Thomas Wictor

Posts Tagged ‘Syd the Second’

The IDF conclusion on the Bakr boys

Today the Israeli Defense Forces released the results of their investigation into the deaths of the four Bakr boys on the Gaza Beach, July 16, 2014. You can read the statement that spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Peter Lerner made on his Facebook page. Let me say right away that I’m not going to argue with the IDF….

 

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Australian news broadcast proves Gaza beach hoax

I hadn’t watched the Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s take on Operation Four Little Martyrs, the murders that Hamas carried out in order to blame Israel. It being Australia, the slant was predictable: How in the name all that’s holy and innocent did the evil Israelis kill these boys? Ironically the outraged Aussie journalists provide some of…

 

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Note to the media: Sorry, no interviews

Today one of my favorite columnists—James Delingpole—picked up the story of Operation Four Little Martyrs. That could mean that Israel’s name will soon be cleared. Media outlets are contacting me. I’m sorry to say that I’ll give no interviews on this. There are lots of reasons, but the main one is that the Israeli Defense…

 

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I’m some kind of a nut!

Someone told me today that another big political writer thinks I’m crazy because I wrote a post about photographing the ghost of my dead cat Syd the Second on my front porch. This all stems from a post I wrote about Pallywood, which some bigwig political writer picked up, and then some other political writer…

 

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People need to learn how to read

Boy, the crap has hit the fan! First I was interviewed by Ali Gharib of the Nation Institute about my Pallywood posts, and then I learned that David Frum of The Atlantic had tweeted about them, and then I found an uncredited article by BagNews(?) excoriating Frum and me. You can excoriate me. Ali Ghraib…

 

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Catastrophe: Why I hate my neighbors

If you read my memoir Ghosts and Ballyhoo, you’ll learn about Syd the Second. I’m absolutely convinced that he was the reincarnation of Syd the First. The reason I call Syd the Second the Cat Who Saved My Life is that he set a magnificent example of how to overcome trauma. Though a maniacally untrustworthy…

 

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Hey. What’s the game?

In July of 2011, my neighbor came close to dying. He’s a morbidly obese man whose wife hasn’t been out of the house in five years. The last time we saw her, she was walking down the sidewalk to the ice-cream truck. Her stomach was like a frozen waterfall, hanging down past her knees. She…

 

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The rot goes too deep

Today I stop trying to hold Mike Albee and Lura Dold accountable for defrauding me of $40,000 by exploiting the suicides of my parents in 2013. The rot goes too deep. What convinced me was this story, which the global media picked up. Nasty LinkedIn rejection goes viral (CNN) — When you’re a city’s “Communicator…

 

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The cat ladder

Tim and I are convinced that our cat Syd the Second was a reincarnated Syd, Tim’s original black cat. Like Syd, this new cat had giant fangs, a square muzzle, a patch of white on his chest, and he liked you to sing to him while he ate. The main reason we think Syd the…

 

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Mom’s stamps

Mom went into the hospital in April. She stopped eating two weeks before her surgery. Dad died on February 23, 2013. Like Mom he stopped eating the second he heard the doctors tell him he had to eat. Six months ago I resigned myself to losing Mom. She duplicated Dad’s death, except that she took…

 

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