Asturian-American Migration Forum

Art, thanks as those are interesting numbers, and more countries than I was aware of. Now what would be interesting to know is what percent of each countries total active armed forces were committed? I. e, was the UK's 9,000 one percent, ten percent and so on. Also, ratio to population. What I am tr...

I am curious as to how the Asturian's voted in the last election that ousted Jose Maria Aznar for Jose Louis Rodriguez Zapatero as Prime Minister. Was the only reason the Iraq war and Spain's participation, or was there more? I was reading some items from the Socialist budget being presented to the ...

Manny, again, thank you for a different view from Asturias and Spain. When I read the many posting from Asturias it brought back somewhat bad memories that I have suppressed of the Asturians in Spelter. Same bitterness, back biting, emotional talks without facts or merit. Always rumor and conspiraci...

Sorry, Art, I did not band an entire nation of Islam, just those labeled by our news media as "radical Islamic" groups. Just repeating how it is used in the US presses and television news casts. However, I will review my postings on this subject to make sure I did not interwine the two, Mu...

Terechu, thanks for the recent post. I still believe you are off base with your comments without knowledge. I am gaining a better insight into your hatred. But, again, let me just cover one. The death penalty. See George Bush as governor of Texas, and Jim Perry as the current governor, do NOT as a r...

Manny, thank you for responding. Your comments are very interesting, and disappointing on our Asturian cousins. After reading what you have to say, I am not sure I want to visit Asturias as I had planned to go to Spain next summer or the year after, and attempt to go to Asturias. I have an American ...

Miguel, thank you for your last post. I certainly respect you for just saying you are for Kerry over Bush. I don't respect bashing. I have read that in Europe that Bush would lose the election by large margins, and that he is not liked in Europe. Not sure if that is a result your news outlets bashin...

Art, I disagree with you, totally on your last post on Sept 25. The folks that attack the US were not a group of boy scouts from some remote land outside the United States. They were by all accounts religious fundamentalist from the Islamic society. We, our news medias and others, have given this gr...

Terechu, took me a while to figure out what in the world you are trying to express. Lots of illogical statements, conspiracy theories, and down right just made up rumors and stories. Let's go over this again. The United States was attacked, not by a country but radical Islamic thugs from the Middle ...

Xose, meant to comment on Chavez, i.e. Venezuela. I don't believe for one minute the US government attempted to overthrow Chavez. Some people thrive on conspiracy theories. Chavez, in my opinion, created that rumor to help win his recall election and to stay in power. His government is unstable and ...

Xose, yesterday I was trying to get an accounting for each member of Congress and how many millionaires in total. Couldn't get an accurate accounting on a name for name basis; however, the comments from previous New York Times and Wall Street Journal articles stated that more Dems than Repubs are mi...

Miguel, I am going to try to respond to you. It will be difficult as you seem to have very strong, hateful opinions of Bush, the USA. Send Bush to jail for what? Hell, Spain, the UN couldn't even nail Augusto Pinochet and jail him. Let me try to dissect your posting the best I can. Iraq: --Hussein w...

Xose, you are having a bad day. My comments if read properly and fully understand the tone and content was a slur about the UN. "Superb problem solving capabilities and actively involved" should have been your first clues. Comments about Roosevelt and Stevenson were from the heart. I was g...

Miguel, good points on Chile, China, etc. With your questions, what are your proposed solutions?? Since you brought these countries up, you surely have some ideas on how to solve that one. What would you have done about Iraq?? Keep waiting for the UN? One solution is to use the UN. This organization...

my friend I draw SSN. Paid into it for over 40 years, and yes that is the program. Big difference between SSN you paid into versus government assistance that you did not pay into. You work, you paid into it, and you get a little back. That's the program that started way back before you and I were a ...