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  • Bill to name state pancake is toast (Montana, huckleberries)

    02/13/2009 9:26:14 PM PST · by This_far · 16 replies · 2,022+ views
    HELENA - The oft-ridiculed bill to create a state pancake is no more, as a Senate committee voted late Thursday to kill it. [There's' more at the link, but how much is needed (unless you want to read about Huckleberry pancakes) ]
  • Caption the Obamas having breakfast

    11/17/2008 5:40:24 AM PST · by redstates4ever · 48 replies · 1,571+ views
    Me ^ | 11/17/08 | Me
  • Obama Stumbles in Minnesota, orders 'stack of pancakes to go'

    08/10/2008 12:28:20 AM PDT · by F15Eagle · 36 replies · 222+ views
    Fox News ^ | 8/9/2008 | Fox News
    http://www.foxnews.com/video/index.html?playerId=videolandingpage&streamingFormat=FLASH&referralObject=3012960&referralPlaylistId=playlist
  • Obama chats with voters at local pancake house (MN)

    08/07/2008 7:25:53 PM PDT · by ButThreeLeftsDo · 39 replies · 100+ views
    KARE11.com ^ | 8/7/08 | KARE11.com/AP
    Fresh off a big-buck fundraiser in Minneapolis, Democrat Barack Obama dropped in on a humble St. Paul pancake house Thursday to chat with diners about their concerns. The presidential contender spent more than 40 minutes making his way from table to table at the Copper Dome Restaurant, shaking hands and even picking up a baby as photographers, videographers and reporters crammed between diners to follow his every move. "This seems like a pretty good spot. This is where the happening people meet," Obama said shortly after walking into the restaurant, a neighborhood fixture. Word of Obama's visit spread quickly and...
  • A Brief History of Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day)

    02/03/2008 7:17:05 PM PST · by Salvation · 34 replies · 403+ views
    A Brief History of Shrove Tuesday (Pancake Day) For centuries, the English have celebratd Shrove Tuesday, the day before Lent, with merriment and antics and, especially, great quantities of pancakes. In fact, the fried flat cakes became so important to the holiday that is has also been called Pancake Day, or Pancake Tuesday.Long ago, strict Christian Lenten rules prohibited the eating of all dairy products, so keen housewives made pancakes to use up their supplies of eggs, milk, butter and other fats. They could be easily made and cooked in a skillet or on a griddle. Families ate stacks...
  • Play About [Rachel Corrie] Coming to Madison (Life in a Sanctuary City)

    02/28/2008 12:57:56 PM PST · by Diana in Wisconsin · 63 replies · 200+ views
    Madistan.com ^ | February 28, 2008 | Samara Kalk Derby
    "My Name Is Rachel Corrie," a play about the 23-year-old college student and human rights activist who was killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza while defending a Palestinian home from demolition five years ago, has been staged in so many places around the world that her parents can't keep track. It debuted at the Royal Court Theatre in London in April 2005. Since then, it's been staged in Peru, Sweden, Norway, Italy, Greece and Canada. Soon it will be seen in Argentina, Africa, Spain, France and Australia. "There are plans for it on all the continents with the...
  • Not looking? USD drops well below 74

    02/28/2008 8:07:18 AM PST · by Heartlander2 · 198 replies · 381+ views
    At 73.81 at time of posting - representing huge drop.
  • Great Britain: Top Lakeland restaurant serves up Peking duck-style squirrel pancakes

    10/16/2007 11:10:07 AM PDT · by Stoat · 19 replies · 361+ views
    The Daily Mail (U.K.) ^ | October 16, 2007
    Top Lakeland restaurant serves up Peking duck-style squirrel pancakesLast updated at 14:41pm on 16th October 2007 Nuts: Grey Squirrel is served in canapes A top restaurant is serving up free grey squirrel pancakes to hungry diners.  Peking duck-style squirrel wraps are being offered to diners at The Famous Wild Boar Hotel. The restaurant at Crook, near Windermere, in Cumbria, is giving diners the chance to try the canapes free of charge. The grey squirrels were caught in the hotel's 72-acre woodland grounds and have been prepared by head chef Marc Sanders. Hotel general manager Andy Lemm said: "Although we do...
  • IS HOSPITAL A LEGITIMATE TARGET? (Croat-Muslim war in Mostar, Bosnia)

    10/09/2007 6:01:35 PM PDT · by joan · 14 replies · 460+ views
    Sense News Agency ^ | October 3, 2007
    A member of the Spanish Battalion in the UN peace-keeping force testifies about the Croat-Muslim conflict in Mostar at the trial of former Bosnian Croat leaders. One of the questions for him was: is a hospital surrounded by enemy mortar positions a legitimate target?At the trial of former Herceg Bosna leaders, the prosecution called yet another member of the Spanish Battalion, who testified under a pseudonym and with image distortion about the Croat-Muslim conflict in Mostar. In the examination-in-chief, he confirmed a number of reports filed by the Spanish Battalion about the shelling, sniping and humanitarian situation in East Mostar....
  • The ***OFFICIAL*** Weekend Singles'Thread-Shrove Tuesday/Pancake Day(February 16th - 18th, 2007)

    02/16/2007 4:15:48 PM PST · by snugs · 197 replies · 1,347+ views
    http://www.recipezaar.com/172501 ^ | 16th February 2007 | Snugs
    Shrove Tuesday is the term used in United Kingdom,, Ireland, and Australia to refer to the day after Collop Monday and before Ash Wednesday (the liturgical season of Lent begins on Ash Wednesday). In these countries, this day is also known as Pancake Day, because it is customary to eat pancakes on this day. The reason that pancakes are associated with the day preceding Lent is that it was the start of the traditional 40 days of Lent liturgical fasting, during which only the plainest foodstuffs were eaten. Therefore, rich ingredients such as eggs, milk, sugar and flour are disposed...
  • Church hosts 'porn and pancakes' event

    01/27/2007 4:56:13 AM PST · by martin_fierro · 23 replies · 544+ views
    AP/Yahoo ^ | Fri Jan 26, 11:08 PM ET
    Church hosts 'porn and pancakes' event Fri Jan 26, 11:08 PM ET ONTARIO, N.Y. - It's not your typical church breakfast. An event billed as "Porn and Pancakes" is being hosted by a church in rural upstate New York. The breakfast discussion on the pornography industry in America is planned next month at the Living Word Assembly of God Church in the town of Ontario, about ten miles east of Rochester. A billboard advertisement near the church shows the words "Porn and Pancakes" written in syrup on a stack of flapjacks. Organizers told a Rochester TV station that the event...
  • IHOP loses bid to get drop on deadbeats (Pancake house asked patrons to leave license)

    11/30/2006 9:40:01 PM PST · by raccoonradio · 6 replies · 365+ views
    Boston Herald ^ | 12/1/06 | Howie Carr
    So the Quincy IHOP drivers-license pancake-bandit fiasco is now over. Tonight, after last call, you can weave your way down the Burgin Parkway right by the Star Market. You can stagger into the IHOP and order (although your physician would certainly advise against it) a Rooty Tooty Fresh Fruity without having to fork over your ID to a mall-cop wannabe lurking menacingly at the front door. The IHOP buttermilk-burglar manhunt is off, ocean-frank, finito. IHOP corporate management has apologized to all concerned, although they are no doubt relieved they don’t have a Denny’s situation on their hands. At the Quincy...
  • New in Gaza: Priest, nun human shields [PUKE!]

    11/22/2006 6:28:57 AM PST · by Alouette · 45 replies · 682+ views
    YNet ^ | Nov. 22, 2006 | Ali Waked
    New in Gaza: Priest, nun human shields Priest, nun from Michigan join dozens of Palestinians gathered at Gaza houses in effort to prevent bombing, say ‘If Israel claims family member involved in violence, arrest them, don’t’ destroy home populated by entire family’ Ali Waked Published: 11.22.06, 16:17 For the past two months, the IDF has been called activists and their family members in Gaza to warn them of their intent on bombing their homes. Palestinians have found away to prevent the bombings; dozens, even hundreds, gather at the homes of those wanted, thereby thwarting the destruction. In recent days, Father...
  • Rabbitt takes Assembly Seat

    11/09/2006 12:02:31 PM PST · by rightinthemiddle · 10 replies · 422+ views
    Times Herald-Record ^ | November 08, 2006 | By Mike Dawson
    Warwick ? Republican Annie Rabbitt easily won her second term to the 97th Assembly District, defeating Democrat Michael Paduch. Rabbitt won by a healthy margin of 3,237 votes. While Paduch won in Rockland County with 2,097 votes to Rabbitt's 1,932, it was Orange County that carried the one-term incumbent to victory, gaining 17,118 votes in Orange versus Paduch's tally of 13,716. Paduch conceded about 11:15 last night after the final tally.
  • Streisand shows what not to wear (stockings with rocks in them alert!)

    09/22/2006 7:12:41 AM PDT · by dubie · 100 replies · 3,893+ views
    Daily Mail ^ | 09/22/2006 | Daily Mail
    You would think that by the age of 64, most women would be self-conscious enough to ensure their choice of evening wear does not expose parts of the body which have...well dropped below standards. But no one seems to have shared this with legendary entertainer Barbra Streisand as she stepped out in this rather unflattering black dress at the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. Streisand seemed to forget what a photographer's flash can do to a black dress as she unwittingly revealed she had left the black bra tucked up in her drawer at home. But this was not...
  • ISM sending "human shields" to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah

    08/09/2006 8:10:54 PM PDT · by Candor7 · 40 replies · 1,056+ views
    Canada Free Press ^ | Wednesday, August 9, 2006 | Lee Kaplan
    ISM sending "human shields" to Lebanon to aid Hezbollah By Lee Kaplan Wednesday, August 9, 2006 Adam Shapiro, one of the founders of the International Solidarity Movement, has resurfaced after a long hiatus and has teamed up with Northern California ISM’s Leader, Paul LaRudee, to create a program for ISM "activists" to act as human shields for Hezbollah in Lebanon. The ISM has acted as human shields for Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the PFLP in the West Bank and Gaza for the last four years, according to Shapiro’s wife and ISM co-founder, Huwaida Arraf. LaRudee was recently caught by Israeli...
  • Controversial Mideast play to be performed in NY [Pancakes, anyone?]

    06/22/2006 5:21:04 PM PDT · by Alouette · 14 replies · 421+ views
    Reuters ^ | June 22, 2006 | Claudia Parsons
    NEW YORK (Reuters) - A play about an American human rights activist who died in the Gaza Strip opens in New York in October, six months after it was pulled from the schedule at another theater amid charges of censorship. "My Name is Rachel Corrie" is a one-woman show based on diaries and e-mails written by the 23-year-old U.S. human rights campaigner killed by an Israeli bulldozer on March 16, 2003, trying to prevent demolition of a Palestinian building. Producers Dena Hammerstein and Pam Pariseau said in a statement on Thursday the play would open at the off-Broadway Minetta Lane...
  • God warns of coastal storms, possible tsunami, Robertson says

    05/17/2006 4:05:08 PM PDT · by WestVirginiaRebel · 263 replies · 4,218+ views
    PilotOnline.com ^ | 05-17-06 | WestVirginiaRebel
    VIRGINIA BEACH-Religious broadcaster Pat Robertson is warning that, according to God, storms and possibly a tidal wave will pound America's coastline this year.
  • Alert: Man photographed trucks, tankers Nation's truckers asked to be on the lookout

    01/12/2006 7:44:46 PM PST · by prairiebreeze · 41 replies · 1,618+ views
    cnn.com ^ | January 12, 2006 | Kelli Arena and Jeanne Meserve
    WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Department of Homeland Security has tapped the nation's truckers to help find a man who has been seen taking photographs of tanker equipment. On three separate occasions, the man also asked truck drivers several questions about deliveries and operations, according to the Highway Information Sharing and Analysis Center. "The individual in question is also reported to have videotaped tank truck operations and deliveries as well as taken photographs of tanker equipment," states the "Be on the Lookout," or BOLO, alert. "Law enforcement has requested assistance in ascertaining the identity or whereabouts of the person in question."...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ December 28, 2005

    12/27/2005 7:55:54 PM PST · by Spotsy · 781 replies · 4,742+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! This is the final 2005 edition of Pancakes. Not to worry! The Canteen will be serving up plenty of Pancakes in the new year. Be sure to join us for new chefs with fresh and exciting recipes. No waffles Tomkow! Born on this Day 1856 Woodrow Wilson, U.S. President (1913-21). Woodrow Wilson, nicknamed the "schoolmaster in politics," is chiefly remembered for his...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ December 21, 2005

    12/20/2005 8:04:14 PM PST · by Spotsy · 890 replies · 4,878+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends!To those of you serving far from home during this holiday season: the FReeper Canteen is here to let you know that we hold you close in our thoughts and prayers. Enjoy the pancakes! Born on this Day 1118 Saint Thomas Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury (1162-70), the highest church position in England. King Henry II appointed Becket believing that he would be sympathetic...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ December 14, 2005

    12/13/2005 7:57:09 PM PST · by Spotsy · 909 replies · 5,041+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Good Morning Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Greetings from freezing cold Spotsyville. Brrrr!Pull up a chair and enjoy the hotcakes. Born on this Day 1896 James H. Doolittle a national hero who received the U.S. Congressional Medal of Honor for leading a carrier-based bomber attack on Tokyo, Japan in April 1942. The "Doolittle Raid" was the first attack on Japan by the U.S. in World War II, and...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ November 30, 2005

    11/29/2005 8:03:17 PM PST · by Spotsy · 697 replies · 4,208+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends!Be sure to hit the hyperlinks. We have links, lots of them! Born on this Day 1667 Jonathan Swift, Anglo-Irish writer; arguably the foremost prose satirist in the English language, although he is also well known for his poetry and essays. His masterpiece, Gulliver's Travels, a satire on human nature, was tremendously popular immediately after it was published. Poet Alexander Pope, a contemporary...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ November 23, 2005

    11/22/2005 8:03:33 PM PST · by Spotsy · 1,131 replies · 5,150+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Born on this Day 1804 Franklin Pierce, U.S. President (1853-57); judged by many to be a weak president for failing to take steps to avert the Civil War. Pierce's popularity in the North went down sharply after he came out in favor of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, repealing the Missouri Compromise and reopening the question of the expansion of slavery in the West....
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ November 16, 2005

    11/15/2005 7:54:56 PM PST · by Spotsy · 1,042 replies · 6,133+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Born on this Day 1873 William Christopher Handy, known as W.C., was an Alabama-born blues composer regarded by many as the "Father of the Blues." As a formally educated musician, Handy was able to notate his music for publication and hence, posterity. Handy distinguished himself with syncopated rhythms, a style unique to his music. On this Day in History 1832 Spanish conquistador...
  • Freeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ November 9, 2005

    11/08/2005 7:59:57 PM PST · by Spotsy · 1,127 replies · 5,749+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends!Be sure to visit the links. We have links - lots of them! Born on this Day 1913 Hedy Lamarr, Austrian-born actress often cast as the glamorous seductress. Lamarr was also a communications innovator; she co-invented the first form of spread spectrum, a key to modern wireless communication On this Day in History 1906 Theodore Roosevelt departed for Panama to see the progress...
  • Snatching at Defeat...

    11/07/2005 8:13:11 PM PST · by Venator · 12 replies · 446+ views
    With the sure hand for snatching at defeat we’ve seen working ever since George W. Bush long ago alluded to all the accrued political capital he was going to spend on Social Security reform, the behind-the-scenes political savants of the Bush White House this Sunday gave the Times a story, which undoubtedly brought a smile to the face of every one of the president’s and the administration’s adversaries from Berkeley to Babylon. All members of the Presidential staff members are going to be required this week to attend “refresher lectures” on ethics and the handling of classified material. What could...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ November 2, 2005

    11/01/2005 8:03:17 PM PST · by Spotsy · 1,006 replies · 4,669+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Born on this Day 1795 James Knox Polk, Democrat U.S. President (1845-49); born in North Carolina, Polk lived most of his life and rose through the political ranks representing the state of Tennessee; to date, he is the only former Speaker of the House to become president 1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding, Republican U.S. President (1921-23); an Ohio-bred politician and former influential newspaper...
  • Rachel Corrie inspires another play

    11/01/2005 3:09:23 PM PST · by Alouette · 47 replies · 1,199+ views
    Jerusalem Post ^ | Nov. 1, 2005 | Nathan Burstein
    Rachel Corrie, the pro-Palestinian activist killed by an IDF bulldozer in March 2003, has achieved an afterlife on the stages of London. The Skies are Weeping, a classical music piece inspired by the American protester, will have its world premiere Tuesday night at the Hackney Empire theater, just three days after another production, My Name is Rachel Corrie, concludes its second run at the city's prestigious Royal Court Theatre. A protest registered with the Metropolitan Police will take place outside the premiere, with pro-Israel activists highlighting the "other Rachels," Israeli girls and women who died in suicide bombings during the...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ October 26, 2005

    10/25/2005 7:56:25 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 763 replies · 4,168+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! We have quite a birthday section today. Be sure to visit the links. We have links -- lots of them! Born on this Day 1879 Leon Trotsky Ukrainian-born Bolshevik revolutionary and Marxist theorist; founder and commander of the Soviet Red Army; following a power struggle with Joseph Stalin in the 1920s, Trotsky was expelled from the Communist Party, deported from the Soviet...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ October 19, 2005

    10/18/2005 8:02:02 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 1,011 replies · 4,547+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Born on this Day 1932 actor Robert Reed, best known as Mike Brady onThe Brady Bunch, died 1992 Born on this Day 1945 transvestite and actor Divine, born Harris Glenn Milstead, credits include Hairspray and Polyester, died 1988 Happy Birthday 1945 actor John Lithgow, credits include TV series "3rd Rock from the Sun" andTwilight Zone: The Movie Happy Birthday 1967 Amy Carter,...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ October 12, 2005

    10/11/2005 8:03:11 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 703 replies · 4,427+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends!It's Wednesday again and you know what that means: Tomkow still needs to take a bath? Well, yes, but it also means that it is Pancake time! Born on this Day 1935 Luciano Pavarotti, Italian tenor and legendary pancake eater Born on this Day 1947 Chris Wallace, "FOX News Sunday" Anchor, son of Mike Wallace of "60 Minutes" Born on this Day 1950...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ October 5, 2005

    10/04/2005 8:00:27 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 844 replies · 4,449+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Submitted for your approval: the First Pancakes of October. Where has the past year gone? Happy Wednesday! Born on this Day 1830 Chester A. Arthur, U.S. President 1881-85; sometimes called "Elegant Arthur" for his commitment to fashionable attire Born on this Day 1902 Ray Kroc, Chicago-born "Hamburger King," founder of the McDonald's Corporation The company began in 1940 with a restaurant opened...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ September 28, 2005

    09/27/2005 8:01:24 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 711 replies · 29,040+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Does anyone know how many shopping days are left until Christmas? Enjoy the pancakes and have a fantastic Wednesday! Born on this Day 1902 Ed Sullivan, emcee of popular television variety show 1950s-60s Born on this Day 1909 Al Capp, American cartoonist best known for his satiric comic strip Li'l Abner Happy Birthday 1967 Moon Unit Zappa, entertainer, daughter of Frank Zappa,...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ September 21, 2005

    09/20/2005 8:01:00 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 736 replies · 3,991+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Enjoy the pancakes and have a fantastic Wednesday. Born on this Day 1866 H. G. Wells, British writer best known for his science fiction novels The War of the Worlds and The Time Machine Born on this Day 1947 Stephen King, author of suspense novels including The Shining and Kujo Born on this Day 1950 Bill Murray, actor born in Wilmette, IL;...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ September 14, 2005

    09/13/2005 7:56:06 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 811 replies · 4,871+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends!Enjoy the pancakes and be sure to visit the links. We have links - lots of them! Born on this Day 1849 Ivan Pavlov, Russian physiologist and pioneer in psychology Happy Birthday 1959 Mary Crosby, actress and only daughter of Bing Crosby; best known for role of "Kristin," the scorned lover who shot J.R. on Dallas Died on this Day 1901 U.S. President...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ September 7, 2005

    09/06/2005 8:04:03 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 430 replies · 2,714+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ~Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends~ Born on this Day 1533 England's Queen Elizabeth I Born on this Day 1936 singer Buddy Holly Born on this Day 1950 author Peggy Noonan Noonan served as a speechwriter for U.S. presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. She coined the phrase "a kinder, gentler nation" and also popularized H.G. Well's "a thousand points of light," two memorable catchphrases used...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ August 31, 2005

    08/30/2005 8:04:33 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 785 replies · 7,340+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends!Thank goodness, the pancakes are back. No waffles for another year! Born on this Day 12 A.D. Roman Emperor Caligula; known for his extravagant, eccentric and sometimes cruel despotism, he was assassinated in 41 by several of his own guards Born on this Day 1924 Buddy Hackett, actor and comedian; film credits include The Music Man andIt's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ August 24, 2005

    08/23/2005 7:57:43 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 610 replies · 3,637+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Tomkow twisted the chef's arm and made all kinds of burka-related threats demanding that the Canteen celebrate National Waffle Day. Thank goodness this day only comes once a year! On this Day 1869 Cornelius Swarthout of Troy, New York patented his invention -- the waffle iron Born on this Day 1905 Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup, delta blues singer and guitarist; best known...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ August 17, 2005

    08/16/2005 8:00:08 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 1,091 replies · 6,795+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Enjoy the pancakes and have a wonderful Wednesday. Born on this Day 1786 Davy Crockett, American folk hero; frontiersman, adventurer, and politician; represented his home state of Tennessee in the U.S. Congress; Crockett died at the Alamo in 1836 Happy Birthday 1920 Maureen O'Hara, actress; born in Dublin, Ireland;film credits include Miracle on 34th Street andThe Wings of Eagles costarring John Wayne...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ August 10, 2005

    08/09/2005 8:02:06 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 1,253 replies · 6,458+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Batter up! Pancake batter, that is. Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! Catch some pancakes and have a wonderful Wednesday. Born on this Day 1874 Hebert Clark Hoover, U.S. President (1929-33); born in West Branch, Iowa; successful mining engineer and humanitarian; unfairly blamed for the Great Depression Born on this Day 1960 Antonio Banderas, Spanish born actor and singer; film credits include Evita and Desperado On this Day...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ August 3, 2005

    08/02/2005 7:57:58 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 748 replies · 4,077+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies, and FRiends! It's good to be back! Thank you Star, MoJo, Kathy and the Canteen Crew for taking care of the pancakes on such short notice. Beautiful job! Your intros had me laughing so hard, I nearly broke the new computer. Extra syrup and butter for you! Born on this Day 1900 Ernie Pyle, war correspondentInstead of the movements of armies or the activities...
  • Communism and human nature (Bolshie Mod sez, Arise ye kittens of the earth!)

    04/05/2005 10:50:57 AM PDT · by Sammy sam · 153 replies · 7,883+ views
    Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...
  • UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses

    07/16/2005 6:52:29 AM PDT · by grundle · 40 replies · 2,057+ views
    Yahoo! ^ | Jul 14 2005 | Aoife White
    http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/cmp/20050715/tc_cmp/165702500 UN Panel: No Single Nation Should Control Internet Addresses Aoife White Thu Jul 14, 9:38 PM ET BRUSSELS, Belgium (AP)--A U.N. panel created to recommend how the Internet should be run in the future has failed to reach consensus but did agree that no single country should dominate. The United States stated two weeks ago that it intended to maintain control over the computers that serve as the Internet's principal traffic cops. In a report released Thursday, the U.N. panel outlined four possible options for the future of Internet governance for world leaders to consider at a November "Information...
  • Red Alert... list of Left groups plan to surround the Whitehouse on Sept 24th

    07/14/2005 12:53:28 PM PDT · by Thunder90 · 127 replies · 7,952+ views
    Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ July 13, 2005

    07/12/2005 7:54:53 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 794 replies · 4,100+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends! Today is Wednesday, July 13 2005. The chef checked three times. I'm also happy to report that the White House officially pardoned the chef for getting the date wrong last week and missing President Bush's birthday. However, the chef's name is now off of the short list for Supreme Court nominations. Could be worse -- like spending a day with the White...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ July 6, 2005

    07/05/2005 8:09:20 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 577 replies · 3,693+ views
    Guest Chef spotsy
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! ATTENTION:The Chef apologizes in advance for getting the date for Pancakes wrong. Please feel free to post many jokes about stale flapjacks and inability to count: Monday, July 4; Tuesday, July 5; Wednesday, July 6! The person who ridicules me with the greatest wit and originality will win an extra stack of pancakes. Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends!Good Morning and Happy Wednesday. Born on this Day 1794...
  • Mark Steyn: Vacationing in Someone Else's Despair – My Name Is Rachel Corrie

    06/29/2005 2:54:52 PM PDT · by quidnunc · 105 replies · 5,285+ views
    The New Criterion ^ | June 2005 | Mark Steyn
    The West End of the 1980s was nobody’s idea of a belle epoque but it nevertheless had its own insane panache. The hits, from Cats to Miss Saigon, were routinely dismissed as crowd-pleasing pap, though there seemed nothing obviously crowd-pleasing about T S Eliot’s poems or Madam Butterfly moved to the Vietnam war or any of the other source material for the big blockbusters. By contrast, the Broadway flops of the period were all based on can’t-fail crowd-pleasers which turned out to please nobody. It feels different now. Walking around Shaftesbury Avenue for the first time in over a year,...
  • FReeper Canteen ~ Pancakes on Wednesday ~ June 22, 2005

    06/21/2005 8:03:13 PM PDT · by Spotsy · 862 replies · 5,535+ views
    Guest Chef Spotsybelle
    For the freedom you enjoyed yesterday... Thank the Veterans who served in The United States Armed Forces. Looking forward to tomorrow's freedom? Support The United States Armed Forces Today! Welcome Troops, Veterans, Military Families, Allies and FRiends!Good Morning and Happy Wednesday. Born on this Day 1903 John Dillinger, notorious Depression-era bank robber; a criminal who some regarded as a Robin Hood-like hero; shot dead by the FBI July 1934 behind the Biograph Theater in Chicago Born on this Day 1947 Don Henley, drummer/guitarist/singer with the Eagles and as a successful solo artist; hits include "The End of the Innocence,"...
  • Fallen activist's father raises funds to rebuild Palestinian homes (St. Rachel of Pancakes)

    06/20/2005 3:08:21 PM PDT · by A Balrog of Morgoth · 17 replies · 902+ views
    Seattle Post and Intellegencer ^ | 20 Jun 05 | KERY MURAKAMI
    On Father's Day, Craig Corrie sought justice for his daughter. Not the American brand of eye-for-an-eye justice, he said, but one inspired by the South African anti-apartheid leader Rev. Desmond Tutu. Last night at the Friends Service Committee meeting hall in Seattle's University District, Corrie stood before about 50 people who'd come to hear more about the cause his daughter Rachel Corrie died for in March 2003. Rachel Corrie, 23, had been acting as a human shield to prevent the Israeli army from knocking down the home of a Palestinian family in the Gaza Strip when she was run over...