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jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

the real test of intelligence and decency is to admit that you have made a mistake.

Yet the religious anti-abortionists and anti-contraception people refuse to admit that they made a mistake by basing their opinion on medical matters on the writings of St Augustine.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

In most countries on earth you are punished for double homicide if you murder a pregnant woman.

That isn't true.

But its alive,

So is your toe - it does not make it a person.

nobody have the right to dispose it

An overwhelming number of doctors disagree.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

It is opinion of decent and intelligent people.

What about those decent and (very) intelligent women who hold another point of view?

Its very simple either you're for life or against it.

And that of course depends on whether you accept the opinions of the vast majority of scientists or of some clergy on medical matters.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Monthly Smolensk Commemorations in Poland! [34]

Smolensk was the greatest civilian air tragedy since WW2

No it wasn't - there have been many much bigger air accidents, including a couple in Poland.

claiming the lives of senior government and military officials including Poland's First Couple.

In Poznan?

There is no reason to link that accident in Smolensk to the Poznan commemoration.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

they're standing up for the right thing.

The 'right thing' in your opinion. Others might say that they are promoting something destructive.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]

quoting my comments about Jews and then placing a PiS sticker next to them as my identity to show to small minds that PiS supporters dislike Jews,

Don't try to wriggle out of it - you made the racist comments while openly praising PiS and Szydlo...

This is not at all unusual for online PiS supporters.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]

"ungrateful, brainwashed Jew, your herd committed crimes against Slavic people and one day will answer for it."

So you're a PiS supporter than? At least we know what you think...

It still doesn't alter the fact that nobody believes the contents of Szydlo's speech about the shipyards which they similarly let down last time they were briefly in office.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]

The huge majority of people here in shipbuilding land are solidly AGAINST Kaczynski Polonius - and that is a cast iron fact. I live here and all I hear on the street is the disdain for and fear of PIS.

And nobody will be fooled by this latest propaganda in an attempt to buy votes.

This is very true - if JK and his cohorts think that even one shipyard worker believes Szydlo's speech (after all those broken PiS 'promises') he is deluded.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

This march is not about money or benefis it is about protecting the family

It was specifically a religious anti-abortion thing in a town out in the sticks and not many people attended.

the more PIS push this doctrine, the bigger their defeat will be in 3 and a half years time.

It will be a spectacular defeat.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Poland's Sejm passes anti-terrorist act; opposition negate [86]

I didn't say that the current political system in Poland is authoritarian

Yes, although I'd say it's currently getting very authoritarian here - only the current party who re temporarily in office though, not the system as a whole (although they want to change that). After the next election we are likely to have a different party in government.

It looks like PiS have copied Putins methods, which is why democrats are concerned about Poland.

Absolutely spot on. The PiS abuse of the new anti-terrorism law is a symptom of this.
jon357   
13 Jun 2016
News / Monthly Smolensk Commemorations in Poland! [34]

With Macierewicz the crazy never stops

He's the gift that keeps on giving!

Beata Szydło promised in her electoral campaign that Macierewicz wouldn't be taken to her government as a minister. That promise wasn't kept, however ...

So many of their promises were immediately broken.

ps imho Macierewicz is crazy, mentally ill, unfit for public office and an active menace to the defense of the country

Many people say this. Have you read his latest gem about giving machine guns to anyone who wants one?

Smolensk

They will try to work this into anything.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
News / Poland marching for life and family [132]

Much more people

A fraction of the number of people on the Parada Rownosci today and also a fraction of the number of women who protested against the proposed restrictions on what a woman can do with her own body.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

Labour support Cameron

Unfortunately, I don't think that this would happen with Corbyn and Momentum (fast becoming a party within a party) which is basically his supporters however yes, the Labour Party as a whole is pro-remain.

and we have a Labour government.. maybe Labour/SNP.

That is a real possibility however I suspect the Tories would get back in at the moment, though if the SNP and Labour get together (possible, since polls show that fewer people support Scottish independence than a couple of years ago) they would have a chance.

Boris is a problem - he cares more about Cameron stepping down before 2020 than he does about EU issues; for him the referendum is above all a publicity opportunity. If it actually does end up with a slim majority for leave, I suspect his star will shine a little less. Or maybe even the opposite :-(

What a shambles.

Too right!
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
News / Poland's Sejm passes anti-terrorist act; opposition negate [86]

No, like lefty-libertine whackos who bash the traditonal family and Catholicism,
promote pervert marriage, abortion on a whim, legalising "recreational" drugs, and self-style gender identification.

When supporters of PiS write trash like that on a public internet forum it's no wonder that people just don't trust them. And their attempt to abuse anti-terrorism legislation to stifle the media and ban legitimate Polish pro-democracy rallies just adds to this.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
News / PM Szydło support a bill to rebuild Polish shipping and ship-building [29]

Indeed, they will rank lower-case jon amongst them.

lefty-libertine loons

There you go again.

As well you know, the issue with Stocznia Szczecinska is ongoing - since PiS botched it dramatically last time they were briefly in office and made the situation there deteriorate Szydlo and her people are going to have a very hard time convincing anyone that anything has changed.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

democracy

One issue is that the referendum is non-binding - this was made clear right from day one. The General Election is the important one.

So when the big parties agree on something the voters cannot have their voices heard?

There are several political parties who are opposed to EU membership and people are free to vote for them or vote for other parties.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
UK, Ireland / How might Britain`s withdrawal from EU affect Poles there and here? [474]

a "leave" victory

Hard to see a leave vote as a "victory" however either way it looks like it will be close and a lot can happen in the two years following this non-binding referendum - and yes, if a political party won an election (one would probably follow a leave vote) it is likely that their election manifesto will be treated - as it should be - as a mandate to act upon.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
Life / Undercoat for gloss paint not available in Poland? [6]

the exterior primer

As far as I know (which is only a bit) the main difference is that exterior primers have fungicide etc to cope with outdoor conditions and yes they can be used indoors. One problem is that indoor primers are low-odour and outdoor ones not necessarily so. It might be worth checking that the one you want to use is low-odour (the manufacturer's website should have this info) or it may take a while for that 'new paint smell' to go ;-)
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
Law / How much do Polish people actually pay in taxes? [12]

you are obliged to pay Polish taxes on income earned/gained in Poland.

This is absolutely correct, except that it's "or" rather than "and" have your base in Poland. There are a lot of grey areas.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
News / Poland's Sejm passes anti-terrorist act; opposition negate [86]

some marginal niche group

Like extreme nationalists...

a case in point.

A case in point that most people here aren't as extremist as PiS-ite or indeed yourself, as evidenced by your extreme and repellant posts here.

Ktos is not in touch with reality, especially when he praises PiS for potentially abusing anti-terrorism laws to stifle the media and prevent Polish pro-democracy rallies.
jon357   
12 Jun 2016
News / Poland leads in child well-being -- UNICEF [75]

Does Poland have social workers as in the UK?

Yes, though their powers are very restricted, even in emergency cases.

If the parents of a child being abused are reported to authorities, what happens next?

It's immediately a matter for the prosecutor however it's harder to move a child immediately to a place of safety; they are often left with babcia who almost invariably starts working on the kid to get them to deny anything.

If that is the case, you would think that steps would be taken to prevent something like this happening again.

There was a lot of media fuss and it made prime-time news programmes but i don't think much happened.