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
Hiding the French antisemitism
The main defendent in the Ilan Halimi murder was sentenced to life in prison. Youssouf Fofana, leader of the gang that mastermind Halimi’s kidnap, torture and murder, which was described by a leading police officer as the most brutal and … Continue reading
They think he still cares
While Alan Dershowitz focuses on those American Jews who are critical of President Obama’s forays into Middle East peacemaking, he fails to acknowledge a different group that’s also unimpressed with his efforts so far: Israeli Jews. As Aluf Benn writes: … Continue reading
Dershowitz doubles down
Alan Dershowitz defends his (flawed) defense of the Obama administration’s stance on the Israel. This is precisely the situation American supporters of Israel want to avoid. We do not want to replicate the horrible situation that currently exists in Phillips’ … Continue reading
Perhaps if they created a Uighur Liberation Organization and started killing westerners the world would remember the Fourth Geneva Convention
In the 1940’s a nation attacked a sovereign state then occupied and annexed its territory. That would be the Chinese. At Forbes, Gordon Chang discusses the history of the Uighurs. These two paragraphs were especially enlightening..( via Instapundit) : The … Continue reading
No apologies
According to Ron Dermer, an adviser to PM Netanyahu, Israel will be engaged in non-apologetic public relations. Israel Matzav comments|: Does this mean that the Israeli government is actually going to tell the World that Jews have lived in Israel … Continue reading
Kemp: Israel safeguarded civilian rights in Gaza
Last week, I was surprised that both Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch issued reports claiming that Israel unjustifiably killed civilians during Operation Cast Lead. (See a related posts at Media Backspin and at CAMERA.) But of course, it was … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Col. Richard Kemp
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The moon is made of multi-colored tie dyed cheese
Wow, a really funky color enhanced picture of the moon from NASA. Earth’s Moon This composite image depicts the moon’s rugged south polar region and is the highest resolution topography map to date of the moon’s south pole. It was … Continue reading
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Tagged moon
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Did Rube Goldberg invent the peace process?
Two articles in Ha’aretz makes me wonder if Rube Goldberg invented the peace process. The first is a mea culpa that Haaretz had botched an earlier article that claimed that Gilad Shalit’s release was “imminent.” (h/t Yaacov Lozowick): The sixth … Continue reading
Should Seymour Hersh have been prosecuted?
One element of the “AIPAC spy case” that’s disturbing is the selective nature of the prosecution. The editors of the Washington Post were against the prosecution on the grounds that passing on classified information to reporters is often how news … Continue reading
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Tagged David Tenenbaum, Larry Franklin
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Shame on Dershowitz
Yesterday, Jennifer Rubin asked: Where is the outrage in the U.S. — especially among the 78% of Jews who voted for Obama? Where are the major Jewish institutions that in the past offered rhetorical and political support for a vibrant … Continue reading
Human Wrongs Watch
Yesterday the New York Times reported on a recent Human Rights Watch report that claimed that during its campaign in Gaza Israel killed 29 civilians in six separate attacks. Twenty-nine civilians, including eight children, were killed in what appeared to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
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Omer and omer
Dion Nissenbuam (Twice in one day? Yes.) highlights a friend’s efforts to expose an Israeli conspiracy. Ashraf, a friend who was one of the many talented reporters to be laid off as a result of the economic implosion of the … Continue reading
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Truth in journalism
A few weeks ago Dion Nissenbaum was outraged at a stunt pulled by Israeli journalist Ben Caspit. Caspit put words in the mouth of Sen. George Mitchell, have the envoy say, “Our policy is simple,” US Middle East envoy George … Continue reading
Necessary, insufficient and 16 years late
Last week a number of news organizations focused on the growing security responsibilities of the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria. Howard Schneider of the Washington Post reported For Palestinian Forces a growing role in the West Bank: Amid a marked … Continue reading
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Tagged Palestinian Authority
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