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Posts by Rich Mazur  

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Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Comparing Poland with the US while debating effective gun controls is pointless. We have 300,000,000 of them. Even if we desolved the NRA, closed every gun store, and shut down all gun manufacturers, we would still have 300,000,000 of them. The only outcome being cops getting shot and killed for their guns. Right now they are too cheap to bother.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Russia has not broken with its' old ways and constitutes the biggest threat to Poland right now.

"Its old ways" to me means excutions without trials, torture, gulags, millions starved to death, exploiting other countries economically, attempting to subjugate other countries, etc. They don't even have death penalty. Their economy is equal to that of Texas. The life expectancy is under 60. It's a total disaster.

That does not look to me like the old Soviet Union. The aggressor is NATO by expanding to the Baltics and Poland, for example. Imagine Warsaw Pact in Canada and Mexico. The US would do nuts.

Am I missing something?
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

I personally salute the EU in this regard for supporting Iran

EU supports Iran not for some noble principle but because the EU likes making money. EU is nothing but a piece of paper. If and when things go bad, it will be the US doing all the heavy lifting, with the EU cheering on. NATO should be a profit center for the US by being paid all the expenses of having an army there plus a decent profit. Instead, EU is on the American defense welfare costing us dearly. Just look at the individual NATO contributions. If that has changed it's thanks to Trump not because they decided to be more fair or generous.

The Iran deal the mulato a-hole signed does not keep Iran from getting nukes. It only delays it. To Israel and Trump that is a deal breaker. When the Iranian government chants "death to America" I am willing to assume that they mean it. That Poles found Iran friendly in the last century matters nothing today.

Palestinians are hated everywhere. This is why Jordan kicked them out and why no Arab countries with all that space want them. They are like the Roma Gypsies.

Why the Brits did what they did way back may be an interesting story. It's like what happened to the American Indians. Tough crap. It's done and nobody is going to give NY back to them. Instead of living in reality, they rot drunk at their reservations with unemplyment at 80% or higher. Palestinians should get a clue from that and move on except, like I said, nobody wants them.

I will never forget the sight of these bastards dancing in the streets after 9/11.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

By the 1980s only Romania was poorer than Poland, people had to queue for basic necessities

So it was terrible but how did the Soviets force the Romanians to do it to themselves? If you tell me that whatever the Romanians produced was immediately stolen by the USSR or their soldiers roaming the streets like gangs, I will accept it. Or was it the Romanian ruling top doing it to those it ruled?

The list is too long for me to be bothered to post here

It will take no more than a paragraph. I am not expecting any documents and links, so go for it.

I am only asking for a list of the Soviet attrocities after 1946. Like I said before, if you insist to include what happened before 1946, please don't forget Dresden, and the two nukes in Japan. And how about 1.2 million Iraqis killed by the US on a "faulty" CIA intelligence. Oops.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Ask those imprisoned in Mokotów Prison as to who was running the show. There's your answer.

Who? The Soviet army, police, KGB or the Polish guys?

Who was in that prison?

How many?

What were the charges?

Were they executed without a trial?

If so, who executed them, the Soviets or the Poles?

Please don't be shy or refer me to a source that does not exist or is not accessible.

You do realize that the quoted sentence above is an equivalent of f*** off? Polite but exactly the same.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

And why shouldn't Iran have nukes?

Because we said so. Why did the US drop two nukes on the Japs? Because it could. Like why dogs lick their balls.

All those interlocking secret connections can give a person a major headache and the truth will never be known. For over a year, they have been looking for a collusion.

I never hate my enemies with the exeption of the illegal Latinos. What I hate is the locals here who for political gain make us vulnerable. The 9/11 19 were visa overstayers, got flying lessons in Venice, Fl, and were once stopped for a traffic violation. The cops didn't do anything because they were not allowed. All that because the US has a bunch morality drive idiots who would not allow then for the FBI to talk to the CIA. Now how f***** stupid can a country get? Is Mossad allowed to talk to the Israeli cops or their version of the FBI? I pray they are.

Israel does all kinds of things that the rest of the world goes apeshit over. Like profiling at the airports. Oh, my god, profiling? They reinforced their ElAl cockpit doors some two decades before 9/11. What did we do? Nothing because the airlines would be upset.

The damage done on 9/11 is nothing compared to what the illegals do here and are still welcomed with open arms. How Israel treats its enemies does even register on my Richter scale. If they treat a wounded terrorist, good for them and Mossad. They may be doing it to make the guy talk later. A dead terrorist is useless.

Every country does what it can for its own benefit. This is the underlying presumption at least. If Israel can get away with lying about their nukes and Iran can't, so be it.

Finally, the fact that Israel can bamboozle the US into giving them all kinds of money, discounts, and weapons, even after Liberty, goes to their credit for being cunning and smart enough to pull this off. When facing death I would do exactly the same and a lot worse.

Once I said this and meant it: If a little pinky on my daugther's hand is about to be cut off or 100,000,000 Chinese die to save it, the Chinese die. Unrealistic but it faithfully reflecting how I feel about such matters.

Again: How many patents owned by the Palestinians are registered in the US Patent office and how many by the Jews?
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Given that its Monday morning in Chicago I don't know why you are not doing something pleasant with your retirement

It's actually Friday but I see your point. So, following your advice, the top on my convertible will go down in ten minutes and I will go for a little ride and a walk.

My questions are motivated by the fact that I see a lot of well informed people here who know things I don't. Over the years, I learned never to trust zealots and always ask for specifics. So many people "America" say how they hate Trump. When asked why, they are silent, pissed off, or blow you off with this profound: he is disgusting.

Now you're praising the system and apologizing for what the Soviets did to the polish nation?

I am not praising the system. I gave the system credit for the good things the system gave me.

I left 90% because my first salary in Poland was 1500zl. That was just enough to pay for the train to work and the lunches there. Or a white shirt and a pair of shoes w Domu Towarowym na Alejach Jerozolimskich. Plaszcz ortalionowy was 1800 na Chmielnej.

I would never defend communism. Or the NAZI's. Hitler would not be able to commit his crimes without the smiling and happily cooperating German public.

My curiosity about Poland is to what extent the Soviets were aided and abetted by the Poles. As I said before, neither my dad nor me were members of PZPR. Nobody insisted that we join. He was doing fine as a scientist and was allowed to travel west before I left in 1966. My last address was Nowy Swiat 47a. Not bad for a guy who is not a member of PZPR. My high school was #37 a short walk from here.

I have very little sympathy for those who would for some principle risk their lives and the fate of their families. Those who were that stupid took the risks and lost.

Bottom line: how much culpability would an objective criminal court assign to the Soviets and how much to the Polish collaborators? No, I am not expecting some deep research. Just an estimate. 50/50? 80/20? It is reasonable to assume that the Soviets alone would not be able to do all of it. Right?
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

I can't speak to specific Palestinian inventions, but some of the Islamic ones I can name off the top of my head are algebra,

There is a US patent for algebra?

I was very specific about patents being registered in the US, as all the patents worth anything are, to prevent the discussion from going to powder, paper, abacus, and bows and arrows.

My question about Palestinian patents is very relevant. Since there are none, and the Jews have plenty, I can reasonably conclude that they, the Palestinians, are intelectually inferior. Over time, it showed in their standard of living, and the level of envy and hate toward a smarter and more prosperous next door nation.

Yes, I know that we shower Israel with money. We also do this same for the Egyptians and Palestinians - only to see that money stolen by Arafat and his buddies. At least, for the money Israel gets, Israelis are grateful. For the money Palestinians got Palestinians did a little too much happy dancing after 9/11. How much was Arafat's net worth? A billion, that's how much. I wonder what was his salary to allow this scumbag so save that kind of dough.

Then you are not familiar with the terms and conditions of the 'inspections'.

Excellent point.

For the inspections to be inspections, not a choreographed, pro-forma, boogie dance, they must meet at least two conditions, Inspections must be allowed to take place (1) any time, and (2) at any place the inspector chooses. Period. No buts. No howevers.

Under the Mulatto agreement with the Iranian terrorists, (I am refering to their governmen), are those two conditions met?

Second question. Under that agreement, will Iran be ever allowed to get nukes?

Simple questions deserving simple answers.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

Actually only about 7% of Germans were Nazi party members.

That's a deflection. My point is that Hitler was universally loved when he was bombing, killing and conquering. In that context, the Russian rape of Berlin was social justice at its best. It will be many years before Germans forget how f****** with the Russians feels at the end. Today, a German-Russian war would last less than a lunch break.
Rich Mazur   
25 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

you can`t escape thinking how is real wonder that Russians didn`t just erase ... Germany and all Germans from the face of Earth.

Are you the only one here able to keep things in perspective?

The Russians in Berlin were gentle pussy cats in their treatment of Germans considering what these bastards did to them without any provocation whatsoever. "Social justice" was exactly what happened: raping a German woman whose husband raped and murdered the Russians. This term is used in the US when blacks want reparations from me for the slaves I never owned.

You know what's really weird here? I said exactly the same thing you just did in 1960 when I was in the 11th grade in Liceum #37 in Warsaw; that all German men who took part in the war in any capacity should be executed and Germany disbanded. Well, the Russians were a lot nicer. They just too with them anything that could be lifted back to Russia. At the same time the Americans were pouring money into the West sector, creating a welfare state to ride America's back for the years to come.

Back to Katyn. With the war casualties somewhere around 50,000,000 world wide, the 20,000 killed in Katyn is a drop in the bucket. I realize that many of you are emotionally invested in all things Polish and threat Poland as the center of the universe. This emotional approach was so clearly visible when someone here wrote that the Katyn victims were Polish officers. What if they were plumbers? Does it change anything?

Crow, I made some changes to the quote to meet the forum rules.

Thats the problem not all Germans did cheer or support the Nazis, not all Brits voted brexit, not all poles betrayed and murdered jews

That "not all" is a straw argument. If it is meant to be just a detached sentence, it's a truism that should never be said.

In the US, we have invented the best response to truisms: duh!
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

You talk a lot about how awful the Koran is, perhaps you should do a little research on the Talmud

Except that Koran is being practiced today to the extent these bastards can. We can read both Koran and Talmud, pick on every word and comma until cows come home. The reality is in the numbers and what Muslims do when they are in control.

When they move to the US, that are so lovely and tolerant I could hug them. In that sense, they emulate communists in Western Europe and here. It's what happens after they seize power that should scare the f*** out of anyone with even the basic knowledge of this political movement dressed up for a religion.

Just for fun, let's try this:

Jewish temples in Saudi Arabia: x
Catholic churches in Saudi Arabia: y
Islam mosques in Israel: z

Now, I don't know what x, y, and z are. I will try to find out. I would appreciate some help if anyone knows them already.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

I find the idea of cc appealing but practically useless.

When a bad guy wants your walet and points a gun at you or sticks it to your ribs from behind, you are dead if you make a move to get yours. The only way I can justify having one on me is during a shootout with the first shot fired at somebody else.

Secondly, I would never take my gun and my wife to a place where I would be forced to actually use it. That is why you would never find me in a black 'hood.

I did take a cc course and even started the application process with the state police but I am not sure if I will complete it because of the above and because they want 150 bucks or so.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

And zionists applying the Talmud are no different.

Those look like conjectures or just opinions, not hard facts. The hards facts are in numbers x, y, and z above.

Just like theres fundamentalist crazy christians so are there crazy jews and crazy muslims.

Crazy muslims slash throats, fly planes into tall buildings, run trucks over people, shoot friends having a party like in San Bernardino, and rape Swedish women in such numbers that the Swedish women are scared to go out alone. They throw gays from the rooftops and execute rape victims. Did I miss anything?

When it comes to "crazy christians" and "crazy jews", that's where I need your help.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

The Russians raped whoever they wanted. Old woman, children. Germans, Poles, KZ survivors....

I specifically and as clearly as I could referred to the Russians raping Germans as a form of justice like in: you rape my woman I will rape yours. Except that later you killed my woman, Mr German soldier.

You know rich, I defended you against other posters because we do need new members so I asked them to kindly lay off. But goddamn....

I see the problem that will not go away. You are emotionally invested in Poland. I am not any more. Poland to me is like any other country. I went there because I was curious, not because I have any feelings for Poland. I could have just as well gone to see Helsinki or Moscow. So when I say that 20,000 in Katyn is a drop in a bucket compared to 50,000,000 worldwide, I mean it becaue it is factually correct.

If you can, from this point on treat me as you would a random guy from Nepal and things will be a lot simpler.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

Again, according to the UN Iran was found to be compliant with IAEA inspectors.

"Compliant" does not equal any time, any place.

they were sent there to fight ISIS in order to protect christian villages.

All this sophistry is a waste of time. Once and for all, Israel has been under attack by terrorists and state armies forever. Israel has shown a remarkable restrain in dealing with them. All that talk about conspiracies, CIA, Mossad, is just kicking sand to deflect and cover up the basics.

When a country is facing anihillation, NOTHING is off the table. Got it? Nothing. So let's skip all that bs with quoting ancient events and wisdoms. What counts is what is today.

Today, all I want to know is this: Would Isreal be off the map by now but for the IDF and their nukes? SImple question calling for a simple answer. No lectures, please.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

Mazur is the ugly american abroad stereotype pretending to be polish but knowing nothing about poland or being able to speak polish.

Just for fun, tell everybody here who gives a s*** - I don't - how an average American would be able to use the phrases I used here:

Dom Towarowy na Alejach Jerozolimskich
plaszcz ortalionowy na Chmielnej
sklep za zoltymi firankami

Here are two possible answers. (1) That American, in fact, lived in Poland when these terms were in use. (2) That American knows a Pole who lived there and got these terms from said Pole to help the above mentioned American better fake being Polish. (3) Picked them up by googling.

I confess that by now I find your being so suspicious and obsessed amusing.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

Now Iran is free to do business with the eu.

God bless both. And the US will do what the wants and see as good for the US. If Israel gets some benefit from the US actions, so be it.

You still did not address the most fundamental question: Under the Mulatto handshake with Iran, will Iran ever be allowed to get nukes?
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

I don't know I'm not an expert on the Iran deal, what I do know is that it pushed back enrichment.

"Pushing back" is kicking the bucket down the road. By the time the s*** hits the fan, the Mulatto will be just smiling like a fool that he is and somebody else - Israel and the US - with have to deal with the consequences of his moronic ideas from the past.

Nobody is exterminating Palestinians. Palestinians are doing their best by themselves by wallowing in squalor and hating Jews and us.

We can pick up that subject when they quit throwing stuff across the border and say: Israel has a right to exist.

Or resettle. Just as the Germans were told to get the f*** out of Poland after 1945. Why? Because Poland was victorious and decided that having a German minority would not be in Poland's interest.

I wonder how many were agonizing over the Germans' civil rights being violated then?
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

You claim to have lived in Poland but no little about this place, have not convinced anybody that you speak Polish, ...

You claim to have lived in Poland but no little about this place... It's know, not no. Whats is the definition of "little" that would be applicable to this conversation. I mean, how much do I need to know to meet your requirements? Which is a stupid question because no matter what I cite, you will dismiss as having come google. So scatch that bait.

...have not convinced anybody that you speak Polish...I didn't sign up to work for anybody. Plus, I don't give a ff. Plus, with the google translator, nobody, even you, can convince anyone that you speak Polish. Most Poles living in Poland don't know how to speak proper Polish, only a bunch of disconnected words without structure with a lot kurwas thrown in to toughen the message up.

have a bizarre story about forgetting your native tongue despite graduating from University and presumably writing a thesis on it
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

Doesnt seem very logical to me.

This sentence says enough about your approach in this matter. You want things to be logical, fair, just, and equal. This not how the real world operates. That is a commencement speech.

Once you used the word "hypocritical". We use this word as a tactical weapon to win an argument, not to modify someone's world view because nobody will. They will cringe when caught being hypocritical but that's it. The idea that I should treat my family or the country the same way as I do all others is beyond naive. I never will, and I will always be proud to be a hypocrite. The opposite is treason, treachery, disloyalty, and betrayal. Yes, I got these synonyms from the Internet.

Summarizing: Israel can have all the nukes it wants and can afford. Iran not so much. Why? Because we like the former and don't like the latter. Let's hope the US has enough fist to make it be so.

The nukes in Israel's hands are purely defensive. Iran's? Who the hell knows? They are just a bunch of medieval nuts driven by the hate of everything non-Islamic.

End of the story.

Almost forgot about those chants, "Death to America". Those are the words you get from a sick pos who lost all ability to reason. Even Stalin or Mao never said any such thing publically and on tape, but I could be wrong.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Poland has accepted over a million Ukrainian refugees. Why does the EU keep telling propaganda about Poland? [304]

I have never met any Pole Of any political persuasion,either here or in any diaspora who would dismiss Katyn As a drop in the bucket.

Neither have I. So what? To Poles Katyn is a big deal. To everybody else, it is not. Most, if asked, would say, What is Katyn?

I also know a few poles who are pro Russia but none who would take a morning to vigourously defend it and all its 20th and 21st century crimes

I did not defend anybody's crimes. I just asked for the specifics and what the Polish collaborators' contribution was.

I know many many Polish Americans, many of whom have a negative view of other immigrants.

Do you think I stupid enough not to notice your straw argument and the classical liberal move to conflate illegal scum with the legal immigrants like myself? But that was a nice try.

Which means that whatever you are then I don't think that you are really a retired PolAm engineer from Chicago

The forums rules prevent me from expressing clearly what I think about what you think about me.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
Law / Weapons laws in Poland. Carrying a concealed handgun? [918]

Over 13,000 people are the victims of gun homicide in the US every year.

It's better to use murder rates.

US - 5 per 100,000 per year.

Canada - 1.6

Vermont - 1.2

New Hampshire - 1.0

Here is the problem. The US allowes all kinds of Latino garbage in. One third of El Salvador lives here already. On top of that, we get the very worst crap from El Salvador - like MS-13. El Salvador murder rate is about 100. The crap that "immigrates" here is worse than that as these are mostly men 15 to 35. Other Latino hellholes are better with their murder rates being 30 to 60 times higher than in New Hampshire.

The point is that if you dropped all that Latino scum on Warsaw, Warsaw would be a different city and any claim that Poland a very violent place would be pure nonsense.
Rich Mazur   
26 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

You're more messed up than I thought....

Anybody who would treat and judge his family the way he would strangers is mental and needs help.
Rich Mazur   
27 May 2018
Travel / Poland - never again [593]

Can anyone explain to me without getting hyper emotional why it is obligatory to like the country where you were born or the language you were raised on? There are at least 30 civilized countries and many languages to compare and choose from. By what rule and logic are Poland and Polish special enough to be still in love with either after 50 years of separation?

Why is me saying that I didn't like Poland when I lived there and when I visited lately so horrible? I didn't like Polish food before I emigrated either and I continue not liking it here. It's fattening, served typically in all-you-can-eat cheap buffet restaurants, and usually too cold. It's actually disgusting.

Polish language is considered one of the most difficult to learn and sounds bad to me. I will take Italian or French any time over Polish. The American English is the best in every regard - grammar, sound, and directness. I remember the sound of Voice of America. It was music to my ears. The British English from the BBC was close but no cigar. It sounds pompous and high brow.

Finally, the people. Argumentitive, opinionated, looking for faults, critical of everything, suspicious, fishing for hidden meanings, drunk way too often, unassymilating, living in the past with all those Polish books, flags, and music. Still pissed off about Yalta. In the US, Poles are seen as thieves, drunks, and notorious visa overstayers. Just like blacks, always voting for the Democrats, causing both parties to ignore them.

I can understand easily what two people are saying from 100 feet. When two Polish guys talk at the club 10 feet from me all I hear is noise sprinkled with a lot of kurwas. That is how know their nationality - from those kurwas.

I have no identity crisis. All my family is here. We never speak Polish. My wife and I are 100% Anglo - always. We argue in English. I speak English everywhere - Polish delis and Consulate included. Whatever nostalgia was left in me, after my last visit, it is gone for good. Coming for a visit to this forum did not help any either. In fact, it confirmed all of my past generalizations.
Rich Mazur   
27 May 2018
News / Do we finally see that Russia doing something positive for Poland, by successfully resisting to EU ? [44]

EU is a sick experiment which hopefully will run its course and fall apart just like the USSR. I will celebrate the day when it happens. Like the fall of the Berlin wall.

In the meantime, EU is going to sit like a monkey on America's back for protection and trading while giving the host all kinds pointers how the host can be more moral, loving and, above all, more agreeable with their new trading buddy, Iran.

And if things go bad, EU has "America" on speed dial. I hope that every-so-often Trump checks if both of his middle fingers are where they should be,
Rich Mazur   
27 May 2018
News / Polonophobia rising in Israel. [144]

Maybe they don't love it but instinctively they are afraid. A Stockholm syndrome before being enslaved.