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…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
God, I hate the AP
Ten terrorists tried to use horses booby-trapped with explosives to attack from the Gaza border and possibly kidnap some Israeli soldiers. Let’s take a look at how this attack was portrayed in the Israeli media. An Israel Defense Forces’ investigation … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Media Bias, Terrorism 2 Comments
More dividends of the Cairo speech
The Saudis are telling Obama to create peace by fiat. Arab patience is wearing thin in regards to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Saudi King Abdullah bin Abd al-Aziz told US President Barack Obama during their meeting in Riyadh last Wednesday. According … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Saudi Arabia 1 Comment
SNN is up. I’m not.
This week’s Shire Network News is up, and you folks had better listen to it, because I stayed up way late last night getting it done. I cover, of course, Obama’s Cairo speech.
Obama’s Cairo speech gets quick results
Obama’s public weakening of support for Israel is getting the results you would expect: Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister, Prince Saud al-Faisal, said the US should use aid it gives Israel as leverage in order to pressure the state into accepting … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Saudi Arabia, The One 3 Comments
Analysis: mainstreaming Jewish conspiracy theories
If you were to read this without knowing the source, where would you suspect it originated? The Arab News? Al-Ahram? Palestinian propaganda rags? Among the long list of problems that cloud American relations with the Islamic world, none is more … Continue reading
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Desperately seeking brisket help
My brother bought me a first cut brisket instead of a first cut corned beef brisket, which I discovered only after I boiled it for half an hour. One of my fellow JBloggers had what I thought was a wonderful … Continue reading
Posted in Life 8 Comments
One quick comment on the Cairo speech
I will have more to say after work, but here’s something to chew on: The Holy Koran tells us, “O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that … Continue reading
Posted in Religion, The One 3 Comments
6:10 Eastern? The speech is at 6:10 Eastern?
Feh. I’m going to sleep through it. Wake me when it’s over.
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, The One 1 Comment
Honesty is the best policy, Israeli Exception Clause version
“Part of being a good friend is being honest,†Mr. Obama said in an interview with NPR News. “And I think there have been times where we are not as honest as we should be about the fact that the … Continue reading
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Media narrative or floating balloons?
Yesterday the New York Times trumpeted the fact that one of the Obama administration “punishments” for Netanyahu refusing to freeze natural growth of the suburbs of Jerusalem—a.k.a. “settlement growth”—would be a lack of support for Israel in the UN. Today, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, The One 7 Comments
The pro-Palestinian media
A few headlines about the latest red-on-red infighting. The New York Times: 6 Die as Palestinian Authority Forces Clash With Hamas Note the passive voice in the headline. Six were killed, and yet, in the headline, they “die” in a … Continue reading
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Obama, Muslims, and the AP narrative
In an article about how Obama must kowtow to Muslims, several things leap out at me, but this paragraph most of all: If Obama wants to rally Muslim support to rein in Iran, analysts say, he will have to prove … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Religion 1 Comment
AP on mortgage foreclosures: Hurricane victims hardest hit
You have got to be kidding me. AP IMPACT: Foreclosures add to hurricane hazards Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors – a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards – and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias 1 Comment
The horde invades
The horde (as Sarah calls them) invaded my home yesterday afternoon, and just left. I’m pretty sure this is the first Sunday in my entire life that I started cooking breakfast for four children before seven a.m. That’s because I … Continue reading
Posted in Life 6 Comments
Saturday funny
Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of my absolute favorite songs from the eighties. The video is one of the all-time worst. And it’s just been hosed, big-time. H/T: Allah. If you remember the video, this is … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Music 4 Comments