[Cronos]

The significance I see is how the "elite" can sell out their nation to an enemy thinking that its better for the enemy to rule rather than have too powerful a conservative ruler.

I never tried out a Polack joke here, but I think most Poles would laugh at it -- they have a self-deprecating and at times absurd humor. On the streets of Warsaw I do see some drunks more than in say Bear, De, but the problem is about comparable to New York and is worse in the small towns around Warsaw. My wife tells me it was bad during communist times when people despaired of anything changing that many men became drunks -- they had a funny serial called Rancho -- check this youtube link -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gvAQjB7uTQ

Though it is changing now and compared to the other European country I lived in (the south of England), the drunks are middle-aged or elderly and not violent

[TurboZamboni]

4 more years of the Bamster and I may become a drunk,too.