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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 12:56 PM Original message |
There's an all Hispanic landscape crew working today on a property near mine ...... |
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Taverner (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 12:57 PM Response to Original message |
1. Me too |
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TomInTib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:01 PM Response to Original message |
2. Hell, my family was a clan of ... |
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Manifestor_of_Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #2 |
37. Lufkin, TX....WOW!!! |
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elehhhhna (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:03 PM Response to Original message |
3. Mine was leaving Holland after WWI. Left our fortune there and moved here! |
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pitohui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:05 PM Response to Original message |
4. well i'm afraid i vote with jack london |
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musette_sf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:12 PM Response to Reply #4 |
5. here here |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:31 PM Response to Reply #4 |
11. Not a rare event at all |
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RedCappedBandit (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:42 PM Response to Reply #4 |
13. Maybe you should blame the pigs paying them nothing |
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Ikonoklast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:20 PM Response to Reply #4 |
19. The largest landscape contractor here used to hire college kids |
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skypilot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:33 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. "No more college kids. They don't want to work, you know." |
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rockymountaindem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:03 PM Response to Reply #22 |
38. That charge is total bullshit |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:45 PM Response to Reply #22 |
65. I don't think its the case that the college students are without work |
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asdjrocky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
6. Good words. |
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Retired AF Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:39 PM Response to Reply #6 |
64. They are hard workers |
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YOY (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
7. My great grandfather never learned English. He cut the lawn of the Firestone Estate |
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fed-up (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:26 PM Response to Original message |
8. my family-Lockhart arrived (belatedly) in 1676 to quell Bacon's Rebellion |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:28 PM Response to Original message |
9. Hispanic? You mean they are all from Spain? How did you know they were "Hispanic"? |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:34 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Oh you're so cute |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #12 |
27. And you are evading answering the question! |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:43 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. To answer it assumes its valid |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:41 PM Response to Reply #28 |
33. What names we use with reference to "others" is a valid question. |
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Name removed (0 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #33 |
34. Deleted message |
L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:33 PM Response to Reply #34 |
41. Okay, so you have no satisfactory answer then. I thought so. |
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Sparkly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 08:19 PM Response to Reply #41 |
46. Using the word "Hispanic" --> Genocide.... |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 02:02 PM Response to Reply #41 |
63. Dude, are you high or what? |
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roody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 12:20 AM Response to Reply #33 |
73. Chances are, they were Mexicans. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:46 PM Response to Reply #27 |
35. it seems less to be evading... |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:09 PM Response to Reply #9 |
17. Hispanic: |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:41 PM Response to Reply #17 |
24. Wow, I'm a Hispanic. That's interesting NEWS. And Oxford's is wrong. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:44 PM Response to Reply #24 |
29. Oxford is wrong and some anonymous internet posting yahoo is right? |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:48 PM Response to Reply #29 |
31. It could happen. |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:40 PM Response to Reply #31 |
43. Especially if the English get the last word defining what's Spanish in the Americas! LOL |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 08:14 PM Response to Reply #43 |
45. You're like a dog with a bone |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 10:19 PM Response to Reply #45 |
47. If I don't want to be called Hispanic, my privilige. |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 11:10 PM Response to Reply #47 |
49. Who the fuck called YOU anything other than "pest"? |
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L. Coyote (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 10:47 AM Response to Reply #49 |
60. Oxford dictionary, for one. And YOU, of couse have called me lots of things so far |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 01:18 PM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Hey PEST ...... are you calling me a racist? |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 12:05 AM Response to Reply #43 |
50. LOL! My ancestors are from England, Ireland, Scotland |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:46 PM Response to Reply #24 |
30. Wikipedia: |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:48 PM Response to Reply #24 |
36. (Ex-girlfriend trumps a DU poster) |
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ayeshahaqqiqa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. My great grandfather came over in 1872 |
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KG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:46 PM Response to Original message |
14. if both parties hadn't spent the last 25 years happily voting for policies that sent americas |
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orangerevolution (282 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 01:49 PM Response to Original message |
15. I wonder what percentage... |
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yellerpup (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:05 PM Response to Original message |
16. Well said. |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
18. Italians & Poles blended in. The new wave of illegal mexicans do not do so. |
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LanternWaste (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:31 PM Response to Reply #18 |
21. It takes fully three generations for an immigrant family to acculturate |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:38 PM Response to Reply #21 |
42. There is very few indicators that today's immigrants intend to. |
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Posteritatis (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:56 AM Response to Reply #42 |
53. If you think previous immigrants didn't think that way you need to read a book or two (nt) |
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lumberjack_jeff (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 10:23 AM Response to Reply #53 |
59. Like the ones who booked steerage for themselves, their families and all their belongings... |
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NickB79 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 05:34 PM Response to Reply #21 |
44. My great-great-grandfather came to the US from Germany in the 1870's |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:50 AM Response to Reply #21 |
51. No it doesn't take three generations: My parents were 1st generation and they could hardly speak |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:38 PM Response to Reply #18 |
23. Italians and Poles were simultaneously despised and mercilessly exploited, |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:42 PM Response to Reply #18 |
25. How do you know this crew was illegal? |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:55 AM Response to Reply #25 |
52. I live in a state with lots of illegals and I am half Italian myself, so don't preach to me |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 07:56 AM Response to Reply #52 |
55. Here ya go ...... |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-23-08 03:05 AM Response to Reply #55 |
70. And one for you, pal................ |
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Stinky The Clown (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-23-08 03:42 PM Response to Reply #70 |
71. What is that? Your "I'm a bigot" suit? |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-23-08 11:49 PM Response to Reply #71 |
72. Clue: not wanting illegal foreigners flooding the US doesn't equal "bigottry" |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
40. You might want to go to your area's Italian American Club and ask about that. |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 04:01 AM Response to Reply #40 |
54. I have seen and talked to illegal and legal or Mexican-Americans and |
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knitter4democracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 10:00 AM Response to Reply #54 |
57. Si, yo hablo con mis amigos de Mexico. |
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High Plains (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 02:01 PM Response to Reply #54 |
62. Take your racist claptrap elsewhere. |
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liberal4truth (309 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Mar-23-08 02:59 AM Response to Reply #62 |
69. Yes, anyone who doesnt accept the view that immigrants are stealing US jobs are |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:52 PM Response to Reply #40 |
68. Exactly and also nineteenth century restrictionists |
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annabanana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 08:03 AM Response to Reply #18 |
56. I'm sure the "spics" and "wops" in the room will be delighted |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:50 PM Response to Reply #18 |
67. Yes they will. |
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smoogatz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:25 PM Response to Original message |
20. My family got here early on (1660s), and has been a scourge on the landscape |
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IronLionZion (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 02:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. My family came here legally, already knowing English, |
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Aristus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
32. My first American ancestor came to Virginia in the late 1600's as an indentured servant. |
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slackmaster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 04:07 PM Response to Original message |
39. My father's Mennonite family was evicted from their land in Germany in the 1840s |
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cynatnite (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Fri Mar-21-08 10:25 PM Response to Original message |
48. My father couldn't speak a word of English when he came here... |
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lonestarnot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 10:04 AM Response to Original message |
58. That pink underwear freak is "rounding up" all brown skin people |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Mar-22-08 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
66. Opposition to immigration is silly |
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McCamy Taylor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-24-08 01:14 AM Response to Original message |
74. Unless you live in Europe, this is true everywhere. Mexican immigrants are the manual |
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