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>>123277
I see he is running on the Trudeau platform.

>>123286
I'm guessing his party trick involves the horse?

>>123286
did he win because of the female vote too?

>>123449
Repeal and DON'T replace. We don't need or want government involved in OUR healthcare.

>>123495
Have fun dying on the ER bed when they ask if you have Health Insurance.

>>123495
Have fun with the free market raping both you and your children.

That looks terrible.

Why not save 200 and either talk quietly or text?

I don't like politics anymore. It feels like someone is constantly yelling things in my ear and I just want to shut them out. I don't want to think or discuss anything relating to politics ever again. Let others squabble and tear each other to shreds. I don't want to participate. It's really stressing me out. I don't like people. I just want to be alone. Leave me alone.

>>123297
anyway, the nsa and cia is listening. privacy is a thing of the past. who cares which lube you use and what dragon dildos you own. we all own them. what's the problem?

>Mr. Nunes and Representative Adam Schiff of California, the intelligence committee’s ranking Democrat, said the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, would testify Monday at the committee’s first public hearing on its Russian interference investigation. Mr. Comey could presumably resolve the question about the wiretap.

>Mr. Schiff also challenged the statements of Sean Spicer, the White House press secretary, who had said that while he was not aware of any investigation targeting Mr. Trump, the president spoke accurately when he said he had been wiretapped by Mr. Obama.

>“Those two things cannot both be true unless he is suggesting that the F.B.I. was engaged in a rogue operation unsupervised by a court to wiretap Trump Tower,” Mr. Schiff said. “There is absolutely no evidence of that and no suggestion of any evidence of that.”

>In another sign of pressure, Senator Chuck Grassley, Republican of Iowa and chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he would block the nomination of Rod J. Rosenstein to be deputy attorney general unless the F.B.I. answered his questions. Mr. Rosenstein had been expected to win Senate confirmation easily. The Judiciary Committee has primary oversight of the F.B.I.

>The F.B.I. is investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. As part of that case, agents are looking at whether any of Mr. Trump’s associates colluded with the Russian government.

>After Mr. Trump made the claim on March 4 in a Twitter message that President Barack Obama had tapped his telephone, Mr. Comey, asked the Justice Department to make a statement disputing Mr. Trump’s assertion.
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>So far, the Justice Department has refused to say publicly whether it went to a judge to get a secret warrant to eavesdrop on Mr. Trump, putting the department in a difficult position. Silence from the Justice Department has frustrated Mr. Comey.

>If the Justice Department says there was no wiretap, it undercuts the president’s accusation. If there was a wiretap, it suggests that F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors had probable cause to believe that Mr. Trump the candidate was operating as an agent of a foreign power.

>It is not clear why Mr. Trump thought he was wiretapped or what led him to make the claim, which was flatly rejected by James R. Clapper Jr., a former director of national intelligence, and by a spokesman for Mr. Obama.

>Mr. Graham and Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, asked the F.B.I. last week for copies of any warrant applications and court orders “related to wiretaps of President Trump, the Trump Campaign, or Trump Tower.”

>On Wednesday, Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, said during an appearance on CNN that he would also subpoena the F.B.I. to get the information if necessary.

>“I want to get to the bottom of it,” Mr. Graham said. “The F.B.I. would know if a warrant was issued. They would know if a warrant was applied for. I want to answer that question.”

>A delay on Mr. Rosenstein’s appointment would create a number of problems for the Justice Department. In particular, he was expected to oversee any department investigations into Russia’s meddling in the presidential election after Mr. Sessions recused himself because Mr. Sessions was an adviser to the Trump presidential campaign.

>>122133
Is trump a crazy person?

>>123526
I highly doubt this. If it were true and theworld knew it, we would've gotten fucked long ago.

In ORC's active phase, the researchers showed that a subassembly containing ORC subunits 1,2,3,4 and 5 engages multiple ATP molecules and forms a partial ring-shaped complex. ATP is also used to recruit another protein component called CDC6, transforming the open ring into a closed ring. By this time, the multi-part assembly has engaged and bound to the double helix, which passes through the center of the ring like a bolt through the center of a nut. The ring is designed to fit the DNA snugly.

ORC was discovered in 1991 in Stillman's lab. "Bruce made his initial discovery of ORC in yeast," notes Joshua-Tor, "and we've known for many years that there are great structural similarities in the ORC complex across vastly different organisms, from yeast to flies to mammals. Our new pictures help account for what appeared to be differences in shape between ORC in fruit flies and in humans."


Using the tools of structural biology - x-ray crystallography and cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) - the team showed that the differences are analogous to the differences between a person pictured standing still and one pictured running. The best fly ORC structure had been captured in an inactive phase, while the newly published structure captures the complex in human cells in the configuration it assumes when performing its function - binding to DNA.

Early pictures of ORC were low-resolution and "blobby," says Joshua-Tor. The new images make clear how ATP binds at positions in one major part of the ORC assembly, consisting of protein subunits called ORC1, ORC4 and ORC5. This is ORC's "motor module," and could not be stabilized for imaging without ATP "on board." The other major assembly consists of ORC2 and ORC3. ORC attains its ring-shaped configuration when CDC6 protein is recruited, sliding in between the ORC1 and ORC2 subunits.

High-resolution images of the active human ORC published by the team help solve three major mysteries. "They help us understand how DNA might bind with ORC; how the ATP fuel is used; and how mutations in proteins in the ORC complex give rise to human disease," says Joshua-Tor.

One interesting disorder known to be caused by ORC-complex mutations is called Meier-Gorlin Syndrome, which entails severe dwarfism (short stature) and microcephally (small brain). The team produced ORC that has various of its component proteins containing mutations found in Meier-Gorlin patients. "We found that one of these mutations kills ATP activity completely," Joshua-Tor reports, thus impairing ORC in its genome replication role. Children with this mutation have one good copy and one defective copy, essentially yielding half of the needed ORC, resulting in their small body and brain size. Another mutation rendered the ORC 1,4,5 motor module overactive, but when added to ORC 2,3 made the full complex less active than normal. These structural details help explain why Meier-Gorlin Syndrome occurs. Proper functioning of ORC is important in avoiding many other illnesses, including cancer.

Perhaps the broadest insights afforded by the new human ORC pictures are evolutionary. Although ORC in primitive yeast and complex human beings operates differently - the yeast protein is stable during cell division while in humans it is dynamically assembled and taken apart - they are "remarkably similar" in important respects, the researchers note.

"Both are highly similar to another ATP-driven machine that also loads a ring-shaped protein onto DNA, the DNA polymerase clamp-loaders, showing that these molecular machines that load ring-shaped proteins onto DNA have been re-purposed for multiple stages of DNA replication," the team writes. They both act as molecular switches that hydrolyze the energy of ATP to lock protein rings on double strand DNA.

>>123287
Neat! Really good to see articles like this on here every now and again. Political conflicts get so tiresome when it is all that you see.

There are also numerous peripheral factors involved in breaking down and reassembling histones to retain the epigenome of the parent in the daughters.

>>123424
What we need to do is charge them with being traitors and kick them out. Declare the Democrats traitors and terrorist enablers. Put the cities and colleges under marshal law because they won't be happy, but I'm sure once they start piling up dead in the streets, they'll give up. This will be our master stroke. This will give us power for the next 1000 years.

>>123427
>Autism the post

>>123427
Ow! The edge!

>>122888

According to The New York Times on Wednesday, Trump granted Secretary of State Rex Tillerson the discretion to choose where the cuts are most appropriate — with the exception of Israel, ordering him to leave aid to the Jewish state in place.

While there was no indication US aid to Israel would be targeted in the cuts, Trump’s promise to dramatically decrease State Department funding led some to worry how Israel may be ultimately effected.

There was no immediate indication if aid to Egypt and Jordan, who are the next largest recipients of US assistance would be affected.

“The FY 2018 request for the State Department and USAID will allow us to advance our foreign policy goals. Secretary Tillerson will use this opportunity to ensure that we are using U.S. taxpayer dollars as effectively and efficiently as possible,” a State Department spokesperson told The Times of Israel.

“Later this spring, the President will release the full FY 2018 budget request with more details on specific funding and programs requested for the State Department and USAID, along with other Executive Branch agencies.”

Former US envoy to Israel Dan Shapiro estimated on Twitter that cuts to Jordan and Egypt could still negatively impact Jerusalem. Both of their aid deals were signed following peace deals with Israel.

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>>122891

The aid to Israel is part of a military assistance package forged between the two countries in a 10-year Memorandum of Understanding that expires in 2018, when the historic deal struck between the Obama administration and Israel will go into effect.

That package, signed by the two parties in September 2016, will grant Israel $3.8 billion annually — up from the $3.1 billion pledged under the previous agreed-upon MOU — starting in 2018 and through 2028.

The MOU signed between Washington and Jerusalem is the United States’ largest defense aid package to any country in history.

Such funding is allocated to a myriad of Israeli defense programs, not the least including the Iron Dome missile interception system, the Arrow 3 long-range interceptor program and David’s Sling mid-range rocket interceptors.

Trump’s America First rhetoric during the campaign had caused some jitters in Israel and elsewhere that he could slash the amount of aid given to allies generally.

Trump’s budget comes as his special envoy for Middle East peace, Jason Greenblatt, is concluding a “listening tour” in the region, trying to arrive at understandings to strike a peace agreement between Israel and the Palestinians

In the last several days, Greenblatt has met with both Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, as well as King Abdullah II of Jordan.

FIN

>>122888
Good to see the Zionists getting nervous about their foreign aide. They should be. There are growing segments of both major American political parties that want nothing to do with Israel.

>“The Netherlands, after Brexit, after the American elections, said ‘Whoa’ to the wrong kind of populism,” Mr. Rutte told a wildly enthusiastic crowd, excited that his party, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy, had come in first among the parties and lost fewer seats than it had feared.

>“Today was a celebration of democracy, we saw rows of people queuing to cast their vote, all over the Netherlands — how long has it been since we’ve seen that?” Mr. Rutte said.

>Alexander Pechtold, the leader of Democrats 66, which appeared to have won the most votes of any left-leaning party, struck a similar note underscoring the vote as a victory against a populist extremist.

>“During this election campaign, the whole world was watching us,” Mr. Pechtold said. “They were looking at Europe to see if this continent would follow the call of the populists, but it has now become clear that call stopped here in the Netherlands.”

>According to an unofficial tally compiled by the Dutch Broadcasting Foundation, the country’s public broadcaster, the People’s Party for Freedom and Democracy was likely to capture 33 of the 150 seats in Parliament — a loss of seven seats, but still far more than any other party.

>Mr. Wilders’s Party for Freedom was expected to finish second, with 20 seats (an increase of eight); and the right-leaning Christian Democratic Appeal and the left-leaning Democrats 66 were tied for third, with 19 each, the broadcaster reported.
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>In the Netherlands, the results betrayed a lingering distrust of turning over the reins of power to the far right, even as its message dominated the campaign and was likely to influence policies in the new government.

>Yet there are limits to how much the Netherlands, one of Europe’s most socially liberal countries, will be a reliable predictor for Europe’s other important elections this year, including next month’s presidential elections in France.

>Mark Bovens, a political scientist at Utrecht University, noted that Mr. Wilders and other right-wing parties, despite their gains, did not drastically cross traditional thresholds.

>“The nationalist parties have won seats, compared to 2012 — Wilders’s party has gained seats, as has a new party, the Forum for Democracy — but their electorate is stable, it has not grown,” Mr. Bovens said.

>Mr. Bovens pointed out that an earlier populist movement led by the right-wing politician Pim Fortuyn had won 26 seats in 2002, and that Mr. Wilders’s won 24 seats in 2010. If Mr. Wilders’s party rises to 20 seats, as the early returns seemed to indicate, it will still be lower than the previous high-water marks.

>“And some of the traditional parties have moved in a more nationalistic direction, taking a bit of wind out of his sails,” he said. “You see the same strategy in Germany.”

>The German governing coalition led by Chancellor Angela Merkel, which is facing a stiff election challenge of its own this year, was clearly buoyed by the Dutch result, its foreign ministry sending a warmly enthusiastic message via Twitter.
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>“Large majority of Dutch voters have rejected anti-European populists. That’s good news. We need you for a strong #Europe!” it read.

>In the Netherlands’s extremely fractured system of proportional representation — 28 parties ran and 13 are likely to have positions in the 150-seat lower house of Parliament — the results were, not atypically, something of a dog’s breakfast.

>Mr. Rutte’s party lost seats, even as it came out on top, and will need to join forces with several others in order to wield power. Virtually all parties said they would not work with Mr. Wilders in a coalition — so toxic he remains — though his positions are likely to infuse parliamentary debate.

>“Rutte has not seen the last of me yet!” Mr. Wilders wrote on Twitter, and indeed his anti-immigrant message, which dominated much of the campaign, was not likely to go away.

>It came into particularly sharp relief on the eve of the election, when Turkey’s foreign minister sought to enter the Netherlands to rally support among Turks in Rotterdam for a referendum to increase the power of the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Dutch officials refused him landing rights.

>Mr. Wilders, who has seemed to relish being called the “Dutch Donald Trump,” has been so extreme that some appear to have thought twice about supporting him.
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>Second, Trump is proposing to zero out the Economic Development Administration (EDA), which sits within the Commerce Department and provides about $250 million per year in grants to support economic growth in certain regions. During the Obama years, the EDA began devoting a sizable portion of that money to coal communities around the country that were suffering economically as cheap natural gas and new air pollution rules shriveled the coal industry. (The EDA also supports non-coal communities, providing trade adjustment assistance and other services.)

MEME MAGIC

>vox
Why don't you try posting from occupy democrats next time

>>123389
I've read through his entire budget proposal and he does indeed propose to entirely eliminate the Appalachian Regional Commission. That has nothing to do with partisan bias. It is his stated budgetary objective. I've had to work with some of ARC's geographical data while conducting academic research. They actually are a very important entity in the region, and I think it's hilarious that all the Trump voters in the region thought he was going to help them and now he's fucking them in the ass like any intelligent person knew that he would. Appalachia still has a lot of problems with development and infrastructure. This isn't even considering how the current GOP replacement bill will fuck every poor idiot that lives here that relies on Medicaid when it freezes enrollment and then blasts up premiums for old folks.

It's terribly sad that these people have allowed the GOP to manipulate them into a situation where they are about to get royally fucked.

So someone let a hoarder married to a cat lady adopt three children. Brilliant. Those other teenager kids are going to need years of therapy to be able to live basic lives.

>>122402
At least the adoptive parents weren't gay amirite?

>>122493
Nice :)

For a sense of just how much this is, take the following into account: all humans together consume an estimated 400 million tons of meat and fish annually. Whales feed on 280 to 500 million tons of seafood, while the world’s total seabird population eats an estimated 70 million tons of fish and other seafood.

According to further calculations, spiders in forests and grasslands account for more than 95 percent of the annual prey kill of the global spider community. The figure reflects the fact that forests, grasslands and savannas are less frequently disturbed than for instance agricultural or urban areas, and therefore allow for greater spider biomass.

“These estimates emphasize the important role that spider predation plays in semi-natural and natural habitats, as many economically important pests and disease vectors breed in those forest and grassland biomes,” says lead author Martin Nyffeler.

According to the researchers, spiders are not only important predators, but are also valuable sources of prey. Between 8,000 and 10,000 other predators, parasitoids and parasites feed exclusively on spiders, while spiders at the same time form an important part of the diet of an estimated 3,000 to 5,000 bird species.

“We hope that these estimates and their significant magnitude raise public awareness and increase the level of appreciation for the important global role of spiders in terrestrial food webs,” adds Nyffeler.

So... when I eat chicken... I'm eating SPIDERS?? EWWW GROSS

>>123305
Why do whales eat so much? What do they even do?

How dare some prehistoric sea beast consume more than my species. If it wasn't for us, they would have been fished to death already.

Oh. I was wondering when this was going to come out or if it was cancelled.

That anime was terrible, even for anime. Not a single person died o__o

>>123307
I mean, not a single person was killed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/fact-checker/wp/2017/03/17/for-the-record-wh-budget-director-did-not-say-meals-on-wheels-did-not-show-results/

Gobbling up the misrepresentations and lies, even Seth Myers set aside time for a rant during his show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=511&v=sIQ4ng0e1GU
Via the Daily Beast:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2017/03/17/seth-meyers-destroys-trump-s-meals-on-wheels-cuts-your-heart-is-so-small.html

“Meals on Wheels?!” the host asked, incredulously. “How dead inside do you have to be to not want old people to get food? Your heart is so small it makes your tiny hands look like catcher’s mitts.”


“Old people voted for you!” he continued. “Your key demographics were old people and older people. They believed you when you said you cared about them. There’s nothing more low-life than lying to the elderly. You should know that. You’re 70.”

While Meyers did not discuss his own connection to Meals on Wheels during his broadcast, he did reveal on Twitter that his mother is a volunteer for the program, writing, “My mom, who is also my hero, is a Meals on Wheels volunteer so I had some thoughts in tonight’s A CLOSER LOOK.”

For a refreshing change, it’s not only the right who are calling foul on the media’s knee-jerk shrieking about Trump’s diabolical plan to starve America’s elderly population; the left is also pushing back.

On the right, the National Review explains the myriad problems with the misleading and often downright false “reporting” by the national media.
http://www.nationalreview.com/article/445878/meals-wheels-trump-budget-media-misleads-funding-cuts-kill-program

It made for great copy — irresistibly clickable and compulsively shareable. “Trump’s Budget Would Kill a Program That Feeds 2.4 Million Senior Citizens,” blared Time’s headline. “Trump Proposed Budget Eliminates Funds for Meals on Wheels,” claimed The Hill, in a piece that got 26,000 shares.

But it was false. And it wouldn’t have taken long for reporters to find and provide some needed context to the relationship between federal block grant programs, specifically Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), and the popular Meals on Wheels program.

I started on the organization’s own website. From Thursday’s conversation in the press, it was easy to assume that block grant programs — CDBG and similar block grants for community services and social services — are the main source of federal funding for Meals on Wheels. Not so.

Instead, as the national site explains, the major source of federal funding for the programs, accounting for 35 percent of overall local budgets, comes through the Sixties-era Older Americans Act. (Local programs also obtain support from state and county governments, private donors, and so on.)

According to the website, cuts have not been announced in Older Americans Act funding, although the group fears that they may lie ahead.

So why all the outrage?

The National Review continues:

So where do the federal block grant programs come in? Well, they give states and localities a lot of discretion on where to allocate the money. One option is to add money to supplement Meals on Wheels funding. Some do use it for that purpose.

But as Scott Shackford makes clear in his new piece for Reason, that isn’t what CDBG is mostly about. CDBG funds regularly go into pork-barrel and business-subsidy schemes with a cronyish flavor. That’s why the program has been a prime target for budget-cutters for decades, in administration after administration.

It’s important to the CDBG program’s political durability that its grantees wind up sprinkling a bit of extra money on popular programs mostly funded by other means. That way, defenders can argue that the block grants “fund programs like Meals on Wheels.”

That’s what happened in the press this week. The New York Times got things rolling by reporting that the new budget proposes “the complete elimination of the $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which funds popular programs like Meals on Wheels, housing assistance and other community assistance efforts.”

CNN’s Jake Tapper then boiled it down to a tweet: “On chopping block: $3 billion Community Development Block Grant program, which funds programs like Meals on Wheels.”

The NYT and Tapper are wrong, something that even a moderately curious person might easily check by simply going to the Meals on Wheels website.
http://www.mealsonwheelsamerica.org/national/financials

Over at Mother Jones, a progressive website, they call the media spin on this portion of the proposed Trump budget “ridiculous” and lay out exactly why it is so.
http://m.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/03/meals

Here’s what really happened:

The Department of Housing and Urban Development runs a program called Community Development Block Grants. It’s exactly what it sounds like. It provides funds to states that they can use for a variety of approved purposes.
Last year, the Obama administration recommended cutting its budget from $3 billion to $2.8 billion.
This year, Mulvaney proposed that the program be eliminated entirely. Here’s what the Trump budget has to say about it:
Eliminates funding for the Community Development Block Grant program, a savings of $3 billion from the 2017 annualized CR level. The Federal Government has spent over $150 billion on this block grant since its inception in 1974, but the program is not well-targeted to the poorest populations and has not demonstrated results. The Budget devolves community and economic development activities to the State and local level, and redirects Federal resources to other activities.

People don't understand how much immigration harms Americans

MOST illegal aliens receive welfare and food stamps

that's not right. this shit needs to stop and they need to go home.

the VISA abuse is even worse. foreigners ship their literal slaves into America. I'm talking sex slaves and regular slaves. indian sex boys, whatever you call them.

>>123200
>the VISA abuse is even worse. foreigners ship their literal slaves into America. I'm talking sex slaves and regular slaves. indian sex boys, whatever you call them.
maybe you degenerates should stop buying them

>>123209
No. It goes like this:

Indian man has a company in America.

Indian man misses his sex slaves back home. He get's VISA for sex slaves and ships them to his company for "work."