"Since 2002, no other cases of paternally inherited mtDNA have been reported in humans, despite several research groups actively looking. But a paper in this week’s PNAS reports mtDNA inherited from both parents in 17 different people from three families. This kind of inheritance is still extremely rare and seems potentially linked to mitochondrial disease, but the robust confirmation of it in humans is huge news for biology and medicine." Something new has been added. Although, please note that the cases that have been found have been because of mitochondrial diseases. (Grokked from John)
"In an interview with the Washington Post, Trump cited his own 'high levels of intelligence' when asked why he was skeptical of the report, which was prepared with the input of 13 different federal agencies and 300 scientists. 'One of the problems that a lot of people like myself — we have very high levels of intelligence, but we’re not necessarily such believers,' Trump said… The full, rambling, hardly-coherent digression that followed has to be read to be believed…" In the next revision of the dictionary, for the Dunning–Kruger Effect they'll just have a picture of Trump. Which really isn't true, because for Dunning-Kruger you have to have some intelligence, just not a lot. Our president has none. (Grokked from Joy Reid)
"The total figures are inconceivably large. From 1998 to 2015, the Pentagon made at least $21 trillion worth of unaccountable transactions (some of these were on the positive side of the ledger) -- five times the annual US GDP!" And yet the party who always shouts that we have to root out fraud an inefficiency is also hellbent on just increasing the Pentagon's budget and not increasing budgetary controls. (Grokked from Xeni Jardin)
"President Donald Trump arrives here for a G20 summit Thursday with Chinese President Xi Jinping — and their eye-for-an-eye trade dispute — at the top of his dance card, a scheduled talk with Russian President Vladimir Putin below it and a possible encounter with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman not yet penciled in… Most of the action will occur on the sidelines of the official meetings in this European-style capital city that features narrow brick roads, Spanish and Parisian architecture, and cafes on nearly every street corner." I hope the administration remembered to book a room for the president this year.
"President Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto signed the new U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement — or USMCA — in Buenos Aires Friday, using the backdrop of the G-20 Summit to resolve a trade dispute between America and its closest neighbors." I wonder if he knows he needs to get the Senate to ratify it?
"With President Trump — who has spent much of the week defiantly defending his zero-tolerance immigration policies, angry over his coverage in the news media and insistent on the innocence of his incarcerated former campaign hands — it has been abundantly clear that not even the frothiest of White House holiday events would be carried off without an icy airing of Festivus-like grievances." Petulant is the word you're searching for.
"Trump’s anger over the Mueller investigation — and his compulsion to publicly declare his innocence — threatens to overshadow the Argentina trip, which will feature several important policy-related events, including a Friday morning signing of a new trade deal between the United States, Canada and Mexico."
"Felix Sater, a Russian-born businessman and associate of President Donald Trump, confirmed Friday that the Trump Organization was pursuing a deal with a sanctioned Russian bank at the height of the 2016 election." Whelp, there's another crime. We'll just add it to the pile, shall we? (Grokked from Matt Staggs)
"President Donald Trump told special counsel Robert Mueller in writing that Roger Stone did not tell him about WikiLeaks, nor was he told about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting between his son, campaign officials and a Russian lawyer promising dirt on Hillary Clinton, according to two sources familiar with the matter… According to many lawyers who have experience in cases such as this, adding the caveat that he has no recollection, as the President apparently did with these written answers to Mueller, is standard procedure as a way to try to shield a client should their recollections be challenged."
"Escalating his attacks on the special counsel investigation, President Trump said on Wednesday that a presidential pardon for his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort is 'not off the table,' casting him and other subjects of the inquiry as victims of prosecutorial abuse." And here we begin to see the latest public defense, that Mueller is pressuring people to lie and accuse other of Trump's associates with crimes. And that it's the people who refused to bend who are being prosecuted.
"President Trump on Wednesday defended sharing an image on Twitter showing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein along with Trump critics behind bars."
"Right-wing author and conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi said on Thursday that he intends to file 'criminal charges' against special counsel Robert Mueller." Conservatives are so cute when they're so dumb. Considering this fuckwhit doesn't know the difference between complaint and charges, or even civil versus criminal (note, a civilian can not file "criminal charges" against someone) I'mma going to go with the concept that he doesn't know WTF he's talking about and can't tell shit from shingle. But also, just to be clear, what this fucktard is expressing is exactly what criminals say when they're dealing with honest police officers.
But then, "Right-wing conspiracy theorist and Donald Trump ally Jerome Corsi wants you to believe that God, not Julian Assange or any other human source, provided him with foreknowledge about WikiLeaks’ plans to publish emails hacked from the Clinton campaign in the weeks leading up to the 2016 presidential election." So, take into account his inability to make coherent statements. Plus there's also this, "If Stone passed along Corsi’s information to Trump during that conversation or at another time, that could directly involve the president in a criminal conspiracy meant to swing the election in his favor." Of which Corsi would be a part of that criminal conspiracy. Also note the president has gone from "completely never did that," to "by his recollection he never…".
"President Trump on Friday defended his pursuit of a real estate project in Russia at the same time he was securing the Republican presidential nomination in 2016, saying it was 'very legal & very cool.'" Remember when the president said (both in the election and afterward) that he never tried to build a hotel in Russia, didn't know anyone there, and so didn't have any connection to Russia? Good times.
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