Harry´s Blog

I’ve always claimed that I wanted to have smooth sailing,
but I couldn’t help rocking the boat.
Rocking seems to be in my genes.

The powers-that-be prefer to let things ride,
until the blister breaks and something has to be done.
Riding is invariably comfortable - as well as being profitable.

The revisionists help perpetuate “cruelty in the name of art” by superficially “opposing” it. Sophistry and syllogism are the gambits the proponents of Violence Under the Guise of Art use to daub anyone, who critical of such proceedings, with a brown brush.

Herbert Kuhner
Consoling Art Dealers and Consumers

The intoxication created by the blood and the ripping apart of raw flesh should be satisfying and enjoyable as it relieves man of his suppressed desires….Killing was, and is, beyond all moral judgments.  If possible I would prefer to work with human beings, with dead human beings, with corpses to be specific.  I could well envision that murder could be a component of a work of art; the artist’s accountability would have a another status….Thus, art can consist of a crime.
- Hermann Nitsch

Blasphemy, obscenity, charlatanism, sadistic excesses, orgies, the aesthetics of the cesspool are our moral means.  Everything is worthy of presentation….That includes rape and murder.  Coitus, torture and the annihilation of man and beast is the only drama worth viewing…..Murder is an integral part of sex. House pets have to serve as surrogates. I intend to commit the perfect murder on a goat that will serve as a substitute for a woman.  In my next films humans will be slaughtered. Slaughtering humans must not continue to be a monopoly of the state. It will soon become an ethical necessity to rob banks and to shoot a random cripple down.
- Otto Mühl

Art dealers and consumers fear that if violence in the arts should include the most violent act, their commodities would be devaluated. Let me assuage their fears! If an artist had committed the most extreme crime as an integral part of his art, his prices would not drop - they would fly sky high.

To prove the point, after one of Austria’s foremost artists was convicted of rape, the sexual abuse of minors and forcing women to undergo abortions,   the prices of his paintings continued their upward swing.

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Hitler couldn’t have been such a bad person. After all, by intervening against the communists in the civil war, he saved Spain for Christianity. He couldn’t have killed six million Jews. It couldn’t have been more than four million.
- Saint Josemaria Escrivá de Balaguer, founder of Opus Dei (1902 -1975)

God, who directs the destiny of nations and controls the hearts of Kings, has given us Ante Pavelic* and moved the leader of a friendly and allied people, Adolf Hitler, to use his victorious troops to disperse our oppressors… Glory be to God, our gratitude to Adolf Hitler and loyalty to our Poglavnik, Ante Pavelic.
- Saint Cardinal Alojzije Stepinac, Archbishop of Zagreb (1898-1960)

*Ante Pavelic, Ustascha Head of State in Croatia and mass murderer. Pavelic was given sanctuary by the Vatican after World War II and transferred by the Vatican Rat Line to safety in Spain.

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divisible morals

sports and politics
they say
are two different things
they say
referring to the dark years
of murder and death
in the past

they were fellow travelers
they say
nazis
and knew what was going on
and bore responsibility for it
they say
referring to the past

sports and politics
they say
are two different things
they say
and mean murder and death
today
in tibet

-translated from the German
by Herbert Kuhner

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Jozo has left us

My friend Jozo has left us for the Universe.

I first met him when I attended the Struga Evenings Poetry Festival in 1972. I last saw him at that venue in 1982. We kept in touch after that. I didn’t think I’d never see him again. God, how I miss him! He was a character in every sense of the word. I’m sure that no one who ever met him forgot him. Here’s what I wrote about him: “Jozo Boskovski’s poems are warm and mellow. The Macedonian sun shines on them. His lines flow in the eternal river of poetry. But he doesn’t let himself be carried by the current - or any current. He writes with an ease that comes from an innate sense of rhythm and form. Boskovski has a deep, powerful voice that carries beautifully. His poems are imbued with the resonance of his speech organ. They not only read well on the page, but they are effective when recited.”

Here’s a poem by Jozo in my translation and a poem about Jozo by our mutual friend David Axelrod. Yes, he was like that, but how can I say what I want to say? Jozo was pure gold. Goodbye, my dear friend!

- Herbert Kuhner

The Crocus

Jozo T. Boskovski

The crocus is nature’s first flower
(The crocus is white or yellow)
The crocus grows with a flame
at its tip
and warms the year
The winter snows
and the dilemma of time
take flight from this flower
The game begins with the bud
The earth inhales
and with one breath
everything is fertilized
and birth begins
and there is joy
The crocus hails the year
The game always repeats itself

The Man Who Said “Maybe”

David Axelrod

He said a European trip
took more time going
than returning
because the earth turned favorably.
Try to explain the world a single entity - earth
sky and sea - he’d
listen patiently.
Next time he’d mention
travel, his theory
of anti gravity
was there again
more steadfast than
Galileo’s pendulum.
If a helicopter
hovered over a city,
would the next city
come along eventually?”
“Maybe.”

Herbert Kuhner

The BBC documentary Sexual Crimes and the Vatican is based on a 1962 memo from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. “The document reaffirmed the inviolability of the seal of confession, but the BBC film said that it was intended to ‘protect and hide’ abusive priests….There was to be an oath of secrecy on the child victim, the priest, and any witnesses. The document was revised in 2001 to deal more specifically with sex abuse cases, but it still remained secret. And before being elected Pope in 2005, it was then Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger who headed the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, the Vatican department that enforced the rules.”

Head in the Sand: On Monday April 14, 2008, prior to Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United States, the Very Reverend David O’Connell, C.M., president of the Catholic University of America and Rev. Thomas J. Reese, S.J., senior research Fellow, Woodstock Theological Center, Georgetown University and former editor of America magazine, stated that they knew nothing about the memorandum. No comment necessary!

According to CNN, Father Joseph Feit, confessed to a fellow clergyman that he had raped and killed young women in 1960 at McAllen Texas. Instead of being told to turn himself in, he was shielded and counseled at Assumption Abbey Monastery in Ava, Missouri. Now, after almost half a decade, one of his “counselors” has told the story.

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Info on abuse:
www.snapnetwork.org

Religion Without God

Ah yes, the Lefties! It took quite a while for them to face up to Stalin’s deeds. In the Thirties, there were purges, the show trials and the execution of the fellow revolutionaries, the general staff and anyone who happened to fall victim to the benevolent dictator’s whims and moods. The Lefties gulped it up with nary a burp or a gasp.

In the Spanish Civil War, as the Franco Fascists were pushing the Loyalists back, the Stalinist Faction rushed to cancel out other Leftist Factions before the final collapse. When Hitler invaded Poland, they said Stalin wisely stood by and bided his time. And when the Hun eased into France, the French comrades sat on their hands and said “What a shame!” They didn’t make a move until June of ‘41 when Stalin’s former friend and ally Adolf caught him unawares. That’s when word from Moscow came and resistance started. It’s all in Sartre’s The Roads of Liberty.

Excuse after excuse was posited. Some things just had to be, and good reasons were continuously concocted. The traitors were Orwell and Koestler. They were the Luthers who presented heretical views.

Finally, after decades, the truth could no longer be hedged, except for a few diehards. If you look hard enough, you can still find a couple of those here and there.

What does this all go to show?

Religion without God
can be just as abominable
as religion with God.

Mission in Propaganda

Mission to Moscow was Michael Curtiz’ follow-up to Casablanca in 1943, with another script by Howard Koch. This non-masterpiece was made at the request of F. D. R. Curtiz was renowned as a cynic, and maybe that’s his excuse. What the hell, if the president says do it, who was Curtiz to quibble?

Our ally of the time Josef Stalin is not only made palatable, he is presented as a man to admire. The show trials of Stalin’s fellow revolutionaries in the film are legitimate legal procedures, in which all confess to being Trotskyite traitors in the pay of Nazi Germany. And these blackguards get their just deserts, which conveniently occur off celluloid.

The Allies needed the manpower of the Soviet Union to defeat Nazi Germany.
Was Mission made to butter the dictator up? Did Stalin need such cajoling in order to fight on? And what was the purpose of presenting such fabrications to film theater audiences of the time?

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Other directors can make films on important themes. I like to go to see them. However, I prefer to make films using details that others edit out. I’ve always been interested in the little things that are considered unimportant but that make up most of our lives.
- Jim Jarmusch

Yes, Jim takes those details and weaves them together in his films. His pace is slow and at times he uses blackouts between scenes. The movement is often drawn out and the mood often infused with black and absurd humor. You’d think that his films would be boring, but they’re anything but.

Example’s are scenes in Ghost Dog and Dead Man:

Ghost Dog is a hit man who’s samurai code has been gleaned from a pocket book he carries around with him. His best friend is a Haitian Mr Tastee Ice Cream van hawker who only speaks French. Ghost Dog: “I don’t understand him. I don’t speak French, only English. I never understand a word he says.”

The gun battle in Dead Man is the most slapstick screen violence I have ever viewed. The mild-mannered accountant hero is caught in bed with a gunslinger’s girlfriend. The latter draws his pistol and shoots the girl dead, wounding the accountant with the same bullet. The hero awkwardly reaches for a pistol on his bed table which it seems to go off of its own volition, shooting the assailant in the neck.

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a novel by Herbert Kuhner (excerpt)

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Then life became Rosy. She was thirty years old, had two daughters and was going through a divorce. She was fantasstic with a double s. I took her to the Magic Castle, where famous magicians performed their tricks. Then I took her home and performed my tricks on her. It was hard going. I’d given up sex for the yogi thing. But she initiated me right back to where I’d left off.

When we went to her place, I’d lie on the car floor so that her divorce case wouldn’t be damaged. From the floor I’d sneak into her bed.

I got back to being what I was and doing what I do best. I’d been out of the saddle for some time. It was good to get back in.

It was a rosy time. It was Rosy time. She’d say, “Give it to me, Herby! Give it to me! I need it so much. I love getting it from you!”

I’d lose myself in Rosy. She was so juicy I had to take a ladle with me. As I was getting close, she squirmed out from under me and dove down.

She liked to have her back facing me: She wanted to expose herself. “Herby,” she’d ask, “do you see me?” I ‘d guide her with my hands on her haunches, looking at her creaminess, black thatch and rosiness. After she’d been going at it for a while, she’d slurp. It sounded like cymbals clashing, and I’d give her slaps for good measure.

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Barney Kulok - Compositions Photographique

April 5th - May 13th 2008

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot
Galerie d’Art Contemporain
5 bis rue des haudriettes
75003 Paris
Téléphone 01 48 87 60 81 - Fax 01 48 87 05 01
info@galeriehussenot.com

Photographic Compositions by Barney Kulok

Barney Kulok has termed his photographic compositions “Simple Facts.” This is an apt description. The facts are indeed simple, but they lose their simplicity through the process of being photographed, only to find a new simplicity, in the best sense of the word. Kulok uses his lens like a painter’s brush, transposing his subjects into visual compositions, which are first formed in the mind’s eye, as is the case in all art.

The lens can be a reporter, but it can also be used to bring various elements together in one work. Kulok’s black-and-white prints, color prints and lightboxes tell us stories, as well as sensuously appealing to our vision. Details of city scenes dominate. Kulok shows us the beauty of ugliness, bringing the paintings of Edward Hopper to mind.

Kulok’s facts are simple visual stories, which say a lot. Barney Kulok has found a marvelous way of relating, without uttering a word.

Herbert Kuhner, writer/translator,
Vienna/New York

a novel by Herbert Kuhner (excerpt)

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I got to the West Coast in one piece and cast anchor in San Francisco. That was in February of 1962. I exchanged my room in Harlem for a similar one near the waterfront. Another little hole in the wall. But waving was impossible since there was no window. The only illumination was a ten-watt bulb that hung over the bed. The super let me stay there for free. The landlord was on a trip and was going to throw him out when he got back from wherever he was. The super hated the landlord and didn’t charge rent to anyone he liked. The room wasn’t worth a nickel, but it was a room.

I lived from hand to mouth. I was letting blood at the blood bank again and swiping cans of food at the supermarket.. I bummed around, met people at Nick’s Pool Hall. Had a coffee here and a pie there.

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a novel by Herbert Kuhner (excerpt)

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This was an indication of what things had been like. I was a toy ball. Either they tried to squash me or they threw me away. I was in the doldrums when Herby’s call came. He had a film Job for me. I was to do the limericks for Hans Fantel’s new sexcapade The Madam’s Hussar. I would also double as English speech coach. Herby was the hussar’s adjunct. The cast was international (and mostly unknown, except for the French has-been who would be paid two thousand dollars to present herself in the nude). The film would be dubbed into several languages, but. the actors, none of them English-speaking, would mouth their lines In English. They were speculating on striking it rich with the English version.

The hussar was a Giovanni type with comical overtones (His pants fell down during duels. But although pantless, he was always the victor.) The adjunct was a Leporello. He barged in on the ladies while they were bathing. But his activity was limited to eye-rolling and lip wetting. It was the hussar who got all the tail. And the adjunct – the pratfall.

The film opened with the presentation of credits and caricatures of the main actors printed and painted on wriggling areas of anatomy. The madam wasn’t really a madam at all but the hostess of an inn on the outskirts of Vienna. The hussar was her lover who sometimes strayed. The adjunct was the would-be love of the hostess’ chambermaid. The setting was 1809, the time of Napoleon’s second siege of Vienna. The emperor was convinced that the golden heart was nothing but a stone and the waltz, the worst abomination that had come upon the musical scene. Being old-fashioned, he preferred the gracious minuet. In order to eliminate the threat of the waltz, he had decided to sack and burn the city. On his way there, he spent the night in the hostess’ inn. He erroneously thought the inn, a bordello, and the hostess, a madam. To his dismay, he fell madly, head aver heels in love with her. But being virtuous and true to the hussar, she bravely resisted his advances. She used the excuse that she was off limits. Naturally being a gentleman, Napoleon did not force her to bestow her favors on him.

Meanwhile, the adjunct, hiding nude in a closet (he had tried to-catch the chambermaid unawares) overheard a conversation between Napoleon and Marshal Lannes, in which the destruction of Vienna was discussed.

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a novel by Herbert Kuhner (excerpt)

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I met Herby in his and my Glenn period. Glenn had been precursor of the new era. But now the word was getting around. Beatle-itus was at its height and the mini-skirt had just come in. Glenn was one of Vienna’s first hippies. Short, well-packed, a broad freckled face framed by a flaming beard, beady eyes and a sheepish grin. yes, the reddish blonde hair was shoulder length.

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a novel by Herbert Kuhner (excerpt)

Comments

I think that The Assembly-Line Prince, which I enjoyed in manuscript form, is the picaresque novel of our times. The Segment titled. Wedding bell: poet’s death knell was my favorite of many delightful passages. But the ending was great too, had me laughing out loud – partly with relief, because I didn’t know how the author could end it, but he did. Herbert Kuhner is not only a marvelous writer, but his novel strikes me as eminently commercial.
- Alan Levy, editor of the Prague Post and correspondent for The New York Times & Herald Tribune

I am of the considered opinion that Herbert Kuhner is a serious, dedicated, professional and versatile writer. I agree with Emile Capouya, former Literary Editor of The Nation, that Kuhner’s first novel Nixe (published by Funk & Wagnalls) is a work of great merit and originality and that his “gifts as a writer and stylist are unmistakable.“ Kuhner’s literary intelligence conveying psychological insight with cool precision, poetic verve and old-European wit – is deployed and displayed to equal effect in a second novel as yet unpublished, The Assembly-Line Prince.
- Anthony Rudolf, publisher of The Menard Press, London

The unmistakably talented writer Herbert (Harry) Kuhner meets his namesake, the jack-of-all-trades, Herb Andress. Herby’ a picaresque adventures, which sometimes border on the verge of crime, are material worthy of a novel. Harry tapes Herby’s autobiographical meanderings at their haphazard meetings. As Harry tapes, the novel takes form. Herby, the protagonist, is neurotic plagued by Don-Juanism who can only prove himself in a variety of constantly changing beds. He uses his rise as an actor in films as a ruse for the seduction process. His roles as an actor and as a lover are interchangeable. His friendship to Harry, the writer, develops into a clash of personalities, one the winner and the other the loser. This conflict is part of the plot, as well as the various colorful amorous episodes. To be sure, fact is combined with fiction, as the author indicates in the story. The Assembly-Line Prince is a highly-intelligently written slapstick story, a novel about a scoundrel and con man. It is an erotic novel that promises to be a commercial success. The author has proven himself to be a brilliant stylist.
- Ursula Pommer, Munich

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This is the story of a prince by a prince. The protagonist, Herby, the Assembly-Line Prince. The author, Harry the Pratfall Prince. I hope I’ll be pardoned for bringing myself in on the fringes. Don Giovanni needs his Leporello, and that is the role that fate had me play to Herby. So I relate his adventures, my misadventures. Are they fiction or non-fiction? Probably both. Sometimes, it is necessary to tell the truth by lying.

How did I come to my title? It was Herby who gave it to me. This is the way he put it. The difference between us is that I give them the pratfall and you take pratfalls from them. And that’s the way it was. They pratfell with Herby landing an top of them. Then after he, others like him had absconded, I would come along. Naturally I would try to right them and brush off the dust. And they would tell me of the pratfalls they had taken. Then a strange sensation would overcome me: I would find myself pratfalling.

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According to Church Law it is ethical for a man to infect his whole family with aids, including his children. For it is Mortal Sin to prevent this from happening by the use of condoms….A man who has been infected with aids is justified in cohabiting with his wife. If he uses condoms, he is committing a Mortal Sin.
- Monsignor Carlo Caffarra, Dean of the Institute of Family Research “Johannes Paul II” Täglich Alles, Feb. 14, 1993

Masturbation is a sin more grievous than the rape of one’s own daughter. The latter is more “natural” since an incestuous rape can at least lead to the birth of a child.
- Peter de Rose, author and former Dean of Corpus Christi College, England, Täglich Alles, Feb. 14, 1993

Let us give Caffarra and de Rosa the benefit of a doubt. Perhaps they really mean what they say, and perhaps they really think that they are speaking on behalf of the Deity. If so, they are rigidly adhering to principles, even if it means the disregarding common sense and totally negating compassion.

I know that I’m letting my emotions get the better of me, but I say they are not on the side of the angels but rather are trodding are straight and narrow path to perdition in seven league boots. On the other hand, you can’t condemn a man for not knowing any better, so their destination can’t be subterranean. It’s a delightful little terrestrial state known as the Land of Wicky-Wacky-Woo.

-Herbert Kuhner

Let us also pray for the Jews. So that God our Lord enlightens their hearts so that they recognize Jesus Christ savior of all men. Almighty and everlasting God…mercifully grant that all Israel may be saved.
- Pope Benedict XVI, Good Friday Sermon, 2008, catholicintl.com

Jesus did not partake of euthanasia, but his death was dignified because he looked death in the face with confidence and accepted it with love.
- Fernando Sebastian, Archbishop of Pamplona Emeritus, Good Friday, 2008, saz-aktuell.com

Why single the Jews out?! They’re not the only ones who don’t accept Christ as savior. Hasn’t enough harm been done over the centuries?

Christ did not have access to euthanasia. He was executed by the Romans. The six million Jews who were murdered in the Twentieth Century by men and women who had a Christian upbringing also did not have access to euthanasia.

- Herbert Kuhner

Habsburg 1967

Long after, after the catastrophies
his people had experienced,
Habsburg walks through the remnants
and unties the knots.
As he enters the gates of the Republic,
porcelain rattles and silver jingles
in the Hofburg, and a Pannonic swan
wearing spurs climbs to the pulpit.
Lichtentenstein rigidly witnesses the spectacle,
holding a Sudeten glass of Helvetian wine,
and Bohemian camp followers scrape their feet,
giving the Roman Kaiser the German salute.
A nag in old Imperial Carinthia neighs to that -
the echo comes grumbling to Mantua in chains.
Memory grumbles: worse things
have occurred since time began,
but Hapsburg’s deeds were bad enough.

The Atlantic Review, Spring, 1976, London.

February 1934

The party still great by day
disintegrated overnight.
A dwarf appeared and took
its gunpowder and lead.
From Vienna to Hinterkreuth
all marching ceased
and its, power lay smashed.

Translated from the German
by Herbert Kuhner

* Hinterkreuth - a town in Bavaria; Germany

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“Again and again there are shameful discussions concerning Austrians having been accomplices or victims. This makes it imperative for me to say that there is certainly no country in Europe that can more adequately describe itself as a victim than Austria!…When there’s a great commotion somewhere, many people will come to cheer. If you mention the crowd of 60,000 at Heldenplatz * - there are 60,000 fans at every soccer game.”
- Otto Hapsburg, the Austrian Parliament Commemorates the „Anschluss”, March 11, 2008

* “Hero’s Square” is where Hitler spoke after coming to Vienna. An estimated 250,000 attended this “soccer game.”

Otto Habsburg schaltet sich ein

„Wenn es immer wieder blamable Diskussionen darüber gibt, ob die Österreicher
Mitschuldige oder Opfer waren, dann muß ich sagen, daß es keinen Staat in Europa gibt, der mehr Recht hat, sich als Opfer zu bezeichnen!…Wenn irgendwo ein großer Rummel ist, dann kommen viele und jubeln. Wenn man von den 60.000 am Heldenplatz spricht - bei jedem Fußballmatch sind auch 60.000!”
- Otto Habsburg, Parlament gedenkt „Anschluß”, 11. März, 2008

“The Free Word”
Neue Kronen-Zeitung
March 13, 2008
Otto von Hapsburg, the oldest son of the last Austrian emperor and one of the great Europeans of the first hour, stated at the occasion of a commemoration for the events of March 1938 in parliament „There is no state in Europe that has more right to describe itself as a victim than Austria.”

Take notice!: Anyone in Austria who does not parrot what historians and politicians allege to be the sole political correct truth will immediately be demolished. Such a discussion is impossible. Anything that does not result a thousand-fold and eternal condemnation of Austria cannot take place. Otto Hapsburg is an eyewitness and experienced the tragic events. He knows what he’s talking about.
Dr. Wolfgang Srb, Vienna

Apropos “Letters to the Editor”

The most candid views of the publishers of the leading tabloid for lowbrows and the leading broadsheet for highbrows are to be found in the “letters to the editor” section.

The slaughterers of yesteryear were honorable men. The Third Reich was a bulwark against Bolshevism. And the Nuremberg Laws are still valid in “modified” form. Non-violent demonstrators deserve a knock on the head and should be arrested at random.
Austrians were opposed to the “Anschluss” and they behaved honorably after Austria was “overrun.” And so on!

This is the page for blatant revisionism and racism. The malevolence and the hostility of the authors of these letters know no bounds. They accurately reflect the attitude of the “distinguished” newspaper publishers who use more subtle means to convey the same message. And if there is no letter to provide views on a specific situation, the editors fill in the gap.

- Herbert Kuhner

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Bill and Hillary

Speaking of Bill and the Mrs.,
in my view, if he had whetted his own cigar,
we wouldn’t be in the Iraqi predicament.
Bill’s a charming and capable fellow,
but I have the old-fashioned view
that if anyone is involved in a pants-down scandal,
or any kind of scandal, he should bow out
and hand the reins over to the second-in-command,
which would have been Gore, in this case.

I for one, wouldn’t want Bill
back in the White House with his Mrs.,
I’d like to have Obama at that venue,
but the way things are going,
McCain will be a shoo-in
to keep the death toll going in Iraq.

-Herbert Kuhner

Compassionate Rush

Will this country want to actually watch a woman get older
before their eyes on a daily basis?
I am not asking the American people to look at Mrs. Clinton that way.
I’m just asking if they will. Men aging makes them look more
authoritative, accomplished, distinguished. It’s the way it works.
Did aging in office hurt Hillary’s husband, Bill?
He was 54 when he left office. People don’t want the truth.
See, everything that I have said was sympathetic.
- Rush Limbaugh, December 19, 2007, RushLimbaugh.com

Feminism was established so as to allow unattractive women
easier access to the mainstream of American culture and society.
- Same man, same date, same source

What a nice man Rush is! He’s so concerned about poor Hillary.
He’s not only nice, he’s a beautiful hunk of man.
Looks don’t count for a man, but being handsome doesn’t harm Rush.

How very sad that women age. We want them to be beautiful.
And if they’re not beautiful, they should stay at home -
somebody else’s home, that is.

Ability always counted for a man, but women had to be ornamental.
And if they were attractive, then it was okay for them to be in public life.
However, now feminism has changed that narrow view,
and we have to be grateful to it. As Rush says,
“it gives unattractive women access to the mainstream.”

Previously I thought Rush was rather nasty, but I was wrong.
He has a heart for the ugly ducklings.

- Herbert Kuhner

Noblesse Oblige and Hillary

Here’s a dollop of noblesse oblige
from right-winger John Spencer,
Hillary’s former foe for the New York Senate seat:

“You ever see a picture of her back then?
Whew, I don’t know why Bill married her.
Whew, she was hideous before ‘work.’
Noting Hillary Clinton looks much different now,
he chalked it up to “millions of dollars” of “work!”
- plastic surgery. She looks good now.” (10)

Actually I’m not a fan of either Bill or Hillary,
but I’m very much less of a fan of John Who!
And I’m glad that he lost his bid for the New York senatorial seat.
His comment is unfortunately a typical example of
“Conservative” noblesse oblige.

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The Mouth as Launcher

Helen went off to Troy with Paris,
leaving King Menelaus behind in Sparta.

Helen had the face “that launched a thousand ships,”
ships that carried Greeks to fight a war that lasted a decade.

Monica’s mouth was attached
to what may not be the wrong place
under certain circumstances,
but was the wrong place in this instance,
as far as the other participant was concerned
and as far as the location was concerned,
which happened to be the last venue
that should have served
as a doppelganger for the boudoir.

Monica has the mouth that launched a thousand ships,
planes, helicopters, tanks, military vehicles and
thousands of troops, male and female,
to fight in a war with no end in sight.

- Herbert Kuhner

Bill and Arnie Call a Spade a Spade

Bill looked me and a few other people square in the eye, squinting his eyes,
and said: “I want you to listen to me - I’m going to say this again -
I did not have sexual relations with that woman Miss Lewinsky.”

I believed him then and I still do. This is America!
Guys and gals, in this country, sex consists of raising the flag
and hitting the mark where it should be hit. No shilly-shallying around!
The mark is the mark. And hitting it is hitting it.
In America the mouth doesn’t count as a doppelganger,
nor does a cigar!

Here’s Bill again under oath: “When I was alone with Ms. Lewinsky
on certain occasions in early 1996 and once in early 1997,
I engaged in conduct that was wrong.
These encounters did not consist of sexual intercourse.
They did not constitute sexual relations as I understood that term
to be defined at my January 17th, 1998 deposition.
But they did involve inappropriate intimate contact.” (7)

Arnie the muscle-bound Lothario
came to this country as an Austrian.
Austrians are okay, but they aren’t the real McCoy.
Just as Clark Kent becomes Superman,
Arnie transformed himself into a genuine American.
Arnie knows what’s what.

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Land Mines, Cluster Bombs and the Clintons

The Clintons favor land mines and cluster bombs. Over 150 nations have signed
the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty. That year President Bill Clinton refused to sign that treaty. After his election, President George W. Bush declared that the United Stateswould never sign.

In 2006 Senate Amendment No. 4882 would have banned the use of cluster bombs
in civilian areas. Senator Barack Obama of Illinois voted in favor of the ban.
Senator Hillary Clinton of New York voted against the ban.
Congress rejected the amendment.

Senator Obama must win the Democratic Nomination for President of the United States
in order to prevent the use of land mines and cluster bombs in civilian areas,
and he must be elected president in order to end the war in Iraq.
Senator John McCain will continue the war if he becomes president of the United States.
Our next president has to be Barack Obama!
- Herbert Kuhner, Harry’s Blog: http://viennanet.info/

Cluster bombs and landmines are particularly terrifying weapons that wreak havoc
on communities trying to recover from war. They are fatal impediments
to reconstruction and rehabilitation of agricultural land;
they destroy valuable livestock;
they disable otherwise productive members of society;
they maim or kill children trying to salvage them for scrap metal.
- David Rees: www.huffingtonpost.com/

Bill on the Danish cartoons:

“I strongly disagree with the creation and publication of cartoons
that are considered blasphemous by the Muslims around the world.” (1)

Here’s Heinz Fischer of Austria,
a president who agrees with our ex-president:

“If a ban on pictorial representation constitutes
an essential element of a religion,
one ought not and must not offend against this principle twice -
not only by disrespecting this ban,
but also by reinforcing this hurtful violation of a taboo
in the form of a caricature.” (2)

While united concerning cartoons,
the two rival religious sects
were blowing up each other’s mosques.

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Hillary’s Hands

If Hillary’s in the White House
and the red phone rings,
the little girl sleeping in her bed
can go on sleeping safely
‘cause her life’s in Hillary’s hands.

The child in the eight-year-old clip
is approaching her eighteenth birthday.
She objects to being used in a Hillary ad
and wants to cast her vote for Obama.

- Herbert Kuhner

Hillary - Hope for the Jingoists

Bush is Nixon all over again
and it’s hitting the fan every day,
McCain is ready to replace W.
but it’s hard to duck the substance
that’s being spluttered by the fan.

The born-again jingoist cruds
have one hope - and that’s Hillary.
Obama is ahead in the Delegate count
and she cannot overtake him.

Dem-Super-Delegates Harold Ickies,
Geraldine Ferraro and others
intend to give the nomination to Hillary,
ignoring the Regular Delegate count.

Hillary as a candidate will bring
John McCain into the White House.
The Iraq War will continue
to be a murderous juggernaught
that saps American lives and resources,
and the Right Wing will impose its will
on us via the Supreme Court.

If the Super Delegates overturn
the primary majority vote,
the Democratic Party will be rent in two.

I voted for Obama in my primary,
and I adamantly object to having
my vote invalidated by the “Supers,”

If they cancel out votes for the victor,
I will cancel out my registration
to a party that ceases to be “democratic”
and I will cast a blank ballot in the election.

Looks like the Reps may snatch it again.

- Herbert Kuhner

Herbert Kuhner

No foe is hated as much
as the honorable foe.
No foe is countered with such brutality
as the foe with integrity.

That foe is placed at the top
of every hit list,
and when he is beaten, he is beaten
within an inch of his life.

The world must be cleared of heroes
and anyone who stands in the way
of power and profit
at the expense of man and beast.

Even the most hard-boiled scoundrel
is put to shame when he encounters
the countenance of human decency
and must clear his sight of it.
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There are people on our side
who write for
racist and revisionist tabloids
in order to make their liberal ideas
available to a large readership;
there are people on our side
who forge documents
to exonerate people on our side;
there are those who favor dictatorship
and oppose
a democratic form of government;
those who declare solidarity
with political leaders
responsible for massacres;
those who recommend assassination
as a means of dealing
with political demagogues;
those decision-makers
who acted as spies and informers
during the Stalinist period
and stand to their past;
those who kowtow to Nazis
in order to increase their power;
those who drive
competitors to suicide;
those who used an
who had denounced colleagues to the Nazis
to flay Nazism onstage;
those who under the guise of art
indulge in violent, sadistic acts in public;
those who torment and kill animals
for a thrill;
those who advocate and glorify
rape and murder;
those who favor and practice
the abuse and sodomy
of minors;
those who make light
of pedophilia and infanticide;
and last but not least,
their army of
promoters and fellow-travelers
who are all on our side.

Not to be on our side
means to be on their side,
and we know
what being on their side signifies.

In contrast to them
we are on the side of humanism.

- Herbert Kuhner

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told me to tell the truth.
The dishonest man
told me to be honest.
The dishonorable man
told me to behave honorably
The indecent man
told me to be decent.
The con man
told me not to con anyone.
The rake
told me to live in celibacy.
The thief
told me not to steal.
The murderer
told me not to kill.

That’s what’s known
as morality.
But what counts
is the validity of the message,
not the source.

- Herbert Kuhner

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Only a liar
can lie,
only a cheat
can cheat,
only a thief
can steal,
only a traitor
can betray,
only a murderer
can murder,
only a criminal
can commit crimes.

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A Propos Cleanliness!

This is where
you learn to be clean.

I’ve never seen
so many faucets and sinks,
so much soap
and so many nail brushes.

There’s soaping and soaping,
scrubbing and scrubbing,
brushing and brushing,
rubbing and rubbing,
drying and drying
and wiping and wiping.

At every occasion
the plugs are put in,
the faucets are turned on
and soap is generously applied.

Hands are washed and washed
until they’re chaffed and red.

There’s soaping and soaping,
scrubbing and scrubbing,
brushing and brushing,
rubbing and rubbing
drying and drying
and wiping and wiping.
There’s washing and washing,
so much washing,
but so little cleansing.

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She’s young and beautiful, and made every effort to garner a past as quickly as possible. After college, there was a short stint as a secretary, which she broke off to become a stripper. And stripping today means more than removing your clothes and underclothes one by one. The stereotypical climax of an act is bringing yourself to a climax.

She’s got a gaudy tattoo on her arm and her nipples are pierced. Well, that’s the fashion these days, like it or not! It signifies being frivolous and carefree.

She knows what it’s about, and she knows how to relate it. She wrote her memoirs as a sex performer, and they hit the bestseller list. Who isn’t interested in the ins and outs of a stripper? And after that, she wrote the script for a top Hollywood film. Not only did the film receive awards, but her script is also award-winning. And there are writing offers galore.

Her past is not a problem; it’s an asset. And you can’t really call it the past, since she’d like to go back and relive it.

Now you’re no longer an outcast if you engage in any kind of shenanigans. Shenanigans are a key to the inner sanctum - as well as wealth. As far as the motion picture business is concerned, the game has changed since the Stone Age of the Hays Code.

But one thing’s for sure, the lady has talent. She can write. No question about it. And she caught on. Her life has not been a life of struggle and it never will be. She’s got it made.

- Herbert Kuhner

Dan was an American Nazi way back in the Lincoln Rockwell days. He was a true fan of the Führer, and he was convinced that quondam leader Germany had hit the jackpot with the racial laws. A party comrade painted a portrait of him in uniform in Adolf-pose with smokestacks in the background.

Dan did not engage in Holocaust denial. He carried a bar of soap around with him with the caption on the wrapper: “Made from the finest Jewish fat.” Yeah, Dan didn’t like Jews very much. In order to prove his conviction, he vandalized the offices of the Anti-Defamation League in New York. But yet Dan wanted to show that not everything Jewish was bad. He’d bring knish to Nazi headquarters and offer it to his comrades, saying, “Let’s eat this good Jew food!” Say what you will about Jews, there’s no denying that Jewish food is tasty.

Regretfully for Dan, there was one fly in the ointment. Dan had the bad luck of not being a bonified Aryan. He hadn’t selected the right parents before birth. His mother and father were pious Jews in the Bronx, and one set of grandparents had taken the boat to New York from Russia. Yes, fate had played the dirtiest trick on him. Be that as it may, Dan attempted to rectify this error by choosing to be a Nazi. And he proved himself again and again.

Since Dan had become one of the most ardent members of the American Nazi Party, the media took an interest in him. Journalists wanted to know the whys and wherefores of his convictions. Even the prestigious New York Times contacted him for an interview. Dan was flattered and he assented.

The Times interviewer did a little background research and confronted Dan with his true identity. Dan was aghast. His brown world collapsed. He had besmirched his calling with his identity. The only honorable recourse he had as a Nazi was to kill the Jew who had dishonored him - these two being one and the same. The Nazi took his pistol and aimed it at the Jew and shot himself dead.

- Herbert Kuhner<