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: February 2010
A riddle wrapped in an enigma and mocked on Facebook
I’ve been skeptical of the ever growing hit team that knocked off Mahmoud al-Mabhouh, but Robert Baer (h/t Powerline) provides an explanation: The truth is that Mr. Mabhouh’s assassination was conducted according to the book—a military operation in which the … Continue reading
Sunday morning snarks, media bias edition
What a difference an angle makes: Biased AP headline of the morning: Israel police storm holy site to quell protest. Ynet news headline: Riots erupt on Jerusalem’s Temple Mount. Awesome AFP anti-Israel slant of the month: The Dubai assassination of … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Media Bias, News Briefs
Tagged Hamas, Israel
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Dubai police chief: All Jews are suspects
No wonder there’s now a Facebook group called “I was also a part of the Dubai Assassination Squad.” Because the Arabs are now declaring all of us Jews guilty of being part of assassination squads. According to Emarat Al Youm, … Continue reading
More on the Dubai hit
The AP has a story that isn’t getting nearly as wide release as the stories about the Mossad being responsible for the Dubai hit, but it’s interesting for what countries are doing—and not doing—to find the killers. A killer – … Continue reading
Friday news dump: Crooked congressmen
The misnamed Congressional ethics comittee cleared seven representatives of ethics violations, released the report on Friday, (papers like the Washington Post are making sure to cover it in their Saturday editions, which nobody reads) and issued a unanimous statement that … Continue reading
Mabhouh’s razor
There’s a concept of Occam’s razor, which explains that the simplest explanation for a phenomenon is likely correct. So why does the hit on Mahmoud Mabhouh keep getting more complicated. Yossi Melman explains (h/t Aussie Dave): The story just gets … Continue reading
The blogger’s guide to anti-Semitic comment trolls
Eight years ago this spring, at the height of the suicide bombings of Yasser Arafat’s terror war known as the second intifada, I started blogging about Jewish and Israeli issues. This, of course, brought out the anti-Israel crazies. I came … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn
Tagged Anti-Semitism, Israel, Jews
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The marketing genius of Yasser Arafat
In the West an attitude towards Palestinian terrorism developed along the lines of “we don’t condone the violence but you have to understand the Palestinian grievance.” Of course that attitude implicitly excuses the violence it claims not to condone. But … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged Yasser Arafat
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Terrorist used fake passport to get to Dubai, media will not care
So, in all this uproar about Israel allegedly using fake passports to get Mossad agents into Dubai to kill a Hamas terrorist, the part of the story that will be utterly ignored is that the ex-terrorist was in Dubai on … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israeli Double Standard Time, Terrorism
Tagged Hamas, Israel, Media Bias
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Weaning Syria away from Iran
Lots of foreign policy sophisticates have told us that the American way forward in the Middle East is to engage Syria and draw it out of Iran’s orbit. Last week the Washington Post editorialized in response to President Obama’s naming … Continue reading
When fighting terror is an outrage
After the hijacking of the Achille Lauro in 1985, the United States attempted to capture the terrorist responsible by forcing the plane they were on to land on an American-Italian base in Sicily. However, Italy and Egypt were outraged and … Continue reading
Compare and contrast
The AP reports that a truce has been signed, “raising hopes the bloody seven-year conflict could draw to a close.” They then go on to expand on the truce, the people involved, the leaders, international promises of $1 billion to … Continue reading
Jewish history denial
The New York Times reports Israel’s Plans for 2 Sites Stir Unrest in West Bank. The article is illustrated with a young man throwing a Molotov cocktail and begins: Scores of Palestinians clashed with Israeli forces in the West Bank … Continue reading
Tuesday morning snarks
The definition of hypocrisy: Iran is calling the Dubai assassination “Israeli terror.” Because gee, Iran never blew up a Jewish community center, an army barracks, or murdered Iranian expats in other nations. Israel eliminated a terrorist murderer arms supplier. One … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Hamas, Iran, Israeli Double Standard Time, News Briefs
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Inspector Clouseau is on the Dubai case
You have to love the gathering of evidence that the Dubai police insist “prove” that the Mossad was involved. In an interview to Emirati paper al-Bayan published on Monday, Tamim said that “despite Israel’s attempts at denial, claiming there is … Continue reading