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 [1071]

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 [1071]

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 [1071]

@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 [1071]

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

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

I see.

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

How typical that the only Polish you'll admit to understanding is a low-class
vulgarism:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

@Rich, are you absolutely sure you understood my post??

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Warsaw, GERMANY???
Sure you're not smokin' the funny stuff?

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Because the Ukraine War began under Biden's watch scarcely makes it "Biden's War"!
That's almost like saying that because Hitler invaded Poland while FDR was president
makes WWII Roosevelt's War, Rich, that's stupid.

Putin waged and escalated the conflict, the result of his twisted desire to re-configure the
present-day map of Russia to include the sovereign country of Ukraine, that's all.

History / Poland's borders throughout history [47]

Rich is angry with himself and so he hates Polish because it reminds him of his roots, plain and simple!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Trump's back peddling, perhaps last minute waffling's a better word, might cost him the entire Ukraine war!
Whose side's he on anyway? Answer:
HIS OWN SIDE!!

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

Zupelnie zgodze sie, Torq!

Great poets, musicians, and artists (including of course film makers) are the life blood
of any civilzation, cultural guardians of the national consciousness. To my mind, one of
modern Poland's greatest poets is Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz.

"Przez caly bialy dzionek czekam,
Az stanie wieczor wiencu gwiazd..."

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Common sense, Rich!

Law enforcement throughout most of the US, rare black, Asian or Hispanic officers
in my own experience, is still predominantly White Anglo-Saxon Protestant, particularly
in the rural South as well as the Midwest.

Having traveled around parts of Dade County Florida, Pennsylvania, even areas of the Jersey shore,
non-Caucasian, foreign-born police are practically non-existent.

Can't tell ya the number of times I've noticed an odd demeanor on the faces of the average, run-of-the-mill
cop if I asked a casual directional question from my car. I was never stopped, pulled over or harassed, this is
true. However, the more homogeneous the community, the more bigoted and suspicious the patrol officer.

In terms of moronic, Rich, kindly quit projecting your own inadequacies:-)

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

@Rich,
You honestly believe that in the US today, blacks, Asians, Hispanics, even ethnically identifiable Jews
from New York, are treated by rank-and-file W.A.S.P male law enforcement officers with the same deference,
the identical respect, as they would fellow W.A.S.Ps???

What are you smokin', dude?

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

HA!, Look who's talking lol

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

@Torq,

I meant that Germany "won" the economic war after being both physically and psychically defeated.
Had Poland, for that matter former East Zone, been pumped with US dollars a la The Marshall Plan, perhaps she too might have rebounded
with the drive or zeal of post-War Germany!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Hey, Rich! Ever heard of systemic racism??
Much of it is simply built into the system, and not
only in historical "hot spots" of police violence,
not by a long shot! I'm not talking about Tulsa 1924 either.
Washington State once permitted, even if not expressly encouraged, law enforcement officials
to shoot and kill a black man within state limits.....around the beginning
of the last century. Read it and weep.

Even the most liberal of states, show racist beginnings.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

This antipathy I can understand.
Also compounded by a degree of jealousy, whether admitted or not!

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Get yer head outta the Good Book, friend and look around ya for once!!

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

@Rich,
Yo man, I'm a "protected" citizen, white, harmless-looking, older. 'Course I've never had
problems with the cops. Heck, I avoid 'em when I can, except for a curt nod when I see one
followed by a "Officer!".

I'm not a minority of color.

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

In the state of Michigan as late as 1959, a blood test, a simple swab on
a slide worked up by any intern at a hospital, was deemed by State Court
sufficient in proving rape!!

So the state of Michigan was WRONG???!
Come on, dude.

Off-Topic / USA News and Poland - part 16 [1071]

Trump's full of cheap sloganeering and no-nothing remarks, e.g. "You spit, we hit!" etc.
The reason for police brutality at all, is because those chosen to be beat cops on the whole
are scraped from the bottom of society's barrel, ill-educated, brawling boozers, armed and deadly
without either knowing their own strength or caring.

British bobbies on the whole, with exception of course, are far better trained.
On the other hand, most aren't historically beset by the massive social problems
we here in the United States have to suffer .

News / Abortion still under control in Poland - part 2 [383]

Calling all mental deadbeats, calling all mental deadbeats....DANGER, DANGER!!! YOU'RE IN DANGER OF LEARNING SOMETHING!!

@Rich & others,

The issue of abortion is in essence a female, not an exclusively male-dominated one. After all, who impregnates the female?:-)