Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

...you forgot about Frederic Chopin aka Frederyk Szopen, French to the French,
but Polish to the Poles.

I tend to side with Poland on this one:-) He draws all his richly stirring musical themes
from the mazurki and polonaises of his Polish homeland. As far as how his music speaks
to ME, he's Polakiem z krwi i kosci!!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Israel wants to be as self-sufficient as the US, for the most part,
yet continually struggles with this issue and can't seem to do it!

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

Sure, 'cuz most of the older Poles (those approx. over seventy) speak German, also perhaps Russian, rather than English:-)

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

No, I merely argue that Torq, you, and so many others, think robotically,
not logically or scientifically. You follow blindly, like lemmings. It's the same for any unthinking ideology,
be it Orthodox Judaism (including the various extreme sects, Satmar,
for example) or Roman Catholicism!!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Killing a child in school takes the life of an innocent, living
being who is aware someone is trying to take their life!

A fetus essentially is not a formed being, rather like pondering
whether or not an algae plant can scream if picked up in a bucket
and washed away.

You weren't present at the beginning of Creation and neither was
anyone here.

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

I found speaking German in Poland, at least near the border area,
far more effective than English. Naturally I tried speaking Polish
where and whenever I could.

I'm sure things have changed though over the past number of years.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

@Rich,

The Warsaw Pact involved solely those Eastern Block nations
who qualified post-WWII.

You're "what if" example is childish and makes no sense. Mexico
is neither of the above and what's more, was never Communist.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

I trust you're being sarcastic:-)

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

Putin's definitely a threat to the world, Rich!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Fru Thunberg can only do as much as she can:-)

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

This doesn't alter the fact that the erstwhile Soviet Union was struggling,
grappling, with an entirely foreign system of government and economics,
for which she was most ill-equipped.

Reminds me a little of Weimar Germany before the rise of Hitler. German democracy??
What a joke and as of '33, the joke was on the German people.

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

Moreover, capitalism was still a new frame of mind for those "former" Soviets!
It is primarily for this reason that corruption, bribery and so forth was so rampant
during the '90's, since the Russian people on the whole had little to no experience
with Western-style Free Market economy.

To put it bluntly, people went crazy trying to make up for what was now believed to be
nearly half-a-century of lost time, taking only the scummy parts of capitalism with none
of the quality incentive necessary to manufacture American, certainly German, products,
particularly in the automotive sector.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

@Rich,
Ck. out the history of US-GIs who either raped or gang raped German women
during the American Occupation of Berlin in '45! The Russians weren't the only
guilty ones here.

To my knowledge, none of those GIs were prosecuted and to this day, attempting the pry
the truth out from the Pentagon remains a Herculean task.
.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Most Polish place names had German "Beinamen"
at one time, long before WWII, e.g. Stettin/Szczecin,
Hellberg/Jasna Gora, Pommern/Pomorze etc.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

...and thankfully, would in all likelihood be ousted from the premises,
if necessary, by force!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Re-read your history, pal!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Read Telford Taylor's commentary sometime on the trial transcripts at Nueremberg. It's
an eye opener, Hartley Shawcross' rellections as well, from the British perspective.

While we're all too familiar with the by now almost jaded "Judgement at Nueremberg" vs. "Justice at Nueremberg",
it's a fact that the trials were conducted solely by the Allies rather than the Axis.

The reasons are all too apparent; since the Germans started the entire conflict, surely
only the Americans, the French, and the Brits, could possibly be to some degree objective
about what occurred.

Of course, no one can be impartial when it comes to mass murder. Herein lies the eternal irony.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

Hear, hear all!

The more memory dims, the more their deeds will be forgotten.

Food / Where would you take foreign guests for Polish food dinner in Krakow? [15]

At least in my experience, as with other nationalities,
Polish food in Poland tastes far different from in the US!

Once sampled what passed for chlodnik and bigos at some generic
Greenpoint eatery a few years back.

It was practically inedible. The only decent part of the meal
was the Warta mocna. Ya can't mess up beerLOL

Can only say that it must have been the regular cook's
day off:-)

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Under Trump, you're dead right, Rich.
First completely correct statement you've made thus far today:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Correct! It's call delayed action Puritanism, the fear that someplace in this world
some people might actually be happy.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Apples and oranges, Iron.!
You're comparing two completely separate issues,
namely, the cold-blooded murder of innocent human beings
vs. the life of an unborn, probably for medical reasons such
as rape.

As usual, you're arguing with your butt instead of your brain which
in your case is one and the sameLOL

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

The miracle that the EU chief might actually talk some sense into Trump's head!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Our president met today with Ursula von der Leyen. Hoping for a miracle.
Macron can't be far behind:-)

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

Apparently though the Far-Right aka AfD is trying to soften her message while
not her policies!

See Alice Weidel and Tino Churwalla are getting desperate.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [812]

Trump's childish revenge tactics hurt everyone, consumer and seller!
Higher tariffs make needed import goods, primarily from China, all that more
expensive, often downright unaffordable except for the mega rich.

Nothing fair about that.

Typically short sighted that those in this country who claim "Life's not fair
so deal with it and shut up!!" are the ones who benefit from high tariffs or
runaway inflation.

If they had to pay their fair share, they wouldn't be so glib or talk so big.

Furthermore, who in the US on the whole either admits to having received
help (usually from the Church) or to giving it?? Horatio Alger's "I pulled myself
up by my own bootstraps" philosophy's quaint and perhaps applicable during
a more innocent time in our country's distant past. However to espouse such
nowadays is nothing more than sheer indifference.

In many cases as concerns the above, somebody gave 'em the boots and the
straps!! Fairy tales are alive and well in the US, commonly referred to as PR.

Genealogy / English versions of Polish given names [35]

Had a Polish neighbor named Wladyslaw aka Wladek, and he preferred
to be called by his American name Wally!!

Always figured it was short or familiar for Wallace, not Walter.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [282]

Let's separate Sunni from Shiite Islam.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [396]

Them's the breaks, Bobko!

Life / Polish adventure Bible from the 90s by zonderkidz/zondervan? [4]

Still opens the same way. "Na poczatku........." = In the beginning.....