http://viennanet.info “Stepping out of line” Sat, 31 Jul 2010 08:08:14 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Herbert Kuhner The first sacred message received by the children at Fatima in 1917 was basically directed against atheism and communism. The second and third were directed against the Soviet Union. The Catholic Church had it in for the Soviet Union. That stands to reason. Every religion - save Judaism - is evangelistic, ... http://viennanet.info/dossier/fatima Herbert Kuhner Here's Hemingway the pugilist: "I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. De Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/hemingway-gets-into-the-ring Sharron Angle, Tea-Party Republican candidate for the Nevada Senate, wants to outlaw abortion universally, even in cases of rape and incest. She insists that a young girl raped by her father should know that "two wrongs don't make a right. "Much good can come from a horrific situation like that," ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/sharron-squeezes-and-breaks Herbert Kuhner The great crimes on this earth are murder and rape. A murderer takes the life of a human being. A rapist violates a human being. Pedophilia is rape of an infant, a child or a minor. Pedophilia can be effected by either violent means or by seduction. Committing the crime ... http://viennanet.info/aktuell/high-crimes-by-men-of-the-cloth Herbert Kuhner Herr Kuhner, if you do not withdraw your case, we will send the public health officer. - Anonymous caller Martin Luksan suggested I tackle this again, so here goes! Yes, this is a trip down Memory Lane, but there is nothing sentimental about it. These were not the good old days. There's ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/a-trip-down-memory-lane Herbert Kuhner The survivors, after having been brutalized and witnessing decimation, learned the lesson of humanity, banished hatred from their hearts and became kind, gentle and loving. "Those who think that Jews will tread the moral high ground because they have suffered and experienced persecution are dead wrong. The main lesson of the Holocaust for Israelis is never ... http://viennanet.info/text/the-lesson Citizen Dichand A great newspaper magnate has left us. He is irreplaceable. The Austrian media landscape will never be the same without him. His influence with luminaries and notables knew no bounds. Hans Dichand was a Brobdingnagian to their Lilliputians. Dialogue Between Dichand and Lingens I gave him (Dichand) a text in which ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/citizen-obituary Otto Mühl's Credo: "The Friedrichshof Lord's Prayer Long live the whole! I must resist temptation to sin against the whole in sex as well as with my belongings and in thought and deed. Everything must be for the good of the whole. I will terminate the program that has been impressed on me by strange ethical persons and transform it ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/otto-muhl-roman-polanski-and-the-pope Herbert Kuhner There's a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: "Why don't you try acting, ... http://viennanet.info/polemics/putting-on-weight Herbert Kuhner from Swing Man and Women Louis Louis played a fine Dixie horn then he went on to swing and he swung. And what's more, Sing, Sing, Sing is to his credit, as well as other tunes like Robin Hood and Oh Babe. Whenever and whatever Louis played, he played pretty for the people. This Louis, like his namesake, was good at scat and got his ... http://viennanet.info/poetry/louis-prima