News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]


I'll challenge that statement. Not a single priest I interact with believes they're pure.

News / Y Shaped high speed rail line Poland [78]

Maybe, maybe not... To build such an ambitious project Poland will need to modernize their electrical grid correct?

USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]


Oh yeah? I've had Polish tuck pointers and roofers do outstanding work for me.

Please don't paint with such a broad brush; there are good and bad mixed in us all.

News / A devestating verdict on the Polish church [279]


It's about eternal life outside of one's mortal coil.

USA, Canada / Getting a VISA to USA by a Polish person nowadays [339]


Please define what proper health, scratch that, medical care benefits are comprised of.

History / Poland in a Slavic Union/Alliance/Federation? [335]


Please define development.


Please... Has nothing been learned from the EU experience?

News / Poles don't have a heart for math... says The New York Times [84]

The NY Times should look at its own back yard.

USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]


No worries...

The Tabula Rasa and the rest of The Apple Dumpling Gang have the solution.

whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2010/12/13/president-obama-signs-healthy-hunger-free-kids-act-2010-law

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]

And you have to accept the fact that the RCC is led by men. Leaders: secular, religious, in public service or private are fallible.

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


Read a biography about him.


Killing those that practice Judaism is not in the RCC catechism.

History / Why did Hitler kill so many Jews in Poland? [261]


Please... Hitler was not a practicing Roman Catholic.

History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]

BB,

Any talk in Germany in following suit with Hungary, Ireland and now France in the practice of seizing pension assets?

zerohedge.com/article/following-hungary-and-ireland-france-next-seize-pension-funds

This type of declaration does not help.

online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704700204575642270168946834.html

History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]


I'd be wary if I were you.

Germany and France, the world's 4th and 5th largest economies, have the greatest exposure to Portuguese and Spanish debt.

nakedcapitalism.com/2010/11/systemic-coupling-round-up.html

History / Poland, Lacking External Enemies, Turns on Itself [106]

BB,

Did you save your Deutsche Marks?

Law / Poland low on national brand chart [66]


No glitz and BS? Telling a member that elections are to be curtailed until a deal is done?

With sovereigns listing, the business climate in fact the whole of the EU, is in question.

youtube.com/watch?v=Fyq7WRr_GPg&feature=player_embedded

express.co.uk/posts/view/213573/Get-Britain-out-of-Europe

Law / The risk of investing in Europe has risen and Poland has suffered accordingly [90]


Euro's??? You'd better ask for Deutsche Marks.

USA, Canada / Not everyone that lives or comes from America is RICH! [300]

Detroit has been down. With Dave Bing in as the Mayor and thins are starting to look up. The recent election has led to a Gubernatorial change.

It will take time but Michigan will improve.

News / Palikot's "Modern Poland" and the Tea Party - how do they compare? Should be banned? [21]

No one is ignoring the two wars. Entitlements involve everyone not just the middle class. Ponzi schemes like Social Security have run their course. The money for SS is not there, and rates of return are imaginary.

brucekrasting.blogspot.com/2010/08/on-sstf-lets-go-back-to-1956.html

Obamcare took hundreds of millions of dollars out of Medicare and, rather than using it to strengthen Medicare, plowed it into this new entitlement. The law's authors also failed to produce a legitimate solution to the "doc fix" problem. The "doc fix" which was originally part of ObamaCare, was separated out to keep the overall cost of the bill down.

Because the the authors nabbed Medicare funding to pay for their new program, trimming that entitlement (Medicare is generally accepted as the single biggest long-term problem for the federal budget) probably won't be part of the deficit-reduction package.

News / Palikot's "Modern Poland" and the Tea Party - how do they compare? Should be banned? [21]


You are wrong.

The desire to cut down on the national debt is not a fad, the opposition to the big bank bailouts is not a fad, opposition to Fannie and Freddie is not a fad, opposing ill-conceived medical care legislation is not a fad, opposition to government takeover of GM with the rule of law skirted by screwing the bondholders is not a fad and opposition to combating the largest levered debt crisis in history by issuing more debt is not a fad.

The Tea party may have a Republican component but it is the Independents that give the movement gravitas.

News / Polish leader urges EU to keep generous aid funds [32]


No, they've not covered the tab.

Nor should they be expected to do so.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


In Europe secularism is the religion.

The issues that preoccupy most Europeans are material ones: How many hours per week will I have to work? How much annual vacation time will I have? How many social benefits can I garner? How can my country avoid fighting against anyone or for anyone?

Why?

There are two reasons: secularism and socialism (welfare).

Even if one holds that religion is false, only a close minded secularist can deny that religion was the driving force for nearly all the uniquely great art, literature, economic and even scientific advances of the West.

Religion in the West raised all the great philosophical questions: Why are we here? Is there purpose to existence? Is there life after death? Are morals objective or only a matter of personal preference? Do rights come from the state or from the Creator?

Religion posits: We are here because God put us here. There is purpose to life. Good and evil do exist. Human rights exist for everyone because they come from God.

Secularism is vampire; it takes life: We just happened, death is the end, we are no more significant than any other creature on this planet.

With secularism good and evil become subjective opinions.

It was G. K. Chesterton that noted when people stop believing in God they don’t believe in nothing, they believe in anything.

Some recent secularist ideologies: Marxism, Marxism-Leninism, Fascism, Maoism, and Nazism.

What about the "new religions" of the late 20th and now 21st centuries being pushed by left leaning indoctrinators? Some current examples are social justice (The Great Society) , wealth redistribution & environmentalism (global warming now climate change).

The secularist state destroys creativity: Why do anything for yourself when the state will do it for you? Why take care of others when the state will do it for you? Why have ambition when the state is there to ensure that few or no individuals are rewarded more than others?

No; left wingers and secularists have a great many similarities.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]

Atheism and secularism, Zuckerman continued, are also correlated with higher levels of education and lower levels of prejudice not only against women and gays, but people from other ethnicities as well. For good measure, atheists were less likely to beat their children and more likely to encourage them to think independently.


Undoubtedly...

businessinsider.com/left-wing-terrorism-surges-in-europe-2010-9

What about the educated? Class all the way; no prejudice whatsoever...

youtube.com/watch?v=PkuTm-ON904


I believe you're making things up.

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


Proof?

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


Such as?

History / Poland - problem for Germany? (historically continual hostility of German state on Poland) [154]

Crow,

How has that stimulus worked so far?

Life / The "Rudification" Of Society - Is This Happening In Poland As Well? [146]


It's all about "self"; narcissism. It is a move away from Christian values and a move to this so called "enlightenment" that is the problem.

Don't worry government will solve it for you whether it be an ethical issue, medical care, education (indoctrination) & energy (global warming scam). Soon we'll all be at the Keynesian endpoint.

History / Poland - problem for Germany? (historically continual hostility of German state on Poland) [154]

Crow, the problem for Germany is in the definition of their role in bailing out the other sovereigns from their financial miseries.

Life / Poland, maybe the world's last bastion of faith [67]


Do you have statistics?

Assuming many (open ended) are dysfunctional what are the reasons for this lack of proper function?

History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]


The "six weeks earlier" argument has been trotted out there over the years and there is absolutely no truth to it what so ever.

History / Today is the 1st of September (WWII start in Poland) [138]


You're kidding right?


While the invasion of the SU was a bad decision the declaration of war on the US permitted the industrial might of the US to swing into action stocking England with all sorts of war material and manpower. All of this permitted the western allies the ability to wage total war on Germany.