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Posts by Babinich  

Joined: 26 May 2008 / Male ♂ 		Last Post: 4 Mar 2014
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Posts: Total: 455 / Live: 209 / Archived: 246 		From: Chicago
Speaks Polish?: not quite yet...
Interests: Math, history, science, economics, & hockey

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Babinich   
1 Apr 2011
Feedback / A Personal Request to all PF members [119]

Please contribute with respect and kindness there, because this is the least a friend can do for a friend?

Ahh ... a fair chance... lol. How can you not understand what I wrote when everyone else seem to have understood? Why are you so slow man?

emphasis mine...

As Scooby Doo would say: Ruh-roh! :')
Babinich   
21 Mar 2011
News / "Shale Gas Revolution" will make Poland a Leading Country in Europe! [202]

But youre a corporate boy with a profit agenda.

You'd rather a statist who feeds on ignorance of their citizenry?

Fracking will only be made sound and safe by innovation from the private, not public sector.

Overall capitalism frees people from poverty; statism ties people to dependency.
Babinich   
9 Feb 2011
History / Polish martyrology during WW2 - today`s monuments [54]

Isn`t it unfair that today Polish losses are so unknown and forgotten?

Those are beautiful images Pawian.

I am not sure I'd use the word unfair. The word I'd use is unfortunate.
Babinich   
6 Feb 2011
News / Poland building an empire (instead of a nation)? [67]

Bratwurst Boy

Germany and Poland get along just fine. They rely on each other; one for exports the other for parts.

There is nothing wrong with economic expansion and free markets. Why such consternation?

As nations become more energy independent (nat gas) you'll see greater economic growth.
Babinich   
5 Feb 2011
News / Poland building an empire (instead of a nation)? [67]

Poland losing its focus on building a nation. Now it wants a military alliance with Ukraine and Lithuania. They can't leave the past.

Why not? As Germany and Russia draw closer it's nice to have some friends.
Babinich   
31 Jan 2011
News / Poland goes bankrupt? [110]

Work on becoming energy self sufficient.

The Chinese are light years ahead of the best and the brightest currently taking up space in Washington who tout wind/solar power and high speed rail as the best examples of American scientific achievement.

energyfromthorium.com/2011/01/30/china-initiates-tmsr/

Where's the money coming from to fund tax cuts? Bush's tactic of cutting taxes didn't work so well, did it?

Not when couple with higher spending.
Babinich   
24 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Babinich U.S. preform the same stress test and they choose to keep it a secret

You may not believe the numbers but the results were no secret:

In the US, one organization performed stress tests. Forty-seven banks failed, requiring seventy-five billions dollars of capital to reflate the system.

Not to mention that the EU banking system is three and a half times the size of the US banking system relative to GDP. The EU banking system is that much more levered to GDP than US banks.

Twenty-six organizations performed EU stress tests. Ninety-two percent of the banks passed, one Greek bank failed requiring three billion Euros of additional capital.

Maybe YOU remember the defense deals struck with Germany by the Greek government (submarines) to gain entry to the EU.

First & last: The Greek government, as a sovereign, is responsible for hiding their liabilities.

If GS was involved in financial deals in Greece, which I don't doubt, who took the other side of the trade?
Babinich   
23 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Clinton sighing , Larry Summers and Rubin by supporting , McCain and Graham by writing the bill and bringing it to vote deregulating banking, that allowed speculation and derivative trade as bets around the world exploded, the rest is history as Goldman such and jp Morgan sold securities around the world. it was the biggest theft from tax payers around the world.

If you believe that the US started all of this and that's a big if, does one really have to be remained that there are two sides to a trade?

Western Europe's medical care systems, employment philosophy & EU membership slight of hand is the cause for your woes.
Babinich   
21 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

we tend not to let poor people die as a matter of policy

Unless you have statistics to prove the US "lets people die" then all your statement does is play fast and loose with reality.

Or is it maybe a big combination of many factors,one of them being the sub prime debacle that rippled out from the US?

It's not my fault. I hear that all the time...
Babinich   
21 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

I can still visit my Doctor on the day I first feel ill and not have to worry about whether that means I or my family eats more than beans and bread for the next few months.

Interesting... Every time you feel ill right? At no cost right?

Tell me why Cameron is looking for NHS to openly compete with private health care companies?

Tell me why the EU is burdened with debt with some looking to default?
Babinich   
19 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

A question and a hypothetical if you don't mind...

Are you saying a person paying into universal medical system has unlimited access to a provider?

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So when a patient, and elderly patient, in a universal medical care system is diagnosed with cancer and needs a PET scan the European government providing such care picks up the tab?

How long does that patient have to wait for the modality?
Babinich   
16 Jan 2011
News / Die Welt-Poland and Germany are the economic driving force of Europe [239]

Proud to say Ive made it 34 years without a credit card,Im by no means rolling in money but I own my home outright so although I do worry a bit about this down turn Im able to ride it out,even being out of work temporarily.

Convex's reply:

Amen to that. That kind of follows the German/Polish business mindset of careful expansion and paying your own way. The consumer mindset on the other hand....

I cannot disagree more... Credit is a powerful tool when used intelligently.

When will the madness end?
jackhbarnes.com/2011/01/15/slovakia-hates-being-in-a-greek-tragedy

It's like the movie A Clockwork Orange. Alex, our protagonist, is altered against his will by statists 'who know better'.

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.- Benjamin Franklin

BB,

When will Germany become Germany?
Babinich   
5 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

Not really no, they still had upwards of 2 milion reservists, thats a lot.

The Soviets were at the end of their manpower reserves.

From 1941 on through to late 44, the Soviets were conscripting down to the age of eighteen.

By late 1944 the Soviets were conscripting down to the age of seventeen.

By early 1945, due to the massive losses taken in the final battles for Germany and Berlin, the Soviets were conscripting down to the age of sixteen.
Babinich   
4 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

They always had the expendable numbers.

No they didn't... By the end of the war the Soviets were at the end of the line where manpower was concerned.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

But in late 41 till late 42 Russians while still having more equipment are numerically inferior.

Wrong... The Soviets reached the figure of six million (at the front) as early as 1 Nov 1942.

From 1 Dec 1941 through 8 May 1945 the Comparative Strength of Combat Forces on the Eastern Front is in favor of the Soviets.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2011
Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2808]

Ok, well democracy is one thing, the United States is another...

That's right: the United States is supposed to be a Republic and not a Democracy.

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The equal right to bear arms should be extended to other equalities...

Interesting... Please bring to light these so called equalities you want guaranteed as rights.

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Murder rates in my country are lower, so how do you explain that??

Why are the USA's rates higher? The Great Society...

The USA has to get back to its roots: Life is full of aspirations but rights are limited to the pursuit, not the guarantee, of happiness.
Babinich   
3 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

U-boats hardly contributed to war in Russia?

Here is your quote: I'm repeating myself to the point of puking on my own shoes, untill 1943 when Germany was effectively beaten at Kursk it was fighting on one front.

The fact is Germany was fighting in a number of different theaters... Period...

Your source implies that Axis forces melted by more than half a milion which is...a joke? I understand there can be a huge disparity in claims but lets not quote extremes?

Why don't you cite your sources?

Comparative Strengths of Combat Forces, Eastern Front, 1941-1945:
22 June 1941
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Germans: 3,050,000 (Eastern Front) 67,000 (Northern Norway) 500,000 Finns & 150,000 Rumanians.

Table C, page 302
When Titans Clashed - David Glantz & Jonathan House

3,767,000-3,407,000=360,000
Babinich   
3 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

No, the Germans were fighting in the Atlantic, North Africa, over the skies of England (the Blitz) as well as continental Europe (the beginnings of the western allied bomber campaign).
Babinich   
3 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

A largely ignored fact is that by the end of 1941 Russians were outnumbered

If you'll accept the month of December of 1941 as being the end of 1941 then that fact is largely ignored because it is wrong.

Comparative Strengths of Combat Forces, Eastern Front, 1941-1945:
1 Dec 1941
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Soviets: 4,197,000
Germans: 2,700,000 (Eastern Front) 67,000 (Northern Norway) 500,000 Finns & 140,000 Rumanians.

1.29:1 manpower advantage to the Soviets.

Table C, page 302
When Titans Clashed - David Glantz & Jonathan House
Babinich   
1 Jan 2011
History / Polish flag over the Reichstag first? [399]

A polish group outside of the soviet army getting to the Reichstag first??? Hard to believe...

Instead of arguing who reached the Reichstag first I'd ask at what cost.
Babinich   
1 Jan 2011
News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]

Whether you believe in the sacrament of confession is irrelevant.

Your statement was that clergy pretend to be pure. The priests I know do not believe themselves to be pure.