat operation as 'General Betray Us' in the New York Times, but again, the rule for Democrats and the Left is that you may never question their patriotism under any circumstances, no matter what they say or do.
Having pretty much struck out trying to smear GOP front runner Governor Scott Walker for not undergoing four years or more of Leftist indoctrination at someplace like Harvard, Yale, Columbia or Princeton, the Obama media decided to grab at another straw and make a point of asking Governor Walker if he thought this president was a Christian.
His quite sensible reply was that he didn't know, and as Byron York pointed out, a fair amount of Americans don't know either. I suppose it all depends on whether you consider Reverend Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church with its radical politics and its anti-Semitic and racialist overtones 'Christian.' Or whether you're confused about a president who defends Islam and Islamists at every turn while dissing Christianity and standing by and doing nothing while Christians are being ethnically cleansed from the Middle East by those peaceful Islamists.
But at any rate, the only way to know for sure would be to look inside this president's head and heart, and Walker was astute in simply saying he wasn't going to attempt that.
Now, does this president love America? Again, like the question about Christianity, it all depends on what your definition of loving America is.
In his memoir about his time as Secretary of Defense in the Bush and Obama Administrations, Robert Gates chronicled his struggle to contain his rage as former Democrat Senators and 2008 presidential candidates Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden chuckled to Gates about how their efforts during the second Bush administration to sabotage America's war effort in Iraq and the Surge in particular while our troops were under fire were 'hah hah,just politics, ho ho.' As Gates related, these efforts along with their calculated attempts to insult and emasculate its commander General Petraeus literally cost American lives.
Now again, some people are going to say 'what difference does it make?' Others would be outraged at this and a lot of other things that have happened in this administration.
So you see, it all depends on your point of view.
But walk with me a minute.
Let's say,just for giggles, we elected a president who actually didn't love the country, but whose agenda could more accurately be described in one word – payback.
How would such a president behave?
Much more at the link.
In our non-Council category, the winner was the one and only Mark Steyn with Oh Beautiful For Specious Guys submitted by The Noisy Room.
Steyn exercises his usual mastery at getting to the heart of the matter, in this case the Obama Administration's craven response to violent, radical Islamism uhhh, 'violent extremism' that dares not speak its name. A must read.
Here are this week's full results. Only the Right Planet was unable to vote this week, but was not subject to the usual 2/3 vote penalty for not voting:
Council Winners
- *First place with 3 votes! – Joshuapundit – Is President Obama A Christian? Does He Love America?
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Bookworm Room – Hey, Sweden! How's that open immigration and PC-multiculturalism working out in your faux-socialist land?
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – Nice Deb – Al Sisi and Haftar Fight ISIS in Libya With No Help From US – While Obama Meets With Muslim Brotherhood
- Third place *t* with 1 1/3 votes – The Right Planet – Doomed To Repeat…
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD – China's Attack Strategy: Swarm Baby, Swarm
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – The Noisy Room – The Russian Bear Moves In Next Door
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – VA Right! – Is Obama a Christian or a Muslim? What Do His Deeds Say?
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 vote – Rhymes With Right – Is Obama A Christian
- Fifth place with 1/3 votes – Ask Marion – Texas Is Leading the Way to Stop President Obama's Illegal Amnesty
Non-Council Winners
- *First place with 3 votes! – Mark Steyn – Oh Beautiful For Specious Guys submitted by The Noisy Room
- Second place with 2 1/3 votes – Jonah Goldberg – Progressives' Peculiar Sense of Patriotism submitted by Joshuapundit
- Third place with 1 2/3 votes – Warrior Lodge – A French Soldier's View of US Soldiers in Afghanistan submitted by The Right Planet
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes – Sultan Knish – We Can Kill Our Way to Victory submitted by The Independent Sentinel
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes – Bobby Ghoush/Defense One – Why Arab Ground Troops Won't Defeat ISIS submitted by GrEaT sAtAn"S gIrLfRiEnD
- Fourth place *t* with 2/3 votes – The People's Cube – Quran-Quran: glam band puts a face to the Muslim Invasion submitted by The Razor
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Roll Call – McConnell Throws in Towel on DHS Fight, but Reid Is Waiting for Boehner to Cave (Updated) submitted by VA Right!
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Gay Patriot – Liberals Really Are Less Patriotic than Conservatives submitted by Rhymes with Right
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – DC Clothesline – Jobs for Jihadists' Applications Flood State Department submitted by The Glittering Eye
- Fifth place *t* with 1/3 vote – Mister Chambers – Onward To Defeat submitted by The Watcher
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The Benghazi Brief – A Power Point Presentation….
By: Sundance
The Conservative Treehouse
The "Benghazi Brief" remains the most controversial research report we have ever produced. The brief contains over two years of research and hundreds of very specific citations supporting it.
The Brief has also been challenged and with extensive vetting factually withstood all scrutiny. The report, while exhaustive in detail, remains the strongest summary of events surrounding the two years leading up to the Benghazi Libya attack on 9/11/12.
We have repeatedly stated The Benghazi Brief, and ALL of the cited information contained therein, is available for use by anyone who has a goal of communicating the truth surrounding the controversial events.
We presented the brief so that a larger understanding, a factual understanding, is possible. It can be used in part or in whole, or edited for use by any party. Anyone can do whatever they want with the detailed information provided. Our only request continues to be that the truth contained within it be maintained.
With that, a group of people committed to sharing the actual truth, and answering some of the more ridiculous conspiracy claims, have put the brief into a Power Point presentation so that it can be communicated to an audience during a speech or delivery.
The Power Point version is AVAILABLE HERE
The brief itself is available below in it's entirety.
God Bless.
Podcast – Betrayal Papers 2 – National Security Smoking Gun
William is the founder of the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, a distinguished group of retired military, counterterrorism researchers, and national security bloggers that are issuing a 5-part series which documents the treasonous acts of the Obama administration.
William and John discuss Part 2 – In Plain Sight: A National Security "Smoking Gun"
(Also see Part I: The Betrayal Papers – Under Obama: The U.S. Captured by the Muslim Brotherhood.)
"It's frightening!"
The Betrayal Papers is a collaborative effort by the Coalition of Concerned Citizens, which includes: Andrea Shea King, Dr. Ashraf Ramelah, Benjamin Smith, Bethany Blankley, Brent Parrish, Charles Ortel, Chris Nethery, Denise Simon, Dick Manasseri, Gary Kubiak, Gates of Vienna, Hannah Szenes, IQ al Rassooli, Jeff Bayard, Leslie Burt, Marcus Kohan, Mary Fanning, General Paul E. Vallely, Regina Thomson, Scott Smith, Terresa Monroe-Hamilton, Colonel Thomas Snodgrass, Trever Loudon, Wallace Bruschweiler, and William Palumbo.
'Cap and Trade' is Alive and Well, Despite Having Never Passed Congress
Gulag Bound
Seton Motley
PJ Tatler, PJ Media
Remember "Cap and Trade?" The anti-market allegedly "market-based" "solution" to man-faked global warming climate change?
A central authority (usually a governmental body) sets a limit or cap on the amount of a pollutant that may be emitted.
The limit or cap is allocated and/or sold by the central authority to firms in the form of emissions permits which represent the right to emit or discharge a specific volume of the specified pollutant.
Permits (and possibly also derivatives of permits) can then be traded on secondary markets.
Cap-and-Trade Schemes Are Not Markets
Only if (you) want government to raise energy prices, make coal uneconomical as an electricity fuel, or restrict Americans' access to carbon-based energy.…
"Cap and trade" is a policy so disastrous it couldn't pass a Democrat-majority Congress – with Democrat President Barack Obama eagerly waiting with pen at the ready.
(Democrat) Ben Nelson: Cap-and-Trade Will Not Pass This Congress
Cap and Trade is Dead (Really, Truly, I'm Not Kidding)
Except with this President, no terrible idea dies just because the Constitutional process demands it.
(Environmental Protection Agency) EPA: If Congress Doesn't Pass Cap-and-Trade, We Will
And so they have. Here's the EPA's "Cap and Trade" page.
And in government, terrible ideas are like kudzu – they rapidly, illegally spread everywhere.
"The U. S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have announced an expanded partnership to support water quality trading…"
USDA, EPA Partnership Supports Water Quality Trading
Oh look – the government is assaulting our farmers' water supply. Where else have we seen that?
The EPA is Turning Water on Farms Into a Weapon Against Farmers
The EPA exists to assault the private sector. And it is teaming up with other government departments to maximize the damage.
The USDA is a complete waste of money, time and space. Humans have engaged in agriculture for 10,000 years – we did so for 9,900 of those years without a government department. I think we've got this.
And, of course, there is zero Constitutional authority granted to the federal government to have a USDA.
Having no useful purpose, the Department of Agriculture works day and night to make private agriculture more difficult and expensive. Which raises our food prices – and makes our farmers less competitive on the now-global market.
These government-inflicted regulations and costs – by a department that shouldn't exist – foster other government programs that shouldn't exist.
Like the horrendous Farm Bill. Government makes it nearly impossible for farmers to turn a profit – then subsidizes them.
Like Food Stamps. Government jacks the price of food – then buys tens of millions of people food at the government-inflated prices because they can no longer afford it.
The Obama Administration is assaulting the private sector with every department, agency, commission and board at its $4-trillion-a-year disposal. Including unilaterally imposing "Cap and Trade" across multiple agencies. And what has transpired during the Obama Administration's tenure?
14 Million More on Food Stamps Under Obama
Food Stamp Growth 75X Greater than Job Creation
It would seem there is a correlation there.
'The Giver' Shows Where 'Net Neutrality' Leads; Keeps on Giving if You Want it Too (video)
By: Arlen Williams
Gulag Bound
It is almost March and catching wind of the new ruling called "Net Neutrality," I am beginning to be frightened.
Some may be reminded of the opening line of a story; just borrowed it. It's a story about what happens toward the end of the road down which today's ruling has just pushed us. Call it… Book Burning 2.0, with a technocracy update, in a muted, camel's-head-in-the-tent fashion, pardon the mixed metaphor.
But that story's dystopia may not even be as hideous as reality can become.
A number of fantasies and sci-fi stories about children and adolescents have become more and more popular in recent years, following the jet stream created by Harry Potter and The Hunger Games.
One of the best became adapted from its original novel to a movie last year; and as it turns out, The Giver is to the FCC and budding United Nations regulatory control of communications technology, what The Hunger Games is to Agenda 21, "sustainable development," the EPA, and again, the UN. Have you seen the motion picture, yet? On disc or through an online service?
I just came across this brief set of Raymond Arroyo interviews, of its producer-star, Jeff Bridges, of producer Michael Flaherty, and of its author, Lois Lerner, from last August.
Gave it a micro-review without much spoiling of plot and showed a trailer last November: "The Giver, the Movie, Out on Disc, Suggested."
Enjoy! What children and young adults do you know who might?
Or, how about any friends or family childish enough to support the neutering of the power of free communications called Net Neutrality?
Posing for the Cameras While the Islamic Threat Grows
By: Cliff Kincaid
Accuracy in Media
Rep. Michael McCaul (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says the danger is great that the thousands of Syrian refugees coming into the United States will include terrorists who want to kill Americans. So what is he doing about it? He told Sean Hannity of Fox News the other night that he has sent a letter!
He said, "I sent a letter to National Security Advisor Susan Rice asking her to explain why she's doing this, and to try to stop this from happening. My job as chairman of Homeland Security is to protect the American people. I believe this will put Americans at risk."
"Keep up the good work," said Hannity.
It's true. McCaul sent a letter to Obama National Security Advisor Susan Rice. But what is she going to do about it? Rice was part of the Benghazi cover-up.
This is the same Congressman McCaul who didn't even respond to our letter two years ago asking for an investigation of Al Jazeera's expansion into the United States.
A letter is not a substitute for a bill to stop this dangerous wave of immigration into the United States. But this is what passes for "action" from the Republican running the House Committee on Homeland Security.
McCaul is very good at posing for the cameras and going on Fox News to talk about his hearings. But his record of doing anything to actually stop the Islamic threat is weak.
McCaul did introduce a bill, the "Secure Our Border First Act of 2015," supposedly designed to curb illegal immigration. But Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL), perhaps the top opponent of amnesty for illegal aliens in the U.S. Congress, said that McCaul's border bill does not include the following reforms needed to achieve a sound immigration system:
- It does not end catch-and-release.
- It does not require mandatory detention and return.
- It does not include worksite enforcement.
- It does not close dangerous asylum and national security loopholes.
- It does not cut off access to federal welfare.
- It does not require completion of the border fence.
- It delays and weakens the longstanding, unfulfilled statutory requirement for a biometric entry-exit visa tracking system.
We are now learning why McCaul is so reticent about doing anything of substance against the Islamic threat.
McCaul was recently exposed by Matthew Boyle of Breitbart News for having held a friendly meeting with an Islamic leader from the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in Texas. McCaul and CAIR Houston branch executive director Mustafa Carroll were photographed together. A photograph of the meeting includes a note written in silver sharpie from McCaul to Carroll: "To Mustafa and the Council on American Islamic Relations, the moderate Muslim is our most effective weapon."
The February 11 hearing held by McCaul, "Countering Violent Islamist Extremism: The Urgent Threat of Foreign Fighters and Homegrown Terror," was certainly worthwhile.
But the idea that a letter to Rice is somehow sufficient to deal with the threat is laughable.
Rice is one of the top Obama officials implicated in the Benghazi terror attack cover-up. And she is now supposed to do something to stop terrorists from coming into the U.S. disguised as refugees because McCaul has sent her a letter?
McCaul himself signed a letter to Obama, noting that Rice "propagated a falsehood that the [Benghazi] attacks were 'spontaneous,' the outcome of a protest 'spun out of control,' and the result of a YouTube video."
The letter, signed by McCaul and others, said Rice "is widely viewed as having either willfully or incompetently misled the American public in the Benghazi matter. Her actions plausibly give U.S. allies (and rivals) abroad reason to question U.S. commitment and credibility when needed."
The letter was designed to warn Obama against making Rice Secretary of State. Instead, he made her National Security Advisor.
The letter that was sent to McCaul two years ago, warning of Al Jazeera's expansion into the U.S., cited Dr. Judea Pearl's criticism of Al Jazeera as "the main propaganda machine" of the pro-terrorist Muslim Brotherhood. Equally significant, Dr. Pearl, the father of slain journalist Daniel Pearl, said that "Al Jazeera weaves the ideological structure and combustible angers from which Jihadi recruits eventually emerge."
McCaul now claims to be concerned about the emergence of Islamic terrorists on American soil. Yet he refused to even respond to the letter about Al Jazeera.
Accuracy in Media learned and reported that Al Jazeera and its financial sponsor, the government of Qatar, had hired various K Street lobbyists to put pressure on McCaul and other Republicans to stop a probe into Al Jazeera's operations on American soil.
Yet, former Attorney General Michael Mukasey has said, in regard to Al Jazeera, "I think if an American medium is controlled by a political force from abroad, that's a proper subject for inquiry."
McCaul is emerging as very good at getting "face time" on the news to sound tough about the Islamic threat. But when the threat is mounting, sending letters just doesn't seem to cut it.
A tougher border bill that would help keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States seems like an absolute necessity. But McCaul and the Republican-controlled Congress aren't even pushing for that.
"My job as chairman of Homeland Security is to protect the American people," he says. So why won't he do his job?
A letter to Susan Rice won't protect us. A tougher border bill would help. And so would hearings into Al Jazeera leading to the eviction of this Muslim Brotherhood channel from the United States.
Obama the Anti-American, Now Defies the Court for Amnesty & #NAU
By: Arlen Williams
Gulag Bound
Obama the neo-Marxist "community organizer" gets with the racists of the Hispanic world. Via CNN, "President Barack Obama addresses the National Council of La Raza annual conference Monday in Washington," AFP photo
"The lawless one," in the White House. President Antithesis (it's like what Antichrist is to Jesus, but different… well, sort of different).
Obama defies judge, forges ahead with amnesty
As to the #NAU for North American Union, a.k.a., North American Integration, I may update this entry with more of that context, or may simply address how it all fits together elsewhere, later.