I don’t care for everything this guy says, and he is an atheist who hates religion, but by God, he’s on our side, and this is great.
Via Elder.
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…
Quoting Terry James, 5/30/11 – “The American administration speaks out of both sides of its mouth, in one breath betraying Israel in doing things like selling arms to Israel’s enemy Arab states, but denying arms sales to the Jewish state.
Over the last year, the United States refused to approve any major Israeli weapons requests. Government sources asserted that the refusal represented a White House policy to link most arms sales to Israel to progress in the U.S. plan to establish a Palestinian state in the West Bank.
At the same time, Obama has approved more than $10 billion worth of arms sales to Arab League states, including Egypt, Kuwait, Jordan, Morocco, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. (“Israel’s Netanyahu Keeping Mum about Obama’s Virtual Arms Embargo,” World Tribune, Feb 10, 2011–thanks to Jonathan Stettin)
In the next breath, President Obama demands the impossible of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, then, after receiving so much negative backlash, backtracks on his declaration that Israel must give the Palestinians land so the 1967 borders can be reestablished–claiming the U.S. is an unmovable friend of the Jewish nation.”
on the other hand, there’s something of a Battle of Nostalgias at work. specifically, the “New Atheism” (re-presenting 18th c. “Free Thinking” and 19th c. Victorian Science) vs. those sad, sad people who long for the days when anti-Semitism was “respectable” (see the Tom character in The Great Gatsby, or – sheesh – T.S. Eliot’s constipated, elitist crap about “free thinking Jews” in a speech delivered at University of Virginia). the 21st century? we’re there technologically, but ..