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Only those who do nothing make no mistakes. I do not set PiS policy and am not privy to all the facts and circumstances of the ruling body politic. There are usually reasons for everything. Sacking someone might seem so easy and starightforward to a dilletante or wannabe observing things from afar, but such a move might hypothetically pose a security or other threat to the country or entail some other crucial counterproductive element. Such a one, for insatnce, might be in possession of super-sensitive classified information, to cite but one possibility. Ruling a country is a trifle different from little boys playing with their toy soldiers.

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When you and lowercase and your guru were wettingn your pants in unbridled euphoria and predicting the rapid downfall of hte good-change government becuase two polls from amongst many hundreds had ranked PO slightly ahead of PiS, I conservatively replied: "Wait another month and things will fall back into place. Petru will be under 5%, PiS will resume their lead..." Well, I was partially wrong. Yes, Petru didn't make it under the wire but one did not have to wait a motnh becuase the following day PiS was back in the top slot with 31-29, just the reverse of hte previous day's fluke. Now you cna sit back and watch that lead increase as more and more Poles benefit from the good-change government's reforms.

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jon357 - veterans and pensioners
Several hundred of the Soviet-installed puppet regime's SB torturers and back-street thugs staged a protest outside the Sejm today against plans to lower their inflated fat-cat pensions to the average level. One of them waved a placard saying: "In BOR (Govt Protection Bureau) I guarded President Lech Kaczyński, and for that they want to take away my pension?" That once again underscores the wide ramifications of the 1992 parliamentary putsch which knocked the teeth out of true de-communisation and created a porous, faulty, haphazard and lacklustre lustracja (vetting) mechanism which allowed most of the regime's secret agents, communist police and military brass quick passage to III RP services regardless of their toxic past. Serious de-communisation would have weeded out the offenders and left only those who had desk jobs or served very briefly before 1989 and spent most of their careers in the post-commie period.

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jon357 - organised by ordinary citizens
...who happened to be in the SB, PZPR, ZOMO, ORMO. ZBoWiD and suchlike and after the RT debacle graduated to ROAD, SLD, UD, UW and PO.

GOOD NEWS -- THIS JUST IN. Hungary has enacted a law limiitng the subversive quasi-academic activities of Soros University in Budapest. Foreign unviersities can now function only on the basis of an inter-state agreement betwerenHungsaryand the country in which a school is registered. Soros is notorious for bankrolling subversive NGOs such as Poland's Batory Founnation and "Trojan" schools such as Budapest's Central European University to train anarcho-leftist operatives to subvert, subjugate and disintegrate normal, decent socieities according to neo-Marxist design.

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jon357 - veterans and pensioners
You really are the master of hte euphemism. You'd probably call that band of
erstwhile butchers, finger-nail extracters and back-street assassins "a group of kindly old gents".

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jon357 - neo-nazis
A bunch of noisy young crackpots and basically harmless. Today the red neo-nazis, are staging a rally outside the Sejm. Their euphemistically dubbed Uniformed Services Association affilaites PRL-era torturers, skull-crackers, assassins and assorted "nieznani sprawcy" with plenty of blood of patriotic Poles on their hands. Today they are supported by the Kijowskis, Schetynas, Zemkes, Budkas, Nowackas, Millers, Petrus and other hyPOcrites!

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Komorowski's motto: Red-lipped and proud!

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mafketis - anvs
Do you know why Komrowski's lips were so red? - Because Tusk had haemorrhoids.
Why did Komrowski shave off his moustache? - To give everybody a better view of his red lips.
Komorowski's motto: Red-lipped and proud!

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peterweg - into common usage
That was not my intention. Sorry if you interpreted it that way. I only shared what I had heard at uni years ago. Never checked to see if it was true. That's why my prof Xenia Gąsiorowska told her class.

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Wulkan - Poland isn't stupid
Indeed, and that is why there's a very good chance for President Duda's vision to come true. The president Andrzej Duda looks forward to a thriving, secure and internationally respected Poland in 2027. Asked where he would like to see Poland in 10 years, Duda told the daily Rzezcpospolita: "I would like my country to have a robust, dynamically developing economy, not only in European terms but also internationally. I see Poland as a well organised, secure country that is respected and at the same time a desirable economic partner for other countries in supra-regional terms, and perhaps in supra-European terms." According to Duda, "to succeed as a country, Poles have to work together, rejecting political divisions, define their goals, and then consistently strive to achieve them." Amen!

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jon357 - The most recent two...
Indeed, irrregularities always occur everywhere. All the remaining several thousand surveys showed the true picture of public support for the victorious, ever-wise, people-friendly and pro-Polish PiS. Since people tend to be conformists, the copy-cat syndrome may lead to a few more such flukes amognst certain (probably dealt with under the table) pollsters, but things will soon return to normal.

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jon357 - pattern
One can see you love hyperbole! 2 polls in 1.5 year's time v 2,359 in which PiS was the victorious front-runner, and soon will be again, is a "pattern" in your books?!

jon357 - serious polls, credible and true
Polling agencies are commercial outfits which curry favour with their customers and want them to return. No-one really knows to what extent the results are designed to accommodate the customer's preferences. But gullible jon is eager to naively believe anything anyone utters, writes, reports, signs, whistles or flatulates as long as it is anti-PiS. (LOL & ROFL!)

delphandomine - The tide is turning
We heard that from you in late 2015.... That's a pretty slow-tuning tide if you ask me. An accidental one-off fluke rarely leads to a permanent trend. One understands of course that the hopeless and clueless will clutch at straws, so happy straw-clutching!

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jon 357 - backtracked
Admitting msitakes takes lots of courage and shows wisdom and prudence. One can see the result of a mere two maverick polls have caused your adrenalin rush, but never forget that polls in 2005 showed that Poland would be doomed to a President from Kashubia and a PM from Kraków. More recently Komorowski had 60% support against some unknown called Duda (Who?). Tusk has been careful not to admit his covert 2020 presidential bid too early on, cognisant of his 2005 flap.

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jon357 - a two party system
Neither does the US in that every party is free to compete but they never get too many votes. So it would be more precise to call it an efffective two-party system.

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jon357 - say they support PO
One fact lost on all the overenthused and blinkered backers of the scamster party is that PiS and Kukiz15 still exceed PO & .N by a score of 39-36. If elections were held tomorrow, with that result President Duda would have no choice but to ask PiS/Kukiz to form a coalition. A little more modesty would be oin order for power-starved Platfomrers. They have yet to explain how it happened that the Polsih nation handed them post-1989 Poland's first landslide defeat with PiS winning outright in 2015.

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Harry - say they support PO than any other party
For the first time in two years and things are likely to return to normal very soon. ie PiS 34, PO 20, Kukiz12, Petru 5. PM Szydło has pointed out that the figures she's interested in are not fly-by-night poll results or media speculations but growing indicators revealing Poland's robust and dynamically expanding economy.

The main reason why PO has inched ahead of PiS is that many respondents who had previously backed Petru's .N have switched their support to the PO scamster clique.

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Nathans - monster parasite
Hard to disagree with you there. No-one in Poland or anywhere else for that matter has found a way to curb bureacratic proliferation. Think how much money could be saved and put to far better use with a 150-member Sejm and 50-person Senate, by holding all elections on the same day (yes the parliamentary term would have ot be lenghtened to five years or the presidential one shortened to four), downsizing officialdom's salaries, using Opels and Škodas as government cars rather than pricier BMWs and Audis.... The list goes on. So far only minority anti-establishment groupings have even advocated savings not on ordinary people's welfare but on the bloated bureaucratic elite. Too many oldboys to reward for their favours, too many palms to grease....

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PO has already been condemned to the trash bin of history except they don't know it yet. A passing uptick on the survey cricuit has filled them with false hope that they will again be able to milk Poland for all she's worth with impunity. No such luck, lads. The verdict of hsitory has been handed down. The good change will remain a permanent fixture on the Polish scene long into the future. Of course, the mangy curs will bark, yap and snap, but the carvan will calmly move on nevertheless!

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PM Szydło correctly said the oppositon is enamoured of poll results and concerned only about threir own politcal future, not the nation and people's probelms as such. Hence they have absolutely no programme other than chronic PiS-bashing. Wait another month and things will fall back into place. Petru will be under 5%, PiS will resume their 10-point lead and the caravan of good change will travel on. Those deluded souls have anotherehr thign coming who think all that Poles are truly looking forward to is watching more ranting and chanting on the streets with the SB, ORMO, MO and ZOMO torture thugs and baton wielders arm in arm with Budka, Schetyna, Gronkiewicz, Petru, his Madeira travel mate, the inimitable Kijowski and a other similarly "savoury" types.

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Shades of hyPOcrite Komorowski who signed nearly evey scrap of paper placed on his desk by the PO scamster regime. He did send a few to the TK if I recall, but so has Duda. Seeing the splinter in someone else's eye...isn't that how the Good Book desribes such hyPOcrisy?!

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More good news! Members and sympathisers as well as the Ladies' Auxiliary of the shadowy Polish Uniformed Services Association is gearing up to march shoulder to shoulder with PO, what's left of .N, KOD and other Schetynas on 6th May. Incidentally that is a nice-sounding euphemism for a group affiliating former nail-pulling and rectal eletric-prod inserting SB types as well as assorted ORMO widows, ZOMO wives, etc. They are holding a conference at the Sejm on Saturday to coordinate their protrests against rightfully losing part of their fat-cat pensions which most Poles think they shouldn't have ever received in the first place. But KOD's Kijowski and PO's Budka says we should be grateful to them for protecting us(?!)

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So where does the lion's share of hteri incoem come from?

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If the subject of Conrad's polonisms interests yoiu, you may find this study fascinating:
bazhum.muzhp.pl/media//files/Acta_Neophilologica/Acta_Neophilologica-r2012-t14-n1/Acta_Neophilologica-r2012-t14-n1-s5-17/Acta_Neophilologica-r2012-t14-n1-s5-17.pdf

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Conrad spoke French fluently from early childhood but did noto choose to write in French because that language reuqired too great precison. Asked why he did not write in Polish, he explained: "I value too much our beautiful Polish literature to introduce into it my worthless twaddle. But for Englishmen my capacities are just sufficient: they enable me to earn my living".

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Are you intimately familiar with every sentence Conrad ever wrote in his novels?

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I must agree. Under commie rule, the Oaza movement (Catholic youth clubs and summer camps not approved by the regime) attracted a good following as the kids felt a tingle of excitement being under SB surveillance and felt they were bucking the system. After years of suppression, harassment and persecution, 1989 generated a Church backlash meant to make up for lost time which may have been overdone as regards catechism at school.

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He also anglicised many Polish concepts and phrases which back then (when few Brits knew Polish or any other langaueg for that matter!) were regarded as colourful linguistic innovations. "A man in the force of years" (człowiek w sile wieku) is one that comes to mind.

One of my Slavic Studies profs in the US had personally known Conrad's sister and learnt that he spoke with a thick Polish accent down to the end.

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Have you forgotten what Tusk-era Wiadomości was and today's TVN is like? At least TVP have all sides represented on talking-heads shows, whilst TVN have PiS-bashing sessions where no-one for the government or PiS side is present. And at the end of the evening Wiadomości, someone from the "total" opposition is regularly featured to comment on every controversial issue.

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No argument there considering that Catholic is all but dead in Western Europe. Poland still has a virbant, living faith that peremates the nation's traditions and modern lifestyles as well. Baptism First Holy Communion, catechism classes and Confirmation are still the norm, not the exception. Processions, pilgrimages and going to confession are still a normal part of life. Let's hope Polish Catholicism remains "out of sync" with the museum-variety religiosity of France, Britain, Belgium and other such hedonised, godless climes!

BTW, do you know who the biggest advocates of so-called "open Catholicism" were and are? The PZPR, Mazowiecki, Michnik, Palikot, Śróda, Senyszyn and others (and of course Delph, although he's in a much lower league!) who only have the "wellbeing" and "future" of Catholicism at heart!? (LOL)