-- A BLIND MAN AND HIS GUIDE DOG LIVE ON 10 PLN A DAY, 32 THOUSAND PLN HAS ALREADY BEEN RAISED FOR THEM: “On Thursday, we published in 'Wyborcza' about a fundraiser for Marian Baczyński, a 78-year-old blind man, and his guide dog Roki, who live on approximately 10 PLN a day. The fundraiser organizer is surprised by such great engagement. He had planned to raise 5,000 PLN in two weeks.” http://wroclaw.wyborcza.pl/wroclaw/7,35771,23823011,niewidomy-i-jego-pies-przewodnik-zyja-za-10-zl-dziennie-udalo.html

-- PROTEST IN WARSAW ON SEPTEMBER 13 - WHERE IS THE GOOD CHANGE FOR ANIMALS.

-- FOXES ARE KILLED WITH ELECTRICITY, MINK DIE IN GAS CHAMBERS, IT IS INCONCEIVABLE THAT IN THE 21ST CENTURY SOMEONE CAN ACCEPT SUCH THINGS - Prof. Andrzej Elżanowski in an interview with Donata Subbotko in Gazeta Wyborcza: “In Poland, foxes are kept in cages slightly larger than half a square meter. It's as if a person spent their life in a container slightly larger than themselves. Mink are cold-water animals, and without water, it's impossible to provide them with proper conditions – yet they live in cages without water. I repeat: it is impossible to maintain welfare while ensuring profitability of production, let alone the killing, which is done in such a way as not to damage the fur. Foxes are killed with electricity, inserting electrodes into their anus and nose – it is inconceivable that in the 21st century someone can accept such a thing. Mink die in gas chambers.”

-- PROF. ELŻANOWSKI PRAISES SOME CHANGES INTRODUCED AT KACZYŃSKI'S REQUEST AND SAYS THERE IS A GLIMMER OF HOPE FOR A BAN ON KILLING ANIMALS FOR FUR: “Thanks to him, a good amendment to hunting law was introduced, mainly prohibiting the training of hunting dogs on live animals and abolishing penalties for obstructing hunts. Although this is not in line with the wishes of most PiS members and the religious right, which is hostile to animals, as it turned out now when the amendment to the Animal Protection Act was countered and the announced changes by the party leader were withdrawn. It seems our leader loves power more than animals. I still have a glimmer of hope that a ban on fur farming and other promised changes will be introduced after the local government elections. Because perhaps now PiS does not want to lose the votes of farmers – the countryside is cruel to animals. Well, but our Minister of Agriculture is a biblical scholar Ardanowski, who believes it should be like in ancient times, i.e., fattening animals upside down and slitting their throats.”

-- ABOUT HOW DURING RZEPLIŃSKI'S TIME THE CONSTITUTIONAL TRIBUNAL RULED ON ANIMAL PROTECTION - PROF. ELŻANOWSKI FURTHER: “I mention this because it is a spectacular case where a representative of a whole army of morally underdeveloped ignoramuses who torture animals and demoralize students at agricultural universities was exposed. Everything is permissible after the ruling of the Constitutional Tribunal under the enthusiastic chairmanship of Andrzej Rzepliński. In 2014, the Constitutional Tribunal ruled that the ban on slaughter was unconstitutional and lifted all restrictions.”

-- IT IS POLITICALLY INCORRECT, BUT SLAUGHTERING ANIMALS EXPLAINS MUSLIMS' AGGRESSION TOWARDS HUMANS: “Prof. Janusz Tazbir drew attention to the connection between cruelty to animals and humans in his excellent book 'Cruelty in Modern Europe'. It is politically incorrect, but I believe that the slitting of animal throats by Muslims during their holidays and ritual slaughter explains their aggressiveness towards humans, beheadings, etc. Here too, there is a unity of violence.” http://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,23820981,przyzwyczajamy-sie-do-okrucienstwa-lisy-zabija-sie-pradem.html

-- IT SHOULD BE IN THE INTEREST OF PiS TO PRESERVE THE SOCIAL COMPROMISE, ALSO OUT OF FEAR OF THE PENDULUM EFFECT - PIOTR ZAREMBA IN DGP: “It should be in PiS's interest to preserve an unstated, ideological, and social compromise, also out of fear of the 'pendulum effect'. The key to the right-wing's survey security is to create more of an impression of generous social policy than the intention of 'building God's kingdom on earth'. Jarosław Kaczyński always sensed this. This compromise is sometimes disturbed by those politicians of the ruling coalition who want to gain publicity. – The electoral system for the Sejm is such that one votes for lists, but also for individuals – a PiS politician spreads his hands.”

-- PiS IS POSTPONING MORE DRASTIC MOVES - ZAREMBA AGAIN: “A deputy minister for a tax punishing the absence of a wife, the Ministry of Justice for making divorces more difficult. But PiS, although it has not abandoned the idea of transforming society in a conservative spirit, is postponing more drastic moves.” http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/opinie/artykuly/579794,piotr-zaremba-pis-konserwatyzm-lewica.html

-- BARBARIC CONSERVATISM IS INEFFECTIVE - writes Michał Szułdrzyński in Rzeczpospolita: “It is also worth answering one important question: conservatives – in Poland and still in many European countries – are reluctant to view the left-wing or liberal offensive aimed at social revolution, including in the sphere of sexuality. Yes, for conservatives, proponents of a 'homo-revolution' are political opponents. The question is, however, whether one wins this war by hurling insults at them? I dare to doubt it. Barbaric conservatism is above all ineffective. That is why it very often begins to dream of its own conservative revolution, which it will carry out when it gains full power. And thus, barbaric conservatism leads to revolutionary conservatism, which, however, is a negation of conservatism.” https://www.rp.pl/Plus-Minus/308239934-Michal-Szuldrzynski-Zdziczaly-konserwatyzm-jest-nieskuteczny.html&template=restricted

-- JAN SOWA ON HOW POLISH LIBERALS ARE MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN WESTERN CONSERVATIVES - says in an interview with Natalia Waloch in Gazeta Wyborcza: “The difference between our liberals and conservatives is negligible. The postulates important for a liberal worldview have never been realized in the Third Republic. We have religion in schools and a concordat inconsistent with the constitution, the Church is outside the tax system, we do not have regulations legalizing registered partnerships. Our liberals are economically liberal, but socially they have remained in positions more conservative than Western conservatives. Angela Merkel, a Christian Democrat, recently admitted that meeting a lesbian couple raising adopted children convinced her that same-sex marriage should not be opposed.”

-- THE POLITICAL CLASS IS MORE CONSERVATIVE THAN SOCIETY - SOWA FURTHER: “So we have a paradoxical and absurd situation: the views of a large part of the population are not reflected in the opinions of the political class, which is more conservative than the society it supposedly represents.”

-- OUR CHILDREN HID THEIR DIPLOMAS AND WENT TO WASH DISHES - SOWA FURTHER:“There are two ways to win voters. One is similarity, i.e., 'being one of us'. A politician who could be our uncle, neighbor, or friend. That was Miller and the old guard of the SLD, Samoobrona was like that, Kukiz is also like that, and so are significant segments of PiS. The second is the aspiration mode: the politician is an icon of success. And that was Tusk with Civic Platform. They represented Europeanism and modernity, which people aspired to. This European, modern promise failed. They promised that we would all be middle-class Europeans, yet our children hid their diplomas and went to wash dishes in Ireland. Why does PiS have the strongest support in the 50-60 age group? Because these people feel like the biggest losers. Their youth fell in the 1980s, the worst decade of the Polish People's Republic, then the transformation, hard work, for which they will have a meager pension.” http://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,23821641,jan-sowa-to-kobiety-nie-lewica-zburza-stary-porzadek.html

-- PO'S MACGYVER, MISTAKE AFTER MISTAKE, LIKE A TAPE - Robert Górski and Mariusz Cieślik in a satirical column in Rzeczpospolita: “We are closely following the progress of Rafał Trzaskowski's election campaign. He achieved another success by visiting a Warsaw resident at her home whose window pane had fallen out due to a draft. What did Platforma's MacGyver do? He taped the glass. Honestly, this campaign can no longer be held together with any tape. Mistake after mistake. Like a tape.” http://archiwum.rp.pl/artykul/1383971-MacGyver-z-Platformy.html

-- WHO BETS JAKI WON'T WIN? TODAY NO ONE WOULD RISK SUCH A THESIS - JAKUB MAJMUREK:“The PiS candidate started from a weaker position and, according to many commentators, had no chance in a real fight with Trzaskowski for the mayor's office. Today, no one would risk the thesis that Jaki cannot win this election. Recent months' polls clearly show a trend: Trzaskowski's lead is shrinking. In June and July, it was in the range of 5-7 percentage points, in the latest polls, it's only 2-3 percentage points.

-- MAJMUREK ON TRZASKOWSKI'S MISTAKES - HE GAVE THE IMPRESSION HE DIDN'T WANT TO BOTHER:“Trzaskowski also made many mistakes. Initially, he clearly underestimated Jaki and slept through the first stage of the 'pre-campaign'. He gave the impression that he didn't want to bother. He also stumbled with a series of social media posts – after each of them, Jaki's staff could rub their hands with joy. The PO candidate boasted about his deserving ancestors, well-born, patronizingly 'welcomed' Jaki, who came from Opole, to the capital, and finally recalled how Bronisław Geremek taught him 'European civilization in French'. This last post, in particular, drew widespread mockery and attacks on the PO candidate, not only from Jaki's supporters but also from the allies and opinion leaders of the left, who constitute Trzaskowski's natural reserve of votes in the second round.”

-- MAJMUREK ON HOW TRZASKOWSKI'S VICTORY WOULD ACCELERATE GENERATIONAL CHANGE IN PO: “Trzaskowski's victory could also be a factor accelerating generational and programmatic changes in PO. Especially if the party experiences significant losses in regional assemblies, and the activists blame the current leadership, headed by Grzegorz Schetyna, for it. https://www.tvn24.pl/magazyn-tvn24/nikt-nie-dawal-mu-szans-kto-dzis-zalozy-sie-ze-jaki-nie-wygra,171,2916

-- PiS TOOK MILLIONS FROM THIEVES AND GAVE THEM TO CHILDREN - OFFICIAL BILLBOARD PRESENTATION:https://twitter.com/pisorgpl/status/1033265402678263809

-- PLATFORMA RESPONDS WITH AN INTERNET CAMPAIGN, INCLUDING ON THE PCK INVESTIGATION: https://twitter.com/po_mazowsze/status/1033305551747379200

-- PLATFORMA MAY BITTERLY REGRET EVER RAISING THE ISSUE OF THE GREED OF THOSE IN POWER - Michał Karnowski: “The challenge thrown down so brutally by the Third Republic should be taken up as strongly as possible by the camp of change. It is worth recalling, since they finally want to talk not only about the Constitution, about those billions, hundreds of billions, seized during the PO, PSL, SLD governments. We need to tell again about the tenement houses stolen for pennies along with their residents called 'meat insert'. We need to ask them about the VAT scandal. If the truth about what happened during the PO and PSL coalition is presented, Platforma may yet bitterly regret ever raising the topic of the greed and honesty of those in power.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/409321-platforma-moze-tego-jeszcze-gorzko-pozalowac

-- MICHAŁ KARNOWSKI ON "THREE-DAY STIMULATION" CAMPAIGNS AND WITCH HUNTS: “In this situation, looking for a way to counter Morawiecki, the opposition and its allies have decided on a war of attrition tactic. Not a discussion about programs and the achievements of governments, because they see no chance there, but attacks from hiding, preferably with poisoned arrows. We read that he was a 'bankster', that he has no right to talk about his participation in negotiations before Poland joined the EU, although he participated in them, that the PiS people are supposedly disappointed with him. In each of these matters, 'three-day stimulation' campaigns are organized – witch hunts that the most valuable people of the right experience. Everything is made up or taken from 'GW' (which amounts to the same thing), but it is intended to neutralize the element of the Prime Minister's image that the opposition fears most: effectiveness, efficiency. After all, one of the weeklies of the Third Republic openly wrote last week: let's make them failures, because Poles don't want to hear about democracy.” https://wpolityce.pl/m/polityka/409200-opozycja-najwyrazniej-wziela-morawieckiego-na-celownik

-- RAFAŁ WOŚ WRITES THAT THE PHENOMENON IS THAT THE RIGHT HAS BECOME DISCURSIVE AND PLURALISTIC - in a text for Dziennik Gazeta Prawna: “A phenomenon of our times is that the right has become a truly large and broad tent. A discursive and extremely pluralistic political current, where people with very different worldviews can coexist. Don't believe me?”

-- FOR THE LEFT, MOVING TO THE CENTER IS NOT A SOLUTION; A RETURN TO MULTI-CURRENTHOOD LEADS THROUGH SPREADING ITS WINGS - WOŚ WRITES FURTHER: “Of course, multi-currenthood raises the question on the right: 'Who are we really?' And it irritates especially the center-right, which monopolized the answer to this question for the past few decades, and now has to accept that radicals and eccentrics play an equally important role in the conservative camp. Thus, Republican congressional elites loathe Trump, and part of PiS quietly grinds its teeth at Macierewicz and 'Gazeta Polska'. However, if the left were to draw any conclusion from this, it would probably only be that moving to the center is not a solution. A return to multi-currenthood leads through spreading its wings. And greater openness to those who do not fulfill the entire decalogue of a 'proper leftist.' http://wiadomosci.dziennik.pl/opinie/artykuly/579822,rafal-wos-lewica-prawica-polska-wyborcy.html

-- EWA SIEDLECKA ON HOW LAW CAPITULATES TO VIOLENCE: “If courts did what the law says, i.e., questioned the validity of rulings by judges appointed 'with a flaw,' they would sooner or later paralyze the state. So they don't question. The law capitulates to violence. PiS is like a terrorist who has taken hostages and counts on the opponent being decent enough to do as they are told to spare these hostages. Each of us is such a hostage today. Including judges.” https://siedlecka.blog.polityka.pl/2018/08/24/pis-wzial-zakladnikow-i-szantazuje/?nocheck=1 -- JAN KRÓL, FORMER DEPUTY MARSHAL FROM THE FREEDOM UNION, TELLS ELIZA OLCZYK IN RZ ABOUT HOW THE SLD AND KWAŚNIEWSKI BLOCKED REFORMS: “Parliamentary buildings must be protected. But in our time, the Sejm and Senate were accessible to citizens. I believe the record of the UD and UW governments is very positive. We were the main driving force of the changes. When the SLD-PSL coalition came to power in 1993, Prime Minister Waldemar Pawlak withdrew 40 laws prepared by the Suchocka government. In turn, the government of Jerzy Buzek prepared, and the Sejm and Senate adopted, the reprivatization law, but Aleksander Kwaśniewski vetoed it under the influence of the SLD, then led by Leszek Miller. And we still feel the effects of this decision today. The same was true for the flat tax. We took responsibility for good reforms, and others rolled them back.”

-- JAN KRÓL ON THE BACKSTAGE OF THE SPLIT IN UW AND THE FORMATION OF PO: “Unfortunately. There were lists of liberals to be crossed out, and ours obediently complied. To such an extent that no one from them entered the party's board. Bronisław knew about these lists and should have done something to block it. I don't know – publicly tear up the list, say that everyone should vote according to their conscience... But he didn't. True, he asked Donald for a conversation, but apparently treated him very patronizingly. After this conversation, the liberals only talked among themselves and discussed what to do. We still made an attempt to save the situation – with Jacek Merkel, Jan Krzysztof Bielecki, and Olga Krzyżanowska, we issued an appeal to postpone the election of the party's presidium. To give everyone time to cool down. But there was already so much distrust that it didn't work. The liberals left, founded their own party, and some of our colleagues joined them. And that's how it ended. https://www.rp.pl/Plus-Minus/308239920-Jan-Krol-W-rzadzie-bylo-twarde-stanowisko-Mazowieckiego-Balcerowicza-i-Kuronia-ze-ze-strajkujacymi-nie-bedzie-rozmow.html&template=restricted

-- GAZETA WYBORCZA ON JACK SUTRYK - JACEK HARŁUKOWICZ QUOTES WŁADYSŁAW FRASYNIUK: “Władysław Frasyniuk doesn't remember him. – I noticed him later, when he was already a prominent city hall official – he says. – He's a guy who can listen to people, isn't afraid to discuss, and genuinely wants to help. However, he is not a politician, and I fear whether he will cope in the brutal party world. Whether, in the face of attacks, even from the aggressive and hyperactive PiS candidate, he will be able to respond. Tadeusz Mazowiecki once explained to me that we cannot be aggressive because everyone around is like that, and if we are too, no one will distinguish who is who. But today this principle does not apply. Jacek Sutryk must realize that he is entering the ring. And to win, he will have to fight hard.”

-- SCHETYNA NEEDED SUTRYK, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND - FRASYNIUK, QUOTED FURTHER IN HARŁUKOWICZ'S ARTICLE: “– Sutryk's lack of experience showed then – Frasyniuk assesses. – Because it wasn't him who needed Schetyna, but Schetyna needed him. Now he must find the hardness to, the day after the election, when the PO leader comes to arrange his office, be able to tell him to leave. A mayor cannot be anyone's puppet.” http://wyborcza.pl/magazyn/7,124059,23821875,jacek-sutryk-wrazliwy-kandydat-na-wroclaw-od-kiedy-mowi-sie.html#nowyMTmagazyn

-- ROMAN IMIELSKI ON CHILDREN OVERWHELMED IN SCHOOLS AFTER THE REFORM - writes in Gazeta Wyborcza: “Monday – six. Tuesday – six. Wednesday – seven. Thursday – eight. Friday – seven. A total of 34 hours of lessons. Plus a lot of homework for the next day and preparation for tests and quizzes, which means more hours spent poring over books. This grind was inflicted on my daughter in the seventh grade (and on me too) by the latest education reform. As a parent who feels the effects of changes in schools firsthand, I assess Minister of Education Anna Zalewska's ideas negatively. As a teacher by training, I would like that – regardless of who is in power – the curriculum does not discourage students from school. Unfortunately, a report prepared under the auspices of the Children's Ombudsman, Marek Michalak, confirms my worst experiences.” http://wyborcza.pl/7,75398,23822729,mordega-siodmoklasisty-szkolo-nie-zameczaj-nas.html

-- BRONISŁAW WILDSTEIN ON TVP INFO - in an interview with Marcin Makowski: “Please excuse me from answering that. I make programs on this television, so it would be awkward to answer. And what TVP Info is like, everyone can see. The changes I notice are not sufficient.”

-- TVP HAS ENABLED ACCESS TO A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE - WILDSTEIN FURTHER IN AN INTERVIEW WITH MAKOWSKI: “The fundamental change for the better, which has occurred thanks to TVP, is enabling the viewer to access a different perspective. I dare to say, much closer to reality than what those other editorial offices present. Despite this, propaganda biases, mentioned earlier, also appear at Woronicza, but they are caused by the situation of sharp polarization in the media and politics. Some ruthlessly and consistently criticize the current state of affairs, while others try to defend it – as is often the case in such clashes – also exceeding the standards. This is how it is in all ideological and propaganda wars that the opponent imposes methods of fighting and language. I am not happy about this, but that's how it is.” -- WILDSTEIN ON STRONG CENTERS OF INFLUENCE - BUSINESS, CORPORATIONS, UNIVERSITIES, MEDIA CONGLOMERATES: “There are many strong, non-political, and non-elected centers of influence in Poland, e.g., powerful business, law firms, universities, media conglomerates. All of this constitutes power in our landscape. I say all this to make some people realize that the fact of the right-wing gaining political power does not mean that it dominates in all spheres of social life. Just look at the newspapers and televisions. After all, they – as we discussed – still have opponents of the current government in the majority. In other opinion-forming centers, this tilt is even more visible. Therefore, statements that some have it better because they are 'at the trough', and others are the poor and oppressed opposition, do not reflect the complexity of the problem. However, I understand the journalists disgusted by the state of social tension you mentioned.”

-- JOURNALISTS FROM THE DOMINANT OLIGARCHY WILL DEFEND THE STATUS QUO BY ANY MEANS NECESSARY - WILDSTEIN FURTHER: “Journalists who are part of the dominant oligarchy will defend this status quo with all their might and by any means necessary. We have to accept it. This is the perspective for the coming years.” http://www.sdp.pl/wywiady/15597,prosze-mnie-zwolnic-od-odpowiedzi-z-bronislawem-wildsteinem-bylym-prezesem-telewizji-polskiej-o-propagandzie-w-mediach-i-wojnie-miedzyplemiennej-rozmawia-marcin-makowski,1535120708

-- BIRTHDAYS: Andrzej Potocki, Zdobysław Milewski, Marcin Gugulski, Krzysztof Smiszek, Cezary Tomczyk, Piotr Kotomski, SUNDAY: Maciej Maciejowski, Jerzy Haszczyński, Łukasz Lipiński, Paweł Potoroczyn.