Harry´s Blog

There’s a notable who’s in the hierarchy. He’s a shortie who creates the impression of being amenable and congenial. He has his finger in every pie and he’s a whiz at doing business and speculating.
He’ll help you into any saddle if you ride for him. And he’ll give you valid tips if you do the […]

Herbert Kuhner
Not even listening to warnings of an impending terror attack is criminal negligence. Condi shooed Richard Clarke away prior to 9/11.
Bush, after pushing the Taliban and Al Qaeda back in Afghanistan, let it go to pot. Invading Iraq, a country that had nothing to do with the attack on the Twin Towers, was a […]

Herbert Kuhner
The Austrian Socialist Party organ, Arbeiter Zeitung, gave up the ghost, along with the other publications of Vorwärts Verlag in 1989. It died its death at the age of a hundred.
You can see the beautiful historic building that housed those publications on Wienzeile in the 5th district of Vienna. It now serves as the […]

Herbert Kuhner
Bill Clinton 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 the former president of the United States:
“If a ban on pictorial representation constitutes an essential element of a religion,
one ought not […]

Herbert Kuhner
Concerning getting to be in a family way, she had said, why bring one more unhappy person into the world? That was exactly my point of view. I had been pushed into the world. If I’d been asked, I certainly wouldn’t be in it.
She was indeed attractive, but her good looks were of the […]

Herbert Kuhner
Pioneer Against Smoking
What country was the pioneer state in determining the effects of nicotine? Here’s a clue the head of state was a vegetarian, teetotaler and non-smoker.
You guessed it! Adolf Hitler. And the country of course was Nazi Germany.
And what was nicotine’s nickname? “Jew Seuss.” Yes, anti-Semitism included tobacco. Anything negative had to be […]

Herbert Kuhner
from Swing Men and Women

Putting George Down
Hans Weigel,
who was reputed to be
the dean of Austrian critics,
claimed that Uncle Sam
had committed “mortal sins”
in the music category.
Porter, Berlin and Kern
are named as the greatest sinners,
but the sinner of sinners,
according to Weigel,
was George Gershwin.
He calls Gershwin
“a second-hand syncopation profiteer.”
Hans, there’s a song I’d like to play for […]