Author Archives: Meryl Yourish

Time out

Work today, plus the sore throat from Monday has settled into a chest cold. Dang it. You know, I was pretty darn healthy for a long time, and I just can’t kick these little niggling infections these days. Time to … Continue reading

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Wednesday briefs

Awesome reset: Putin is now threatening to help Iran get nukes faster due to the mild sanctions being slapped on him over the Crimea. Yeah, we can totally ignore foreign policy, because we have these great big oceans separating us … Continue reading

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Tuesday briefs

The undeclared war: The Iranians are now using Hizbullah to murder IDF soldiers from two borders–Lebanon and Syria. Another IED went off as an IDF patrol passed by on the Israeli side of the Syrian border. This is SOP for … Continue reading

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For my U.K. readers

U.K. customers can now get The Catmage Chronicle epubs via Barnes & Noble. Nook Press just opened up to some European countries. I’m on Kobo as well, so if you don’t live in the U.S. or the U.K., just click … Continue reading

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It’s late.

Have a cat picture.

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The perfect Purim movie

Argo is about a CIA agent working with the Canadians to set up disguises and create fake backgrounds for six people to sneak them out from under the modern-day tyrants of Iran. It’s also a great movie. So thanks, Canada, … Continue reading

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Happy EATAPETA Day!

It’s the twelfth annual International Eat A Tasty Animal For PETA day! The hypocrites run kill shelters. They don’t want us to keep animals as pets. Of course, they don’t think anyone should eat meat, fish, eggs, or dairy products. … Continue reading

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The media bias against Israel is as stale and repetitive as ever

Rocket fire from Gaza, media bias from AP and others. It’s always the same old song. The title: Israel: Gaza Militants Fire More Rockets on Israel Because if Israel says it, we must cast doubt on it. The lead: Gaza … Continue reading

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The hypocrisy that is Obamacare

How many times did the president insist that the ACA was the law of the land? That opponents should stop complaining and suck it up, because the law passed and the Supreme Court validated it? Well, on top of the … Continue reading

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Tuesday briefs

It will make a perfect target: Hamas unveiled a statue of an M-75 rocket and declared its intent to target all of Israel. Please, please, please, drop a bomb on it. What a statement that would make. Play it down, … Continue reading

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Exhaustion

I was up until four a.m. editing my novel, because I promised it to the copy editor late Sunday night. I will never promise anything late any night ever again. “Sometime” is my new time of day to submit things. … Continue reading

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But Iran is totally trustworthy on nukes

You can’t make this stuff up. The Secretary General of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights says the world should be thanking Iran for executing as many people as it has killed in the past few years. Becaues they’re druggies. … Continue reading

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My thoughts on international women’s day

If I were in elementary school, I’d probably have to write an essay about what I think of womon on international women’s day. In that spirit, I think I shall write an essay. (Tip: I think it’s going to change … Continue reading

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Spinning the Iranian war against Israel

The IDF tracked and intercepted an Iranian shipment of long-range missiles that were headed towards Gaza(video below). The media is doing its damnedest to downplay the event. Note the scare quotes and “Israel said” phrase throughout nearly all of the … Continue reading

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The Obama takedowns

There are just so many rebuttals to Obama, I can’t decide which ones I like best. Let’s start with Commentary. John Podheretz, Jonathan Tobin, and the lie he told about “aggressive” settlement construction. Elliott Abrams knocks it out of the … Continue reading

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