“Obama” Sells Cellphones In Poland
An ad uses wordplay on the president’s name to sell a smartphone/tablet package.
An ad uses wordplay on the president’s name to sell a smartphone/tablet package.
Dutch historian Jo Teuwisse creates these images by combining digitized photo negatives from the war with painstakingly framed photos of the same locations as they are today. (via thedailywhat.tumblr.com)
Obama campaign advisers slam Mitt Romney’s trip abroad as an utter failure.
Every August 1st, the people of Warsaw, Poland pay homage to 200,000 of the fallen during the 1944 Warsaw Uprising against Germany.
After Lech Walesa endorses Romney, the trade union co-founded by the former Polish President says he doesn’t speak for them.
Even outside the U.S., Paul’s devoted followers give Mitt a hard time.
On “The U.S.–Poland Relationship & The Values Of Liberty”
Conservative blog encourages its supporters to email the Romney campaign demanding a vist to Lech Kaczynski’s resting place.
Debbie Schlussel wrote recently of Polish complicity in the Holocaust, a subject on which Poles demanded and won an apology from President Obama. In response, outraged Polish readers overran her Facebook Page and knocked her website offline.
Groups including the Anti-Defamation League are with Poland on the “Polish death camps” issue. Daroff dissents: “Methinks the Poles doth protest too much about this ‘controversy.’”
The president referred to “Polish death camps” while awarding a posthumous Medal of Freedom to Polish professor Jan Karski, a hero of the anti-Nazi resistance. UPDATE: “The President misspoke,” says Vietor. But Polish leader wants a “clearer” apology.
This just is snot a good idea. Via Poland.
Poles: Good at Vodka. Terrible at everything else.
Obama’s Republican rivals aren’t the only ones alarmed by his hot mic suggestion that missile defense — implicitly, defending Eastern Europe from Russia — could be softened after his re-election. The headline in the largest Polish tabloid, Fakt: “Were they trading Poland? Puzzling Obama talk with Medvedev about the missile shield.”
Welcome to Polish nightlife.
Pop culture is seeping into politics more and more every day. The Polish Palikota Party showed a united front, and abuse of office copier regulation, during parliament yesterday.
So much adorable. This is DJ Wika Szmyt, a 76-year-old Polish beat farmer who throws all night raves for senior citizens. And by “all night rave,” I mean very pleasant disco and samba dance party that is likely over in time for “Wheel of Fortune.”
Alive and well and reading his own biography in a Polish bookstore. (Too soon?)
Anna Grodzka, who was born a man but underwent a sex change, took her seat at the Polish Parliament.
Never in my life have I wished more for the ability to read Polish. I don’t know what her campaign platform is but she’s got “All Press Is Good Press 101” down to an art.
Han Solo hates fascists. View Image ›
And now it’s the dog’s seeing eye goose. And the goose is named Buttons. And the dog is named Baks. And they’re inseparable. And they hug. And I’m going to die from insulin shock. Squee. View Image ›
Is this man an urban folk hero or a feces-flinging psychopath? You be the adjudicator! Always pick up after your dog. Or else. Watch Video ›
A long time ago in countries far, far away, these Star Wars movie posters were hung. Apparently West Africa is a big fan of the television movie, “Ewoks: The Battle for Endor.” View List ›
Poland’s president and 96 others — including the army chief of staff, the navy chief commander, the head of the national bank — were killed as their plane crashed while trying to land in Russia. Lech Kaczynski and the many other national figures were en route to the 70th anniversary of the massacre in Katyn, where thousands of Polish officers were murdered by Soviet secret police in 1940.
Microsoft’s website in Poland replaces a friendly looking black man found on their English site with a creepy looking white guy. Microsoft has since apologized and changed the image back, but that hasn’t stopped the Something Awful forums from taking it and running with it. View Image ›
Poland is awash in zoo-related controversy because of Ninio, a very expensive 10-year-old elephant who is not inclined to mate with his lady peers. This is now a source of outrage. Poland: on the frontlines of sociopolitical revolution since 1939. Read More ›
A Nazi-fighting, whiskey-drinking, cigar-smoking Polish artillery gunner. Who was also a bear!