Stone & Stalin, Sittin' in a Tree...

Stone & Stalin sittin' in a tree
Do you know your history?
First comes Marx,
Then comes Lenin,
Then comes Stalin's
Thirty years of killin'


Oliver Stone can get busy k-i-s-s-i-n-g my...

And The Slaps Just Keep On Coming

How's your face America...a little sore? Pretty red? When America looks in the mirror does it reflect more red every day? Why? Is it symbolic of our Soviet-inspired leadership, our Soviet-inspired media, or our Soviet-inspired future? Maybe it's just old-fashioned American shame. Maybe we just can't hide our embarrassment at losing our grandchildrens' freedom to a socialist scam...to a bunch of Marx (not Groucho) fans sitting around the Czar Lounge in the West Wing.

Perhaps we should consider the real effects of being slapped in the face so often and so hard by our leaders. Remember the Three Stooges? Moe would pull that flat hand out of nowhere and find Larry, Curly, Curly Joe or Shemp in a flash. And the sound...SLAP! Currently our leaders are Moe and lately the rest of us have just been Stooges. Let's review...

• During the campaign a candidate told us of his plan to spread the wealth around as if that was just another option for America's future-SLAP!
• During the campaign organizations in support of that candidate used federal dollars to overload the voter roles with fake registrations-SLAP!
• During the inauguration of that winning candidate a black preacher hoped America's yellows would be mellow...that America's whites would do what's right-SLAP!
• Our Attorney General calls all of us cowards when it comes to race, then he fears prosecuting Black Panthers who intimidate voters and promote the killing of crackers and their babies-SLAP!
• During European and Middle East tours, our president apologizes for American History; not the shoddy place it has in our schools, but for our ancestors deeds-SLAP!
• After he took office our president quickly removed a bust of Winston Churchill from the White House. Churchill was half-American and half-British; a man who celebrated America's freedom, now removed to England by a man who apologizes for America-SLAP!
• When the Honduran leadership successfully fought off a bid for a dictatorship in Central America, our White House sided with the dictator wannabe-SLAP!
• On the anniversary of WWII, when the Nazis invaded Poland, our new president abandons the defense of Poland-SLAP!
• Our Homeland Security Leader describes our veterans as extremists-SLAP!
• On the same day they pass the Mysterious but Recognizably Socialist Health Care Bill, Congress officially recognizes Cold War Veterans--the ones who served so we would not become a Socialist state-SLAP!
• When America needs stability to thrive Congress passes bills they did not write or read and they tell America to "wait and see what's in it" before making a judgment-SLAP!
• People buy gold as a defensive measure against monetary policy, then congress tells us in the health care bill-after they passed it of course-that the buying a selling of gold will be heavily taxed-SLAP!
• Congress passes financial reform that ignores the cause of our financial collapse-SLAP!
• Our president signs the Big Government, Big Brother Financial Reform act in a building named in honor Ronald Reagan-SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
• Our president and others sue Arizona for defending itself-SLAP!

Couple Corrections for Glenn Beck's Program Today

Beck's guest, M. Stanton Evans is to be commended on his superb research. For the back story of my novel I've been re-reading Blacklisted by History since it came out in 2007. It's well-written with original documents and sources and is plastered with yellow sticky notes. If your history education stopped at high school or most colleges, you might think there are "two American Histories" but there's just the one... Evans tells and shows the truth about Communism in America.

Now, to the corrections about VENONA and "Harry Dexter." Don't get me wrong, I love his blackboard jungle and I think Glenn Beck is providing a service to our country that future historians will either study or completely ignore...depending on the 2010 and 2012 elections.

1) VENONA was not something "compiled by the Soviets" during WWII and was not released in the 1980s (Beck did verbally correct it to 1995 but in repentance he should pledge an entire hour on VENONA). Almost as important as VENONA existing in secret or exposing Soviet agents is that since it was released in 1995 it has been ignored by the media and academia. The VENONA program is an American compilation of encrypted Soviet telegrams from NY to Moscow, Washington to Moscow, San Francisco to Moscow, Canberra to Moscow, Ottawa to Moscow and London to Moscow and from Moscow to all those Western cities. The messages were highly encoded using a one-time cipher pad, but the Soviets reused their one-time pads for a short period during the war, thus our American cypher experts were able to decode, beginning in 1946, just some of the Soviet messages intercepted during WWII. One officer in the Army Signal Intelligence Corps (pronounced core) decided VENONA was too secret for the Truman administration to know about (Communist agents in FDR's White House were already known by the FBI and others in 1946). The CIA wasn't brought in on VENONA until 1951--that's the same year VENONA identified Donald Maclean as a Soviet Agent. He fled to Moscow a day before his arrest in London: Maclean was Churchill's highest ranking diplomat at the British embassy in Washington in 1944--he was privy to every secret message between FDR and Churchill. Maclean is part of my novel, as are FDR and Churchill. I recommend VENONA: Decoding Soviet Espionage in America by Haynes and Klehr and the NSA website.

2) The man's name was Harry Dexter White, not Harry Dexter as Beck named him...and White was more than a Soviet spy who worked for FDR's treasury secretary. He helped to steer and design the International Monetary Fund in 1944...something used today to bail out Greece...and he died of a heart attack between his first and second appearances in front of the same Congressional committee that would send Alger Hiss to prison for lying about his communist ties. Both White and Hiss play parts in my novel, as does Duncan Lee, the Leftist who was "Wild Bill" Donovan's right hand man at the OSS during the war.

Beck has less than sixty minutes per show and it seems lately he's trying to read in a short time what I've been reading since the 2004 election worried me. That's when I started researching my novel, a story based on a single question: "If a WWII soldier had been isolated for sixty years and came back before the 2004 election, who would he vote for?" Of course it occurred to me that the old GI would need an education of some sort, so the question changed to: "How would you teach history to a WWII GI who has been isolated since 1944?" The title changed from Mister Crusoe Votes to Educating Finn Larkin. And then Ronald Reagan died during my initial plotting stages, so the novel no longer starts on Memorial Day, but the day Ronald Reagan dies, June 5, 2004...of course it's June 6 for Finn Larkin because his island is west of the International Dateline...but that's not an issue until Chapter Five, when elderly pirates with Soviet-made pistols attack the yacht taking Finn home and...

Anyway, I'd never heard of the Cloward-Pivens Strategy until Beck's show, although I'd already had a Stalin-era plan built into my plot that attempts to destroy America sort of like Cloward and Piven dreamt of destroying America. And I won't read Beck's recently-released thriller until I've sent my own novel off to some lucky editor.

I've continued to plot my novel since 2004 and it has grown into a series. Originally the antagonist was a teacher union president, but by 2005, sometime after I discovered VENONA, a WWII-era Soviet agent had taken over trying to wipe out Finn Larkin and his messages from the past. I've kept the teacher union lady as co-nemesis because it is, after all, Educating Finn Larkin. You can learn more at finnlarkin.blogspot.com between now and the 4th of July, when I hope to have an agent-ready draft completed.

Recalling Shrek and Other Possible Headlines

Top of the Hour News, June 4, 2010: The American-based McDonald’s recalls millions of Shrek drinking glasses found to contain cadmium, a metal proven dangerous to humans.

Possible Top of the Hour News, November 2010: The American-based Voter has recalled hundreds of politicians found to condone socialism, a mindset proven dangerous to humans.

Possible Top of the Hour News, January 2011: Recently sworn congress recalls legislation that outlaws Edison’s incandescent light bulb because Global Warming contains and condones fraud, deceit and misinformation, conditions proven dangerous to science.

Possible Top of the Hour News, January 2011: Recently sworn congress takes steps to recall the IRS and repeal the 16^th Amendment because the Income Tax contains fraud, deceit and misinformation, conditions proven dangerous to constitutional republics.

Possible Top of the Hour News, November 2012: Recently elected president reiterates the intention to recall all paycheck withholding and embedded corporate taxes to replace them with the FairTax, a consumption-based tax proven dangerous to lobbyists and career politicians.

Possible Top of the Hour News, January 2012: Recently sworn congress recalls the 2010 Health Care bill after it was found to contain fascism, proven dangerous to free peoples.

Possible Top of the Hour News, June 4, 2020: Texas Textbook Commission recalls sections added in 2010 that contain references to communist influences in Washington from the 1930s through the 1950s: those sections, proven to be dangerous to Leftist Fifth-Column Histories, will be updated to include the years 1992-2010…

Daddy, I Love Your Soldiers

Today I attached a flag pole to display the Stars and Stripes. I’d planned to include my four-year old—we’ve been discussing Memorial Day and the soldiers who gave, and give, us freedom. Morning plans morphed into other activities and I put the flag up with my daughter busy inside the house. She saw it immediately and pounded on a window to congratulate her dad on a job well done.

Just a few minutes ago she looked out the window and said, “Daddy, I love your soldiers. They can beat all the big monsters…”

I told her they were all of our soldiers and, “That’s why we put the flag up—”

“I didn’t put the flag up,” she said, “…I was eating chocolate chip cookies.”

Politicians, did you hear how not to take credit for something that you didn’t do? Did you feel the honesty and affection and confidence in those little sentences? Did you hear a love of country in a four-year-old? Textbook publishers, is it okay that she understands America is exceptional before she learns about a multitude of other cultures?

Politicians and educationalists alike, you must understand that the fundamentally transformative cultures you wish upon my daughter had to be saved from all the big monsters of the 20^th century…by the soldiers my daughter loves…by all of our soldiers.

Remember to consider this, today of all days; that if you make us what the others have been, who will save my daughter from all the big monsters of the 21st century?