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July 22, 2019
Deli Owner "Free side when you say send her back!"
John Canesa, the owner of Canesa's Brooklyn Heros deli in Clayton, posted the comment to his personal Facebook page. "Meatballs made with beef today in case we offend any of our overly sensitive pork haters!! Free side when you say send her back! #canesasbrooklynheros," he wrote.
https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/clayton-canesas-brooklyn-heros-send-her-back-trump-14111966.php
Sara Zendenham, the KTVU reporter who broke the story, wrote on Twitter that she was in touch with Canesa on Saturday. She reported that Canesa said that he's a father of three and he's been dealing with threats since his Facebook post.
She said he sent her a link to a Facebook live he said he did addressing the controversy, but the link is no longer working. It seems that his personal Facebook page has been deactivated or made private.
July 22, 2019
"The only thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm"
Trump launches furious attack on Washington Post for new report about his racist tweet debacle: ‘Presidential harassment!’
https://www.rawstory.com/2019/07/trump-launches-furious-attack-on-washington-post-for-new-report-about-his-racist-tweet-debacle-presidential-harassment/
President Donald Trump launched yet another attack on the Washington Post on Sunday morning, accusing the paper of “Presidential harassment!” for reporting on the fall-out from his racist tweets and his equally racist rally in North Carolina.
Responding to the Post’s report that Kellyanne Conway was forced to tell the president that he had set off a firestorm last Sunday with his tweets attacking four Democratic lawmakers, the president pushed back using his old stand-by: “Fake News.”
“The Washington Post Story, about my speech in North Carolina and tweet, with its phony sources who do not exist, is Fake News. The only thing people were talking about is the record setting crowd and the tremendous enthusiasm, far greater than the Democrats. You’ll see in 2020!” he tweeted before adding, “Presidential Harassment!”
July 22, 2019
https://www.nhregister.com/metro/article/Historic-Door-Tree-in-Hamden-destroyed-14106420.php
HAMDEN — Vandals have destroyed a natural phenomenon in Hamden’s woods that had become an iconic landmark.
The “Door Tree,” named because one tree growing into another had made a doorway-like arch, was found Wednesday cut up and destroyed, according to the executive board of the Hamden Historical Society.
A supporter of the society contacted a board member Wednesday because they were concerned they couldn’t find the tree, the release said. When the board member went to visit the tree hours later, they found “the 150-year-old tree had been knocked down and cut into pieces with a chainsaw,” according to the release.
https://www.nhregister.com/metro/article/Historic-Door-Tree-in-Hamden-destroyed-14106420.php#photo-17876991
tree had been knocked down and cut into pieces with a chainsaw,” according to the release.
The society’s board doesn’t know exactly when the damage occurred.
“For many years it has been feared the tree would be the target of vandalism due to its remote location, in a small valley about fifty feet off New Road near Clark’s Pond,” the board said.
The Police Department and Regional Water Authority, which owns the land where the tree stood, have been notified and Mayor Curt B. Leng “expressed shock and anger when notified earlier today of the tree’s destruction,” the board said.
“Ted Norris, vice president of RWA Asset Management, has assured the historical society that RWA police, who work hand in hand with Hamden police, will investigate the destruction of the landmark and will aggressively seek to identify and prosecute those responsible,” the release said.
The tree was featured several times in Ripley’s “Believe it or Not,” and in Rachel Hartley’s “The History of Hamden Connecticut -1786-1959.”
historic tree cut down by vandals
https://twitter.com/gnuman1979/status/1153125481350389761https://www.nhregister.com/metro/article/Historic-Door-Tree-in-Hamden-destroyed-14106420.php
HAMDEN — Vandals have destroyed a natural phenomenon in Hamden’s woods that had become an iconic landmark.
The “Door Tree,” named because one tree growing into another had made a doorway-like arch, was found Wednesday cut up and destroyed, according to the executive board of the Hamden Historical Society.
A supporter of the society contacted a board member Wednesday because they were concerned they couldn’t find the tree, the release said. When the board member went to visit the tree hours later, they found “the 150-year-old tree had been knocked down and cut into pieces with a chainsaw,” according to the release.
https://www.nhregister.com/metro/article/Historic-Door-Tree-in-Hamden-destroyed-14106420.php#photo-17876991
tree had been knocked down and cut into pieces with a chainsaw,” according to the release.
The society’s board doesn’t know exactly when the damage occurred.
“For many years it has been feared the tree would be the target of vandalism due to its remote location, in a small valley about fifty feet off New Road near Clark’s Pond,” the board said.
The Police Department and Regional Water Authority, which owns the land where the tree stood, have been notified and Mayor Curt B. Leng “expressed shock and anger when notified earlier today of the tree’s destruction,” the board said.
“Ted Norris, vice president of RWA Asset Management, has assured the historical society that RWA police, who work hand in hand with Hamden police, will investigate the destruction of the landmark and will aggressively seek to identify and prosecute those responsible,” the release said.
The tree was featured several times in Ripley’s “Believe it or Not,” and in Rachel Hartley’s “The History of Hamden Connecticut -1786-1959.”
July 22, 2019
Lara Trump is a big fat liar like all Trumps. Implied "the chant" rose from the crowd
https://twitter.com/Doc_Holiday_B/status/1152600747588149249
July 21, 2019
For many years, I’ve steadfastly clung to a position for which there has been almost no evidence: Processed food is the root of obesity.
This doesn’t mean that processed food is the sole cause. There’s also the ubiquity of food, changing social mores and what is probably a more sedentary lifestyle (though evidence for that, too, is surprisingly hard to come by). It also doesn’t mean that all processed food is bad. Whole-grain bread and cereal are excellent, and there are good versions of such things as frozen pizza and jarred pasta sauce. Also wine.
What it does mean is that modern industrial food processing — and only modern industrial food processing — has enabled the manufacture of the cheap, convenient, calorie-dense foods engineered to appeal to us that have become staples of our obesogenic diet. By one estimate, nearly 60 percent of our calories come from ultra-processed food.
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Kevin Hall, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, brought subjects into the lab for four weeks and fed them one of two diets: ultra-processed or minimally processed, designed to have the same combination of carbs, fat and protein. The ultra-processed menus included store-bought mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, canned ravioli and frozen pancakes, while on the minimally processed side there was pasta with shrimp, salad with grilled chicken and grains, and oatmeal with nuts and bananas. Subjects were told to eat as much as they wanted. (Each subject spent two weeks on each diet.)
The result was that, when they ate ultra-processed food, they consumed 500 more calories per day. Five hundred! They also gained a couple of pounds. Notably, though, subjects rated the meals as equally good-tasting. So why the big increase?
“There are several potential hypotheses,” Hall told me. Top of his list? Calorie density. “There were about two calories per gram in the processed food,” excluding drinks, “and in the unprocessed it was closer to one.” People also ate the ultra-processed meals a lot faster. “It might be softer, easier to chew and swallow,” Hall said. And that could mean that satiety signals, which take time, don’t get to your brain until after you’ve overeaten.
How processed food makes us fat
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/how-processed-food-makes-us-fat/2019/07/17/2bf93a2c-a7ff-11e9-86dd-d7f0e60391e9_story.html?utm_term=.5c866bcfafc8For many years, I’ve steadfastly clung to a position for which there has been almost no evidence: Processed food is the root of obesity.
This doesn’t mean that processed food is the sole cause. There’s also the ubiquity of food, changing social mores and what is probably a more sedentary lifestyle (though evidence for that, too, is surprisingly hard to come by). It also doesn’t mean that all processed food is bad. Whole-grain bread and cereal are excellent, and there are good versions of such things as frozen pizza and jarred pasta sauce. Also wine.
What it does mean is that modern industrial food processing — and only modern industrial food processing — has enabled the manufacture of the cheap, convenient, calorie-dense foods engineered to appeal to us that have become staples of our obesogenic diet. By one estimate, nearly 60 percent of our calories come from ultra-processed food.
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Kevin Hall, a researcher at the National Institutes of Health, brought subjects into the lab for four weeks and fed them one of two diets: ultra-processed or minimally processed, designed to have the same combination of carbs, fat and protein. The ultra-processed menus included store-bought mac and cheese, chicken nuggets, canned ravioli and frozen pancakes, while on the minimally processed side there was pasta with shrimp, salad with grilled chicken and grains, and oatmeal with nuts and bananas. Subjects were told to eat as much as they wanted. (Each subject spent two weeks on each diet.)
The result was that, when they ate ultra-processed food, they consumed 500 more calories per day. Five hundred! They also gained a couple of pounds. Notably, though, subjects rated the meals as equally good-tasting. So why the big increase?
“There are several potential hypotheses,” Hall told me. Top of his list? Calorie density. “There were about two calories per gram in the processed food,” excluding drinks, “and in the unprocessed it was closer to one.” People also ate the ultra-processed meals a lot faster. “It might be softer, easier to chew and swallow,” Hall said. And that could mean that satiety signals, which take time, don’t get to your brain until after you’ve overeaten.
July 21, 2019
Ron Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, defended on Sunday Donald Trump's attacks on a group of minority freshmen lawmakers as something that would have been accepted in the 1960s.
Johnson is making reference to a tweet Trump sent this week telling people if they don't like America they are free to leave and go somewhere else.
'I would say in general the whole, 'America: love it or leave it' is not a new sentiment,' Johnson, who was born in 1955, told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday morning. 'You know, back in the '60s that wasn't considered racist.'
Trump's attacks toward a group of four freshmen representatives, who call themselves 'the squad,' gained more heat on Sunday when he told the minority women they should 'go back' and fix their countries of origin.
'Back in the 60s that wasn't considered racist': Republican senator defends Trump's attacks on minor
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7270047/Back-60s-wasnt-considered-racist-Senator-defends-Trumps-attacks-congresswomen.htmlRon Johnson, a Republican senator from Wisconsin, defended on Sunday Donald Trump's attacks on a group of minority freshmen lawmakers as something that would have been accepted in the 1960s.
Johnson is making reference to a tweet Trump sent this week telling people if they don't like America they are free to leave and go somewhere else.
'I would say in general the whole, 'America: love it or leave it' is not a new sentiment,' Johnson, who was born in 1955, told CNN's Dana Bash Sunday morning. 'You know, back in the '60s that wasn't considered racist.'
Trump's attacks toward a group of four freshmen representatives, who call themselves 'the squad,' gained more heat on Sunday when he told the minority women they should 'go back' and fix their countries of origin.
July 21, 2019
The same day U.S. officials released them from Border Patrol custody and sent them to Tijuana, Honduran migrant Jorman Armando Sánchez and his teenage daughter Seyly said they were going home.
In an interview at the migrant shelter at the Agape Misión Mundial church in Tijuana, Sánchez said he and his daughter left their home in the municipality of Villanueva, about 20 miles south of San Pedro Sula, because he couldn’t make a living harvesting corn and she couldn’t get a decent education. They crossed the U.S. border without authorization, were apprehended by Border Patrol and detained for nearly two weeks in Texas and California.
Sánchez sobbed as he recalled the shame and regret he experienced in detention.
In the crowded detention cells, Sánchez said, he shielded Seyly with a thin emergency blanket when she used the open toilet. When Seyly, who turned 13 in detention, got her period, agents gave her huge sanitary pads. She didn’t have access to showers or fresh clothing. The day officials released Seyly and her father, she wore a jacket tied around her waist to hide the bloodstains on her grey sweatpants
“I prefer to eat rice and beans in peace, with my children and my wife, over this tragedy,” Sánchez said. “For me, this was an enormous tragedy that will be difficult to get over.”
“In my 39 years, I’ve never experienced pain like this,” he said.
Two days after Sánchez and his daughter arrived at the shelter, they were gone.
Father and teen daughter weep.over her treatment in border detention
https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.desertsun.com/amp/1740988001The same day U.S. officials released them from Border Patrol custody and sent them to Tijuana, Honduran migrant Jorman Armando Sánchez and his teenage daughter Seyly said they were going home.
In an interview at the migrant shelter at the Agape Misión Mundial church in Tijuana, Sánchez said he and his daughter left their home in the municipality of Villanueva, about 20 miles south of San Pedro Sula, because he couldn’t make a living harvesting corn and she couldn’t get a decent education. They crossed the U.S. border without authorization, were apprehended by Border Patrol and detained for nearly two weeks in Texas and California.
Sánchez sobbed as he recalled the shame and regret he experienced in detention.
In the crowded detention cells, Sánchez said, he shielded Seyly with a thin emergency blanket when she used the open toilet. When Seyly, who turned 13 in detention, got her period, agents gave her huge sanitary pads. She didn’t have access to showers or fresh clothing. The day officials released Seyly and her father, she wore a jacket tied around her waist to hide the bloodstains on her grey sweatpants
“I prefer to eat rice and beans in peace, with my children and my wife, over this tragedy,” Sánchez said. “For me, this was an enormous tragedy that will be difficult to get over.”
“In my 39 years, I’ve never experienced pain like this,” he said.
Two days after Sánchez and his daughter arrived at the shelter, they were gone.
July 19, 2019
GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
The couple drove an hour and a half from Seaboard, North Carolina, for Wednesday’s campaign rally for President Donald Trump. They arrived early, setting up some lawn chairs in the shade of a tree as temperatures climbed toward 100 degrees outside Williams Arena.
“I think Muslims should be kicked out of the country because Sharia law is not conducive to the Constitution, period,” said Mark, a retiree in a camouflage “Trump 2020” baseball cap and a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “United States of America: Love It or Leave It.”
“I don’t hate them,” Nancy, a retired IBM programmer, said of Muslims. “I just think they should go back where they can be together and have their own country and their own religion.”
The Dawsons’ vision of mass deportation didn’t feel like much of a fringe position at Wednesday’s “Keep America Great” rally in Greenville. When the president took the stage, he reupped his call for four Democratic congresswomen of color, all four of whom are American, to “go back” to the countries they came from.
Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5d30529fe4b0419fd328b270GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
The couple drove an hour and a half from Seaboard, North Carolina, for Wednesday’s campaign rally for President Donald Trump. They arrived early, setting up some lawn chairs in the shade of a tree as temperatures climbed toward 100 degrees outside Williams Arena.
“I think Muslims should be kicked out of the country because Sharia law is not conducive to the Constitution, period,” said Mark, a retiree in a camouflage “Trump 2020” baseball cap and a T-shirt emblazoned with the words “United States of America: Love It or Leave It.”
“I don’t hate them,” Nancy, a retired IBM programmer, said of Muslims. “I just think they should go back where they can be together and have their own country and their own religion.”
The Dawsons’ vision of mass deportation didn’t feel like much of a fringe position at Wednesday’s “Keep America Great” rally in Greenville. When the president took the stage, he reupped his call for four Democratic congresswomen of color, all four of whom are American, to “go back” to the countries they came from.
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