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: Gaza
Playing with fire
Something bothered me about this picture of a Palestinian girl in Gaza protesting the latest Hamas imposed blackout. How old is she? Two? Crossposted at Yourish.
Hamas manufactures Gaza blackouts—again
Gaza is experiencing blackouts, and of course, Hamas is blaming Israel. Gaza residents are experiencing sporadic electricity blackouts, and Palestinian officials are blaming Israel for cutting off fuel shipments to their power plant. Israeli military administration spokesman Peter Lerner says … Continue reading
Even Israel buys the “rockets don’t break truce” meme
Really, it’s just unbelievably depressing that even Israel is pretending that kassam rockets launched at schoolchildren aren’t violations of the “truce.” Palestinian terrorists fired five Qassam rockets at Gaza-region communities Friday morning. Two rockets reportedly landed in the Sderot area, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Terrorism
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The Blair sewage project
Yesterday’s Qassam attack against Ashkelon didn’t yet make it into the NY Times report about the fighting between Israel and Hamas, but this did: Military officials said that the initial army raid was a “pinpoint†operation aimed at thwarting a … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Tony Blair
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One less Hamas terrorist, one more ship of fools
A “work accident” killed a Hamas terrorist—sorry, “policeman”—in Gaza yesterday. But read the article with me and watch the mysteries unfold. A Hamas policeman was killed and several Palestinians were wounded Thursday night when an explosive device went off in … Continue reading
Ship of fools going back to Gaza
The Free Gaza morons, not having had their fill of being stuck in Gaza (cf: Lauren Booth, and try hard not to laugh when you think of her being turned back at every Gaza border crossing, shrieking, “But I’m Lauren … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time
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Call it POSHA
One of my biggest complaints about Palestinian demands for a state, is that they’ve never set up the institutions of government. Well now, in Gaza, Hamas has taken the first step. Call it P-OSHA. (h/t Daily Alert) Gaza’s smugglers are … Continue reading
Another crisis not of Israel’s making
Yes we’ve heard of the terrible siege that Israel has laid against Gaza. Mere Rhetoric catalogues all of the charges against Israel and shows them to be bogus. The latest to fall is how Israel’s blockade harmed the sick and … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Israeli Double Standard Time
Tagged Durban II
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AP: Finding something to criticizen in all things Israeli
The AP couldn’t manage to write a Rosh Hashana story without criticizing Israel. Because gee, when they write Ramadan stories, the first thing they do is bemoan Muslim terrorist attacks. Oh, wait. No they don’t. Here’s what went ’round the … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Gaza, Holidays, Israel
Tagged Israel, Media Bias
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Fair Diehl
I’m not a big fan of Jackson Diehl. Earlier in his career he was the Israel correspondent for the Washington Post. More recently, he’s been a foreign affairs columnist for the paper. As columnist he has consistently favored Arab “reformers,” … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, palestinian politics
Tagged Bassam Eid, Natan Sharansky
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Exculpating Hamas
Notice what’s missing from this headline from the NYT? Hamas Strikes at Gaza Clan Known for Criminal Activity Well, let’s look at the first paragraph of the story: Eleven members of a large Palestinian clan, including a 1-year-old, were killed … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Media Bias
Tagged Doghmush clan
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Hamas murders baby; world media ignores it
Say, how many headlines you think this would create if it had been the IDF that killed a baby? Baby among 11 dead after Hamas raids criminal gang’s Gaza base Forces from Hamas, the Islamist movement in control of Gaza, … Continue reading
Good government terrorists strike again
In-fighting in Gaza: Hamas forces, responding to the killing of one of their policemen during an arrest raid on Monday, raided a clan stronghold in Gaza City before dawn on Tuesday in search of a suspect in that slaying, officials … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel Derangement Syndrome
Tagged Hamas
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Hamas’s novelty wears off
In recent years there have consistent attempts in the Western media to portray Hamas as just another political party. Ahmad Ayyad, candidate No. 3 on the Islamic bloc’s slate, ran down a list of what he considered to be Abu … Continue reading
Seth Freedman – an apologist for Hamas TV
Seth Freedman as an apologist – this sounds strange, no matter what entity he is supposed to apologize for. The opposite was believed to be true – as one of the main contributors of the Guardian political cesspool called Comment … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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