Ale jaja

Do Niemca cyrulika szlachic juz niemlody
Przyszedlszy: prosze, panie, podgolcie mi brody.
Niemiec, wiecej po polsku nie umiejac, rzecze,
Ja, ja, a szlachcic za drzwi co predzej uciecze.
Bodajze go haniebnie zabito, hultaja!
Ja kaze brode golic, a on mi chce jaja!
Waclaw Potocki (XVII w.).

06:51 Hrs. Flames of love. Over and over again - unosi sie w Polskim Radiu Toronto na fali 1320 AM. Parkuje w pracy. Na dworze zimno. 7-stopniowo. Zimna kierownica. Rekawiczki. Ogrzewanie w samochodzie. Liscie walaja sie na chodniku. Kanadyjskie gesi pasa sie na trawie. W dzienniku: 10 tys. osob na nauczycielskich protestach w Polsce.
ESSO, Canadian Tire, Petro-Canada biora za litr paliwa $0.94.9.

Pot bust nets rifle

Durham Region police seized 60 lbs. of marijuana and an assault rifle after executing three search warrants in the city's north end.
A search of three properties revealed an indoor marijuana grow operation, an AR 15 assault rifle and 80 plants in the seedling stage. All items were valued in excess of $275,000.
Ryan Roy, 24, John Kerrigan, 70, and Darren Kerrigan, 47, all of Uxbridge, and Jeffrey MacDonald, 24, of Brock face a slew of charges including possession for the purpose of trafficking. Anyone with information is being asked to call Durham Regional Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477 (24 HOURS, Tuesday, October 23, 2007).

Nuklearna zaglada wisiala w powietrzu

Waszyngton Lotnictwo wojskowe USA przyznalo w piatek, ze w wyniku pomylki samolot B-52 odbyl lot nad terytorium kraju wyposazony w pociski z glowicami jadrowymi.
Incydent wydarzyl sie 30 wrzesnia. Bombowiec B-52 lecial wowczas z bazy Minot przy granicy z Kanada do bazy Barksdale w Luizjanie na poludniu. Przez ponad trzy godziny, lecac nad kilkoma stanami, niosl na pokladzie zaladowane przez pomylke pociski z glowicami jadrowymi.
Ich obecnosc wykryto dopiero po ladowaniu. Minelo 36 godzin, zanim pociski nalezycie zabezpieczono. Do incydentu doprowadzila "nieslychana seria bledow proceduralnych" - powiedzial w piatek na konferencji prasowej general dywizji Richard Newton. Po sledztwie w armii sprawe, ze wzgledu na jej wage, ujawniono opinii publicznej.
Krotko po zdarzeniu powiadomiono o nim sekretarza obrony USA Roberta Gatesa i prezydenta George'a W. Busha (GAZETA 203, 22 pazdziernika 2007).

THE PRINCE OF POT

(CBC NEWSWORLD - http://www.cbc.ca/thelens/program_231007.html)

16:55 Hrs. "I'm going down. I'm going down big road by myself" - spiewa John Lee Hooker na BLUES 727.

'Unbelievable' use of power, Walesa says of former allies

WARSAW * Lech Walesa, the "father of Polish democracy," accused the country's ruling Kaczynski twins yesterday of perverting his political legacy and called for their Law and Justice party to be ousted in elections tomorrow.

"I am unhappy with the way things have developed," he said. "What the Kaczynskis are doing now, the way they are using power is unbelievable. It's terrible."

Mr. Walesa led the Solidarity workers' revolt against Poland's communist regime in the 1980s and went on to become the country's president after the fall of the Iron Curtain.

He accused Lech, the President, and Jaroslaw, the Prime Minister, of using Cold War tactics to maintain power. "They threaten people. They tap phones. It's not correct," said the 64-year-old, before urging fellow Poles to flock to the ballot boxes tomorrow.

His condemnation comes even though he and the twins once fought side by side as members of Solidarity. When Mr. Walesa, who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1983, was elected president the Kaczynskis were members of his Cabinet.

But bad blood quickly poisoned their partnership, and the Walesa and Kaczynski families are now fiercely at odds. Jaroslaw, Mr. Walesa's son, is now running as a candidate for Civic Platform.

"It all started with a joke," the younger Mr. Walesa said this year. Although he would not say what upset them, the joke is widely known to be a politically incorrect story of two brothers who arrive at a party, one with his wife and one with his "husband."

For the homophobic Jaroslaw Kaczynski, who has suggested gay people should not be allowed to be teachers, but is unmarried and lives with his cat and his mother, the "joke" proved unfunny enough to fuel a lifelong animosity against Poland's political icon.

The Daily Telegraph (NATIONAL POST, Saturday, October 20, 2007).