Comments on: The Great “Beige” Hope of the Republican Party

By: Nilufar

Nilufar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:48:28 +0000

You guys, you need to totally join this awesome Indian-bashing thread at daily kos. It’s a fun thread: http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/3/2/12830/42423/114/703644

By: LeVar

LeVar — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:12:38 +0000

It is "Supriya Bua," not "Supriya," "Aunt Supriya," or "First cousin, once removed Supriya."

By: Suki Dillon

Suki Dillon — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:08:04 +0000

BTW, Suki, your boy got a nice book deal!

I can't wait till he goes on the book tour. I'm more then willing to stand in line over night to meet him. I just hope that Jindal would study some of Blago interviews and new conferences to become a better public speaker or better hire Blago to speak for him.

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:46:57 +0000

If they aren’t, your kids can come chill with my future progeny, who will almost certainly be the product of a Christian-Hindu union, themselves.

wow, A N N A, they’re not even here yet, and you’re helping them meet suitable persons from a similar background? You’ve shamed legions of aunties by being so ahead on the shaadi game. Lesser mortals can put their unborn progeny on pre-school waitlists

I’m glad that Sepia Destiny is working out for the unborn.

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:34:58 +0000

I promise it is not a belief system. Anymore.

well, rob's recent testimony clearly contradicts you:

Woot--I'm touched by greatness!!

By: Yoga Fire

Yoga Fire — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:32:52 +0000

Many of them dislike America, White and Christianity because they could not date that cute white sexy american girl, or got taunted by racial comments.

Typically irrational. Dont you think you should have also checked the other threads where the jindal-bashers have posted before jumping to this conclusion??

Speaking of ridiculous attempts to psychoanalyze people's motives. . .

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:26:43 +0000

certainly seems to inspire the loyalty of the vanar sena.

who're you calling a macaca, slumdog?

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:24:05 +0000

310 Â· portmanteau said

Not that Jindal is Sita-esque

Come on! His petite waist, small bone structure, and delicate shoulders, certainly seems to inspire the loyalty of the vanar sena.

By: portmanteau

portmanteau — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:05:08 +0000

and excessive scrutiny and criticism by their desi peers

“kucch toh log kahenge”

“People will talk, That’s what they do Forget the venom of wagging tongues Or the night shall slip away in worry”

This is to encourage umber desi to make catholic-punjabi babies, straight from the heyday of Rajesh Khanna. I’m not sure if the appeal of this sort of stuff translates for those raised in the US, but I’m hoping Bollywood transcends comprehension (according to Karan Johar, it does).

If you understand Hindi, the song uses wit to criticize those who speculate about the lives of others, “What kind of a society would malign even Sita?”

Not that Jindal is Sita-esque; but he (and the twinkles in Umber Desi’s eyes) deserves fair criticism, rather than speculative psychoanalysis as many others on this thread have noted.

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sn: nice comment on how memory is modified to accommodate cognitive dissonance (@ 205).

By: Rahul

Rahul — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 07:04:41 +0000

If some naked fakir tells you to breathe 50 times in a certain way and then you'll experience such and such a state, is this a belief system, or a logical assumption, or a simple experiment?

It was just an experiment with that naked fakir in my youth, yaar. I promise it is not a belief system. Anymore.