Green Energy
I am old enough to have seen Red Dawn in the theatre, and we still retain the DVD. The new Red Dawn's premise segues to One Second After (NOT A SPOILER if you start reading this great book) considering the finale of that story.
There are a lot of really great read 'end of the world' books around. I specify 'read' because while they are terrific and fun, they are not ever going to be considered with the likes of the product Pearl Buck or Truman Capote (by those who consider such things).
The best of these is undoubtedly 'Lucifer's Hammer' by two of the better scifi writers of our age.
This ain't that. There are a FEW similarities through the middle portion of the story, but while end of the world stories usually concentrate on how people survive, this is about how average Americans cope.
With the loss of America.
The preventable loss of America.
Cell Phone, IPods, 42" LCD screens, cars, generators, aircraft, ALL forms of communication, and then individual freedom, civil order, human decency, and everything we hold dear among men and women and children.
The premise is that a nuclear explosion in space over approximately Omaha can be performed by any number of third world powers who get 'lucky' with a longer range Scud launched from a freighter just off any coast, nation unknown, and that once this occurs we are far worse off than we were in 1776. We knew what to do then. We lived near food, medical help and cities were no larger than the local area could support.
When you finish this book you will be as angry as the characters have every right to be.
They lost almost everything. And the finish will leave you wondering WHO TO CALL.
The elegant point is very well made without belaboring it, that reducing the potential authors of this act to slag, as we do thoroughly, gives very little satisfaction. Is almost irrelevant to the aims of the aggressors which are achieved one second after.
The America we know is GONE. And not just because of what is physically destroyed.
The Wall Street Journal has outlined this problem, which I promise you is relegated to what would be considered by Barney Frank and the people who won this election as ring wingut, John Bircher Types, who belong on the DHS list.
But considering that one dedicated group (and there are several from Al Qaeda to the IRGC ) with one nuke (can you say Pakistan?) and one missile which would have to range in the 1500 mile area to take out most of the USA (but would they have to? How much national resources would be needed if it just took out all electronics from Washington to Portland Maine, and New York to Cleveland?) ...considering that one dedicated group could carry out such an attack with 'luck', you have to wonder what plans our govt has, IF ANY, and what we can do as individuals that would matter.
READ IT, and wonder.
- Rural? Believe In God? You Are Irrelevant In The Usa
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has some harsh words for rural America: It’s “becoming less and less relevant,” he says. “It’s time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America,” Vilsack said in a speech at a forum...
- November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any...
- What A Single Nuclear Warhead Could Do
Why the U.S. needs a space-based missile defense against an EMP attack. From the Wall Street Journal: The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have proven how vulnerable we are. On that day, Islamic terrorists flew planes into our buildings. It is not unreasonable...
- U.s. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike On U.s.
This is from NewsMax which is a dubious source, but the writer is Kenneth Timmerman, whom I respect: By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the...
- Britain: Time To Emigrate?
Is it time to emigrate, or time to fight? A new book by a British author says its time to emigrate. He says it's "about the future." That's pathetic, and certainly not very British: *NOTE: Over 825,000 Americans are British born making the United...
Green Energy
Book Review of One Second After, and shout to the 'new' Red Dawn
I am old enough to have seen Red Dawn in the theatre, and we still retain the DVD. The new Red Dawn's premise segues to One Second After (NOT A SPOILER if you start reading this great book) considering the finale of that story.
There are a lot of really great read 'end of the world' books around. I specify 'read' because while they are terrific and fun, they are not ever going to be considered with the likes of the product Pearl Buck or Truman Capote (by those who consider such things).
The best of these is undoubtedly 'Lucifer's Hammer' by two of the better scifi writers of our age.
This ain't that. There are a FEW similarities through the middle portion of the story, but while end of the world stories usually concentrate on how people survive, this is about how average Americans cope.
With the loss of America.
The preventable loss of America.
Cell Phone, IPods, 42" LCD screens, cars, generators, aircraft, ALL forms of communication, and then individual freedom, civil order, human decency, and everything we hold dear among men and women and children.
The premise is that a nuclear explosion in space over approximately Omaha can be performed by any number of third world powers who get 'lucky' with a longer range Scud launched from a freighter just off any coast, nation unknown, and that once this occurs we are far worse off than we were in 1776. We knew what to do then. We lived near food, medical help and cities were no larger than the local area could support.
When you finish this book you will be as angry as the characters have every right to be.
They lost almost everything. And the finish will leave you wondering WHO TO CALL.
The elegant point is very well made without belaboring it, that reducing the potential authors of this act to slag, as we do thoroughly, gives very little satisfaction. Is almost irrelevant to the aims of the aggressors which are achieved one second after.
The America we know is GONE. And not just because of what is physically destroyed.
The Wall Street Journal has outlined this problem, which I promise you is relegated to what would be considered by Barney Frank and the people who won this election as ring wingut, John Bircher Types, who belong on the DHS list.
But considering that one dedicated group (and there are several from Al Qaeda to the IRGC ) with one nuke (can you say Pakistan?) and one missile which would have to range in the 1500 mile area to take out most of the USA (but would they have to? How much national resources would be needed if it just took out all electronics from Washington to Portland Maine, and New York to Cleveland?) ...considering that one dedicated group could carry out such an attack with 'luck', you have to wonder what plans our govt has, IF ANY, and what we can do as individuals that would matter.
READ IT, and wonder.
- Rural? Believe In God? You Are Irrelevant In The Usa
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has some harsh words for rural America: It’s “becoming less and less relevant,” he says. “It’s time for us to have an adult conversation with folks in rural America,” Vilsack said in a speech at a forum...
- November 19, 1863
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any...
- What A Single Nuclear Warhead Could Do
Why the U.S. needs a space-based missile defense against an EMP attack. From the Wall Street Journal: The attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, have proven how vulnerable we are. On that day, Islamic terrorists flew planes into our buildings. It is not unreasonable...
- U.s. Intel: Iran Plans Nuclear Strike On U.s.
This is from NewsMax which is a dubious source, but the writer is Kenneth Timmerman, whom I respect: By: Kenneth R. Timmerman Article Font Size Iran has carried out missile tests for what could be a plan for a nuclear strike on the United States, the...
- Britain: Time To Emigrate?
Is it time to emigrate, or time to fight? A new book by a British author says its time to emigrate. He says it's "about the future." That's pathetic, and certainly not very British: *NOTE: Over 825,000 Americans are British born making the United...