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…
Category Archives: Iran
One of these things is not like the other
Remember that song on Sesame Street? One of these things is not like the other? Well, here’s a real-life example of it. The United Nations nuclear watchdog agency begins its annual meeting Monday, where it looks set to wrestle with … Continue reading
Friday briefs
It’s anti-Zionism, not anti-Semitism: Omri Casspi’s mural was vandalized with a swastika again. Not for the second time, as USA Today is reporting. This is number three. But it’s just a statement against Israel, not against Jews. Why would we … Continue reading
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Thursday briefs
Awesome! Iran’s economy is tanking: Just the other day, Rafsanjani chided Mad Mahmoud that the sanctions are the worst Iran has ever seen. Must be really hitting his pocketbook, then. And nothing overthrows tyrants like lack of money to the … Continue reading
Things you really ought to read
Tony Blair’s speech at Herzliya: I often have a conversation about the West Bank which goes like this. Someone says: Israel must lift the occupation. I reply: I agree but it has to be sure that when it does so, … Continue reading
Briefly
And yet, gays still support Queers for Palestine: Israel, the only country in the Middle East that protects gays’ civil rights, rescued a gay Israeli Arab from his family after they kidnapped and beat him. Oh, and they arrested his … Continue reading
Monday briefs
You give up the money, idiot: It’s not heroic to fight off armed robbers, it’s stupid. Especially when you’re only carrying $5. It’s stupid. And now a rabbinic student is hospitalized for his stupidity. There’s a Talmudic lesson in here … Continue reading
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Your Sunday morning briefs
Are they different from your weekly briefs? Not really. So, what’s the pool on when Israel’s going to bomb it? The Russians are loading nuclear fuel rods into the Bushehr reactor. Oh, no way anything can go wrong with that, … Continue reading
Friday, briefly
Guess the ethnicity gets even better on the updates! Now you just know he’s from Israel, and is a “religious, God-fearing man“. So once again, I’m going to perform a public service: Elias Abuelazzam (Abu al-Azzam) is NOT a Jewish … Continue reading
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Thursday news roundup
The AP notices that Palestinians have more rights in Israel than in Lebanon: It’s a profile of the Lebanese debate about whether to give Palestinians the right to work in the country where they’ve lived (in many cases) all their … Continue reading
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The Point of No Return
Jeffrey Goldberg has a long piece in the Atlantic on whether or not Israel is going to attack Iran’s nukes. Here’s a hint: He thinks it’s going to be in the coming spring. The main question was, is, and continues … Continue reading
Briefs
Tony Judt won’t be criticizing Israel any more: Tony Judt’s ALS killed him. If you plan on celebrating his death in my comments, don’t. My father died of ALS. It’s a horrible disease, and the man suffered immensely in the … Continue reading
Monday briefs
Terrorists aim for Israelis, murder their own again: Terrorists tried to kill Jews, and wound up killing a Jordanian taxi driver instead. You aim for Eilat, you hit the town next to it—which happens to be in Jordan. Well, better … Continue reading
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Rethinking the administration’s views towards Israel, Iran
Last week, based on some upbeat articles, I wondered if the administration was changing its approach. Now Caroline Glick argues against that proposition in The New Improved Obama. The basic notion informing both of these nearly identical articles is that … Continue reading
The madness of Mad Mahmoud
Mad Mahmoud is even crazier than usual. “We have precise information that the Americans have devised a plot … they plan to attack at least two countries in the region within the next three months,” he said in remarks Press … Continue reading
Two positive developments from Iran
I’ve recently been following some developments on the Iranian front. There appears to be another effect the most recent round of sanctions have had on Iran – Sanctions Slow Development of Natural Gas Field in Iran Threatened by tougher international … Continue reading