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: Hamas
The moral Disneyland revisited
Twenty years ago Charles Krauthammer wrote The Mideast as Moral Disneyland. (Washington Post, February 5, 1988). What set Krauthammer off was a complaint by Woody Allen about how Israel wasn’t so lovable as it once was. In the middle of … Continue reading
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Hamas leader: Rayyan the brute
The estimable Khaled Abu Toameh profiles the Hamas leader who was killed by Israeli bombs yesterday. Looks like the man responsible for throwing Fatah members off Gaza buildings is the one that was killed by dropping a building on him. … Continue reading
Jack’s Gaza update 5.5
It’s here. Soccer Dad and I can’t do it all ourselves, you know.
Signs of the times: Praying from bomb shelters
Saturday is probably going to be a heavy rocket day. Israel’s Homefront Command realizes this, and is advising Jews to attend only fortified synagogues. Rockets also landed throughout the evening in Ashkelon, Beersheba, and the Gaza vicinity communities, and the … Continue reading
Chris Muir on disproportionate response
Ever spot on:
War crimes: Hiding weapons in mosques
Here’s the IDF footage of the mosque in Gaza they blew up the other day. Note the secondary and tertiary explosions. Those only occur when weapons stockpiles are hit. Refer to this whenever you talk to someone who says that … Continue reading
Famous last words
Israel got a top Hamasnik (and watch for the screaming about his wives and daughters, who refused to leave the house after being warned a Hellfire missile was on its way). These are pretty fitting last words: Wednesday saw Rayyan … Continue reading
Irony dead in Gaza
This is rich. Hamas has threatened that Israel “will pay a heavy price” for the assassination for Nizar Rayyan, earlier Thursday. What, you mean like send Grad missiles into major Israeli cities?
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The coming ground war
Here’s where I make a fool of myself and try my hand at analysis. Because I’m not in any way, shape, or form a military expert. But I completely disagree with this opinion piece in Ha’aretz, which says that Israel … Continue reading
2009 starts with a miracle: Grad hits Ashdod, none wounded
An apartment building in Ashdod was hit by a rocket, and nobody was hurt. The miracles just keep on coming. A Grad rocket fired from northern Gaza at around noon Thursday struck an eight-storey apartment building in Ashdod. The rocket … Continue reading
NYT: Hamas upgrades = success / Israel defends = disaster
The NYT today features two articles about Israel’s war against Hamas that are rather revealing. One is Striking Deep Into Israel, Hamas Employs an Upgraded Rocket Arsenal, and the second is In Dense Gaza, Civilians Suffer They are revealing both … Continue reading
Gaza roundup 4.5
Jack does it, so I don’t have to. But I will anyway. The weather is currently in Hamas’ favor: It’s going to clear up tomorrow. The ground war is likely to begin after it clears. Arabs are shooting Israelis in … Continue reading
Israel ratchets it up a notch: Mosque hit
The IDF bombed a mosque used by terrorists as a rocket launching site. Wait for the world to scream like a girl and faint. The IDF confirmed Wednesday afternoon that Air Force jets bombed a mosque in western Gaza City. … Continue reading
The result of the “lull”
Ami Iseroff has an excellent analysis of the result of the last “lull” that Hamas asked for—and was granted. Remember, world opinion was that Israel should grant Hamas the “lull” and then, in six months, the two parties would renew … Continue reading
Hamas war crimes
Hamas operatives are hiding in hospitals and operating rocket launchers in densely-populated civilian areas. Diskin also noted that large numbers of Hamas operatives are hiding in hospitals and that some are posing as medical staff. “Some are also hiding in … Continue reading