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Undelivered D-Day Message Prolonged War, Prof Says
Semi-News/Semi-Satire ^ | 23 Nov 2012 | John Semmens

Posted on 11/25/2012 10:17:47 AM PST by John Semmens

A university professor says the recent discovery of a carrier pigeon’s corpse in a chimney in Normandy, France has shed new light on events of the last year of World War II in the European theater.

Harvard professor of European History Albee Leftkowitz believes that the failure of the pigeon’s mission may have hampered the advance of American forces on the Western Front and forced President Roosevelt to accede to Soviet domination of Eastern Europe at the Yalta Conference in February 1945.

“Right-wing critics of President Roosevelt have made much of what they call FDR’s misplaced trust in ‘Uncle Joe’ Stalin,” said Leftkowitz. “But this latest development proves that he had no choice. Denied the benefit of this carrier’s message, FDR, as Commander-in-Chief of the Western Allied Forces, had no alternative but to grant the Soviet Union dominion over Poland, Romania, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia.”

Leftkowitz discounted the possible influence of Soviet spies within the Roosevelt Administration as a factor. “Alger Hiss, Harry Dexter White, and the others had no direct impact on the fighting,” the Professor contended. “They didn’t command any troops and they certainly didn’t cause this pigeon to get trapped in that chimney.”

The fact that the lost message is in code and has yet to be translated didn’t faze Leftkowitz. “Whatever the message might have said has got to be more important than the leftist philosophies or political connections of some of Roosevelt’s advisers,” he argued. “In fact, its very existence serves to vindicate these maligned men.”

if you missed any of this week's other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at...

http://azconservative.org/2012/11/23/president-omits-god-from-thanksgiving-address-for-fourth-straight-year/


TOPICS: Humor
KEYWORDS: communismkills; fdr; satire; stalin; wwii

1 posted on 11/25/2012 10:17:51 AM PST by John Semmens
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To: John Semmens

That was funny...


2 posted on 11/25/2012 10:23:59 AM PST by Volunteer (Though I know that the hypnotized never lie, do ya? - The Who)
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To: John Semmens

Nice break from the usual.


3 posted on 11/25/2012 10:25:27 AM PST by Tijeras_Slim
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To: John Semmens
The fact that the lost message is in code and has yet to be translated didn’t faze Leftkowitz.

Even is the decoded message is, "Be sure to drink more Ovaltine", this professor will not blame Roosevelt for Roosevelt's decision. The bird made me do it!

4 posted on 11/25/2012 10:28:39 AM PST by Bernard ('He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else' - Benjamin Franklin)
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To: John Semmens
The fact that the lost message is in code and has yet to be translated didn’t faze Leftkowitz.

That was hysterical! Sort of like an analogy of the health care bill.

5 posted on 11/25/2012 10:30:14 AM PST by Focault's Pendulum (Romney has run a business, an Olympics, and a state. Obama has never run anything but his mouth.)
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To: John Semmens

That’s why I don’t trust pigeons. They always screw everything up either intentionally or unintentionally.


6 posted on 11/25/2012 10:31:13 AM PST by FlingWingFlyer (Criminal defense lawyers won't have the Twinkie to kick around anymore.)
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To: John Semmens

lol


7 posted on 11/25/2012 10:32:21 AM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: John Semmens

Would this be called giving the Left “The Bird?”


8 posted on 11/25/2012 10:47:54 AM PST by SES1066 (Government is NOT the reason for my existence but it is the road to our ruin!)
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To: Volunteer

A long and silly ex culpa intended to downplay the guilt of FDR’s communists, who betrayed the public trust to Stalin.

Utter nonsense.


9 posted on 11/25/2012 10:58:00 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: Jack Hammer; John Semmens

Jack, it’s John Semmens, it’s satire. Don’t feel bad though, he’s made a lot of us feel foolish in the past. Now we just stand on the sidelines and watch him do it other people.


10 posted on 11/25/2012 11:31:36 AM PST by tx_eggman (Liberalism is only possible in that moment when a man chooses Barabas over Christ.)
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To: John Semmens
LOL

Good one John!

I do have a habit of reading without looking at the attribution or source. Clue number one that caused me to back track:

Professor Albee Leftkowitz

Great work as always!

11 posted on 11/25/2012 11:58:57 AM PST by Michael.SF. (Obama lied, Stevens died.)
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To: John Semmens

Dangit You caught me again.


12 posted on 11/25/2012 1:08:23 PM PST by Slambat (The right to keep and bear arms. Anything one man can carry, drive or pull.)
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To: John Semmens

The world is so screwed up that I had to get to this line,

“if you missed any of this week’s other semi-news/semi-satire posts you can find them at... “

to realize that it was satire. Up to that point nothing struck me as beyond the realm of possibility of what the whack-job leftist are saying these days.


13 posted on 11/25/2012 1:50:09 PM PST by RatSlayer
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To: RatSlayer

Yep.

Leftists are walking satires


14 posted on 11/25/2012 1:52:08 PM PST by GeronL (http://asspos.blogspot.com)
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To: John Semmens

We have finally been able to read the message. Contrary to the work of several cryptologists, it does not have anything to do with drinking Ovaltine.

The code is as follows: (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2962520/posts)

AOAKN HVPKD FNFJW YIDDC

RQXSR DJHFP GOVFN MIAPX

PABUZ WYYNP CMPNW HJRZH

NLXKG MEMKK ONOIB AKEEQ

WAOTA RBQRH DJOFM TPZEH

Some of the groups are obvious “place holders”, and the message reads:

“Pound pastrami, can kraut, six bagels—bring home for Emma.”

We believe this to be an embedded code, rather than the message itself. Dan Brown is doing further research on it.


15 posted on 11/25/2012 3:33:19 PM PST by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: John Semmens

Thanks for the chuckle John. Enjoyed.


16 posted on 11/25/2012 7:16:58 PM PST by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: John Semmens

Good one John!


17 posted on 11/25/2012 7:39:04 PM PST by MCF
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To: tx_eggman

You’re right - he caught me!


18 posted on 11/27/2012 3:00:34 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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