Comments on: Another Trained Dog to Disenfrachise http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/ Politische Kommentare mit Snarkenremarken Mon, 14 May 2012 18:16:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Patterico http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/comment-page-1/#comment-5165 Patterico Thu, 19 Aug 2004 04:49:06 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/1774/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/#comment-5165 We missed Carinthia when we visited Austria. If we'd had another several days, we would have gone. What did we miss? We missed Carinthia when we visited Austria. If we’d had another several days, we would have gone. What did we miss?

]]> By: Zachariah http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/comment-page-1/#comment-5155 Zachariah Wed, 18 Aug 2004 20:25:31 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/1774/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/#comment-5155 I was in Italy in '98 when Clinton was president, and boy those Europeans sure didn't seem to like us then either. Imagine that, anti-Americanism pre-dating Bush. I was in Italy in ’98 when Clinton was president, and boy those Europeans sure didn’t seem to like us then either. Imagine that, anti-Americanism pre-dating Bush.

]]> By: Xrlq http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/comment-page-1/#comment-5140 Xrlq Tue, 17 Aug 2004 17:49:52 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/1774/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/#comment-5140 I was in Klagenfurt, which is the capital of Carinthia (Kärnten). Carinthia, you may recall, was the stomping ground of everyone's favorite idiot-Aryan, Jörg Haider, who was governor at the time. Everyone I knew was happy to see the Berlin Wall come down, of course, but they also did backflips to avoid giving an ounce of credit to then-President Bush, to Ronald Reagan, or to any other U.S. President since JFK. And they openly mocked the notion that a reunified Germany might eventually become a member of NATO. As an example of how anti-communist everyone wasn't/isn't, I distinctly recall passing Karl-Marx-Straße daily on the way to work. [It's <a href="http://www.mapquest.de/cgi-bin/ia_find?link=btwn%2Ftwn-map_results&random=491&event=find_search&uid=u4oeieodw804y9ia%3A25dwy51ur2&SNVData=&address=Karl-Marx-Str.+1&city=Klagenfurt&Zip=9020&country=Austria&Find+Map.x=17&Find+Map.y=11">still there,</a> BTW.] On the bright side, I never encountered an Adolf-Hitler-Straße or a Josef-Stalin-Straße, so I guess I should be thankful for small favors. I was in Klagenfurt, which is the capital of Carinthia (Kärnten). Carinthia, you may recall, was the stomping ground of everyone’s favorite idiot-Aryan, Jörg Haider, who was governor at the time. Everyone I knew was happy to see the Berlin Wall come down, of course, but they also did backflips to avoid giving an ounce of credit to then-President Bush, to Ronald Reagan, or to any other U.S. President since JFK. And they openly mocked the notion that a reunified Germany might eventually become a member of NATO.

As an example of how anti-communist everyone wasn’t/isn’t, I distinctly recall passing Karl-Marx-Straße daily on the way to work. [It's still there, BTW.] On the bright side, I never encountered an Adolf-Hitler-Straße or a Josef-Stalin-Straße, so I guess I should be thankful for small favors.

]]> By: Hugo http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/comment-page-1/#comment-5139 Hugo Tue, 17 Aug 2004 16:53:19 +0000 http://xrlq.com/2004/08/16/1774/another-trained-dog-to-disenfrachise/#comment-5139 Where were you in Austria, XRLQ? My Viennese family (14th district, near Schoenbrunn) were quite anti-Communist in the 1980s; while they didn't exactly like Reagan, they were most decidedly cheered by the end of the Cold War. They weren't alone either, judging from discussions with their friends and neighbors... Where were you in Austria, XRLQ? My Viennese family (14th district, near Schoenbrunn) were quite anti-Communist in the 1980s; while they didn’t exactly like Reagan, they were most decidedly cheered by the end of the Cold War. They weren’t alone either, judging from discussions with their friends and neighbors…

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