Polonius3
17 Aug 2015
News / Polish-foreigner marriages increasing [48]
Why are Polish females more desirable spouses than Polish males?
marriages
Why are Polish females more desirable spouses than Polish males?
Polonius3
17 Aug 2015
News / New constitution In Poland? [57]
There's a good chance that less than 50% will vote in the referendum. Voters in general and Poles in particular are none too fond of being herded to the polls -- this year on 3 separate occasions. In the US elections are combined - national nad local, including local millage votes (re raising schcool taxes) and referenda. BTW sheriffs, bailiffs, comptrollers and many judges are elected by the people. Surely worthy of emulation!
Synchronising national and local elections
There's a good chance that less than 50% will vote in the referendum. Voters in general and Poles in particular are none too fond of being herded to the polls -- this year on 3 separate occasions. In the US elections are combined - national nad local, including local millage votes (re raising schcool taxes) and referenda. BTW sheriffs, bailiffs, comptrollers and many judges are elected by the people. Surely worthy of emulation!
Polonius3
17 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
So tell us who Duda's parents were and what sensitive key positions did they hold. About Michnik it is all clear and transparent: father -- an agent of Stalin's Cominterm and high official of Soviet-annexed "Western Ukraine" (forcibly taken from Poland); mother -- a Sovietiser of Polish school chidlren; brother -- a Stalinist desk-top murderer and fugitive from justice..
Can Duda's family compare?
nomeklatura lifestyle
So tell us who Duda's parents were and what sensitive key positions did they hold. About Michnik it is all clear and transparent: father -- an agent of Stalin's Cominterm and high official of Soviet-annexed "Western Ukraine" (forcibly taken from Poland); mother -- a Sovietiser of Polish school chidlren; brother -- a Stalinist desk-top murderer and fugitive from justice..
Can Duda's family compare?
Polonius3
17 Aug 2015
News / Polish-foreigner marriages increasing [48]
According to figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) relating to couples married in Poland itself, over 4,000 Poles married foreigners in 2014. Almost 3,000 of these couples involved a Polish bride and a foreign groom. 603 of the husbands were British, while there were 342 German grooms and 211 Italian ones. Although most of the marriages between Polish women and foreigners were with EU citizens, there were also unions with citizens of more distant countries, including Mauritius, Togo, Uganda and Gambia. Over 1,000 Polish men married foreigners on Polish soil in 2014 (almost three times less than Polish women). Of these, Polish men most frequently married Ukrainians (505), Russians (140) and Belarusians (118).
thenews/1/10/Artykul/217477,Mixed-marriages-increasingly-common-for-Poles
According to figures from the Central Statistical Office (GUS) relating to couples married in Poland itself, over 4,000 Poles married foreigners in 2014. Almost 3,000 of these couples involved a Polish bride and a foreign groom. 603 of the husbands were British, while there were 342 German grooms and 211 Italian ones. Although most of the marriages between Polish women and foreigners were with EU citizens, there were also unions with citizens of more distant countries, including Mauritius, Togo, Uganda and Gambia. Over 1,000 Polish men married foreigners on Polish soil in 2014 (almost three times less than Polish women). Of these, Polish men most frequently married Ukrainians (505), Russians (140) and Belarusians (118).
thenews/1/10/Artykul/217477,Mixed-marriages-increasingly-common-for-Poles
Polonius3
16 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
You still haven't produced any evidence of this. Why would Duda enjoy a nomenklatura lifestyle? Getting into law school after the regime was dumped was no great achievement. In fact, by then having PZPR ties would have been a liabiltiy. Michnik definitely did groew up in red bourgeosie lixury and we know why -- his parents and brother were communist criminals richly rewarded for their treason against native Poles.
Duda enjoyed a nomeklatura lifestyle,
You still haven't produced any evidence of this. Why would Duda enjoy a nomenklatura lifestyle? Getting into law school after the regime was dumped was no great achievement. In fact, by then having PZPR ties would have been a liabiltiy. Michnik definitely did groew up in red bourgeosie lixury and we know why -- his parents and brother were communist criminals richly rewarded for their treason against native Poles.
Polonius3
16 Aug 2015
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]
Don't all people (except masochists) hate change for the worse? The point is it requires uncanny, nearly prophetic foresight to know how which change will turn out. When it becomes a fait accompli, it is usually irreversible.
instinctively hate change
Don't all people (except masochists) hate change for the worse? The point is it requires uncanny, nearly prophetic foresight to know how which change will turn out. When it becomes a fait accompli, it is usually irreversible.
Polonius3
16 Aug 2015
Life / Polish people and racism. [943]
Is diversity necessarily a virtue and asset? It can be (enrivching indigenous society, etc.) but it can also be a libaility. Those countries where legal or illegal immigrants and refugees have arrived in large numbers often face a variety of problems. The Islamic factor is especially challenging because many of those people are not content to improve their living standards but want to impose their beliefs on others "or else".
accepting diverse people,
Is diversity necessarily a virtue and asset? It can be (enrivching indigenous society, etc.) but it can also be a libaility. Those countries where legal or illegal immigrants and refugees have arrived in large numbers often face a variety of problems. The Islamic factor is especially challenging because many of those people are not content to improve their living standards but want to impose their beliefs on others "or else".
Polonius3
15 Aug 2015
News / Expat bank robbery in Warsaw [14]
Anyone know if it's not one of PF's Bully Brits?
A British man
Anyone know if it's not one of PF's Bully Brits?
Polonius3
14 Aug 2015
Life / Catholic idol worship in Poland [29]
So is my dog. Never prays and never darkens a church doorway.
I'm an atheist
So is my dog. Never prays and never darkens a church doorway.
Polonius3
13 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
Youthful rebellion is nothing new. But the point is he was raised in red bourgeosie luxury. Now we're waitng for Delph to provide the Duda nomenklatura story. How many innocent Poles did his brother (if he's got one) send to their death the way Michnik's did?
takes courage
Youthful rebellion is nothing new. But the point is he was raised in red bourgeosie luxury. Now we're waitng for Delph to provide the Duda nomenklatura story. How many innocent Poles did his brother (if he's got one) send to their death the way Michnik's did?
Polonius3
13 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
As the child of two dyed-in-the-wool stalinists, Michnik enjoyed the perks and privilege of the red bourgeosie in his childhood and teens living in a what was then regarded as a luxury flat. Prominent communists got to shop in special "yellow-curtain" shops which carried goods an ordinary Pole could only dream of. He palled around with other nomenklatura kids who were in the same boat. It was only at uni that he became a political dissident. Delph wrote that Duda was from a nomenklatura family, not that Duda was a communist. Nobody is saying Michnik is a stalinist but he did come from a family of stalinist criminals. Full stop!
perks and privileges
As the child of two dyed-in-the-wool stalinists, Michnik enjoyed the perks and privilege of the red bourgeosie in his childhood and teens living in a what was then regarded as a luxury flat. Prominent communists got to shop in special "yellow-curtain" shops which carried goods an ordinary Pole could only dream of. He palled around with other nomenklatura kids who were in the same boat. It was only at uni that he became a political dissident. Delph wrote that Duda was from a nomenklatura family, not that Duda was a communist. Nobody is saying Michnik is a stalinist but he did come from a family of stalinist criminals. Full stop!
Polonius3
13 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
Obviously things have improved overall since 1988. The point is whether the improvement has been equitably (I didn't say "equally") distributed. Poland now has a caste of overprivileged and everybody else. That is the issue Duda and PiS are addressing.
to see the reality
Obviously things have improved overall since 1988. The point is whether the improvement has been equitably (I didn't say "equally") distributed. Poland now has a caste of overprivileged and everybody else. That is the issue Duda and PiS are addressing.
Polonius3
13 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
Any proof of this? BTW why is it we've never heard you say "children of the nomeklatura like Michnik." Michnik enjoyed all the perks and privileges of the PRL elite but actually came form a communist crime family. At least Duda's father-in-law is "żydo-anytkomuna" who spent time in a PRL lock-up.
children of the nomeklatura
Any proof of this? BTW why is it we've never heard you say "children of the nomeklatura like Michnik." Michnik enjoyed all the perks and privileges of the PRL elite but actually came form a communist crime family. At least Duda's father-in-law is "żydo-anytkomuna" who spent time in a PRL lock-up.
Polonius3
13 Aug 2015
News / Poland in ruin or flourishing? [35]
Kopacz and her PO flunkies and GW flatterers are having a field day debunking PiS claims that Poland is in ruin and showing images of glittery buildings and modern industrial facilities. Duda was booed when he spoke of hungry children. In actuality, both sides are right. Even 3rd world countries have high-end shopping streets and other showcases which they like to show to tourists. But in Poland only a minortiy have fully benefited from the transition. The beneficiaries look their noses down at them, at Polska B, the honestly unemployed (not dole cheats!) and other disadvanatged fellow-citizens. Duda and PiS represent the entire nation, not just the financial and industrial cliques, media monopolists and other elitists who constitute the PO's main constituency.
Kopacz and her PO flunkies and GW flatterers are having a field day debunking PiS claims that Poland is in ruin and showing images of glittery buildings and modern industrial facilities. Duda was booed when he spoke of hungry children. In actuality, both sides are right. Even 3rd world countries have high-end shopping streets and other showcases which they like to show to tourists. But in Poland only a minortiy have fully benefited from the transition. The beneficiaries look their noses down at them, at Polska B, the honestly unemployed (not dole cheats!) and other disadvanatged fellow-citizens. Duda and PiS represent the entire nation, not just the financial and industrial cliques, media monopolists and other elitists who constitute the PO's main constituency.
Polonius3
11 Aug 2015
News / Poland loses bid to built Jaguars and Land Rovers [23]
wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,100896,18533313,ft-jaguar-wybral-slowacje-polska-przegrala.html
GW is reprorting that the Polish government has yet again lost a bid to build motor vehicles in this country. In spite of tax incentives, the British producers of Jaguar and Land Rovers chose Slovakia as the site of their investment project. The factory is to be located in the town of Nitra.
Anyone know whether Slovakian manpower is cheaper?
wyborcza.biz/biznes/1,100896,18533313,ft-jaguar-wybral-slowacje-polska-przegrala.html
GW is reprorting that the Polish government has yet again lost a bid to build motor vehicles in this country. In spite of tax incentives, the British producers of Jaguar and Land Rovers chose Slovakia as the site of their investment project. The factory is to be located in the town of Nitra.
Anyone know whether Slovakian manpower is cheaper?
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
If the shoe fits, wear it! You know pricely who is meant: assorted Christophobes, bashers of the traditonal "patriarchal" family, the pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, pro-test-tube baby, pro-counter-culture household, pro-gender-change on demand (without as much as a chop-job required -- Grodzka should have waited a bit) crowd. Also advocates of so-called "recreational" drugs and "legal" (?) highs and of anything else that anarchises and destabilises society.
Merged: PiS-bashing thread
There is an urgent need for a separate thread for all incorrigible PiS-bashers. That way it will decontaminate existing threads from all that boringly repetitive, petty-minded, anti-government claptrap. Those who wish to discuss current Polish affairs in a sane and sensible manner will thus not be forced to constantly wade throug all that incesant grumbling and whinging of the frustrated losers who had put their money on the failed PO.
Who then will be the first to display their "astute" poltical "acumen" and "sophistication" (or maybe sophisrty is a better word?) edited
libertine loons
If the shoe fits, wear it! You know pricely who is meant: assorted Christophobes, bashers of the traditonal "patriarchal" family, the pro-abortion, pro-LGBT, pro-test-tube baby, pro-counter-culture household, pro-gender-change on demand (without as much as a chop-job required -- Grodzka should have waited a bit) crowd. Also advocates of so-called "recreational" drugs and "legal" (?) highs and of anything else that anarchises and destabilises society.
Merged: PiS-bashing thread
There is an urgent need for a separate thread for all incorrigible PiS-bashers. That way it will decontaminate existing threads from all that boringly repetitive, petty-minded, anti-government claptrap. Those who wish to discuss current Polish affairs in a sane and sensible manner will thus not be forced to constantly wade throug all that incesant grumbling and whinging of the frustrated losers who had put their money on the failed PO.
Who then will be the first to display their "astute" poltical "acumen" and "sophistication" (or maybe sophisrty is a better word?) edited
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
It'll most likely be the Platfusy's last campaign in their present form. After they are smashingly defeated, in-fighting will ensue and most likely the Platformers will break up into 2 or 3 different parties. One for the hard-nosed pro-capitalists, another for the flaky libertine loons and a third for any surviving decent conservatives still found in that unsavoury setting.
ikely to be like their last
It'll most likely be the Platfusy's last campaign in their present form. After they are smashingly defeated, in-fighting will ensue and most likely the Platformers will break up into 2 or 3 different parties. One for the hard-nosed pro-capitalists, another for the flaky libertine loons and a third for any surviving decent conservatives still found in that unsavoury setting.
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
That's why they'll lose the election?! Poles have had it up to here with the Platfusy. After the votes are counted the Polish nation will lustily shout: good riddance to the Platformer crooks, schemers and scammers. They've stolen as much as they're going to!
a great success
That's why they'll lose the election?! Poles have had it up to here with the Platfusy. After the votes are counted the Polish nation will lustily shout: good riddance to the Platformer crooks, schemers and scammers. They've stolen as much as they're going to!
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
No, społeczna gospodarka rynkowa, market with a human face. Never forget -- society does not comprise solely bankers, corporate executives and yuppies. The vast majority are normal families struggling to make ends meet.
Socialism
No, społeczna gospodarka rynkowa, market with a human face. Never forget -- society does not comprise solely bankers, corporate executives and yuppies. The vast majority are normal families struggling to make ends meet.
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
Maybe a Sejm debate would be good by showing the PO up for the hypocrites and elitist creeps they really are. Then maybe insetad of PiS winning 42-30, the Platfusy would get all of 18% or even less.
debate in the Sejm
Maybe a Sejm debate would be good by showing the PO up for the hypocrites and elitist creeps they really are. Then maybe insetad of PiS winning 42-30, the Platfusy would get all of 18% or even less.
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]
Tried it but it's too gadgetarian for my taste. To prove I'm human they wanted me to assemble a jigsaw puzzle photo of a gramophone.
Haven't they got a normal phone number with a human receptionist, not a press 1, press, 3, press 25 recording at the other end?
nativespeaker
Tried it but it's too gadgetarian for my taste. To prove I'm human they wanted me to assemble a jigsaw puzzle photo of a gramophone.
Haven't they got a normal phone number with a human receptionist, not a press 1, press, 3, press 25 recording at the other end?
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
He does not write about these things in his rag. The son of the Nazi governor of Kraków Hans Frank devoted his life to exposing his father's evil deeds. That's certainly not Michnik. His brother was a stalinist official with Polish blood on his hands. He's a fugitive criminal hiding like a rat in Sweden.
That poor excuse for a PM Kopacz has rejected Duda's hand of cooperation so it's difficult for him to impelment his plan for a 500 zł allowance for every child more than one born to poorer families.
I reckon he'll have to wait until PiS score their election victory and a normal government is finally in place. Duda was wrong to try to act civil towards a bunch of Platformer creeps.
The PO rejected a PiS-PO coalition in 2005. They had favoured a PO-PiS one thinking they would win and PiS would be the junior partner. Ever since then they have been stoking the fires of the Platformer hate industry against PiS. Looks as though they plan to continue although the Polish-Polish war they laucnhed 10 years ago has been a huge waste of human time, energy, newsprint, air time and money that could have been channelled into far worthier causes than mutual insults, recrimination and slander.
very well known,
He does not write about these things in his rag. The son of the Nazi governor of Kraków Hans Frank devoted his life to exposing his father's evil deeds. That's certainly not Michnik. His brother was a stalinist official with Polish blood on his hands. He's a fugitive criminal hiding like a rat in Sweden.
already broken election promises
That poor excuse for a PM Kopacz has rejected Duda's hand of cooperation so it's difficult for him to impelment his plan for a 500 zł allowance for every child more than one born to poorer families.
I reckon he'll have to wait until PiS score their election victory and a normal government is finally in place. Duda was wrong to try to act civil towards a bunch of Platformer creeps.
a cooperative government
The PO rejected a PiS-PO coalition in 2005. They had favoured a PO-PiS one thinking they would win and PiS would be the junior partner. Ever since then they have been stoking the fires of the Platformer hate industry against PiS. Looks as though they plan to continue although the Polish-Polish war they laucnhed 10 years ago has been a huge waste of human time, energy, newsprint, air time and money that could have been channelled into far worthier causes than mutual insults, recrimination and slander.
Polonius3
10 Aug 2015
Classifieds / Private English Lessons by Experienced Professional Teacher in Poland (Warsaw) [107]
Where does one advertise for such students? I assume this is for private home tutoring?
charges 80 ZL for 60 minutes
Where does one advertise for such students? I assume this is for private home tutoring?
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
Not really. Maybe some affliciton. In cases of RH blood conflict parents can have only one nromal child. And you're the one saying what happens in the bedroom is nobody's business.
Michnik is a hypocrite because he hushes up his family's dirty secrets. As a public figure, leading opinion-moulder and now someone trying to play the role of an "elder statesman", the public has a right to know where he came from.
Besides, he is a far cry from representing Polish society as such. Mainly he surrounds himself with and promotes his ex-KOR-ite cronies -- a tiny minority.
How strange
Not really. Maybe some affliciton. In cases of RH blood conflict parents can have only one nromal child. And you're the one saying what happens in the bedroom is nobody's business.
Michnik is a hypocrite because he hushes up his family's dirty secrets. As a public figure, leading opinion-moulder and now someone trying to play the role of an "elder statesman", the public has a right to know where he came from.
Besides, he is a far cry from representing Polish society as such. Mainly he surrounds himself with and promotes his ex-KOR-ite cronies -- a tiny minority.
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
Somehow you never mention that Michnik comes from something worse than a
nomenklatura family -- a family of political criminals inclduign a brother with blood on his hands who's a fugitive from justice hiding in Sweden. His father held a responsible posts in Stalin's Komintern and his mother tired to sovietise Polish chool chidlren. It doesn't get any worse than that and yet, nary a peep out of old Delph! You'll probably say: there's no collective repsosnbiltiy. So doesn't that apply to Duda?
nomeklatura family
Somehow you never mention that Michnik comes from something worse than a
nomenklatura family -- a family of political criminals inclduign a brother with blood on his hands who's a fugitive from justice hiding in Sweden. His father held a responsible posts in Stalin's Komintern and his mother tired to sovietise Polish chool chidlren. It doesn't get any worse than that and yet, nary a peep out of old Delph! You'll probably say: there's no collective repsosnbiltiy. So doesn't that apply to Duda?
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
The president is entitled to legislative initiative. If presidents haven't been making use of it all that much is another matter. But the potential exists. With a cooperative government this can work. With a hostile one it usually cannot.
The president is entitled to legislative initiative. If presidents haven't been making use of it all that much is another matter. But the potential exists. With a cooperative government this can work. With a hostile one it usually cannot.
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
Never forget: the constitution defines Poland's economy as a social market economy. That is not a cut-throat, run-away capitalist economy which serves only the financial elite and their wannabe flunkies.
Duda, free market
Never forget: the constitution defines Poland's economy as a social market economy. That is not a cut-throat, run-away capitalist economy which serves only the financial elite and their wannabe flunkies.
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
But the PO hate industry has apparently not been put on hold. Michnik's own editorial as well as the letters from readers he published indicate that Duda's offer of cooperation has been rejected. They have not reconciled themselves to the presidential defeat and that spells nothing but trouble. Let us recall, an over-confident President from Kashubia and a PM from Kraków were all set to take power back in 2005 when both Tusk and the PO were unexpectedly defeated. They were in shock, sulked, simmered and unleashed an all-out war on the winners, refusing to cooperate and pouring scorn on the ruling camp at every turn. In those circumstances no meaningful cooperation for the good of the country was possible. Are we in for a repeat of the Platformer hate war?
for Duda
But the PO hate industry has apparently not been put on hold. Michnik's own editorial as well as the letters from readers he published indicate that Duda's offer of cooperation has been rejected. They have not reconciled themselves to the presidential defeat and that spells nothing but trouble. Let us recall, an over-confident President from Kashubia and a PM from Kraków were all set to take power back in 2005 when both Tusk and the PO were unexpectedly defeated. They were in shock, sulked, simmered and unleashed an all-out war on the winners, refusing to cooperate and pouring scorn on the ruling camp at every turn. In those circumstances no meaningful cooperation for the good of the country was possible. Are we in for a repeat of the Platformer hate war?
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
Lay Catholics are free to set up political parties -- Komorowski orignally belonged to one, there was also a Christian National Union (ZChN) in Poland, and Christian Democrat and Christian Socialist parties exist in many places. But clergy may not stand for polticial office becuase that owuld be gettign involved in politics. They are free to voice their views, however.
we have a party, vote for us".
Lay Catholics are free to set up political parties -- Komorowski orignally belonged to one, there was also a Christian National Union (ZChN) in Poland, and Christian Democrat and Christian Socialist parties exist in many places. But clergy may not stand for polticial office becuase that owuld be gettign involved in politics. They are free to voice their views, however.
Polonius3
9 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PIS go back to their old ways [194]
A priest or bishop is a citizen and every conscious citizen should have views of his own and enjoy the freedom of speech to express them. Regardless if it's Blumstein the journalist, a Father Kowalski or Stanley the plumber.
Only if they used behind-the-scenes intimidation and black-balling to deprive people they disagreed with of their livelihood the way the LGBT mob has done, would churchmen be out of line.
Michnik is a journalist
A priest or bishop is a citizen and every conscious citizen should have views of his own and enjoy the freedom of speech to express them. Regardless if it's Blumstein the journalist, a Father Kowalski or Stanley the plumber.
Only if they used behind-the-scenes intimidation and black-balling to deprive people they disagreed with of their livelihood the way the LGBT mob has done, would churchmen be out of line.