Work / Need for Public Accountants in Polska? Poland [11]

Thanks for the replies. cms, are you a practicing accountant? What exactly is a local deal, as opposed to any other employment contract?

Work / Need for Public Accountants in Polska? Poland [11]

Understood. Thanks.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2779]


I don't think America has ever taught that guns are a necessity. What we have always been taught is that the 2nd Amendment of the Constitution guarantees us the right to bear arms. That's quite a large difference, pip.


The US Constitution was written about 200 years after Europeans began colonizing the North American continent. It was the Constitution that made it a right. And, it was made a right for several reasons, one being to arm the population to fend off any government strong-arming and another was the ability to protect and preserve individual life and property. Although I do not own a gun, I strongly believe that gun ownership is as valid today as it was for the colonists and revolutionaries.


I'm sure there are Poles who disagree.


Poland certainly is a civilized society. Are you inferring that the US isn't a civilized society, pip?

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2779]


The vast, and I mean vast, majority of murders in the US are connected to the drug trade. For instance, in my middle-sized Midwestern city the murder rate is rather high (we had 70 murders last year in a population of 300,000 or so). Very few of those were not related to the drug trade. Most of these murders are in concentrated areas. Go outside of those concentrated areas, that is most other areas in the city, and violent crime is low.


I'm against it personally, but how does having the death penalty make a society uncivilized? BTW, not all states in the US have the death penalty something like 34 of them do, the federal government does not have a death penalty.


Again, you're talking about 24 states that have such laws, and most of them are administered loosely.


You got me on this one, I'm not aware of kids being incarcerated for profit with kickbacks to judges. There are private-run prison facilities, but they incarcerate about 5 to 6% of America's prisoners. Hardly enough to be considered representative.

Ishatu, I'm interested in knowing what you define as civilized--I don't mean this smugly, I'm genuinely curious.

Law / The right to own guns: would you support such legislation in Poland? [2779]


Although I'm not familiar with this, it is definitely the exception and not the rule. Hence, it's not representative of the criminal justice system and this aspect of American civilized society. Matter-of-fact, since heads rolled, it proves that such dealings are contrary to what is acceptable in American society.


It's not quite murder by committee. Murder, at least understood by it legal definition, is the intentional taking of a human life without provocation or legal justification. The death penalty is a sentence of legal justification. You and I may disagree with its use as a legal justification, but it is not murder. Frankly, I find those who argue against the death penalty as a form of murder to muddy the legitimate arguments against the death penalty. For instance, do you think it just that Hans Frank, the Gauleiter of Poland, who oversaw the mass execution of Jews, Slavs, homosexuals, et al, was executed by committee? I think a civilized society is well within the clear parameters of justice to have executed Frank. One may put forward a compelling argument that executing Frank was an act to safeguard civilized society.


That's a whole lot of wishful thinking.


I accept your opinion that America is not civilized (I disagree, but your opinion is your opinion), but this thing about the rich getting richer and not paying their fair share of taxes is indisputably false. It is not even in the same universe as reality. The rich pay the vast majority of taxes in the US. Most earners (like myself) who make $50,000.00 or less pay little to no income tax--most is refunded to them when they file their taxes. I know of what I speak, I work in the field.


Please name me one person in the US who has died because they were denied health care. It's unlawful for a health care facility to deny help to anyone in need of medical care--the uninsured, as well as the insured.


Do you propose that American investors pull their investments from Poland? I certainly hope they do no such thing, I want Poland to grow economically--I love the place :)


So, you have basically deemed virtually every country on the face of the Earth uncivilized.


Not very convincing, Pip. I don't know if you have children or not, but let's say you do. Furthermore, let's say you live in one of these uncivilized uber-violent cities in the US. You and the kids are home eating pizza and drinking coca-cola while watching a movie. Your husband--a rich guy--is in his home office working on new ways to not pay his fair share of taxes :) All of a sudden, some thug busts down the door and threatens you and the kids. Husband--who is not only rich, but a gun owner--puts down his nefarious complicit tax cheating pen and gets his gun. Husband with gun in tote runs to where you and the kids are to find a guy who looks more like the incredible hulk than a rich tax cheat lurching toward your youngest child with a life-threatening object in his hand. Instead of your youngest being harmed physically, the malcontent is blown away by your husband pulling the trigger on his .45--like 99.8% of all American gun owners it's the first time he's shot somebody. Do you still think that that gun and gun owner are stupid?

News / Multi-culti (in Poland) -- roadmap to disaster? [344]


Yeah, but if Polaków don't start having children, then there won't be enough polaków to care for the needs of Polska. There will always be immigrants willing to fill the population vacuum in Europe and other Western countries.

Life / Rate Poland (Life Quality / Culture and People / Food): 1-10! [232]

Yeah, our airport security is way over-the-top.

As a frequent visitor to Poland, I offer the following:

Quality of Life: as a visitor it's a 10/10--I drink decent beer, it's quiet, slower paced, and the in-laws pay for just about everything.

Food: 9/10, although I agree it has a general lack of imagination, I'm a sucker for smoked meats and cheeses plus bigos really hits the spot.

Culture/People: 8/10--the people are fantastic and the fact that Polish culture has survived partitions and the like and still survives speaks to its richness.

It's the the standard of living (wages:cost) that keeps me, the Polish wife, and kids in my beloved USA.

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]


But, according to the Polish Constitution it does say in the preamble that the Polish nation is beholden to its culture rooted in its Christian heritage. The christian heritage of Poland is predominantly Roman Catholic. Therefore, the crucifix has a constitutional place, if you will, in the Sejm.

News / The cross in Polish parliament - Does it bother you? [100]


My home is not church but I got crucifixes all over the place :)

Right, the Polish Constitution says that no religion should be favored, but also says that it is beholden (wdzięczni) to its christian cultural heritage. Like all law there is synthesis needed here. The constitution regards the Polish nation as having an obligation to its christian heritage, but also realizes that others should be free to worship as one pleases (I would argue this regard for religious freedom is very much rooted in Christian thought and history--regardless of the historical blemishes of years past). In other words, the Polish Nation, in its constitution, is saying it citizens may worship as they please, but as a nation it recognizes its Christian (read Catholic) roots as having a special place in its history and culture; which it undeniably does.

How exactly is it an abuse to hang a crucifix in the Sejm?

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Delphian, I think you owe us Americans an apology :)

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]


Apology accepted :) However, your wrong to think there aren't any Americans dumb enough to mix up "your" and "you're." ;)

Life / What is wrong with Poznan? [197]

Delph and other Poznanians, help WMS see the good and endearing side of Poznan. I, for one, happen to love the place and think that the people are generally fantastic folks--but, I've never spent more than a span of three months at a time there.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


Are you saying that if a doctor determines that a certain procedure will cause harm or death to patient, yet that patient wants that certain procedure, a doctor has no right to object to performing that certain procedure? This is hard to believe. It is also hard to believe that any conscionable and ethical person would want to become a doctor under these circumstances.

Let's assume what you say is, in fact, accurate. I have to assume that the grounds of not allowing a doctor to object to performing medical procedures is for the ultimate health of the patient. Regardless if your against or for abortion, the reality is that the procedure results in the death of a human. Even the pro-abortion side has put aside the argument that it isn't the killing of human life; it's why they argue from the point of it being an individual's choice. So, this isn't about saving life, but about taking life. How is this procedure, then, about the health of the patient (and abortions that are performed for the protection of the life of the mother are so rare they barley register statistically)? Or, is this restriction not about the health of the patient, but some other variable?

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

Custom?

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

Habitual practice?

Kondzior, the habitual practice of pro-lifers in the US is to pray in front of abortion clinics. If my memory serves me right, there have been 4 abortion-performing doctors killed (at least in the last 25 years). Granted, four too many, but it's hardly an epidemic, custom, or habit.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

Are you saying abortion is a basic human right?

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


Then what are you talking about? And who brought up anything about religion? I sure didn't! Frankly, I wish my fellow pro-lifers would argue our point strictly within a scientific and philosophical framework. Heck, even before my religion got so far up my rear, I changed my view on abortion through Biology and philosophy.

So, Ant63, do us a favor and keep religion out of this ;)

Out of curiosity ( with hopes of having a constructive discussion), what do you understand basic human rights to be? [And, if that's a dumb question, I beg your gracious pardon]

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


And, he should be dismissed/sued/whatever because he refuses to care for someone who is sick. Being pregnant may be unwanted, but it's not an illness. So, to equate that with someone going to an emergency room while in the middle of cardiac arrest isn't in the same thing.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]


I said it was through Biology and philosophical I changed my view, not Sociology. It was realizing that life begins at conception, that then led me to the philosophical. If that ball of cells is a human life, which Biology clearly tells me it is, then abortion is the killing of that human life. For me to accept that as legitimate, was for me to then have to accept, on principle, that the willful killing of innocent non-combatant human life was legitimate when someone with authority and power determined it so. Which also meant that human life was not inherently free, or equal in dignity and value, because it was subject to the determining control of those who were more powerful. In other words, we were completely subject to the desire of others. It is might makes right. And, if that's legitimate, then so is Nazism, Fascism, Totalarianism, etc., etc., etc.

So, I disagree with your assessment, Delph.


No, I don't agree. I'd agree if he decided to nothing simply because the woman was pregnant and he didn't want to risk the life of the baby. He should do everything he possibly could to protect the life of the mother. The mother's life is as valuable as that baby's-no more, no less. But, to willfully abort the baby is another story. Thankfully, these cases are so rare (and I know I keep saying this but it's a myth that this is a daily dilemma). Aborting the child will result in the certain death of a life. Not aborting the child does not result in the certain death of a life. Again, all legitimate means should be employed to protect the mother's life, and in the course of those legitimate means the child is aborted then it's a tragedy born of licit action. However, directly aborting the child (and, by the way, there are women who die and are harmed in professional, sanctioned abortion clinics from the abortion procedure, so it's not like a woman deciding to get an abortion is free from serious risk, including death) isn't licit.

News / Polish teenager pregnant after rape - A recent result to an older story [34]

And, Polonius, isn't that the interesting, yet ironic, thing about so-called progressivism? It ultimately leads to a totalitarianism. I think it's due to the progressives confusing liberty with license. Relativism with freedom. And, the abandonment of Natural Law; afterall, when everything is relative, there can't be anything objective.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland [2971]

The Morning After Pill does three possible things:
1. delays ovulation by affecting the menstrual cycle,
2. inhibits the release of egg, or
3. irritates the uterine lining, thereby not allowing fertilized egg (a human life) to implant, in other words a chemical abortion.

Obviously, the woman wouldn't know which of the three is happening.

Depending on which abortion drug you're talking about, they block the development of the lining of the uterus thereby starving the developing human being (the RU-486); there is another drug that actual attacks and destroys the baby's cells; some used in later trimesters cause premature contractions, that often times crush the baby before the baby is aborted from the womb; or another later trimester method is the use of salt that poisons the baby dehydrates, causes convulsions, hemorrhaging, skin and tissue burning.

Travel / Poland in photo riddles [3134]

The building is the middle finger building in Brooklyn-don't know its real name. The cupola looks kind of like the hoover tower's at stanford univ.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

George Washington. It's the portrait of him resigning his commission over the continental army. What makes this such an important portrait is that Washington was offered enormous power over the new nation, but rejected it.

It might be astretch to call Jefferson and Washington mates. Although they admired each other, and Jefferson was chosen to be in Washington's cabinet, their relationship became very strained over differences of how the country should be shaped. Washington was sympathetic to the Federalists, while Jefferson was strongly anti-federalist.

The only ties to Poland that I know of is that he admired Kosciuszko and had K build the west point fort.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

No clue...Gertrude Stein before she started looking like a man?

To put a finer hair splitting point on it....When Jefferson and Washington were getting along, independence wasn't yet gotten, so they were fighting for American independence.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

First time I've ever heard of her. Did she work as an actress over here (the US), and, more importantly, did she use her Polish name?

The guy in the picture is Woodrow Wilson - 28th President of the US of A. The posterboy of leftist elitism. A disaster of a President--although the directive for an independent Poland in his 14 Points is a glimmer of light. Other than that, he's in Obama's company of terrible Presidents, IMHO.

USA, Canada / Historic(al) Americans and their ties with Poland/Poles [78]

Not annoyed at all, I enjoy railing against leftists.

Barb Mikulski, former US Senator from Maryland or VA. She's was a bleeding-heart type. A pro-abort. I'm not certain, but I don't think she was too bad on trade, I believe she came out against NAFTA.

News / PiS candidates are losing positions in EU Parliament. Will they keep power in Poland? [272]


Is the pessimism about the Grman economy as bad as it seems? Selling 30-year bonds at negative interest is not a good short-run sign--at least psychologically. What's causing the pessimism?


What do you see are the redeeming qualities of LGBT for Polish society--or any society for that matter?


It may just be a mistake, but are you separating Jesus from God? Catholicism and nearly every other mainline Protestant sect acknowledge Jesus as God--the Second Person of the Holy Trinity. If you prefer Jesus, then you must accept Mary, as she is the chosen vessel of God from which Jesus obtains His flesh. Torq may (or may not) have a romantic idea of Marian kinghthood, but there's no denying the crucial and inseperable part the Church has played in Polish history and the special place that Marian devotion has played in the enduring spirit of Polish life. It wasn't secular ideologies that carried Polish identity (they seemed to want to either destroy or compromise it), but the Church and her special Marian devotion carried it--and Polish Marian devotion is more robust than anywhere else in the world.

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [282]


Hear ye! Hear ye! Glad to see you warmed up to the Great Combover.

My best friend and his dad built a aerospace engineering consulting business that worked on a lot of defense contracts. About 10 years ago, they weren't fans of the F-35. They were skeptical of the joint force complexities of the aircraft ever being smoothed out and they thought it was a big waste of money. Word now is that it's meeting its potential and is a lethal warplane. That single engine is powerful and makes it lightweight and capable of long ranges. This thinking that the fastest is the bestest is outdated. It's all about out-of-view engagement--the F-35 seems to be top-notch in that category.

I think its time you drop the push for a Gerpolia and embrace an Ameripolia!

News / Modern F-35 bought by Poland. Good decision? [282]


I've noticed that. I suppose this is the attitude BB was warning about when the AfD began its emergence.


5 Years ago, I might have nodded my head in agreement. It seemed like the US had lost its sense of self and confidence. That we indeed were in a period of managed decline. But, come to find out, the majority of Americans still have a brightly burning fire in the belly and self-confidence. In three short years we have realigned ourselves and are ascending economically, militarily, and globally. Some argue we are stronger than we have ever been--and they just might be right.