Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

But as the song goes 'Let Poland be Poland.' Polish sensibilites including the nation's supreme judicial organ at this point in time are what they are. In future the permissive society's inclination to the 'anything goes' mentality may eventually come to the fore. When it does, all we can say is 'God help Poland!'

BTW, citing American exsmples, one could also say that handguns and rifles should be seld at every Leroy Merlin, Castoirama and Praktiker in Poland. Are you a big fan of the gun culture?

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

When courts rule in favour of someone's biases, they say courts are indepndent bodies. When they rule the other way, the same poeple shout 'infringement'. Unless lobbies are outlawed, every citizen, company, organisation or other entity has a right to try to influence the ruling powers. The Church is no exception. Its priority is to protect religion, whilst some artist may feel that artistic freedom should be unfettered and in art 'anything goes'. In a democracy, there will be voters and parties and MPs supporting the one and the other position and probably intermediate positions in between.

Besides blasphemy, obscenties, foul language, vulagrity, Jerry Springeresque popculture, etc. are not things contributing to a better, gentler, friendlier society, but on the contrary -- rile up, aggrevate and unsettle. Do our turbulent really need more chaos and confusion?

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Becuase you have latched onto one thing, the Nergal case and similar epsiodes in a horse-blinkewred fasion. I am referring to the grand sweep of contemporary popculture, which is impactiung human behaviour -- the Jerry Springers (rarely if ever deals with religion), reality TV, the do-something-outrageous-and-get-your-5-minutes mentality, the increasingly foul language in public space, the depraving soaps nad sitcoms -- the whole shebang as contirbuting to today's moral ambiguity, confusion and decay. The language of poltical 'dialogue' (if you can call it that) is also a prime offender. If this continues, Shariat will prevail sooner than anyone thinks!

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Rising above the Nergal case, too many people fail to see that our 'anything goes' cutlrue, our 'let-it-all-hang-out' culture, our '5-minutes of fame' culture is among the main reason for the morall rot which may cause the West to succumnb to Muslim fanaticism and take-over perhaps sooner than anyone thinks. If you doubt it, try following the spread of their outposts acorss the globe - the Phillipines, Latin America, Scandinavia, North America, continental Europe, you name it.

The sick permissive, hypercommercial, popculture-fuelled society tells people 'it's OK to be this or that or do this or that', regardless of whether it is sensible, advisable, rational, decent, valuable or individually or socially harmful. Legions of the gullible swept along by every passing fad lap it all up and throw common sense, decency, restraint and decorum to the wind.

Not religion but popculture is the opium of today's masses.

Life / Blasphemy not OK in Poland! [54]

Desecrating national flags in public is an offence in the US and other countries. But isn't that ridiculous? It's only a rag, innit? Threatening a public official is also punishable, but thems only words, ain't they?

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Lenin and Stalin cliamed that religion was the opium of the people. Nowadays popculture truly is the opium of the masses. More peeple spend money on the stupid, downdumbing drivel known as popculture -- the celebrity mags, CDs, T-shirts, posters, gadgets, rap-crap concerts, 'recreational' drugs, etc. than on all the Sunday collection baskets combined.

News / Kaczorowski should be reburied at Wawel [15]

Read up if you don't know:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryszard_Kaczorowski

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]

But they would have greater access with the digital multiplex slot. Slots have been accorded to unknown, unprepared, fly-by-night outfits, and, when they couldn't afford the fee the Broadcast Authority bent oiver backwards and even agreed to break it down into instalments. The bottom line is that the ruling clique is using every legal ruse they can find to defend the monopollstic status of the mainstream leftist-liberal media. Is this not a rehash of the old Stalinist tactic -- Jest człowiek? Znajdzie się przepis (Got a man? A regulation can be found to deal with him).

Life / Catholic "Telewizja Trwam" from Poland - your thoughts? [98]

Merged: World-wide Polonia backs TV Trwam

Concerned patriotic people of Polish backgrund around the globe have held marches and rallies in surpport of media pluralism and a rightful digital paltform slot for TV Trwam. Such demonstrations have been held not onyl across Poland but also in Paris, Australia, Chicago, Manchester, New York and many points in between. They know that only the voice of free Catholic Poland can challenge the stranglehold on information flow in Poland now held by the monopolistic, politically uncouth leftist-liberal media.

Polonia around the world not only closely watching the action in the homeland compatriots who are afraid of the situation in the country , facing the street , but the gesture of solidarity at the same time overlooking the street.

Association for the Protection of the Cross in Paris , Association Our Polonia and Polish Association of Political Prisoners in Australia , as well as Poles living in Manchester in solidarity with the march in defense of free media and TV Trwam , which will be held today in Warsaw. That day Polonia organizing pickets , among others, in front of the Polish Embassy in Paris, the Polish Consulate in Sydney . Solidarity marches will also take place in Canada.

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

The root of the name is inceed malina (raspberry), but perhqps 95% or more of all Polish surnames with the adjectival '-owski' ending are of toponymic origin, hence traceable to localtieis named Malinowo, Malinówka and similar. (Raspberryville is rather mroe unwieldy than Malinowo BTW.)

Life / How popular is Radio Maryja in Poland? [163]

Merged: Truth about Radio Maryja

Review of Alleluja I pod prad (Swiadectwa o Radio Maryja), by Jerzy Robert Nowak. 2009. MaRoN, Warszawa.
Reviewer: Mr. Jan Peczkis
Information About, and Correct Understanding of, RADIO MARYJA
ALLELUJA AND LET’S PROCEED UPSTREAM: WITNESSES TO RADIO MARYJA, is the title of this eye-opening book. It contains numerous statements of support of RADIO MARYJA from priests, bishops, and other prominent officials. One would never guess this from reading the so-called mainstream media.

RADIO MARYJA serves as inspiration to its listeners, contains much devotional and theological content, and deepens their faith. It is a welcome delight to long-isolated Poles in places like Lithuania (p. 86), Kazakhstan (p. 26), and Irkutsk. (p. 43).

Not surprisingly, RADIO MARYJA is the common target of vitriolic attacks by the liberal left because it is a bastion of faith and Polish patriotism, and a source of truth. It does not kowtow to political correctness or to other forms of thought-control practiced by liberals. (Bishop Stanislaw Napierala, pp. 43-44; Professor Zbigniew Żmigrodzki, p. 88).

Apart from its religious programming, RADIO MARYJA defends the rights of the unborn, defends the presence of the Cross in public places, defends Christian morality, defends the dignity of the family, defends the sacredness of children and youth, defends the Gdansk shipyard, and defends various institutions against licentiousness and destruction. (Bishop Edward Frankowski, p. 36; Bishop Stanisław Napierała, p. 45).

Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

GIERBLIŃSKI - MASIASZ

GIERBLIŃSKI: rather obscure, but possibly a Polish adaptation of the Bavarian (German) name Gerblinger or Gerbling – most likely a toponymic tag derived from the Bavarian localites of Gerblinghaus or Gerblingrode.

MASIASZ: Possibly a toponymic tag for someone from Masów; or maybe it was a misspelling of Masiarz (masarz) – butcher.

Food / Polish roast pigeon anyone? [17]

Aren't the ones people go shooting for called mourning doves, a wild species?

Language / Name in Polish (woman's name Jean) [10]

I had an aunt in America whose name was Genowefa but in English everybody knew her as Jean.

Speaking of misleading adverts, this one attached itself to the PF:

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Genealogy / THE MEANING AND RESEARCH OF MY POLISH LAST NAME, SURNAME? [4501]

FEDOR and similar forms (Fiodor, Feodor, Fidor,Fedir, etc. ) were all derived from the originally Greek name Theodoros meaning 'gift of God'. The 'f' forms indicates they came to Poland via the Ruthenian tongues of the Slavonic east where theh Greek letter '' (th) was pronounced like an 'f'.

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

President Komorowski will lead the official state parade, whilst patriotic forces have registered their Independence Day March. Last year the authorities made the mistake of also allowing the anarcho-lefties to march. This year if the reds try to disrupt things, they'll end up behind bars where they belong.

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

Rzeczpospolita reports that anrcho-leftist thuggery are already planning to cause trouble by blocking a legal Independence Day March on 11th Nov. this year. They have even set up a special Facebook link appealing to like-minded troublemakers to come and bring alongr friends to break up the Independence March. Anyone know if they again plan to bring in their Red Nazi buddies from west of the border?

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Have had venison, quite nice if it's young and pre-marinated. Rabbit is very lean and quite dry so it needs to be larded. I presume the French must stew it in wine. If you saw a skinned squirrel it wouild look like a rat, but it is very tasty. Hare can be too gamey with a bitter edge - require several days of marination. Pheasant, patrtidge, quail and grouse are superb if well prepared.

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

cafebabel.co.uk/article/39430/warsaw-independence-day-demonstrations-media.html

Actually hte German leftist thugs essentially came to Warsaw for the same reason the Polish kibole did -- to kick a*se, bonk skulls and bash faces. There were actually three or even four separate events: the historical military parade (some of whose paricipants were attacked by the German leftist thugs), the Indpendence March coming in from Plac Unii Lubelskiej (mostly famlies and other peaceful citizens). It turned out that for a week prior to the event a motley collection of leftists, arnarchists, pro-abortionists, anti-fascists, radical feminists, anti-globalists, homosexual rights agitators and other suchlike self-styled 'progressives' had used the Internet to rally support and brought the Gemran thugs in for the event. There were even instructions on how to deal with the police.

Komorowski was right in calling for no head coverings, fireworks and other potentially dangerous objects at mass assemblies.
Kaczyński was wrong to side with the kibole to spite Tusk. Those two are something else! If Kaczyński said water was wet, Tusk would try to prove it was dry. Same holds for Kaczyński.

ehr

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]


Lest the passage of time blur the realities of last Nov. 11th, it should be remembered that it was started when leftist-anarchists imported from Germany attacked historical re-enactors and police early in the day at Świętokrzyska street. When such broad-daylight attacks occur, that invariably unleashes a spiral of aggression that easily gets out of hand with people of varying views getting into the fray. Of the some 200 people detained by police, nearly half were German anarchists brought in by radical Polish lefties (Antifa and suchlike) to cause disturbances. Lewaki i anarchole started it and afterwards all hell broke loose. Teuton trouble-makers should be turned back at the border.

News / More punch-UPS ON 11th NOV in Poland? [56]

Lefties itching for punch-up

Radical lefties, who went on the rampage last Nov. 11th, again plan to disrupt Warsaw's Independence Day march. It is attended by entire families, young marrieds pushing prams or piggy-backing their youngsters, the middle aged, OAPs and many others wishing to celebrate their country's 23-year-old independence. The young wild-eyed thugs of the rabid left not only do not want to celebrate but plan to spoil it for everyone else. They should have cages for such leftist scum...and throw the key away!

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Sometimes you can get fresh dressed rabbit (tuszka królika) at Leclerc and other supermarkets. Since the meat can be quite dry, it is best larded wtih słonina (pork fatback lardoons).

History / What do Poles owe to Hungarians? [231]

There's another Hungarian food shop in Gen. Zajączka street near Carrefour.

Food / Any królik (rabbit) fanciers on PF? [76]

Merged: Any rabbit fanciers on PF?

Anybody fancy rabbit? If so, how do you like it prepared? Rabbit meat is nutritious, mild-flavoured, tasty, very lean (no cholesterol!) and highly digestible. But one sees fewer rabbit hutches in Poland than one once did.

News / Przemysław Gintrowski died.... [8]

Thanks for the link. Kaczmarski sang much better than I could, but I regard my translation of the refrain as superior to the unsingable subtitles which completely ingore the rhythm of the melody.

News / Przemysław Gintrowski died.... [8]

Has an English translation of 'Mury' ever been recorded?
'Rip the bars right off the wall, break the whip, throw your shackles down, and the walls will all start crumbling, tumbling right down to the ground.'