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Joined: 13 Jun 2007 / Female ♀
Last Post: 26 Jun 2007
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From: USA, living with Canadian husband in Canada
Speaks Polish?: nie
Interests: literature, politics, history, Church history, theology, needlework, cooking

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Meg   
14 Jun 2007
Work / University professor salary in Poland? [16]

One thing I'm trying to research is, what is a reasonable expectation for a university professor/lecturer's salary in Poland? Say, at Warsaw or the Jagiellonien (sp?). My husband is wanting to make a career move, and we could go to the States, but I thought he might have a better opportunity getting a job as an English professor in Poland (there are SO MANY English Ph.D's fighting over the jobs in the U.S.). He's semi-interested except he thinks he'll make "nothing". Of course I wouldn't think you could expect what he makes now (approx C$6,000/month), but wouldn't a professor make something like 5-6,000 zl. a month? Or am I just "whistling Dixie" here? (What Southerners and Texans say to mean, "you are not being realistic!") Thanks for any feedback.
Meg   
13 Jun 2007
News / Some Poles burning American flag [299]

Well, we had this all out in the US back in 1989-90 with the flag-burning law and the Supreme Court decision.

The Supreme Court found that a law banning flag burning, even of our own flag, in the US would be an infringement on our First Amendment rights to free speech.

However, the Supreme Court did not say that just because some idiots burn a flag, that the rest of us have to "listen" to what they are "saying". Seriously, it's so . . . done.

A flag is not "just" a flag to anyone with a decent respect for his country, which is why there is such complicated flag etiquette in all countries. This is precisely why flag-burning is done - because a country's flag is a potent representation of that country. However, at this point, people who have to resort to such an act to make a point only show their stupidity and say nothing about their own cause - its effectiveness has been blunted by a quarter-century of overuse, in the case of the American flag (show us something we haven't seen!).