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

You don't know the meaning of the word, people.

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

Proving rape is merely a matter of a simple blood test!
Penetration is sufficient in such cases, even if there is no completion.

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

@Rich,
Mr. Grunwald is Norwegian, not Polish:-)

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

Typo there, folks! It ought to read of course GERM warfare LOL

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

@Rich,
'SCUSE ME??! What were a majority of Germans who voted for Hitler other than "brainless fanatics"?
Mussolini was of a far lower order in a ranking of historical dictators, this is true, however Tojo might in
the end have been almost as dangerous as Hitler.

Hitler, to my knowledge, never encouraged spreading German warfare throughout the rest of the Continent,
even though surely that technology was already well known to German scientists.

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

How do I know it was rape? How do you know it wasn't??

History / 81st Anniversary of Warsaw Uprising [72]

Germany might well have ended up winning the peace, even if having lost the war!
Face facts, why don't you. Western Germany worked like the Dickens to dig herself
out from a bombed out country, whose population were nearly decimated, a majority
of whom were forced to eat from garbage cans in order just to find scraps of food.
Many losers were offered Marshall Plan like packages from the victors, yet how many
wound up like post-War dynamos as did The Federal Republic of Germany?

She built an economy exceeding even that of the US from around the late '60's up until relatively
recently, has the highest GDP in Europe and is a leading software producer as well as a leader
in any number of areas, surprisingly enough in gastronomy!!

Only American won?? Uh, I don't think so.

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

Aha, I understand.

Work / Are Poles workaholics? [164]

Iron or you?

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

Truman was desperately concerned the Japanese would release
germ warfare on the United States!

Although some sources, which unfortunately I can't summon up
in my head at a moment's notice, maintain the above information
was not even known during the war, i.e. after Pearl Harbor. America
was in a life or death bind and tragically saw attacking Japan with
all the force at our disposal as the only way to bring the fighting
to a speedy conclusion.

Oh, his predecessor, FDR, certainly made mistakes. However,
he was most concerned with protecting the country while not
stooping to the tactics of our enemies.

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

Abortion "rules" as it were apply naturally ONLY in cases of rape or incest.
Here, we must show leniency!!

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

You just proved my point! Most Poles over seventy years of age
don't know English, German among the educated, surely some
schoolbook Russian, but primarily Polish.

Same in most countries, except perhaps for the Netherlands or
Scandinavia. There, the average person can string together a
fairly decent (though obviously not native-) sounding English sentence.
However, correction they will not sufferLOL

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? [738]

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.