The pile of divisive crap that is named Pamela Geller

It's not like you should be surprised that the Infernal Ms. G. would stand logic on its head in order to make a blatantly crazy statement about why that squad of SEALs died last weekend during an anti-Taliban operation outside of Afghanistan, but it's just too bad for her that the individuals involved in the supposed "payback" she's blathering about ended up dead themselves just the same.  

Meanwhile, elsewhere in Wingnutistan, someone burned a holy book near Terry Jones' church. It's just not the one he was expecting.

More on Spamford Wallace from the bad old days

This link from the Asbury Park Press goes into gory detail about Spamford's current, rather gigantic legal troubles, but in order to get a sense of how long the fat little weasel* has been into this sort of thing, these links go a long way towards putting his online racket into historic terms. First, the obligatory Wikipedia article:

In the late 1990s, his company, Cyber Promotions, aka Cyberpromo, was widely blacklisted as a source of unsolicited email. Wallace's high-profile pro-spam stance and unrepentant persistence earned him the derisive nickname 'Spamford'. (Wallace later registered the domain name spamford.com.)

Prior to his email spam ventures, Wallace had gained notoriety in other questionable marketing circles, as a heavy utilizer of junk fax marketing, a practice outlawed in the United States since 1991.

In 1995, Wallace formed Cyber Promotions, entering the spam market. Thanks to a self-marketing campaign, Cyberpromo rapidly became the most successful seller of email marketing—as well as the number one source of unsolicited email. After Cyberpromo failed to become a legitimate business, Wallace returned to junk faxing in late 1997.

Wallace's company brought a number of spam-blocking evasion tactics to the fore of the spam battle. False return addresses, relaying, and multihoming were among the questionable practices used by Cyberpromo to ensure the penetration of their advertising.

Speaking of the bit about "failing to become a legitimate business," it's a glaringly obvious phenomenon where Spamford is concerned: just ask the likes of CompuServe, AOL, Earthlink, consumer reporter Mark Welch (!) and MySpace. If you read this stuff long enough, you'll start to get a sense of what Spamford really is, and he's nothing you want to deal with except by either suing him or just telling him to fuck off. 

Unfortunately, nothing seems to stop Spamford from doing what he's been doing for years, even if you threaten him with a lot more than just kicking him off an ISP. Or maybe it might. Just ask Oleg Nikolaenko.