News / Poland to join anti-ISIS coalition [22]


Hell bent on bolstering the coalition to exterminte ISIS once and for all. It has become plainly evident that individual air strikes won't change much. Only a coordinated, all-out effort including land forces (hasn't Iraq proposed to offer its troops for that?) can wipe out that plague. It's good Arabic speakers may be in the front line of house by house searches and raids on ISIS strongholds. It's easier for them to infiltrate enemy ranks.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Not backing down but consulting with the nation and introducing the necessary modifications. That shows strength, courage and flexibility. Only a stubborn jackass digs in and refuses to budge!


To clean up their tarnished image the trough defenders staged a small Valentine's Day demo outside the presidential palace on Sunday. This time they conspicuously tried to avoid vicious attacks or slanderous slogans agaisnt the government and tried to show that once a year they are capable of rising above PO's PiS-bashing hate industry. But though they numbered only several hundred, that was enough to disrupt traffic. Police had to reroute buses and taxis on Krakowskie Przedmieście. At least that wasted less taxpayer money than the millions spent on rerouting traffic and protecting the rabble-rousing street commotion in different cities for weeks on end.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Foreign supermarkets, mon amour! And foreign banks and corporations and other biggies holding Poland by the throat in concert with the EU who have strait-jacketed Poland's economy -- that seems to be your theme song.

If the tax is raised, suppliers will raise prices and these will get passed on bla-bla-bla ad nauseum -- seems to be your sole line of reasoning.

Why is it that trmming overhead never crosses your mind? You seem to be constantly shedding tears over the "poor" foreign corperoaitons. Couldn't their filthy rich CEOs and board members stand to shave off some of their indecent earnings and drive a big Opel (if they need that bigness to prop up their egos) than a big BMW? There are many other ways to economise besides lowerng employee wages like moving a warehouse to lower-rent premises and using smaller light bulbs. And the ball should be mainly in the court of the biggies, the fat, rolling-in-dough mega-corporations!

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Ever sensitive to the needs of society, the pro-Polish PiS govt has scrubbed plans to eliminate middle schools. The consenses in the teaching community was that they are needed. Also as regards the retail tax, modfications are planned to lessen the tax burden on retailers. Yet more evidence that PiS are in sync with the needs and sentiments of the Polish nation. That however does not mean they will bow to the whims of clamorous trough-defending rabble-rousers out only to protect their own selfish interests.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Au contraire, I thank God for my good fortune in gaining a moral compass with which to travel through life. I must admit I did experience a several-year crisis fo faith while at uni, bombarded on all sided by godless, leftist professors, but Poland got me back on the straight nad narrow. Bogu niech będą dzięki! (Google if required!)

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Never attended Sunday school. That was for prostitutes.* Catholics attending public schools had catechism once a week after hours in the same public school.
I learnt my readin', writin', 'rithmetic and religion under the Good Ladies of the Cloth (Felicians and IHM); secondary school was under the Christian Brothers.

*Just a little joke. The nun was asking her 8th-grade girsl what they wanted to be in life and they said: nurse, stewardess, secretary, typist, waitress, homemaker, etc., but one girl said prostitute. The old nun fainted and when they brought her to with smelling salts she mumbled: "My child, what on earth did you say? Please repeat it slowly and clearly." So the girl said: "I want to be a prostitute!". The nun breathed a sigh of relief: "Thank God, I thought you had said Protestant!"

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Typical UK shopkeeper's mentality. They know the price of everything but the value of nothing!

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


It was KOD (or as Poles correctly say Komitet Obrony Koryta), fearing loss of influence, perks and privilege, that launched all the commotion -- hysterical attacks, clamorous marches and snitching to the EU -- that and made a mockery out of Poland. If the issue had been left in Poland without inviting outside meddling, the world with all their real concerns (refugee crisis, N. Korea, Brexit, terrorism, Chinese stock exchange, natural calamities and many more) wouldn't have noticed some internal Polish political dispute.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


That's good. Let chain retailers beware! They have already sucked Poland dry with their profit transfers. The main thing is that what are known as mom & pop shops will get preferential boost. And that's what this pro-Polish law was all about. I'd even suggest official price setting so Tesco and Biedronka would have to pay the same price for oranges and dog food as mom & pop.

"Price-fixing, that's a PRL thing," you may rant and fume the way you always boringly do. But in times of crisis or emergency even the US and UK had ration cards and fixed many prices. In today's Poland that is also justified. Being constnatly crushed by foreign biggies is a state of crisis and emregncy which should be dealt with by all available means.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


The majority supported Hitler. High-powered, hard-hitting and effective demogoguery can work wonders and has done time and again.
You'll see in mid-March how the opposition haters and trough defenders had turned a simple matter into an insoluble mess. The commission will surely propose a compromise, possibly based on one of the proposals already submitted in Poland or maybe come up wtih something even simpler that the Polsih hotheads on both sides in their polemical frenzy missed. When that occurs, all the disgruntled KODies will wake up with their hand in the chamber pot! (z ręką w nocniku -- see Delph, you've just learnt another idiom!)

As I recall, the main compromise proposals so far have been:
**Majority TK appointments for the oppositon, minority for the ruling party (8-7);
**All 18 appointees get sworn in, and the extra 3 are held in reserve to fill subsequent TK vacancies as they occur.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


That brainwashing was the result of the PO-Petru hate industry hoopla turning over at 5 million rpm day in, day out, 24/7.
Run to Google Translate and read:
wiadomosci.onet.pl/kraj/witold-waszczykowski-zadowolony-z-wizyty-komisji-weneckiej/x0ys8x

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


There seems to be mounting evidence that all the noisy KOD rabble-rousing and snitching to the EU by trough defenders was a total waste of time and waste of taxpayer money considering the extra polcie protection all the street commotion required. Its only result was to further polarise Polish society and blacken Poland's international reputation.

The Venice Commission have given the impression that nothing bad is happening in Poland and expressed surprise the Constitutional Tribunal row had evolved into such na imbroglio, since it could easily be resolved by compromise. The Commission is due to present its findings in writing in mid-March.

News / PiS to impose blanket retail tax in Poland [291]


Retailers achieving a lower turnover are exempted, unless the conception has changed in the meantime.

News / Poland's TVP revolution [10]


Not yet. The most senior Commie bigwigs are getting up to 22,000 zł monthly pensions. Commie generals -- 8,000 zł, other commie bigwigs 4,000-6,000 zł. And all this even after the PO regime cut back PZPR pensions by 14% a few years back. The pro-Polish PiS government are planning to trim those fat-cat pesniosn down to decent size. It boils down to former oppressors living in luxury and their victims barely scraping by.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


The problem is that GW regulars apparently demand more lefist-libertine, anti-clerical and anti-Polish codswallop.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


I don't recall NYT providing equal news space for backers and opponents of homo marriage. On other subjects they migth invite some innocuous moderate conservative just to show how "tolerant" they are. Anyway, maybe you can pass that bit of info on to KPP-steeped Michnik. Ziemkiewicz, Jackowski, Terlikowski, Pośpieszalski, maybe Fatehr Rydzyk himself would be an added attraction to GW. Knowing them, however, even if they did agree, they would surely preface the right-wing guest column with some toxic, unflatteringly biased background.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


As a newspaper GW is not bad. Neither is the New York Times. Its the poltical bias of both that is questionable. The general ambience of GW is that if anyone is for a sovereign, patriotic Poland he must be a fascist and book burnings, shop smashings and circumcision checks must be just round the corner. The NYT ponitficates in favour of homo marriage and denies people the right to hold a different view.

Life / Did you send your children to regular Polish preschool or English one? How did your children find it? [7]


On the basis of personal experience, I don't think English preschool in Poland is not a good idea. By the time you get to Poland she will have a good grasp of English which all you need to do is keep it up by speaking at home. In a Polish preschool within 2 months she will be chattering away in Polish like a antive, so outsiders wouldn't be able to tell that she isn't born and bred Polish. Kids naturally take to their peers and through conversation, games and general interaction sop up a new language like a sponge. Good luck!


Please delete the superfluous "not".
The sentence should read: I don't think English preschool in Poland is a good idea.

News / Poland's TVP revolution [10]


So you've finally seen the light. Better late than never. You have effecti'vely admitted that PO jammed the TVP airwaves with anti-PiS goons which is absolutely true. And it is also true that now under PiS, rather than a typcial reversal (constant PO bashing), as promised the reporting is far more balanced, reliable and objective. Note how every time an issue arises or a bill is passed, the reps of all the parties are called on to comment. So congrats, Delph. There is no worse fool than an incorrigibłe one!

Language / Clever and Innovative Polish Keyboard Layout. must see! [14]


When one types in all caps WESOŁYCH ŚWIĄT or the name MALIŃSKI or CZĘSTOCHOWA, then all upper-case letters are needed.

Life / What's the best way to send money to people in Poland? Other than bank transfer, Western Union and Moneygram. [13]


The point is that MoneyGram requires no payment (credit or debit) cards and no bank account. Your data is not on the net. The payer just emails you the code number of the transaction which you take to any Polish post office and collect the cash.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


GW is preferred by anglers. So many pages of BS makes it great for wrapping fish guts, scales and heads in when dressing your day's catch.

Life / What's the best way to send money to people in Poland? Other than bank transfer, Western Union and Moneygram. [13]


What if they do not have a bank account? And even if they do, many people are afraid of divulging their account no. Once you let something out on the web you never knows where it'll end up.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


Privatisation in BAlcerowicz's book meant selling things off to FOREIGN INTERESTS FOR A SONG. Polish corporation could have been built up under the Bsalcerowicz plan and given first crack at privatised assets. But he was so greedy for instant cash that he never even considered that.

If the ski lift is to sold to Slovakia or any foreign party, then better not to privatise it. If he had his way, Balcerowicz would gladly sell off PGNiG, KGHM, Cegielski. Police, Puławy, LOT, State Forests, etc. Why should Poland have anything? Isn't her proper role is to provide foreign capital with a pool of cheap labour, outside investors with cheap industrial sites and Ango-expats with cushy teaching jobs plus ample opportunities to badmouth the country that feeds them?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


No connection! Pure coincidence. Besides there is no other country Poland's size one could compare with.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


De-communisation would not necessarily involve incarceration of anyone just for being in the party unless tehny had committed a crime. But it could have placed a 10-year ban on holding public office for all senior PZPR activists, starting with the Basic Party Cell (Podstawowa Organizacja Partyjna) leader all the way up to Politburo member. That would have saved Poland from the Kwaśniewski presidency and Miller's SLD not to mention Balcerowicz's assault on the economy.

Very sernior PZPR people starting with municpal party committee heads up might be saddled with an indemnification payment to hekp offset the economic harm done to Poland under communism (eg garnishing earnings for a specific period of time).. Or conversely, some of their ill-gotten property could be confiscated. That would not be a bloodbath unless they resorted to violence to retain the trough.

Why is it that only Poland did not carry out a decent de-communisation or lustration campaign?

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


I forgot to mention that the PRL-era military brass and police (secret and uniformed) adroitly transferred into III RP with little fall-out. And the chief of Polish Military Intelligence Gen. Marek Dukaczewski even after the fall of communism in 1989 attended GRU training in the USSR. He quashed a verification operation in secret services and well into the 21st century headed Miltary Intelligence. Kwaśniewski (another nomenklaturite) promoted him to brigadier general. There are hundreds of thousands of such stories which should be carefully studied by thsoe gushing enthusiasm over the benefits and privileges enjoyed by the Polish nation as a result of the roundtable conspiracy. There are many such PRL-rooted people wtih less clout and pull than Dukaczewski among the KOD marhcers, resentful of finally being pushed away from the feed trough.

News / Adam Michnik awarded for integrity, professionalism and high standards. Poland's No. 1 fascist? [321]


I wouldn't but anything past his ilk. My dziadek in Polonia once told me about shyster businessmen of a certain nationality (which I will not specify) who used to clandestinely haul away a shop's or warhehouse's s goods, equipment and fixtures under the cover of night, stash them away for safekeeping somewhere and then set fire to the building to collect the insurance money. Many a businessman has also become rich by going bankrupt if he played his cards right.

News / Demonstrations in Poland in defence of democracy. [2554]


The one Piotrowicz is your deifntion of "endless ex-PZPR types" in the PiS govt, is it?
Did you watch "Towarzysz Generał" last night. The make-over of nomenklatura into regime-sponsored businessmen was most clearly explained. The collapsing PZPR schemed and scammed to not only save their behinds but to land softly and cushily in the new political set-up and the subservient Rakowski govt and Sejm turned those schemes into law. That included handing state banking assets to voivodship PZPR 1st secretaries who turned them into private local banks. Similar silver-platter gifts were provided under the guise of some hastily enacted ad hoc law to senior SB types. No wonder they became III RP's financial elite. Ex-PZPR types was given free rein of the economy (one became NBP governor), continued their cushy posts in the state administration and wormed their way into the highly lucrative and scam-opportunity-rich privatisation machinery. Former SB agent and intelligence spy Aleksander Gawronik, thanks to inside info from his mate communist dep. PM Sekuła, set up Poland's first chain of currency-exchange shops the minute Rakowski legalised them and in 1990 became Poland's richest person. These are not isolated examples, this was the effective "law of the land" in roundtable Poland at every level and in every corenr of the country. People saw how the local PZPR boss, who had been well off in PRL, suddenly found himself on Easy Street with none of the ascetic PRL-era restraints on conspicuous wealth and consumption, while they had been thrown out of work by ex-commie Balcerowicz. The RT was one grand photo op of smiles, signings and cordial handshakes, but the real deal was struck in backrooms. In one scene of "Towarzysz Generał" Michnik is shown assuring the regime's people they had nothing to fear. It's all there for anyone who wants to understand what really went on rather than churn out the same old boring propaganda alleging that the entire nation benefited from Magdalenka.


Voivodes are appointed by the govt so if they start acting up and being disloyal, out they go. When council elections roll round, the local political balance will also shift in favour of the pro-Polish party PiS.