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Posts by Lyzko  

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Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

No. I do though adamantly take issue with anyone who denies that Polish-born Jews, such
as the Chief Rabbi of Poland Ber Stambler, have as much legal right to live in Poland as a
gentile Pole.

There will always be those among the former who maintain "I'm not a Pole! I'm a Jew who'
happens to have been born and lives in Poland." There will always be others who claim
"I'm a Pole of Jewish descent and proud of being both!"

Who's right? Fact is, they both are and there's nothing anybody can do about it, living as
we do in a post-Holocaust world! Anybody who has a problem with that will simply have to
deal with it in their own way, in their own time, period.
Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Aha, so you admit Poland is overwhelmingly Catholic and ethnically Polish!
Although those Polish Jews who were born in Poland and continue to live
there have as much right to be there as you guys.
Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

Ideally yes, Ironside. However, history paints a somewhat different picture.
The US is basically Protestant, yet doesn't acknowledge America as a solely
Protestant nation, despite the preponderance of the latter.

Poland is nearly 99.9% staunch Roman Catholic, in practice, not only
nominally cf. with Austria. Poles will typically identify themselves as Catholic = Polish
FIRST AND FOREMOST!
Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [46]

Not according to Scholz's spokespeople. Again, Hoecke and his colleagues
are trying to make a strong case in favor of stricter border control and dissuading
people from certain Third World countries from migrating to the Federal Republic!

Rather reminds me of Trump's attraction to the ignorant rank-and-file Homer Simpson
American here at home. Folks are gradually losing faith in both the Democratic Party
as well as Democratic, humanistic values represented by the Judeo-Christian tradition.
Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Russia remained and remains the largest nation on earth, often quick to bully and cow
smaller neighbors perceived as weak, such as Poland or Ukraine, into submission.
Lyzko   
30 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

Poland is traditionally, that is, historically, a Roman Catholic nation, Poloniusz et al.
The State which represents the religious convictions of her citizens might indeed separate
such a distinction on paper, though scarcely in practice.

George Washington was a Protestant by conviction, yet maintained a strict adherence to the
legal separation between Church and State, while at the same time, allowing both Jews and Catholics to peacefully co-exist. He permitted Jews to enter
the New World, so long as they neither required not exacted any financial assistance from our government.

Throughout Poland ever since she was Christianized, Jews were a barely tolerated, if scarcely "welcomed: group within
the borders of Poland. So long as they practiced their religion in private, made no demands on their gentile neighbors
by behaving themselves, they could even attend school as well as exist within their community.. A small number converted to Catholicism, a slightly larger number

still ended up becoming assimilated into Polish society, acknowledging their Jewish roots, simultaneously adopting to
national life. But it wasn't easy.
Lyzko   
29 Dec 2023
News / Grzegorz Braun extinguishes Hanukkah candles in Polish Parliament [358]

For the same reason Poland openly rejects the separation between Church and state!
The US makes a big deal about the separation between the two, while repeatedly appointing
Supreme Court justices such as Comey Barrett who imposes her antiquated views on abortion.

You tell me why, Poloniusz.
Lyzko   
29 Dec 2023
History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

Sorry, pal, but even I know the difference between the genitive masc. singular for
names as opposed to the feminine "KopernikOWA"!!!
Geez, give me a little credit here.
Lyzko   
29 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Incorrect, Johnny Reb! I was never unemployed, nor was I ever a flower power hippy,
but rather a New Deal Conservative Dem, and proud of it!

I rejected the Woodstock Era, still do, and was always the model of button-down Babbit-like
respectability on our college campus.
Lyzko   
28 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

Ahemm, Meathead was a twenty-something, unemployed ex-hippy who
belonged to the flower power generation!

I am a late fifty-something product of older parents with Depression-Era, New Deal
values shaped by collective suffering as well as the Greatest Generation of WWII,
NOT by a bunch of Haight-Ashbury teens who got knocked up behind some cabbage
patch, buster.
Lyzko   
28 Dec 2023
History / Poles should apologise to Ukrainians first [337]

The Poles though were often seen more as accomplices to brutality rather than
methodical instigators of such crimes!

Had there been no German-sponsored Holocaust, Jedwabne and Kielce would never have
happened, as there would have been no leader to follow. Those Polish participants were
mimicking the Nazis, yet without that role model, I don't believe the Polish government would have
planned such an atrocity out of the badness of their hearts.

This is why it angers me so to read about "Polish Concentration Camps".
Lyzko   
28 Dec 2023
News / Poland - A True Bastion and Defender of Free Speech [250]

I'm no Meathead, but of the two, the show's
producer and head star, Carrol O'Connor, were
no fans of Archie, believe me. Face it, the
man was pitiful, much like the Curtwood Smith
character on "That 70's Show".
Lyzko   
28 Dec 2023
History / Why Poland achieved nothing at all? [69]

B.B. relax, don't have kittens, will ya? Mach dich doch nicht nass, Kinder!
Pawian as well. Kopernikus is a Pole to the Poles, but a German to the Germans,
same with his home town, Torun or Thorn? You pick.

Hey, the French claim Chopin, whilst he WAS born in Zelezowa Podolia,
and therefore Polish by birth:-) His whimsically passionate, ever capricious
themes though, e.g. his Etude in E flat, is pure, unadulterated Polish and can
bring tears to one's eyes.