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Polonius3   
8 Sep 2015
Law / Laundromats in Poland? Good business venture or not? [90]

his demographic

Dunno about Britain, but why then are laundromats so common and popular in the States? They're actually social institutions --- while waiitng for their wash and drying cycles to end, people, drink coffee, read magazines, chat with other laundromat users, even meet ttheir future spouse. Reportedly a good place for single ladies to meet unattached eligible males?!
Polonius3   
8 Sep 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]

daft enough to think about voting PiS

Well, then I reckon you consider the Polish nation daft because they've had their fill of Platfus scammers and arrogant oldboy elitists. 25th October will soon be at hand. Bye-bye PO! See you in hell!
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
Work / Snow Plowing in Poland - is it a worthwhile job? [18]

one day each year.

In Poland twice -- 6th and 24th December.

snow plow for a living

Most every niche in the goods and services field has been filled in Poland since 1989 except one: Polish cities could use good inexpensive laundromats, esp. in view of the growing numbers of singles living alone.

The discussion about laundromats in Poland has been moved to the proper thread. Please stay on the topic here. Thank you.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
Work / Snow Plowing in Poland - is it a worthwhile job? [18]

non-EU citizen could not get involved with any sort of work

Total misinformation. Every holder of a karta pobytu (residence card) is entitled to be gainfully employed.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / The yesterday's referendum in Poland? Results? Attendence less than 8%. [24]

problem with Kukiz

It is true Kukiz is a political neophyte lacking in experience, but he also felt used. The Lower Silesia townhall circles (samorządowcy) that intially supported him turned out to be largely people associated with the copper conglomerate who wanted their lobbyists in the Sejm and regarded him as their ticket to parliament. When he realised what was happening he took them to task, they got miffed and withdrew their support.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / The yesterday's referendum in Poland? Results? Attendence less than 8%. [24]

Ruch Narodowy

Bosak, a leading RN personality, has dropped out of the Kukiz camp. Dunno if the others have. Too bad Poland hasn't got a serious, civilised Endecja like that represented by Roman Dmowski. Some people erroneously equate him with nationalist thug squads like the ONR which smashed up shops and beat Jewish students. Regettably, Poland is now the kind of non-Jagiellonian compact, ethncially homogenous state Dmowski had called for. Since that is not likely to change (personally I'd prefer a Polish-led Jagiellonian commonwealth!), a genuine pro-state party in the dmowskian tradition could be a major step forward.

Kukiz must feel like a jerk

What about Komorowski?
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / President Duda wants fairer distribution of wealth in Poland [6]

PiS and Communism

PO and gangsterism entirely the same thing!

he's rather silent on those

It's not the president's role to get involved in every minor issue -- only to pont in the general direciton. KRUS and nurses' pay are things for the future government to tackle.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
Genealogy / Siedlecki family [14]

Banach.

BANACH: from the peasant dialectal form of Benedykt -- Banadyk.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / The yesterday's referendum in Poland? Results? Attendence less than 8%. [24]

Kukiz is most probably out

Either that or he will barely make it under the wire. He had the potential of becoming a force in Polish politics, but...... On the other hand, in love, war and politics most anything is possible. Things may take on such a twist that he'll become a sought-after coalition partner and by the least expected party.
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / The yesterday's referendum in Poland? Results? Attendence less than 8%. [24]

turnout

Under 8%... and may end up being single digit, TV reports said on Monday. The referendum was the doing of Preisdent Komorowski and the PO-dominated Senate. Fromt he word go it was striclty an electioneering move intended to show how repsonsive the Platfus camp are to the will of the people after dark horse Kukiz won 21% of the vote in the first round.

The bottom line: another failed PO ploy that is costing the Polish taxpayer 130 million złotys!
Polonius3   
7 Sep 2015
News / President Duda wants fairer distribution of wealth in Poland [6]

"We need bread in our country to be fairly distributed. Today it is not," Duda told a Harvest Festival at Jasna Góra in Częstochowa, southern Poland. "Polish farmers have never let us down, even when we had to defend our country," he added. "It is rural families that have maintained the great tradition of patriotism, faith, hard work and prayer," the president said.

His words reflected the philosophy of the Law and Justice (PiS) party which promotes the welfare and advancement of the entire nation. The now ruling Civic Platform party mainly favours coroporate circles and the better-to-do urban class.

thenews1/9/Artykul/220084,Pres-Duda-calls-for-fairer-wealth-distribution
Polonius3   
5 Sep 2015
News / Referendum to cost Polish taxpayers nearly 130 mln zl amid uncertain turnout [29]

32 candidates

The actual size is nto that important as long as its smaller than 100, but the Senate is needed as part of the system of checks and balances. Poles hate to be herded to the polls, so a separate senate election is out of the question, In fact, it'd be advisable to hold presidential and parliamentary elections and any referendum in a single go, either shortening the presidential term to 4 years or extending the palriamnetary one to 5.
Polonius3   
5 Sep 2015
News / Referendum to cost Polish taxpayers nearly 130 mln zl amid uncertain turnout [29]

2 for 1 analogy is lame

I beg to differ. Every saving of taxpayer money should be supported. It should become standard practice to incldue any referundum questions on the ballot if such exist at election time. Also, the Sejm should be cut back to 200 members and the Senate to 50. And government ministers should be assigned Opel Vectras rather than BMWs or Audis... After all, they constantly claim they are only here "to serve the people", so excessive luxury is a needless waste.
Polonius3   
5 Sep 2015
News / Warsaw is protesting against low wages and unemployment [7]

between 3 - 4 % of unemployment

That low unemployment rate means that everyone who wants to work can find a job. There will always be 3 - 4 % in every society that cannot or will not become involved in gainful employment.
Polonius3   
4 Sep 2015
News / Referendum to cost Polish taxpayers nearly 130 mln zl amid uncertain turnout [29]

referendum

Poland's democratic, impartial and PO-dominated Senate, which wholeheartedly backed Komorowksi's 130 million złoty referendum, has vetoed the cost-free referendum cum election proposed by President Duda.

That is 130 million wyrzucone w błoto, because there's no way in the world 50% will vote on Sunday. But Platformer oldboy politics being what it is, the party's notions and proposals must be supported regardless of their advisability, relevance and cost.
Polonius3   
4 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

list of the 58 professions

I've always been just a passive observer and never had any links to the lustration process or PiS. Ring their spox and he may direct you. I had vaguely heard of it but didn't know there were 58. I reckon those would be mainly sensitive or opinion-moulding posts in media, education, judiciary, culture, government, etc.

a somewhat 'gifted' child

As a precocious "child genius" IMHO you are the least qualified to ponitficate on when Polish kids should start school. Don't you think it should be up to paretns to decide? Or are you big fan of the nanny state which sticks its big nose in everybody's business?
Polonius3   
4 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

collaborators on all sides

Yes indeed, even 10% of Poland's churchman were reportedly guilty, as were all political groiupings. But, and this is important, the largest concentraiton of secret police informers and other over and covert collaborators was found in the ex-commie SLD (which is obvious) and in the lefty-liberal KOR-ite formations such as ROAD, UD and UW. After the UW thankfully collapsed, some holdovers wormed theri way into the Platforma and the general anti-lutsraiton stench and ambience is discernible there to this day.

Yugoslav ideas

Yes, I recall the Yugoslav worker councils, and that was tried briefly in Polnad after 1956. But as soon as things settled down the regime hijacked and knocked the teeth out of that scheme.

I have in mind somethig less structural and more educaitonal, less economic and more humanistic. Not so much who manages factories or mines but the way society is brought up. The educational system, media and popculture -- the main educators of society -- are all in their own way perpetuating and normativising a dog-eat-dog world, cut-throat competiton, the mindless ratrace, de-humanised hyper-commerialisaiton and crass soulless consumerism. Shouldn't the educators of society be convincingly showing people there is more to life than "spożywać i wydalać" (consume and excrete). That there is nothing modern, intelligent or progressive about depleting the planet's natural resources to create a mega-mountain of waste which requires more energy to recycle and turn into more junky, disposal products which soon will get binned and recycled ad nauseam?!
Polonius3   
4 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

PO could do very well

That's only for those who wish PO to do very well. The majority of Poles do not! They've had their fill of Platformerism.

Capitalism

Yes, but capitalism with a human face -- not a dog-eat-dog society, cut-throat competiton, the mindless ratrace and de-humanised hyper-commerialisaiton of ever field of human endavour. According to the RP Constitution Poland has a "social market economy", not capitlaism. That should be a kind of third road with room for higher things, a cultural mission, human interaction (being destroyed today by mega-gadgetarianism) and spiritual values.

get pregnant earlier

Did you know that biologically the ideal, optimum age of intial childbirth is 23. Younger and older than that entails increasing risks to mother and child. But such information is being suppressed today by feminists and other opinion-moulders. What is being promoted instead is greed, money madness and obsessive careerism.

Increasingly females want to first complete their education, start a career and often put child-bearing off to the biological limits of mid to late 30s. At that stage it is too late for another child. Not to mention those who, swayed by all the glamourising singlehood propaganda, eschew maternity altogether. And we have the source of the demographic crisis.

if it was discovered

That kind of speculation can apply to anyone... What would happen if it was discovered that Tusk was a wife-beater and Komorowski a secret transvestite...

Moczulski of KPN, despite his nationalistic rhetoric, had indeed been a communist collaborator. Kwaśniewski had been in the communist apparatus and the others from Nocna zmiana all had some form of political collaboration on their conscience. The fault lies mainly with Wałęsa, although probably his actual guilt was the smallest. Sure he signed some pledge to play ball with the regime but never did. His failing was a purely human one: an ordinary worker buoyed into prominence by history, a Nobel laureate and the President of Poland sudddenly felt threatened and panicked.

Had he allowed the lustration process to take its course, there would have been 1-2 years of commotion and things would have got sorted out. None of the other Nocna zmiana anti-heroes had the clout, either singly or collectivley, to oppose lustration if Wałęsa had not organised such a backroom coup.
Polonius3   
3 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

shut themselves out of the job

Spoken like a true mercantile Brit who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing! If Polish married couples had 2 kids, the demographic crisis would nearly resolve itself. Is life only about job markets?
Polonius3   
3 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

I was three!

Talk about stripping kids of their childhood! Typical mercantile British Isle mentality: whisk the kids through school and kick them into the rat race ASAP for they can start making their pile early on. Rather than playing with them, telling them stories and reading them books, start cluttering their little brains with maths, geography, spelling and suchlike as soon as they're potty-trained. Wonderful, eh?
Polonius3   
3 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

population had no balls

The population was not consulted. Nocna zmiana truly was a conspiracy theory in action. Wałęsa's parliamentary coup was the source of more than 2 decades of crap that followed and is with us to this day. The battle lines are still drawn up between the soft-on-commies PO appeasers and the the justice-demanding PiS.

Check out Nocna zmiana online. The conspirators are all plainly shown.
Polonius3   
3 Sep 2015
News / Have PO (Platforma) operatives in Poland fallen into a panic? [332]

most successful government

The Olszewski government was the best and therefore had to be toppled, because it would have exposed all the perfidy of the ex-commie vermin and their KOR-ite soft on communism fellow travellers.

Jerzy Buzek's AWS government was also good, but its Unia Wolności junior coalition partner (the refuge of much ex-commie and post-KOR-ite scum) kept undermining it.

[Moved from]: POs 6-year-old school muck-up

The PO-led government has been forcing through its project to have 6-year-old start school despite parents' disagreement. The result is that some Warsaw schools have got 18 first classes. In Buałołęka the class names go all the way up to 1-R. Another example of the PO going off half-cocked and forcing through measures without first studying the issue and laying the necessary groundwork. Komrowksi's knee-jerk referendum was another example. It's high time for the Platfusy to get voted out of office and take their rightful place in the rubibsh bin of history.

Please don't post new topics about the same party - continue in the old one/s.
Polonius3   
3 Sep 2015
Language / Ambulans displacing karetka - similar meaning of different Polish words? [19]

the letter 'R'

The "R" stands fro RATUNKOWY (rescue ambulance). That's the with a doctor or paramedic on board and fitted with emergency life-saving gear -- oxygen, drips, defibrillators. The other kind is the karetka transportowa, used to transport a patient to hospital.