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Thursday Evening Silliness

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 15 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


FOR SCIENCE!


(h/t some bird owner on Facebook)


Category: humor, Music, Science

Glenn Greenwald Is a Ridiculous Joke (And Alas, the Internet Never Forgets)

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 48 Comments

Ali Akbar called and I had to tell him about the infamous — indeed, epic — nay, world-historic — exposure of Glenn Greenwald’s sockpuppetry back in 2006. Many people currently active in conservative New Media didn’t really get hooked in until 2008 (Sarah Palin) or 2009 (Tea Party), and have no memory of The Way Things Used to Be back in the misty early dawn of Ye Olde Internette.

Often these newbies will ask things like, “You mean Andrew Sullivan used to be a Republican?” or “Charles Johnson? Who’s that?”

It would be easy to get lost in nostalgic reveries, but rather than bore you kiddies with tall tales about UseNet and dial-up modems, I’ll see if I can bring it to a point pretty quickly:

If a monomaniacal hysteric like Glenn Greenwald is a “serious journalist,” then the threshold of seriousness is dangerously low, indeed.

That might seem harsh, if you don’t remember July 2006:

The Glenn Greenwald Sock Puppet Story,
From Start To (Almost) Finish
— Ace of Spades

Annotated WuzzaDem: The Facts
Behind the Greenwald Sock-Puppetry
— Patterico

Please, if you don’t know the backstory, click both those links and read carefully, because it reveals three important facts:

  1. Glenn Greenwald is a raging narcissist;
  2. Glenn Greenwald is habitually dishonest; and
  3. When caught in one of his stupid lies, Glenn Greenwald’s first instinct is to try to save himself by telling another stupid lie.

Here’s an interesting question for you: Why didn’t Glenn Greenwald graduate law school until he was 28? What year did he complete his bachelor’s degree, and what did he do during the years between finishing his undergrad education and deciding to attend law school?

That’s just something I’m throwing out there, not knowing that the answer would be of any relevance, although it’s an intriguing question in light of his subsequent legal adventures:

Before he was a reporter and commentator for The Guardian newspaper, Glenn Greenwald was a lawyer — and had a part-time job in the porn business.
“It was a long time ago,” Greenwald told the Daily News. …

(Ancient history! The Bronze Age!)

The Queens native became a lawyer in 1995, after graduating from NYU.
Greenwald was enjoying a career as a litigator when friend Jason Buchtel offered him a partnership in his consulting company, Master Notions Inc., back in 2002. …

(It was “back in 2002” — mere juvenile mischief!)

Court papers show that one of the company’s clients was then known as HJ — short for “Hairy Jocks” — and that Greenwald was the one who negotiated their deal. …

(“Trust me, Jason — there’s big money to be made here!”)

Owner Peter Haas “had this pornographic company he wasn’t able to maintain,” Greenwald said.
Greenwald and Buchtel agreed to help Haas in return for 50% of the profits. …
[Haas] accused Greenwald of having bullied him into signing the deal, citing several twisted emails that he said were from Greenwald, whose email address was, “DomMascHry31.” In one, Greenwald allegedly called Haas “a little bitch” and “a good little whore.” …

Well, you can read the whole thing, which includes Greenwald’s denials, and threats to sue everyone for libel, and climbing up on the cross to suffer as a Sacrificial Martyr for Truth.

Here’s the thing: We know from the 2006 sockpuppetry escapade that Greenwald is a liar with a habit of masquerading behind online aliases to achieve his dishonest purposes. (“Thomas Ellers” and “Rick Ellensburg” can vouch for this.) And here’s a dirty little secret about why Greenwald is now an expatriate living abroad:

The New York County Clerk’s office shows Greenwald has $126,000 in open judgments and liens against him dating to 2000, including a $21,000 from the state Tax Department and the city Department of Finance. . . .
Records show the IRS has an $85,000 lien against him.

Douchebag, thy name is Greenwald!

 

Category: Ace of Spades, Patterico

Speaking of Kooks …

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 32 Comments

Glory days: Barrett Brown interviewed by Michael Isikoff, 2011

“A self-described anarchist, [Barrett] Brown claims he’s policing wrongdoing, at least as Anonymous describes it. . . .
“[Brown said:] ‘When we break laws, we do so in service of civil disobedience.'”
— NBC Nightly News, March 8, 2011

Dan Collins seems envious of my success at becoming the idée fixe of so many deranged lunatics. The relevant question: Is this a natural talent or an acquired skill? Maybe it’s a bit of both, but my extensive experience in the field of kook-baiting has not yet been recognized as the sort of expertise that would merit a “six-figure” book deal like the one Barrett Brown announced in November 2011, about 10 months before the infamous meltdown that led to his arrest by the FBI.

Combining narcissistic grandiosity with the arrogance of an outlaw anarchist is a pretty good recipe for a spectacular flame-out, and there is a lesson to be learned from Barrett Brown’s pathetic fate, but most of the punks who admire Brown share his worldview, so it’s unlikely they’ll derive the correct lesson from his sad saga.

Alas, further obscuring the unfortunate reality of Brown’s descent into criminal madness, the Edward Snowden/NSA story and the sudden death of Michael Hastings have led some on the Left to attempt a rehabilitation of Brown’s (deservedly bad) reputation. In separate but related items, Brown had been the subject of recent articles in The Nation, the U.K. Guardian, and the Huffington Post.

You can read all of those articles without learning the most important thing about Barrett Brown: He was completely bugfucking nuts.

Do you really need to watch this 13-minute video again?

No journalist on the planet chronicled Brown’s march to destruction as regularly as I did, and today I summarized it in 2,000 words:

. . . Brown, who hadn’t contacted me directly in more than a year, suddenly popped up and began harassing me on Twitter in early September 2012. He accused me of libel and menaced me with threats of terrible consequences if I did not immediately respond to his demands that I answer various insulting questions. This bullying motif — “Answer my question, or else!” — is characteristic of a style that I’ve come to think of as Cargo Cult Journalism. Like the rituals of certain South Pacific islanders, the Cargo Cult Journalist hopes that his simulacrum of what he ignorantly imitates will magically bring the same result as the real thing. Cargo Cult Journalism is the kind of stuff we once encountered in smudgy mimeographed newsletters, “underground” newspaper tabloids, cheaply printed pamphlets and self-published books by crackpots who warn about conspiracies involving the Bavarian Illuminati, the Trilateral Commission and/or the Military-Industrial Complex. In the digital age, however, many people have trouble distinguishing between this kook-fringe imitation of “reporting” and genuine journalism, a distinction blurred by the increasingly shabby quality of product issued by respectable organs of the mainstream media. . . .
What one usually finds among practitioners of Cargo Cult Journalism is a grandiose posture of contempt for the unglamorous toil of the workaday reporter. Many people who have never covered a county commission meeting, a high-school basketball tournament or a Fourth of July parade — such local tedium is beneath their notice — seem to harbor Walter Mitty fantasies of gaining worldwide journalistic significance. The Internet is a medium that permits these would-be Seymour Hersh types to catapult past the minor leagues of journalism where real reporters learn their craft. While I enthusiastically encourage the burgeoning phenomenon of online citizen-journalism, it is important at the same time to discourage the type of “famewhore” act that led Barrett Brown to his pathetic fate. Thinking himself a sort of one-man Woodward and Bernstein who would heroically expose the Hidden Secrets of the Surveillance State, Brown instead exposed himself as a blundering amateur who got himself in so far over his head that he couldn’t handle the catastrophic result. . . .

Please read the whole thing at The American Spectator.

 

 

UPDATE: Hat-tip to Dan Collins again — you are following Dan on Twitter, aren’t you? — for this interesting item:

Boredom is behind many incidents of cyberbullying and trolling on social media sites, according to the first major study into the matter.
Linguistics expert Dr Claire Hardaker, of Lancaster University, studied almost 4,000 online cases involving claims of trolling.

No offense to Professor Hardaker, but hers is scarcely “the first major study” of trolling. While I don’t claim that my methods are entirely scientific, I’ve been studying this phenomenon at close range ever since Charles Johnson went crazy. This stipulates the hypothetical that Charles was once sane, of course. As far-fetched as that may seem, it would be unscientific to rule it out categorically as impossible.


Category: American Spectator, Barrett Brown, Conspiracy Theories, Journalism

#FreeKate’s Mom: ‘I Will NOT Have Anyone Ruin This for Family!!!!’

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 54 Comments

Some catastrophes are surprising and others are entirely predictable. When the parents of Kaitlyn Hunt launched the “Free Kate” campaign to make their daughter America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ . . .

Well, what part of very bad idea is so hard to understand?

Q. What kind of parents would make their teenage daughter the poster child for a crusade to legalize sex with 14-year-olds?
A. People who don’t think very clearly about the potential consequences of their actions.

On May 17, when Kelley Hunt Smith published her vindictive “Free Kate” Facebook rant, in which she named the 14-year-old’s parents nine times, and when Steve Hunt published his dishonest Change.org petition falsely portraying the case as an innocent “high school romance” between a 15-year-old and 17-year-old, three consequences could be predicted:

  1. The truth would eventually come out — Soliciting national attention to such a controversial situation created an incentive for people to start digging up facts. It took only a matter of days for it to become widely known that Kaitlyn Hunt’s birthday is Aug. 14, 1994. She was 18 before she began her senior year at Sebastian River High School. It was subsequently confirmed that the younger girl was born in April 1998 — i.e., she was 14 at the time of the criminal sex acts, and the age difference was 44 months, not a mere two years. There was no way the original misrepresentations were going to withstand national scrutiny, and Kaitlyn’s parents should have known that.
  2. Kaitlyn’s character would become an issue — In fact, the Hunt family made an issue of Kaitlyn’s character, bragging about how popular and successful she was, a “model child.” So when contradictory evidence emerged (“Beat her f–king ass, Emily! Beat her ass! Get that bitch!”), the Hunts had already forfeited any right to complain that this was irrelevant. If you claim that bigoted prosecutors are ruining the life of an innocent little angel, you can’t complain about evidence that your “angel” is a foul-mouthed tattooed she-hooligan.
  3. Bad causes attract bad people — It took about a week for the facts to catch up with the bogus “Free Kate” narrative, but once it became clear that she wasn’t a victim of homophobic persecution, whatever mainstream support the campaign ever had evaporated pretty quickly. Once the decent well-meaning supporters realized they’d been bamboozled, the Hunts were left with a hard core of supporters who were either (a) too emotionally committed to the glorious gay-rights rainbow dream to comprehend the ugly reality, or (b) creepy weirdos who want to legalize sex with jailbait.

Trying to ride herd on a crew like that wasn’t going to be easy and — surprise! surprise! surprise! — Kaitlyn Hunt’s parents weren’t prepared to deal with that reality, either. So there has been a (predictable) meltdown within the “Free Kate” Facebook group in recent days. Evidently at the urging of Kaitlyn’s lawyer, her mother presented administrators of the page with a confidentiality agreement they were required to sign, and four administrators resigned rather than to sign it. This had terrible repercussions for group morale, among other things, and Kelley Hunt Smith didn’t handle that too well:

For the past week or so, I’ve been hoarding up some weird stuff bubbling up from inside the “Free Kate” universe, and I’ll have more later. Meanwhile, the motion by Kaitlyn Hunt’s lawyer to have the allegedly “prejudiced” judge thrown off the case has, predictably, failed.

As I’ve said before: She should have taken the plea bargain.

 

Category: Crime, Gays, Kaitlyn Hunt

LIVE AT FIVE: 06.27.13

Posted on | June 27, 2013 | 11 Comments

— compiled by Wombat-socho


TOP NEWS
Supreme Court Upends Marriage Debate, Foreshadows Long Struggle

Traditional marriage advocates now on defense

SCOTUS strikes down key section of DOMA, remands Prop 8 decision to lower court, both by 5-4 votes

Texas Executes 500th Inmate
Woman was convicted of murdering 71-year-old neighbor

Australian PM Gillard Ousted In Party Coup
New PM is her predecessor, Kevin Rudd



POLITICS
Governor Perry Calls Texas Legislators Back To Austin To Work On Abortion Bill

Texas Governor Rick Perry

“We will not allow the breakdown of decorum and decency to prevent us from doing what the people of this state hired us to do.”

Senior IRS Manager Takes The Fifth Before House Committee

Rep. Duckworth Rips IRS Contractor For Questionable Disabled Veteran Status Claim

Court Of Appeals For The Armed Forces Overturns Marine’s Murder Conviction

Two Atlanta Men Get Ten Years In Federal Prison Under Hate Crimes Law

Detroit Emergency Manager To Strip Pay, Title From Absent City Council President

NY Top Court Rules Starbucks Baristas Have To Share Their Tips



THE ECONOMY, STUPID
Oil Slips In Asian Markets After Posting Gains In US: NYMEX $94.64, Brent $100.88
Revised Figures Show US Economy Grew At Only 1.8% In First Quarter
EU Agrees To Push Cost Of Bank Failures Onto Shareholders, Wealthy Savers
Zimmer Fires Back At Mens’ Wearhouse
Asian Stocks Rise On Hopes Of Continued Fed Stimulus
Euro Falls To Three-Week Low Against Dollar On ECB Rate Outlook
NJ’s Largest Paper Threatens Unions With Closure
Microsoft Offers Download Of Windows 8.1 Preview
Nvidia Shield Retail Launch Delayed
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Judge Lifts Veil On Google, Microsoft Lawsuits – Slightly
Microsoft’s Kinect For XBox One Won’t Work On PCs
FTC Commissioner Calls For “Reclaim Your Name” Campaign



SPORTS
Giants Can’t Solve Kershaw, Get Swept In LA

The Dodgers’ Andre Ethier strokes an RBI single off Tim Lincecum in last night’s game

4-2 loss caps first sweep of Giants by Dodgers at Chavez Ravine since 2009

Ex-Patriot Aaron Hernandez Charged With Murder

Bird Returns As Pacers’ President; Raptors’ Colangelo Steps Down

NCAA Can’t Win With School Sanctions

Yanks’ Teixeira Out For The Season


Confederation Cup Semifinals In Belo Horizonte: Outside The Stadium, It’s A War Zone

Astros Strike Back, Edge Cardinals 4-3

Royals Snap Skid With Extra-Innings Win Against Braves

Bucs Get Season-High Sixth Straight Win With 4-2 Victory Over M’s

Dickey Goes The Distance, Helps Jays Stop Rays

Slowey’s Revenge: Twins Lose To Worst Team In Baseball

Marcum Throws Shutout For First Win In Eleven Starts As Mets Beat White Sox 3-0

Lackey Gets 12 K’s As BoSox Pound Oswalt, Rockies For 5-3 Win

A’s Blank Reds 5-0

Tribe Rallies Late To Beat O’s 4-3

Rendon Sparks Nats’ Offense As J-Zim Stifles Snakes



FAMOUS FOR BEING FAMOUS
Inside Paula Deen’s Career Meltdown

Recipe for success

Doesn’t care about the money so much as the damage to her reputation

Miley Cyrus Puts On Raunchy Display On “Jimmy Kimmel Live”

Cameron Diaz Signed For Miss Hannigan Role In “Annie” After Sandra Bullock Passes

WWE Star CM Punk Hits Mom With Restraining Order

Justin Bieber’s New Love Interest Is Already Married

Rihanna Fears For Her Safety


Paris Jackson – Facebook Destroyed Her

Alleged Hit And Run Victim Claims Chris Brown Called Her “Bitch”

Oprah Winfrey #1 Again On Forbes List of Most Powerful Celebrities

Rachel Leigh Cook: I’m Happy We Waited To Have A Baby

Gwyneth Paltrow Strips To Racy Lingerie In Trailer For Sex Addiction Flick “Thanks For Sharing”



FOREIGNERS
New Aussie PM Hopes For “Kinder, Gentler” Politics
Nelson Mandela On Life Support, Zuma Cancels Travel Plans
Egypt’s Morsi Warns Continued Unrest Risks Paralysis
Qatar’a New Emir Vows Intolerance Of Sectarianism, Appoints New PM, FM
Taliban Bombs Kill Twelve, Wound Pakistani Judge
Tibetans Allowed To Publicly Revere Dalai Lama In Two PRC Provinces
ROK President Park Geun-Hye In China For Summit
Riots In PRC’s Sinkiang Province Kill 27
Tunisian Court Suspends Sentences For Femen Protesters
Mongolian President Elbegdorj Wins Reelection To Second Term
127 More Bodies Recovered; Uttarakhand Death Toll Passes 800



BLOGS & STUFF
Michelle Malkin: Played Out – The Liberal Racists’ Uncle Tom Card
Twitchy: Sarah Palin – Tour Groups Can’t Get Into The White House, But Look Who Can
Mark Steyn: One Step Forward, Two Steps Back
Sister Toldjah: Scalia Rips SCOTUS Majority In Scathing Dissent From DOMA Ruling
American Power: Justice Scalia’s Dissent In United States V. Windsor
NRO Corner: The Supreme Court’s Mixed Decision On Marriage
Ed Driscoll: Blue On Blue – Frank Rich Dumps On David Gregory
Weasel Zippers: Rick Perry Calls Special Session To Pass Pro-Life Bill That Screaming Mob Of Leftists Disrupted
Breitbart: Palin Throws Down The Gauntlet – Ayotte, Rubio Should Be Primaried
Gateway Pundit: Edward Snowden In 2009 – “Intelligence Leakers Should Be Shot In The Balls”
Reihan Salam: The Status Of Working Women In The US
Victor Davis Hanson: The Glue Holding America Together
Scared Monkeys: Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) Loses His Mind Over Obama’s War On Coal
Cafe Hayek: Questions For Krugman And Kuehn
Jim Treacher: You Know Who Was “Ready For Hillary”? Ambassador Christopher Stevens


Category: Live at Five

Just Like Mandela: Has Banging Jailbait Become the New Civil Disobedience?

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 58 Comments

Meet Joshua Measroch, civil rights activist:

Measroch was charged June 13 with four felonies — rape, aggravated child molestation, child molestation and enticing a child for indecent purpose — and a misdemeanor charge of interference with custody.

Wait, did I say “civil rights activist”? Most people would probably call a guy who had sex with a 13-year-old an “accused sex offender”:

Measroch met the girl through an online dating site, police said, and “drove 50 miles to the girl’s home and picked her up without the permission of her parents,” the Marietta Daily Journal reported. Police say Measroch . . . kept the runaway in hidden in his bedroom at the home where he lived with his parents.

But remember that supporters of the “Free Kate” movement want to abolish all laws against consensual sex with minors:

“Get rid of numerical age of consent laws. … Get rid of arbitrary numbers. No one should have to do math to love another person.”

America’s Most Famous Sex Offender™ Kaitlyn Hunt is a victim of discrimination, say her supporters, who compare her to Rosa Parks and want to prevent the dildo-wielding lesbian civil rights activist from being prosecuted for having sex with a 14-year-old. If you disagree with them, according to Kaitlyn’s mother, you’re just a hateful hater.

Remember what one of Kaitlyn Hunt’s supporters said: “Kate, you are fighting the good fight! Keep it up.” Keep having sex with minors, in other words, because as the American Civil Liberties Union says, it’s “both fairly innocuous and extremely common.” And we must remember Kaitlyn Hunt’s girlfriend was a runaway, too:

[The 14-year-old] ran away from home to spend the night [of Jan. 4] in Kaitlyn’s bedroom where, to quote the affidavit by Sheriff’s Office Detective Jeremy Shepherd, the two girls “put their fingers inside of each other’s vaginas, put their mouths on each other’s vaginas, and both of them used a vibrator on each other to insert it in each other’s vaginas.”

Happy 14th Birthday! (Batteries not included.)

Of course, unlike accused sex offender Joshua Measroch, Kaitlyn Hunt has the support of gay-rights activists who claim to be following “in the footsteps of Nelson Mandela” to “end heterosupremacist apartheid” imposed by “Jesus Freaks” and “Christofascists.”

The Supreme Court rebuked those “Jesus Freaks” and “Christofascists” today. It’s hard to believe that only 10 years ago, some people agreed with hateful haters like Antonin Scalia:

This case is about power in several respects. It is about the power of our people to govern themselves, and the power of this Court to pronounce the law. Today’s opinion aggrandizes the latter, with the predictable consequence of diminishing the former. We have no power to decide this case. And even if we did, we have no power under the Constitution to invalidate this democratically adopted legislation. The Court’s errors on both points spring forth from the same diseased root: an exalted conception of the role of this institution in America.

What a bigot, that guy. And he probably doesn’t support the “Free Kate” movement’s campaign to liberate teenagers from obsolete concepts like chastity, innocence and parental authority:

Kimberly Snyder, Jordan’s mother … said Jordan was getting ready for bed and that the family had spent an uneventful night together. Snyder remembered that her daughter unloaded the dishwasher — one of her chores — and that Jordan gave her a hug and told her that she loved her. …
Rumors around Cousins Middle School, where Jordan attended school, are that she was planning to leave with an older boyfriend. However, according to Snyder, Jordan didn’t have a boyfriend, and if she did, it wasn’t someone she had ever met in person and was an online-only situation.
“We monitored her activities on the internet,” said Snyder. “If her grades dropped, her T.V. was taken away — typical discipline for a 13-year-old. I wasn’t a mother who would drop her off at the skating rink and leave; she didn’t go spend the night with friends unless we knew the parents. We thought we were doing everything we could, that’s the reason this came as a shock. …”

Chores? No TV? No boyfriend? This parental oppression is such hateful bigotry, it’s worse than slavery. And, just like the heroic Kaitlyn Hunt, Josh Measroch wanted to emancipate that young vagina:

Jordan was found earlier this month at a home on a cul-de-sac in an upscale neighborhood in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta. Authorities in Cobb County say the teenager had been secretly living in the basement bedroom of Kennesaw State University student Joshua Harry Measroch, 21.

Another courageous martyr for the Jailbait Liberation Movement!

 

Category: Crime, Kaitlyn Hunt, Sex

Lost In (Divided) America

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 24 Comments

— by Wombat-socho


It is 2040, and both New York and Washington are radioactive ruins. Chicago and Detroit have been reduced to rubble and abandoned; Pittsburgh and Phoenix are infested with deadly plague. In the new capitol of Seattle, alcohol is outlawed, and as the call to evening prayers sounds throughout the city, veiled women hurry through the streets. Along the border with the Old South, wary soldiers stand on guard for the Islamic Republic of America. This is the background for Robert Ferrigno’s Prayers for the Assassin, which perhaps due to Ferrigno’s history as a mystery writer apparently isn’t considered SF. Prayers For The Assassin paints an unpleasant picture of an America split by religious civil war after decades of Islamic penetration of the entertainment industry; on both sides of the line, Catholics are second-class citizens and Jews a hunted group of pariahs, widely blamed for the destruction of New York and DC along with the irradiation of Mecca. Our protagonist is Rakkim Epps, a former member of the elite Fedayeen and adopted son of Redbeard, chief of the Islamic Republic’s security service; having retired from his career as a “shadow warrior”, Epps now runs a semi-legal bar in Seattle’s lawless “Zone”, but he finds himself sucked back into the deadly politics of the Republic when his adoptive father summons him to find his missing sister Sarah before the reactionary Black Robes do. It seems Sarah isn’t satisfied with the popular history of the New York and Washington bombings, and may have come across evidence that the Jews were framed. Having already written one controversial history of the revolution and the cultural changes responsible for it -along with the will of Allah, of course- it’s very possible the Black Robes would be just as happy to find Sarah dead. The Black Robes and Rakkim aren’t the only ones looking for Sarah, though; the true perpetrator of the bombings is also looking for her, and he too has set a former Fedayeen on Sarah’s trail. This is an exciting novel and a depressing one; there is plenty of action involving all sides of the hunt, but at the same time, the slow decline of America into a third-world nation under the thumb of the mullahs is exceptionally depressing, all the more so since the history of the book has plenty of events “ripped from today’s headlines,” as they used to say.


Things only get worse in the sequels. Sins of the Assassin gives us a look at the Bible Belt as Rakkim returns there on a mission to find out what a Southern warlord known as The Colonel is seeking under a Tennessee mountain. Unfortunately for Rakkim, he’s got a very unlikely partner and an extremely deadly opponent; fortunately, Rakkim is very good at what he does, and his partner has some unexpected talents. Like the first novel, there’s plenty of action, but the decay of the Southern states is very much on display, and the weakness of both successor nations is evident as both Canada and a Mexico reborn as the Aztlan Empire have begun to nibble away at the borders of both. The final novel in the trilogy, Heart of the Assassin verges on the apocalyptic as the man actually responsible for the New York and Washington bombings sets a number of plots in motion to bring together the Islamic Republic and the Bible Belt under his own hand, even as Rakkim’s sister Sarah (now an adviser to the Islamic Republic’s President) plans the same thing to stave off the further collapse of both nations. As for Rakkim, he is sent to Washington on what may be his most lethal mission: to find a holy relic supposedly hidden in a DC bunker that will bring America together. This last novel could have easily been bloated into a thousand-page doorstop of a technothriller, with detailed descriptions of the border fighting in Texas, Arizona and California, but Ferrigno keeps it tightly focused.


So that’s what I’ve been reading this past week.


Category: Books

World’s Youngest Blogger: “Get Your Motor Runnin'”

Posted on | June 26, 2013 | 12 Comments

Category: World's Youngest Blogger
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