tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post5676641639507019593..comments2024-03-19T02:31:02.140-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: UPDATED: Which state has the best blacks?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger76125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-12517116399796475242011-09-20T19:36:25.874-07:002011-09-20T19:36:25.874-07:00"Most welfare blacks in Wisconsin, particular..."Most welfare blacks in Wisconsin, particularly those in Milwaukee, came from Chicago starting at least in the 80's and continuing through the 90's. They're the ones who had a commitment to being on welfare and hopped on a Greyhound bus to get to the land of greater benefits. The current crop by now must be the second and third generation of the original welfare migrants.<br />The generous people of Wisconsin learned no good deed goes unpunished<br />Most blacks in Chicago, however, have origins in Mississippi, having migrated in waves northward. Therefore, Mississippi is the root of all evil in this case, having exported their most problematic residents elsewhere"<br /><br />Chicago, I have family members who went to Milwaukee to work. They left Mississippi after WWII because of the lack of opportunities and the severe racism that existed down there. They found work in Wisconsin, raised their children right and their children have college degrees now. My father, among them, left Milwaukee after having issues finding a job in Milwaukee. He had a job in Milwaukee, and then was laid off. He got a masters degree later and still had problems getting a job. As a result, he left Milwaukee. He left right around the time some African-Americans from Chicago were trying to get welfare in Wisconsin. More African-Americans like my father are what Wisconsin needs, people who are professionals, who have goals, who raise their children right. It is the educated African-Americans who are leaving Wisconsin in what is known as the "Black Brain Drain".mr_evergreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343440218481916947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85290412701778400502011-09-20T19:31:25.756-07:002011-09-20T19:31:25.756-07:00Then here is a question. Why aren't more upwar...Then here is a question. Why aren't more upwardly mobiie, professional African-Americans moving to places like Minnesota? I'm not saying they aren't moving to Minnesota, but so far, the pattern for professional African-Americans is to move to Atlanta, Charlotte, Dallas, and Houston.mr_evergreenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08343440218481916947noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86849862612769289552011-09-15T14:44:44.601-07:002011-09-15T14:44:44.601-07:00Anon wrote:
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Take Sweden. A peaceful low-crim...Anon wrote:<br />-----<br />Take Sweden. A peaceful low-crime nation of white bonobo Scandinavians. But with more blacks and Muslims, it's turning into a chimp hellhole. <br />------<br />Let´s look at some stats:<br />Infant Mortality Rate (by 1000 births)<br />Minnesota: 4.78 <br />Sweden: 2.75<br /><br />Murder rate (per 100000 inhabitants and year)<br />Sweden: 0.89 (2009)<br />New Hampshire. 0.8 (2009)<br /><br />I could go on.<br /><br />Sweden has its problems, but those that are due to foreigners are generally concentrated, since our immigrants from problem-generating countries tend to be very concentrated.<br /><br />Another thing: the admissions to universities is completely based on grade averages in Sweden. There are no fudge factors such as extracurricular activites, society work, and stuff like that. Nor do good sportsmen get any help to get into universities. Grades only, and the minimum grade average necessary to make it into a line of study in any university is openly printed in the papers. <br /><br />There is some affirmative action, but compared to the USA it is peanuts, both in amount and perniciousness.Swordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29059909276426673992011-09-14T22:23:54.635-07:002011-09-14T22:23:54.635-07:00"(Italian-Americans are famous for not wantin...<i>"(Italian-Americans are famous for not wanting to use welfare no matter how much they might need it)."<br /><br />They got the mafia to take care of things.</i><br /><br />And their mommas.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78602679124197977922011-09-14T17:54:14.738-07:002011-09-14T17:54:14.738-07:00somewhat off topic:
Iowahawk on Krugman, and repl...somewhat off topic:<br /><br />Iowahawk on Krugman, and replying to some smart people.<br /><br />http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/longhorns-17-badgers-1.html<br /><br />http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2011/03/badgering-the-witless.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69505319501823426162011-09-14T10:51:28.729-07:002011-09-14T10:51:28.729-07:00Another thing... though liberals praise bonobos fo...Another thing... though liberals praise bonobos for spending most or much of their time humping and sucking one another--and though that may well be better than killing one another--, that's the reason why bonobos are just apes incapable of creating civilization. All they care about is having an orgy. <br /><br />Why would any man have bothered to invent the wheel or develop agriculture if the only thing he cared about in life was getting laid left and right? <br /><br />In a paradoxical way, the liberal infatuation with 'nature' is the product of their separation from it. Not living in nature, they can idolize and romanticize nature as something 'harmonious' and 'holistic'. Though liberals know nature is brutish, they cannot help but to seek the Garden of Eden where animals don't struggle and fight and kill but live with love and without shame. So, Bonobos are like Adam and Eve before the Fall, before they learned of shame and struggle. A kind of ape nirvana, or nirbananas. Liberal utopian projection onto the bonobos can be pretty hilarious. Because some male bonobos seem to be sucking one another at times, they are even said to be 'bi-sexual'. Maybe bonobos moving around together is really a natural 'gay pride parade'. <br /><br />But of course, liberals can only wax romantic like this because they are the beneficiaries of civilization with plenty of food, security, and comfort. If these liberals actually had to live IN nature, they would go hungry soon and even be hunting/feasting on bonobos for dinner--just like African natives have been doing for 100,000s of yrs.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22085243143071776702011-09-14T10:41:08.929-07:002011-09-14T10:41:08.929-07:00Also, the fact that bonobos and chimps are very cl...Also, the fact that bonobos and chimps are very close and once belonged to the same species before splitting off into different species proves that race is a scientific fact. Bonobos and chimps could not have turned into separate species overnight. Initially, via long period of geographic isolation, they became different races of another.. and then eventually turned into different species. No raciation, then no speciation. <br />But even if bonobos and chimps were still of the same species, they could still be regarded as different races of chimps. The common chimp would be the bigger, stronger, and more aggressive chimp while bonobos would be the smaller, kinder, and nicer chimp. <br /><br />Idiot Bill Nye(Al Gore's pal)says race is a myth cuz people of two different races or dogs of two different breeds can produce a fertile offspring. But that's idiotic. <br />The race-ist argument was never that the races cannot interbreed. Race-ism argues that races or breeds belong to the same species. The real issue is that different races and breeds within a species can be generally or remarkably differnt in various aspects. After all, wolves and coyotes can interbreed and produce a fertile offspring, and so they can be said to belong to the same species(though they are often classified as different species). So, what does that prove? That any discussion of differences between wolves and coyotes is bigotedor 'racist'?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82467178652122331122011-09-14T10:40:52.898-07:002011-09-14T10:40:52.898-07:00"...I find the whole business about "bon..."...I find the whole business about "bonobos are peaceful cuz they make love than war" rather ludicrous. Chimps have a lot of sex."<br /><br />Liberals never understand the full implications of what they adore or embrace. I don't know how peaceful and kindly bonobos are, but let's assume it's essentially true that they are far less aggressive and brutish than chimps(and certainly gorillas). <br />Scientists theorize this is so because bonobos evolved or speciated away from other apes due to geographic isolation. Bonobos could afford to be less aggressive and more cooperative since fewer competitors and predators posed a danger to them. Bonobos were not only separated from gorillas but also from the more violent chimps. <br />In other words, bonobos could be less aggressive and brutish ONLY BECAUSE they lived in their own domain that is homogeneous(only bonobos, no chimps and gorillas) than diverse. The bonobo homeland in the Congo has no chimps or gorillas. So, the lesson from bonobo-ism is IF YOU WANT TO CREATE OR MAINTAIN A PEACEFUL SPECIES OR RACE, SEPARATE THEM FROM DANGEROUS PREDATORS AND/OR AGGRESSIVE COMPETITORS. <br /><br />So, everything that liberals love so much about bonobos exists only because bonobos had the luxury and luck to evolve away from other apes and more dangerous predators. <br /><br />Using this logic, couldn't we argue that white Europeans and East Asians are less wild and aggressive--and more cooperative and sharing--than black Africans because people of the Northern hemisphere had fewer monstrous animals to contend with for 1000s of yrs and were thankfully separated from Bantu blacks--unlike the unfortunate bushmen and their kind in Southern Africa? Also, whites and Asians didn't have to run like a mothaf---- from lions and leopards(and elephants and hippos)day and night. <br /><br />And indeed in the US, whites in whiter states tend to be more easy-going and nicer whereas whites in the Deept South--with a lot of blacks--often feel on the edge because of the threat they feel from crime and etc. <br /><br />Also, if Europe is to continue being a nice and friendly place, it needs a homogeneous population of like-minded and like-temperamented people. Europeans have been known for political & tribal violence, but once the borders were firmly drawn, there has been social cohesion within each nation. By allowing in lots of black Africans into Europe, this bonobo-istic balance is overturned. <br /><br />The problem of black violence is more prickly cuz the roots of black conflict & aggression is often less political or ideological than biological/psychological. We saw in WWII and communism/Nazism that whites and Asians can act crazy due to nutty ideas, insane leaders(like Hitler or Mao), or national conflicts. But once those pass away, individuals and communities can work together to maintain peace and stability. Look at Germany and Poland today. Or Japan or China today. But with blacks, even absent political or ideological differences, violence flares up on the individual or local level cuz too many blacks just like to talk shit and act crazy. Violence is at the core of the black heart.<br /><br />Take Sweden. A peaceful low-crime nation of white bonobo Scandinavians. But with more blacks and Muslims, it's turning into a chimp hellhole. <br /><br />So, the liberal adoration of bonobos is based on a kind of race-ism. Bonobos are more likable cuz they had the good fortune to racially evolve away from chimps--to the point of turning into a different species altogether. Indeed, if the bonobo homeland were to be invaded by chimpanzee tribes, it would prolly be only a matter of time before chimps rape, pillage,and destroy the bonobo community. In London, white liberals are no match for young strong and aggressive Jamaican immigrant 'youths'.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17351741737534632162011-09-14T10:28:19.680-07:002011-09-14T10:28:19.680-07:00As a Minnesotan I am not surprised to see these da...As a Minnesotan I am not surprised to see these data; they confirm first-hand observation.<br /><br />A friend of mine, now retired, was for many years an administrative law judge for the Minnesota welfare system. He once observed to me that the state has a great problem with what he called "tourists from Chicago" - i.e., welfare clientele who moved to Minneapolis or St. Paul, mainly from Chicago, to claim the more generous benefits offered in Minnesota. Some were "double-dipping" by being on the welfare rolls both in Minnesota and in Illinois. In the days when one had to show up personally at a welfare office to pick up a check, this meant taking the bus once a month from one location to another. <br /><br />With the present use of EBT cards, even this is no longer necessary. One of the odd results of the issuance of EBT cards has been that it is now possible to track the spending of welfare recipients by location. A few years ago, the Minneapolis Star Tribune reported that Hennepin County welfare authorities had identified the most popular location for the use of EBT cards by its clientele. It turned out to be an ATM at Mystic Lake Casino, an Indian casino in one of the Minneapolis suburbs. Our tax dollars at work!<br /><br />About 20 years ago, in a brief spell of conscientiousness, the state legislature passed a modest residency requirement - I think it was 6 months - as a condition for claiming welfare benefits. It was challenged by some organization such as the ACLU and thrown out as unconstitutional by a Federal judge named Miles Lord, and old DFL hack who got on the bench thanks to the patronage of Hubert Humphrey. Thus there is effectively no way to police "welfare tourism."<br /><br />The vast majority of the welfare tourists are black, and they have brought with them the usual baggage of lumpenprole criminal culture. In Minneapolis and St. Paul there are now gangs, drug dealing, and violence on a par with those in cities like Chicago and Los Angeles. There are almost no blacks anywhere in the rest of the state, except in the state prisons at Stillwater and St. Cloud. The black population in Minnesota according to the 2010 U.S. census is 5.2%, but the black population in the state's prisons is close to 50%. <br /><br />Minnesota has long been a bastion of political liberalism, producing such well known figures as Hubert Humphrey, Eugene McCarthy, and Walter Mondale. This is in keeping with its historic ethnic make-up. The state was first settled by New Englanders who brought their skills in the lumber industry to its virgin forests, and then by Scandinavians and Germans who came here to farm. All these populations were placid, industrious people, exhibiting little social deviance or criminality. It's easy to be liberal when it doesn't cost too much, and it didn't for many years. <br /><br />Now, with black and Hispanic elements contributing to the "vibrancy" of our Twin Cities, it does not seem surprising that a couple of the suburban districts have sent very conservative Republicans to Congress, and both houses of the state legislature are now controlled by Republicans. The 2010 election of a liberal Democrat, Mark Dayton, as governor, was largely due to a third-party candidacy that siphoned votes from the Republican candidate and left Dayton with a bare plurality. No longer solidly in the Democratic column, Minnesota is now a "purple" state. The growth of its non-white population will prompt more and more whites to vote Republican.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-49765607936203734122011-09-14T10:09:23.540-07:002011-09-14T10:09:23.540-07:00i don't think those numbers for pittsburgh are...i don't think those numbers for pittsburgh are correct. i checked them against some other cities that were more homogenous. pittsburgh was not at the very top like that article makes it out to be. places like billings, montana and fargo, north dakota were 95% homogenous and detroit is up there at 85% homogenous. there were some towns in LA that were easily 85% mestizo when i was there and that was 5 years ago. they could only be more homogenous now.<br /><br />although i don't doubt that it's about 80% europeans. it's a lot nicer than philadelphia which has turned into a dump. and it has almost zero mexicans. like, literally none, which should be shocking to people from the southwest. how does anything get done in one of the most livable cities in america if there aren't 1 million mexicans around to do all the stuff "white people wont' do." almost all of the non-european immigrants in pittsburgh are asians and indians who are going to CMU and university of pittsburgh, or coming in to work at UPMC hospitals, or at google or the various small tech and medical companies here.<br /><br />the steel industry is mostly gone and the city is very clean, the landscape is very lush and forested. all the sports teams have new stadiums. houses cost nothing. most people can afford a boat for cruising the 3 rivers, et cetera.jodynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32658889858590661792011-09-14T10:07:53.668-07:002011-09-14T10:07:53.668-07:00Obama is thin-skinned. Bill Clinton, on the other ...Obama is thin-skinned. Bill Clinton, on the other hand, didn't mind other people touching his hair(and other parts of his body). If anything, he said COME ON COME ON COME ON TOUCH ME BABE, CAN'T YOU SEE THAT I'M NOT AFRAID...<br />Well, he shoulda been. <br /><br />Though Obama doesn't want people to touch his hair, he sure doesn't mind them kissing his behind. <br /><br />Bill Clinton's body politics: suck it. <br /><br />Barack Obama's body politics: kiss it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-89847092980992556482011-09-14T10:05:11.468-07:002011-09-14T10:05:11.468-07:00Imagine if a white female politician said she was ...Imagine if a white female politician said she was offended when some black guy asked her if he could touch her hair(and maybe not necessarily what's on her head). She would have been hounded as a 'racist' who saw the black guy as a kind of animal. <br /><br />But in the case of Obama, a non-black person wanted to touch his hair, and he's the poor victim. HE was treated like an animal by a 'racist'. <br /><br />Maybe, what Obama really means is "I was never happy with my nappy hair and was upset that someone noticed.". <br />Indeed, it would be funny if he grew his hair kinky and stuff. But he cut it down to make him look more like a bald-headed whitey than a black guy. <br /><br />One thing for sure, Obama wants to touch our wallets and purses.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-16593381799504713882011-09-14T05:40:20.345-07:002011-09-14T05:40:20.345-07:00I hate to go on a tangent, but the anonymous above...I hate to go on a tangent, but the anonymous above who doubted my reading of church history that the Irish bishops ruled the church and used it to stifle Francophone worship in New England. You are wrong, and I don't have a dog in the fight since I have both Irish and French in my background. <br /><br /><a href="http://www.projo.com/specials/century/month4/426bv1.htm" rel="nofollow"> Excommunication of Francophones </a>Duncanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05310129929636104611noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31026105099490649162011-09-13T20:28:06.263-07:002011-09-13T20:28:06.263-07:00Touch his hair? I would have thought people woulda...Touch his hair? I would have thought people woulda wanted to touch his big ears. He's sensitive about people remarking about that too. I think he's very proud of his chin. He likes to lift his head high and show off his chin. I'll bet a whole bunch of people wanna clock it by now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-46409914247891272492011-09-13T20:26:46.818-07:002011-09-13T20:26:46.818-07:00"This is a sort of off-topic comment, but I d..."This is a sort of off-topic comment, but I don't think anyone ever wanted to touch Obama's hair."<br /><br />If you've noticed blacks, they often put their hands on other people: this is especially true with black males and white girls. The black guy will just put his hand on the white girl's shoulder like he's entitled to. The white girl will say nothing since if she tells him not to touch her, she's 'racist'. And if her white boyfriend is around, he'll say nothing cuz he's afraid of getting beat up.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86964886195110472922011-09-13T19:26:57.493-07:002011-09-13T19:26:57.493-07:00"Interesting. I've often noticed that the..."Interesting. I've often noticed that the statues don't look like the people who live there now. How about Greece?"<br /><br />To be fair, those statues don't look like any particular group of Europeans at all. The statues tend to have long straight noses, eyes that are much longer than wide, flat foreheads, along with other odd features. I think it was more an artistic ideal than an attempt to replicate the average Roman.S.Anonyianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-1270934830975462342011-09-13T19:04:10.938-07:002011-09-13T19:04:10.938-07:00Interesting note, the Irish/Roman church virulentl...<i>Interesting note, the Irish/Roman church virulently stamped out French language workship in New England</i> <br /><br /><br /><br />Eh? The "Irish/Roman church" {sic} had zero power to stamp out any language 'workship' in New England, or anywhere else for that matter.<br /><br />It's peculiar how any mention of the Irish brings out the moonbats.<br /><br /><br /><i>Irish dominantion of the Democratic machine caused the French to delve into the Republican side</i> <br /><br />Bizarre. Historically the Irish and the French were on the same side - the side against the English. A lot of Irish fought in the French army.<br /><br />And historicaly, America was on the anti-English side as well. Not that anybody knows history anymore.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-78566679769726070552011-09-13T17:30:14.001-07:002011-09-13T17:30:14.001-07:00Even on blackplanet.com, there aren't so many ...<i>Even on blackplanet.com, there aren't so many posters who are so quick to refer to people as "trash." It's really a disgusting habit.</i><br /><br />Naturally I bridle at this as well. Like I'm going to give people their worn-out pass for calling only Whites "trash."<br /><br />But the real target seems to be NAMs. The idea being, it's not exceptional for them to produce trash. So everyone gets slapped around by the term.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-82737903284043366742011-09-13T16:52:37.678-07:002011-09-13T16:52:37.678-07:00This is a sort of off-topic comment, but I don'...<i>This is a sort of off-topic comment, but I don't think anyone ever wanted to touch Obama's hair. This is an oft-told black fantasy. Maybe some white person somewhere wanted to touch that cotton candy and that became an entire urban legend, firmly rooted in black mythology.<br /><br />I can't think of anything less sexy than running my fingers through nappy hair. Blacks themselves hate their hair, a topic dealt with semi-honestly by Chris Rock in GOOD HAIR. Chris went halfway there but not the whole way. The reason blacks don't like their hair is because isn't because of slavery. It's because it's ugly.</i><br /><br />-<br /><br />Except "White Person Wanted to Touch My Hair" stories aren't ghetto fables about just how <i>sexy</i> black hair is.<br /> <br />They exemplify how majority whites tend to see token blacks as aliens. <br /><br />I saw it happen a few times as a teenager living in Minneapolis suburbs, circa 2000.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-4059294353600135512011-09-13T16:17:43.805-07:002011-09-13T16:17:43.805-07:00where, as he recalled decades later in Dreams from...<i>where, as he recalled decades later in Dreams from My Father, a white girl at his exclusive prep school wanted to touch his hair. </i><br /><br />You know, as someone who grew up in an integrated environment, that looks pretty disingenuous to me. <br /><br />In my experience, it was always blacks who wanted to touch (and braid) white kids' hair. My sister was a platinum blonde as a girl, and black girls always wanted to braid her hair. <br /><br />It's probably gone the other way from time to time, but really, to make an issue over that...<br /><br />Of course, in the 80s when I was a kid, all the black girls (and a lot of boys) put relaxer in their hair, and you wouldn't want to get that stuff on your hand -- it would grease up the whole house. Probably made fingerprinting pretty easy for the cops back then.Billhttp://www.welmer.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-21456691796587894812011-09-13T16:11:42.225-07:002011-09-13T16:11:42.225-07:00I like the way you make all these distintions.with...I like the way you make all these distintions.with different levels of blacks.Milwaukee got a bad load,but Hawaii got the good ones! Riiight!! And the "military" blacks are some sort of wonderful elite. HA!!! And the Black Middle Class....joshnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17458466311658319142011-09-13T15:02:29.829-07:002011-09-13T15:02:29.829-07:00Back when they were debating PRWORA, the typical T...Back when they were debating PRWORA, the typical TANF recipient was actually a white woman in her mid-thirties. <br /><br />Most of the RECIPIENTS were white women who needed temporary help because of divorce, death or illness of spouse, or other hardship. These recipients typically stayed on welfare for less than 2 years.<br /><br />However, a significant portion of the BENEFITS were going to "welfare queens" who had a multi-generational history of welfare dependency. <br /><br />Hence, PRWORA's 2-year limit and 5-year lifetime limit on receiving TANF benefits. <br /><br />Differences in TANF usage among different ethnic groups could, therefore, be explained by things like family stability. If Italian women got divorced less, they might not need TANF as much.Paul Mendeznoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-90175435924733284972011-09-13T14:34:12.897-07:002011-09-13T14:34:12.897-07:00"Since you've talked about "Whitopia...<i>"Since you've talked about "Whitopia" before, I thought you'd be interested to know that the Pittsburgh metro is whiter than that of Lancaster, Salt Lake City, Des Moines and Boise. Of the 100 largest metropolitan areas, only the one containing Scranton is whiter. From the Pittsburgh Gazette. I'll have to ask IOZ what he thinks about that."</i><br /><br /><br />Thank goodness I live in Pittsburgh, and I am Indian!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66428961199965351252011-09-13T12:00:49.474-07:002011-09-13T12:00:49.474-07:00"priere dieux"
I mean prie-dieu.
The p..."priere dieux"<br /><br />I mean prie-dieu.<br /><br />The persecution of those Irish pols has had a deleterious effect on my French spelling and someday I will sue them for it, now I know about what they did.Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-56049796952538691222011-09-13T11:51:46.395-07:002011-09-13T11:51:46.395-07:00"Also, Irish dominantion of the Democratic ma..."Also, Irish dominantion of the Democratic machine caused the French to delve into the Republican side (especially in RI where it may be the only thing that sustains any semblance of republicanism)"<br /><br />Had no idea about all that anti-French stuff going on in New England. There was nothing I wanted more than to learn French. Nothing more painterly than kneeling on red-cushioned priere-dieux in front of holy statues. Even Camille swooned onto one at some point. Politicians What were those people thinking? Truly, St. Patrick drove the snakes from Ireland and turned them into (some) politicians.<br /><br />As far as accepting the Spanish language, Hibernian descendants of the wrecked Armada notwithstanding, it is probably just a case of different times requiring different remedies. I'm sure the Church, like most phone directories, will just introduce a press "one" for English prayers rather than lose any more members.Charlottenoreply@blogger.com