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

Thanks for the correction, maf!
Tracy deserved the Oscar for "Inherit the Wind", HANDS DOWN!!
Admittedly, Schell gave the best performance in "Judgement",
(in my opinion, way superior to Lancaster's uncharactaristically
stilted and over the top exaggerated take on the Janning part),
....but Spence had all the best lines:-)

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

"It is I who wear the pants..."

Well, I hope so. If ya don't quit, ya must commit!

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

Ck. out Stanley Kramer's "Inherit The Wind" (1961),
the year Tracy won an Oscar for his role of Henry Drummond (Clarence Darrow),
having been beaten out one year earlier by Maximillian Schell in "Judgement at Nueremberg".

The former's all about the right to teach evolution in the state of Tennessee.
Those boneheads applied the same (il)logic about Darwin as you guys do
concerning a woman's right to choose.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

@Rich, I'm ALWAYS right... except when I'm wrongLOL

@Torq, as a Catholic you cannot be faulted for your blind faith. The fact remains,
you don't see things as they actually are. You might still learn wisdom yet.

@Przelotnyptak, the Prussians were Balts, not Slavs, sorry.

Feedback / I love this forum - It's so Polish: tolerant, inconsistent, amusing [337]

...you forgot about Frederic Chopin aka Frederyk Szopen, French to the French,
but Polish to the Poles.

I tend to side with Poland on this one:-) He draws all his richly stirring musical themes
from the mazurki and polonaises of his Polish homeland. As far as how his music speaks
to ME, he's Polakiem z krwi i kosci!!

News / How will Polish-American relations change if Trump is elected president again? [732]

Israel wants to be as self-sufficient as the US, for the most part,
yet continually struggles with this issue and can't seem to do it!

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

Sure, 'cuz most of the older Poles (those approx. over seventy) speak German, also perhaps Russian, rather than English:-)

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

No, I merely argue that Torq, you, and so many others, think robotically,
not logically or scientifically. You follow blindly, like lemmings. It's the same for any unthinking ideology,
be it Orthodox Judaism (including the various extreme sects, Satmar,
for example) or Roman Catholicism!!

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

Killing a child in school takes the life of an innocent, living
being who is aware someone is trying to take their life!

A fetus essentially is not a formed being, rather like pondering
whether or not an algae plant can scream if picked up in a bucket
and washed away.

You weren't present at the beginning of Creation and neither was
anyone here.

Life / Moving back to Poland after 19 years [20]

I found speaking German in Poland, at least near the border area,
far more effective than English. Naturally I tried speaking Polish
where and whenever I could.

I'm sure things have changed though over the past number of years.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

@Rich,

The Warsaw Pact involved solely those Eastern Block nations
who qualified post-WWII.

You're "what if" example is childish and makes no sense. Mexico
is neither of the above and what's more, was never Communist.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

I trust you're being sarcastic:-)

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

Putin's definitely a threat to the world, Rich!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Fru Thunberg can only do as much as she can:-)

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

This doesn't alter the fact that the erstwhile Soviet Union was struggling,
grappling, with an entirely foreign system of government and economics,
for which she was most ill-equipped.

Reminds me a little of Weimar Germany before the rise of Hitler. German democracy??
What a joke and as of '33, the joke was on the German people.

News / Poland's geopolitical problems [34]

Moreover, capitalism was still a new frame of mind for those "former" Soviets!
It is primarily for this reason that corruption, bribery and so forth was so rampant
during the '90's, since the Russian people on the whole had little to no experience
with Western-style Free Market economy.

To put it bluntly, people went crazy trying to make up for what was now believed to be
nearly half-a-century of lost time, taking only the scummy parts of capitalism with none
of the quality incentive necessary to manufacture American, certainly German, products,
particularly in the automotive sector.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

@Rich,
Ck. out the history of US-GIs who either raped or gang raped German women
during the American Occupation of Berlin in '45! The Russians weren't the only
guilty ones here.

To my knowledge, none of those GIs were prosecuted and to this day, attempting the pry
the truth out from the Pentagon remains a Herculean task.
.

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Most Polish place names had German "Beinamen"
at one time, long before WWII, e.g. Stettin/Szczecin,
Hellberg/Jasna Gora, Pommern/Pomorze etc.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

...and thankfully, would in all likelihood be ousted from the premises,
if necessary, by force!

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

Au contraire, Pierre!

I know PRECISELY what I'm driving at, admit it.

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

@Przelotnyptak,

The influence, rather, interference of your first language hurts my eyes!
Fess up and simply admit you didn't understand what I'm driving at.

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

No need to dignify with a comment

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Re-read your history, pal!

History / Anniversary of Soviet Invasion [116]

Read Telford Taylor's commentary sometime on the trial transcripts at Nueremberg. It's
an eye opener, Hartley Shawcross' rellections as well, from the British perspective.

While we're all too familiar with the by now almost jaded "Judgement at Nueremberg" vs. "Justice at Nueremberg",
it's a fact that the trials were conducted solely by the Allies rather than the Axis.

The reasons are all too apparent; since the Germans started the entire conflict, surely
only the Americans, the French, and the Brits, could possibly be to some degree objective
about what occurred.

Of course, no one can be impartial when it comes to mass murder. Herein lies the eternal irony.

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

@Przelotnyptak,

Would you mind translating that last post back into Polish?
LOL

@Rich,
Trump doesn't have the "right", Constitutional or otherwise, to do lots
of stuff he's been doing of late, yet, thanks to a craven Congress, he
keeps doin' 'em anyway and with breakneck speed!

Trump simply doesn't realize that it his policies are bad for some people,
they're bad for ALL PEOPLE. America's not nor was it ever a nation of
only the rich, well-born or criminally clever.

Sooner or later, he'll get his comeupance and tragically it might resemble
what just happened in New York several days ago.

Ya can't just keep pushin' average folks out there without them pushin' back!!

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

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 [116]

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? [732]

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