Bullshitter-in-Chief

It's official: the DOJ declares that Covfefe is spewing out pure BS:



Somebody had a lot of fun writing this decision.

U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled Thursday that Trump's repeated characterizations of the dossier as "fake" or "discredited" could simply be his reaction to media accounts and may not reflect any interest in the subject by the U.S. government.

"None of the tweets inescapably lead to the inference that the President’s statements about the Dossier are rooted in information he received from the law enforcement and intelligence communities ... The President’s statements may very well be based on media reports or his own personal knowledge, or could simply be viewed as political statements intended to counter media accounts about the Russia investigation, rather than assertions of pure fact," the judge added.

https://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2018/01/04/trump-dossier-tweets-judge-ruling-326137

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PRIME MINISTER ABE: (As interpreted.) So once again, from the outset, I would like congratulate you on your historic victory in the midterm election in the United States.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefings-statements/remarks-president-trump-prime-minister-abe-japan-bilateral-meeting-4/

Quote of the Day: evolving body

We can think of an individual body evolving within its environment:

“It occurred to Walsh that he could use the mutations to reconstruct the cell lineages of the brain—not to watch the lineages grow forward as Conklin had, but to work his way back up their branches like a genealogist, back to the womb.

Scanning the trillions of bases they sequenced, the researchers spotted hundreds of somatic mutations in each neuron. Many of the mutations were shared by some of the neurons, but not all of them. Some were found in only a few of the neurons, and some were unique to a single cell. The researchers used this pattern to draw a genealogy of the brain, linking each neuron to its close cousins and its more distant relatives. Walsh and his colleagues found that the cells belonged to five distinct lineages, the cells in each one inheriting the same distinctive mosaic signature.

A single genome can no longer define us, because our inner heredity toys with DNA, altering just about every piece of genetic material we inherit. Even in our skulls, we grow a witches’-broom."

- - Carl Zimmer. “She Has Her Mother's Laugh.”