Happy Fourth of July!
My dog, Jack!
Job well done on last week’s show, by the way. In the first hour of C2C last week, investigative reporter Peter Lance came on to talk about the need to send a message to US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald, who may have been able to prevent 9/11 if he had treated an important investigation better, by buying a paperback copy of Peter’s book, “Triple Cross.” For the price of a couple of hamburger meals, Peter was asking for Coasties to step up and grab the new paperback to keep his well-researched charges alive and, who knows, maybe even get somebody in Washington to re-open the investigation.
And you all delivered! Before he came on the air for just ten minutes, the new paperback of “Triple Cross” was ranked on Amazon somewhere in the 20,000s for sales. Within an hour, it was in the 1000s on the list and before the night was over, “Triple Cross” was in the Top 150 on the list of paperbacks overall but number one on the separate lists of bestselling espionage books, number one on books about terrorism and number one under books about government. One several of those lists, as I remember it, the paperback of “Triple Cross” was ranked number one just ahead of the hardback copy of “Triple Cross” at number two!
Amazing--all in a five hour period. And on Monday morning, everybody at Harper Collins was taking notice, I promise you.
Here’s the link if you missed it.
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Tonight the subject is counter-terrorism and one glance around the news demonstrates that we should all be mindful of the shadowy work of “Ghosts” like Fred Burton.
Did you see the video going around the net of a four-shot novelty pistol that is disguised as cell phone? It might get screened out at an airport checkpoint through an x-ray machine but I don’t think your average security guard would ever be suspicious of somebody waving it around at a political rally or backstage at some celebrity fundraiser. This Transformer like-pistol-turned-cell phone is just another challenge for anybody charged with keeping us safe from terrorists--or any would-be assassin for that matter:
Now, if you want to see a positive kind of conversion--albeit one that’s a little more expensive--you must see this church in England that’s been remodeled into a beautiful home. Some people find that kind of blasphemous or some such but not me. I love church architecture in general, especially the gothic kind, and I think it’s sin to see anything this special go to waste once it has be de-consecrated.
The best part? It comes with its own graveyard!
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Finally, because of my love of dogs, I want to pass along another one more “week link”: Three dogs fending off an alligator.
Isn’t nature amazing?