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
Missing the process for the peace
Daled Amos quotes from Contentions arguing that Secretary Rice would be better off using her clout to try an protect Lebanon instead of trying to save the “peace process.” Lebanon’s fragile democracy is under assault by Syria (and its master, … Continue reading
School’s not out
Elder of Ziyon notes that, today, schools in Gaza are expected to be open and comments. It’s almost as if they don’t expect any indiscriminate and disproportionate rockets of the evil, genocidal, Nazi Zionists to be fired at their schools … Continue reading
No nearer the destination
The New York Times offers its advice about what to in the Middle East, in “Slipping Away” For the first time, an Israeli leader and a Palestinian leader seem genuinely committed to peace. They set a deadline for a deal … Continue reading
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Legal approaches to prevent offense to islam
Michelle Malkin has an item today about demands from the Gulf to pass laws forbidding the insulting of Islam. Combined with the recent re-publication of the Danish Mo cartoons, these unacceptable acts of free speech have Muslim “scholars†demanding that … Continue reading
Posted in Blasts from the past, Miscellaneous, Religion 3 Comments
He said — wha-a-a-t?
Last week, Israel’s Deputy Defense Minister, Matan Vilnai made some waves. Here’s the NY Times: The Israeli deputy defense minister, Matan Vilnai, told army radio that Israel would respond to escalation and that “we will not shy away from any … Continue reading
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Searching for peace
There was something odd about this article in the Washington Post, In Search for Peace, a Shrinking White House Role. It starts: When Palestinians broke through the barrier dividing the Gaza Strip and Egypt in January and streamed across the … Continue reading
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Surveys
Just some quick observations about the recent violence in Gaza.Backspin has helpfully provided some numbers that illustrate the threat to Israel, focusing on Ashkelon. Note especially, the budget of Izzedine al Kassam’s estimated budget. Given the poverty of Gaza one … Continue reading
Sophomore jinx
Griff Witte is quickly becoming my favorite Middle East correspondent. He adds to his impressive debut with an excellent sophomore effort, Strikes in Gaza Kill 18 Palestinians; Hamas Rocket Barrage Injures 2 Israelis. (That’s facetious.)First he writes that Israel is … Continue reading
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Not closed
I recently commented on the closing arguments of the Enderlin/Karsenty case in France. Based on the information I had, I questioned how France 2 could have alleged that King Hussein visited Jamal al-Dura. After checking back with my source, he … Continue reading
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Are you grid enough?
Daled Amos recently commented on the implications of Egypt supplying electricity to Gaza.Now Jordan is set to start supplying electricity to Jericho. Jordan, of course, claims that only humanitarian concerns are involved. Jordanian officials insisted the Jericho hookup is only … Continue reading
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Trading attacks
The New York Times reports on yesterday’s violence in southern Israel, Hamas and Israelis Trade Attacks, Killing Several (via memeorandum – the headline, BTW, is much better than one that appeared in South Africa. It’s a problem in Australia too.)Not … Continue reading
Closing arguments
Roger L. Simon is correct when he writes: I was up early this morning to help with PJM’s ongoing coverage of the Al Dura Trial in Paris. We seem to be almost alone in the US media bothering with this … Continue reading
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Is it bad to be pro-Likud?
The other day the Jerusalem Post reported on some comments Sen. Obama made (via memeorandum): “I think there is a strain within the pro-Israel community that says unless you adopt an unwavering pro-Likud approach to Israel, then you’re anti-Israel, and … Continue reading
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Radical preachers
In When Jihad came to America, Andrew McCarthy sketches a brief history of the blind Sheikh and his followers, especially El Sayyid Nosair, who killed Rabbi Meir Kahane, and the failure of authorities to tie them to the larger evil … Continue reading
Find the adjectives
We all know that in journalism it is the job of the reporter to answer 5 W’s – Who, what, where, when, and why. Usually some combination of nouns and verbs – with perhaps some articles, adverbs and prepositions – … Continue reading
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