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Polonius3   
2 Jul 2016
News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]

campaigners, jailed dissidents, soldiers, as well as committed public servants.

Campaigners and soldiers included Nazi activists, SS, Wehrmacht, Abwehr, Bolsheviks, NKVD, Red Army. Jailed dissidents included Hitler and commie torturer Dzierżyński and both the Nazis and Soviets stood out for their legions of loyal and committed public servants, assorted obedient yesmen and stooges. What does that prove?
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Well, that didn't last long

Yes it did, because those were simply given as examples of NO LONGER USED NICKNAMES. The "dud" was your violation of the unwritten rule or gentlemen's agreement. But then again, one would have to be a gentleman, wouldn't one?.
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]

You really don't have

Nor you any knowledge of Polish. If you did, you'd know exactly what it means. Michnik once said of his ancestry: "Jestem żydokomuną". It can't get any clearer than that.
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Duda, the dud of a dude

Haven't we agreed that Polish public figures should not to be publicly ridiculed on the forum. Even some really vile characters like the Warsaw mayor aren't being called Gronkowiec anymore although she is every bit as toxic as a staph infection. And the former PM and current European Council president is just as shifty-eyed as ever but is no longer being referred to as shifty eyed Donny. BTW, he is reported to have been a Stasi stooge codenamed Oscar. Anyone know the details?
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
News / Anti-Corruption Bureau investigates Warsaw city hall [69]

done a lot of good for Poland

You forgot the torturers, executioners, conspirators, schemers, connivers and mad geniuses using their billions to try their pseudo-utopian experiments out on humans.
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
Language / Polish keyboard 214 is best [34]

I don't know if any company even produces keyboards with the 214 layout.

Indeed they do. I'm currently using a Dell Polish 214 keyboard. Previouisly I had an IBM one.
Polonius3   
1 Jul 2016
Language / How do you literally translate Home Sweet Home in Polish [22]

"nie ma to jak w domu"

Or "nie ma jak u mamy!" - referring to the food, warmth, concern and love only a mother can exude.

Guest to the home

It's sound better thus: A guest in the house (or home) is God in the house (or home)!
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

They'll all have that right

Only the right to serve as compliant and docile yesmen for the Franco-Germano-Beneluxian rulers of the super-state. A rerun of the Holy Roman Empire -- the emperor and the numerous duchies and fiefdoms under his sway.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

But a fan of PRL

What ever gave you that cock-eyed idea. I know lefists are a dotty lot, but even by those standards that really takes the biscuit!

Every country's governing administration exerts influence and control on state-owned public media. Poland's are now national media, meaning that they serve the nation rather than than purely commercial ends.

Merged: Poland to slash bloated pensions of communist-era secret police

Interior Minister Mariusz Błaszczak has unveiled a proposed draft law under which the maximum old-age pensions for former Security Service (SB) agents will be no higher than the average pension or 2,131 złotys ($535) a month. Disability pensions for secret-police agents may not exceed 1,610 złotys ($405). Błaszczak said: "This is an expression of social justice. Former officers of the Security Service still have high pensions, and this bill corrects these errors. A sense of social justice must triumph in society. We do not agree to officers of the security apparatus receiving such high payouts for suppressing our country's freedom and independence." The previous PO-led government did make a half-hearted attempt to downscale some SB pensions, but retired agents continue to receive monthly payouts many times above the national average.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

political party are doing to Polish media.

GW, Newsweek TVN and others are spewing their anti-governemtn vitriol and hate speech with impuinity. KOD's street ranters continue to malign, insult, discredit
and badmouth PiS and suffer no consequences as a result. You seem to have fallen into the trap of the oppsopiton's own propaganda, if you make such weird statements.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / What does Poles think of European superstate? [48]

Nobody really cares about Ukraine,

Spoken like a truly arrogant, blinkered and clueless West European where everything east of Germany is Lower Slobovia or some forsaken no-man's land ruled by Transylvania's Dracula. If I countereed that with "nobody really cares about the miniscule Emerald Islet", I'd be lowering myself to your single digit IQ level, so I won't.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / What does Poles think of European superstate? [48]

Europe's longest period of peace and prosperity

With the exception of the Balkan wars, the Anschluß of Crimea and the hybrid war against Ukraine. Prosperity was rather one-sided -- huge distance between Germany and Sweden as compared to Bulagria and Albania.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / What does Poles think of European superstate? [48]

rightwingers fall into 2 camps

And leftwingers fall into two categories: 1) the dimwits that actually naively believe all the mutliculti/mutlisexy slogans and buzzwords, and 2) those who cyncially use the gullible leftist rank and filers to further their own careers.
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

Years of observation. Any evidence to the contrary? Besides, altruism (doing it for the kids) is heroic and far better than me, myself and I egoism. Unless you espouse the thinking behind the ING bank commercial on TV: It's MY idea, MY money, MY decision...
Polonius3   
28 Jun 2016
News / What does Poles think of European superstate? [48]

A common market and no wars in Europe, that's what the EU was set up for

That's what it was set up for but inch by inch it has been evolving into a super-state whether individual nations wanted it or not. Now the plan to deprive countries of even more sovereignty -- armed forces, taxes, foreign policy -- will be the EU's undoing. The EU's leftist-liberal elite are so blinded by their PC/multi-culti obsession that they fail to realise THEY WERE THE DIRECT CAUSE OF BREXIT.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

ose the right to have their own army, criminal law, taxation system or central bank

If they try to shove that down Europe's throat by hook, crook or blackmail, there will be a lot more exists like Frexit, Spanexist, Italexist and maybe even Polexit.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2016
News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

Nobody's business

There are people to whom nothing is sacred, not even th holy estate of matrimony.
Treating marriage and the fmaily lightly has led to tears, dispair and tragedy. Children are even better off if a mismatched couple grin and bear it for the family's sake rather than displaying their soiled linens in a court of law, facing custody battles, visting rights, parental abductions and all the other traumatising experiences that family break-up may entail.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

questioning the current EU structure

Some people list Schengen and free flow of capital as EU boons, but countries are free to approve visaless travel, capital free flow and free-trade ageeements without the existence of any cumbersome structure like the EU. The Junckers, Schultzes and similar have been made obsolete by events. Poland is also mulling a proposal to replace the EC with the European Council. Something to think about.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2016
News / How will BREXIT affect the immigrants in UK and Poland. [1114]

Brexit business

Polish formin Waszczykowski said today the governemnt are formulating their proposal for EU reform. Since Cameron has pledged to step down, so should the unelected EU officials such as Junckers, Schultz, Tusk, Timmermans and others. Instead they are proposing clamping down with mroe of the same only more intensively. One should ask first of all why the Brits voted the way thry did. The fault lay with the EU not with Britian.
Polonius3   
27 Jun 2016
News / Good-change government raising minimum wage in Poland, cutting SB pensions [213]

a good (well-paid) lawyer can stretch and twist

That may be true of civilian lawyers, but participants in eccelsiastical annulment proceedings must adhere to the principles of the Catholic faith and that incldues the insolubility of sacramental marriage. Occasional abuses may creep in but that does not justify equating annulment with divorce or calling it a "church divorce".