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Posted: 14:15 17/06/2008
Opinions vary and they differ depending on one's personal experience...
Nevertheless, idiocy and inefficiency cannot become a compliment.
The first guilty person was that passenger.
The next time I take a Czech bus, I shall open a porno page on my lap-top....or some Czech news about daily and local corruption cases !
I bet you that same passenger would not even notice it.

Posted: 17:27 16/06/2008
>>In Eastern Europe, one of the remarkable features has been the continuity and similar values of different female generations in recent decades.

Eh...the Czech Republic isn't in Eastern Europe.

Posted: 15:47 16/06/2008
Why would such a gift be refused? Because it is French, and this is an intensely Czech personal issue that goes to heart of what it is to be Czech.
Additionally, other countries cannot simply offload their unwanted statues to other nations disguised as gifts.
Polite refusal was the correct response.

Posted: 10:00 15/06/2008
As far as I recall, Palach was not protesting the Soviet invasion, but the apathetic response to that invasion. I would appreciate a clarification of this.

Posted: 21:38 14/06/2008
>>I will never understand the Czech political mind - it lacks consistency and logic.

No doubt you would like "ideological statues" making "political statements" scattered all over your city. Czechs don't want this, because they have had too much already.

Posted: 03:57 14/06/2008
Richard: Is the American political mind less logical or consistent?

Posted: 02:14 14/06/2008
Now I am truly confused by the Czech mind! I thought I knew them. From all that I seen of the Czech people I thought that Jan Palach was a national hero.
What are you afraid of, insulting Moscow??? What next, Havel?

Posted: 13:41 16/06/2008
You forgot New Orleans.
New Orleans has always had a streetcar system operating in and around the center.
Since right before Hurricane Katrina, more lines were added and the undercarriage and the mechanics were built here, while the car itself (seats, etc.) are produced in New Orleans.
I remember being there one Christmas and seeing a streetcar wiz by with Ceska Republika blazing across the side.
I went to the streetcar garage and asked about it and was told that it was a test car.

Posted: 08:46 16/06/2008
I am living here and I love Czech Republic. I am a Turkish man with many Czech friends who talked too much as they were so sure to win...anyway I am so glad Turkey did win ...WE ARE THE BEST...

Posted: 06:58 16/06/2008
I saw it on this site that it is possible to approve my application here. I want to work in Canada.
Is there any program from which I can be able
to get a free visa?

Posted: 08:10 15/06/2008
The reason why old people aren't in demand is because most of them are useless. They spent the bulk of their careers "working" under the old regime, and are unable to adapt to a capitalist economy. They are typically lazy and inefficient and have no relevant skills. What sane employer, for example, would hire a waiter who spent most of his career working in a state-owned restaurant insulting customers? Younger staff are more likely to have traveled or even worked in a Western country and will have a totally different attitude.

This is not a problem caused by lack of legislation, it's an inevitable legacy of this country's socialist past.

Posted: 06:37 15/06/2008
"We expected to be sneaking around and hiding all the time from soldiers, but they are not really troubling us," one American activist said. "That came as quite a surprise."

Really? Did the newly independent "Peacelandia" expect the United States to launch an attack?

If the soldiers seemed disinterested, it was probably because they thought all these peace activist nitwits were......nitwits. They'll need to raise an army or start making nuclear weapons before anyone cares what these morons do or say.

Posted: 00:51 15/06/2008
Let's be totally honest about the NO vote.
It was a mix of disenchanted groups from farmers, fishermen, anti-government, frustrated middle class, republican militarists and right-wing vested interests. As an Irishman who struggled with making our decision I finally came to the decision by reading fairly straight-forward documentation from our referendum commission.
The information was available, but I am afraid we have become a lazy electorate. We preferred to listen to the claims and internalize them into our own problems. We deserve to face the consequences of our actions. We pride ourselves on being educated but I believe we showed our ignorance. Confusion won the day because we allowed ourselves to be directed. I believe we deserve to bear the consequences of our inability to grasp fairly straight forward arguments and allowed ourselves to be confused by the NO campaign. Unfortunately the consequence of our action may not be apparent for our own generation but our children will rue this vote.
Europe won't be wagged by the Irish tail. Rightly so. We deserve to be left on the sidelines and we will be - eventually. The NO voters will abdicate responsibility when the consequences unfold. But history will be the final judge.

Posted: 19:24 14/06/2008
The author of the article rightly notes how, when interviewed, local Muslims have shown a rather moderate reaction.
On the other hand, why would they react differently? The government is already curbing the freedom of expression for them. Last month, the police started a criminal investigation against those who published Fitna on the Internet.
The Czech Republic looks more and more like an Islamic state (= prosecution for those who criticize Islam or Muslims), despite the relatively low percentage of Muslims who live there.
Anyway the author "forgets" to mention that only two years ago, an imam from a Prague mosque was caught on (hidden) camera saying that the ultimate goal for Muslims in the Czech Republic was to establish an Islamic state with sharia law (reported in Czech TV), look at Prague Post of March 2006.

Posted: 18:20 14/06/2008
Freedom of speech as absolute and universal right is encompassed in the U.S. Constitution only. All other countries attach a "but" or other qualifiers limiting the freedom of speech to whatever the ruling elite are willing to tolerate at a given time.

Posted: 07:06 14/06/2008
>>If I post one of these cartoons on the roof of my house here in America, no policeman could force me to take it down.

Try doing something "anti-semitic" in America and see how long you last.

Posted: 18:52 13/06/2008
See what did I mean........NO MATTER WHAT>>>

Posted: 17:43 13/06/2008
"Foreign Affairs Minister Karel Schwarzenberg.
"In my opinion, such posters are an expression of intolerance and aggression. ... It has nothing to do with freedom of speech."

So sad that a government official does not understand FREEDOM OF SPEECH. Maybe he is longing for the days of communism.

Posted: 20:24 13/06/2008
The "median" income instead of the "average or mean" income should be used to see how the average person is performing. The median is the midpoint. Although the "mode" might be even better.

Posted: 17:35 13/06/2008
Well nobody likes "...who are thieves, who mug people at night, who are too lazy to work, who have poor standards of personal hygiene and who have no pride in the upkeep of their properties..."

But I met many Czechs that fit that description that were not Romany. Cooruption is embedded there and there are plenty of shacks in the Czech. And do not preach to me about the US - we have plenty of people fitting that description of all of the races. So does the UK. haha

But you cannot keep up appearances if your finances are in disarray. And it is hard to put your finances in order if you cannot work due to the xenophobic, racist situation that exists in the Czech.

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