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Lyzko   
27 Jul 2025
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.
Lyzko   
24 Jul 2025
History / How much Poles trust to France? [130]

France remains even a notch above Italy as culinary capital of the planet, no argument there!
However Germany continues to lead in software development (SAP etc.), biochemical research, I.T., robotics, automotive technology,
cinema, banking/finance spending on arts funding, museum promotion whereby several of the world's leading museum directors are from Germany,
fnially, in fashion, not to mention gastronomy, Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg & Frankfurt can hold their own with Paris any day of the week.
Lyzko   
22 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@AntV,

Cronyism, a la Jackson, is simply hiring or engaging cronies aka friends, buddies, "good ol' boys" etc. at the expense
of competent professionals who might not always have their boss' ear, yet are willing to engage in serious, heaven forbid intellectual, discourse
on vital topics, even at the risk of intense disagreement! This is how civilized people interface.

Ted Sorensen, Bob McNamara, Dean Rusk, and WIlliam P. Rogers may indeed come across to the present era as a bunch of useless, haughty
stuffed shirts. Perhaps this is because they were well-spoken, literate, if on occasion misguided, men, who at least were able to intelligently articulate
their feelings, without resorting to the kind of vulgar chat emanating from the current White House. If one listens to Pete Hegseth for example unscripted
in front of reporters, one wonders whether the man ever graduated high school or read a conventional work of literature.

Again people, the gutter reached the penthouse long ago and has at last invaded the White House.

Donald Trump isn't G-d and must be made to realize by his electorate that without discussion, back-and-forth debate during which he
is allowed to be criticized, he is no longer president of once the greatest democracy on earth, but rather is a dictator who needs to be
removed from office.
Lyzko   
21 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

I wrote "were once", Milo. This means to me that the term is no longer valid. Their ideals
though are still worth looking into.

The problem is that the US is a country of some 250 million people, whereas Sweden is
roughly 30 million strong and contained within a landmass about as sizeable as the entire
state of Maine! Therefore, expecting cradle-to-grave security for every single American, a
completely regulated social order as exists in such a small Scandinavian society, guaranteed,
paid six-to-eight week vacations once a year plus medical benefits etc. is obviously unrealistic,
to put it mildly. All this sounds proverbially too good to be true, because in the end, it probably is.
It would need to be tempered to fit the capitalist foundation of the United States.

However, the New Deal was close in nature to the (former) Nordic model and naturally garnered
the same hatred by the Republicans back then as by cynical, dyed -in-the-wool Trump followers
today.
Lyzko   
21 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@AntV,
I'm referring to cronyism vs. competence, a hallmark of the Trump Era
in particular! No surprise is it that his favorite president was among the most
corrupt and who even bragged was meanest to his slaves, Andrew Jackson,
"Old Hickory" himself.

Can you honestly compare the likes of Peter Hegseth, a loutish bully, with the
likes of a William P. Rogers, Dean Acheson among others under JFK? These two
men were well born as well as central casting characters for their respective roles.

Trump's cabinet picks are not too different from Jackson's "kitchen cabinet", if one
stops to think of it.
Lyzko   
21 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

Obviously, that unbridled, crony capitalism too has her severe limitations,
no less than either Communism or socialism!

Beginning with the onset of the Reagan Era, the age-old gap between rich and
poor became more extreme than at any time in our history since the Great Depression.

Popular culture mirrors everyday life and everyday life under Reagan, a vague blueprint
of what Trump has in store, was pretty awful unless one either belonged to the protected
wealthy class of America's upper crust or the Church and was able to bribe successfully in
order to secure even decent employment.

Much of America wasn't as fortunate.

Fast forward to the present, imagine an American president cancelling a popular US TV-show
simply because he doesn't like the message. Imagine further if the likes of a J. Edgar Hoover
had become president. America didn't re-elect a first Hoover, aka Herbert aka "Shantytown Hoover" or
"Hooverville" because they wanted something better in their lives before became either too old or too
sick to enjoy it.
Lyzko   
20 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

For several generations, Sweden was to be sure dubbed "The Nordic Model" by
an envious world, usually by the US rather than Canada.

Germany and Sweden in fact have encouraged private enterprise, look at Ikea,
Mercedes, Bosch etc.

When the US lost control of her New Deal heritage under Reagan, this is when
the mass shootings and random violence here escalated with a frightening vengeance.

And yet people refuse to take the hint.
Lyzko   
20 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@Milo et al,
Hate to disappoint you folks, but socialism as it was conceived is NOT nor has it
ever been the same as Communism, that's the first slander I wish to dispel.

Secondly, while Communism is technically a type of dictatorship as practiced
by every country which has tried it, the only way in which socialism is a
dictatorship aka anti-democratic is that it requires of the government, therefore
the society at large, to take care of her fellow citizens and make basic human services,
medical, psychological and the like, affordable to all in need.

This is not being somehow "mired in the New Deal Era" as Joker, Rich, Milo along with
others here on PF have the temerity as well as the sheer ignorance to blithely suggest.
Instead, it should be a clarion, indeed a wake up, call to our current administration (more
a regime) that if Trump's chronic infantility, toxic greed, selfishness, and raw indifference
to the suffering of those not given the wealth into which he was born, is not reversed by
the powers that be, namely, the Supreme Court, we will see throughout the US a violent
backlash such as America hasn't witnessed since we tossed out the Redcoats over two-hundred
-and-fifty years ago.

This is a promise, my friends, not merely a prediction! The present flap over the late, unlamented
Jeffrey Epstein, ought come as no surprise.
Lyzko   
15 Jul 2025
Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

As I've said time and time again, Germany, Sweden as well, is making many of the same mistakes
made here in the US. While we all realize Germany is desperately trying to overcome her WWII past
by bending over backwards to accomodate non-Germans, indeed, non-Caucasians, in their midst by
making nice to any and all from the Third World, sooner or later, this experiment, however well intentioned,
will fail.

By all accounts, it already has, only the government refuses to face facts because Merkellites are in denial....
again!
Lyzko   
11 Jul 2025
News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Obviously, you can't be reasoned with and all you do is make yourself look
idiotic with your persistent, crackpot rhetoric!

You were an immigrant yourself once upon a time. How would you have felt
if somebody suggested that you be shot on sight as soon as you and your
family arrived in this country??

Oh, I forgot, your proviso only goes for brown people, sorry LOL
Lyzko   
10 Jul 2025
News / France and Germany plan to flood Poland with illegal migrants. [199]

Not certain I see your point here.
Once again, short-sighted thinking on the part of various governments
such as The Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, and Austria is the root
cause of many of the social problems of foreigner integration among
the wealthier European countries!
Lyzko   
10 Jul 2025
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

Intelligent, sentient beings are smart, heaven forbid enlightened, enough
not to have to hit someone over the head with something, if subtle suggestions
do the trick just as easily!

'Course if you're not smart enough to catch on, Rich, that's scarcely my/our problem now,
is it!

@jon,
Can't entirely agree, especially about "Brave New World".
Lyzko   
10 Jul 2025
Life / Will Poland ever be multicultural like Sweden, Germany or France? [283]

@Rich,
The late Jerzy Kosinski of BEING THERE fame too spoke and wrote "American" fluently,
albeit with a decided Polish accent!

The differences though between you and Kosinski, apart from the obvious, are that
his accented American English was beautifully articulated, erudite, clever, and learned.

Take a hint?