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: January 2009
The ground war begins
It’s begun. For the first time since the operation in Gaza got underway, IDF artillery cannons started to shell targets in the Strip Saturday, witnesses on both sides of the border said, heralding a possible escalation to a new tactic … Continue reading
On Iranian volunteer suicide bombers
From an AP writer: Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. But there seems to be a hitch: … Continue reading
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Caturday break
Because we could all use more kitty pictures. First, Tig under the bed. He’s not hiding. He’s playing. This picture has just about the most accurate portrayal of his eye color. They’re a deep gold. Next we have our nightly … Continue reading
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Jack’s Gaza roundup is up
Number six it is.
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Tonight at Shabbat
Say a special prayer for the soldiers of the IDF. Here’s Chabad’s Shabbat candlelighting times. And remember tonight, at synagogues all over the world, Jews will also sing Oseh Shalom—a prayer that asks for peace for Israel and for the … Continue reading
But it’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism
A Chicago Jewish day school received a bomb threat. A molotov cocktail was thrown at a Chicago synagogue. Hand-made posters in support of Hamas were placed on two synagogues in Irvine, California. None of these places are Israeli. And yet, … Continue reading
Well, that’s it for me: Stop the war, Israel
Annie Lennox is calling for an end to the Gaza War. I’m sold. Singer Annie Lennox and other celebrities on Friday called on Israel to stop its air attacks on the Gaza Strip. Speaking at a press conference in London … Continue reading
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Time Rayyans out
In his dispatch Senior Hamas leader killed, Griffe Witte of the Washington Post reported: Already, the air campaign has made this the bloodiest conflict in Gaza since Israel seized the territory in 1967. Precision-guided missile strikes have taken a heavy … Continue reading
The moral Disneyland revisited
Twenty years ago Charles Krauthammer wrote The Mideast as Moral Disneyland. (Washington Post, February 5, 1988). What set Krauthammer off was a complaint by Woody Allen about how Israel wasn’t so lovable as it once was. In the middle of … Continue reading
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Hamas leader: Rayyan the brute
The estimable Khaled Abu Toameh profiles the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli bombs yesterday. Looks like the man responsible for throwing Fatah members off Gaza buildings is the one that was killed by dropping a building on him. … Continue reading
Mulling on Hamas, Gaza, Seth, matzav
It is quite difficult to mull on the developments in Gaza while people are dying. People will continue to die, more if the ground operation we are being warned about will come true. This (people dying) is so far the … Continue reading
The IDF has a blog
Granted, it’s not a blog like yours and mine, but still: Linked.
Someone shut Hamas up already, please
More “gates of hell” rhetoric from Hamas: Hamas warned on Thursday that the organization’s response to the targeted killing of one of its leaders by Israel would be “strong and painful.” Meanwhile, a member of one of the other armed … Continue reading
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Jack’s Gaza update 5.5
It’s here. Soccer Dad and I can’t do it all ourselves, you know.
Signs of the times: Praying from bomb shelters
Saturday is probably going to be a heavy rocket day. Israel’s Homefront Command realizes this, and is advising Jews to attend only fortified synagogues. Rockets also landed throughout the evening in Ashkelon, Beersheba, and the Gaza vicinity communities, and the … Continue reading