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
A threat from the south?
via memeorandum According to an Argentinian prosecutor Iran was involved in the attacks on Jewish targets in Argentina. Dr. Alberto Nisman, the prosecutor who has secured Interpol backing for the arrests of several leaders in Teheran, including former president Hashemi … Continue reading
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24 and the NYT
In season 4 of 24 there’s an excellent exchange between a politician and one of his former aides. I’m going to leave out the character names so this won’t serve as a spoiler to anyone who still plans to see … Continue reading
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NYT vs. Daniel Pipes Round Robin
Down Payment on Mideast Peace The political and territorial challenges facing Israeli and Palestinian peace negotiators are formidable and familiar. The economic obstacles to the creation of a viable Palestinian state are also formidable, but easier to make a dent … Continue reading
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What’s a qassam or two …
Zvi Barel in Ha’aretz Can a military operation succeed where sanctions have failed? This is precisely the moment to remember that the Qassam rockets and arms smuggling via the Philadelphi route tunnels did not start after sanctions were imposed. They … Continue reading
On reporting, awarding, exploding
Abby Wisse Schachter delivers a devastating critique of the Israeli newspaper Ha’aretz But Haaretz’s ideological crusade is not limited to the editorial or opinion pages. Its editors are only too happy to publish defamatory feature stories as well. On November … Continue reading
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Losing while winning
Israel just released its own version of a national intelligence estimate, it is a post-mortem of last year’s war with Hezbollah. First the good news: It is clear that Hizbollah’s balance statement at the end of the fighting was mixed. … Continue reading
Fish tales at the PA aid conference
“It was a small fish, actually, rather like a guppy.” “No, no, Habibi Blair, it was more like a bluegill.” “Ha, Monsieur Fayyad, it must have been a bass.” “Herr Kouchner, I must disagree it was more like a salmon.” … Continue reading
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Beilin the oxymoron
Four years ago Thomas Friedman described outgoing Meretz chairman Yossi Beilin as a fanatical moderate: What I have always admired about Mr. Beilin is that he is a fanatical moderate — as committed to his moderation as the extremists are … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #145 is UP!
Well Haveil Havalim #145 is UP! Given that it’s the 3rd anniversary edition you might be interested in some past milestones. Here’s what the 1st edition looked like. Here’s the 1st anniversary edition. Here’s the second anniversary edition The categories … Continue reading
Tel-Aviv Tech
Judy Siegel-Itzkovich reports: Tel Aviv University has hit the jackpot, with three of its scientists included in the list of 50 of the world’s leading innovators in the coming issue of one of the world’s leading science magazines, Scientific American.Prof. … Continue reading
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An Olympic question
Treppenwitz recently wondered if Munich was an appropriate venue for the 2018 Winter games given the city’s unfortunate past when it had hosted the Olympics. A recent article in OpinionJournal told of Qatar’s Olympic bid. In the whole article not … Continue reading
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Lebanese general killed
Snapped Shot informs us Wow, so yesterday’s concussion grenade was not anything major, but it was followed up by a major car bombing in a different part of town, an event that took the life of one of Lebanon’s most … Continue reading
E-yenta
Rabbi Weber wants to encourage Jews to marry Jews. Rabbi Donald Weber is far from the first rabbi to call for single Jews in his congregation to marry other Jews.Such pulpit calls have become commonplace in an age of high … Continue reading
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Nose, face, slice
Earlier this week, the UN passed a resolution introduced by Israel. In a historic first, a committee of the United Nations General Assembly adopted an Israeli-initiated resolution on working matters. The resolution deals with agricultural technology for development, a relatively … Continue reading
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Familar unproductive editorial
The editors of the NYT are all for Starting the peace process Israelis and Palestinians are supposed to begin serious negotiations tomorrow after last month’s long-on-optics, short-on-specifics Annapolis peace meeting. Despite all the smiles and handshakes, both sides went home … Continue reading
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