Lyzko
23 Mar 2024
History / Poles in the RAF. [15]
Of course, I merely forgot the title is written as three separate words, sorry!
:-)
Of course, I merely forgot the title is written as three separate words, sorry!
:-)
Lyzko
23 Mar 2024
Lyzko
23 Mar 2024
History / Poles in the RAF. [15]
Not sure if Milo's referring here to the Red Army or the Royal British Airforce.
Hmmm, somebody may have just gotten sidetracked. Oh, well!
Not sure if Milo's referring here to the Red Army or the Royal British Airforce.
Hmmm, somebody may have just gotten sidetracked. Oh, well!
Lyzko
23 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Rich, as usual you (intentionally?) misunderstood my post!
The "history" I mentioned here refers to the long history of cheap labor
in the US from South of the Border, and NOT to the history of Guatemala and Mexico.
Kindly look before you leap...and end up making a fool of yourself.
@Rich, as usual you (intentionally?) misunderstood my post!
The "history" I mentioned here refers to the long history of cheap labor
in the US from South of the Border, and NOT to the history of Guatemala and Mexico.
Kindly look before you leap...and end up making a fool of yourself.
Lyzko
22 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Rich, Guatemalans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and so forth are all part of the sad history
of cheap labor which has been poisoning the US economy since around amnesty under Ronald Reagan!
It's never about race, it's about class. Who would seriously object to Third World or South of the Border
high-ranking, fluent English-speaking professionals from any of the above countries?
We know that this is sadly not the case and white, native-born, college educated American citizens are
still being short changed, ever since top execs here in the US quickly realized that they can get that
extra (unnecessary) luxury sun roof in the Hamptons off the back of a migrant laborer by paying that person
bargain basement wages. Trump style, they might not pay the poor chap at all. A native born American would
at least demand minimum wage.
There's also the issue of migrants from whichever country who make it big in America, take care of their own,
while forgetting about their US-born and bred non-Hispanic colleagues.
Either way, far too many whites feel they're losing out in the land of opportunity which allowed their forbearers to succeed
yet no longer does.
@Rich, Guatemalans, Mexicans, Nicaraguans and so forth are all part of the sad history
of cheap labor which has been poisoning the US economy since around amnesty under Ronald Reagan!
It's never about race, it's about class. Who would seriously object to Third World or South of the Border
high-ranking, fluent English-speaking professionals from any of the above countries?
We know that this is sadly not the case and white, native-born, college educated American citizens are
still being short changed, ever since top execs here in the US quickly realized that they can get that
extra (unnecessary) luxury sun roof in the Hamptons off the back of a migrant laborer by paying that person
bargain basement wages. Trump style, they might not pay the poor chap at all. A native born American would
at least demand minimum wage.
There's also the issue of migrants from whichever country who make it big in America, take care of their own,
while forgetting about their US-born and bred non-Hispanic colleagues.
Either way, far too many whites feel they're losing out in the land of opportunity which allowed their forbearers to succeed
yet no longer does.
Lyzko
21 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Oh really, Rich??! Israel's currently in danger of losing her meglomaniac president
while earning the eternal emnity of the world!
No, walls DON'T work! As with most draconian solutions, they inevitably fail.
If we can't somehow learn to live together after all this time, seems we can't successfully
live apart either.
The US needs Mexico as much as the latter desperately needs the US. As with most
relationships, good or bad, it's symbiotic and we'd all darned well better get used to it!!
It's never a question of whether or not we "like" this solution. Remember, in life, all too often
the perfect is the enemy of the good (enough).
Oh really, Rich??! Israel's currently in danger of losing her meglomaniac president
while earning the eternal emnity of the world!
No, walls DON'T work! As with most draconian solutions, they inevitably fail.
If we can't somehow learn to live together after all this time, seems we can't successfully
live apart either.
The US needs Mexico as much as the latter desperately needs the US. As with most
relationships, good or bad, it's symbiotic and we'd all darned well better get used to it!!
It's never a question of whether or not we "like" this solution. Remember, in life, all too often
the perfect is the enemy of the good (enough).
Lyzko
21 Mar 2024
Lyzko
21 Mar 2024
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]
I roundly concur, pawian!
I roundly concur, pawian!
Lyzko
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Border control aka patrol can be accomplished without a bloody wall!!
Haven't the DMZ as well as the ill-fated Berlin Wall taught us nothing?
Border control aka patrol can be accomplished without a bloody wall!!
Haven't the DMZ as well as the ill-fated Berlin Wall taught us nothing?
Lyzko
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
You needn't preach to the choir, bud!
I've felt for years that the Pentagon spends excessively on defense,
important though as our military is.
America's often accused Germany of geopolitical arrogance while claiming themselves
to be "policeman to the world".
Something wrong with this picture?
You needn't preach to the choir, bud!
I've felt for years that the Pentagon spends excessively on defense,
important though as our military is.
America's often accused Germany of geopolitical arrogance while claiming themselves
to be "policeman to the world".
Something wrong with this picture?
Lyzko
20 Mar 2024
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]
Odd Rich, that the Poles never seemed to avoid you, despite your accent!
Are you going to have us believe that you speak Polish to this day as comfortably as you speak English??
Odd Rich, that the Poles never seemed to avoid you, despite your accent!
Are you going to have us believe that you speak Polish to this day as comfortably as you speak English??
Lyzko
20 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Joker,
Government is there precisely to help out, if only when her help is needed!
Surely nobody wants a caretaker administration.
What would have happened had FDR taken that tack or if our president
hadn't sent in troops into Georgia to liberate the state from the Klan way back in the early '60's?
Oh sure, too much government is as bad as too little. However there is such
a thing as balance, you know.
@Joker,
Government is there precisely to help out, if only when her help is needed!
Surely nobody wants a caretaker administration.
What would have happened had FDR taken that tack or if our president
hadn't sent in troops into Georgia to liberate the state from the Klan way back in the early '60's?
Oh sure, too much government is as bad as too little. However there is such
a thing as balance, you know.
Lyzko
19 Mar 2024
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]
And how, danny! Ya think that's bad, try listening to Hungarians struggle through English!
You'd think the sentence would never end. No sense of pause control either, drives most
Americans bats#$%^t.
And how, danny! Ya think that's bad, try listening to Hungarians struggle through English!
You'd think the sentence would never end. No sense of pause control either, drives most
Americans bats#$%^t.
Lyzko
19 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Rich & Alien, Reagan came into Office on 11/5/81, the year I graduated college. The States had
come out of a toxic period of exceptional disillusionment with labor unions, which had been growing weaker
by the year. Furthermore, I trust I needn't remind you two about an especially toxic manifestation of the late
'70's, namely "EST" or "Erhard Seminar Training", begun by an Uber-Reaganite code name Werner Erhard.
The latter believed with all his heart and soul (who would lie about this stuff, guys!!) that Roosevelt never had
any place in America, most of all, that all of us are where we are solely by choice. LOL
People ate up this garbage hook, line, and stinker.
This then is what precipitated the rise of the Reagan Era, a deep dissatisfaction with liberal policies of former
President Jimmy Carter, that control freak peanut farmer from the plains of Plains, Georgia.
Reagan wanted to "get government off the backs of the American people...."
This is more or less the sequence of events which lead up to the Reagan Counter Rev. which Donald Trump would
like to bring back with a vengeance. Lord have mercy on us all.
Rich & Alien, Reagan came into Office on 11/5/81, the year I graduated college. The States had
come out of a toxic period of exceptional disillusionment with labor unions, which had been growing weaker
by the year. Furthermore, I trust I needn't remind you two about an especially toxic manifestation of the late
'70's, namely "EST" or "Erhard Seminar Training", begun by an Uber-Reaganite code name Werner Erhard.
The latter believed with all his heart and soul (who would lie about this stuff, guys!!) that Roosevelt never had
any place in America, most of all, that all of us are where we are solely by choice. LOL
People ate up this garbage hook, line, and stinker.
This then is what precipitated the rise of the Reagan Era, a deep dissatisfaction with liberal policies of former
President Jimmy Carter, that control freak peanut farmer from the plains of Plains, Georgia.
Reagan wanted to "get government off the backs of the American people...."
This is more or less the sequence of events which lead up to the Reagan Counter Rev. which Donald Trump would
like to bring back with a vengeance. Lord have mercy on us all.
Lyzko
18 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Dannyoro1,
Reagan too was a reaction to Democrats' excesses.
@Dannyoro1,
Reagan too was a reaction to Democrats' excesses.
Lyzko
18 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]
Well, perhaps prior subconscious exposure to things Polish might trigger odd sensations of
familiarity:-)
Well, perhaps prior subconscious exposure to things Polish might trigger odd sensations of
familiarity:-)
Lyzko
17 Mar 2024
Love / What to answer to the Most annoying phrase that EVERY and EACH polish girl always says? [58]
@Maryperry,
Although I tend to agree about the robotic sameness of such excuses you mention, one thing is
the truth, that is, most Poles I've met travelling abroad or in Poland, actually do speak relatively poor
English in comparison with many of their Northern European neighbors!!
@Maryperry,
Although I tend to agree about the robotic sameness of such excuses you mention, one thing is
the truth, that is, most Poles I've met travelling abroad or in Poland, actually do speak relatively poor
English in comparison with many of their Northern European neighbors!!
Lyzko
17 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]
Same here, Robin!
I learned Polish, not only because of its practicality, but because I find many aspects of the culture bewitching,
from the hand kiss, Chopin, and the cuisine, but also Polish cinema.
Same here, Robin!
I learned Polish, not only because of its practicality, but because I find many aspects of the culture bewitching,
from the hand kiss, Chopin, and the cuisine, but also Polish cinema.
Lyzko
17 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@Alien & Rich,
A dictatorship is namely a system of government in which the leader declares him or herself sole
and supreme ruler.
Hitler was "elected" democratically, this is true. However, among his first official acts as Fuehrer was
to immediately bring all branches of government in line with his own ideology, known as "Gleichschaltung"! With the
Fuehrer, you people, there was no reaching across the aisles of Congress to work together with the other side.
Trump is a clever salesman in stark contrast with his quasi-predecessor Pat Buchanan way back in the '90's.
On the surface at any rate, Trump skillfully affects the manner of a Jewish-style schmoozer from Queens, who
talks the talk because he also walks the walk. He's almost affable at times, full of easy phrases to lull folks into
a false sense of security, while demonizing the entire left.
Don't be fooled!! Donald John Trump is Ronald Reagan on steroids who wants nothing more than to dismantle
Social Security, abolish Unemployment Compensation, and in essence turn the United States of America into
a self-governing plutocracy, not too dissimilar to the Emirates, in which there's a thin layer of mega rich at the very top
while the rest of the country not clever or immorally ruthless enough to catch up, is left shamelessly behind.
This is a far cry from the Roosevelt Era and the philosophy of "If one American family goes to bed hungry, the rest of the nation is starving!
The latter MUST be our rallying cry, even if most can't do anything substantive about it.
@Alien & Rich,
A dictatorship is namely a system of government in which the leader declares him or herself sole
and supreme ruler.
Hitler was "elected" democratically, this is true. However, among his first official acts as Fuehrer was
to immediately bring all branches of government in line with his own ideology, known as "Gleichschaltung"! With the
Fuehrer, you people, there was no reaching across the aisles of Congress to work together with the other side.
Trump is a clever salesman in stark contrast with his quasi-predecessor Pat Buchanan way back in the '90's.
On the surface at any rate, Trump skillfully affects the manner of a Jewish-style schmoozer from Queens, who
talks the talk because he also walks the walk. He's almost affable at times, full of easy phrases to lull folks into
a false sense of security, while demonizing the entire left.
Don't be fooled!! Donald John Trump is Ronald Reagan on steroids who wants nothing more than to dismantle
Social Security, abolish Unemployment Compensation, and in essence turn the United States of America into
a self-governing plutocracy, not too dissimilar to the Emirates, in which there's a thin layer of mega rich at the very top
while the rest of the country not clever or immorally ruthless enough to catch up, is left shamelessly behind.
This is a far cry from the Roosevelt Era and the philosophy of "If one American family goes to bed hungry, the rest of the nation is starving!
The latter MUST be our rallying cry, even if most can't do anything substantive about it.
Lyzko
16 Mar 2024
Off-Topic / I saw a fly in my yard one day in Canada but it was strange [10]
Perhaps it was even Shaft or Super Fly! lol
Perhaps it was even Shaft or Super Fly! lol
Lyzko
16 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]
Good for you! Now you're talking sense.
I've known people much as yourself who've ventured off abroad,
thinking that they didn't need to know the local lingo.
In every case, they ended up coming right back home!
Good for you! Now you're talking sense.
I've known people much as yourself who've ventured off abroad,
thinking that they didn't need to know the local lingo.
In every case, they ended up coming right back home!
Lyzko
16 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
What Biden policies, Joker?? Automotive job creation, for one. Autoworkers to their
credit still vote baby blue, buddy boy, and if Michigan goes Dem with their governor
Gretchen Widmer, that could really tilt the odds come the November Primaries!
In addition, Joe Biden doesn't ignore the middle class, he doesn't focus on all or nothing,
aiming solely at the bottom tier or the top rung of the investor class as does his running mate.
What most Trump supporters forget, if they ever even knew it, is that the bedrock principles
which have guided America for some two-hundred-and-fifty years remain the only bulwark against
dictatorship. Trump, Orban Viktor, Czar Vladimir etc. must learn that they uphold the laws, they
aren't above them, not now, not ever.
What Biden policies, Joker?? Automotive job creation, for one. Autoworkers to their
credit still vote baby blue, buddy boy, and if Michigan goes Dem with their governor
Gretchen Widmer, that could really tilt the odds come the November Primaries!
In addition, Joe Biden doesn't ignore the middle class, he doesn't focus on all or nothing,
aiming solely at the bottom tier or the top rung of the investor class as does his running mate.
What most Trump supporters forget, if they ever even knew it, is that the bedrock principles
which have guided America for some two-hundred-and-fifty years remain the only bulwark against
dictatorship. Trump, Orban Viktor, Czar Vladimir etc. must learn that they uphold the laws, they
aren't above them, not now, not ever.
Lyzko
15 Mar 2024
Work / Applying for English speaking jobs in Lodz or Warsaw [13]
Why necessarily English speaking, Robin?
Surely any decent job will require that you can at least express yourself in the native language of the country in which you hope to
work and take up legal residence.
Even to be an English teacher in Poland, as with practically anywhere else, one first must have at least some grasp of the students' language!
Why necessarily English speaking, Robin?
Surely any decent job will require that you can at least express yourself in the native language of the country in which you hope to
work and take up legal residence.
Even to be an English teacher in Poland, as with practically anywhere else, one first must have at least some grasp of the students' language!
Lyzko
15 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
@amiga,
Trump's playing one of the oldest tricks in the book by attempting to elicit
support from those groups he most despises, e.g. gays, blacks, even Jews etc.
merely in order to deceive them into thinking he's their "friend"!
With friends like Trump,...............
@amiga,
Trump's playing one of the oldest tricks in the book by attempting to elicit
support from those groups he most despises, e.g. gays, blacks, even Jews etc.
merely in order to deceive them into thinking he's their "friend"!
With friends like Trump,...............
Lyzko
14 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Ayn Rand though to my mind was the ultimate capitalist, at least if I base this opinion on "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged"!
Perhaps the sole similarity with Trotsky (whose work I haven't read sufficiently) is that both were avowed atheists:-)
Ayn Rand though to my mind was the ultimate capitalist, at least if I base this opinion on "The Fountainhead" and "Atlas Shrugged"!
Perhaps the sole similarity with Trotsky (whose work I haven't read sufficiently) is that both were avowed atheists:-)
Lyzko
14 Mar 2024
News / NATO expansion in northern Europe - great news for Poland [136]
@cms neuf, spot on!
@Rich, Sweden's not parasitic. What gave you that idea?
@cms neuf, spot on!
@Rich, Sweden's not parasitic. What gave you that idea?
Lyzko
14 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Yes, B.B.I suppose "wokism" is the best way of putting it.
@Johnny, perhaps the post seems pointless because you're too obtuse to grasp the point:-)
Yes, B.B.I suppose "wokism" is the best way of putting it.
@Johnny, perhaps the post seems pointless because you're too obtuse to grasp the point:-)
Lyzko
13 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Problem with most high profile Dems currently in power,
is that they've lost touch with their original voting block/constituents
which for numerous reasons no longer represents the
white electorate of yesteryear!
As I've expatiated here on any number of occasions, the
US has been transformed into a theme-based society,
where the outline of the person supersedes that person's
ability, once far, far less the case than today.
When I was a youngster, oh, some forty-five to fifty years
back, let's conservatively say, around 1965-'68, there was
a middle-aged African-American librarian at our school, Miss Blake, who
seemed to us a font of literary knowledge, No one would have ever hinted
that somehow she got her job as some recipient of "affirmative action" or even
Church favoritism, MERELY because she was black!!!
Fast forward some fifty years into the future, 2024. My wife and I were
at the local library here in Fort Lee, and a youngish African-American woman
seated at the Reference Desk, seeing us together, couldn't figure out why
my other half wasn't named "Mark" on her library card. When we finally resolved
the difference between a common man's name in the United States of America, I
politely inquired where fiction had been relocated, to which the woman responded
that she spoke no foreign languages, as the word "fiction" was not familiar to her.
Need I say more?
Problem with most high profile Dems currently in power,
is that they've lost touch with their original voting block/constituents
which for numerous reasons no longer represents the
white electorate of yesteryear!
As I've expatiated here on any number of occasions, the
US has been transformed into a theme-based society,
where the outline of the person supersedes that person's
ability, once far, far less the case than today.
When I was a youngster, oh, some forty-five to fifty years
back, let's conservatively say, around 1965-'68, there was
a middle-aged African-American librarian at our school, Miss Blake, who
seemed to us a font of literary knowledge, No one would have ever hinted
that somehow she got her job as some recipient of "affirmative action" or even
Church favoritism, MERELY because she was black!!!
Fast forward some fifty years into the future, 2024. My wife and I were
at the local library here in Fort Lee, and a youngish African-American woman
seated at the Reference Desk, seeing us together, couldn't figure out why
my other half wasn't named "Mark" on her library card. When we finally resolved
the difference between a common man's name in the United States of America, I
politely inquired where fiction had been relocated, to which the woman responded
that she spoke no foreign languages, as the word "fiction" was not familiar to her.
Need I say more?
Lyzko
12 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
Hmmm, somehow, I'm not convinced.
Your last post makes no sense, pawian!
Democracy is supposed to function independently
from the dictates of a strongarm government such as
the sort Trump advocates.
Hmmm, somehow, I'm not convinced.
Your last post makes no sense, pawian!
Democracy is supposed to function independently
from the dictates of a strongarm government such as
the sort Trump advocates.
Lyzko
12 Mar 2024
News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [528]
??? Are you sure you understood what you just wrote? Sounds like you're merely parroting Rich:-)
??? Are you sure you understood what you just wrote? Sounds like you're merely parroting Rich:-)