News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

All I'm saying is that it's never acceptable to spew hateful garbage in public, period!
What would have meant admittance to an insane asylum some sixty-seventy-odd years ago,
doesn't even seem to bat an eyelash nowadays.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

I agree with you completely on points #4 and #6.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Iron & Rich,

From one "troll" to another, if it's fine to utter hate speech as free speech,
then we all might as well resign from the human race and rent/purchase cages
in our local zoo:-)

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

There's a difference though between so to speak "traditional" Islam vs. "radical" Islam! My apologies for seeming to bandy
words, however, the distinction here might well be a concrete, not merely a semantic, one.

News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [459]

@Ironside,
According to the Internet, considering that its reportage is accurate (which I take it, much of it is), Braun
is outspokenly anti-Semitic, while apparently denying allegations that part of his family is Jewish.

All blind supporters of their elected leader will naturally claim "FAKE NEWS!" in spades, however, his
outbursts have done little for Poland's public relations any more than the AfD has done for Germany's.

Something to think about.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

In Mallorca for certain!
When I visited there during the late '90's,
much of Southern Spain especially was
loaded with rich Brits, most of whom seemed
almost proud of never having to know a syllable
of SpanishLOL

As with the proverbial "ugly American" right after the War,
most wealthy foreigners figure, however incorrectly, that mullah's
the sole international language! Flash a thick wad in someone's face
and you own them; the thicker, the better.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Except for the French, American, Irish and Italian National Revolution, Rich!

Neither Patrick Henry, Philip Nolan, Geo. Washington, Robespierre, Count Cavore, Mazzini, Garibaldi, Parnell or Eamon de Valera were Jews in
any way, shape or form.

You're merely fueling your ignorance further.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Ahemm, Richie, the Rockefellers, Melons, Carnegies & Morgan's got 'em beat by a country furlong, buddy boy!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Whaddya expect?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Oh, Alien! Pay Rich no mind. He's babbling again as usual.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Turkey might well play a decisive role as to whether the EU will let her
become a member state!
And that's not "gobbling", przelotnyptak, it's a serious statement.

Work / Self-employed American living in Poland? Is it possible? [54]

Yes, I gather.
However, as we say, you can take the boy out of the country, but you can't take the country out of the boy!
When refugees first arrived on our shores after WWII, question, what did they leave behind? Answer: Everything
but their accent LOL

Work / Self-employed American living in Poland? Is it possible? [54]

Perhaps English is not his first language.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

The question is if!
The immigration issue in Germany is too good a performer to be taken off the table completely,
at least for the time being.

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]

Czlowiek zastrzely, Pan Bog nosi kule.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

"Vom Volke der Dichter und Denker zum Volke der Richter und Henker" - Klabund aka Alfred Henschke

"From the nation of poets and thinkers to the nation of snitches and stinkers"
Should the AfD ever get their way, woe betide Germany, woe betide Europe!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Ask anybody you wish, but the hell you or anyone on PF can stop me
from speaking out on a topic if it concerns us all, Rich, so just put a lid on it!!

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

As usual, you're either playing the Devil's Advocate, just playing dumb
or you're prevaricating once again and actually know what makes the AfD
extreme!

The AfD wants to cancel Holocaust education from all German school curricula
and in essence downplay the inestimably horrific nature of the Third Reich.

Isn't even that extreme enough for you??

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

In Berlin, I'm told by those I whom I know who live there, the
actual anti-Semites are NOT ethnic Germans on the whole,
but radicalized foreign-born Muslims!

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]

Tak, ma sens. On jest obywatelem Peruego, a mowi po hiszpansku. Czy on
zna hiszpanski, prawdopodobnie on umie po wlosku :-)

Po polsku / Papież a sprawa polska [195]

Dzis jest waznym dniem, poniewaz Leo jest pierwszym Amerykaninem
jako Papiez! Ale czy on mowi po wlosku?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Then the PiS will be in a minority throughout most of the EU.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

As I've said before, Merz is between a rock and hard place (sitzt zwischen zwei Stuehlen). If he doesn't play both sides of the street,
he risks alienating his target base. On the other hand, if he kowtows solely to the left, he's cooked!

He's damned if he does and damned if he doesn't.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Exactly, and more historically homogeneous as well.

Off-Topic / Is Islam a threat to western society? [215]

@Przylotnyptak, you either misread my post or I misunderstood yours.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

What you term cowards, are those frequently too mature to spout off exactly
what they think when they think it. It's called the edit button, pushed when it's neither
political nor accurate to blab the first thing on their minds.

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Well, thank you, przylotnyptak, I take that as meaning I have preterrnatural observation skills:-)

How can I identify Poles?? Much as I described in my previous post; facial musculature, eye coloring
and hair texture. Most Polish men I've seen don't appear to have naturally wavy hair, I'm excluding Polish-
Jewish men.

Exceptions though always abound.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

Rich, The Federal Republic most certainly does struggle WITH freedom
in the sense that even today, references to Hitler, however casual or ironic,
much less a mock Hitler salute, will land the offender in the clink for an
indefinite period of time.

In the US, such an offender will be reviled and probably attacked verbally or
physically, yet we still allow such a person the right to freedom of expression.

In Germany, this is still not the case.

Why only recently, a seemingly harmless pun landed a Duesseldorf teacher in hot water,
albeit spoken after work hours! It went something like this and was oft heard in private circles
during the early years of the Third Reich: "Hitler wollte Fuehrer sein, hat doch keinen Fuehrerschein."
As with any such word play, it can't be translated verbatim. Suffice to say, it's a take off on the German
words "Fuehrer" (leader,guide) and "Fuehrerschein" (driver's license).

Genealogy / The typical Polish look, or all Eastern Europeans [676]

Normally, I can identify Poles where I live, even if I've never seen them prior.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

@Tacitus, I too am cautiously optimistic, however, let's hope and pray the AfD
gets its wings clipped, so to speak, by the even stronger forces of democracy.

While Germany surely struggles with her freedoms in the wake of WWII, as long
as men and women such Hoecke and Weidel are loose on the political scene,
reason and sanity are never safe!

Do ck.your e-mail from time to time.