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…
Tag Archives: Politics
Really bad metaphor, Dave
Via Commentary, we get this account of why Media Matters hates conservative media outlets: Media Matters had always packaged itself differently than the right’s Media Research Center and Accuracy in Media. It said it was looking for misinformation, not bias. … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, Politics, The Hulk
Tagged Media Bias, Media Matters, Politics, The Hulk
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Thursday briefs
The second time, as farce: Seriously? Bad enough Madman Gaddaffy got Libya on the Human Rights Council, now Syria’s looking to take his place. And you know what? I bet Assad will get it. But then, half the members of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Middle East, Politics, United Nations
Tagged Israel, Libya, Politics, Syria
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Compare and contrast: Protests there and here
This is courage: In Zawiya, 30 miles (50 kilometers) west of Tripoli, an army unit attacked the city’ Souq Mosque, where regime opponents had been camped for days in a protest calling for Gadhafi’s ouster, a witness said. The soldiers … Continue reading
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Tagged Middle East, Politics
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The incivility of the right left
Remember this? It’s from an entire website that was developed solely to apologize to the world for re-electing George W. Bush. Say, that right-wing incivility that the pundits are all decrying? Backatcha, pals. In this one, “get the bastards” is … Continue reading
When mental illness ruptures civility
The rush of politicians, pundits, and bloggers trying to blame Sarah Palin and “inflammatory” speech for the shooter who killed six and wounded many more while trying to murder Congresswoman Giffords is just plain stupid. Jared Loughner was batshit crazy. … Continue reading
Jew hatred: It’s the Grand Unified Theory in action
Lest the idiots in the comments over at Think Progress think that only Republicans are anti-Semites, I remind them of Congressman Jim Moron [sic], who famously blamed the Jews for the Iraq war. At a March 3 antiwar forum in … Continue reading
Election Day briefs
Oh, the horrors! Best headline of the day: On Election Day, Democratic Party control in peril. It’s like the AP thinks that Dems are tied up on the railroad tracks by those evil Republicans Oh, the disappointment: Eric Cantor only … Continue reading
Message not received
On the heels of Marc Ambinder declaring that the media will be the water-carriers for the Democratic Party regarding the demonization of the Tea Party, that selfsame subject (coincidentally, I’m sure) is now being discussed in the White House. The … Continue reading
The Comedy Central rally on the Mall: You can’t be serious
One of my commenters pointed out that CNN is really hyping the Halloween eve Comedy Central rally on the National Mall, which is supposed to be two “opposing” rallies led by Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. I find it utterly … Continue reading
MSM not even trying to hide their hate for Republicans anymore
Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic drew this conclusion about the Tea Party candidates winning some Republican primaries over the establishment candidates: The media is going to help the Democratic Party’s national messaging, which is that the GOP is a party … Continue reading
Disowning the Democrat bigots
William Saletan has a pompous, condescending piece in Slate about how liberals should not keep trying to get up in arms about how Glenn Beck is trying to co-opt Martin Luther King Jr.’s message by having a big rally, decades … Continue reading
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Tagged Glenn Beck, Media Bias, Politics
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The Massachusetts Message: Fanfare from the common man
One of the reasons Scott Brown plowed over Martha Coakley in his pickup truck on Tuesday is because the signals coming from Washington and the media are all about how Americans are too stupid, too uneducated, too ignorant, or too … Continue reading