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
It isn’t raining rain you know, it’s raining rockets
Rockets continue to fall in Sderot. And the world media continues to ignore this fact. Ynet: Palestinians in north Gaza fired two Qassams toward Israel on Tuesday. One rocket struck a vacant Na’amat daycare center in the western Negev city … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Media Bias 3 Comments
Israel and the double standard
It’s funny when you compare the response to stories like this, where a Hamas children’s program demonstrates cruelty to animals while ostensibly teaching children not to be cruel to animals, with the response to stories about Israel refusing to accept … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias, World 9 Comments
A man, a pistol, a Guardian headline, nitpicking
I have copied this from the on-line edition of The Guardian of August 11: Of course, anyone familiar with this blog will know that I do, how to say it gently, criticize The Guardian from time to time for its … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias 1 Comment
What’s behind the Hezbollah sign
The people who put up the Hezbollah sign in Windsor, Canada, say they achieved their purpose. The controversial billboard depicting Hezbollah’s leader has disappeared, but one of the men responsible for the sign says it’s not because they’re backing down … Continue reading
Posted in Lebanon, Media Bias, Terrorism 2 Comments
The fake peace and media bias
The fake Fatah peace: A bomb exploded near IDF forces operating in Nablus overnight Monday, prompting the troops to fire in the direction of the attack. Nobody was wounded in the incident. Two Palestinians were arrested during the operation, and … Continue reading
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Israeli Double Standard Time, Hamas version
It’s fascinating, really, to see how many editors across the world change news stories to make Palestinian terrorists look better than they are. Take this AP story, for instance, sent out hours ago with the following headline: Hamas Militiamen Beat … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias 2 Comments
U.N. Chicken Little: Gaza is falling! Gaza is falling!
Yet another UN cry that Gaza is going to collapse in on itself due to the shutdowns of the crossings, and yet another article that manages to convey the dire warnings even while writing how needed food and goods are … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Media Bias 1 Comment
Grim Milestone moment
Elder of Zion has been tracking the death of Palestinians—killed by other Palestinians. The number is now 500 501. This post is a must-read, and a must-link. (That means you, blogosphere.) We have reached the “grim milestone” of 500 PalArabs … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias, palestinian politics 5 Comments
What’s missing from this story?
Update: Ha’aretz says it was a rocket fired at Israel that fell on a house in Beit Lahiya. Looks like the AP was played. A Qassam rocket fired by Palestinian militants struck the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday, killing an … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza 2 Comments
Fact checking
Ace points to a conversation between Ross Douthat and Jonathan Chait about the Scott Beauchamp affair. Ross talks about the excellence of the Atlantic’s fact-checking process, and Ace mentions that Jonathan Chait seems rather surprised that the fact-checkers actuallly call … Continue reading
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Chickens come home to roost
This is what you get for letting terrorism grow unchecked within your borders: Al Qaida-inspired militants battling the Lebanese army for more than 10 weeks hit a main power station in north Lebanon with Katyusha rockets on Thursday, disrupting electricity … Continue reading
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The IDF finally gets on the media bandwagon
It looks like the Israelis have finally figured out that they’ve lost the media war for decades. They’re working to change the information battlefield. A year after the Kafr Kana bombing during the Second Lebanon War and the IDF’s failure … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media 3 Comments
The AP reads my blog
Check out this change in the story about Palestinians entering Israel. From yesterday’s story: Hamas, which wrested control of the Gaza Strip last month, denounced the deal since it allowed Israel to decide who could enter Gaza. Hamas officials and … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias 1 Comment
Nasrallah taunts Israel from secure, undisclosed location
The great, brave leader of Hezbollah, who was hiding in some underground bunker somewhere, afraid to show his face, told Israel that she had achieved none of her objectives during last year’s war. Proof again that the Arab/Muslim world seems … Continue reading
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Palestinians trapped in Egypt heading home
The Palestinians trapped in Egypt will be heading home via Israel and then into Gaza. The AP piece looks almost balanced. Israel has agreed to allow Palestinians stranded in Egypt for weeks to pass into Israel and then into the … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Hamas 1 Comment