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Martin Hotze wrote:

On Sun, 8 Apr 2007 12:49:35 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:

There *are* people with a clue - both within and outside the US.

And Martin is definitely not one of them, the goosestepping nazi.

well, as an American you shouldn't cry and whine too much about nazis

We don't: we killed a million of them; you welcomed them

http://www.newenglishreview.org/cust...07&sec_id=5507

/excerpt
When the Nazis marched into Vienna, to the delirious welcome of the crowd,
and not very long before the Gestapo escorted him off the premises as it
were, Freud wrote two lapidary words in his diary: Finis Austriae. And since
then it is true that Austria has not featured very prominently, let alone
favourably, in the mental horizons of most educated people even in Europe,
much less in North America. Despite its great beauty, its marvellous
historical and artistic heritage, and its ascent to great and near-universal
prosperity, a pall even yet hangs over the country, for the most obvious
reasons.

When I think of modern Austria, here is what I think of: scenes from the
film The Third Man, the writer Thomas Bernhard who so despised his native
land that he directed in his will that none of his books ever be published
there, and the diplomat Kurt Waldheim who covered up his own past, again for
very obvious reasons. If pushed, I think also of a modernist artist whose
brilliantly original idea was to cover everything in blood, and Elfriede
Jellinek, the Nobel Prize winner whose view of her country is hardly more
flattering than that of Bernhard. No doubt this is all very unfair, but we
are seldom fair about anything.

/end

and
about environment.

Our environment is just peachy. Now, that sewer...