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: November 2010
Thursday morning briefs
The more you learn, the worse it gets: Really, first we learn (shock!) that German diplomats were complicit in murdering Jews. Now we learn that at least a third of the German war effort was supported by stolen Jewish wealth … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Holocaust, Iran, Israeli Double Standard Time, United Nations
Tagged Hamas, Iran, Israel, UN
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But Sunnis would never ally themselves with Shi’ites …
Tweeted by Martin Kramer – Ehud Ya’ari writes: For the last few months, a forty-three-page Arabic-language booklet has been emailed to Hamas activists in the Gaza Strip and to select members of the group in the West Bank and elsewhere. … Continue reading
The whitewashing a of terrorist mass murderer
Arafat’s dead, but the tongue-baths and whitewashing live on. Wow, what a nifty-keen profile of the Yasser Arafat museum in the AP! Why, if you read this profile, you would hardly know that the biggest mass-murderer of Jews since Adolf … Continue reading
Legality and morality of drone attacks
Warning: long post! The use of armed drones in the conflict areas is not exactly new, as are arguments for and against the use of this weapon. Found to be quite effective in getting to the various terrorist chiefs and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Playing into Hamas’s hands
Thomas Friedman who is an expert – “expert” in this case means being able to say things with no factual support and have no one question you – wrote The Reality Principle in 2003. Have you noticed how often Israel … Continue reading
Tuesday post-op briefs
My pupils aren’t really dilating, but I can still see to read. But—but—Hamas would never harm UN personnel: John Ging doesn’t feel safe in Gaza, so Israel has approved four submachine guns for use of his personal bodyguards. Say, how’s … Continue reading
The little anti-Israel lies
In a recent essay describing her alienation from NPR, Bookworm identified the first point of departure: There was only one problem with this neatly enclosed little universe: Israel. You see, unlike stories about domestic politics, where my only understanding of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Another wall of Goldstone report crumbles. What now?
During Israel’s Operation Cast Lead, Israel targeted the Hamas police infrastructure, killing approximately 250 officers on 27 December 2008. Their status as combatants was disputed and Israel’s actions were widely condemned. The UN investigation into Cast Lead headed by Richard … Continue reading
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Taking more of a break
You know, getting Lasik surgery does, indeed, take a fair amount out of you, at least if you’re middle-aged. I’m staying with friends in NJ, and today, for the second day in a row, I saw Bob’s dad. He said, … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Gabriel Latner and Philip Weiss, his dim opponent
Sometimes I enjoy writing about assaJews, the valiant Jooish anti-Zionists, I have to say. No matter how many dumb things our own politicos say and do, assaJews will always leave them standing in the race for ultimate dumb act. I … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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A new worldview
Well, the Lasik went well, but boy, it takes some getting used to. My near vision is gone. Kaput. Finished. I was pretty darned nearsighted, so I could basically count the numbers of hairs on my arm if I wanted … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Sticks and stones, Palestinian edition
In January 1998 when Binyamin Netanyahu was serving his first term as President and Bill Clinton was President of the United States, Clinton was pressuring Netanyahu to cede territory to the Palestinian Authority. Netanyahu refused until the Arafat and the … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, palestinian politics
Tagged Hebron Accords, Incitement, Oslo Accords
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Lasik office things
Thing 1: The most annoying test for Lasik surgery? Putting these papery things in my eyes (yes, really) to test if my eye were dry (yes, really). “Well, they’re drying NOW,” I told the tech, what with her sticking paper … Continue reading
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Clinton: nostalgic for a past that never was
In the weeks following the assassination of Yitzchak Rabin, Israel handed over control of six cities to the Palestinian Authority. The New York Times reported at the time. For Mr. Abu-Ghdeib, a local wallpaper dealer who had enlisted in the … Continue reading
Delusions of the self kind
Soccer Dad is writing about Bill Clinton’s imaginary Israel/Palestinian negotiations, where Yasser Arafat was not an unrepentant terrorist who launched countless terror attacks in the hopes of defeating Israel, but a partner in peace. But he missed the most deluded … Continue reading