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Having done some research into the family tree, it was bound to wind back to the old country. I was horrified to learn that citizens living in Pomerania, once a proud part of Prussia, but now assimilated into Poland were forced out of their homes and homeland after cessation of hostilities in WWII. As history stands today, Germany declared war on Poland and pretty much the rest of the world at the time, not Prussia which it soon assimilated into it’s vision of a greater German empire. Did Slavs kick out all the natives out of Austria, just because they were part of the German cause?

I guess history is written by the winners, but what has Poland ever won? They’ve been eliminated as a country on three seperate occasions and still seems to exist for some reason. I guess Russia and Germany needed a mutual punching bag other than each other; what better than to throw Poland in between these two powers.

It just sucks that members of my family were used as such political pawns. Maybe that’s why I’ve always found dumb polock jokes funny.

I find it amusing that in the age of computers and the internet, people are scared of the basic technology that can make their life easier. Within the past few years numerous tasks that usually involved standing in a long line for obscene amounts of time have been computerized or have been moved inpart online. No more needing to be insulted by the hooligans at the DMV for their own ignorance and stupidity, you can cuss at your computer in the sancity of your own home for problems it causes you.

As for banking online, is it too scary to consider using the internet as a banking tool either? I’ve been banking online for some five years now and have yet to have the same type of problems I’ve encountered with the local banks I’ve previously done business with. Sure it may be more ‘self-service’ but how long has it been since a bank teller smiled or said hi to me lately with it feeling forced or offered me some helpful financial advice without charging me for what I already know. Plus the depositor must always play the time game with all the local entities that are never open when you could actually need them to be. Heck, banks and credit card companies have been electronically communicating to each other for years, what difference is it if they push around the ones and zeros instead of the person whose money it really is?

It’s a shame that some that understand the technology cry wolf because someone they know may have been ripped off because they have any ‘only online’ credit card and that damn internet defrauded them on some seedy site they probably shouldn’t be looking at anyway. These mavens think it’s their God-given right to scare away those that might be curious to be accessing their own information, thus confirming all the unfounded claims of those who are scared to embrace new technology.

I will defer some people are ignorant or unwilling to change due to age, but it really makes you wonder how these people can function in a world today that if was without electricity, they would litterally default into chaos.