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: May 2009
9 years later, still covering for Arafat
Commenter Sassinfras claims that Yasser Arafat begged Ehud Barak when they met at Barak’s apartment, not to allow Ariel Sharon to visit the Temple Mount in late September 2000. This is a dubious claim. Deborah Sontag initially reported on the … Continue reading
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Tagged Deborah Sontag, Yasser Arafat
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AP on mortgage foreclosures: Hurricane victims hardest hit
You have got to be kidding me. AP IMPACT: Foreclosures add to hurricane hazards Mike Manikchand points toward his neighbors – a half-dozen empty, foreclosed-upon homes, sitting on weed-strewn yards – and he wonders: What will happen if a hurricane … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias
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The horde invades
The horde (as Sarah calls them) invaded my home yesterday afternoon, and just left. I’m pretty sure this is the first Sunday in my entire life that I started cooking breakfast for four children before seven a.m. That’s because I … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Stall. Wait for pressure. Get concessions. Add some violence. Repeat.
Noah Pollak describes Mahmoud Abbas’s negotiating strategy as described in an interview with Jackson Diehl, as a “Princess Bride strategy.” Diehl seems to get it too as he writes: Abbas and his team fully expect that Netanyahu will never agree … Continue reading
Saturday funny
Bonnie Tyler’s “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was one of my absolute favorite songs from the eighties. The video is one of the all-time worst. And it’s just been hosed, big-time. H/T: Allah. If you remember the video, this is … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Music
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A partiality test
See if you can figure out where, and whom, these quotes come from: Palestinians watched with hope this week as President Barack Obama called for an Israeli settlement freeze and spoke about the need to move quickly toward statehood alongside … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Hamas, Media Bias, Road Map
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UN launching “independent” probe of Gaza war
You have to love the AP. They sure do give us many laughs. The United Nations says a team of independent experts mandated to probe alleged war crimes in Israel and Gaza will leave for the Middle East over the … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel Derangement Syndrome, United Nations
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Unsettling
The Washington Post reported the other day that the United States is pushing Israel to stop all “settlement” activity. And that PM Netanyahu caught flack on the topic from an unexpected source: formerly pro-Israel Congressmen: During meetings with congressional leaders … Continue reading
The Obama peace plan: Pressure Israel, pressure Israel, pressure Israel
It looks like the Chicken Littles may have been right. The Obama camp is calling for Israel to freeze all settlement activity, including building in the suburbs of Jerusalem—which is hardly a “settlement.” Meanwhile Clinton said Obama had “made it … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, palestinian politics, The One
Tagged Israel, Obama, Palestinians
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The debate about armed struggle
This article strikes me as utterly typical of the rejectionist problem. The Palestinians are battling to compromise, but not in the way you and I understand the word: The Palestinian Authority “will do everything in its power” to advance peace … Continue reading
Testing Obama’s mettle
A quote from October: “Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The … Continue reading
Bolstering the unelected kleptocrat
The Washington Post emphasizes what a slender reed the United States is depending on as a key to peace, Abbas’s credibility problem. Unfortunately the article skims over various reasons why Abbas shouldn’t have any credibility to Israel. Abbas, 74, a … Continue reading
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Tagged Mahmoud Abbas
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Der Spiegel, Zionist tool
In case you’re wondering why Nasrallah’s response to the charge in Der Spiegel that Hezbollah was responsible for Rafiq Hariri’s murder, is that Der Spiegel is a Zionist tool, read Michael Totten’s take. “[I]f (the majority) uses the report against … Continue reading
Wily Jews outsmart Missouri neo-Nazis
A perfect response to a neo-Nazi group sponsoring a highway in order to get their group publicity: Lawmakers renamed a section of highway in Springfield that a neo-Nazi group adopted to keep litter-free after a Jewish civil rights leader. Rep. … Continue reading
Palestinian intransigence
There is no peace process. There are only Palestinian demands. Witness the latest interview with Ahmed Qureia: Qureia: “The Right of Return is one of the Palestinians’ rights. The question of how to relate to this right is up for … Continue reading