Harry´s Blog

From Stromboli to The Visit
Ingrid Bergman left Hollywood to make Stromboli for Roberto Rosselini in 1949. Her intention was to leave Tinsel-Town glamour behind her to in order make neo-realistic European films. And Roberto’s manly appeal may have influenced her decision. Roberto had made Roma, Open City and Paisa, which are indeed stunning. Some film […]

Profil 22. Jänner 2007, Profil 4, Seite 87
Interview
Bronner: Dazu folgende Geschichte: Der Theaterkritiker Hans Weigel bekam von der Burgschauspielerin Käthe Dorsch anläßlich eines Verrisses die legendäre Watschn. Aus diesem Vorfall machte ich die Nummer “Hit me, Kate”. Eines Abends saß Franz Antel mit großem Gefolge in der “Marietta”. Just nach “Hit me, Kate” verließ er […]

The list of Austrian poets that Herbert Kuhner has rendered into English reads like Who’s Who in modern Austrian poetry.
- Harry Zohn, Brandeis University, Modern Austrian Literature, Riverside, CA
The translations are impressive (poems by Johannes Urzidil). I would like to express my undivided admiration for Herbert Kuhner. He has remained true to the originals and […]

Herbert Kuhner
Black gold is the rub.
Paul Wolfowitz: “…we just had no choice in Iraq.
The country swims on a sea of oil.”
Yes, Wolfy, it’s blood for oil. But it’s no skin off your ass,
is it?
“When Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, supported by (President) Ford,  pushed a plan to have government help develop alternative sources of energy and […]

CNN Opens its Doors to Old Time Religion
After the Times of New York took on that eloquent conservative pundit Bill Cristol, CNN, not to be outdone, invited babe in the woods Tony Snow and tough gal Laura Ingraham onto their sacred secular.
Unfortunately, George W.’s former veracious mouthpiece did not heed Bill O’Reilly’s candid warning: […]

FOX Sexpert-ism
Fox News stands for objective reporting and integrity. What’s more is the conscience of the nation. Fox is a fighter against liberalism and libertinism. Foxmen advocate conservative and family values and they favor the omnipresence of the Deity in all walks of life. But this does not mean that Fox is straight-laced. Fox is […]

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” […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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

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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Herbert Kuhner
Ordinary murderers kill after they have raped a woman or they kill to acquire money. These terrorists (Bader-Meinhof) thought that by murdering they had to take action against the murder of hundreds of thousands of children in Vietnam and they thought that they had to take action against the poverty in the Third World. […]

The Republican Party is the Party of the Righteous,
and its paladins are spearheading
the War Against the “Gay Agenda.”
Here’s Pat Buchanan, the right-wing pundit:
“Homosexuality involves sexual acts most men consider
not only immoral, but filthy. (1)
AIDS is nature’s retribution for violating the laws of nature. (2)
Homosexuality is not a civil right.” (3)
And Alan […]

Herbert Kuhner

Who’s has the Gray Lady’s new columnist? Guess!
Is it Ann Coulter, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly or Bill Kristol?
Here’s Bill K.: “I want to hear less about helping the Iraqi people
and more about winning this war.” (1)
This brings Nixon to Kissinger on Vietnam to mind:
“You’re so goddamned concerned about the civilians,
and I don’t give a […]

Herbert Kuhner
There was a cartoon in Paul Krassner’s Realist decades ago. A man lifts up the flap of a tent in which a man sits cross-legged on the ground. “Hey, Onan,” the man outside says, “ya’ made the Bible!”
Onan did indeed achieve notoriety, and his name became synonymous with the singular action.
Here’s the story, according […]

Herbert Kuhner
These days, when marriage is no longer a social necessity, those who previously had an aversion to the sacred knot, like gays and profligates, are making a bee-line for the altar
Profligates, who enter respectable professions (such as politics), need a cover for changing partners and casual encounters, and what can provide that better than […]

Here’s John Spencer, who was Hillary Clinton’s Republican opponent 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!” - […]

The more I hear about monotheism, and the more I listen to monotheists, the more I am convinced that monotheism is bad news.
The Greek pantheism was an ethereal and colorful structure with very human gods. But the monotheistic God is not human; He is worse than human. And more than a modicum of those who […]

The pernicious spirit of the Third Reich has been channeled into the arts, flowing with great ease, with  no end in sight. The sado-masochistic ideology espouses extreme forms of violence such as pedophilia, rape and murder, including political assassination, and the vilification and killing of cripples. Its advocates operate under the sanctified carapace of art, […]

Herbert Kuhner
A contorted manikin piss, with the stream directed orally, symbolizes man’s capacity for self- nourishment. It was set up at the Salzburg Festival as art, but its practicality belies that categorization. And the act depicted is not an innovation; Gunter Brus, the actionist, has been doing precisely that for decades.
However, Damian Hirst’s platinum skull […]

The Federal President has asked me to inform the Austrian people that we will give way to force. We have ordered our armed forces to withdraw without resisting in case the invasion takes place and to await the decisions of the coming hours, for we are not willing to spill German blood at this grave […]

Einladung an Josef Kalina
vom 06.09.2001
Ehemaliger SPÖ-Funktionär soll Stellung nehmen.
Josef Kalina, ehemaliger Pressesekretär von Bundeskanzler Viktor Klima und jetzige Redakteur für Kommunalpolitik bei der Kronen-Zeitung, wird eingeladen, zu den infamen Hetz-„Gedichten” von Wolf Martin und den unmenschlichen und revisionistischen Leserbriefen im sogenannten “Freien Wort”, einen Kommentar abzugeben. Es wäre interessant zu hören, wie dies alles mit […]

John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt the Israel Lobby “exposers” do not give interviews. they made an exception with Der Standard in Vienna. Here are some quotes from their interview of Nov. 13th.
Mearsheimer: We say that the Israel lobby and Israel have much influence on the U.S. concerning Middle Eastern politics. The lobby alone could not […]

In memoriam Monsignor Otto Mauer
The street was almost as narrow as an alley. The widely separated street lamps were just puffs of haze in the darkness and of little help in making out the house numbers. Squinting, I found what I hoped was the right number, stumbled over the shadowy steps, righted myself, hesitated a […]

“Close the doors!” said the pope. “We’ve just had the ultimate revelation and come to the ultimate conclusion. It seems that there’s nobody home upstairs, Sssshhhh! Don’t tell a soul! We must keep it a secret. We’ll make a vow of silence right here and now. No one must give us away, We’ll guide the […]

Herbert Kuhner
In November 2007, the state-funded journal Zur Zeit celebrated its tenth birthday. The guest speaker at the ceremony was Dr. Herbert Schaller. Commentaries by Dr. Schaller were presented in Tehran and in the Wiener Zeitung. The publisher of this illustrious journal is Dr. Andreas Mölzer, Freedom Party EU-Representative.
Dr. Herbert Schaller, David Irving’s attorney was […]

Senator Larry Craig of Idaho,
a Republican gay basher,
had the bad luck to play footsie
with an undercover plainclothesman,
in what is erroneously called an airport “bathroom.”
Ladies and gents, there is no tub in such locations
The word for such a venue is “toilet.”
Please excuse me for quibbling!
American Toilets
There’s no such thing as a toilet in the USA. […]

According to new information Richard Nixon undermined Lyndon Johnson’s attempts to initiate peace negotiations with the North Vietnamese in order to improve his chances of winning the 1968 presidential election.
Just to be fair, Kennedy initiated the war, Johnson escalated it but Nixon prolonged it.
Ronald Reagan is reputed to have encouraged the Iranians to delay releasing […]

Eva Herman, German “talkmistress,” in September 2007 on days gone by:
“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 way with…there were also […]

Herbert Kuhner
Congress Resolution 106, which designates the slaughter of Armenians by the Ottaman Turks during World War I as “genocide,” passed through the House Foreign Affairs Committee on October 17, 2007. The bill declares the killings of Armenians between 1915 and 1917 a genocide, though it would have no binding effect on the U.S. foreign […]

Herbert Kuhner
Two cool cucumbers are Henry Kissinger and Condaleezza Rice. Both served in the same posts in the same sequence under Nixon and Bush II, namely National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
Condi showed up at the Senate Investigating committee as cool as a cucumber. She had unheeded intelligence warnings about what came to be […]