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: Media
Israel to Hamas: Stop the rockets, then we talk
Israel is finally refusing to fall for the usual terrorist line of a cease-fire once the terrorists are on the run. First, Ehud Olmert denied that he was considering a truce with Hamas. Now Shimon Peres told Hamas that there … Continue reading
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Painting Israel as the villain, again
The AP spins the death of two more Palestinian terrorists as anti-Israel as possible. Israeli Troops Kill Palestinian Gunmen Note that in a headline dealing with dead terrorists, the active voice is always used, and Israel or the IDF are … Continue reading
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24 and the NYT
In season 4 of 24 there’s an excellent exchange between a politician and one of his former aides. I’m going to leave out the character names so this won’t serve as a spoiler to anyone who still plans to see … Continue reading
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NYT vs. Daniel Pipes Round Robin
Down Payment on Mideast Peace The political and territorial challenges facing Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are formidable and familiar. The economic obstacles to the creation of a viable Palestinian state are also formidable, but easier to make a dent … Continue reading
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On reporting, awarding, exploding
Abby Wisse Schachter delivers a devastating critique of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz But Haaretz’s ideological crusade is not limited to the editorial or opinion pages. Its editors are only too happy to publish defamatory feature stories as well. On November … Continue reading
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Hamas to Israel: We will destroy you
Hamas celebrated its twentieth anniversary by assuring Israel that Hamas will never, ever recognize the Jewish State, and also, Hamas will never stop trying to destroy it. Large pictures of Hamas leaders, both in Gaza and in exile, were draped … Continue reading
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The wire services: Working for the Palestinians
Let’s look at the ledes on the various wire service articles about the current round of peace talks. Earlier, Reuters: Israel and Palestinians launch peace talks in discord JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Palestinians said on Wednesday they had demanded a halt … Continue reading
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The peace talks in “discord”—because of Israel, mostly
The world media spins against Israel yet again. And of course, here’s how it works. A barrage of rockets into Israel on the morning of the peace talks comes fifteen paragraphs into the main AP story released a few minutes … Continue reading
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Familar unproductive editorial
The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 1 Comment
The Israel-is-stealing-Christmas story season is upon us
Yes, Virginia, there is an anti-Israel bias, and this is the time of year that it becomes the most virulent. Let us take note of two amazing events in the beginning of the “Israel would make the Baby Jesus cry” … Continue reading
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Palestinians really do cut off their noses to spite their faces
Let’s do a little reading between the lines here. The AP has a three-hanky story on how the mean ol’ Israelis are shutting off the Gaza fuel supply, just because Hamas is allowing terrorists to fire over 2000 rockets into … Continue reading
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The peaceful people of Gaza: 2000 rockets in 2007
The peaceful people of Gaza, who got what they wanted two years ago—all “settlers” out of Gaza, Palestinian self-rule, and Israeli soldiers out of the Gaza Strip—have fired over 2,000 rockets into Israel in 2007. We can make it a … Continue reading
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Jackson’s cagey
Jackson Diehl writes in today’s Fuses in Gaza The Islamic Hamas movement, which won the 2006 legislative elections and took sole control of Gaza in June, spent the week of Annapolis quietly doing what it has been doing every week … Continue reading
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The AP anti-Israel spin
We haven’t had a rip-roaring case of Meryl’s near aneurysm brought on by the AP media spin, so have at it: First, we have the headline: Israel’s Premier Rejects Peace Deadline Note that it’s all about Israel rejecting peace. Let’s … Continue reading
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Adult entertainment
The original episodes of Sesame Street have been issued on DVD. But our children better not watch them. It wouldn’t be right. Just don’t bring the children. According to an earnest warning on Volumes 1 and 2, “Sesame Street: Old … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Meanderings, Media, Pop Culture, Television 3 Comments