-Gerhard Rühm, ein letzter Universalkünstler im „Kunstforum Wien“

von am 24. Dezember 2017 um 11:06
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Gerhard Rühm. 4.10.2017 – 28.1.2018. Das Kunstforum Wien zeigt mit Gerhard Rühm im Herbst 2017 einen der letzten Universalkünstler. Als Komponist, Pianist, Performer, Literat und bildender Künstler war der 1930 in Wien geborene und heute in Köln lebende Gerhard Rühm ein Grenzgänger zwischen den einzelnen …

Oswald Wiener: „Es war mir zum Beispiel auch nicht ganz einfach, meinen Urin zu trinken oder meine Scheiße zu löffeln … Lange vor dem Aktionismus haben Rühm und der Bayer geschrieben: Scheißen und Brunzen sind Kunsten.“[1]

Oswald Wiener: “It was not easy to drink my urine and eat my feces….

Long before Actionism, Rühm and Bayer wrote:

‘Defecation and urination are art.’”[2]

Oswald Wiener: „Wir haben schon daran gedacht, Leute umzubringen, als Kunstwerk oder so – wenn das radikal ist. Aber es ist nicht geschehen. Bayer, Achleitner, Rühm und ich haben uns zwei, drei Jahre lang fast täglich zu intensivieren Diskussionen getroffen.“[3]

 Oswald Wiener:“We thought about killing people as a work of art, or that sort of thing – if that is radical. But it did not happen. Bayer, Achleitner, Rühm and I met for intensive discussions on an almost daily basis for two or three years.”[4]

Bei einer Ausstellung der Wiener Gruppe im Museumsquartier 1998 wurden mißgebildete Säuglinge in Photokollagen von Gerhard Rühm verulkt. Eine Kollage, zeigt ein Photo eines weiblichen Säugling mit gespreizten Beinen, daneben eine Zeichnung die einen irregierten Penis darstellt.[5]

As part of an exhibit of the Vienna Group in the Museum Quarter in 1998 of photo collages of malformed infants by Gerhard Rühm. One collage shows a female infant and a tumescent male penis.[6]

Gerhard Rühm | Ausstellungen | Kunstforum Wien – Bank Austria …

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[1] Wiener Sonderdruck, „Wiener Aktionismus“, Friedrich Geyerhofer, „Gespräch mit Oswald Wiener“, 1981, S. 58.
[2] Oswald Wiener interviewed by Friedrich Geyerhofer, Wiener Sonderdruck, Wiener Aktionismus, 1981, p. 58.
[3] Oswald Wiener: “Über Kunst, Selbstbeobachtung und Automatentheorie: Ein Gespräch mit Stan Lafleur; Textauszug aus: Eckhard Hammel, Hrsg., Synthetische Welten. Kunst Künstlichkeit und Kommunikationsmedien, Essen: Verlag die Blaue Eule, 1996, S. 199-213.
[4] Oswald Wiener: „Über Kunst und Automatentheorie: Ein Gespräch mit Stan Lafleur“; Textauszug aus: Eckhard Hammel, Hrsg., Synthetische Welten. Kunst, Künstlichkeit und Kommunikationsmedien, Essen, Verlag der Blaue Eule, 1996, p. 199-213.
[5] Die Wiener Gruppe, Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Nov. 13 – Feb. 21. 1999.
[6] Die Wiener Gruppe, Kunsthalle, Museumsquartier, Nov. 13 – Feb. 21, 1999.

-Politicians Have Their Say

von am 22. Dezember 2017 um 10:47
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Politicians Have Their Say

“You’ll find people in Gurk, who are either Socialists or Conservatives,
who in certain situations may say that Hitler should be here now,
but that doesn’t mean that they are Nazis. [1]
– Karl Felsberger Deputy-Mayor of Gurk, Carinthia

„Austrians may have rejoiced in 1938,
but they welcomed annexation to the Reich,
not National Socialism.“
– Josef Ratzenböck, Conservative Governor of Upper Austria

 

The Ladies Have Their Say

My poem about the Führer: the product of an innocently glowing heart.
– Gertrud Fusennegger, Austrian author, May 13, 1993

The one thing about the Nazis that I liked
is that they had the best laws for the protection of animals.
– Edith Klinger, Austrian columnist on animal affairs

“There was a dangerous, demented politician who led the German nation on the path to ruin,
we’re all aware of that, but there were also positive values such as children,
mothers and families and sticking together, and those things were done away with..
.there were also Autobahns built, and we drive on them.”
– Eva Herman, German “talkmistress“ in September 2007

“I liked and admired Germany. I could not judge the government since I was completely apolitical.
When I received my first invitation to a reception by Hitler, my only thought was what should I wear?”
– Marika Rökk: A Heart with Paprika; Kurier, December 12, 2010.
Marika was dancer in films of the Thirties who made up for a lack grace with boundless energy.

“I can’t judge how it was with Hitler in all other areas.
I can only judge that he was interested in my doing in test flights.
I was deeply astonished about his questions and his interest.”
– Hanna Reitsch, pilot, interview in English, 1976
(Hanna’s English translated into English:
“I don’t know about other aspects;
I only know that Hitler endorsed my test flights.
His questions and interest a surprised me.”)

“There was a dangerous, demented politician
who led the German nation on the path to ruin,
we’re all aware of that, but there were also positive values
such as children, mothers and families and sticking together,
and those things were done away with…
there were also Autobahns built, and we drive on them.”
– Eva Herman, German-TV “talk-mistress“in September 2007

Yes, the Nazis promoted motherhood and Arian mothers were coddled.
(Non-Arian mothers experienced different treatment.)

Sons were needed for the military and daughters were needed to bear more military men
as well as daughters who were to become the mothers of the military men of the future.

So it went, dear Eva and so it goes.
Now we have women whose aim is a career like yours,
rather than mere parturition.

Ah, those good old days when men were men and women were women
and the only problems woman had were the problems of the maternity ward and the nursery!

 

Things Weren’t All Bad in Days Gone By

The one thing about the Nazis that I liked
is that they had the best laws for the protection of animals.
– Edith Klinger, Austrian columnist on animal affairs

Don’t quibble! Things may have been bad in days gone by,
but they weren’t all bad. Look, the Nazis were nice to animals!
That’s a good thing, isn’t it?

And there are others aspects. If the Führer hadn’t annexed Austria,
half of the country would probably still be driving on the left-hand side of the road.

 

Konrad Lorenz and the Geese

Third-Reich theoretician Konrad Lorenz
had grey geese follow him wherever he went.
He was especially enthralled by the goose step.

 

Wolfgang Schüssel:
Victim not Perpetrator!

Question: Does Austria consider itself as a perpetrator or victim 60 years after the war?
Wolfgang Schüssel: I believe that this question has been decided.
The country (Austria) was a victim of aggression, specifically a military aggression.
That was proven in the night after the occupation when thousands were arrested.
If the Nazi leadership thought that all of Austria was cheering, these arrests
would not have been carried out. The entire political elite was de facto cancelled out.
There was resistance in all political groups. The allies recognized this…
I will never permit Austria not be viewed as a victim.

 

Definitions

Adolf Hitler had Ernst Röhm and his SA-henchman done away with in June of ‘34.
Röhm was Hitler’s adversary, but he was anything but an anti-Nazi.
Which goes to show that birds of a feather don’t always flock together.

That same year, Hitler ordered the murder of Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss.
Dollfuss was an anti-Nazi, but not an anti-fascist.

Stalin was an anti-fascist, but he was not anti-totalitarian.
It is essential to know what one favors as well as what one opposes.

When Josef Goebbels publicized the Soviet massacre of Polish officers in Katyn in 1941,
he did so because it fit into his concept. We know that he was not opposed to massacres,
for the murders he approved of were million-fold.

Gerd Bacher: “The Waldheim-story is a Dreyfus Affair with inverted implications.” [2] “There is no freedom without personal discipline. A dictatorship provides convenient, but short-termed protection against base instincts. You can choose.“[3]

Hans Dichand; “We who experienced war and captivity in Soviet prisoner of war camps do want revenge. But we vigorously oppose the satanic, collective slander that the soldiers of the Second World War were criminals. We don’t want to take the truth to our graves with us. Our descendants, our daughters and sons should be able to stand up for us if we are continued to be condemned as inhuman. Winners are bad judges and the history is also the history the history of falsehoods.[4]

“Seamen who had befriended him (Hans Dichand) offered him an Italian uniform. (for his German one). He refused. It was inconceivable for him to flee into peacetime disguised as an Italian.”[5]

(That uniform represented a war of conquest, a scorched earth policy and countless abattoirs and charnel houses.)

Dichand: “You’d think that after such a long time, bygones should be bygones internationally.[6]

 

Otto Mauer, Caretaker of Artists’ Souls

In the Nineteen-Fifties Monsignor Otto Mauer, was instrumental in introducing modern art to post-war Austria. He founded the “Galerie St. Stephan” in Vienna and promoted such avant-garde artists as Wolfgang Hollegha, Josef Mikl und Markus Prachensky.
However, artists came on the scene, whose work transcended theirs in sensationalism. Rather than using such materials as canvass, wood and stone, they used the human body, its fluids and secretions. These pioneers worked individually and as a group under the name of the Vienna Actionists, and Mauer concentrated his efforts on promoting them. With his backing, they set about conquering the International Art World, and indeed the trend has spread like wildfire.
Luminaries of the movement are Otto Mühl, Hermann Nitsch, Günter Brus, Peter Weibel, Valie Export and Rudolf Schwarzkogler.
The motto épater le bourgeois was replaced by emmerder le monde. Public sado-masochism and brutality were the means.
Here is background material:

Monsignore Otto Mauer, Gründer der Galerie nächst St. Stephan. Photographie, 1965.

After the war, Otto Mauer along with Bishop Alois Hudal, who was located at the Vatican, was a member of the Vatican Ratline and aided escaping Nazis, as well as those who remained in Austria. Among Mauer’s protégés was former Third Reich publicist Otto Schulmeister, who in turn supported Mauer. Mauer and Schulmeister collaborated as editors on the Catholic cultural monthly Wort und Wahrheit together, which they founded in the Fifties.
Otto Schulmeister, 1989: “There were many swine at the time, not only brown ones…” And he added, “The Revisionists are right about that. Not only Nazis committed crimes. And not only Jews were victims. There were many victims at the time and many since then. And as we see in Israel, Jews can also be oppressors.” Asked whether he regretted what he had written during the Third Reich in National Socialist organs, he replied: “Not in the least!”

Half-Truths are the most dangerous lies.
– Joseph Goebbels
Otto Mauer, pater familias of the actionists, was the official Catholic “caretaker of souls” for artists.
Otto Mauer in 1948, the years after the Holocaust: “The Jews have immense influence on communism and capitalism. They pass themselves off as defenders of humanity…but they are nothing but a depraved people with a perverted spirit….They have been condemned to eternal damnation….They invariably choose the evil path.”
Bishop Egon Kapellari, Austria’s Bishop for Art: “Monsignor Otto Mauer, the unforgotten sponsor of contemporary art of his time, wrote in his renowned text, “A Discourse on Art,” that he was aware that society, yes even the state, had to defend itself against anti-humanistic, racial discriminatory, anti-Semitic, etc. art. “
A year later Mauer was more “conciliatory.” In 1949 he wrote: “There is a solution to the Jewish problem, but just one: the Jews must recognize Christ as the Messiah, the heathens must become Christians…”

Good Deeds

Mauer’s Austrian colleague Bishop Alois Hudal describes his good deeds: “After 1945 all my charitable work was primarily devoted to the former members of National Socialism and Fascism, particularly the so-called ‘war criminals,’ who were being persecuted and were frequently personally completely without guilt.” [7]
Bishop Hudal, Christmas, 1945:“I am delighted to greet 110 wanted war criminals. They can be hunted far and wide. Here they are safe.”[8]

“The Bishop (Hudal) entered the room and welcomed me with outstretched arms and said, ‘You must be Franz Stangl. I’ve been waiting for you.’”[9]
(Franz Stangel was Commandant of Treblinka Concentration Camp. The number of His victims is nine-hundred-thousand.)

Thanks to Hudal and other Cossack-clad friends, Stangl was able to travel to Brasil, where he found employment at the Volkswagon factory in the Sixties and as advisor to the military dictatorship. He was able to combine both jobs by aiding with in interrogations on the factory premises.

Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood
and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

 

One and the Same

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 the 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.

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[1] Profil, No. 23, June, 6, 2005
[2] Neue Kronen-Zeitung, 21. Dez.1986; Gerd Bacher in: “Zeit zum Reden”. Eine noch ältere:
[3] Salzburger Nachrichten, 17. Nov.1949; Gerd Bacher: “Freibeuter der Moral”.
[4] Kronen-Zeitung, Hans Dichand, 23. April 1995.
[5] Kronen-Zeiting, Hans Janetschek, Italiens Flucht aus dem Krieg, p. 28; Hans Janetschek, Nur Ein Journalist, Orac Verlag, 1993.
[6]Kronen-Zeitung, Cato (Hans Dichand), April 17, 2007, p. 3
[7] Alois C. Hudal, Römische Tagebücher, Lebensbeichte eines alten Bischofs, Leopold Stocker Verlag, Graz, 1976, p. 21
[8] Bishop Alois Hudal’s secretary Hans Mayer, tape recording, 1979, Die Waffen SS, ZDF, 2002.
[9] Gerald Steinacker: Nazis auf der Flucht, Studien Verlag, Innsbruck, 2008.
[10] G. M. Gilbert Nuremberg Diary, Straus & Cudhay, 1947, Signet Edition, 1961, p. 384.

-Laying the Groundwork: Luther to Streicher

von am 14. Dezember 2017 um 18:00
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Laying the Groundwork:
Luther to Streicher

Julius Streicher, publisher of the virulently anti-Semitic Der Sturmer, took on the role of disciple while the dock at the Nuremberg Trials.

“Dr. Martin Luther would very probably sit in my place in the defendants‘ dock today, if this book had been taken into consideration by the prosecution. In the book ‘The Jews and Their Lies,’ Dr. Martin Luther writes that the Jews are a serpent’s brood and one should burn down their synagogues and destroy them.”

Here are some segments from the aforementioned book by Martin Luther:

“What will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God.

“Therefore be on your guard against the Jews, knowing that wherever they have their synagogues, nothing is found but a den of devils in which sheer self-glory, conceit, lies, blasphemy, and defaming of God.

“Moreover, they are nothing but thieves and robbers who daily eat no morsel and wear no thread of clothing which they have not stolen and pilfered from us by means of their accursed usury. Thus they live from day to day, together with wife and child, by theft and robbery, as arch-thieves and robbers, in the most impenitent security.

“However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God’s wrath.

“Alas, it cannot be anything but the terrible wrath of God which permits anyone to sink into such abysmal, devilish, hellish, insane baseness, envy, and arrogance. If I were to avenge myself on the devil himself I should be unable to wish him such evil and misfortune as God’s wrath inflicts on the Jews, compelling them to lie and to blaspheme so monstrously, in violation of their own conscience. Anyway, they have their reward for constantly giving God the lie.

“Over and above that we let them get rich on our sweat and blood, while we remain poor and they such the marrow from our bones.

“Let the government deal with them in this respect, as I have suggested. But whether the government acts or not, let everyone at least be guided by his own conscience and form for himself a definition or image of a Jew.

“However, we must avoid confirming them in their wanton lying, slandering, cursing, and defaming. Nor dare we make ourselves partners in their devilish ranting and raving by shielding and protecting them, by giving them food, drink, and shelter.

“First to set fire to their synagogues or schools and to bury and cover with dirt whatever will not burn, so that no man will ever again see a stone or cinder of them. This is to be done in honor of our Lord and of Christendom, so that God might see that we are Christians, and do not condone or knowingly tolerate such public lying, cursing, and blaspheming of his Son and of his Christians.

“Second, I advise that their houses also be razed and destroyed. For they pursue in them the same aims as in their synagogues. Instead they might be lodged under a roof or in a barn, like the gypsies. This will bring home to them that they are not masters in our country, as they boast, but that they are living in exile and in captivity, as they incessantly wail and lament about us before God.

“Third, I advise that all their prayer books and Talmudic writings, in which such idolatry, lies, cursing and blasphemy are taught, be taken from them.

“Fourth, I advise that their rabbis be forbidden to teach henceforth on pain of loss of life and limb.

“Fifth, I advise that safe-conduct on the highways be abolished completely for the Jews. For they have no business in the countryside, since they are not lords, officials, tradesmen, or the like.

“Sixth, I advise that usury be prohibited to them, and that all cash and treasure of silver and gold be taken from them and put aside for safekeeping. The reason for such a measure is that, as said above, they have no other means of earning a livelihood than usury, and by it they have stolen and robbed from us

“Seventh, I commend putting a flail, an ax, a hoe, a spade, a distaff, or a spindle into the hands of young, strong Jews and Jewesses and letting them earn their bread in the sweat of their brow, as was imposed on the children of Adam (Gen 3[:19]}. For it is not fitting that they should let us accursed Goyim toil in the sweat of our faces while they, the holy people, idle away their time behind the stove, feasting and farting, and on top of all, boasting blasphemously of their lordship over the Christians by means of our sweat. No, one should toss out these lazy rogues by the seat of their pants.

“But what will happen even if we do burn down the Jews‘ synagogues and forbid them publicly to praise God, to pray, to teach, to utter God’s name? They will still keep doing it in secret. If we know that they are doing this in secret, it is the same as if they were doing it publicly. For our knowledge of their secret doings and our toleration of them implies that they are not secret after all and thus our conscience is encumbered with it before God, that their synagogues be burned down, and that all who are able toss in sulphur and pitch; it would be good if someone could also throw in some hellfire.”

End of segments.

These words are from the initiator of the Protestant branch of Christianity. I can’t help but ask: If you hang the “Founder’s” disciples at Nuremberg for having done it, how can you honor the man who provided the playbook for what they did?

-A Volunteer

von am 14. Dezember 2017 um 17:48
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A Volunteer

“For those who can fight, and resist, and stick together, and stick to their guns, I have the greatest respect! Yes, even if Hitler were living now, he would also admit that the Jews are a spunky race. – I would be ready to join them now and help them in their fight! – No, I am not joking! Absolutely! I am not joking! – And do you know why? Because the democratic world is too weak and isn’t fit to exist! I warned them for 25 years, but now I see that the Jews have determination and spunk. They will yet dominate the world, mark my word! And I would be glad to help lead them to victory because they are strong and tenacious, and I know Jewry. I have spunk too! And I can stick to my guns! – And if the Jews would be willing to accept me as one of them, I would fight for them, because when I believe in something, I know how to fight!

“I have studied them so long, that I suppose I have adapted myself to their characteristics – at least I could lead a group in Palestine. I am not joking. I’ll give it to you in writing. I’ll make a proposition. Let me address a gathering at Madison Square Garden in New York. – It would be a sensation!

“Oh, I don’t think we have exterminated as many as they say, I don’t think it was six million. I figure it was perhaps four million. And according to my figures there were 16 million Jews in the world, including those of mixed blood, but they are spread out in important positions all over the world, and they are destined to rule the world, and since I know their plans so well, I could help. Of course I will have to be given a furlough after the sentence.”[1]

These words were spoken by Julius Streicher on July 26, 1949 to G. M. Gilbert, the official American court psychologist at the Nuremberg Trial, on July 26, 1946.

Yes, the man who was editor of Der Stürmer, the official Nazi Party anti-Semitic Newspaper for a quarter of a century, volunteered to go to Palestine to help Jews in establishing a Jewish state.

No, you can’t laugh about that since Streicher, not only stirred up hatred for a quarter of a century, but he helped organize pogroms and participated in them. So there is no laughing or chuckling.

Streicher was appointed gauleiter (district leader) of Franconia by Hitler, but he was stripped of that post in 1940. What were his transgressions? He slandered Hermann Göring, claiming that his fellow Nazi was impotent that that Hermann’s daughter was a test tube baby. And he was accused of being corrupt. What was corruption? Streicher not only stole from Jews, but also from his fellow Nazis. However, due to Hitler’s intervention, he was able to keep his editorial post. After all, who could do a better job at demeaning Jews than Julius?

“If you can’t lick ‘em, join ‘em!” is the way it’s put in the States. So Streicher offered to go to Palestine on “furlough.” Well, the judges didn’t have “furlough” in mind and Streicher’s last walk took him up wooden steps. But if he had been able to go to Jerusalem, the Jews there
would have made short shrift of him.

-Boys Will Be Boys (2)

von am 12. Dezember 2017 um 13:32
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Launching

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

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

Monica was in the last location
that should have served
as a doppelganger for the boudoir
with a partner who had been
Paris many times over.

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 that would ignite
a conflagration with no end in sight.

Peccadillos and Sinking

Bill’s peccadillos enabled George to sink Al,
and later enabled Donald to sink Hillary
by deflecting from his own peccadillos
by bringing Bill’s to the fore

Married?

“You know, Charlie, I’ve pretty much lived my entire life
as if I wasn’t married to her at all.”
– Bill Clinton. The Charlie Rose Show, Dec. 14 /2007
Amen!

Snitching for Rush

Rush Limbaugh: “Linda Trip –
What a beautiful heroine!!!
Now there’s a person who can really lead….
Here’s a question for the pop pollsters:
Who is a better role model
‘for the children’ of America:
Bill Clinton or Linda Tripp?
I’m telling my sons to imitate her.” (4)

(Linda had her friend Monica
spill the beans on Bill,
while hiding a mike,
and passed the info on.)

Elmer Gantry

Elmer Gantry, the man and the situation penned by Sinclair Lewis, has been confirmed again and again. The holier-than-thou -born-again crowd often goes amiss. Practicing what they preach is not always the case. Anti-abortion Judge Roy Moore had an eye for teenage girls and even tried to force his favors on some. That however did not interrupt his preaching or prevent has running for high office. What else is new?

Anita and the Judge

Anita Hill describes the lewdity of Clarence Thomas: “He spoke about acts that he had seen in pornographic films involving such matters as women having sex with animals and films showing group sex or rape scenes….On several occasions, Thomas told me graphically of his own sexual prowess….Thomas was drinking a Coke in his office, he got up from the table at which we were working, went over to his desk to get the Coke, looked at the can and asked, ‘Who has put pubic hair on my Coke?’”

Pardon me, folks! I’ve got to go out and barf.

Anita dear, this man is a stalwart god-fearing, evangelical, anti-abortion conservative. What did you expect?

After Anita Hill had testified against super-Conservative Supreme Court Justice-to-be Clarence Thomas, the holier-than-thou-crowd hired David Brock to defame Hill
in The Real Anita Hill. However, after publication, Brock got qualms of conscience and spilled the beans.

No Snitching for Alan

From Alan Dershowitz: Is Paterno Getting a Bum Rap?:
“(Joe) Paterno and I come from roughly
the same generation.
We grew up during the period of McCarthyism,
and my parents taught me,
as his parents may well have taught him,
that the most unforgivable sin is to ‘snitch’
on one’s friends and colleagues….” (5)
(Joe kept Jerry Sandusky’s
child-abuse activities
under his coach’s cap.)

Hotels and Privacy

“I still say what happens in a room is a private thing.”
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Interview with Richard Quest, CNN

Right you are, Dominique! When two people check into a hotel,
(or a threesome or foursome or a more-some)
no matter what their sexes are, they can do whatever they do
in the privacy of their room and it’s their business –
unless blood is shed.

However, if a waiter, maid or any other hotel employee
enters a guest’s room in the course of their service or work
and is propositioned, that is sexual harassment.
And if such a person is physically assailed
in one way or another, that, dear Dominique,
is assault and battery, attempted rape or rape,
whatever the case may be.

Those who frequent five-star hotels and get a yen
when they wake up in the morning
can take a short walk or a cab ride
to the next neighborhood five-star bordello,
and nobody’s going to protest or complain
or call the police about that “private thing.”

Short Circuits, Blackouts and Such

During an interview Dominique Strauss Kahn, answered one of Christine Banon’s
questions by darting toward the 23-year-old interviewer with dishonorable intentions in mind. Madame Banon managed to exit from the interview scathed but intact.
She described the bearing of her interviewee as “an ape in heat.”

Later Monsieur Strauss-Kahn shrugged away his behavior to her as a “short circuit.”

Cest’ la vie, these things do happen. French erotica-author Catherine Millet gives some Gallic advice: “After being raped, a woman can wash herself.”

Here comes boring old Harry with a comment:
The prisons are filled with men who had short circuits.

Beauty and the Beast

Liv Ullmann called Kissinger, “the most interesting man I have ever met.” She goes on. “I absolutely disapprove of what he did politically, and I told him so, but he tells good stories. He just thought it was fun to be with me because I don’t understand anything, because I’m stupid in politics and I’m on the wrong side.”

Well, concerning Dr. Strangekiss, according to Ullmann, I am certainly on “the wrong side.” I am also on the wrong side of Deadeye Dick Cheney, and all the other mass murderers of “our side.”

As an admirer of Liv Ullmann, I cannot fathom how she could be fascinated by anyone so ugly on both the outside and the inside. But then, according to him. “Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac.”

Love may be blind, but apparently, power is blinding!

Dr. Strangekiss’ success with the ladies caused the press to dub him as “Cary Grant with a German accent.”

Guess if power could do it for Henry, power can do it for anyone, including, Quasimodo and Caliban – that is if they had happened to have had power.

Jean Anouilh’s repetitive dramatic theme was the beauty besmirched by the beast, and the inability of the true love that followed the false one to accept to accept the besmirching.

Liv claimed that their relationship was strictly aboveboard. If that were so, I guess she was the only one that didn’t go below-board.

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(4) Rush Limbaugh, Rush Limbaugh Online (no date indicated).
(5) Huffpost/Newsmax , Nov. 11, 2011