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
A big hole in the desert (and in the story)
It’s been a bit disquieting to read the newspapers lately. Something big is possibly happening and little if any reporting is being done about it. Until yesterday. Yesterday’s Washington Post ran an editorial Shock Waves from Syria: Media accounts are … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Media, Syria 4 Comments
Al Dura hoax about to be unmasked?
The French appellate judge asked France 2 to hand over the unedited footage of the supposed shooting death of Mohammed Al-Dura, one of the icons of the Palestinian propaganda machine. PJM PARIS….FLASH: The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, palestinian politics 5 Comments
AFP still mad that Israel won’t reveal state secrets
The AFP is still writing stories about how Israel refuses to divulge state secrets to AFP reporters. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israel on Wednesday maintained an official blackout on an apparent strike by its warplanes on Syria, amid reports that the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias, Syria Comments Off on AFP still mad that Israel won’t reveal state secrets
Reuters not happy that Israel won’t commit suicide
Reuters is spinning the talks between Abbas and Olmert as Israel “resisting” the Palestinians. Why? Because Israel is insisting that the Palestinians actually do something before Israel gives them what they want. You know, like stop terror and incitement and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias 1 Comment
Media bias: Kassam attack update
The AP headline has changed, there’s a new author, the boilerplates remain, and the lede is different, but the spin remains the same: Rocket Wounds Dozens of Israeli Troops Sep 11, 7:58 AM (ET) By YANIV ZOHAR ZIKIM, Israel (AP) … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Media Bias 2 Comments
Monitoring the AP anti-Israel bias
Let’s keep an eye on this story. Here’s the first AP story on the kassam that landed in a military base in the Negev: Rocket Hits Sleeping Israeli Soldiers By ARON HELLER – 59 minutes ago JERUSALEM (AP) — A … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Israel, Terrorism 4 Comments
NY Times notices Hamas brutality
Now that it’s journalists being beaten, the Times (and the Times-own IHT) is noticing that Hamas is beating Palestinians when they don’t like what they do. During the first Fatah protest rally at Friday prayers here late last month, a … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias 2 Comments
Feel the Frog anger
The AFP is so pissed off that Israeli officials won’t leak secret information, it practically leaps off the monitor. JERUSALEM (AFP) — Israeli officials Sunday maintained an uncharacteristic veil of silence over Syrian reports that Israeli warplanes violated its airspace. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias 2 Comments
The Israel Darfur double standard, continued
A couple of weeks ago, all of the major media outlets picked up the story that Israel was sending some Sudanese refugees back to Egypt, where they had fled the cruel treatment and substandard Egyptian hospitality. The world media was … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 2 Comments
BBC lies about Hezbollah
Mike covers the story, so I don’t have to: It is, of course, impossible to ascertain how many of the Lebanese casualties were civilian and how many were Hezbollah, given that Hezbollah hid and fought among civilians, its fighters often … Continue reading
Posted in Lebanon, Media Bias 3 Comments
Israeli Double Standard Time, Temple Mount version
Say, remember that worldwide media blitz about how Israeli archeologists were going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque by building a new ramp to the Temple Mount? Remember the incredibly biased stories that insisted on minimizing the Temple Mount’s meaning to … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israeli Double Standard Time, Religion 6 Comments
CNN’s Jewish prejudice?
Funny. Christiane Amanpour’s moral equivalence-fest, the so-called “God’s Warriors” shows, were repeated both nights this weekend. And both times, the show that’s on first is “God’s Jewish Warriors.” It’s on at 9 p.m. Since it’s a two-hour show, next up, … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, Religion 5 Comments
That professional mainstream media
Aren’t you glad these guys are our news gatekeepers? Because they come up with headlines like this: Icky Algae Worries New England Fishermen STOCKBRIDGE, Vt. — It looks like a clump of soiled sheep’s wool, a cottony green or white … Continue reading
Posted in Media 4 Comments
One more media bias post
The AP picked up on the Palestinian “civilians” killed by Israel today (go read this post and you’ll get the snark to the scare quotes), and of course, focused on the 11-year-old boy who was caught in the crossfire. They … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel 1 Comment
The narrative changes
Funny how over the last few days, the IDF scored more than a few hits on terrorists, and the media mostly ignored it—because the terrorists were effectively caught red-handed launching rockets at Israeli towns. There was no “poor, poor, pitiful … Continue reading