Discuss Tad here

[Bob Kuczewski]

I have encouraged Tad to simply retract his false and misleading statements.

Unfortunately, he's not capable of doing that, and that does further harm his credibility.

[Bob Kuczewski]

I recently noticed this post by Tad on kitestrings.org:

Re: The Bob Show
Post 2022/03/09 19:18:19 UTC

http://www.ushawks.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3883
Putin's War in Ukraine

Bob Kuczewski - 2022/02/25 16:12:50 UTC

As of this morning ... 137 dead.

Biden's weakness has cost real lives.

Bob Kuczewski - 2022/02/28 06:13:45 UTC

The Ukrainian resistance has been impressive so far.

I wish we had more of that courage in the sport of hang gliding.

Yeah Bob?

http://www.ushawks.org//forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2624
President Trump

Bob Kuczewski - 2021/07/07 15:49:01 UTC

Today, President Trump announced his planned lawsuit to fight his bans by Facebook and Twitter.

President Trump is still fighting to make America Free Again!!

Trump's just an ultra crude clone of Putin / Putin wannabe with a tiny fraction of the intelligence. (Obviously enhances his appeal to those with low double digit IQs.)

http://www.kitestrings.org/post7513.html#p7513
The Bob Show

Tad Eareckson - 2015/03/08 15:35:11 UTC

The only things Putin has over you are oil fields, the KGB, lotsa tanks, a nuclear (nukuler) arsenal, half of Ukraine, and a Super Bowl ring.

Courage?

President Trump is still fighting to make America Free Again!!

I've never once heard one of you racist bigoted MAGA douchebags put a date on when America was Great/Free Before. 1857 work for ya?

And anyone who displays much in the way of courage in US centric hang gliding won't be around much longer in US centric hang gliding.

As usual, Tad makes a lot of unsubstantiated claims in his post. For example, he associates the MAGA (Make America Great Again) movement with racism. That's easily disproven by the many black people who actively support both President Trump and his policies. But that's not why I'm posting.

I'm posting to answer Tad's implied question about when Trump supprters have felt that America was great and/or free in the past. Tad sarcastically suggests the year 1857 which was during the period of slavery in the United States just a few years before the Civil War.

The real answer is that America (United States) has been great country since its founding in 1776. But greatness at any point in time can only be measured in the context of that time.

History is quite clear that the greatness of all countries is continually waxing and waning. I personally feel that the highest points of our greatness in the United States were:

1. Just after our victory in the Revolutionary War
2. Just after our victory in the Civil War
3. Just after our victory in World War II
4. During the Reagan Revolution and our victory in the Cold War

Each of those victories marked a turning point in human history and an advancement of the rights and freedoms of people in our country and beyond. It's important to note that each of those periods of greatness involved conflict. For better or worse, I think conflict is inherent in greatness. I think that's a result of the eternal struggle between good and evil in human beings. Greatness requires pushing back against the evil that's always seeking dominance.

[Bob Kuczewski]

It appears that Tad continues his rewriting of history on kitestrings.org:

As I reported in my previous post... Been working fixing problems and making improvements to our collections of posts from Day 1 to present since about mid February. Started with "instructors and other qualified pilot fiends" with its 1865 top level of posts and have been working down the decreasing levels of prolificacy. Have completed the aforementioned, "Weak links", "landing", "The Bob Show", "You are NEVER hooked in." and am at present a bit over halfway through "Releases" - 7718 / 63 percent of the palindrome. One could spend a freakin' lifetime...

Tad doesn't document what he meant by "fixing problems and making improvements to our collections of posts", but given his previous actions, I would not trust his site to properly reflect what people had originally posted. The same is true for ozreport.com and hanggliding.org. All three of these sites are operated by people who have rewritten the history of other people's posts on their web sites.

If you care about the legacy of your posts on the internet, be sure you pick a web site with a track record of honoring what you write. Otherwise, you will find yourself under the control of the person with the ability to alter or obliterate your own history of posts. Ask any long time poster on those other sites about how that feels.