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Saturday, October 24, 2009

Preserving Democracy in the Digital Age - The Hill's Congress Blog

Obama open to newspaper bailout bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing ...
09/20/2009
I am concerned that if the direction of the news is all blogosphere, all opinions, with no serious fact-checking, no serious attempts to put stories in context, that what you will end up getting is people shouting at each other across the void but not a lot of mutual understanding," he said.
via Obama open to newspaper bailout bill - The Hill's Blog Briefing Room.


Preserving Democracy in the Digital Age - The Hill's Congress Blog: "About 37 percent of adult Americans don’t have easy access to the Internet at home. That means they can’t easily access news and information that they need to conduct their day-to-day lives. And they can’t be active, informed, and engaged citizens in a democracy."

Democracy in Danger - The Hill's Pundits Blog: "President-elect Obama may think he's shined his halo by kicking Bill Richardson off his Cabinet lineup for being a 'distraction' in yet another pay-to-play scandal"


http://polonia.wikia.com

Sunday, October 11, 2009

videofact

videofact: "O czym rozmawiali komunisci po przegrancyh 35% wolnych wyborach"

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http://polonia.wikia.com

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Molonia Today Online

Quite often an unsuspecting reader would stumble upon a fake polonian site and wouldn't recognize it for what it is - a mole of a Warsaw V-th column. I am not saying that all links below lead to the moles - I am stating THAT IS REALLY HARD TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN sites taking name Polonia in vain and the real Polonian sites. I am calling for writing a guide to polonian sites: real and fake.

The Polonia Portal

Straight from Warsaw


Top 10 reasons to learn to speak Polish:

Top 10 reasons to learn to speak Polish:: "Top 10 reasons to learn to speak Polish:

1. To add the next great language of commerce to your CV

2. To be able to charm highway patrolmen,

3. To be able to argue with Warsaw taxi drivers,

4. To be able to read your own employment contract,

5. To amaze your friends with Polish tongue twisters,

6. To be able to pronounce 'trzcina',

7. To know all the words to 'sto lat',

8. To know what your mother-in-law and husband have just decided for you,

9. To know what you've ordered in Poznań,

10. To be able to order really great food in Chicago."

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http://paszporty.blogspot.com/2005/07/paszport-polskiinternetcom.html

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

For the sole purpose

.. of translating some texts from English into Polish I did some modifications to this blog.

It is still under construction though