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There are many inventive recipes to celebrate our Independence Day, but I don’t think any are more expressive that the simple ‘Flag Cake’ that can be made with berries. This one from the blog ‘Cake is Love’ looks like it can be adapted very easily to using packaged brownie (or cake) mix and icing: https://blogcakeislove.blogspot.com/2012/07/4th-of-july-american-flag-brownies.html *************************************************** *************************************************** Lucile Wright was a renowned caterer in Savannah, Georgia, who became even more well-known when she was featured in the book ‘Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil’, by John Berendt and in the film of the same name. She was especially...

Explanation: Yes, but have you ever seen all of the planets at once? A rare roll-call of planets has been occurring in the morning sky for much of June. The featured fisheye all-sky image, taken a few mornings ago near the town of San Pedro de Atacama in Chile, caught not only the entire planet parade, but the Moon between Mars and Venus. In order, left to right along the ecliptic plane, members of this Solar System family portrait are Earth, Saturn, Neptune, Jupiter, Mars, Uranus, Venus, Mercury, and Earth. To emphasize their locations, Neptune and Uranus have been artificially...

The sole surviving member of an Islamic State terror cell that killed 130 people in Paris in November 2015 was handed a whole-life sentence on Wednesday (Jun 29) at the end of a trial that aimed to draw a line under the worst peace-time atrocity in modern French history. Salah Abdeslam, a 32-year-old Frenchman of Moroccan origin, was captured alive by police four months after the bloodbath at the Bataclan concert hall and other locations. His sentence, the toughest possible, was read out by the head of a five-judge panel overseeing the trial of 20 men accused of involvement in...

democrats gleefully trotted out a 25 year old adolescent yesterday to offer a crushing blow any thought of Donald Trump's returning to the oval office. She was all too willing to talk about her former boss- Donald Trump. The problem with her testimony was a big one- it was virtually all hearsay. There are numerous problems with her accounts. She said'I'm the effing president, take me to the Capitol now,' she said he ordered.When Secret Service refused, Hutchinson said agents told her that he lunged at the steering wheel of his car - known as The Beast.'Sir, you need to...

MOSCOW. June 29 (Interfax) - Ukraine's Gas Transport System Operator (GTSOU) has accepted a request from Gazprom for Wednesday to transport 42.1 million cubic meters of gas through the country, after a request of 42.2 mcm on Tuesday, data from GTSOU indicate. Capacity was requested only through one of two entry points into Ukraine's Gas Transport System, the Sudzha metering station. A request was not accepted through the Sokhranivka metering station. "Gazprom is supplying Russian gas for transit through the territory of Ukraine at the volume confirmed by the Ukraine side via the Sudzha metering station at 42.1 million cubic...

@BretBaier Lol.Having Brit Hume on to CYA didn't work. The more you talk about Cassidy's Lies,the more you show How You Want A Specific Outcome.Your 1st Clue should have been when she said,"I was told..."Hearsay.But,you Still say it was Stunning. What's Stunning is how Obtuse U R— Rivers Penn (@PennRivers) June 29, 2022@BretBaier @FoxNews Can’t believe You had a Brit Hume on to help you get out of your foot in the mouth regarding Hutchinson testimony!! Pathetic— Jimmy Reese (@JimmyRe59378458) June 29, 2022@BretBaier ask’s Brit Hume how the “J-6 committee” can be calling on false witnesses and making so many...

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The two cousins returned to the tiny, hardscrabble hamlet they grew up in in southern Mexico about two weeks ago to say goodbye in what has become a rite of passage for generations of migrants from their remote, impoverished mountainous region in Oaxaca state. After the farewells, Javier Flores López and Jose Luis Vásquez Guzmán began their trek north to the U.S-Mexico border and toward their final destination in Ohio, where construction jobs and other work awaited. Flores López is now missing, his family said, while Vásquez Guzmán is hospitalized in San Antonio after surviving stifling...

SESAME STREET - The CDC has issued a lockdown advisory to the residents of Sesame Street after longtime roommates Bert and Ernie revealed they have both contracted Monkeypox. "Our hearts go out to Bert and Ernie, who have been platonic and exclusive friends for many years now," said Big Bird. "Luckily, they have both received the monkeypox vaccine and all 13 monkeypox boosters. We pray for their speedy recovery." "Hey there, Bert, I don't know if that bathhouse in Madrid was worth it," Ernie was heard saying as muppet CDC bolted the door to their studio apartment shut. The CDC...

BELLEVUE, Wash. - A 31-year-old man was taken into custody on Tuesday afternoon after he allegedly threw rocks, spray-painted and broke glass at St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue. The suspect was caught on camera throwing a rock repeatedly at a door inside a pastoral office, before kicking and punching the glass in. A woman was inside praying and tried to talk to the man, before locking herself inside as he continued to spray paint the rock wall outside the building. He was chased off by an employee, but not before throwing a rock at him and spray-painted him across...

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York will ban people from carrying firearms into many places of business unless the owners put up a sign saying guns are welcome, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Wednesday, describing a deal with state legislative leaders that is being finalized. The legislation — hurriedly written after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state’s handgun licensing law — will include provisions that make it harder to apply for a permit to carry a gun outside the home and create more rules around firearm storage in homes and vehicles. Businesses who want guns would have to put...

In Disney’s latest effort to smuggle transgender ideology into its entertainment for kids, the new animated Disney+ series Baymax features a transgender “man” who menstruates and gives advice on which maxi pad to buy — “the one with wings.” Baymax, which began streaming Wednesday on Disney+, follows the adventures of the balloon-like robot from the 2014 movie Big Hero 6 who is on a mission to serve as good samaritan to the residents of the fictional city San Fransokyo. The transgender character appears in episode three titled “Sofia,” in which Baymax assists a 12-year-old girl who experiences her first period....

[Catholic Caucus] Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi: An Admission of Failure Contemporary results of liturgical formation in the Novus Ordo, February 2022 (Holy Family, Inverness, Archdiocese of Chicago, USA) I do not see how it is possible to say that one recognizes the validity of the Council — though it amazes me that a Catholic might presume not to do so — and at the same time not accept the liturgical reform born out of Sacrosanctum Concilium... (Desiderio desideravi, 31)So writes Pope Francis in his Apostolic Letter Desiderio desideravi, released today, on the Solemnity of Saints Peter and Paul, which...

PLAY 00:00 03:17 MUTE SETTINGS PIP AIRPLAY ENTER FULLSCREEN PLAY Seems that it was after this little tidbit that the kitchen fire occurred. Interesting. I know there’s more coming out from Jovan H. Pulitzer regarding the full forensic investigation of the Maricopa County 2020 audit, and we will be sharing Part 2 right here. After he’s rested for a bit, and gotten back home from Arizona. Frankly, I’ve very disappointed in the response of media, and the silence by many of the political types who attended this presentation. Stunning information was revealed, and it seems most just want it hidden....

A conservative legal group representing several Loudoun County parents has filed suit against the school system, alleging the “egregious moral corruption” of students and “violations of parental rights.” The suit charges that the school system has adopted woke, left-wing policies that have put children in danger and sidelined parents in violation of the state constitution. “The extreme social gender experiments being forced onto small children are nothing short of government-directed child abuse and child sexual exploitation,” said Stephen Miller, co-founder of America First Legal.

"The sower soweth the word." "Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is. And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure." "And this is his commandment, That we should believe on the name of his Son Jesus Christ, and love one another, as he gave us commandment. And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And...

Bette Midler has vented her fury over the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, suggesting they should also ban Viagra because it's 'God's will' for men to have a 'limp ****'. The actress, 76, took aim at the justices whose decision allowed individual states to decide whether to make abortion illegal. The Hocus Pocus star posted: 'Time to ban Viagra. Because if pregnancy is "God's will", then so is your limp ****.' The post racked up nearly 250,000 likes amid the huge wave of opposition to the controversial SCOTUS ruling. Midler has been vocal with her criticism of...

Cassidy Hutchinson, an aide to former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, released a new statement Wednesday provided exclusively to CNN standing by her blockbuster testimony revealed in a hearing with the House select committee investigating January 6, in light of some pushback on her testimony. “Ms. Hutchinson stands by all of the testimony she provided yesterday, under oath, to the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol,” Hutchinson’s counsel Jody Hunt and William Jordan said in the statement. Hutchinson testified for nearly two hours on Tuesday as well as giving recorded...

MRC Free Speech America’s CensorTrack database hit another milestone as Big Tech continues its agenda to silence free speech online at a steady pace. MRC Free Speech America has now logged 4,000 cases of censorship in MRC’s unique CensorTrack database. These cases include censorship of both people and organizations across multiple Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, Google, Twitter and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)-controlled TikTok.

Disgraced R&B star R Kelly has been sentenced to 30 years in federal prison for sex trafficking and abusing young girls as the judge told him that he taught his victims that 'love is enslavement and violence,' and 'the public needs to be protected.' Kelly, 55, was convicted on sex-trafficking and racketeering charges last September following a nearly six-week trial that amplified accusations that had dogged the singer of the Grammy-winning hit 'I Believe I Can Fly' since the early 2000s. Judge Ann M. Donnelly handed down Kelly's sentence in Brooklyn Federal Court on Wednesday, despite the defense lawyers' request...

Former White House Covid-19 response coordinator Deborah Birx admitted recently that the enforced narrative from government and Big Tech that Covid vaccines could stop Covid transmission was based on “hope,” not knowledge or science. Except Big Tech platforms have been censoring people for over a year for saying just that—and Big Tech is still pretending that Covid vaccines’ efficacy is settled science. This was never about “science.”