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
Yiddishe nachas *
Not. And amid all this hype, Winehouse’s representatives said late Friday that she won’t attend tonight’s Grammys in Los Angeles. Although she resolved her visa issues with the U.S. Embassy, she’ll still appear via satellite from London. Winehouse apparently decided … Continue reading
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Sharia for Britain
Last week the Archbishop of Canterbury said that it wouldn’t be a bad idea for Shari’a to be adopted in England. Martin Fletcher added his two cents: As one who has been hauled in front of a Sharia court I … Continue reading
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The teacher and the terrorists
(An open letter to Deborah Howell, ombudsman of the Washington Post.)Over the past two years, you defended the decision to publish op-eds by representatives of Hamas, a terrorist organization. It is a decision that cannot be justified. Still, you defended … Continue reading
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I musta got lost
An Israeli professor solved a problem that has been bothering mathematicians for nearly 40 years. Trakhtman solved the “Road Coloring Problem,” which was raised by Israeli mathematics Prof. Binyamin Weiss and others in 1970. There are many forms but the … Continue reading
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Health, education and welfare – Hamas style
I wondered about this report when I first read it. An Israeli missile hit a school in Beit Hanoun, killing a teacher and wounding three pupils, hospital officials said.Two of the wounded were initially identified as fellow staff members but … Continue reading
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The WMD of the Muslim world
A blogger The Sudanese Thinker calls Israel a WMD. Let’s shelter our oppressed Palestinian brothers. Let’s put them first before any of those living a few feet away from us. They deserve more help. The problems in our own backyards … Continue reading
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Low hanging times
Barry Rubin has at the NY Times, especially outgoing reporter Steven Erlanger. Speaking about restrictions, it might be worth mentioning that there are no such Israeli restrictions on the West Bank. Why is that? It is because the Palestinian Authority … Continue reading
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Sy’s lies
via memeorandumInvestigative reporter, Seymour “Sy” Hersh has an exclusive for the New Yorker, “A strike in the dark,” alleging that Israel didn’t really know what the nature of the facility it bombed last September in Syria was. (As is the … Continue reading
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Closing the barn door
The Washington Post reports Egyptians Reseal Border, Cutting Access From Gaza Egyptian construction workers in blue hard hats rolled barbed wire across the last breaches of the Gaza Strip’s border wall with Egypt on Sunday, reasserting Egyptian control of the … Continue reading
Haveil Havalim #152 is UP!
Jack’s Shack continues his stewardship of Haveil Havalim – The Jewish and Israel related blogging carnival – with the prophetic Haveil Havalim #152 – Patriotos must lose edition.
It was evening; it was morning
Lightness of Being The bright sun dissects the airglow above Earth’s horizon in this view photographed with a digital still camera from the Space Shuttle Columbia during the STS-107 mission.Space Shuttle Columbia and the STS-107 crew perished during re-entry on … Continue reading
A monopoly on Yerushalayim
Monopoly – the board game – is looking for a new cities to feature. (The classic game, of course, is based on Atlantic City New Jersey.) If I understand the goal, Hasbro/Parker Brothers is looking for 20 cities to feature … Continue reading
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The obama charm offensive
Various proxies have taken to defending Sen Barack Obama to the Jewish community. Frankly it hasn’t just been about defending Sen. Obama, it’s been about attacking the senator’s critics or even those who question him. So you can call it … Continue reading
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Israeli tech 2/1/2008
The Jerusalem Post reports that Israel just launched a new spy satellite, and that all appears in working order. Israel’s TecSar satellite, launched last week from India, began transmitting pictures to its ground control center in Yehud on Thursday. The … Continue reading
Yossi’s chutzpah
I’m no Olmert fan, but this takes the cake. From Ynet: The prime minister was also criticized by the left end of the political spectrum, with Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin saying that “the Winograd Commission’s final report reinforces the impression … Continue reading