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A former academic in the field of Dead Northwest European Languages and Medieval Literature, now entrepreneur running a translating agency in Central Texas, Hartmann von Aue is the sobriquet of Dr. John D. Martin. 


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Hartmann von Aue

I just sent copies of your post to Ted Cruz and John Carter here in Texas. And I am pleased to see it's now on the main feed.

Hartmann von Aue

Keep after your local GOP Congressmen/Congresswomen and Senators. Forward them this column. Send copies to your local GOP governor (if you have one) and to local party officials. Keep the heat on. 

Hartmann von Aue

I have already written my congressman about this twice. I may even actually pick up my landline and call him. We do need to keep the heat on the squishier Republicans. And if you happen to belong to one of the groups affected, SUE, SUE, SUE the living daylights out of everyone involved. I would say put their heads on pikes, but alas we don't do that to petty robbers  anymore. Oh how I miss the middle ages.....

Hartmann von Aue

Of course we are. You can't fire a .45 if you're a weenie.

Hartmann von Aue

Dana Perino predicted it would last till next Tuesday. I sincerely hope she's wrong and that it last until the Wednesday after the first Tuesday of November 2014. But I am not holding my breath. 

Hartmann von Aue
Dave Carter: Outstanding post! Unfortunately, the only person standing in the way of a special committee on Benghazi, for example, is the Speaker of the House. We've got to stay on these people with regard to the IRS, the press intrusion, Bemghazi, the EPA's political and selective Freedom of Information Act responses, and the desperate need to defund and defang Obamacare before this same IRS implements it. · 2 hours ago

Yeah. Just what I thought. Stay on your congressbeings and senatroids until they put people behind bars for this. Of course we Texans have an unfair advantage over others in this matter. 

Hartmann von Aue

Calvin Dodge

Basil Fawlty: The porch sequence from It's a Gift, where W.C.Fields has his attempts to get some sleep repeatedly foiled, most notably by an insurance salesman seeking Carl LaFong (capital L, small a . . .).  And the scene where his store is destroyed by the deaf and blind Mr. Muckle while an extremely impatient customer waits for his ten pounds of cumquats. · May 10, 2013 at 1:24pm

Yes, to both! "K U M Q U A T S! QUATS! QUATS!" · May 11, 2013 at 4:43pm

"You put Basil in the ratatouille?!"

"He's from Barcelona...."

Hartmann von Aue

James Gawron: I regret to be a person who appears to spread bad news but I must comment here.   Has it occurred to anyone how unlikely it is that Gosnell's clinic was or is an isolated incident.

What if there are 20 or 30 other such clinics in operation around the country?  Planned Parenthood was very ready to throw Gosnell away as long as it was about him alone.  The media was forced to open just one eye and look briefly.  Now they are hoping to close both eyes shut again.

Jim · 30 minutes ago

Yes, I have (as have others, I am sure) and I think you are right about the media hoping to return to the status quo ante asap. Lifenews and other pro-life news outlets have reported cases similar to the Gosnell's since the news about him broke. Note that none of them are getting covered...even on Fox. 

Hartmann von Aue
Brian McMenomy: I can't tell if PP's statement is willful blindness, chutzpah or ideology uber alles.... · 1 hour ago

Smart money's on the last of these. PP in Philadelphia referred women to this monstrous disgrace to the medical profession, if memory serves. 

Hartmann von Aue

SunnyOptimism: I am pro-life father of three beautiful children and have family in the OB/GYN business.   I have to admit that I was only following this case in generalities even though it was of greater interest to me because I simply could not look at any of the evidence or read any of the testimony.  Even seeing one image of those beautiful babies being mangled probably would have driven me to a point of blinding rage calling for retribution that would only cement the image of the conservative pro-lifer as a complete whack-job.

Today, earthly justice was serve for those innocents that lost their lives at the hands of that butcher and while I know Gosnell and his lawyers will use the appeals process to their utmost, he is guilty.

For me and perhaps many other Ricochetti, this is a lesson in patience - Gosnell will never receive the punishment he deserves on this side of eternity.  True justice and judgement will have to wait for him on his day of reckoning....  · 5 hours ago

Very well stated. 

Hartmann von Aue
Crow's Nest: 263 atrocities. 3 get counted. · in 3 minutes

Lamentably. And in Hell, H.H.Holmes, Jeff Dahmer and Josef Mengele get ready for company. 

Hartmann von Aue

Finally. Now, real justice would entail executing him, resurrecting him, and executing him again about 15,999 times- but once will do. 

Hartmann von Aue

Laptop comment not related to any post above.

Hartmann von Aue

You mean on philosophical or political questions, right? In that case: Almost none. 

Hartmann von Aue

Yeah, the screaming ignorance of history behind this proposition would be stunning if I had not come to expect it from...shall we say...persons of a certain irrational religious persuasion (e.g. Richard Dawkins, who can't write a paragraph about religion without including a history error, a logical fallacy or both). 

Hartmann von Aue

Well, I've had a number of experiences like this. Two brief accounts:

1. In college, second floor of the fraternity house, I am walking by the telephone. It has not yet rung, but I pick it up anyway. My father is on the other end. 

2. Recently: I had a dream in which my daughter, my wife and I were sitting at the breakfast table and my daughter asked about the  states of matter. I mention the dream to my wife before we go out to make coffee. At breakfast, our daughter asks me about the states of matter. I proceed to give the exact explanation that I gave in the dream and turn to Mrs. von Aue to say "That is exactly what happened in my dream and that dream came true right here in front of you." 

Edited on May 10, 2013 at 4:49am
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