http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36352097/ns ... ws-europe/ ...so, what happens now? Anarchy? Russian takeover? Communist revolution? Note: Fate of region is important as U.S. was planning on placing a missile shield there against Russia.
Apparently Anna Walentynowicz was on that plane as well. What a fateful day for Poland. My condolences to everyone affected by this, and I just hope that it won't destabilize Poland too much.
I hear "Polish lider killed" everywhere, so I somehow "got used" to it, but when I look at the list of victims again, I'm shocked as if I just learned... many people you could see on the TV every day, top politicians, dead. I'm not the kind that puts [*] in their facebook and I know this tragedy won't change my life more than breaking my leg or something, but it's really hard to think about anything else in a moment like this. I still can't contain it. So many people wiped out and considering all the circumstances... I can't think of a coincidence more cruel than this.
Damn. We're going to need a new government airplane. 96 people, to be exact. Dozens of thousands of people die of hunger each day. Let's not pretend that the number is of any significance here. Fear not, Palikot is live and kickin'. I think I'm just going to quote Wikipedia on that one: ...who mostly acts as a representative role in Poland anyway... No one is irreplaceable. It's not the end of the world, yet one would think differently if the reactions of most people around here were his only source of information. I find it both despicable and hilarious how people, normally laughing at the president and openly detesting him, now spam their "[*]"s and confessions of how they feel sad and empty because of his death all over their facebooks / blogs / forums / instant messaging statuses /deviantart journals / fucking everywhere. Damn hypocrites and their false sadness for show. Reminds me of the whole Michael Jackson situation.
To be honest, losing half your government in one fell swoop will probably affect your life in a variety of ways.
Wait wait wait wait.... I don't understand something. Why do we care that some Poles died? Sure, they were government members, but at the end of the day, they're still Polish.
"To be honest, losing half your government in one fell swoop will probably affect your life in a variety of ways." Losing half of my government would do that, yes, but this is not the case. Some prominent politicians died, along with top military staff and several civil officials, but none of them were members of the government.
Excluding the President, I assume. Still, you probably mean the poeple that died never made the important decisions that affected your life directly.
Well, the word 'government' and its Polish equivalent may just differ in meaning. Here we use it for all the ministers and the prime minister, so saying that half of the government died is confusing... even if you mean politicians in general, not just the cabinet.
Which one of the Polish government has actually the last and final word in the case of the missile shield? One of the main reasons that I am a bit worried, because the president did agreed to have a part of the missile shield (or the whole) in his country. Now that he is dead, I hope that his successor will agree as well. (Better, safe then sorry.) In addition, was it really an accident? Because, in that plane crash all the senior commanding officers who were on board have died in the crash.
Most probably an accident according to the information we have at hand. Pilot tried to land three times in fog, missed the strip three times, and then tried a fourth time instead of finding a more suitable landing spot in another city.
Initial signs point to an accident. A special commission for the investigation of the accident has been established, so we'll just have to wait and see to be sure.
Funny. All through my teenage years, we had an unused bottle of Polish Remover sitting in the garage, and I always made the exact same joke. Except with Hitler. I would use it whenever that one Neo-Nazi dropped by.
