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ROCHESTER TWP. — Louis Slima looked over the apple, cherry and blueberry pies lining the dessert table at St. Cecilia’s Friday fish fry, trying to pick the best one. The trouble was, Slima, 60, of New Sewickley Township, wanted homemade raisin pie, which for years has been one of his favorites at the event. “This is the only time of year that I get them, during the Lenten season,” Slima said. Not anymore. On Feb. 27, a Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture inspector stopped for an annual inspection at St. Cecilia’s kitchen in Rochester Township. The kitchen was spotless. But across...

NOW @ SDSU's bake sale charges men more for the same goods Imagine going to McDonald's and hearing that, because you're a white male, you pay full price for a Big Mac. Meanwhile, the girl behind you pays three-quarters of the total amount for the same thing. NOW (National Organization for Women) @ SDSU brought that reality to San Diego State yesterday at the Aztec Center by holding a pay equity bake sale. The prices for cookies reflected the difference of pay between genders and races. "It's just to raise awareness," NOW @ SDSU Co-President Amanda Whitehead said. "A lot...

Starved for cash, the New Orleans school district is taking a long shot and hoping to sell its flooded, unsalvageable school buses on eBay. Some submerged to their roofs in the black flood waters, the yellow school buses were widely photographed in the days after Hurricane Katrina and have become an icon of the city's devastated school system. School officials acknowledge the sale of the buses on the Internet auction site may puzzle some people used to more traditional school fundraisers like bake sales. "There's no shame in it. Not one bit," said school board president Phyllis Landrieu. "This is...

(CNSNews.com) -A conservative student group has been acquitted of a charge that it violated DePaul University's anti-harassment policy when it conducted a protest against affirmative action, the school announced Monday. However, the DePaul Conservative Alliance (DCA) was found guilty of violating the Code of Student Responsibility and censured. In January, the DCA held an "affirmative action bake sale" to mock affirmative action policies in higher education. The protests, which have occurred on other college and university campuses, involve white and Asian students being charged more for baked goods than blacks and Hispanics. The mock bake sales are designed to criticize...

MINNEAPOLIS - Schools that run bake sales and let teachers reward students with candy risk having more overweight pupils, a study in Minneapolis suggests. That offers some vindication to the schools across the country that have cracked down on cupcakes and cookies on campus. Lead author Martha Kubik, an associate professor at the University of Minnesota, acknowledged her research doesn't prove that such food practices contribute to adolescent obesity, but there does seem to be a connection. "I think we all have to step back and look at what we're doing to contribute to practices that might not support children...

A cupcake sale intended as a satirical jab at affirmative action has resulted in probation for the College Republicans at Grand Valley State University. The Student Organization Review Board notified the group Wednesday its March 21 "Affirmative Action Bake Sale" violated a university rule that requires financial transactions to be nondiscriminatory. During the sale, three members of the group -- who have resigned -- applied affirmative action principles to cupcake pricing. The students offered the treats for $2 for white men, 75 cents for blacks and white women, 50 cents for Asians and Hispanics, and 5 cents for American Indians....

The enemies of campus bake sales are at it again, inflaming one another over the dire threat of cupcakes and cookies sold at different prices to whites, minorities, and women. The sales are political parody, of course, poking fun at affirmative action policies and trying to get a debate going. Campus orthodoxy holds that such policies are sacred and that any dissent, even in the form of satirical cookie prices, is illegitimate and deserving of suppression. When members of a Republican club staged a bake sale March 21 at Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., several students said they...

College Republican leaders ousted over bake sale Thursday, April 07, 2005 By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood The Grand Rapids Press ALLENDALE -- Kyle Rausch started the day Monday as president of the Grand Valley State University College Republicans. By day's end, he had denounced the Republican party and was considering law school as an alternative to public office. "My political career is pretty much shot," said the 19-year-old political science major who spearheaded last month's controversial bake sale, sponsored by the College Republicans. Advertisement At the club's meeting Monday, Rausch, of Adrian, club vice president Paul Leitelt, and treasurer Matt Blondke were...

Tensions rose in front of the Memorial Union on Tuesday over an affirmative action bake sale that sold cookies at prices determined by the buyer's race. ASU's College Republicans set up the bake sale to protest affirmative action. It sold cookies, Zingers and Twinkies to white males for $1, to white women for 75 cents, to Asians and Pacific Islanders for $1.25, to black and Hispanic males for 50 cents and to black and Hispanic women for 25 cents. Jared Sandella, president of the club, said he knew some people wouldn't agree with the club's position, but both white and...

Offended students find GOP bake sale tasteless Friday, March 25, 2005 By Jennifer Ackerman-Haywood and Barton Deiters The Grand Rapids Press ALLENDALE --A white guy could buy a cupcake for $2 from the College Republicans' bake sale this week at Grand Valley State University. But prices dropped dramatically for other customers, based on race and gender. The student group was willing to let the sweet treats go for 75 cents to blacks and white women, while it charged Asians and Hispanics 50 cents. The price for American Indians? Just a nickel. The point, said organizer Kyle Rausch, was to challenge...

I think that the day of the young conservative has definitely arrived, especially in the Tarheel State, and that can spell certain panic for the leftists in North Carolina. Today, the College Republicans of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte held a "affirmative action bake sale", in which cookies were sold based on sex and race. For a white male, a cookie cost $5, whereas a black female paid $1.25. According to the president of the club, this was merely showing that labeling and filling a "quota", even after the civil rights movement, were still the norm. I firmly...

During an overheated speech before an adoring MoveOn crowd, Al Gore told a story perfectly calculated to laud the troops while lambasting the president. While "there was a high level of competence on the part of our soldiers," it was lamentable that "their families have to hold bake sales to buy discarded Kevlar vests to stuff into the floorboards of the Humvees! Bake sales for body armor." In the same vein, John Kerry assured Americans that "as president, I will see to it that we don't have to have bake sales...to supply the troops of the United States of America."...

If you click on the link, you will get the cached page. Here is the snippet of the article from The Observer. Half-Baked The two goals of a bake sale benefiting the left-wing grassroots organization MoveOn.org on the afternoon of April 17 were to "bake back the White House" (in other words, regime change) and to make it into the Guinness Book of World Records as the greatest bake sale ever. Three hours into it, a line was still stretching around the block from Teany, Moby’s vegan café on the Lower East Side, and by the time it was over,...

Bake Sale Bandits: On April 17 in Washington, in a humorous attempt to combat nationwide MoveOn.org bake sales in support of John Kerry, Kristinn Taylor of the D.C. chapter of Free Republic organized a different kind of bake sale. While MoveOn.org portrayed Kerry as a "man of the people," Taylor's "Viet Cong Vets for Kerry" sale informed the public about Kerry's betrayal of Americans during the Vietnam War. The group gave away items including Jane Fonda nut cakes and Kerry waffles. But Taylor's sale was short-lived since the small card table was situated outside of Kerry's national campaign headquarters. Kerry's...

Police told a group of conservatives affiliated with FreeRepublic.com to cease a mock bake sale they held in front of John Kerry’s D.C. campaign headquarters last weekend. The small, pro-Bush rally was held to counter MoveOn.org’s “Bake Back the White House” bake sale last weekend, which the liberal organization claims brought in $250,000 from 1,000 bake sales around the country. The proceeds will help fund anti-Bush ads. Kristinn Taylor, who helped organize the FreeRepublic gathering, said since the law prohibits a group like MoveOn from “co-ordinating” with the Kerry effort, it couldn’t hold a bake sale in front of headquarters....

For one campus organization, an April 25 march on Washington, D.C. is a way for their voices to be heard about women’s rights issues. The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance has been raising money this semester to attend the March for Women’s Lives. The group has sponsored bake sales where they’ve sold baked goods and vagina suckers, and also buttons with sayings like “feminist,” and “until the violence stops.” The group will also be raising money during a garage sale on Saturday at 207 South 30th Ave. from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. The group has so far raised enough money...

Go to MoveOn.org and locate the Bake Sale uin your town. Call your town clerk and see if they have turned in the applicable taxes on their sales. Ditto for the state. MOveOn may be federally tax exempt (don't know), but it sure as hell isn't exempt from state and local taxes. Now there people claim that the rich aren't paying their fare share of taxes, so here's the issue, did they pay ANY TAX on this weekend's sales? Gorment hypocrites, blue ribbon phoneys.

San Francisco-AP -- The Democratic-leaning, Internet-based political group MoveOn has gone very low-tech to raise funds. MoveOn says it has held at least one-thousand bake sales across the U-S. The funds will be used to fund efforts to defeat President Bush. Treats for sale included "Beat Bush Brownies" and "No CARB Meringues" -- that's "CARB" as in "Cheney, Ashcroft, Rumsfeld, Bush." An activist in California served "Bush Im-peach-ment Pie" and "Karamels for Kerry." A MoveOn spokesman says "Bake Back the White House" was a way to engage people who have signed an online petitions "but haven't done anything in their...

The DC Chapter of Free Republic set up a Viet-Cong Vets for Kerry bake sale in front of Democrat Presidential candidate John Kerry's national headquarters in Washington DC this afternoon. The Kerry campaign responded by calling the D.C. police to shut down the bake sale. When the D.C. police arrived they ordered the DC Chapter to shut down the protest in 15 minutes or they would ticket them for occupying a public space without a permit. At that point the police would then disperse them themselves. Due to the short notice, and the fact that it would be a small...

The D.C. Chapter of Free Republic invites all FReepers and lurkers in good standing to join us this Saturday for our Viet Cong Vets for Kerry bake sale outside Democrat presidential candidate John Kerry's national campaign headquarters.As a spoof of MoveOnPac's nationwide Kerry bake sales being held on Saturday to 'prove John Kerry is a man of the people,' the D.C. Chapter will be holding our own bake sale to inform the public about Kerry's betrayal of his fellow American servicemen during the Vietnam War.Items being offered at the Viet Cong Vets for Kerry bake sale will include: Three Scratches...