Posted on 02/17/2017 2:30:59 AM PST by kevcol
White man speak with forked tongue. :-)
Senator Reid gave us such a gift with only needing 51 votes for confirmation. It’s bad enough that Trump’s cabinet has been the longest getting confirmed, but if it was still 60 seats, he’d have about 2 confirmed. The Democrats are disgusting.
I pissed in the bottle and hung it back on my mailbox post.
They never called back.
One thing IS settled; the hypothesis put forward that humans are changing the global temperature with increased atmospheric CO2 and that increase will cause a feedback loop causing exponential growth as predicted by computer models has been found to be false over the last 20 years of real world observations.
Every time she spoke she proved herself to be a fool; yet she persisted.
“This fake squaw “has the nerve” to be a senator. What a fraud and fool.
Leftists have lied about whatever they are labeling the results of scientists paid to come to their prescribed conclusions for so long they actually believe it themselves.
I know; they have lied about (pick your topic) for so long...
Ire kopf ist los.
I’m a “Dark Matter denier.” Crucify me.
“50 years ago, my uncle showed me a neat folding trick you can do with the Land-O-Lakes picture. You just made it, not so neat anymore...”
I’m sure a similar trick is still possible, but you may not be happy with what it reveals...
That was my point...
Wish she had a clue as to how many would debate that one.
One thing to remember about the DNA tests is that they are analyzed using statistical analysis. They look for "markers" that are prevalent in certain populations, but can exist in other populations. For example, 95% of the time a specific (genetically determined) green eye color occurs, it is within ethnic group A. But the other 5% of the time, it occurs in ethnic groups B, C, D, and E. If you look at, for example, 10 genes and see a pattern in every gene that fits group A, the most likely possibility is that you are a member of group A. And so that result is reported.
I would say that the most likely reason for your dog's test coming out the way it did is that the company has too few samples on which to base its statistics. Statistics become more reliable with larger sample sizes.
In my case, the DNA analysis showed an ethnic mix consisting of a large part of British, but also significant fractions of Irish and Scandinavian and small parts of Iberian (France, Spain, and Portugal), eastern European, the "-stan" region of the middle east, and south Africa. And the DNA analysis also shows people I am related to. I was able to verify some of these relations by comparing family trees for common ancestors. In a few cases, I found people who know my mother--including a man who showed up at our house once when I was a kid, claiming to be my mothers cousin. Having seen a common relative in his family tree, I wrote to him to ask him more about these relatives--he wrote back, describing his visit when I was a kid.
Given that I can corroborate some of the DNA results, I have decent confidence in the ethnicity estimates. Whenever I have some more time on my hands, I plan to use the DNA results to try to figure out who my great-grandfather was. My great-grandma had, as I like to say, the morals of an alley-cat...
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