Laid back in my recliner out in the sticks 150 yards back off the road. My good old sister and her husband are driving up from Nashville. My son and one daughter are dropping by to eat chili with us this afternoon. My other daughter, her husband and my toddler grandson are stopping in tomorrow. I just got back from buying enough red beer to keep everybody jocular for the rest of the week. Food is stacked everywhere.
My Labrador is sitting beside me eatin' on a petrified pig ear.
I might have to go back to the likki sto' and pick up a 750ml of potato vodka to chill and plunk down in the middle of the Thanksgiving dinner table like my Polish/Russian in laws used to do before they all up and died.
"Na Zdrowie!" (pronounced "nostrovia!) they'd holler before pouring drinks all around.
I've got a set of cut crystal Russian shot glasses around here somewhere. I need to dig them out.
I even got out a jar of Mother's Mag Wheel polish and shined up that sterling silverware that my wife bought at an estate sale here while back.
Yeah,....we puttin' the big pot in the little one here this week--gonna be fun.
Hey dumbass - if a Pole moves to the US or Canada - they most certainly do celebrate it as a new American/Canadian, all be it with some of their own local flavor. His in-laws, IIRC are here, not there.
There is a difference between a Pole and someone of polish descent.
Hey dumbass - someone from Poland moving to Canada/USA is still a Pole even tho they're living in the best 2 N. American countries and can/do celebrate Thanksgiving, all be it with their own local flavor.
Hey dumbass - if a Pole moves to the US or Canada - they most certainly do celebrate it as a new American/Canadian, all be it with some of their own local flavor. His in-laws, IIRC are here, not there.
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Polack’s around here tend to be very patriotic and family oriented and big into outdoor sports, farming, and hunting.
There is a difference between a Pole and someone of polish descent.
Hey dumbass - someone from Poland moving to Canada/USA is still a Pole even tho they're living in the best 2 N. American countries and can/do celebrate Thanksgiving, all be it with their own local flavor.
That does not surprise me, they probably try to assimilate immediately so their representation and interests as a group equal ZERO. How many native Poles do you have in state legislatures, federal congress or senate? There are many millions of Americans of Polish descent, who in lobbies in US Congress for 🇵🇱?
There is a difference between a Pole and someone of polish descent.
Hey dumbass - someone from Poland moving to Canada/USA is still a Pole even tho they're living in the best 2 N. American countries and can/do celebrate Thanksgiving, all be it with their own local flavor.
That does not surprise me, they probably try to assimilate immediately so their representation and interests as a group equal ZERO. How many native Poles do you have in state legislatures, federal congress or senate? There are many millions of Americans of Polish descent, who in lobbies in US Congress for 🇵🇱?
There are and should only be one people in America, Americans. If one wants to lobby for Poles, move back to Poland.
There is a difference between a Pole and someone of polish descent.
Hey dumbass - someone from Poland moving to Canada/USA is still a Pole even tho they're living in the best 2 N. American countries and can/do celebrate Thanksgiving, all be it with their own local flavor.
That does not surprise me, they probably try to assimilate immediately so their representation and interests as a group equal ZERO. How many native Poles do you have in state legislatures, federal congress or senate? There are many millions of Americans of Polish descent, who in lobbies in US Congress for 🇵🇱?
Dumbass - this isn't about Congress or lobbying - it's about Poles, immigrants celebrating Thanksgiving, be it Canadian or US. Something you claimed they do not do. Moron.
But we'll pretend not to see the Polish American Congress with 20 National organizations under it and 41 different divisions and chapters. Or the Polish National Alliance with 300k members and founded in 1880. We'll just ignore that. And ignore the 17 cities and 7 counties in the US named after Casimir Pulaski (I grew up 10 minutes from one named after him and a childhood friend is now the principal of that town's high school). You know Casimir right? No google peeking. Father of the American Calvary? That Casimir?
Yes, the Poles are well ingrained in US history, culture and politics. 161 American politicians of Polish descent in our history - that is, politicians on the large stage, doesn't count the local politics.
I grew up hearing Pollock jokes and assumed Poles were dumb. Turns out one of the smartest guys I ever met is of Polish descent. I guess I was the dumb one.
