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…
Author Archives: SnoopyTheGoon
Hamas – change of language and pricing issues
At the beginning of Cast Lead operation, Hamas sent to randomly chosen Israeli citizens a lot of SMSs in a garbled Hebrew, here is an example courtesy of Ynet: Translated into (equally garbled) English the nessage means: “Rockets on all … Continue reading
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Judging Israel – judging the world
The point-counterpoint game is an endless and, frankly, frustrating business. You rarely gain friends by a prolonged and detailed argument, you frequently gain enemies by a good photography job, especially with all modern conveniences (should I mention the all-powerful Pho.. … Continue reading
That little UCI chameleon
Where do you hide a leaf? In a tree, of course. It is kindergarten stuff. Where do you hide a Jew? No, not in the woods, Jews don’t take to the woods willingly – unless forced to. The right answer … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Naomi Klein in “The Beauty and the Beast”
I am sorry that I cannot be 100% serious about Naomi Klein, with all due respect to her genealogy (coming as she does from a long line of pacifist Jooish folks), to her education (or, rather, the lack of it … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Another Dmitry: The last world war
The last translation (from the Jewish journalist Dmitry Sidorov) wasn’t a fact-based commentary, rather an emotional response to the goings-on here. What I said in that post. Upon second thought – there definitely is a place for purely emotional reaction … Continue reading
When Amira Hass accuses Hamas
This is not precisely news, but in a way it is – when one of the chief apologists for Palestinian misdeeds says it: Even in the current conditions, Hamas is continuing to arrest those it suspects of criminal activity or … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics
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How soon they forget?
No, I am not angry at Brits – I am already past that point, being closer to the mood best expressed by this piece. Still, I shall never quit to wonder about this country that (go figure why!) holds, and … Continue reading
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From despised to despised
Dmitry Sidorov is a Russian (and Jewish, although the name is highly unlikely) journalist. With kind assistance of the Google translator and some nudges here and there, I have translated (meanwhile without permission) his article that appears here in Russian. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gaza
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France 2 – oops again
In another time and another place this would have caused me a few whoops of laughter: French public television network France 2 on Tuesday revealed they had aired photographs that allegedly showed destruction caused by the Israel Air Force during … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Media Bias
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Want a good war crime?
When you want to start carping about Israel’s war crimes, when your senses of justice, humanity and freedom are jarred by another picture of bleeding child or human entrails flung far and wide, of school building gutted by a tank … Continue reading
Where suicide bombers come from
An amazing article by Nic Robertson (CNN). Gaza horrors sow seeds for future violence Finally we know where suicide bombers come from. The article describes the trauma that children of Gaza are undergoing these days. The children have seen terrible … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Terrorism
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A priceless headline
This headline appeared on Ynet*: Hamas threatens attacks on Israeli civilians It comes from our long-time friend Mahmoud al-Zahar, who probably missed the sublime irony of that threat. What else Hamas was busy with for the last ten years? (*) … Continue reading
We are… what?
At the beginning I just wanted to lift the picture from this post by Andrew Ian Dodge: But then, the whole post has to be repeated, so here it goes: Stating your objection to something Israel does is your right, … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, World
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Gaza war – a random selection
Several not necessarily related items that caught my attention since yesterday. If you want a blow by blow war journal, you better look elsewhere – some people do it much better. Israel Vice premier, Industry, Trade and Labor minister refrain … Continue reading
15 New Commandments – for gradual human self-destruction or The Enemy Within
I am not absolutely sure that Tom Carew is the author of this excellent text, but it comes from him, it doesn’t appear (for now) anywhere else in the e-space as seen by Google, and in any case many thanks … Continue reading
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