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…
Category Archives: Israel
Another slip of a double tongue
This BBC article’s headline may not keep for long, so I have decided to make a snapshot for posterity. Israel to resume militant strikes“. How do you like them chickens? “Militant strikes”. I wonder whether we are witnessing here the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Terrorism 2 Comments
Recycling old posts
You know, I’ve been saying that I’m writing the same things over and over again. Go back in my archives and you’ll see exactly what I mean. For real amusement, read to the end, click on “next” or “previous,” and … Continue reading
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Humpty Dumpty media rules
When is a cease fire not a cease fire? When more than 60 rockets are launched on a daily to near-daily basis, destroying property and wounding civilians. When is a war a “shaky truce”? When only Israelis are targeted. Israel … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Media Bias 2 Comments
The cease-fire sham continues
After the two boys in Sderot were wounded by the Qassam yesterday, IDF gets the green light “to resume pinpoint operations targeting Qassam rocket launching cells“. The condition attached to this mandate is “to uphold the cease-fire in general“. Gives … Continue reading
The New York Times’ blinders
Here’s a challenge: Go read this NY Times editorial and see if you can find a single reference to the messages—in the form of rockets loaded with ball-bearings that just destroyed two young boys’ legs—that palestinian terrorists have been sending … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 4 Comments
A Tom Friedman column that makes perfect sense
Looks like Mr. Friedman has finally been mugged by reality. This is from the man who so proudly announced to us the Saudi peace plan several years ago, refusing to believe he was being used for propaganda purposes. I do … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media 9 Comments
The false cease-fire: More kassam launches than before
The IDF has collected the data, and it is inarguable: The cease-fire is an utter sham. The palestinians have launched more kassam rockets into Israel before the IDF exercised “restraint,” and the message is clear: The terrorists will not stop … Continue reading
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The silence is deafening
The world has been clamoring for Israel to sit down with the palestinians and work things out. Well, that’s exactly what Olmert did. In fact, he put the palestinian flag up during the negotiations. Olmert’s men explained that the warm … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics 7 Comments
Briefly
How hated is Israel? So hated that Jordanian teachers who came to Israel to learn about the Holocaust at Yad Vashem had to do it in secret. Officials at Yad Vashem said the one-month stay in Israel changed the Jordanian … Continue reading
Syria talks peace, prepares for war
So all those supposed peace overtures from Syria? They’re hollow. Warning that Israel may face a “Syrian intifada,” a high-ranking officer in Northern Command has told The Jerusalem Post that villages recently built by Syria along the border are planned … Continue reading
Let’s hear some more about those racist Zionists
Because they’re building a Muslim prayer room in Ben Gurion Airport. But—but—the Israelis are racists! They hate Arabs and Muslims! All they want to do is oppress them! Right? Right? Wrong. The Israel Airports Authority (IAA) Thursday ordered the establishment … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion 6 Comments
A closer look at these “crude, homemade” rockets
The AP article actually calls kassams “crude projectiles” in this story, even after identifying the wounds as such: The rocket blew through the living room and exploded in a bedroom where three children were sleeping, relatives said. Two-year-old Samir al-Masri’s … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel 2 Comments
What truce?
The so-called “cease-fire,” during which palestinians felt themselves perfectly able to launch kassam rockets at Israel (back into the double-digits per day), has taken another “accidental” hit on palestinians in Beit Hanoun. You remember Beit Hanoun. It’s the town where … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel 2 Comments
Reuters discovers that Israel is a Jewish state
In this astonishingly insightful article, Reuters reports that Christmas is not very much celebrated in Israel. Huh. Imagine that. The Jewish state doesn’t have the Christmas spirit. Dec 20, 2006 — TEL AVIV (Reuters) – A glimmer of tinsel, a … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Israel, Media Bias 14 Comments
Haveil Havalim #98 is UP!
Continuing my tradition from last week, I’m running late with the Haveil Havalim announcement. This week’s, Haveil Havalim #98 at Jerusalem Board Games has it all. It features Professor Madcap and his grad students uncovering the secrets of cyber-archaeology, little … Continue reading