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joepilsudski   
7 Jul 2011
History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]

And again, the great Pilsudski is to be admired for his actions.

Thank you Johnny, and I will do my very best never to get a swelled head.
joepilsudski   
7 Jul 2011
UK, Ireland / Brits or Poles more eager to try new foods? [17]

Forget organ meat for me.

My mother used to cook up kidneys, liver for my dad back in the day.

One day I came home and she was boiling kidneys, and, although I had smelled them cooking before, the smell hit me that time...I asked her whether someone had taken a p*ss in the kitchen.

Mom also used to make czarnina, with home made kluski...I used to eat it until I found out what it was...Afterwards she was upset: "You always loved it when I made czarnina'...Yeah, well, ignorance was bliss.

The head cheese, no...Jellied eels?...She never cooked those, although I noticed they were popular when I lived in the UK.

Can't even eat liverwurst, and I used to enjoy a sandwich with that, raw onions, mustard.

A substantial portion of the older African-American population enjoy chittlins (pig intestines) usually boiled then deep fried...Can't go for that either.

Working class populations worldwide prepare all these organ meats in different ways.

Asians will cook anything that moves.
joepilsudski   
6 Jul 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

I am only pointing out that marketing for Jews in Poland is a recipe for financial disaster

In any case Jews don't shop at Wal-Mart...They have netter taste...They go to Loew's or Home Depot, Macy or Neimann/Marcus in US, Marks & Spencer in Europe.
joepilsudski   
6 Jul 2011
History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]

Dmowski was an antisemite who thought Poland belonged to the "birthers". PiƂsudski was - for all his shortcomings - a cosmopolitan and the true Father of modern Poland.

You oversimplify, to the extreme...By birthers, you mean Poland belonging to native Poles?...What an outrageous idea!

Pilsudski a 'cosmopolitan'?...What, did he patronize a coffee house in his youth?
joepilsudski   
6 Jul 2011
News / Did George Soros want to destroy Poland with his economic shock therapy? [87]

Soros unveiled his "plan" for Poland

This is the general plan for Europe and the United States: to bankrupt industry, have widespread currency speculation, and an unpayable 'sovereign debt' owed to international money-center banks by governments.

It used to be called a 'robber-baron' plan, but now is referred to as this and that, whatever seems most palatable to the the media.

This plan was used to devastating effect in Russia during the Eltsin regime, by Oligarchs allied with Western shysters from Harvard University and Wall Street.
joepilsudski   
6 Jul 2011
History / Is Jozef Pilsudski the king of modern Poles? [138]

BTW, Pilsudski was not a king...He was a soldier and leader who founded the modern Polish state...He also had no particular flair for diplomatic and political subtlety.

Dmowski was a technocrat, no?...He didn't care for music.
joepilsudski   
2 Jul 2011
News / Insulting Catholics in Poland can get you 2 years in jail? [67]

Naming a catholic church as " murderous cult " is for sure offensive , and the state can`t tolerate a freedom of speach which was in my opinion breached in this case . A public statement can`t contain a language which is offensive and derogatory .

I think the point is who cares what a rock singer runs off at the mouth about?

In any case, one can debate forever about 'offensive speech' and 'free speech', but the biggest criminals in the world, in many cases national leaders, will always speak in a most diplomatic manner while ordering the murder of the masses.
joepilsudski   
29 Jun 2011
News / Wal-Mart coming to Poland? [146]

Poland doesn't need WalMart...The United States doesn't need WalMart.
joepilsudski   
25 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Poles in Philadelphia [9]

I've lived in Philadelphia most of my life, and now I'm back in the old neighborhood, Bridesburg...Both sides of my family grew up in Port Richmond...I'll try to contribute if I can...Good idea!

Krakus Market, Richmond Street

syr

Syrenka Restaurant, Richmond Street

sjc

St.John Cantius Church, Thompson Street, my parrish

Czerws Kielbasa, Port Richmond
joepilsudski   
25 Jun 2011
Life / How many Jewish people live in Poland? [145]

How many Jewish people live in Poland?

Just two:

Norman Zalecki, Optometrist from Wroclaw

Mabel Krusz, retired textile business manager living in Krakow

Almost all the rest of the Jews were killed at Auschwitz, except for a handful, who either moved to Tel Aviv or Miami Beach, and a tiny number who stayed, to whom Pan Zalecki and Pani Krusz are related ...
joepilsudski   
24 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Ha!...Listen, Shamir always goes a little hard on Poland, and he seems misinformed about certain things...I just liked the article because it presents a bit of the other side, not just painting Lukashenko as one of Satan's minions...Shamir may be wrong in some areas, but he covers a wide range of topics, primarily the Middle East...He is Russian by birth.

It is quite difficult to get unbiased, or at least somewhat balanced news about states of the former Soviet Union, and even Poland in the Western Press...Especially in the US, any stories about these countries seem as if written by robots from a computer program.

Now, I have met a few Belarussians here in the States, but, without exception, I had to pry this fact out of them...Unlike some, I am always interested in a person's ethnic background, because it makes things interesting...Anyway, the BRs are very tight-lipped in general, and, since they came over to the States, they must have felt a lack of opportunity there...This is why I say Lukashenko should reach out, make a gesture to the people, the young ones, to make them feel like they have a future there, and that he wants them to make some money, too.

I was very disturbed by the Minsk metro bombing, and we still don't know what the happened there, or who did it and why...
joepilsudski   
24 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Yeah, but who leads this 'opposition'?...Does it have a platform or program?...Or is the goal just to remove Lukashenko?

Here is a good article about Belarus by Israel Shamir:

israelshamir.net/English/Belarus1.htm
joepilsudski   
24 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Because he is a dictator to his own people. Belarus is a police state.

But he was elected...Protests there are miniscule...This leads me to believe that this is a situation where outside agitators seek his downfall, and instruments of Globalist/Zionist power seek to get their dirty paws on Belarus assets...You give no credible examples except the usual hearsay and rumours...Globalists, and here I mean Western banking interests who suck dry European countries ranging from Germany, France and Greece by subterfuges like 'sovereign debt', which is simply the latest smokescreen for the theft of national assets through the derivatives, hedge fund swindle, want Belarussian goods too...Lukashenka has taken a hard line against this by maintaining state ownership/control of essential assets...He is then demonized as a 'Stalinist'...While Belarus may not have the 'gloss' of so-called 'emerging' economies, at least their is stability there.

Some reforms are needed, but when you let the Western bankers run the show, the result is disaster, and 'shock therapy' for the average people.

Problem is people watch things on TV, and think the West is a paradise...On IMF, you borrow money from them, you sign a 50 page document where you basically sell out your countries productive base if you don't make payments on time.
joepilsudski   
24 Jun 2011
News / Polish journalist's "show trial" Belarus [40]

Journalist's Wife Climbs Fence to get to Him

Even the big demonstration is small, only a few hundred...I think most BelaRussians are probably happy with the stability of their society, although unhappy with certain decisions of Lukashenka like blocking exports of consumer goods west, where the BR people could make some money.

Are rich Jews powerful in Belarus?...I know they are powerful in Ukraine, and they probably wanted more power there with their 'coloured revolution', Timoshenko, this and that...IMF is all run by Jews, and they will let Lukashenka twist in the wind before giving him money.

Also, I don't understand all the demonizing of Lukashenka as a 'dictator'...He got elected, right?...All this crap spewed out by the Western press...Has Lukashenka slaughtered anyone, built any gulags, attacked any neighboring nation?...All I can think is that certain parties want him to privatize everything in Belarus, so they can snap it up at cheap prices.

Worst thing he do, like I said, i to NOT LET his less well off entrepenuers make some money by exporting goods and services west.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]

If they're low, we give them what they asked for (if they're hired) and then have a lot of room for a generous increase next year.

STOP!!!

In fact, you wouldn't believe how much that could burn you later on, even with another company.

Well, my experience in my city (and understand that men my age do not generally even get considered for mainstream jobs anymore) is that many 'human resources' people are really quite pitiful, and usually just do their hiring based on a 'cheat sheet' or guidelines handed down from somewhere above...They really don't consider you as a person, but a human resource, like soybeans...This is my experience in the modern job market...If you display too much intelligence or individuality, you are dismissed rather quickly, even if you may be a good team player.

Much hiring is done nowadays by third party contractors, and they are the worst.

In the old days, your skills counted, along with your personality...Now personality is a negative, unless the personality is one that appears on the instructions given to the human resources firm, or department.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
Life / Cost of delivering a child in Poland [30]

ceiling needs painting and that operation light looks a bit dodgy too.

Lucky you didn't need brain surgery...
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
Work / Salary, holidays - questions to employer during a job interview in Poland [47]

Hello !!!
I have noticed during my job interviews in Poland they always ask me about my expectation of salary.
SHouldn't be like they tell u how much is the salary and u'll say if u're agree or not ??
I never know which kind of answer I have to give to this question !!

This question is asked worldwide...It is simply part of the psychological warfare of the job application/interview process...From the employers POV, THEY ask the questions, YOU give the answers!

I make two suggestions: 1...If you are really interested in job, do some study and perhaps talk to people doing similar jobs about what the going rate of pay is...This way you can give a reasonable answer.

2...If you don't give a sh*t about the job, or the interviewer is particularly obnoxious, simply say to him/her 'My expectation is to make more than you, because you are a moron and an a**hole' loudly and clearly.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

that's what the tea party says... except on days when they get their social security checks or their medicare doctors visits... or their unemployment checks...

Ha, ha!

Sure...Government does positive things, too, and in a modern complex society you need some kind of administration, hopefully one that works for the people...

But, the fellow asks what is their main activity, so, it's creation of red tape...Like a spider spins a web, or bees make a hive.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

If you're thinking about visiting America, by all means, visit...You will not be harassed in the street by police.

What we do have, however, is more video documentation of this type of police activity, which is good.

America is mostly very free-wheeling, although the government is taking cues from former Soviet style bureaucracy to implement all kinds of red tape and such for our daily lives and travel.

But that's what government does.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
Life / The day Poland ran out of artists. [40]

Maybe poland really did run out of artists.

If you have ever been 'juried' for a spot in an art show, or even for some kind of fellowship (could be music, visual art etc) you will find that the people on the juries are the absolute worst, happy to have a little power to exercise control, actualizing whatever cockamamied view of 'art' they may have...The committee that selected this particular artist was probably leftist, Jewish and living out, as I said, a wet dream.

Jews needn't take offense, as these juries are mostly the same mentality, and can be of any ethnic group.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

yes, because the majority of homicides in the USA are thug on thug related deaths. drug dealer A steals from drug dealer B, drug dealer A shoots drug dealer B, the shots are heard, 911 is called. cops show up to find a corpse.

Well, in my city, those with the sub-mentality kill each other over a peanut butter sandwich, not just drugs...Or maybe a woman stirs something up, gets a brother or boyfriend involved, and somebody gets killed or hurt.

I feel for cops: most are OK, but the nature of the job would make you want to kill yourself or someone else...There are some real control freak types, like the ones in the video.

Best to avoid them if possible, because, in a sense, their job is to arrest you.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

That from my experience depends on the area.

Sure, but I'm talking about a big urban area...The video was from Rochester NY which is a medium sized city, but the scene there is much like Philadelphia or Boston...Cops here, as I said, mostly just do clean up and paperwork after a crime has occurred...You will see this motto on many city cop cars 'To Protect & Serve': But that usually means nothing...Cops don't feel a duty to protect individual citizens, unless something happens right under their nose...In Philadelphia, the only time police really react is if another cop is in danger...Just the way it is.

It's the city, the intercity to be precise and it's ghettos. As for Police officers they get 30-35 K a year, if you worked in those slums where you risk your life on a daily basis you'd take money off drug dealers and keep it.

This, too.
joepilsudski   
23 Jun 2011
USA, Canada / Thinking about visiting America? Skip it or get molested and arrested for nothing. [79]

Cops don't like to get filmed, because they break the law..The woman was within her rights.What was the follow up?...The cop who arrested her should have been disciplined.

In the US currently, the main role of police is that of tax collectors for the state, through traffic stops primarily...As far as protection, the cops don't do anything until the body is cold, then they hang up yellow tape surrounding the crime scene.

Also, many police have the para-military control mentality, and many are anxious to display their 'power'.
joepilsudski   
22 Jun 2011
News / Lithuanian ambassador 'Poles not loyal citizens' [63]

In USA, you call customer service for any corporation or government org and you get Spanish speaking options or messages in Spanish many times before you get English options...Now, this is an example of taking things to an extreme.