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: Soccerdad
The president plans; Abbas throws pie in his face
Last week I offered qualified praise to the editors of the Washington Post for their observations about President Obama’s meeting with Prime Minister Netanyahu. The one part of the editorial that I didn’t like was towards the end: Now Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics, The One
Tagged President Abbas, President Obama, Prime Minister Netanyahu
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The Eiland report: spinning it against Israel
Originally the Washington Post reported Israeli troops raid aid flotilla headed for Gaza, killing nine and the New York Times reported Deadly Israeli Raid Draws Condemnation. Both articles seem reasonably accurate in hindsight. Now Israel has released the results of … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Eiland report, Mavi Marmara
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They couldn’t possibly have been inspired by the Nazis
What You Can’t Say About Islamism by Paul Berman In our present Age of the Zipped Lip, you are supposed to avoid making any of the following inconvenient observations about the history and doctrines of the Islamist movement: You are … Continue reading
“… what any mujahedeen woman wants”
Today’s Week in Review features and aritcle, Wanted: Jihadists to Marry Widows: A snippet of news from a shadowy corner of Iraq: Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia recently issued a fatwa telling its fighters to marry the widows of those who … Continue reading
Why was Ocatavia Nasr fired?
There is currently a rumor going around that CNN reporter, Octavia Nasr was fired for a uncritical eulogy she tweeted for recently departed Sheikh Fadlallah. Don’t get me wrong, Nasr clearly showed a bias that is all too prevalent in … Continue reading
Why can’t the editors of the New York Times …
… be more like the editors of the Washington Post? Today’s Washington Post features an editorial President Obama’s new Middle East course has promise: FOR MUCH of the past 15 months, President Obama sought to advance his goal of a … Continue reading
The odd “peace logic” of the New York Times
Yesterday’s meeting between Israeli PM Netanyahu and President Obama did not impress the editors of the New York Times. In Mr. Netanyahu at the White House, they write: President Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel satisfied their short-term … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
Tagged Benjamin Netanyahu, Mahmoud Abbas, New York Times
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WaPo: President Obama seeks to mend fences with Israel and keep Jews on board
Ahead of today’s visit of Prime Minister Netanyahu to President Obama the Washington Post, In Obama, Netanyahu meet again amid questions over U.S.-Israel relations, catalogues many of the difficulties plaguing the relationship between the two allies. The public show of … Continue reading
Do not speak ill of dead terrorists
Yesterday the New York Times wrote of the death of Mohammed Oudeh, otherwise known as Abud Daoud the mastermind of the terrorist attack on the Israeli athletes in the 1972 Olympics, killing eleven of them. In later years, as a … Continue reading
What part of antisemitism don’t you understand?
Hannah Rosenthal, the administration envoy charged with fighting antisemitism: We welcome the opportunity to speak here today, as the problem of intolerance and discrimination against Muslims is an issue across the OSCE region. The United States strongly supports combating all … Continue reading
They who must not be named
Today Charles Krauthammer blasts the administration for its refusal to state the obvious in Terror — and candor in describing the Islamist ideology behind it Instead, President Obama’s National Security Strategy insists on calling the enemy — how else do … Continue reading
Because that Israel lobby just distorts American policy so much
Yesterday’s Washington Post features At White House, Obama and Saudi king discuss Guantanamo, Mideast peace process by Ann Kornblut. The article features a number of interesting paragraphs: Broaching a sensitive subject, President Obama assured the visiting king of Saudi Arabia … Continue reading
Australia becomes more pro-Israel, the rest of the world, not so much
Meryl and others have written about the attack on Australia’s new Prime Minister for being insufficiently anti-Israel. On Monday she was caught in her first political storm as prime minister following a letter written by Ross Burns, who served as … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Israel
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Cohen on Gaza, Hamas: not bad
I can’t agree with everything Richard Cohen writes in Hamas is a threat to the Palestinian cause, but he makes several good points, including his (imperfect) conclusion: The irony is that Israel is often called a colonialist power. In some … Continue reading