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: July 2008
Booting Hersh
Last week, Cheat Seeking Missiles went after Seymour Hersh for an recently written “expose” in the New Yorker. What troubled me is that CSM took everything Hersh wrote at face value. Hersh cherry picks some stuff, confuses some stuff, makes … Continue reading
Still on holiday time
Hey, I checked my email again and took care of something important for work. Me, I’m relaxing and reading up on mattresses and looking around at sales. And playing with Tig. Yep. A busy day.
Fine Arabian chargers
Horse racing appears to be really popular among the Palestinians. Unfortunately there was an accident at the races today near Nablus. A Palestinian man , left and a horse rider, lay on the ground after they collided during a horse … Continue reading
Interesting euphemisms
Honor Guard An honor guard stand to attention … These are members of Hamas brandishing (I think) AK-47’s. Wouldn’t the more appropriate term be “armed terrorists?” Iranian diplomats picture depicting the four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in … Continue reading
Not the worst politician
Eric Trager had a post a few days ago The Worst Politician Ever?: Still, one might expect Israel’s political leadership-which overwhelmingly approved the deal yesterday-to declare that Israel is achieving some sort of strategic benefit through the prisoner swap. After … Continue reading
Glorious Fourth
I never get tired of posting this: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with … Continue reading
Never the twain shall meet
Griff Witte’s report, Motives in Earthmover Rampage Debated in Jerusalem is striking for two things one that it says and one that it omits. Israeli officials and media described Edwyat as a terrorist who had targeted Jews. But friends and … Continue reading
De-stress holiday cat post
Time to forget about our problems and think about the simpler things in life. Like, cats. And umbrellas. And cats and umbrellas. Oh. No wonder my umbrella started leaking the last time I used it. “Oh, were you looking for … Continue reading
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Reflexively telling
Yesterday, Boker Tov Boulder aptly observed that following a terror attack: … there’s the attack by the media that inevitably follows. Then there’s the aftermath, in which we can see the results of the first two, usually along the lines … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Terrorism
Tagged Jerusalem, Terror
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The utter denial of the Arab mind
Unbelievable. First, the lawyer says that the Israeli Arab who murdered three and wounded at least 66 should not have been shot. Then the family says it wasn’t a deliberate attack. It was a “road accident.” The lawyer representing the … Continue reading
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The AP finally names the victims
Stop the presses. The AP has identified two of the three victims of the Palestinian terrorist attack. Of course, their identities are buried deep within the story, instead of in the lead, as they would be if they were Arab … Continue reading
Maureen Dowd gets it wrong
I rarely read Maureen Dowd anymore. I idolized her columns when I was in college. Times change. But she ends a column—ironically titled “The Wrong Stuff—about the current sniping about the candidates’ military experience, with this: Maybe instead of refighting … Continue reading
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Can’t change the narrative
The original AP headline for the Palestinian terror attack in Jerusalem? Driver rams vehicle into Jerusalem bus, killing 3 Like it was an accident, instead of a deliberate, murderous attack.
Defining deviancy
Palestinian terrorists are now resorting to using heavy machinery to kill Israelis. Three dead, and 45 wounded*, when an Arab Israeli drove his bulldozer into cars, buses, and crowds. Three women were killed and at least 30 more people were … Continue reading
Benchmarks, liquor then Israel?
According to a report issued by the White House, the Iraqi government is showing satisfactory progress on most of the political benchmarks it needs to. Iraq’s political and military success is considered vital to U.S. interests, whether troops stay or … Continue reading