The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
Monthly Archives: January 2011
Striking down Obamacare
Ilya Somin of the Volokh Conspiracy has analysis of today’s Federal Court decision ruling Obamacare unconstitutional. Jen Rubin has a biting rundown of the administration’s incompetence. And now, I’m going to finish watching my soap and go to bed. With … Continue reading
Whitewashing the Muslim Brotherhood
The Muslim Brotherhood, which is being whitewashed by the world media as having given up on using violence to establish an Islamic state (pure bullshit, by the way; the Brotherhood has never given up on violence), has an interesting AP … Continue reading
Sick day
Yesterday afternoon, I was really hoping that the occasional chill I was feeling was because my former student, Andy, was doing that good a job during his bar mitzvah service. Well, he was doing a good job, but that’s not … Continue reading
Posted in Life 2 Comments
The linkage issue, proven
Now that the Middle East is engulfed in chaos in three nations—Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen, with Jordan possibly right behind—it has utterly proven the theory that if only Israel and the Palestinians were at peace, the problems of the Middle … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn, World Tagged Egypt, Israel, Palestinians 3 Comments
Cat Shabbat
Look what I found while trying to find some old photos to put on a card for one of my former students (who is a bar mitzvah this weekend). I may have used that at some point, but I found … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, Teaching 2 Comments
Friday revolutionary briefs
Oh, come on—you’re going against the narrative! The WaPo ends an article about Israel’s view of the Egyptian protests with this: To Israeli officials, the unrest across the region, with Israel on the sidelines, proves an assertion that has been … Continue reading
Thursday news round-up
Um, so what? Ha’aretz profiles a book that says Jews fighting for the state of Israel hid their weapons in “immoral” places, such as—well, I’m not sure. Because the article doesn’t exactly state explicitly where these caches were, except for … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias, Turkey, World Tagged Israel, Media Bias, Turkey 7 Comments
Bloggers: We bring you the truth, because the media won’t
Barry Rubin wrote something in a column that essentially sums up what is wrong with reporting today. And what’s wrong with it? The media do not report the truth. Here’s how a friend of mine summed up the recent period: … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Turkey Tagged Israel, Mavi Marmara, Media Bias, Turkey Comments Off on Bloggers: We bring you the truth, because the media won’t
Jazeerileaks
I think it is time to stop pretending that all of the documents purported to be leaked Palestinian Authority documents are what they claim to be, namely PA diplomatic memos. Some are, but many are not. Barry Rubin goes into … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Tagged Abbas, Al Jazeera, Concessions, Palestinian Papers, peace process Comments Off on Jazeerileaks
Tuesday news roundup
Israeli Double Standard Time: Say, you know who’s banning books because they conflict with their view of their religion? Hamas. You know who’s not calling Hamas a fascist state? Time magazine. What time is it? That’s right. But it’s not … Continue reading
The Guardian, Jonathan Freedland and Karma Nabulsi: now we know…
It certainly pays off to sit for a while on the fence (I wonder why that activity is called this way in English – after all, normally fence is the last place you would choose to plop your backside upon). … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, Politics 6 Comments
Palileaks: They’re not passing the smell test
A quick look at the initial reports about al Jazeera’s so-called leaks raises my b.s. meter to its very top. Listen to this quote and tell me you don’t think there’s an effort out to utterly discredit the Palestinian leadership … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 3 Comments
Getting it wrong on Lebanon
I tend not to pay attention to the AP analysis on the Middle East, because it is so often wrong. Watching the AP spin the “negotiations” for the new Lebanese prime minister is a great example of how they get … Continue reading
Posted in Lebanon, Media Bias Tagged Lebanon, Media Bias Comments Off on Getting it wrong on Lebanon
Guns and frozes
Where in the world was Meryl this morning? Up in the Poconos, taking her nephew shooting in 6 degree weather (-2 when factoring in the wind chill). He had a great time. So did … Continue reading
Posted in Guns 14 Comments