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> Jestah wrote:
>> Is that much different than many other ethnicities though? It's a
>> common enough occurrence where I live to see Italian and Irish flags
>> as it is hearing people speak Italian.....
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>
> It's funny you would say that, because this Italian legislator is
> taking a stand agaanst Hispanicks trying to force their loser language
> on the USA:
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> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/04/nyregion/04brothers.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
> September 4, 2007
> Bryan Lonegan, a prominent immigrant rights advocate, gets the
> question all the time. Is he related to Steven M. Lonegan, the
> Republican mayor of Bogota, N.J., who demanded last year that
> McDonald's remove a billboard written in Spanish and who then pushed
> to make English the town's official language?
Lonegan doesn't sound like a very Italian name to me. Irish, maybe.
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