Do you have any references to back this up? I can find no verification of this list anywhere, and it seems highly improbably for a number of reasons:

1) Aren’t Jindal’s parent’s Punjabi? Where would he acquire the opportunity to gain any fluency in Telugu, Malayalam or Tamil (not to mention Swahili and Xhosa!) 2) Jindal was born and raised in the American South. There are incredibly few opportunities here to study “exotic” languages such as any of the Indian or African languages listed. 3) Jindal’s personal history seems to show intense desire for assimilation, such as conversion to Christianity, adoption of of the name “Bobby”, immersion in radical Republican politics, etc. It seems unusual, given his patterns of rejecting his heritage in favor of the norms of his adopted home, that he would undertake the remarkably rigorous task of gaining fluency in five (to name just a few ) Indian languages, at least three of which are totally unrelated to his parent’s native tongues.

Again, it does not make sense–but if you can supply some backup I’d be happy to be proven wrong.

Manju, your example is gross. You could have presented your point in a more descent way, which would have been more effective.

Sameer: You have yet to prove to me that you didn’t make love to Aishwarya Rai?

Hartman seems to me a good man fighting ugly racism.

who will fight the pretty racists, i ask you? and since people were upset on another thread, let me be the first to say that i think lou dobbs is prettier than tom tancredo. the orange gives him a beautiful glow as if he were basking in the rays of the setting sun wafting through the curtains of his studio as he mellifluously coos his populist hate-screeds while drawing a multi-million dollar paycheck.

(sameer, either my reading skills are busted or yours are. you are quoting a forum post by some user on thom hartmann’s website. how does that equate to something thom hartmann said? unless you know he goes by the user name of ctulhu?)

Manju, your example is gross. You could have presented your point in a more descent way, which would have been more effective.

People seem to think by being rude or vulgar you make your position, but in fact you don’t make your point better.

” 109 · NV on February 12, 2009 11:26 AM · Direct link · “Quote”(?)

Look, I can be open to perhaps Hartmann was just talking heated rhetoric, though it does not seem like it. Can you be open to what he is saying being a fact? 

I think everyone is open to thinking that maybe it’s a fact. But extraordinary claims like that need evidence. You haven’t given anything to corroborate Hartmann’s story and I can’t find anything.”

NV, for me what Hartmann said is enough. I shared it here with you guys. If you need more corroboration, you are free to do so. To be frank, Jindal meeting with the KKK did not actually hurt anyone. It is lame to try to be accepted by them as white enough. But the other things that Hartmann listed that upset him about Jindal but let slide, until the last thing Jindal did which was the straw that broke the camel’s back for him are things that hurt other people. So even if Hartmann was mistaken, and Jindal did not the Lousianna KKK, it looks like Jindal has done enough as far as Hartmann is concerned to be the brown David Duke.

Were it not for the presence of a sizeable Muslim vote-bank those names would be changed so fast it would make your head spin. It is a democracy after all. You need strength in numbers to make the rules.

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Why are Muslim/Arabic names never considered “Not authentic” with Indians? None of them are Indian, but have a name like “John” and you automatically trying to be something your not?

It is obviosly a race thing. So, you see Anna, most Indian’s just are fearfull of people leaving the dark side and leaving one less soldier for us when the race wars start.

Very good point. Also, why are Indians so anti-English-place names, like “Bombay”, which they claim is Anglicized (or Portugese) way of saying “Mumbai” or even “Bengaluru” for “Bangalore”.

Why not also change all the place names that are Arabic (i.e. the ones ending in ‘-abad’)? This is a double standard. Many of these Europeanized place names have been around longer than the Arabic ones.

It’s logically impossible to prove a negative.

Huh? I thought saw Sameer have sex with a kitten, and just wanted him to tell me it ain’t so.

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105 · Sameer said

So far you have not proved to me Hartmann was mistaken.

Sameer: you have yet to prove to me that you don’t have sex with kittens. I don’t understand the last line. Or is it some private joke?

It’s logically impossible to prove a negative.

105 · Sameer said

So far you have not proved to me Hartmann was mistaken.

Sameer: you have yet to prove to me that you don’t have sex with kittens.

I don’t understand the last line. Or is it some private joke?

105 · Sameer said

So far you have not proved to me Hartmann was mistaken.

Sameer: you have yet to prove to me that you don’t have sex with kittens.

I don’t understand the last line. Or is it some inside joke?