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"I mean do you know a single politician with indian ancestry? Didn't think so."

Try the governor of Louisiana, Piyush "Bobby" Jindal, whose parents are immigrants from India. Of course you've never let ignorance of the facts stop you from being a loudmouth.

Putz.

I asked Annie. And sorry for not knowing the names and ancestry of a couple hundred US politicians.

So congrats. Mandvi can be Piyush Jindal. What a perfect fit for The Daily Show. The jokes they can get out of this will be a riot I guess.

What I mean is this: if the person in question isn't somebody the majority of the audience already knows, you can't use this person for a joke. My question was directed at that, not towards the possibility that there are politicians with indian ancestry AT ALL. I guess you also think that I don't think there are any indians living in the US at all. *sigh*

Sorry if all this went over your head.

What I know about you (not think) is you're a very uninformed foreigner who blathers on about our country as if you know what you're talking about. Yet you don't. Governal Jindal's name has been in the national media as of late since he was considered to be one of the likely choices for McCain's running mate.

Your ignorance of the facts and misplaced ego does not constitute a mistake on my part. Since you speak at length on subjects you know little or nothing about, you just look like an idiot. You could educate yourself and climb out of that hole of ignorance you've dug for yourself. Unfortunately you can't do anything about your lineage.

Ok then I admit I was wrong and am a Putz :-)

But you can't really blame me I'm kind of german you know...

By the way, nickmagoo, Jindal is indeed Christian, but not a fundamentalist by any means. He certainly doesn't believe the Earth is only 6000 years old. The problem with noisy people of little or no faith is that the liberal media only likes to showcase the nutcase religious types, giving anyone who has a hatred of religion the idea that all religious people are rabid fundamentalists. The real truth is most people of faith believe in evolution, science, facts, etc. It's just that we have the ability to see how all of this could be initiated by God.

I'm sorry if the rest of you don't have the cognitive capacity to understand. I'll pray for you.

"Jindal is indeed Christian, but not a fundamentalist by any means. He certainly doesn't believe the Earth is only 6000 years old."

maybe he doesn't believe the earth is 6,000 yrs old - my bad. but he certainly believes in some VERY odd stuff. he took part in an exorcism in college - and describes it here: http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1294-jindal

exorcism? oy, vey...he's a very conservative catholic (converting from hinduism) and they believe, in a nutshell, if you're not with us you're going to hell. but i suppose it's not any different than how extremely religious folks, be they baptists, mormons, muslims, scientologists or whoever.

i admire many aspects of religions - the rituals, the communal experience, the endless contributions to cultural and artistic traditions, the emphasis on good deeds, etc...and yet...i have many friends of various faiths whom i love dearly - but somewhere, deep in their hearts, they believe that i (who's wept with them during crises, housed them when they lost a home, babysat their children, etc), will be sent to a (albeit nonexistent) fiery pit filled with demons and eternal agony. that is really, really messed up, and frankly, insane.

"I'm sorry if the rest of you don't have the cognitive capacity to understand."

and here i thought christians were supposed to be humble - remember, don't judge, lest ye be judged ;-) i was a good catholic altar boy and did my time in the church so don't take me to task for not believing in an invisible man sitting on a cloud somewhere in the land of make believe. but it's fine with me if you want to.