UK, Ireland / Paying tax in the UK??? Then you're breaking the law!! [41]

I've never heard this said about the Ayatollah, but rather the President of Iran, Ahmadinejad. There are also more than one "Ayatollah" but I assume you mean the one at the head of Iran....

hairball, by your definition of genocide, ALL wars are "illegal" as to seek to win involves killing the enemy, specifically the enemy, and only the enemy. Who is likely to be only from one nationality or social group...

Neither of the two gentlemen listed above however were screaming before the invasion that they KNOW Iraq did not have WMD's. Neither had the access that is available now. I find it odd that now it is politically popular, suddenly they are "sure". Never mind the whole fine line between "they aren't there now/we haven't found anything" and "they were never there". As for no UN sanctions being broken, that's completely BS if only in respect to the no fly zone, however I agree that if you're going to let a dictator get away with it on a regular basis, you should not be surprised if he expects to do the same under the next administration.

Say what you like, but so far I remain unconvinced.

John P.

Genealogy / people who had grandfathers fight the war [12]


I am in a similar situation. My grandfather was born in the US while his parents were visiting, and they went back to Poland. He was too young for WWI, and when the Germans rolled over Poland, he joined the US Army and went back. Apparently almost everyone in his platoon were killed with the exception of him, fighting the Germans, and he had shrapnel wounds he had to treat until the day he died. My Grandmother, unfortunately, had had enough of his trinkets and memorabilia "junk" if you will, and threw everything away when he passed. I remember medals, captured things from the Germans, and some photos where he apparently was involved in liberating one of the concentration camps. I don't know which one, but will never forget the photos. He took them in color.

Apparently I still have relatives living in Poland, but I've never been to Poland, and unfortunately do not know the language, either. One day.

John P.

Language / (part 2) Polish Language Pronunciation - Sample Words and Phrases [311]

EX-PEN-SIVE

John P.

USA, Canada / Where can I get Zywiec near San Diego [25]

Chief Z,
I will be returning to San Diego for a week or two in June for my wife's family reunion, which store in Santee did you have buy the beer? I might like to try it while I'm there.

Tecate IS right across the border, although I've never had opportunity to try the tour...I am usually distracted by the Tequila long before I get into their beer, although it has been some time since I've been to Mexico. Last trip I enjoyed, if you get a chance go down to Puerto Nuevo and enjoy some Lobster, Mexican style (they fry it...but it is very tasty) Quite a neat place to visit.

I do plan to try that beer when you spill the beans, Chief...

John P.

Love / Stalker Friend of my Polish GF? [40]

Sounds like an ex....

John P.

USA, Canada / POLISH AMERICANS AND THE 2008 US ELECTION [79]

+1 KD;
I really don't like ANY of the candidates all that much. If backed against a wall and forced to choose between the 3, I would rate them McCain, Clinton, and Obama, in that order, with McCain and Clinton being quite similar in my opinion. All of them are just saying what they think will get them elected. Once in power, as we all know with all politicians, things change.

While the U.S. has Chicago, which some account as having more Poles than any city in Poland herself with the exception of perhaps Warsaw...I do think the visa waiver issue needs to be looked at closer for Poland.

I can't ever remember anyone I know going on a mission with Mexican troops at their sides, after all...I CAN remember POLISH troops with us, and it is something I think should not be forgotten.

Unfortunately, when politicians here make promises about "citizenship" and all those other promises...they are pandering typically to the illegal immigrants who have swarmed in by the millions at the US borders, and are even illegally voting in some areas not requiring identification. Not Poles and others who have overstayed visas. Not enough of them voting I guess.

Doesn't make it right. Right now, with the set up and political bias of our media, a real leader wouldn't make it two steps in a U.S. election, IMHO. And if he did, he or she wouldn't get much coverage.

John P.

News / China to buy 150 helicopters from Poland [47]

very possible.
With China nothing is free, and if they see something they like, they'll pay handsomely for it until they can work out how the thing works and make their own version. There are some very capable helicopters from Poland, and it would be very savvy of China to buy some to fly against her own pilots. I think a similar reason is why the U.S. currently has more Mi-24 Hind helicopters than Russia does (I guess we bought a lot of them...) for training pilots.

I've even seen gun camera footage from one in training getting the drop on an F-14 (how it does it I probably shouldn't get into-but all the helicopter types in the room cheered-there's a fixed-wing/helicopter rivalry of sorts...)

John P.

News / China to buy 150 helicopters from Poland [47]

I think it is interesting that China wants to buy Polish made aircraft. China is quite capable of making their own. If they are military aircraft it is possible China wants to allow their military pilots to practice flying against Polish aircraft. Another option that has been seen time and again from China, those same aircraft will be either copied outright or "improved" in some way, and sold at a price to the world market that the Polish manufacturer cannot compete with, eventually driving the Polish manufacturer out of business and allowing the new Chinese manufacturer to name its price. It's economic warfare 101 and the Chinese are masters of it. Try buying a television set made in the U.S. for instance (U.S. used to make the vast majority of the world's televisions). Good luck-China, due to different labor rules etc. can put a complete television set on the shelf at WalMart or wherever for less than manufacturers in the west (not just the U.S.) can buy the raw material GLASS for the picture tube alone. Same thing with military hardware. There are floods of Chinese made "M-14" rifles that look and operate almost identical to the original U.S. version, as well as outright copies of Soviet submarines, even their missiles are copies.

Does anyone know the claimed use for the Polish made helicopters?

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


Wouldn't be any reason for war if they did, now, would there?


American embassies are American soil, Rocky-how many of those have been attacked recently? What about American civilians murdered? do they not count?
John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]

Maybe I do....
But I'm polite.

Have fun folks, back into the fray later.

Real life calls....

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


Yep....those guys. Notice habeas corpus isn't listed anywhere in those "inalienable rights", nor is there any provision to grant said rights to citizens of other countries...

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


Rocky, aliens are not citizens. Immigrants are, and as far as I'm concerned, every single one of the IMMIGRANTS are WELCOME here. They probably know more about being an American than most Americans born here.


You think your gold will stop a bullet? It won't. Somebody will take your stuff, unless you are polite and have friends. It is how people get along, even in "lawlessness".

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


Enemy combatant? get a dictionary lol. They are not citizens, even the ones who *used* to be before taking up arms against the United States.

By definition, the constitution of ANY nation only applies to its own citizens. Even the beginning of the preamble, it says "We the People of the United States..."

The U.S. government does not have the authority to grant rights to other nations' citizens.

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


You have a source for this info? Mind you, Rocky is a citizen...of course it never applies to non-citizens. It would be like me demanding to be given Canadian rights.

Constitutions only apply to the citizens of that particular country.

Thank you for making my point.

Really. How's that going to help you when the tests are random? Oh wait, you thought they would warn you? Good luck with that. Tell them you want to wait 30 days or let your Dad do the test.


Nope, probably not. I'd just think you were a lazy kid that smelled like pot all the time. People who don't smoke it, even if they don't say anything, can smell it.


FWIW, good for you. I even agree with you about NAFTA being a bad idea; but why are you so DEFENSIVE, if I'm not hitting close to the mark? By the way, you obviously have no idea what the military is or is not and are IMHO most like just a simple troll, hoping to spool people up. Wow. you're a sophomore. Whoop te doo. You haven't even STARTED the important stuff then. Talk to me when you actually DO have a degree, or barring that, when you find some maturity in one of your rolling papers.


...WAS worth 3 mil....when's the last time that baby got appraised. In case you didn't get the memo, the housing bubble just burst...still, kudos for your DAD for owning 2 homes, you'll always live in his shadow. It would seem you own ZERO homes....


Let's hope for your sake and people like you that you are wrong. Times of lawlessness are not good times for impolite people. If the economy collapses, just as in any other nation, all your money would be worthless, and no one could care less. Your dad would only keep his houses for as long as he could fight people off of them. On the bright side for you, nobody would care about your pot. As long as you grew your own you could smoke it all you want. Hope you find drinking water, though.


Based on your posts, I'd say POT, not the military....f's up your brain....


Daddy Daddy Daddy....ever consider that hippie or no, your father might actually want you to become a man some day and stand on your own?

Rocky, it's been fun, but you're a troll.

Good luck at school.

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


Captured aliens=illegals, etc. not P.O.W.s or even enemy combatants....


And yet, it is perfectly acceptible to shoot them dead, rather than accepting their surrender and finding if they know information that could save other people. I'll leave the accounting and drug use to you, as the subject matter expert, and you can leave the enforcement of national policy to people trained for it.


Rocky, some day perhaps, you will realize that sleeping with someone else's GF while he is gone does not constitute a "relationship" unless perhaps they broke up and she was your GF. It's only a reflection of her weakness and your own lack of character. I doubt you'll get an accounting job after school if they get wind of your type of ethics....not when money is concerned. Perhaps your uncle or cousin or Dad or somebody can hire you. Seems they protect you and your friends from responsibility elsewhere already.

It is a dangerous path you are on right now. While probably nothing happened to you for preying on lonely girls, ("deployment widows"-there's actually a term for it), none of them even CONSIDERED you for long term potential, and probably went back to their BF's. Did you tell the BF's what you did when he came back? did you make the girl honest? Didn't think so.

You're young. Clean up and get serious, before you find yourself with a degree, no job, mooching on family, and either locked up or murdered by a jealous BF/GF/Husband whatever. Jealousy is always near the top of the list for motives when someone is murdered.

You could be a success. Some accountants (the good ones) make a lot of $$$. The ones who are TRUSTED by their employers. Don't blow it with the pot and with this mentality of "if I get away with it, it's OK". The job market is the real world and Daddy won't protect you. You'll have to stand on your own merits and work for it.

Good luck

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]


There's some truth to this, even if it bugs the @#$# out of most of us who aren't quite like that. Often when one sees people parading on TV as "conscientious objectors" one finds out the person in question has been in less than a year or two or is coming up on his or her FIRST deployment to war. They then complain that they only joined for "the education" or whatever. Ridiculous. One doesn't work for McDonalds and never expect to make a burger, no matter how much training you have....

(Guess what I'm trying to say, is I agree)-US recruiting doesn't seem to get it. They try lowering standards and making things easy, at the suggestion of sociologists who've never served, thinking it will bolster the numbers. This is backwards from reality. People join the armed forces because they want to be PROUD of something. The Marines made their boot camp TOUGHER-and guess what, recruitment went UP. Even though people sometimes DIE in the training, people are clamoring for the chance to be members of SEAL teams, even though only a tiny fraction ever makes it. Nobody is hammering down the doors to be a clerk.

I have seen at least one of the RM recruiting ads on youtube. Excellently done-shows different parts of training including a ditch, a short bit underwater in a drain culvert, some other stuff-says something to the effect of "Had enough? how about now? now? Then don't even bother filling out the paperwork" something like that. Here, they promise adventure or training, or whatever...honestly, I wish they'd let US make the recruiting videos. I've done some cool stuff...that maybe some guy out there would also think is pretty neat, maybe even enough to work for it.

John P.

News / US military... how does poland feel about the US military? [70]

Don't worry Rocky, nobody wants you in Iraq. Not even the Iraqis. You'll be a good accountant someday, keep practicing your accountant skills, even if it's not an exciting job, and doesn't ask you to risk your life (you aren't planning to work for the mob, or maybe Mexican Mafia, are you?) but the pay is no doubt great and there are some girls who will stay with you as long as you have that part.

Otherwise, you've got a lot to learn about the Military and what it does, and indeed, does not-do. You still have habeas corpus, also, as long as you are a citizen, (you haven't renounced that, have you?) and enemy troops have NEVER had a right to habeas corpus under U.S. law, so really-what exactly changed?

As for selling one's soul to the devil, if that's what you think of serving your country, I'll defend to the death your right to be wrong.

After all, if money is the root of all that is evil, and the devil=evil, then as an accountant, you'd be the devil's right hand man!

Rocky, I think you worry far too much about things which have no real affect on you. It would be like me complaining that space suits are hot inside-hey, if I ever have to wear one, it might even matter.

Good luck at school man.
John P.

Love / "Let's leave beautiful women for men with poor sexual imagination" [150]

Funny....wife has been back in San Diego visiting her family, and it's rained almost all the time. They are accusing her of bringing the bad weather with her.....

John P.

Love / "Let's leave beautiful women for men with poor sexual imagination" [150]


Gonna take a stab at this.
I don't think them being "Polish" has anything to do with it. I think some girls take the "emancipated" thing to the extreme of "I don't need any man-even you". Perhaps they think this is endearing, but only to other women. Personally, I have no use for a woman that makes it all too obvious she doesn't need me. Which is not the same as saying she can handle herself.

Not sure if that is where you are coming from or not, but I know if my wife, no matter how beautiful, began acting as if she did not need me at all-I would leave her, and if I found someone new, even if less beautiful or with more baggage, who DID need me to some point, or at least made me feel like it-I would be happier with THAT girl.

Clear as mud?

John P.

Life / Help wanted with the Polish law; she got pregnant and returned to Poland [41]

Lorenzo, good luck with your quest, having been in a few messes myself, I know things like that can shorten one's lifespan figuratively. Hang in there man.

Rocky-wow. Just wow. Saying "Roe v Wade" somehow made abortion not murder really doesn't prove it is not. It simply said the government *doesn't have a position on whether or not a fetus is alive* and did not BAN the procedure. It never said it was not murder, only in the legal sense. After all, abortion WAS called murder in the entire previous history of the United States....and FWIW the woman in the Roe v Wade case? She is now a pro-LIFE advocate. Nothing is as simple as black and white, rather reality is almost always somewhere between the two. You speak of "logic" then claim a fetus does not "feel" therefore killing it is somehow not murder. Truth is, how do you KNOW it does or does not? Even babies do not cry until their lungs are cleared on birth, as I understand-so how do you know a fetus is not trying to scream the entire time it is being aborted? To have such a light-hearted opinion on the subject is a giveaway that it is something you have never *really* had to consider, and, unless you are shooting "blanks" don't put all your trust in the pill and condoms....

If it were me, I think the biggest tragedy in Lorenzo's plight is that the lady carrying his child is married to another man. Otherwise, he would probably have a lot more options than he does (sorry Lorenzo, I'll leave that all to the lawyers-all the best to you and your new child)

John P.

USA, Canada / Where can I get Zywiec near San Diego [25]

This is completely my luck. [bad]
I didn't know about any of this stuff and I lived in San Diego for 7 years. Mission Valley then Kensington/San Diego (I lived 2 blocks off Adams Ave.) Coronado (for awhile in the barracks at North Island) and lastly in Spring Valley on Dictionary Hill.

Never saw a single Polish anything when I was living there, all I saw was Mexican, Phillipino, and that sort of stuff.
Balboa Park DOES have the International Village or something like that, it's just a row of cottages set with things from a different culture for each house. Never made it there, though.

John P.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]

I'm sure you're a fine example of what Californians are (not). Based on your post, I'd say I lived there longer than your age, which is what, 9? Don't worry, you'll grow up one day and your voice will change, too. Can't promise you any women will like you though.

You're on your own for that part.

John P.

USA, Canada / Diffrence between the Usa and Canada [32]

If you've already started your case with an attorney to correct prior mistakes (e.g. trying to become legitimate as opposed to undocumented or "illegal") you are already on the right track to moving up, whether here in U.S. or, I imagine, Canada as well.

Keep at it, if you finally advance, doing things the right way (even if a little late) will be worth it.
John P.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]

(emphasis added)
While I know this is a Polish forum, I somehow think you are in the right place from looking at most of our membership...

John P.

USA, Canada / Several shot at Northern Illinois University, USA [38]


Yep.


So I've heard, although I'm sure some of the "choice pickings" get "rescued" by some unscrupulous police types for their personal collections...I had a 110 year old Winchester 30-30 (so old it actually mentioned on the barrel that it was intended for use with smokeless powder!) which as you know would be a very expensive firearm- which a few years ago a coworker got and fired in the city limits of San Diego while I was gone (I'd never even FIRED it-was considering passing it on if I have kids). It was seized by the Police, and subsequently I went to Iraq, missing the deadline to retrieve my rifle. I imagine it has been melted or claimed since then unfortunately....

Melting firearms. What a hideous idea. Use them for school firearms responsibility/safety courses and I'll bet they'd save a lot more people.

John P.

USA, Canada / Several shot at Northern Illinois University, USA [38]


Hmmm. I'm sure most murderers on death row would LOVE the courts to take your point of view. While bullet wounds are indeed the vehicle for death to occur as you have pointed out, someone still made the conscious decision to take others' lives. I feel he shoulders the lion share of the responsibility. Imprison the gun too, however if that helps......


This is much harder to do than one might imagine from watching TV; in most cases one would need access to heavy machinery out of the price range of most; milling machines, metal lathes, that sort of thing-in which case, might as well make a whole gun for all the trouble "converting" one would be. In the old days perhaps some of the "assault" weapon type firearms could be converted easier, but the parts are not interchangeable nowadays, even if one could procure them....


Had he hosed them all with pepper spray then beat them to death while they were down, would you feel better? I know, of course not, that was a bit low-but we can't go on blaming the tools used by murderers, when the murderers themselves are responsible, IMHO.

John P.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]

I think that's normal. It's how people get accents in the first place, talking like people around them. After being in Cali for a few years, to native Californians, I still sounded like a "hick" but I even called my own mother once and she asked "Who is this?" and one time on leave-in my HOMETOWN-a girl asked me where I was from.

I'd picked up enough to where, *at home* I sounded like I was from Cali. Even though the real Californians knew better.
Ever heard Madonna on TV these days? She's not British....
It happens. Apparently my accent gets thicker when I'm excited or perhaps when I'm drunk-really I don't know, as I hardly ever drink, let alone get drunk. But it's how I understand it supposedly works.

John P.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]


I know, because *most* of the girls I saw in Cali were Hispanic or Asian....there were "blonde Cali girls" too but they are by no means a majority. (Used to date one, Polish/Swiss heritage, couldn't cook a lick although she tried to learn when we were together)


Guess my own accent is probably a mix of country and Cali-Grew up in the NC sticks, but stationed in Cali last 13 years until a few months ago...


At my first duty station after A-school in Cali(went to A school in Millington, near Memphis to learn originally to be an aviation electronics tech), I guess my accent was thicker, people would try to get me to say things just so they could laugh, and wanted to see pictures of either a trailer or a tarpaper shack, wanted to know if I had dated my sister. I know what you mean.

Just think it's interesting. Cali has rednecks too, but they talk a little different....whole portions of greater San Diego (ok, Lakeside-calling you out) would be ghost towns when a monster truck rally was in town....

John P.

Love / What make Polish girls better than American girls [106]


I can get over it don't worry, one of my best friends is FROM that area...but the accent does grate and I'm not above teasing. Of course, I have my own "accent" that they just turn around and make fun of me back.


Oh my. That is absolutely horrible and I don't really know what to say here. As if him cheating wasn't bad enough, what he did shouldn't happen to any girl, American, Polish or otherwise. Just my opinion. Wow. You have all my sympathies, hope you have someone who'll listen. I know if someone did that to my sisters I would probably do something horrible to him, and I don't even talk that often to my sisters these days.

John P.

USA, Canada / BILL CLINTON - what do Poles think about him? [25]


I may not agree with you about the reason for your statement, but I agree with you, all the same....
John P.