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richasis   
20 Dec 2009
USA, Canada / REFUSED A HOLIDAY VISA TO THE U.S CAUSE IM POLISH [323]

Better check your facts again, there are thousands of Illegal Poles in Chicago.

Perhaps, but they didn't swim the Rio Grande to get here (which was the point).

Yeah a hell of a lot die of deprivation or the elements trying it too

Could you please quantify "a hell of a lot"?

There is no welcoming tuba band and party for Mexicans, sorry

Who's sorry? If you feel compelled to apologize, you should do so in the Spanish language.

If you're so dead set on it try it through Canada, should you get caught you might be denied access for life

Agreed. That's why I always recommend the southern (US-Mexico) border.

Before you vilify US immigration people

Who's vilifying anyone? Now, the government and its policies... that's different.

This isn't the EU

That settles it, then... I'm moving to Europe. :)
richasis   
6 Apr 2010
Genealogy / Information on last name Geras [12]

I definitively know the name GERAS to be derived from (the Russian name) GERASIMOVICH.

However, this is not to say there aren't other possibilities. Hope this helps - Good Luck! :)
richasis   
7 Apr 2010
News / Crucifixes to stay in Polish schools [364]

I'd rather have a "behind-the-times Christian State" than the "contemporary Police State" the UK has become.

Maybe all those street cameras are there to expose the "weirdo Jesus Nuts"...
richasis   
8 Apr 2010
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

the cold hard facts

Just when the experts had me convinced of 'the cold hard fact' of 6,000,000 holocaust dead,
they go ahead and revise that number downward to 4,000,000, and then again to 1,500,000.

Gee, I wonder if we'll witness the same downward revision with respect to their financial loss.
richasis   
9 Apr 2010
History / Why are Jews pestering Poland for "proper" WW2 monetary restitution/reparations? [750]

strange to see you recommending a book which one reviewer described as giving "the most charitable interpretation possible concerning such subjects as the Polish government's policies toward Jews in the interwar period, and its ethnic cleansing of Germans and Ukrainians after the war."

I disregard such blurb-like 'reviews' - call me naive, but I like to draw my own conclusions.

Seems to me that Ozi Dan is just as entitled to an opinion as that "one reviewer" you cite.
richasis   
11 Apr 2010
History / Anger at yet another Polish tragedy [30]

POLISH YOUTH - we need to step up and bring this nation to the greatness it once had and deserves!

Forget about it... you're Americanized - Westernized - now...
richasis   
12 Apr 2010
News / Poland President National Mourning in Some Countries [212]

Yes it is, shows us truelly who cares or not cares for Poland for real

In America, ABCNNBCBS periodically mentioned this tragedy only briefly until about noon - after Tiger Woods, of course.

As of this evening, they're still keeping us updated on Tiger Woods with extended news segments. No, I'm not kidding. :(
richasis   
12 Apr 2010
News / Poland President National Mourning in Some Countries [212]

I only watched the first five minutes and Poland was given all of that time.

Were you watching CNN International? Here in New York, this tragedy hardly 'dominated' the news cycles. Maybe I missed it.

Perhaps you should consider watching CNN instead of relying on FauxNews to tell you what CNN said.

I stopped watching ALL the infotainment channels in the US long ago. Still, I thought I'd tune in to watch 'coverage' of this.

As an aside...
I was in Poland in 2007 when California experienced a major wildfire. CNN International had reported on the the accommodations provided some residents in a nearby stadium. Interviews with parents revealed elation with the circus-like atmosphere of hotdogs, soda and clowns which made the experience more 'festive-like' for the children. The conclusion? America had come a long way from the days of Hurricane Katrina. Of course, the ensuing commentary focused upon 'race' with respect to the two events.

Meanwhile, BBC and RT had reported that California's inability to fight the fires was a direct result of George Bush's 'appropriating' the California National Guard's equipment (along with its Guardsmen) for the Iraq War effort some years before. Despite promises to replace the equipment from the war budget, California was left 'high-and-dry'.

But at least there were hotdogs, sodas and clowns - if not nefariously racist motivations.

So no, I don't watch ABCNNBCBS - or FOX. I watch BBC, RT and PressTV via the internet.

Harry; I'd be happy to buy you a beer the next time I'm in Poland. Ironically, I drink Lech :)
richasis   
12 Apr 2010
Off-Topic / Polish head of state plane crashed in middle of nowhere? [56]

I bet my fake redneck a$s makes more money in an hour than your proper English ever could in a year kid.

That's a pretty scary thought. Again, not surprising in this enlightened multicultural age.
richasis   
12 Apr 2010
Off-Topic / Polish head of state plane crashed in middle of nowhere? [56]

Yeah, as soon as the Poles came to the US, the US became multicultural.
:)

I wish. I can't find Polish food to save my life! And no more Polish Community Center to get my Polka on! ;)

The US isnt multicultural, its multiracial.

You make a valid point, here. The cultures, like the races, are melding.

...who is being ridiculed by a guy who names himself tit.

too funny, that. heck, it's all good :)
richasis   
12 Apr 2010
News / The Glory of Poland, NYT 12th April 2010 [13]

go down in a Soviet-made jet

I know the jet was Russian-made, but in this context...

Exactly! It took Americans and others a while to question 9/11. Many were quick off the mark here to point the finger of blame. There can never be true trust that way.

Agreed (though I never did buy the '9-11 Party-Line')
richasis   
13 Apr 2010
News / The Glory of Poland, NYT 12th April 2010 [13]

I'm just curious. Which conspiracy theory about 9/11 do you subscribe to?

The one I DON'T subscribe to is the 'official version' a la the 9/11 Omission Report.

What would the impression of THIS tragedy be if there was no plane wreckage... ?