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In reply to the discussion: Santorum to Puerto Rico: Speak English if you want statehood [View all]burrowowl
(17,641 posts)71. Does PR want to be a State?
Not really.
In New Mexico English and Spanish are the official languages, since many at the time it became a state used to be Mexicans.
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Did you check to see if you left it wedged upside the back of Santorums head?
cstanleytech
Mar 2012
#11
santorum = Una mezcla espumosa de lubricante y materia fecal, la cual suele ser el producto de
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
#5
Y se la sirven a sus seguidores en bandeja diciendoles que es caviar. nt
Guy Whitey Corngood
Mar 2012
#10
Sanitorium, speak Iriquois, or any other Original Native America if you want to be in this country.
Dont call me Shirley
Mar 2012
#16
The problem with closed minds is that they're always attached to open mouths nt
Xipe Totec
Mar 2012
#20
Just keep talking holy ricky, keep on talking. you sure are talking yourself out of president and
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2012
#18
Na, it was Carbondale, PA. My mother couldn't even have a friend who lived next door
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2012
#78
Everything Santorum knows about Puerto Rico he learned from West Side Story. n/t
Ian David
Mar 2012
#19
Santorum, get a clue, learn to speak Spanish! Try a little cultural enlightment!
crunch60
Mar 2012
#22
He doesn't even realize that Italian and Spanish are almost some of the same words if you
southernyankeebelle
Mar 2012
#79
No he dit-n't. This guy has a total political death wish!! Where's his wife to set him straight?
Laura PourMeADrink
Mar 2012
#40
Juán del Pueblo to Santorum: "Raspate pa'l carajo a comer Santorum" (Go to hell n eat Santorum)
Lost-in-FL
Mar 2012
#41
Santorum is a moron for many reasons, obviously, but I don't get the hysterical opposition to
sikorsky
Mar 2012
#47
I understand that, I was speaking in general terms. What would some of those reasons be?
sikorsky
Mar 2012
#53
It begs the question-- What is the precise and relevant reason to indeed call a language official?
LanternWaste
Mar 2012
#100
I think it's obvious that having a common language in which to conduct government business
sikorsky
Mar 2012
#101
I've made it a point to learn enough of the local languages in every country I've visited/worked
AlbertCat
Mar 2012
#54
No, it's not a "bad" idea but why limit it to Spanish (again speaking generally)
sikorsky
Mar 2012
#58
Rick, while you are there... tell puertorricans you want to make contraception illegal.
Lost-in-FL
Mar 2012
#49
It's always idiota. I'm not sure what the rule is, but it's one of the words that
Common Sense Party
Mar 2012
#80
English isn't the only language with goofy exceptions. Agua in Spanish is 'masculine' and mano
sikorsky
Mar 2012
#94
I just hope Jesus loves us enough to make Rick Santorum the Republican nominee
Douglas Carpenter
Mar 2012
#62
Ooh, another entry in the "Beat the Reagan states' rights in Mississippi speech" contest?
alp227
Mar 2012
#67
wow...doesn't this guy have like an army of highly paid advisors and strategists??
Blue_Tires
Mar 2012
#82