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

If Trump gets rid of Powell, heaven forbid,
interest rates will plummet and the US, perhaps
the world, economy will tank aka, prices will rise
beyond the point of no return!!

Simple economics. Nobel laureate Paul Krugman
and Jerome Powell don't know as much as Trump???!!

The Republicans are shooting themselves in the foot...AGAIN.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

Hear, hear all!

The more memory dims, the more their deeds will be forgotten.

Food / Where would you take foreign guests for Polish food dinner in Krakow? [15]

At least in my experience, as with other nationalities,
Polish food in Poland tastes far different from in the US!

Once sampled what passed for chlodnik and bigos at some generic
Greenpoint eatery a few years back.

It was practically inedible. The only decent part of the meal
was the Warta mocna. Ya can't mess up beerLOL

Can only say that it must have been the regular cook's
day off:-)

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [86]

Under Trump, you're dead right, Rich.
First completely correct statement you've made thus far today:-)

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Correct! It's call delayed action Puritanism, the fear that someplace in this world
some people might actually be happy.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [379]

Apples and oranges, Iron.!
You're comparing two completely separate issues,
namely, the cold-blooded murder of innocent human beings
vs. the life of an unborn, probably for medical reasons such
as rape.

As usual, you're arguing with your butt instead of your brain which
in your case is one and the sameLOL

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

The miracle that the EU chief might actually talk some sense into Trump's head!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Our president met today with Ursula von der Leyen. Hoping for a miracle.
Macron can't be far behind:-)

Off-Topic / AfD Party is growing ever more powerful throughout country [187]

Apparently though the Far-Right aka AfD is trying to soften her message while
not her policies!

See Alice Weidel and Tino Churwalla are getting desperate.

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [694]

Trump's childish revenge tactics hurt everyone, consumer and seller!
Higher tariffs make needed import goods, primarily from China, all that more
expensive, often downright unaffordable except for the mega rich.

Nothing fair about that.

Typically short sighted that those in this country who claim "Life's not fair
so deal with it and shut up!!" are the ones who benefit from high tariffs or
runaway inflation.

If they had to pay their fair share, they wouldn't be so glib or talk so big.

Furthermore, who in the US on the whole either admits to having received
help (usually from the Church) or to giving it?? Horatio Alger's "I pulled myself
up by my own bootstraps" philosophy's quaint and perhaps applicable during
a more innocent time in our country's distant past. However to espouse such
nowadays is nothing more than sheer indifference.

In many cases as concerns the above, somebody gave 'em the boots and the
straps!! Fairy tales are alive and well in the US, commonly referred to as PR.

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

Well heck, Joker, we didn't even have a symphony orchestra until
Henry Lee Higginson founded the Boston Symphony orchestra forwards
the end of the 19th century.

@PolAmKrakow,

You missed the point I was making about Columbia's checkered past!

Genealogy / English versions of Polish given names [35]

Had a Polish neighbor named Wladyslaw aka Wladek, and he preferred
to be called by his American name Wally!!

Always figured it was short or familiar for Wallace, not Walter.

Off-Topic / God and Religion Talk [273]

Let's separate Sunni from Shiite Islam.

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

Pseudo-intellectual = "Dr." Timothy Leary, propagator of the dangerous myth back in the '60's that mind/mood altering non-prescription drugs
were ok for the youth of America.

I trust you see the difference, PolAmKrakow.

@Rich, merely to clarify my statement in #395. Although I graduated with an MA from GSAS,
their track record has been shameful in regard to faculty diversity, thinking in particular of arch-Nazi advocate
and longest serving president, Nicholas Murray Butler, not only who denied Dr. Franz Boas tenure because Boas
was Jewish, but who openly courted Nazi-leaning German visitors during the 1930's on Columbia Campus.

Then of course there was Grayson Kirk, who insisted on calling in the riot squad when Mark Rudd and others
staged a vocal demonstration. Later there was Lee Bollinger during the early '00's who openly defied requests
not to invite Achmoudsinishad to Columbia. Allegedly, President Bollinger simply wanted to be "fair" to both sides
by allowing a known anti-Semite to spew his filth to students. He never once apologized.
Last but not least, there was Prof. Edward Said, well-known author and Palestinian activist who was photographed
throwing rocks at Israeli troops. No comment from Said.

Not a pretty track record.

News / Why should Poland consider pursuing a strategic alliance with Russia? [392]

Them's the breaks, Bobko!

Life / Polish adventure Bible from the 90s by zonderkidz/zondervan? [4]

Still opens the same way. "Na poczatku........." = In the beginning.....

History / How much Poles trust to France? [130]

Surely no worse than "Brexit".

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

Not that I'm a fan of my alma mater, but Trump's anti-education posture
only mirrors the deep-seated anti-intellectualism rooted of course in nativism
dating back to the 19th century.
Until maybe the mid-20th century, "culture" was still considered a dirty word
throughout much of the US. Sadly, it still is for a broad swath of America.

The more things change, the more they stay the same!

History / How much Poles trust to France? [130]

Too odd, you meant, B.B.?
Any merkwuerdiger than "Polexit"??

History / How much Poles trust to France? [130]

How about a Germexit, while we're on the subject.

History / How much Poles trust to France? [130]

France remains even a notch above Italy as culinary capital of the planet, no argument there!
However Germany continues to lead in software development (SAP etc.), biochemical research, I.T., robotics, automotive technology,
cinema, banking/finance spending on arts funding, museum promotion whereby several of the world's leading museum directors are from Germany,
fnially, in fashion, not to mention gastronomy, Berlin, Duesseldorf, Hamburg & Frankfurt can hold their own with Paris any day of the week.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

I knew that, Maf! I can't reproduce that letter on my keyboard.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

Sure they can. YOU should learn English:-)
Worked for Ceaucescu and others!

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@AntV,

Cronyism, a la Jackson, is simply hiring or engaging cronies aka friends, buddies, "good ol' boys" etc. at the expense
of competent professionals who might not always have their boss' ear, yet are willing to engage in serious, heaven forbid intellectual, discourse
on vital topics, even at the risk of intense disagreement! This is how civilized people interface.

Ted Sorensen, Bob McNamara, Dean Rusk, and WIlliam P. Rogers may indeed come across to the present era as a bunch of useless, haughty
stuffed shirts. Perhaps this is because they were well-spoken, literate, if on occasion misguided, men, who at least were able to intelligently articulate
their feelings, without resorting to the kind of vulgar chat emanating from the current White House. If one listens to Pete Hegseth for example unscripted
in front of reporters, one wonders whether the man ever graduated high school or read a conventional work of literature.

Again people, the gutter reached the penthouse long ago and has at last invaded the White House.

Donald Trump isn't G-d and must be made to realize by his electorate that without discussion, back-and-forth debate during which he
is allowed to be criticized, he is no longer president of once the greatest democracy on earth, but rather is a dictator who needs to be
removed from office.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

I wrote "were once", Milo. This means to me that the term is no longer valid. Their ideals
though are still worth looking into.

The problem is that the US is a country of some 250 million people, whereas Sweden is
roughly 30 million strong and contained within a landmass about as sizeable as the entire
state of Maine! Therefore, expecting cradle-to-grave security for every single American, a
completely regulated social order as exists in such a small Scandinavian society, guaranteed,
paid six-to-eight week vacations once a year plus medical benefits etc. is obviously unrealistic,
to put it mildly. All this sounds proverbially too good to be true, because in the end, it probably is.
It would need to be tempered to fit the capitalist foundation of the United States.

However, the New Deal was close in nature to the (former) Nordic model and naturally garnered
the same hatred by the Republicans back then as by cynical, dyed -in-the-wool Trump followers
today.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@AntV,
I'm referring to cronyism vs. competence, a hallmark of the Trump Era
in particular! No surprise is it that his favorite president was among the most
corrupt and who even bragged was meanest to his slaves, Andrew Jackson,
"Old Hickory" himself.

Can you honestly compare the likes of Peter Hegseth, a loutish bully, with the
likes of a William P. Rogers, Dean Acheson among others under JFK? These two
men were well born as well as central casting characters for their respective roles.

Trump's cabinet picks are not too different from Jackson's "kitchen cabinet", if one
stops to think of it.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

Things are rarely so quick or easy as you make them out to be, Rich!
If you didn't understand my post, for heaven's sake just say so and I'll
translate it for you into Polish.

It might take me a while though:-)

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

Obviously, that unbridled, crony capitalism too has her severe limitations,
no less than either Communism or socialism!

Beginning with the onset of the Reagan Era, the age-old gap between rich and
poor became more extreme than at any time in our history since the Great Depression.

Popular culture mirrors everyday life and everyday life under Reagan, a vague blueprint
of what Trump has in store, was pretty awful unless one either belonged to the protected
wealthy class of America's upper crust or the Church and was able to bribe successfully in
order to secure even decent employment.

Much of America wasn't as fortunate.

Fast forward to the present, imagine an American president cancelling a popular US TV-show
simply because he doesn't like the message. Imagine further if the likes of a J. Edgar Hoover
had become president. America didn't re-elect a first Hoover, aka Herbert aka "Shantytown Hoover" or
"Hooverville" because they wanted something better in their lives before became either too old or too
sick to enjoy it.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

For several generations, Sweden was to be sure dubbed "The Nordic Model" by
an envious world, usually by the US rather than Canada.

Germany and Sweden in fact have encouraged private enterprise, look at Ikea,
Mercedes, Bosch etc.

When the US lost control of her New Deal heritage under Reagan, this is when
the mass shootings and random violence here escalated with a frightening vengeance.

And yet people refuse to take the hint.

Life / A warning to Poland: Germany's catastrophic immigration policy: 80-90% criminal manhunts are ARABS / foreigner [83]

@Milo et al,
Hate to disappoint you folks, but socialism as it was conceived is NOT nor has it
ever been the same as Communism, that's the first slander I wish to dispel.

Secondly, while Communism is technically a type of dictatorship as practiced
by every country which has tried it, the only way in which socialism is a
dictatorship aka anti-democratic is that it requires of the government, therefore
the society at large, to take care of her fellow citizens and make basic human services,
medical, psychological and the like, affordable to all in need.

This is not being somehow "mired in the New Deal Era" as Joker, Rich, Milo along with
others here on PF have the temerity as well as the sheer ignorance to blithely suggest.
Instead, it should be a clarion, indeed a wake up, call to our current administration (more
a regime) that if Trump's chronic infantility, toxic greed, selfishness, and raw indifference
to the suffering of those not given the wealth into which he was born, is not reversed by
the powers that be, namely, the Supreme Court, we will see throughout the US a violent
backlash such as America hasn't witnessed since we tossed out the Redcoats over two-hundred
-and-fifty years ago.

This is a promise, my friends, not merely a prediction! The present flap over the late, unlamented
Jeffrey Epstein, ought come as no surprise.