News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

You have a point there, bud. Then again, no one ever said it was gonna be easy!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

At least Phil Murphy (bless his little ol' heart) unlike Greg Abbott, believes that health care for EVERY American citizen, not merely the Goldman, Sachs crowd, is a bloody RIGHT rather than merely a privilege granted to the self-annointed few:-)

Furthermore, in comparison with the fella he replaced in the running, namely, Steve Sweeney, Murphy learned German when opening up relations with Goldman, Sachs Berlin almost twenty-odd years ago. He also insisted that his team learn German, albeit for convenience. English was the language they ended up using in negotiations.

He seems far-sighted and compassionate, qualities so sorely lacking in the bummy, proletarian bigot Christie!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

So far as I can tell, Austria has nearly zero issues with gun-related deaths, as it's illegal to own, operate, or purloin such a weapon without a certified license.

Unlike in Texas, Austrians tend to follow rules, not assume they are meant to be broken:-)

Language / "Poles" or "Polish people" - which is better to use? [200]

And of course, your "preference" would sound ridiculous in English, save for referring to a group of "Polish men" as opposed to women:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

TheOther, on the ground, off the ground, the fact remains that Germans are recalcitrant in believing they can ever find common ground with Syrian migrants, it's just that simple:-)

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Again, there are Kaszubian and Asiatic influences on Poland, in addition to Baltic, Germanic, and of course, Slavic:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Ha, ha! Sarcasm aside, Germany has tried to pawn off THEIR problem on Bruxelles' indifference as though Jean-Claude Juncker were entirely to blame for Europe's present ills.

Come off it!

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

That though I can well understand, the Balts and North Slavs having intermarried throughout the centuries.

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Many foreigners do tend to lump all Northern Europeans together, confusing Poles with Russians, Ukrainians etc.
:-)

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

True, but nonetheless I usually can detect the Poles from the Russians walking down the street of our neighborhood here in New Jersey!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

...and the Germans see the migrant problem as mainly a foreign affair, not theirs, thank you very much:-)

Rather much like the English calling syphilis the French disease and the French calling it the English disease etc..
There's always enough blame to go around, it's all simply a matter of those lazy bones in Bruxelles finally saying, "Yo, the Euro stops here!"

Genealogy / Why are some Polish people dark complected, and others very light [511]

Often, what constitutes a so-called "Polish look", is more the bone structure of the face than anything else! Someone can have dark eyes and dark-brown hair and yet still look Polish rather than, say, French, Italian, German, or Spanish, for instance. Poles tend to have distinctively oval faces, and even the women usually have a more squarely-shaped head than certainly in Southern Europe.

Generalizations though are often just that:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Austria, much as Poland, Czech Republic, Hungary, Sweden, Germany and the US, clearly knows something's rotten in the state of Denmark, but have convinced themselves outright that Sebastian Kurz is the answer to their prayers and the panacea for the problems.

If only real life were all that simple:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

What happened in Lower Manhattan yesterday afternoon is being blamed by "Blondie" in the White House on the Dems, especially the oft unjustifiedly beleaguered Sen. Schumer.

The man does think on his feet, when he reminded our Tweeter-in-Chief that it was HE, namely the Man With The Red Tie, who summarily cut funding for terrorist security, not the Dems!!

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

The Bolshies ain't "out to destroy" squat, Johnny! You oughta have joined that fella, Jim Forrestal, who jumped out of the window, allegedly 'cuz he thought a Red was under his bedLOL

Come off it, dude! The Cold War's over, Putin & al have bigger fish to fry.....like spying on our elections etc. important stuff like that:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

??? Whatcha been smokin'?? "Brown" refers to "Brown shirts", not brown skinLOL

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

True, dolno. Yet nonetheless, Stalin's crew were, once again, white, not brown:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Can't argue that point!

Yet, violence only begets (more) violence and while it'll sure make ya feel good for a while, it ain't gonna bring back the dead now, is it?

As far as the amount of killings, the equally white National Socialists probably killed more people (including their own as well) than almost any other single political group in modern memory, next to Mao, Idi "Dada" Amin, and Pol Pot.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Then again, a lone, (very) white, Nordic Anders Breivik massacred his own, in what is still one for the books as a completely unprovoked rampage.

Check out Perkins' "Confessions of an Economic Hit Man" and then come back and say that you can't somewhat understand the Arab's ongoing rage at the West, especially the US.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

True, but only because our glorious politicians were sleeping at the switch for so long, by the time they finally woke up, the damage had already been done.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

During the '30's, Germany's Jews en masse were accused of the most heinous crimes, including rape, blood libel, using the blood of German children to make matzoh etc.. all of which turned out of course to be vicious, hateful lies.

Need we witness a repeat performance?

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Rape has nothing to do per se with the ethnicity of the rapist! This remained one of the big stereotypes during the '70's and '80's in Germany, whereby if a rapist attacked a German woman, it was usually thought to have been the work of a foreigner, specifically, a Turk:-) This led to the vicious espursions cast upon Turkish people as "Kuemmeltuerken" or "Dirty Turks".

Somehow, when a German attacked a Turkish woman, the incident was either not reported, or the woman was made to appear as a slut.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

The point I was making from the very outset of this thread is that Europeans, not only Austrians, seem to have short memory, forgetting the reasons that a people migrate from one country to the other in the first place! Many have forgotten as well, that the Austro-Hungarian Empire, though not multi-cultural as New York, for instance, DID represent a degree of diversity which was unique at that time.

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Someone who disagrees with me I've never called a "Neo-Nazi", SigSauer! That's labeling, and I find such to be repugnant.
Someone who disagrees with me without a proper foundation I'll gladly call a moron, but that's called education, not labeling:-)

News / Austria's swing to the far right on Poland? [229]

Nonetheless, the failed migrant policies, to which by the way, the Austrian conservative victory is but a reaction, lie squarely at her doorstep, despite her own party giving a thumbs down.

News / Poland supporting potential new EU members - Georgia and Turkey [32]

There you're right on the money about that!

News / Poland supporting potential new EU members - Georgia and Turkey [32]

..and sends them off to Poland, no doubt, is that it??

Well, Poland is no longer the backwater of yore, my friend, and precisely for this reason, many Poles are doubtless justifiably concerned that importing too many asylum seekers from Georgia or Turkey will not necessarily raise the GNP once the former have become full-fledged members of the European Community.

That's the key point, I think.

News / Poland supporting potential new EU members - Georgia and Turkey [32]

More backward??? I highly doubt that, sir.

News / Poland supporting potential new EU members - Georgia and Turkey [32]

Georgia is Christian more in the sense of Orthodox Christianity as practiced in Greece as well as Russia:-) While not a Sunni Muslim nation like Turkey, Georgians are nonetheless not Western European Christians, and despite lying in what is technically Eastern, not even Central, Europe, Poland for instance is much more Western than Georgia! A point to consider.

News / Poland supporting potential new EU members - Georgia and Turkey [32]

Their patience though will doubtless be tested to the max if Turkey's and Georgia's joining the EU will mean more of "them" at your borders:-)