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Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

one is an illness

But if a group of pseudo-medics get together under UN asupices and declare leprosy not to be a malady, who knows? That's what happened with the psychological disorder known as homosexuality except it was a group of shrinks. Probabyl on the LGBT payroll.

Politicans can declare anything -- that Jews can be tortured, robbed and killed with impunity, the men can "marry" other men, etc. You name it - the sky's the limit!
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
Food / Russia vs Poland Vodka war [76]

Merged: Vodka is Polish, not Russian!

Poland is the birthplace of vodka (and not Russia as W.V. Pokhlyobkin desperately tried to prove). The word 'vodka' was recorded for the first time in 1405 in "Akta Grodzkie" - the court documents from the Voivodship of Sandomierz in Poland. Moreover, for decades, Poland was synonymous with the best vodkas that had higher quality than the Russian and Swedish vodkas.

"The three most astonishing things in the past half-century were Blues, Cubism and...Polish Vodka." (Pablo Picasso)
"After research, I concluded that Poland is the motherland of vodka and authenticity is critical to marketing and brand strategy." (Terry Olson, Michigan-based entrepreneur and producer of 'Zim's Vodka')
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
News / Homosexual lobby steps up infiltration in Poland [110]

That's what many Poles call the so-called "pride" parades, as if it's something to be proud of?!
One wonders whether those afflicted with leprosy hold anything as outrageous like a "Proud to be a Leper March"?
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

For a glimpse of one of the non-attacking policedogs guarding the ill-conceived rainbow check out:

google.pl/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=policja+z+psami+pilnuje+t%C4%99czy

In the States that unit is called K-9 (as in canine). I've been told on PF that European police dogs are apparently to stupid to attack anyone on command, so they are pretty much useless.
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

come to Warsaw

On 5th August 2015 Rzeczpospolita wrote: "The rainbow was set ablaze numerous times but always the town fathers spent a lot of money to restore it. Although it was obviosuly not accepted by Warsaw townsfolk, Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz said the rainbow must remain. It is therefore all the more gladdening that it will disappear from Saviour Square. Hopefully for good."

Rzeczpospolita also reported that a sprinkling system and monitoring cameras had been installed at the site which was watched over by the municipal guard and looked in on by the police.
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
Genealogy / Polish Romani (gypsy) surnames [64]

Tabor

Sounds right for a Gypsy name. Tabor in Polish is a wagon train and a "tabor cygański" is a Gypsy wagon train.

Some 4,000 people in Poland sign themselves Tabor, but it is unknown how many of them are Roma.
Polonius3   
10 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Czarnogursky

CZARNOGÓRSKI: toponymic nickname-turned-surname from a locality called Czarna Góra (black hill or black mountain), also the Balkan country of Montenegro.
There is no name in Poland anywhere near Troidnik or Troidniak which looks to be Russian or Ruthenian. To a Polish speaker it would sound something like "three-dayer".
Polonius3   
9 Aug 2015
Language / Short Polish<->English translations [1049]

tokarstwo w drewnie

Maybe wood-lathing? There may be an exact term but this gives you an idea what it's all about.
Polonius3   
7 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

confuse a symbol of hope

In an ancient culture the swastika symbolised the sun, but mostt people associate it with something else. Similary, the homos hijacked the biblical rainbow and made it a symbol of their pathological lifestyle. The irony of it all is that the Bible clearly condemns those perverted practices as an abomination.
Polonius3   
7 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

attack dogs

Not being a police terminology specialist, I used attack dog for police dog. Although police dogs do attack on command. And the latest report says the ugly eyesore was monitored by camera and watched over by municipal guards and police. One wonders wonder how much taypayer moeny was wasted on something that shouldn't have even been there int he first place. You always like to latch on to some minor point (attack dogs, Sunday church etc.) to derail any discussion. That's very cheesy and petty but 100% Harryesque!

if people get upset with biblical imagery

You too are becoming Harryesque - throw a red herring in to derail the discussion. The nationalists were not protesting against Biblical imagery as you well know but against what tehy saw as a symbol of perversion and degeneration. And many Warsovians who had no interest in any ideological implicaitons simply saw it as a dingy, slip-shod monstrosity - plastic particles covereing a steel arch - totally out of character in relation to an architecturally interesting corner of the city, the only such square that miraculously escaped wartime destruction.

They should set it up in front of Gronkowiec's town hall if she likes it so much. Except local residents wouldn't stand for it any more than those living in and around Saviour Square.
Polonius3   
6 Aug 2015
News / Degenerate "rainbow" eyesore to disappear from Saviour Square (Plac Zbawiciela) in Warsaw [297]

Rzepa has reported the the controversial "rainbow", an eyesore symbolising degeneracy and perversion to many, will finally disappear from Saviour Square at the end of August. On numerous occasions it was set ablaze by opponents of the garish installation, but with a determination worthy of a better cause Warsaw mayor Gronkowiec-Waltz indicated she would sprare no amount of taxpayer's money to keep refurbishing the monstrosity over and over again.

"The city had installed a monitoring camera in Saviour Square as well as a sprinkling system which would kick in in case of fire. The installation was watched over by the municpal guard and the police kept their eye on it as well," Rzeczpospolita said:
Polonius3   
5 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

El

None of them specifically - these are all patronymic endings (there is no special metronymic endings in Polish). The endings -czak and -czyk are Polish patronymic variants and -czuk is a Ruthenina one. The only reason I suggested a metronymic situation was that there aren't too many masculine first names in El-. Please bear in mind that all this is highly specualtive. With only the name to go by, not much can be deduced therefrom.
Polonius3   
5 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

EL could have been short for Elonora or ELżbieta and Elczuk, Elczak or Elczuk could have served as a metronymic nick (from the mother's first name). That was rare in Polish (more common in Ukrainian) but did occasioanlly occur to identify an out-of-wedlock bastard.
Polonius3   
5 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Dora

DORA: probably derives from the feminine first name Dorota (from Greek meaning "gift of God"); some 190 people in Poland use it mainly in the south of the coutnry; the name is surely found in other countries as well.
Polonius3   
5 Aug 2015
Life / Single mothers in Poland [175]

all models of a family are equally good

Precisely. Exceptions can be found to any rule, but by and large the tradiotnal family comprising married parents and their children is the best possible setting for chidlren to grow up in.

The counter-culture types wil immediately chime in with useless anecdotal evidence -- of the "my neighbour is always drunk and beats his wife and kids" variety or "this gay couple next door with two rent-a-uterus kids is a loving, happy family."

Even if true, it is still anecdotal and by no means not normative.
The fact remains that non-conventional households are more prone to break-up, substance abuse, domestic violence and other forms of instability. Ample evidence has already been provided.
Polonius3   
5 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

KURASZ; also Kuras and Kuraś from kuras - peasant dialectal term for Old Polish kur (cock; in modern Polish - kogut).

RYSKA: from Old Polish verb ryskać (to do a slipshod job of ploughing, to plough carelessly, any old way).
For more info on these please contact polonius3@gazeta.pl
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

heard of the AK killing Jews?

Have you heard of Jews killing Poles? Some of the top Pole-killers in Soviet-occupied Poland were Berman, Fejgin, Romkowski, Mietkowski, Morel, Różański, Brystiger, Czaplicki, Światło and many more. They included Adam Michnik's brother -- a desk-top murderer who sentenced Poles to death and let someone else pull the trigger.

Maybe it's time to start s separate thread devoted to that oft-neglected and overlooked episode of Polish post-war history.
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

supposed to land at Soviet bases

They weren't supposed to because they weren't permitted to by the Soviets. If they had,
much more aid would have reached the insurgents.
Oh yes, the Soviets also provided some airdrops: ammo that didn't fit the guns the insurgents were using and sacks of flour that burst on impact, their content scattered by the wind. Nice guys them Roosians!
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

British airmen

I'm proud to say that my uncle, a Polish RAF airman, made several air drops over Warsaw during the Uprising. Since the !%&"?!X$ß'#¤ Soviets didn't let them land for refuelling behind their lines, they barely had enough fuel to make it back.

the Jewish uprising

Another example of the Holocaust industry's heavily bankrolled propaganda machine even brainwashing the President of Germany into confusing the Warsaw Uprising and the Ghetto Uprising when the 50th anniversary of the Warsaw Uprising was celebrated in the early 1990s. (I was there!)

And that depsite the fact that the Ghetto Uprising was simply a local neighborhhood affair taking place in only one small corner of the the city and claimed a mere 13,000 lives, whilst the Warsaw Uprising was waged all over the metropolis and had a Polish death toll of up to 200,000. Maybe a Jewish life (you know the "chosen race and all that!?) is simply worth more than a Polish goyish one?
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / Sin of omission against Poland (Uprising ignored by Britannica) [25]

many

Many is a very vague term: 10%, 30%, 75%, 90%. About 90% would identify themselves as Christian, mostly Catholic but also Eastern Orthodox.
You always tend to focus on "the nots", the non-conformists, the minorities, the exceptions to the rule. Is that the result of your minority status?
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / Sin of omission against Poland (Uprising ignored by Britannica) [25]

higher than the statistical norm

Yes, but no matter how you slice it, nearly 3 normal Catholic million Poles were killed and the number of homo victims is nowhere near that number. As a numerically insignificant fringe group, it's the homos that deserve to be consigned to the "and others" category. If that is no logner the case, that only shows the pervasiveness of the LGBT establishment's generously bankrolled and well-oiled propaganda machine.

Who pays the piper calls the tune - historical truth be damned!!
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / The Warsaw Uprising memory. To remember who you are. [180]

laughed out of the Folketing

TVP Historia last week said Danes, Belgians, Dutch and others donned Nazi uniforms as Wehrmacht volunteers, They did not specify the size of those units.
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
History / Sin of omission against Poland (Uprising ignored by Britannica) [25]

issue about the holocaust

False or exaggerated facts such as the contention that Poles were Hitler's Holocaust accomplices are readily disseminated, but Polish achievements (eg Enigma, the largest underground in Nazi-occupied Europe, the Polish Secret State, better kill record in the RAF than the Brits who were defending their own country after all -- one could go on and on) are suppressed, ignored or ascribed to someone else. Omitting the Uprising is just another example. Another blatant abuse is the contstant inclusion of homosexuals amongst Hitler's victims, but in some cases Poles, who lost many times that number, are consigned to the "and others" category. Need more examples? How about Britain's betrayal of Poland?
Polonius3   
4 Aug 2015
Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4500]

Szadokierski

SZADOKIERSKI/SZADYKIERSKI: of toponymic origin, traceable to the village of Szadykierz in WIelkopolska voivodship. Fewer than three dozen users. One noble line with coat of arms. For more info please contact me.