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Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

splinter

Compared to the scams and irregularities (gambling scandal, OLT/AmberGold, eavesdropping affair - over 500 can be seen here: blogpress.pl/node/7889) the Tusk gang have masterminded, most anything else is a splinter by comparison.
Polonius3   
26 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

we've moved onto Duda

Everyone has noticed. The Platfusy are well known for seeing a splinter in their adversary's eye to divert attention from the beam in their own. Poland will have to put up with this hogwash for another two months or so, until the Platformer olboy clique gets swept away into the dustbin of history.

And good riddance!
Polonius3   
25 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

Dubieneicki was held up as a fine family man

The consummate poser and pretender who tried to pull the wool over people's eyes. With you he seems to have succeeded!
Polonius3   
25 Aug 2015
News / Poland's PiS party members and crime [346]

more corruption

What do you expect from Dubieneicki? - he comes form a PZPR/SLD family so crime is par for the course in those circles. Poor Marta really made a bad choice when she hooked up with that crudball. One would have to be pretty low to steal fom the blind and cripples! Dubieniecki would fit nicely into the PO scam party.
Polonius3   
22 Aug 2015
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

don't know why

There are all kinds of family-specific customs, quirks, nicknaming styles, in-jokes, etc. whose origin is often buried in the mists of time, so the best we can do is speculate..
Polonius3   
21 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Siudut

SIUDUT: possibly from siudy, Ruthenian influenced eastern Polish term ofr the bucket yoke carried when bringing water from a well or stream. Indigenous Polish is sądy (but nothing to do with law courts). For more information please contact: polonius3@gazeta.pl
Polonius3   
18 Aug 2015
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

Yash Ka

Jaśka would be a pet name for Jania or Janina, a girl's name. English equivalent would be something like Janie.
Polonius3   
18 Aug 2015
Genealogy / Last Name Information - Lewandowski [16]

find relatives

Try contacting the Polish Red Cross Tracing Service: tracing.service@pck.org.pl;
tel. 48 22 628 4348.
Polonius3   
18 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Kaczkiello, Kaczkiełło and Kaczkieło are currently used in Poland. They appear to be Polonised versions of a Lithuanian surname.
For instance, the Grand Duke of Lithuania was named Jogaila but in Polish it became Jagiełło.
The Lithuanian version might be something like Kaèkaila, because the diagraph "cz" is not used in that language. In a Polish name the syllable "kaczk-" would suggest kaczka (duck), but the Lithuanian word for duck is different.
Polonius3   
15 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

MOIZER.

MOJZER: it is one of many typically Jewish surnames derived from Mojżesz (Moses). At present only 1 person in Poland signs himself/herself Mojzer and lives in the SE town of Krosno.

The Moizer spelling would probably be used in (English-speaking, Francophone, Hispanic, etc.) countries where the "j" does not have a consonant "y" sound.
Polonius3   
13 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

tons of people carrying shopping bags

As you know the eyesore is on a grassy "island" at the centre of a round-about, adn there is no normal pedestrian traffic there. To get to it one has to cross an often busy road. So cross that road, enter the grassy "island", look both ways suspiciouslly, and then walk up to and touch or pat or stroke the rainbow. And be sure to report back!
Polonius3   
12 Aug 2015
Genealogy / Polish Romani (gypsy) surnames [64]

Romani

JARENTOWSKI: root-word Jeremiasz = (the prophet) Jeremiah; probably originated as a toponymic nick from Jarantów nad Jarantowice in Wielkopolska.
The word-formation process is purely Polish, but a Gypsy from there might conceivably be called Jarantowski or Jarentowski.
Polonius3   
12 Aug 2015
News / Let's protest censorship in Poland's mainstream media! [90]

[Moved from]: PiS to create Poland's national media after election

wyborcza.pl/1,75478,18532289,narodowa-telewizja-polska.html#TRNajCzytSST

GW is reporting that PiS after winning the election plan to thoroughly revamp the broadcasting authority. A new staff will be emplaced and work is already under way on a draft law reforming the hitherto structure. The media are to be not public, but national.

My comment: Probably they will be patterned on the Beeb (no adverts) which has long been a goal to which public television and radio in different counrties have aspired.
Polonius3   
12 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

A long shot. There is a surname Jantosz which comes from the srust name Antoni (in some peasant dialects a "J" was added to initial vowels so Adam & Eve came out sounding like Jadam i Jewa). The unmarried daughter of Jantosz would have been called Jantoszówna or Jantoszanka. That's the closest to Jantozonka I could find.
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

detain somebody that to train it to attack

If the detainee starts running away, your intelligent EU police dog just scratches its head and says: Well, I tried but he ran away! C'mon, get with it. A police dog will pursue and knock the fugitive to the ground. You can call it an attack or not -- that's just antics with semantics.

BTW didn't you see the photo of the policeman with policedog watching that ugly plastic rainbow? Scroll back if you missed it.

no police, no dogs.

Some posters claim there have never been policemen or policedogs guarding the rainbow. Read on:

In Warsaw's Saviour Square stand the remains of something the gay community call "the rainbow". After being torched all the remaisn is the skeletal strcuture. Ta pile of scrap metal must, however, be very valuable because it is guarded by the police, and round-the-clock to boot.

And two two-man patrols ciruclate trying to locate in the passing crowd potential assailants who might want to level to the ground the skeleton defacing Saviour Square.

niezalezna.pl/48626-jakas-kpina-policja-przez-cala-dobe-pilnuje-zelastwa-ktore-bylo-tecza
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

constitution as is says that this act is between a man and a woman

Hopefully the Duda-Szydlo administration will pass legislation consolidating that constitutional principle for all time. So even if, at some stage, leftist whackos get into power, they will not be able to change or that would require a 3/4 majority of both houses of parliament.

Merged: When will Poland be threatened by Western style homo extremism?

Poland is quite receptive to trends, fashions and crazes seeping over from the West. Does this inlcude the kind of attempts at homo hegemony over society seen in other countries. London has already closed down Catholic adoption agencies for not bowing to LGBTQ pressure. Here is another example:

UK government give faith schools an ultimatum: promote homosexuality or face closure

LONDON, - The British government's schools inspector has closed two Christian schools and threatened others in its zeal to enforce new guidelines to combat "extremism" and promote "British values" in religious schools that it sees as inherently "homophobic." Christian and Jewish school leaders are complaining of a string of such incidents in recent months. They say it is a case of the government using the threat of Islamic extremism as a pretext to impose a heavy-handed secularist and homosexualist agenda.

lifesitenews.com/news/uk-gvmt-to-faith-schools-promote-homosexuality-and-other-religions-or-face
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

So on Monday homos were deranged perverts and after the vote starting Tuesday morning they're declarted normal. Wow they had all of 12 hours to do all the necessary research to substantiate their decison. The violent Stonewall riots and clashes between perverted crazies and police had nothing to do with the decision?!
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Czarna Góra?

There are at least two places in Poland called Czarna Góra -- in Małopolska (Kraków) region and Pomerania. There is also a locality called Czarna Gora in Bulgaria.

Re the other surname, the closest I could find was the village of Trzydnik in eastern Poland's Lublin region. But there are no derivative surnames in use in Poland. As noted earlier, the roots would be trzy (three) and (dzień (day).

The Polish surname Trojda is believed to come form the Low German trede (step).
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

nothing bad shall happen to you

High STD rates are a fact of life. Some including hepatits are transmitted through nicks and cuts (which most everyone has at times), bodily fluids (eg sneezing, saliva, urine -- a drop on a toilet seat).

edited

Under activist pressure, threats and intimidation (violent demos, rioting) taking place outside the conference hall of the American Psychiatric Associaton, delegates felt pressured into removing homosexuality from the list of psychological disorders. The WHO soon followed suit. Details follow:

HOMOSEXUALITY DELCARED "NORMAL" BY A VOTE, NOT RESEARCH

Homosexuality was listed as a mental illness in DSM-II. (The DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual - is the APA's standard classification of their so-called mental disorders, and is used by many mental health workers in the USA and other countries.)
Then in 1970 gay activists protested against the APA convention in San Francisco. These scenes were repeated in 1971 and the APA directorate became increasingly uncomfortable with their stance. In 1973 the APA's nomenclature task force recommended that homosexuality be declared normal. This decision was confirmed by a vote of the APA membership, and homosexuality was no longer listed [...]

behaviorismandmentalhealth
Polonius3   
11 Aug 2015
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

vodka and neutral spirit

Basically vodka is neutral spirit diluted with water. Flavour differences come from the substance from which it was distilled (potatoes, grain, fruit, etc.) and obviously any added flavouring. Charcoal filtering removes the rough edges found in cheaper vodkas.