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
Israel: cancelled
Those moderate voices from Iran continue to reverberate throughout the world: Iranian calls for the destruction of Israel are almost routine these days. But for a former official of the Islamic Republic to call for the destruction of the Jewish … Continue reading
Still the Samir?
Given the sympathy that the Washington Post once showed for Samir Kuntar in a news story, the editorial An Unwelcome Hero was welcome, if flawed. If anyone ever deserved the title “baby-killer,” it is Samir Kuntar. Yet his freedom has … Continue reading
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Authority without accountibility
After Arafat died, a number of news articles appeared reporting on how pragmatic Hamas politicians were. The gist of the articles was that though Hamas was known as a terrorist organization, there was no denying that the politicians from Hamas … Continue reading
Haveil Havalim – doing what he does anyway
Check out the latest Haveil Havalim #172 hosted by my old friend (appropriate since it’s the “old fogey” edition) Daled Amos. Truth is he’s doing what he does daily anyway. If there’s any blogger out there who’s promoting the rest … Continue reading
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Tagged Daled Amos, Jewish Blogging
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Booting Hersh
Last week, Cheat Seeking Missiles went after Seymour Hersh for an recently written “expose” in the New Yorker. What troubled me is that CSM took everything Hersh wrote at face value. Hersh cherry picks some stuff, confuses some stuff, makes … Continue reading
Fine Arabian chargers
Horse racing appears to be really popular among the Palestinians. Unfortunately there was an accident at the races today near Nablus. A Palestinian man , left and a horse rider, lay on the ground after they collided during a horse … Continue reading
Interesting euphemisms
Honor Guard An honor guard stand to attention … These are members of Hamas brandishing (I think) AK-47’s. Wouldn’t the more appropriate term be “armed terrorists?” Iranian diplomats picture depicting the four Iranian diplomats who were kidnapped in Lebanon in … Continue reading
Not the worst politician
Eric Trager had a post a few days ago The Worst Politician Ever?: Still, one might expect Israel’s political leadership-which overwhelmingly approved the deal yesterday-to declare that Israel is achieving some sort of strategic benefit through the prisoner swap. After … Continue reading
Never the twain shall meet
Griff Witte’s report, Motives in Earthmover Rampage Debated in Jerusalem is striking for two things one that it says and one that it omits. Israeli officials and media described Edwyat as a terrorist who had targeted Jews. But friends and … Continue reading
Reflexively telling
Yesterday, Boker Tov Boulder aptly observed that following a terror attack: … there’s the attack by the media that inevitably follows. Then there’s the aftermath, in which we can see the results of the first two, usually along the lines … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Terrorism
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Benchmarks, liquor then Israel?
According to a report issued by the White House, the Iraqi government is showing satisfactory progress on most of the political benchmarks it needs to. Iraq’s political and military success is considered vital to U.S. interests, whether troops stay or … Continue reading
The world’s worst motivational poster
I’m sure you’ve seen those motivational posters around. (This parody was created by Despair, Inc.’s Parody Motivator Generator.) I saw this picture and thought it must be the world’s least appropriate motivational poster. Israelly Cool! thinks it’s part of a … Continue reading
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Sneaking peace
According to Ha’aretz a law that just past its first reading stipulates Territorial withdrawal only by referendum: An existing law already mandates a referendum before ceding any territory under Israeli sovereignty, but it also states that this requirement will not … Continue reading
The final piece
Amos Harel wrote Prisoner swap is capitulation to blackmail by terrorists. Judging by the title alone it would seem that it’s a critique of the government’s decision to trade Samir Kuntar and other terrorists for Eldad Regev and Ehud Goldwasser. … Continue reading