-Utter Foolishness

von am 11. Juli 2022 um 19:51
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Polemics, Politics, Text

Utter Foolishness

Historian Ian Kershaw claims that Hitler’s appreciation of Wagner’s operas was more induced by the dramatic scenography of the productions he attended, rather than by the music. These productions of the Vienna Opera House consisted of visual, as well as musical extravaganzas. Indeed later Nazi rallies were staged like Wagner operas to a background music by Wagner.

Coming to the conclusion that Hitler’s love of Wagner was more visual than auditory is absurd. Obviously, he spent hours and hours listening, as well as viewing. Wagner’s music was part of this mass murderer’s makeup.Does that somehow soften his monstrous crimes? Hitler, like all mass murderers, was born on Planet Earth.In describing him, accuracy must be adhered to. His musical tastes do not in any way lessen the criminality of his actions.

– Herbert Kuhner

-Trump and DeSantis

von am 7. Juli 2022 um 18:23
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Poetry, Polemics, Politics

Trump and DeSantis

 

Whatever you do
don’t get caught between
Al Capone and Bugs Moran.
In a gang war there’s no such thing
as an innocent bystander
who can survive.
It’s dog eat dog
plug or be plugged
rub out or be rubbed out.

You have a choice.
You’ve got to throw your lot in
with one or the other.
But there’s no lesser of two evils.
Both Capone and Moran think nothing
of doing children in
if necessary.

Better hurry
and make your decision
unless you want to end up in a plot
six-foot under.
It’s either Capone or Moran
and there’s no two ways about it.

Turn your fedora brim down
and your coat collar up
put on your black gloves
and with gat in shoulder holster
and chopper in violin case
go out for a night on the town.

Just light your butt
and squeeze the trigger.
Shoot first
and don’t ask questions later.
The Boss knows what he’s doing.
Keep your nose clean
and your lip buttoned
or you might find yourself
at the bottom of the Wabash.

There’s still one hope
of going straight
and leaving a life of crime behind.
After tiring of massacres
Al Capone and Bugs Moran
might get together
for a Havana and a beer

 

– Herbert Kuhner

 

 

-The Supremes

von am 26. Juni 2022 um 10:29
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Polemics, Politics

Supreme Renaissance

Yes Folks the Supremes have brought about Renaissance of the Knitting Needle and the Back-Street Abortion (As our former POTUS promised. Grab them by the – – – – -!”)

Hallelujah!!

 

The Advocates

The male advocates of abortion often seem to be the gropers, molesters and rapists. The Supremes want to impose THEIR alleged morality on us, while engaging in disreputable behavior. One Supreme was an attempted rapist in young years.

Here’s a description of another:

“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. He 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.

 

Shenanigans South of the Border

This is the official image of soon-to-be St. Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Msgr. Rafael Urrutia shared the official prayer card image during a meeting with San Salvador’s archbishop and others, and someone posted it to social media. (CNS photo/Twitter via @arzobispadoss) See ROMERO-PRAYER-CARD June 26, 2018. Editor’s note: Best images available.

“While Bishop Oscar Romero lived, John Paul II reprimanded him thrice in private, once even asking him to align himself with the Salvadoran dictatorship. Romero refused, calling the request ‘unjust.’” from Jesus Our Shepherd Website.

Fingering a Saint! A Saint was cancelled out by a Saint!

And then BAM; BAM!

 

Bishop Romero’s Successors

In 1995, Pope John Paul II appointed Fernando Sáenz Lacalle, an Opus Dei member, archbishop for San Salvador. Lacalle was instrumental in having harsh anti-abortion laws established. A woman who has had abortion can be sentenced to thirty years in prison.
If a woman is brought to a hospital, and she suspected of having undergone a botched abortion, she is tied to her bed and serves as an exhibit of the crime committed.
(Sam Harris: Letter to a Christian Nation, Alfred Knopf, New York. 2006; Jack Hitt: “Pro-Life Nation,” New York Times, April 9, 2006.)

Praise for an 11-Year-Old Victim

In July of 2013 Chilean President Sebastian Pinera praised an 11-year-old rape victim who is pregnant, who stated: “It will be like having a doll in my arms.” Abortion is illegal in this country under all circumstances.

 

Child Denied Abortion

Amnesty International, April 29, 2015: Paraguay: The life of a 10-year-old girl who is pregnant after having been raped by her stepfather is in danger. The physical and psychological impact of forcing this young girl to continue with an unwanted pregnancy is tantamount to torture,” said Amnesty International’s Guadalupe Marengo  “The Paraguayan authorities cannot sit idly by while this young rape-survivor is forced to endure more agony and torment.” (They did!)
Pope Francis in the Holy City said not a word! He visited Paraguay and stayed mum!

This is what is in store for:
The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

 

– Herbert Kuhner

 

-Shooting Up he Place

von am 1. Juni 2022 um 20:35
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Polemics, Politics

Shooting Up he Place

 

The Don’s’ moniker for Corona is “Kung Flu,”
and he repeatedly refers to the “China Virus.”

Who would deny that the birthplace
of this scourge is the “People’s Republic?”

So, if you are stuck with “a sex addiction,”
and are “deeply religious” to boot,
and are having “a bad day,”
and there’s  an assault weapon at your disposal,
why not head for a massage parlor and shoot up the place?

And if you’re just mad at the world,
any location will do.

 

 

 
Spokesman for the Weapons Lobby

There have been massacres in schools,
college campuses, shopping malls, movie theaters, churches
and even in an army fort.

People must be able to protect themselves.
The only answer is arms.

Now, you are right to assert that a pistol is no match
for a man in body armor who totes an assault weapon.

What’s the answer? As Spokesman for the” Weapons” Lobby,
I say that there has to be a security guard armed with a bazooka.

 

– Herbert Kuhner

 

 

-Rušimo granice | Überwinden wir Grenzen | Breaking down Borders

von am 29. Mai 2022 um 22:54
Veröffentlicht in: Allgemein, Poetry, Translation

SRDAČNO POZIVAMO! / WIR LADEN HERZLICH EIN!

SR/MI, 01.06.2022. / 20:00

CENTAR.LITERATURA
Rušimo granice | Überwinden wir Grenzen | Breaking down Borders

Hrvatski centar| Kroatisches Zentrum – Schwindgasse 14, IV Beč / Wien

(Herausgeber: Petar Tyran und Herbert Kuhner).

 

Präsentation der dreisprachigen Anthologie zeitgenössischer Lyrik aus der alten kroatischen Diaspora „Rušimo granice | Überwinden wir Grenzen | Breaking down Borders“
Die Originaltexte lesen die Autor*innen selbst, die Übersetzungen Kornelia Mikula (Deutsch) und Herbert Kuhner (Englisch). Das Buch ist im Rahmen des Österreichischen PEN im Löcker Verlag, Wien 2022, erschienen.


Hawks and Nightingales/Ptici i slauji, edited by Tyran and Kuhner and published in 1983,
was the first collection of poetry by the Burgenland Croatian ethnic group in Austria.
This anthology established Burgenland Croatian poetry in Austria
and won an English readership for it.
Breaking Down Borders includes new poetry by Burgenland Croatians in Austria,
as well as poetry by authors in Hungary, Slovakia and the Czech Republic
who write in the Burgenland Croatian dialect.
Borders successfully presents the spirit of a small ethnic group
that must struggle to maintain its cultural and lingual identity.
Poetry is the confirmation of language.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lingual Music and Rhythm

Each language has its own music and rhythm.
It is the poet’s business to bring out
that music and rhythm in his lingual work.

It is the translator’s business to transfer
the music and rhythm of the poet’s language
into the lingual music and rhythm
that is innate in the translator’s language.

Poetry is the confirmation of language.

 

Translating the Poetry of the Burgenland Croatians

It is my singular honor to have translated the poetry
of the Burgenland Croatians into English.
This small lingual enclave is engaged in the laudable task
of attempting to preserve its language and culture by poetry,
which is the conformation of language. In view of the violence
and cruelty that dominates our world now, we must show
that we are committed to the cause of culture. This cause has
always been contrary to barbarism, but regretfully barbarism
always make a comeback both individually and communally
It is the task of the poet to counter the dominance of brutality
by a dedication to the word in its purest form. Telling it,
is a way of countering it.