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…
Monthly Archives: January 2008
AP equates bombing civilians with targeting terrorists
The AP has decided it can’t keep ignoring the rocket barrages landing on Israeli civilians, but it can equate them with the IDF taking out terrorists. Hamas and Israel Trade Fire Over Gaza Note the headline. Hamas is “trading fire,” … Continue reading
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Thai company cuts off Hezbullah-TV propaganda
The Thai satellite company that was beaming Al-Manar, Hezbullah’s propaganda channel, to Asian nations, has pulled the plug on Chipmunk Cheeks and his sermons of hate. A Thai satellite company said Wednesday it stopped airing broadcasts of the Al-Manar television … Continue reading
Arabist apologia
via memeorandum McClatchey’s Washington Bureau provides an analysis of President Bush’s recent tour of the Middle East, Bush departs Mideast with few apparent gains, experts say President Bush wraps up a weeklong tour of the Middle East Wednesday, leaving many … Continue reading
Rocket barrage hits Israel, media buries story
You would barely know that 41 kassam rockets were fired into Israel on Tuesday, and another 30 so far today. You would barely know that there’s been another civilian injured. You would barely know this because the media are suppressing … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Hamas, Media Bias
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Modo on the middle east
In her inimitable manner, MoDo comments on President Bush’s recent trip to the Middle East, “Faith, Freedom and Bling in the Middle East.” This caught my eye. Less than a week after the president arrived in the Middle East, three … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias
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Cooler ties in the middle east
Accompanying this headline: Bush’s brief Egypt visit shows up cooler ties was this picture: In typical news organization fashion, AFP got a major element of the story wrong. President Mubarak’s tie is decidedly not cool. It appears to be brick … Continue reading
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More Palestinian war crimes
The “cycle of violence” yesterday: Terrorists in Gaza murdered an Ecuadoran volunteer, firing at him while he worked in the field at a kibbutz. The IDF attacked a group of Hamas terrorists, killing at least a dozen of them. Mahmoud … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Media Bias
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And now to the next step in the PR attack
The ink on the first installment of the Gazan propaganda on the fuel shortages has not dried yet, and the ever servile AP with its tame photographers are ready with visual aids: The capture under this one: Palestinians warm themselves … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza
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Peace processing mirage
Still Waiting to Seize the Moment – Editorial from the New York Times. Despite longstanding pledges, the Israelis are refusing to stop expanding settlements while the Palestinians aren’t doing enough to halt violence against Israel. A Middle East Commitment – … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
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Shaky
Israeli PM Olmert’s coalition might look a lot less solid at the end of the day. OneJerusalem reports that the 11 seat Yisrael Beiteinu faction is likely to leave the government, leaving the Kadima led coalition with 67 seats. The … Continue reading
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“Humanitarian aid” to the PA: Two tons of explosive material
Once again, Israeli security forces found Palestinians attempting to smuggle material used to make explosives into the Gaza Strip. Two tons of it. That goes along with the six and a half tons of potassium nitrate in UN bags caught … Continue reading
All nied up
via memeorandumfrom Bothersome Intel on Iran by Michael Hirsh, Newsweek Israeli and other foreign officials asked Bush to explain the NIE, which concluded with “high confidence” that Iran halted what the document describes as its “nuclear weapons program.” The NIE … Continue reading
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Refuah Shlema for Tim Blair
Your thoughts and prayers are needed for a friend down under. Tim’s always been a friend to me. My thoughts are with you, and I’ll try to remember you for the official Refuah Shlema on Shabbat as well.
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On the care and feeding of autocrats
Shibley Telhami, who has made a career of interpreting polling data from totalitarian regimes, tells us today that “It’s not about Iran.”(If your leader, through the media and other apparatuses of state, makes clear that the Israeli “occupation” of Palestine … Continue reading
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The unacknowledged war
The Palestinians of the Gaza Strip have been at war with Israel for years. The Jews of Gaza are gone, but the war continues. On Sunday, another volley of mortars fell on Israeli communities, pretty much unnoticed by all but … Continue reading