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?:-)

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

As usual, Trump is vastly overstepping his Executive Authority,
while a craven Supreme Court says and does NOTHING!!!

Chief Justice Roberts, you should be ashamed of yourself.

Off-Topic / What is a woman? [743]

Sex change operations occur in the US with dramatic regularity, Rich!
It's just that nobody talks about 'em.

USA, Canada / polish nurse in usa [4]

Jeremy,
Your profile says you are located in Krakow, but just curious whether you
are from Poland or simply work in Poland.

News / Will PiS be happy if AfD wins elections in Germany? [1442]

According to >DIE ZEIT< along with certain other lefty/liberal journals,
immigration is no longer exclusively a rightist topic.

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:-)