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Today is National Donut Day. When is National Cheesesteak day?

On Memorial Day we pause to acknowledge those who made the ultimate sacrifice protecting and defending our country.

Every fallen veteran had a family that made a sacrifice too. The empty seat at the table.

May God bless them all.

Good time to be listening to Philly’s Best WDAS.

I ran into a really fun (for me anyway) place to go if you like those E-Trade baby commercials. The E-Trade website has all the commercials and some outtakes all but a click away. All on a single screen. For a pick-me-up, click HERE.

They have a page where you can send an E*Trade BabyMail which is also cool.

Good news for the Tasty Baking Company and TastyKake lovers all over this land. Three months ago the company was facing bankruptcy. Late on their mortgage payment and $133 million in debt. The state of Pennsylvania loaned them about $40 million in one way or the other just to keep them going until a buyer could be found.

They found one. Flowers Foods, Thomasville, Georgia, bought the company for $4 a share. More than double what it was worth yesterday, and more than three dollars lower than the $7.73 per share high in the trailing 12 months. Too bad you didn’t buy any shares at the end of last month when it was at the low of $1.58. But at $4 now, it’s still a good buy now that they gain the distribution system of Flowers.

It looks like a good purchase. Flowers gains a popular and quality snack food line, and has the distribution system in the South that Tasty Baking Co. lacked. And Flowers picks up a northeast distribution system that they lacked.

Hopefully soon, I’ll be able to get my TastyKakes from the local Flowers distributor instead of having them shipped to me from Philadelphia. A three-week ordeal.

As a TastyKake lover myself, here’s hoping it all works out. Under the right management, it seems like a sure thing.

Link:  Tastykake sale: Plants stay open; buyer to repay PA

A South Carolina man who twice pleaded guilty to having sex with a horse (the same horse) has been released from prison after 16 months and ordered to stay away from the stable where the animal lives.

It is not clear whether Vereen has to stay 1000 feet from barns, race tracks, and State and County Fairs.

Probation officials said Monday that Rodell Vereen, 51, was let out of prison March 1. He must continue to register as a sex offender.

I want to share with you a website that is centered around teaching your child, and teaching mothers how to teach their children. I know, it’s a far cry from the political food that is usually on the menu, but it’s no secret how important education, and educating children, is today. Especially when you look at teachers unions and Madison, Wisconsin.  Ahh, there’s the connection.

So if this post just torques the NEA, then it becomes a two-fer.

The website is called The Mommy Teacher. This is a resource that young, new parents should not miss.

A brief movie matinee.

1. A John Boy and Billy video. If animals could talk.
2. Here’s a ‘striptease’ video. You’ll have to keep hitting the ‘play’ button to finish it. Really. But I’d rate it PG.
3. And a little Red State Update.  There’s a couple F-bombs in this one. You’ve been warned. Jackie and Dunlap on the crisis in Japan, the NPR footage, and, what the hell, a little Charlie Sheen.

Man – I love it when a plan comes together!