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His administration also severely cut the USDA budget for the subsidized school lunch program and classified ketchup as a vegetable in an effort to reduce costs.

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Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Michelle Obama was right but missed the mark in her methods.   Plastic empty tray Before you start reading, I am fairly conservative and a Ronald Reagan fan.  I consider him to the be the best president in the 50 years I have been on this planet.  If this offends you, I suggest you stop reading now.  In preparing for this article, I read a few articles on the lobbies that tried to have ketchup…

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As local punk scenes started to gel across the country in the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan ascended to power as president.  While contemporary conservatives fawn over him today, many punk kids at the time perceived him as scary and mean, projecting a surface image much like the celebrities he admired (he invited Michael Jackson to the White House in 1984, not just because Jackson was a celebrity with a certain brand but also because he saved the music industry in 1983 by reinvigorating record sales and the bottom line).  Reagan exuded celebrity himself: from his days as a movie actor in Hollywood to his time shilling for General Electric Theater on television.  When elected, some called him the Entertainer in Chief.

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Reagan’s meanness hit young people hard throughout his first term.  Most explicitly when it came to his huge tax cuts for the wealthy accompanied by an increase in military spending, all of which generated the need for cuts at home (and killing off any idea that the Republican Party worried about deficits).  This included slashing funds for school lunch programs and the declaration that “ketchup” could be deemed a “vegetable,” in order to make a thirty percent cut without scaring people about kids’ nutrition.  Facing criticism, Reagan, at first, figured the charge of caring more about the military than kids’ lunches came from bureaucrats in the Department of Agriculture who hoped to embarrass him (what the right today would call the “deep state”).  But it was actually just Reagan’s worldview, which favored the wealthy and the military over kids living in poverty.  At the same time the school lunch program crisis hit, Jello Biafra, lead singer of the Bay Area band Dead Kennedys, released a compilation album showcasing the proliferation of punk bands—and from places like Arizona and Texas as much as San Francisco and L.A.  Pondering titles, Biafra came up with Let Them Eat Jellybeans (jellybeans were purported to be Reagan’s favorite food).  It could just as easily been entitled Let Them Eat Ketchup.

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The Completely Unnecessary News Analysis

by Christopher Smart

Feb. 26, 2019

HILARIOUS LEGISLATION, SINNERS IN ZION

& TAX CUTS FOR STIFFS

Nobels For Trump & Kim

Spike Lee's in a snit but who cares, the Oscars are over. Now we can look forward to the next big awards show, the Nobel Peace Prize. The smart money is riding on that sporty North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and our jaunty president, Donald Trump. As Trump has said many times, he deserves the Nobel more than that Kenyan, Barack Obama. Look it, our president has single-handedly prevented a nuclear war with North Korea. We could be dead by now. That easily beats carpet bomber Henry Kissinger, Nixon's alter ego, who also is a Nobel laureate. It's only right that Trump and Kim should win the Nobel together because, well, because they love each other. In Trump's words: “He wrote me some very beautiful letters... I fell in love.” (We are not making this shit up.) Haircuts not withstanding, they do have a lot in common. As we speak, Trump and Kim are in Hanoi, the beautiful capital of Vietnam, to smoke the peace pipe. And the usually reserved Vietnamese people are absolutely gaga over the summit. According to CBS News, one barber there is giving away free Donald and Kim haircuts. Why this hasn't caught on here, we're not sure. One footnote: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Science is lobbying for Alec Baldwin to get a share of the Nobel for best supporting tyrant. It's much better than an Oscar.

Tax Cuts For Working-Class Stiffs

Speaking of great feats, it's time for everyday working Americans to begin enjoying their tax refunds. Oh yeah. The Republican overhaul of the tax code is really making a significant difference for some more than others. The beauty of the tax cuts is that they also apply to what some people call the investment class. (Wilson and the band just call them rich bastards — or RBs.) It's like this, Republicans have known since the time of Ronald “Ketchup Is a Vegetable” Reagan that if we give big tax breaks to the RBs, they, in turn, will take all that dough and invest it everywhere. It follows that all those investments will grow the economy and all the worker bees (Wilson calls them working-class stiffs — or WCSs) will get lots of money and everybody wins. Some economists say we're still waiting to see the trickle down from Reagan's time. But remember, Galileo and Darwin had their doubters, too. The downside, of course, is the trillion dollars the tax cuts added to our national debt. But that doesn't matter so much anymore. Republican leader Sen. Mitch McConnell and former House Speaker Paul Ryan — who has returned to working at McDonalds — have explained that it's no big deal. What's another trillion, anyway? And besides, the RBs aren't worried because the WCSs — or their grandchildren — will take care of it in due time.

Let Us Entertain You

This is the best time of year for many reasons. The days are getting longer. The Oscars are over. And the Utah Legislature is providing entertainment beyond our wildest dreams. For example, there is a legislative proposal to bring the most dangerous type of radioactive material to Tooele County. Is that funny, or what. Another bill would make it so we don't have to stop at red lights any more. It's the best idea since the legislation two years ago that did away with auto safety inspections. Another bill would make it legal for children to play outside without adult supervision — the “Free Range Kids” bill. That came as a surprised to the staff here at Smart Bomb. We had no idea it was illegal for children to play outside without an adult. Wilson says it reminds him of free-range chickens. But let's not go there. (Notice, we haven't said anything about medical marijuana or Medicaid expansion. That's just too hilarious). Legislators also are focusing on our deadly air pollution with a bunch of bills that would study pollution from cars, pollution from smoke stacks, pollution from cows and pollution from vaping high school kids. Wisely, legislators have been careful to avoid setting rigorous standards for industry, building construction or transportation. That would be too expensive — and, after all, people have to live.

Sinners Tarnish Utah's Rep

OK, this is serious. Utah is not the least sinful state in the nation. That's the word from Tribune columnist and all around bon vivant, Scott Pierce. If he wouldn't know about sin, who would. This has to be of great concern to the old boys in The Tower of Power, who must be preoccupied right now lobbying against sin at the Utah Legislature. And that's not to mention Brigham Young University that, year-in and year-out, holds the honor of most sober school anywhere. It's probably the most chaste, too, but BYU officials have refused to release that data from undercover campus police. It's just too bad the classifications weren't based on sex and drink. Utah could have, um, well, never mind. The rankings by the website WalletHub were based on scores for vanity, jealousy, lust, anger, hatred, greed and laziness — you got it, the Seven Deadly Sins. Vermont was ranked least sinful of the 50 states. Can you believe that — the home of Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Hah. Maine, North Dakota, Nebraska and Idaho (in that order) also beat out Utah for lacking sin. Well, of course, those states are practically empty. How can you have sin in a vacuum. Where did the Beehive State fall short. Was it lust. Was it greed. It couldn't have been vanity, could it? Nah. We're too special for that.

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And finally, here are this week's top stories from our “As Rome Burns” - file:

Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar ate a salad with a comb and ordered a staffer to clean it

Ivanka Trump endorses Nikki Haley's daughter for student body vice president at Clemson

Delta Air Lines apologizes for 'creepy' Diet Coke napkins, is removing them from flights

Utah County Still Home to Large Families with 6 Kids

Have Dark Forces Been Messing With the Cosmos? (We did not make this up.)

Well, that's it for another jaunty week here at Smart Bomb, where the staff keeps a close eye on the cosmos so you can adjust your feng shui as needed. OK Wilson, take us out with a little something for our cosmic well-being: Words are flowing out like endless rain into a paper cup / They slither while they pass, they slip away across the universe / Pools of sorrow waves of joy are drifting through my open mind / Possessing and caressing me... Jai Guru Deva, om / Nothing's gonna change my world / Nothing's gonna change my world...

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Democrats, protect the children!

Now that abortion is illegal for millions of women, let’s at least make sure that families get the help they need — ensure that they have good medical, emotional, and economic support so that can raise and nurture a child that they may have difficulty caring for. Let’s make sure these families  get decent housing in safe neighborhoods, good medical care, healthy food, access to good education, and effective supports to give them the best chance of happiness. 

Let’s invest heavily in this. When Ronald Reagan was president, he both called for an end to abortion and made up stories about “welfare queens,” who had kids just so they could collect more child support. His lies successfully led to the reduction of federal aid to help poor kids. (He even tried to declare ketchup a vegetable to reduce federal expenditures on school lunches.) He fought to bring children into this world without giving them a chance to live.

For now we are stuck with a terrible circumstance — that women are being forced to give birth — and until their basic rights are restored, we need to invest in struggling families so that their children can thrive. This will not only help the victims of the horrific ruling by the Supreme Court, it will further expose how the Republican leadership pushes a moral code as long as it doesn’t affect the  tax rates of their wealthy donors. 

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I learned something today (2010):

What is it about conservatives and their fear of vegetables? And how did those selfsame politicians who purport to be from “agriculture states” reconcile that fact with their bottomless hatred of all things that grow in the ground? Al Franken famously mused that Republicans have never forgiven liberals for “Freedom Riding, bra burning, pot smoking, free-loving, tree-hugging, draft-dodging, Woodstock-attending, Woodstock-overdosing, God not-fearing, and carrot cake. They’ve never forgiven us for carrot cake.” Some say this all started when President Ronald Reagan first embraced ketchup as a vegetable and culminated when George H.W. Bush famously banned suspicious greens from Air Force One by proclaiming, Sam-I-am-like, that: ”I do not like broccoli. And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m president of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli!”

By then, the lines in the national vegetable wars were clearly drawn. In 1988, Dan Quayle hoisted Michael Dukakis on the end of a Belgian endive, claiming that the former Massachusetts governor was an out-of-touch vegetable elitist. (Not only was Dukakis telling Iowa farmers to grow an obscure and leafy green, he was also subtly suggesting that foreign vegetables were better than domestic ones.) President Obama took yet more Republican heat in the summer of 2007 for suggesting that farmers in Iowa might have checked out the price of arugula. Arugula! They’re still reeling from that one over at Fox and Friends, where the word arugula is code for “violent Nazi-style total world dominion.”

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Consumers Seek Benefits From Food, a Personal Social Determinant of Health

As consumers in the U.S. wrestle with accessing and paying for medical benefits, there’s another sort of health benefit people increasingly understand, embrace, and consume: food-as-medicine.

More people are taking on the role of health consumers as they spend more out-of-pocket on medical care and insurance, and seeking food to bolster their health is part of this behavior change. One in four Americans seek health benefits from food, those who don’t still seek the opportunity to use food for weight loss goals, heart health and energy boosting, according to the 2019 Food & Health Survey from the International Food Information Council Foundation (IFIC).

Each year, IFIC polls U.S. consumers on their perspectives about food, behaviors and shopping trends. Over the 14 years that IFIC has supported this research, health and wellness have emerged as major themes coming out of the study. For this research, IFIC surveyed 1,012 U.S. adults between 18 and 80 years of age, polled in March and April 2019.

Topline, 53% of consumers said their health is excellent or very good: more people with higher incomes over $75K rate their health highly, versus only 31% of consumers with income under $35,000 a year. Similarly, in terms of socioeconomic status, 2/3 of college graduates rate their health excellent or very good versus 45% of people with less than a college degree.

The IFIC survey drew a bottom-line for health and nutrition relative to income: wealthier Americans report having a better diet compared with people earning lower incomes.

Americans’ top purchase drivers for food are taste well above all, followed by price, healthfulness and convenience. These latter three drivers rank fairly close together.

Overall, the majority of Americans say they are eating healthier today, changing their diets in several ways: limiting sugar intake, eating more fruits and vegetables, consuming less carbohydrates, taking in more protein, and choosing a healthier diet “in general” are the top approaches to changing diets in America.

Four in 10 people followed a “diet” or eating style in 2019. The most commonly cited one was “clean eating,” followed by intermittent fasting, gluten-free, low-carb, ketogenic or high-fact, a weight loss plan, or the Mediterranean diet. a plant-based diet was noted by 5% of people, the first year this eating style was polled by IFIC.

Losing weight is the top motivator for adopting a particular eating mode, noted by roughly 50% of consumers using a particular diet strategy,

There are some important trends to note over time when it comes to diet choices: 50% of Latino/Hispanic consumers said their diet is quite different in 2019 versus 35% of non-Hispanic white consumers. And, 55% of consumers with allergies also note a very different eating approach now versus a decade ago.

 Health Populi’s Hot Points:  Food is a key social determinant of health (SDoH), I point out in my book, HealthConsuming: From Health Consumer to Health Citizen. Here’s the graphic from the book with the long-time research finding that our socioeconomic status and health behaviors contribute much more to our overall health and life-span than medical services do.

IFIC’s 2019 survey results call out the direct relationship between wealth, food, and nutrition intake. The subtext in some of the data in the report detail how people of color and with lower levels of education consume less healthy food based on different metrics, whether accessing more fruits and vegetables, adopting plant-based diets, or taking on healthier eating styles in general.

The chapter in HealthConsuming covering the importance of food-as-medicine for health is titled, “ZIP Codes, Genetic Codes, Food and Health.” The same issues that under-lie deaths of despair — increasing mortality for Americans due to overdose, accidents and suicide — are those factors that also compromise poor nutrition. In public policy, we can certainly address food and nutrition as a standalone issue for, say school lunches — where last week, the USDA proposed to cut funding and re-define just what a healthy lunch is, a program First Lady Michelle Obama bolstered during her tenure in the White House.

The Wall Street Journal wrote about this as, “relaxing school lunch healthy eating rules.” The Washington Post was more colorful in its description, saying this policy change equaled, “More pizza, fewer vegetables,” as the Trump administration “further undercuts Obama school-lunch rules.”

Americans, particularly those earning lower incomes, are in a bind when it comes to accessing healthy food which, in certain neighborhoods and ZIP codes. Tactics like school lunch programs that improve childrens’ access to and information about healthy eating help make health in local communities.

This new USDA policy “prescription” reminds me of that proffered in President Reagan’s era when ketchup was considered a vegetable.  as Marion Nestle reminded us in this 2011 Atlantic essay.

But these programs magnify larger than “just” one school lunch for a single kid in a local school in a rural town. They can help kids and their families be healthier, more productive health citizens and workers in the larger national economy.

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Subsitized meals have to contain a specific amount of vegetables. During the tenure of president Reagan, this amout was replaced with a pizza, combined with two spoonful of ketchup. This because ketchup was considered as vegetables.

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Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Michelle Obama was right but missed the mark in her methods.   Plastic empty tray Before you start reading, I am fairly conservative and a Ronald Reagan fan.  I consider him to be the best president in the 50 years I have been on this planet.  If this offends you, I suggest you stop reading now.  In preparing for this article, I read a few articles on the lobbies that tried to have ketchup and…

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The completely unnecessary news analysis

by Christopher Smart

Aug. 11, 2020

COPS GET OFF, PROTESTERS GET PRISON

Let's say you got angry. Real angry. The cops had shot and killed a young man who was running from them. Then the District Attorney ruled the shooting “justified,” because the young man had a gun. Let's say you got so mad that you and 200 like-minded folks protested and you threw red paint on the street outside the D.A.'s office and then on the building itself to symbolize the blood of the dead young man. Then, let's say the D.A., who had been under a lot of pressure for how he would rule on the shooting, kinda lost it and charged you and six other protesters with first-degree felonies, punishable by up to life in prison. Let's say the world looked upside-down: cops were getting off after a killing and protesters were going to jail. Let's say you had to sell your house and spend any savings you had on attorney fees to get the charges reduced to a third-degree felony. Let's say you were branded as a felon and whenever you applied for a job or tried to rent housing you carried the scarlet “F” that pretty much screwed up your entire life. Let's say Salt Lake County District Attorney Sim Gill said that's justice. And let's say we then asked him, what the fuck, dude?

MAKEOVER: REAGAN AND TRUMP ON MOUNT RUSHMORE

Remember when Republicans deified Ronald Reagan and wanted his likeness on money, buildings, roadways and Mount Rushmore. Whatever happened to the Trickle Down Expressway and the Ketchup Is A Vegetable National Park? It's probably those damn Democrats who stood in the way on account of they were forever wounded when Cape Kennedy was returned to its original name, Cape Canaveral. Utahns were particularly enamored with Reagan and wanted to rename the Kennecott Copper Mine as The Ronald Reagan Pitt. But for reasons that aren't clear, Nancy Reagan didn't like the idea. Times change and now Donald Trump wants his due. He told South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem that he wanted his face on Mount Rushmore (we did not make this up). Recently, many of the thousands of Harley riders at the Sturgis (South Dakota) Motorcycle Rally wore T-shirts with Trump's likeness on Mount Rushmore between Teddy Roosevelt and Abe Lincoln above lettering: “In Trump We Trust.” The only problem is that there isn't much space between Teddy and Abe, so Trump's face is kinda squished so he looks like Marty Feldman who played the walleyed, hunchback Igor in the movie Young Frankenstein. It is what it is.

POOR PEOPLE DON'T NEED HEALTHCARE

There is nothing in the U.S. Constitution that says healthcare is a God-given right. That's among the reasons the Utah Legislature just cut $2.5 million for public health clinics that serve 13,000 uninsured low-income people. Bleeding-heart liberals are crying foul that those folks are left out in the cold while legislators have access to the best healthcare available. Maybe that' so, but those poor people chose to be poor, while our lawmakers chose to be righteous. After all, our legislative leaders have to balance the budget somehow in these troubled times — and after tax cuts, well what are you going to do? And don't start with that business about how Utah voters had to go it on their own to get Medicaid Expansion under the Affordable Care Act because Utah legislators refused to accept federal funding to underwrite healthcare for 150,000 low-income Utahns. Look, Republican lawmakers have their priorities and it's not supporting Marxism by providing healthcare to the Great Unwashed. We live under capitalism not socialism. If we give them healthcare, the next thing you know, they'll want affordable housing and education. Nowhere in the Constitution does it say that education is a guaranteed right. If poor people want those things, they should become rich. That's just how it works.

Post script — Well patriots, here we are in a limbo of boredom punctuated by periods  of white-knuckled fright. When some folks hear, “Black Lives Matter,” they freak out. “All lives matter,” they retort, as though someone was trying to steal something from them. “All lives matter,” they whine as if they, too, had suffered slavery and 400 years of systemic racism — only their predicament is somehow worse. “Blue lives matter,” they bark, grabbing up their guns and rushing out to protect police from protesters who want law enforcement to stop taking the lives of African Americans. Someone said that we have to go through these convulsions every 50 years to renew the blood supply to what eventually becomes anemic democracy. Talk about optimism. If you aren't so upbeat and feel a bit confused lately, you're not alone. Our stalwart and virtuous Congressman Chris Stewart is right there with you. “No one knows what is true anymore,” Stewart lamented as he straightened his tie and puckered up to embrace one of President Trump's 20,000 false or misleading claims since taking office on Jan. 20, 2017. “Our trust in the media has been destroyed because of their active deception,” Stewart declared. What a frowny-face. He apparently doesn't realize how swimmingly well things are going in Trumpworld: The economy is skyrocketing like never before. Covid-19 is disappearing faster than dinosaurs in a comet storm. And Beach Blanket Bingo is back. Unfortunately, Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello are nowhere to be found and people are dying (no pun intended) for some good news. So, here are some of the bright spots the staff here at Smart Bomb has identified: Joe Biden cannot hurt God. The NRA is doomed. Bill Barr was spotted riding a bicycle in a Speedo. (A spokesman for Barr said, not true, he never wears Speedos.) McDonald's fired its CEO and is suing him for have a sexual relationship with McRibs. And 103-year-old Dorothy Pollack from Muskegon, Mich., got her first tattoo — a green, spotted frog. Now if that doesn't bring a smile to your face, nothing will.

Alright Wilson, get the guys to put down the kumbacha and Pepto-Bismol and play us a little something to bring our spirits up. And please, — no belching or croaking:

Jeremiah was a bullfrog, he was good friend of mine I never understood a single word he said But I helped him drink his wine He always had some mighty fine wine, sing it Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea And joy to you and me And if I were the king of the world I tell you what I would do I'd throw away the cars and the bars in the world And I'd make sweet love to you, sing it now

Joy to the world, all the boys and girls now Joy to the fishes in the deep blue sea Joy to you and me

(Joy To The World - Hoyt Axton)

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Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Editorial: Pizza is not a vegetable, but you gotta make foods kids will eat.

Michelle Obama was right but missed the mark in her methods.   Plastic empty tray

Before you start reading, I am fairly conservative and a Ronald Reagan fan.  I consider him to be the best president in the 50 years I have been on this planet.  If this offends you, I suggest you stop reading now.  In preparing for this article, I read a few articles on the lobbies that tried to have ketchup and…