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Posted on 08/16/2006 10:46:10 AM PDT by lizol
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To: Palladin
You are looking for education from an unreliable source, I don't take history lessons from Sinn Fein propagandists.
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posted on
08/16/2006 12:56:52 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|I'm not a stable boy, just an Irish conservative.)
To: Irish_Thatcherite
2000 people murdered by the Provisional IRA in modern times - that is worth closer consideration. They are just a bunch of communist terrorist scum. They used to try to get donations at the local Irish fair; I got into an argument with them because I challenged them on that point. They try to get donations based on 150-year-past-date-code grievances and 4th generation diluted memories of the "old sod", and they dodge the communist/terrorist issue.
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posted on
08/16/2006 12:58:52 PM PDT
by
Rytwyng
(Only a Million Minuteman March can stop the Bush Border Betrayal!)
To: elc
I'm so jealous! I'm going to make it there before I die. In fact, my youngest daughter, Killoran, who's starting college next week, is planning on going there to study for a semester...and guess who's going to visit her? Ha ha, my plan worked!
To: Irish_Thatcherite
It's easy to see where you stand as a propagandist, invoking the name of Margaret Thatcher in your online handle.
Away with ye!
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:00:15 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
To: 5050 no line
I was going to offer a few words about the matter in hand - Poles in Ireland, but we seem to have been hijacked. I was, too, but we have, indeed, been hijacked.
The Irish Republican Army should be a member in good standing of the Axis of Evil, given its extensive cooperation with Cuba, Libya, the PLO, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombis, etc.
To: Rytwyng
True, they hide their real agenda from Irish-Americans.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:03:44 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|I'm not a stable boy, just an Irish conservative.)
To: Palladin
Oh, so you support Sinn Fein, do ye?
I'm a Irish Catholic, BTW - just in case you were implying that I'm a Unionist.
67
posted on
08/16/2006 1:05:30 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|I'm not a stable boy, just an Irish conservative.)
To: lizol
Ireland changed it's tax laws about twenty years ago to encourage immigration. I've seen reports that Scandinavians in particular are flooding in to buy up farms and are revitilizing the agricultural sector.
As long as they can keep out Muslim sheep farmer's, they should do well in the long run.
To: Palladin
You need to read up on Irish History.You can't simultaneously lecture people on their need to read up on Irish history and then recommend a lightweight, popularized work by MacManus which misrepresnts folklore, legends and anecdotes as history.
MacManus is not the authority on what constitutes a martyr in the Roman Catholic faith - the Church is - so your admonition is irrelevant.
Why don't you try reading some Irish history based on actual documentary research in the primary sources - you know, history for scholars and not soccer moms?
I suggest The Pastoral Role Of The Roman Catholic Church In Pre-Famine Ireland by Emmett Larkin for a start.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:10:06 PM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: wideawake
MacManus gives an excellent overview, which is good for any beginner.
You wouldn't have room on your library shelves for all the books I have read on Irish History.
I doubt your claim to Irish heritage if you dislike folklore, legends, and anecdotes.
I will look up the Larkin book.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:14:02 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
To: Palladin
Welcome to the Poles! They are a good match, with their industriousness and their spirituality. Surely they will prove to be a good addition to the mix. Alvin O'Konski was a conservative Republican US representative from Wisconsin who ran unsuccessfully for Joseph R. McCarthy's Senate seat following Tail Gunner Joe's death in 1957. I had always wondered if O'Konski was an Irish or Polish name, but a former employee of his told me that the name is Polish.
To: Irish_Thatcherite; Palladin
There is no point discussing anything with a person who believes that the IRA are anything other than a bunch of child-murdering terrorist scumbags who should be wiped from the face of the earth.
The IRA is the ETA is the Tupac Amaru is Al-Qaeda is Hezbollah is the Shining Path.
And anyone who criticizes Margaret Thatcher - the one head of government in Europe besides the Pope who had the moral fortitude to face down Communism with Ronald Reagan - has got a screw loose.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:16:47 PM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: Palladin
And about the Poles.
Hitlers plans for extermination of Poles were first stated in his 1927 book Mein Kampf. He called for Germans to give up their attempt to regain their former colonies (lost after WWI) and to revert instead to their ancient Drang nach Osten (Push Eastwards) so as to conquer new territories for German expansion (Lebensraum) in Poland. Twelve years later, in a speech to the leaders of German armed forces on August 22, 1939 Hitler ordered: Kill without pity or mercy all men, women or children of Polish descent or language. Only in this way can we obtain the living space (Lebensraum) we need. The destruction of Poland is our primary task. The aim is
annihilation of living forces.
http://www.warsawuprising.com/paper/jankowski1.htm
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:16:49 PM PDT
by
lizol
(Liberal - a man with his mind open ... at both ends)
To: lizol
It seems the irish and the Poles have much more in common than is mentioned in the article.
I hope the young Poles will help to reinvigorate the Irish Catholic Church.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:18:42 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
To: lizol
We should take over Ireland.
To: Palladin
MacManus gives an excellent overview, which is good for any beginner.MacManus gives a one-sided overview whose factual claims cannot be depended upon.
You wouldn't have room on your library shelves for all the books I have read on Irish History.
I'll file that claim under folklore.
I doubt your claim to Irish heritage if you dislike folklore, legends, and anecdotes.
I didn't say I dislike folklore or legends or anecdotes.
I dislike liars like MacManus who pretend they are proven historical fact.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:19:45 PM PDT
by
wideawake
("The nation which forgets its defenders will itself be forgotten." - Calvin Coolidge)
To: wideawake; Palladin
That is all true - I wonder did Palladin even look at my about page, did he see I have the Irish Tricolour on the top left hand corner, of course not.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:20:51 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|I'm not a stable boy, just an Irish conservative.)
To: wideawake
My, my, aren't we charitable today? So I have got a screw loose?
Thank you very much. It's Catholics like you that I can do without.
I will have no further communication with one who is so judgmental and nasty.
Don't bother replying.
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:21:07 PM PDT
by
Palladin
(Ceasefire? What ceasefire??--IDF)
To: Grzegorz 246
We should take over Ireland. Damn, not more Plantations! ;)
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:22:01 PM PDT
by
Irish_Thatcherite
(A vote for Bertie Ahern is a vote for Gerry Adams!|I'm not a stable boy, just an Irish conservative.)
To: martin_fierro
Actually that photo is "stuffed cabbage"
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posted on
08/16/2006 1:22:16 PM PDT
by
dennisw
(Confucius say man who go through turnstile sideways going to Bangkok)
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