News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


Common courtesy requires at least a 100-day grace period for a new party to get its act together without incessant attacks and attempted sabotage.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


If they went ahead with 500 zł for every child, even the first and even those of wealthy parents, you'd be ther first to attack them for being reckless and financially irresponsible. But since PiS has tempered their social sensitivity with financial realism, your ilk are fuming that they are not keeping their campaign promises. The bottom line is that PO toadies like yourself are not interested in a fair and balanced evaluation but only in desperate nit-picking and fault-finding. Funny that you kept silent at all the abuses, misdeeds and ill-considered moves of the Platformers over the past 8 years.

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


Rebound and regroup? Nice euphemisms for the Three DS: decline, disintegration and demise!

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


The 4Bs (Bufoonish Brit Bully Badmouths) who usually have a ready answer for everything are somehow strangely silent as they see their beloved crook & scam party Platforma disntegrate before their very eyes. Here' s a suggested argument: PiS won the 25th Oct. election only because all its elderly supporters still have landlines. Oops, that won't work. Voting by phone still isn't an option. LOL!

News / Poland's election winning party: PIS proclamations [229]


PETRU'S NOWOCZESNOŚĆ OVERTAKES PO

The latest survey by pollster Estymator for Newsweek showed Poles' political preferences as follows:
Prawo i Sprawiedliwość
(including Solidarna Polska & Polska Razem) - 42%
Nowoczesna - 17%
Platforma - 16%
Kukiz'15 - 8%
Korwin, PSL & United Left - 4%

The results clearly show that Poles are thoroughly fed up with PO and their temper tantrums and theatrical gestures such as storming out of the Sejm and holding a bile-spewing presser on the stairs outside. There have been predictions that the Platform may find itself at or below the 5% threshold by the next election. At this rate, that may occur within the year. As Lincoln one put it, "You can't full all the people all the tinme!"

wyborcza.pl/1,75478,19262314,sondaz-nowoczesna-wyprzedza-platforme.html#ixzz3spmg1Tgr

Genealogy / Schalwig, Grittner, Schulz, Schmit, Szot, Bernat, Szwarc - were my ancestors Germans in Silesia, or Silesians? [22]


I should have added that St Tekla was a 1st century martyr (disciple of St Paul thrown to the lions) regarded as equal to the Apostles.

Genealogy / Schalwig, Grittner, Schulz, Schmit, Szot, Bernat, Szwarc - were my ancestors Germans in Silesia, or Silesians? [22]


TEKLA: from Greek Thekla, a shortened form of Theokleia meaning "glory of God". Once quite popular in Poland and elsewhere in Europe, it is now regarded old-fashion.

Genealogy / Schalwig, Grittner, Schulz, Schmit, Szot, Bernat, Szwarc - were my ancestors Germans in Silesia, or Silesians? [22]


Grad in Polish means hail (frozen balls of ice); the word for a castle-town in Polish is gród (pronounced: groot).

Life / Remedy for a common cold the Polish way - *extract of penis* ? [40]


A similar anecdote is told about the late French president. When he was retiring, a reporter asked Madam de Gaulle what she looked forward to in retirement and she replied: "A penis!" The president broke in with: "My dear, I don't think it's pronounced that way. It is 'appiness!" (The French do not pronounce the letter "h".)

News / Poland directly threatened by ISIS. Do Islamists planning terrorist attacks in Poland? [390]


The problem of expanding aggressive Islam would not exist in its present form were it not for the clueless fuzzy-brained liberals and bleeding-heart leftists. Apparently they do not realise that when Islam takes over it is the libs, leftists, libertines, pornographers, feminists, homos, cross-dressers and other freaks who will be first in line for decapitation. The West's ISIS-backers are like moths flying into a flame!

Please stick to the topic - is Poland really in danger of terrorist attacks?


At this time Poland does not seem directly threatened. But since Polish troops had taken part in US-led military expeditions to Muslim countries and only one or two extremists suffice to launch a high-fatality attack -- that can never be ruled out.

Genealogy / Schalwig, Grittner, Schulz, Schmit, Szot, Bernat, Szwarc - were my ancestors Germans in Silesia, or Silesians? [22]


1) Szulc (Schulz. Schultz) village mayor - contraction of Schultheiß; the latter produced the Polish Sołtys.

2) Szmit (Schmit, Schmidt, Schmied) blacksmith

3) Szot (Schott) Scotsman

4) Bernat (Bernhardt) - The Bernat element could be of Polish, Czech, Hungarian or German origin, whilst the patronymci ending -wicz is exclusively Polish.

5) Szwarcowicz (Schwartz) patronymic from Szwarc

6) Miller, Miler (Müller) miller)

7) Sznajder (Schneider) tailor

8) Fiszer (Fischer) fisherman

9) Majer (Meyer) freeholder

NOTE: When borders got shifted and a new set of rulers took over, some people found it expedient to translate their names. During the Nazi occupation a Krawiec, Rybak and Kowal might have chosen Schneider, Fischer and Schmidt respectively. After the war a reverse process ensued.

News / Poland's Parliament adopting a 70% severance tax of departing state company bosses [21]


Not sure. The Polish is "spółki skarbu państwa" (state treasury companies).

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


Any evidence to back up that allegation? On the contrary, I would advocate more openness and transparency. No anonymous poison-pen comments or anonymous forums like PF. One gets the impression that some (many?) on PF are hiding behind their nicks and are more interested in mud-slinging than discussing various issues. If everyone was required to, I would not mind listing my full name, postal address/email address, even phone number. Many posters would change their tune so as not to make total fools of themselves and stop pretending to be someone they're not. Also listowners should be conspiscuously presented with country and full contact data.

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


And we all know why. Governments are made up of people and every multi-billion-dollar lobby knows whom to visit to get their way. Other than porn, another crippler of people and families is gambling. If governments really were "for the nation" as politicians claim, they would also do something to restrict commercial gaming/betting which drives the growing plague of gambloholism. If they did, however, who would provide the hefty kickbacks?!

But what about the PF's pro-market types? Market economics is not about freebees and handouts but pay as you go. One wonders what their reason is to oppose paid porn on the web?!

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


What would you say to have only pay to view porn on the net removing all the free stuff. If an adult fancies that sort of thing, let him pay for it. That way minors would not have easy access.

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


Amen!

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


Have you seen it that you can authoritatively say it enriches anything? Wasn't Min. Gliński taken to task for criticisng the play without first having seen or read it? If it really is pornographic it enriches nothing and only promotes disoluteness and depravity. Such producitons should be allowed only as a private commercial ventures for those who enjoy wallowing in filth.

BTW no decent Polish girl wanted to be associated with such an abomiantion so they had to send away for porno-sluts from godless Bohemia.

News / How would Poland change for the better (or worse) under a PiS government? [257]

Merged: Min. Morawiecki to boost Polish entrepreneurship

Mateusz Morawiecki, 47, as Dep. PM and Development Min., intends to actively promote Polish entrepreneurship, something Balcerowicz should have done rather than selling off Polish indusrtial assets to foreign capital for a song. His dad is the legendary anti-communist underground fighter Kornel Morawiecki, now Senior Marshal of the Sejm. Mateusz has followed in his father's footsteps and was involved in the anti-communist student movement and produced samizdat literature. This year he gave up a top post in the Satander-owned WBK bank (earning some 3 mln zł a year) to serve Poland which he regards as an honour. Not too many people like that about! He intends to support small, medium and large Polish firms to move up into more advanced technology (away from unprocessed or semi-processed goods). That will require training more skilled employees, boost exports and lead to flourishing companies which can afford to pay higher taxes. Morawiecki looks forward to a GDP of 4%.

rp.pl/Rzad-PiS/311229908-Morawiecki-Ekonomia-ma-sluzyc-obywatelom.html

Food / Your single best-liked Wigilia dish? [29]


An easy way to make it is to use bulgur wheat which is cracked and cooks up much quicker. Although wheatberries are the most traditional, kutia can also be made with pearl barley or rice. The other ingredients: poppyseeds, honey, raisins, walnut meats (optional) remain the same.

Food / Your single best-liked Wigilia dish? [29]


Inedible? Polish Wiglia dishes are to die for!!!!!! The UK's roast turkey, mushy, gassy Brussels sprouts and Christmas pudding pale in comparison.

News / Polish Minister of Agriculture stops foreign land-grab in Poland [24]


Well, Podlasie with its primeval Puszcza still must have some redeeming traits as it was chosen by the French film-makers of "Les saisons" as one of the world's most unique pristine habitats. I'm no dendrologist, but they felt it was reminsicnet of the virgin woodlands that covered Europe thousands of years ago.

And who destroyed them: greedy, blood-sucking capitalist slime!

News / Polish Minister of Agriculture stops foreign land-grab in Poland [24]


K is not God and not everyone has to know about ecology. That's where we differ. To you the Tusk-Kopacz clique could do no wrong. At least no-one recalls you criticisng any of their policies. Whatever the case, indiscriminate development causing urban, industrial or recreational sprawl at the expense of pristine or at least natural habitats should not be tolerated regardless of who will be lining their pockets.

Food / Your single best-liked Wigilia dish? [29]


So you think they should be illegally sold? They are not form opium poppies, after all. Please clarify. Christmas without kluski z makiem, kutia or makowiec would not be complete.

News / Polish Minister of Agriculture stops foreign land-grab in Poland [24]


This was about fake tenders used to transfer farmland into foreign hands. Many things have destroyed the land to mention only America's Smithfield Foods contaminating the soil and atmosphere with a huge volume of pig waste. And the urban sprawl (indiscriminate housing development) is another thing that should be curbed or restricted to protect the country' shrinking natural habitats.

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


Yet another proof of the West's degeneration speeding up the day it collapses under the Muslim onslaught. Never forget: every action causes a reaction!

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


It was about the use of public funds to propagate depravatory or morally suspect content. Doing so would mean the state endorses such contamination of public space at the taxpayer's expense. Sickies who enjoy wallowing in filth have plenty of opportunities to do so since pornography as such is not banned. It is even shown on late-night TV in Poland.

News / Poland's political party to ban pornography? [60]


Yes, you would love to entrench such a false stereotype. In fact, if you had bothered to watch the TV coverage you would have seen the human chain was made up mainly of young ladies and men.

Nothing to do with theocracy. Min. Gliński said he is open to the "off" scene and all kind of cultural experimentation but there will be no agreement to bankroll pornography wtih public funds.