Posted on 08/01/2018 12:26:15 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Wednesday celebrated his recent discovery that he has Jewish ancestry.
Guess I need to start saying LChaim now, too! Ryan tweeted, along with a gif of him toasting with a glass of Guinness.
The clip was from a toast Ryan gave during an annual Friends of Ireland luncheon, using the Irish toast sláinte.
Ryan discovered his Jewish heritage during an upcoming episode of the PBS show Finding Your Roots.
Host Henry Louis Gates Jr. told Ryan during the show that about 3 percent of his DNA is Ashkenazi Jewish, and that he traced the ancestry back to 1531.
"You could have knocked him over with a feather and then he was very proud of it," Gates told the Associated Press about Ryans response. We don't know who that Jewish person was, but we know it was on his mother's German line, which makes sense. So somebody who was a Christian German slept with a Jewish German person and that's where that came from.
Henry Louis Gates Jr. does this show and well-known gullible people agree to let the world know their ancestry.
Gates reacts with glee when he can reveal some white person allegedly has black genes.
Yes, the same guy.
Ashkenazi? Related to Rothschild? Anyone notice the last 4 letters???
Seed of Abraham, as many of us are.
And in 2015 he was in solidarity with the Muslims.
Paul Cowan
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I suppose it's fun, in fairness perhaps the Congressman should announce all his newfound heritages. Some of which I'm sure place him in more beneficial minorities. In any case the idea that DNA determines religion, or that there's a definable gene linked to Jews of two millenia ago is specious. Yes, there are mutations in which occur in historically isolated small groups, but they're not usually exclusive.
Could have gotten mixed up with my DNA sample...
Are you a Russian colluder? ;-)
Hysterical comment, which is one reason I read them.
As far as the ethnicity reports, the science is in it’s infancy. The real value of these tests is in matching family members. There have been untold numbers people who have been able to find missing family. I myself was able to find my biological father, and verified my biological mother. I have been able to track down my husband’s missing grandfather, and the tree of my husband’s family, along with his kit attached was instrumental in another adoptee finding her biological father.
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