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: Lebanon
Wednesday sniefs
Please don’t attack the country we’re selling weapons to: The French stopped Israel from launching a large-scale attack to teach Lebanon that there is a price to pay for ambushing and murdering Israeli soldiers. Oh, and the Obama administration sent … Continue reading
The AP: Back to its normal anti-Israel bias
The AP bias returns: In this article about Lebanon attempting to “reassure” Congress that Hezbullah has nothing at all to do with its army, the AP describes the Lebanese ambush on the IDF as follows: The Congressman Berman said his … Continue reading
Nasrallah’s “revelations” of Zionist crimes
The trailer to this thriller was published a week ago: The leader of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah has accused Israel of being behind the 2005 assassination of former Lebanese PM Rafik Hariri. In a fiery speech, Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah … Continue reading
Correcting the Israel-Lebanon media narrative
The world media have grudgingly released the news that UNIFIL actually backs Israel’s versions of the ambush of IDF soldiers by Lebanese snipers. But the narrative is still that it’s a volatile border, and Israel’s extremely hostile act of pruning … Continue reading
More fallout from the Lebanese border incident
Most of the info in this post comes from Army radio, some of it, not necessarily in that order or one place, could be found on the Internet. Yesterday a meeting as held in Nakura between UNIFIL commander in the … Continue reading
World media: Reflexively anti-Israel
Yesterday, only the Israeli press was carrying statements from UNIFIL saying that the IDF soldiers who were fired on by the Lebanese yesterday were definitely on the Israeli side of the border. The mainstream media couldn’t seem to find a … Continue reading
The Lebanese border deaths: who benefits?
When the smoke of the shooting dispersed a bit and the details started to emerge, the picture became clear quite soon. IDF had informed UNIFIL about the maintenance work to be performed in the enclave, which is a part of … Continue reading
Clash on Israel’s border with Lebanon
Fighting broke out this morning on Israel’s northern border. A day after rockets were fired at Eilat, loud explosions were reported on the northern border as Israeli and Lebanese forces engaged in massive exchanges of fire. Security sources and witnesses … Continue reading
Your Sunday morning snark briefs
Leo doesn’t heart Mel: Word is that Leonardo DiCaprio exited a film he was going to do with mysognist anti-Semite Mel Gibson. The insider quoted doesn’t give a reason, but perhaps the fact that Leo is dating Israeli model Bar … Continue reading
The anti-Bibi media narrative
Interesting that the Washington Post, in an interview with Ehud Barak, chose to portray the lack of direct negotiations in this manner: U.S. Middle East envoy George J. Mitchell has been trying for months to broker a resumption of direct … Continue reading
Friday snark briefs
If it’s Friday, this must be Bilin: Oh, wait. It’s also Umm Salamuna, where peaceful “internationals” helped the peaceful Palestinians throw stones at the IDF. Number of wounded: Two soldiers and two “internationals.” I’m sorry—“peace activists.” UNHRC Kangaroo Court Judges … Continue reading
The “undisciplined”
The New York Times has a brief item: Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah, said Thursday that he had been told that members of the group would be indicted by a United Nations tribunal investigating the … Continue reading
Could you please shut up?
Thomas Friedman, in Can We Talk? regrets the firing of Octavia Nasr. I find Nasr’s firing troubling. Yes, she made a mistake. Reporters covering a beat should not be issuing condolences for any of the actors they cover. It undermines … Continue reading
Traveling briefs
What? The AP is talking terrorism? Yes, really. The Washington Institute for Near East Policy released a report today saying the Obama Administration’s refusal to acknowledge Islamism as the driving ideology behind Islamic terrorism is a very bad idea. And … Continue reading
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Why was Ocatavia Nasr fired?
There is currently a rumor going around that CNN reporter, Octavia Nasr was fired for a uncritical eulogy she tweeted for recently departed Sheikh Fadlallah. Don’t get me wrong, Nasr clearly showed a bias that is all too prevalent in … Continue reading