mhaze,

Having lived and worked in the US for close to ten years
I use the Times quite often as a source.
But - no - as I explained earlier
I did not use it for the satirical list of Trump supporters.
(smile).

SR,

With all due respect, the stuff you quoted on mitochondrial DNA is a complete furphy as it is passed unchanged down the female lineage and has nothing to do with EW.

Secondly, given the diversity of genetics even within known populations stating that someone is roughly 0.1% native American is pure bollocks. While certain gene sequences are strong indicators of a particular race, they are certainly not unheard of in other races and it is entirely possible for someone with no native american heritage to produce similar results.

That native american groups have roundly condemned her and her history of using her claimed heritage for advancement is an indicator that her testing has backfired badly.

The ricochet hit Trump. He promised. He ran.

Dear mhaze,

I wrote;

"In two years he has added more to the deficit, through upping military spending and forcing through self profiting tax cuts, than Obama did in his eight years in office fighting the GFC crisis."

You wrote;

“Utter rubbish. We've seen previously that you struggle with numbers. But the claim isn't even close.”

This stuff is good fun so let's do some back of the envelope calculations.

I'm assuming you know that deficit figures are not debt and that each year either adds to the previous year's deficit figure or subtracts from it.

The FY figures in the year of inauguration are attributed to the previous president as it is they who set the budget for that financial year, not the incoming president.

FY2009's deficit was $1,413 billion.

FY2010 was $1,294 billion a $119 billion decrease.

FY2011 was $1,300 billion a $6 billion increase.

But from there through to 2015 the deficit didn't increase once but fell to just $438 billion.

FY2016 it increased to $585 billion, a jump of $147 billion and again in FY2017 by $81 Billion.

6 + 147 + 81 = $234 billion in budget deficit increases over Obama's term

Trump's 2018 figure is $833 billion, a deficit increase of $168 billion. The 2019 budget is for an increase to $984 billion bringing his budget increases to $319 billion dollars, well in excess of Obama's.

Now you will of course want to correct me on some of this so I am all ears, or eyes, so let's pare it down and see what we get out the other end.

Finally as an aside who created more jobs per capita? Obama in his last 18 months or Trump in his first?

Dear Shadow Minister,

Having read my post I see that I did not expand enough on the point I was making to make it clear for the reader.

I apologise.

The takeaway I wanted to get across is that only “40% of all Ashkenazi Jews are descended from just four Jewish women who left the Middle East over 1,000 years ago and settled in Europe” the rest, 60%, do not have the genetics to afford them this validation and there are many more other factors taken into consideration such as recorded lineages, the testimony of witnesses, time within the culture etc. I accept that Elizabeth Warren struggles on some of these parameters which is why there is a degree of antagonism from some Indian groups in the US, not all though.

However it was Trump who declared it was the DNA was the measure for him and there is strong DNA evidence to back up the Warren family history claim about Indian in their blood line. Not to the degree of mtDNA of course but sufficient for the tester to use the word “strongly”.

Now you have offered your opinion on the veracity of the test however I will point out that the person who wrote the report was Dr. Carlos D. Bustamante, hardly a run of the mill expert. This bloke was was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2010 otherwise known as the “Genius Grant”.

Forgive me but I am going to lean toward his learned offering before yours. Nothing personal of course.

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