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Moderates’ favorite Polish Party, Liga Polskich Rodzin (League of Polish Families, that most Catholic of Catholic Parties), has recently moved to rid Poland of a source of immorality and anti-Polish sentiment: the works of Jan Brzechwa. All reference to this Jew propagandist are to be removed. First step — remove his filthy name (His real name was Lesman — the horror) from street names in Wraclaw, then in all of Poland. Next, his ungodly, unpatriotic works are to be banned from school.

What kind of garbage was this guy writing?

On the bank of a sky-blue river
live many small sorrows.
The first is sad because
he can’t play in the garden.
The second � that water doesn’t want to be dry.
The third � that a fly flew into his ear.
And what’s more, that cats scratch,
That he can’t catch the hen,
That he can’t bite the neighbor’s leg,
and that it never rains sausages,
And the last sorrow is that
People travel by cars, and a pup has to go on foot.
But just give him a little milk,
and bye bye sorrows.

I know most are probably shocked that I would put such pornography on this site, but — horror of horrors — K even read it to L and we filmed it! How sick.

Those who read Polish can read the article here.

Fortunately, the LPR is going to save us. They have pointed out that Lesman’s Jewish propaganda verse (let’s just call a spade a spade) teaches kids to be lazy and to lie — just like Lesman himself. And naturally, his works are not sufficiently Catholic and Polish, but what can you expect from a Jew?

All sarcasm aside, this is seriously happening in Poland — a suggestion to ban a poet known and loved for his children’s verse, essentially because he’s Jewish. The League of Polish Families has ties to Radio Maria, a deeply anti-Semitic religious radio station in Poland. Additionally, Marcin Giertych, a Polish representative at the Council of Europe and an LPR member himself, wrote and published with EU money a book suggesting that all of Jews’ problems throughout history are their own fault. He is the father of the current Minster of Education, Roman Giertych.

And so father and son are on a mission to rid Poland of any reference to those “godless Jews” and make sure Poland is a beacon of proper Catholic patriotism, all in the name of the most famous Jew in history…

The other day, I got a comment at another website that meant more to me most other comments I’ve received put together:

Hello! I want to say thanks, because you was (no, are still) very good english teacher… you’s lessons helps me very much, now I’m live in Ireland, and I m still learn… If you want to write me: [email and name redacted]: 1,2e ”zarzadzanie inf, terrorysci…”bye

In a class of “difficult” students (who, in retrospect, were angels), this young lady was one of the few students I could count on consistently. She caused any disruption; she rarely came to class unprepared; she rarely wasn’t smiling and happy.

Naturally, I wrote back. And of course I got this in return:

A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. t the moment you cannot send a message to [reacted], try again later [0400.-1]: retry timeout exceeded

I tried again, knowing it was a futile effort. Still, the thought that it might not go through, and she’ll think my response to her invitation to contact her was, “Um, no thanks,”� irritates to no end, so I tried. And yet again.

And so, I. Z., if you are reading this, please know: I wrote you back, but onet.pl is cranky and often does not take email from my account.

Which leads me to a question for all tech folks who read this (both of you): What could be causing a consistent problem with delivering email to Polish servers from a given account here in the States? I’ve asked tech support for my web host — they think I’m crazy. But consistently email sent from any address that uses the server this site is hosted on gets bounced back, or simply disappears. As in, “Did you get that email?” “What email?”

What I wouldn’t give, sometimes, for a return to consistent use of regular mail for correspondence…

At first she mastered control of her eyes. About the same time, she worked on controlling her head. The girl has more or less mastered those skills.

Next come the hands. That’s a little tricker — they still fly around like she’s a hyperactive orchestra conductor. But then, in calm moments, she surprises us all and holds her bottle.

When we’re bathing and photographing the girl all at the same time, it gets kind of crowded.

One of my favorite little sects out there is the Restored Church of God. It’s leader, David Pack is The spokesman for god — by his own humble admission, an apostle, with the same authority as the Apostle Paul. Yes, that Paul, of New Testament fame.

After Katrina hit the Gulf coast, he, like many other ministers, gave a sermon about what True Christians™ should do to help.

True Christians™ should, in short, continue preaching the gospel and warning the people — synonymous in his group. The gospel — the True Gospel™ — is simply that Germany is going to rise again and this time beat America, take it into captivity, and basically make the Nazis look like daycare playmates.

(Confused? It all goes back to ancient simmering hatreds. America, of course, comprises the real Israelites, along with the French, the Dutch, the British — the Lost Ten Tribes. Germany is Assyria. History — ancient or otherwise — is not a strength of this group’s theology. )

False Christians (the vast majority of the 2 billion Christians in the world world, who are deceived and actually worship Satan) give to relief organizations. True Christians™ (David Pack’s group — representing at most 0.00005% of the world Christian population) don’t.

His reasoning, though, is stunning biblical hermeneutics. I clipped the relevant portion from the sermon.

Listen to it.