News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

how do you know if nobody has the slightest clue who gets through?

It's not clear how many terrorists or people having connections to terror groups may have entered the US as OTMs. But FBI Director Robert Mueller, in a House Appropriations Committee hearing March 9, said he was aware that individuals from countries with known Al Qaeda ties had entered the US under false identities.

csmonitor.com/2005/0322/p01s01-uspo.html

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]

depends whose job you get :)

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


Of course people complan. they complain about Poles, Mexicans, Canadians, Black, Asians. That's what people do, especially when the times are touch.

Still, how many Mexicans are being deported?
Don't they have free access to US medicare? Education?


And they were caught because the US/Canadian border is pretty close to being a real border. The one with Mexico is a farce. The US spends billions on defense and Homeland Security, while a big gaping hole called the border with Mexico is wide open. It's like installing security alarms on the bathroom vents but leaving the doors and windows open.

News / Are Polish People Being Discriminated Against? Problems getting a US visa. [258]


why?


I don't think the government cares. It almost seems like a tool in finishing off the American middle class. America simply cannot compete with China so things are turning pretty Chinese by use of cheap labor from Mexico.

I don't think Poles are discriminated any more than other nations. Heck, many Canadians complain about US birder crossings. I got eventually sick with the US border. Not so much gong into the US but leaving it. They checked people LEAVING the US.

Food / PIZZA & KETCHUP served only in Poland? [159]


Yes. I think it's safe to say that any pizzeria has a bottle of ketchup on the table.

Bacon Cheeseburger Pizza
Ketchup and Mustard base, covered in Hamburger, Monterey Jack, Cheddar and mozzarella Cheese, topped with Bacon $13.30/$16.55

If someone has a taste for this I'm sure the owner of Tony's Pizza in Cheektowaga, NY (suburb of Buffalo) will be thrilled.

tonystakeout.net/pizza.html

I've been to the place a few times but never tried pizza with ketchup/

Hungarians are also know to serve ketchup with pizza.

News / What's the stupidest question asked about Poland? [414]

I was asked why Poles have pink flamingos (the plastic, ulgy looking things) on their front yards.

The first time in my life that I saw such an ugly, pink flamingo was in Buffalo NY. The front yard belonged to an American of Norwegian descent.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

if you realize what the first W stands for in the "WW" then you will understand.
It is strange that someone in 2009 will not agree that the killing technologies today are immensely superior to those during WW2.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


Extermination camps are not necessary today. They are way too costly and draw too much attention. An entire region, or even a country can be considered an extermination camp if someone with enough power and desire wishes so. The art of mass killing has progressed immensly since WW2 and the results are called "collateral damage".

Law / Can a student go in any other Schengen country with a Polish National Visa (D) [46]

You want to study in a Scandinavian country so you get yourself a Polish visa? You wouldn't happen to try and study logic, would you?

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]


To have one and to get one are tow different things.
You don't have one and you are a resident of Poland, not a citizen


And yet you wrote about grandparents before I even knew about this thread.


Not true.
A person born outside Poland has to claim the Polish citizenship and the decision has to be made. Poland has no way of controlling all births of Polish citizens all over the world until they come forward and claim the citizenship. If the application is filed abroad it needs to be filed in a Polish consulate. It's a process, and pretty easy but not automatic.

For descendants of Polish citizens these are the rules:

translation:

A person is considered of Polish descend if the said person declres Polish nationality and fulfills these two conditions:

* at least one of the parents or grandparents, or both grand-grand parents were of Polish nationality (this condition is fulfilled if the antecedents confirmed that they belong to the Polish nation),

* shows his/her ties to Polishness, particularly through continuation of the ability to speak Polish, knowledge of Polish customs and traditions.
From a site run by Polish lawyers in Poland.

So no, just walking into Poland and claiming "I'm a Polish citizen cuz my mom was" is not good enough.

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]

There is not such a thing as "your" Polish passport. You simply don't have one.


I wasn't talking about any specific person about the4 fact that there is nothing automatic about Polish citizenship.


Why, do you need a refresher in Latin? Oops, I guess you never took Latin in school.

Blood is one thing but papers are quite another. Someone who never held Polish citizenship cannot pass it on to anybody. Polish citizenship did not exists for some 123 years before 1918. Just because a person's grandfather had Polish blood does not mean that person will automatically get Polish citizenship. A person born in Warsaw in 1915 was a citizen of Russia, or rather a subject of the Russia's tzar.

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]

Oh, I do. I am a Polish citizen too. You're not.


Indeed, you have a very vague clue.

A person who was born born before 1918 and then went to the US, also before 1918, would not have Polish citizenship. Hence the person would possibly pass on Polish heritage and lineage to his offspring, but not citizenship since himself he would not have been a citizen of Poland, without first applying for it. Then his offspring would have to apply for it too. Nothing automatic in this, is it?

Law / Polish Citizenship for a foreigner whose parents was born in Poland [174]


Perhaps Polish (or half Polish) in a sense of ethnic origin/heritage but not citizenship.
Not automatically anyway.

News / Polish Mom claims daughter got pregnant from swimming in pool! [162]

damn sperm whales!

Love / The age of consent in Poland is only 15 [147]


Is it believable and consistent, since Mary is believed to have given birth to Jesus when she was 13 or 14, so she could have been "blessed" when she was 12.

I think at the time a legal age for Jewish girls to marry was 9.

Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]


Nah, it's quite a few fences away but in the same general area. The cat's happier too and I now have a space to store lumber before I dress it up. I buy rough cut wood from farmers and I dimension it and dress it up by myself. More work but comes significantly cheaper and the dimensions are more consistent.

That blanket box is some remnants of cherry I prepared to make a kitchen table but wifey changed her mind. Having seen a little walnut stool I made for her she now wants a walnut table :)

Yesterday I bought a few raspberry and red and black currant plants yesterday. I guess I won't be able to open a fruit stand this year but I hope to have a jar or two of preserves next year.

OK, gotta go to a hardware store. Clamps are on sale, and you can never have too many clamps.

Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]


used to be, about 7 or 8 years ago. I moved to a bigger, better place where the grass is greener.


Whatever wifey wants :)Working on a small blanket box right now.


Nah, I use my viciously cute cat for that.

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Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]


No plants need them.
Those who sell them do.

Below some examples of what you can do if you have limited space, all plants in pots:


This is a pretty common technique around here too. People buy cedar mulch to keep the weeds and slugs out, and moisture in. I do woodworking in my garage as a hobby so I get a couple large bags of cherry wood shavings every now and then. I also get a lot of black walnut shavings but those I put those in the gardens of my enemies ;-) The chemistry of walnut wood is not very friendly towards other plants since it changes chemical composition of the soil by introducing some kind of toxins but I forgot what they are called.

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Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]


Not much really.
You seed inside the house around the end of February. Still the seeds in some tiny containers, plastic yogurt ones will do. Water to keep the soil moist but not wet. Keep exposed to natural light. Moving the plants outside depends on the climate. You don't want them to be bitten by morning frost, which sometimes happens in warmer months.

When the plants are somewhat bigger plant them outside. If you don't have a backyard a balcony will do. Replant them into bigger pots - 2 or 3 gallon ones are just fine. For one person., I'd say that on average 1 to 3 plants will yield enough tomatoes to have a steady supply daily till at least the first half of September in my climate.

Similar process (remembering that the devil's in the detail) can be applied to cukes, lettuce, radish and all the other little poopsies.

Oh, no -cides of any kind. I can get those on store bought veggies. The difference in taste is very obvious.


It's not really Canada's problem as most of it is exported anyway.

Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]

I do have some real contact with a little piece of Polish flora. For the 8th year I have been seeding and successfully growing yellow baby tomatoes. My mother in law sent me the seeds a while ago.

OK, now I admitted a crime of importing foreign plants from abroad. If someone from Agriculture Canada reads this I'm fried. They will come over, eat all of my little tomatoes and I will be branded a grow-op operator :)

Life / Polish plantlife and similar flora where you live. [81]

Where I live (Niagara Region, Ontario) some landscapes are very similar to those in Poland but where it ends is the detail. The devil's always in the detail. Venturing into a forest may yield nasty surprises - a skunk, a rattle snake, at times even a lost bear. But even without those I can't imagine myself, for instance, picking mushrooms. I wasn't brought up here and I don't have the feel for the mushrooms so I end up buying them in Polish stores.

Going up North is even worse. Once you go past flesh eating black flies, the flora is very different - even if the forest you are entering looks much like Polish ones from afar.

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions. Andthe Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people.

Albert Einstein, 1954

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


There is a catch though.
This fella is credited with being responsible for the largest number of communists ever killed by anybody :)

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]

yeah, it's like kids in Vietnam who worked for Nike for next to nothing.
Or for that matter, to change the scenario, like non whites in Poland. Why don't they just leave?

History / Polish hatred towards Jews... [1290]


Money lending for profit was pretty much a forbidden by RC as per OT and parts of NT, although in NT interest from lending is OK

biblegateway.com/passage/?search=luke%2019:23-19:23&version=31
In general, lending for interest was tolerated by the RC if the lender took an equal risk as the borrower.

In OT Jews are not supposed to charge their own people any interest , but charging "foreigners" if just fine.

Life / 80% of Polish people are boring or can't party, why? [179]


Well, it takes years of study to be able to get stoned like that ;)
I'll let you know when I'm ready to vacate the position and to move on to greener pastures.

Life / 80% of Polish people are boring or can't party, why? [179]


I just came back from a conference.
Every evening there was a bar and each participant received 2 drink tickets for a bar on premises for each of the 4 nights. The evening was pretty drabby until Microsoft announced they are paying for all drinks without any limits - open bar!!!

Everybody started having fun after about 4-6 beers. Lots of singing (a few X-Box 360 stations with guitar and drums game mikes for vocals). The singing was loud and not only by those at the X-Boxes. The ladies were initially somewhat shy. Until they went through a couple of fancy drinks, and they joined the singing.

Company was pretty much international with a majority of Americans and Canadians.

The next night drinks were on CDW, then IBM and then some company I don't even remember. Who cares, booze was free and short of hanging off the rafters everybody went wild.

So what was your point?

Life / Parking Fines in Poland [26]

Isn't there a paragraph somewhere in Polish driving rules that though shall not park exits whether there is a sign or not?

News / Poland's pollution of the Baltic Sea [46]

Not sure if that's a prob.
I'd say, like a German buddy of mine used to say years ago - don't use the garbage bin. Just toss it on the sidewalk, you'll create a job. Someone has to clean it up.

Language / Use of A/An/The ...... Articles [186]


True, but how does one start to get the feeling unless the person is exposed to the language 24/7 (minus the sleep time).
How about this:

The articles in English by Henryk Kaluza
Warszawa : Panstwowe Wydawnictwo Naukowe, c1976.