Language / Game - guess Polish idioms/sayings in direct English translation - part 2 [758]

I agree here with Feniks!

@Ironside, have you a better one?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

"Have you researched the Muhlenberg Plan yet?"

No, have you?

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1404]

@Rich,
Anyone who honestly "admires" Hitler is either plain mentally ill or is
advertising for mere shock value, nothing else!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

@AntV,
A brief English lesson, buddy!
A "huckster" is someone who deliberately deceives in order either
to derive personal profit from or damage the well-being, reputation as well as finances
of another person.

I've done neither, so go stuff it.

@Rich et al.

If serious, adult debate cannot take place in open forum between a president
and their constituents, it's time to re-assess that for which our nation stands and
it certainly is NOT democracy.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

@AntV,
You don't know the meaning of the word, sir, even if American English is your first and only language!

@Rich,

1) Preserving the environment
2) Acknowledging LGBTQ rights
3) Diversity studies at colleges and universities
4) Debate over gun control
5) Teaching US history accurately, even if not always flattering
Need I go on?

Our president might do well to remember the words of one famous American Revolutionary patriot
"I disagree with nearly everything you've said, but shall defend unto my death your right to say it."

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

A truthteller is usually avoided, AntV, just remember that!

@PolAmKrakow,

Wrongo, pal!! A jingoist is someone who espouses your "My country right or wrong" sentiment,
NOT an American, German, Brit, Pole or what have you.

Donald Trump, who deems his opponents "evil", is truly the evil one.
Above all, a sitting US-President is morally bound to listen to ALL opposing
points of view (if intelligently expressed), even if he disagrees.

Who died and made him G-d anyway? Perfect we humans ain't.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Hate to disappoint ya, PolAmKrakow,
but I'm a Yank, not a Brit:-)

Danke, B.B.

@AntV,
no more a myth than German nearly becoming the national language of the State of Israel
back in '48 because of all the "Jekkis" or "German Jews" who settled there. Hebrew only won
by a hair's breadth.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Meaning??
What the heck does your post have to do with mine?
Moreover, German almost became the official language
of the United States and lost only by one vote:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Bully for you, pal!
Guess what, one size doesn't necessarily fit everyone
and just look and see what happens out there across the broad
American country when dumbbells like you try to fit a square peg
into a round hole.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Yeah, right!

Ahemm, some folks out there are simply not cut out to pack heat, face facts.
You've been weened on too many movies, pal.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

With only one or two flagrant exceptions, namely a Cologne high school roundabout 1967 and
a similar Erfurt prep school in the early '00's, Germany also is way too enlightened to entertain the cavalier
use of firearms as is the case here in the States.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Arming teachers is a short term and impractical solution!
Educators may not be either versed in or necessarily competent in
the use of firearms per se. Expecting everybody in any field to be equally adept in
both their work, in the case of teachers pedagogy, as well as in Rambo-style
assault weaponry, is a clever pipe dream straight out of Hollywood, but has proven
tragically impractical in real life. We can't all be like the anti-gun mom in "Suddenly" (1952?)
who miraculously whips out a rod in the nick of time and kills the crook just as he's about
to shoot her young son.

No dice, PolAmKrakow, try again:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Your argument is typically idiotic!

The use of firearms in order to defend oneself against immediate and present danger,
such as being deliberately attacked, is clearly justified as clear and present self defense,
also known in certain contexts as justifiable homicide.

This obviously has nothing to do with every mass shooting on US soil from
the Texas Bell Tower shooter way back in '66 right on through Columbine,
Sandy Hook and what happened the other day.

Let's not confuse issues here, Rich.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

My response to yesterday's unspeakably horrific attack: "Guns must go, before more of them go off!"
Mayor Frye of Minneapolis is absolutely right when he said that it's enough already with the flowers
on moist grave sites and flowered words by latter-day gun advocates, trotting out the sympathy when it
suits them only to make themselves look like good and caring people.

This outmoded culture of bearing arms illegitimately must change in order for gun violence to cease.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Not so, Rich!
That's merely one more example of skewed journalism twisting the facts.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

It most certainly does!

Usually during a Republican administration there's
going to be a sharp spike in violence.

When average Americans with access to assault weapons are systematically deprived of basic services
while the mega rich simultaneously thumb their noses at the problem...right in their faces,
tragically, it's to be expected that the disaffected in this country are going to lash out at the upper crust
with a vengeance.

For the umpteenth time, folks, humans are only "higher" animals; mess with us and we'll mess with you.worse.

Study / English or German speaking school in Poznan [4]

Right on, Ron2!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Heard that before, Rich.
Sure blacks enslaved other blacks in Africa prior to being taken to the New World.
However, that's hardly the point now, is it.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Right on, mate! Good catch:-)
Also known of several Sterns who are/weren't Jewish.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

And I'll betcha none of them were Jewish either, isn't that right?
Off topic here, but bear in mind as well that the famous Christian Goldberg of
Bach's Goldberg Variations was not Jewish, despite a family name which
today in the US is probably always Jewish!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Rich's royally missing the point again, as usual!

By his logic, ghetto Jews in Poland who were frequently surrounded by
similar filth, disease, yes rats, and disarray (obviously not by their
own choosing), contributed to such within European society, being lumped
together with the Sinti-Roma.

Can those pitiable beings be compared with the ultra-assimilated Jews living
in wealth and privilege in German cities such as Hamburg or Berlin, many of whom
were much esteemed, lawyers, doctors, professors, musicians, and writers??

Blacks living in ghetto poverty, be they in Harlem during the '50's or the Deep South
even to this day, cannot likewise be equated with the scores of "successful" African-
Americans who contribute to US business (the man who founded Ebony Magazine) or
academics such as Prof. Louis Gates of Harvard, men and women who managed somehow
to move up, at least out, from the grinding desolation which imprisoned many of their fellow
citizens.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

Thanks for the update, jon!
You're may be right. Once had an ESL student from Northern Germany,
a young lady whose family name was Oppermann and was most
decidely not Jewish.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Hey, Rich!

Go Google Henry Osawa Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar, George Washington Carver, Marianne Anderson, Dr. W.E.B, Du Boise
and then get back to me about the lack of African-American contributions to American culture.

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

@Ironside,
Fools rarely admit that they are. You seem no exception.
@jon,
Jewish perhaps? Maybe short for "Dorot" (kolenia).

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

The Nazis got their butts kicked royally by dint of Allied efforts....and I say BULLY!!!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

@Joker
Trump wants to re-write history, whitewashing the African-American
experience by re-staffing Smithsonian along with other journals in order
to fit his own revisionist prejudices concerning the myriad contributions
made by Blacks to US history, from Madame Walker right on up through
those unsung heroines of NASA whose mathematical prowess helped to
usher in the age of space travel.

Apparently, our President believes that Commodore Peary could have made
it to the North Pole without the efforts of his right-hand man (of color) Matthew
Henson.

Incredible, if quite scary!

News / War propaganda - are we really THAT retarded? [28]

There's no such thing as purely "objective" journalism!
My favorite saying about the masthead of the New York Times is,
"All the news that fits, we print"LOL

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Rich is simply being his usual sarcastic self!

Life / Polish authors, books & literature. [125]

It's still a damned sight better than yours!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [953]

Certainly as much as you, Joker, only MY posts aren't distorted by Trumpist
bull!