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
The long Palestinian money trail
Boker Tov Boulder (as noted by Jewish Current Issues, Noah Pollak at the Corner, Mere Rhetoric and Daled Amos) collected a series of news items documenting what has been pledged to the PA over the past 3 years. It’s quite … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #144 is UP!
I was traveling yesterday so I forgot to post that Haveil Havalim #144 (the Jewish/Israel blogging carnival) is UP at Jack’s Shack of Pancakes Latkes. If you have a post that is about Judaism or Israel feel free to submit … Continue reading
Shas and the Saudis agree
Max Boot: What particularly concerns Gulf Arabs is the possibility that Iran could go nuclear–a concern unlikely to be erased by the ambiguous findings of the new NIE. While this NIE claims that Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003 … Continue reading
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Not helpful
I love this. UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon slammed on Thursday Israel’s plan to build more than 300 new homes in an East Jerusalem neighborhood.”This new tender for 300 new homes in eastern Jerusalem, so soon after the Annapolis Middle … Continue reading
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The last Nazis
As they get older the chances that old Nazi war criminals will escape earthly justice increase. The Simon Wiesenthal center is making efforts to find some of the surviving few to bring them to justice, especially in South America. In … Continue reading
Making NIE
In his column yesterday, The myth of the mad mullahs, David Ignatius, in his typically smug fashion, goes over what the American intelligence agencies did differently to arrive at their new conclusion about the Iranian nuclear program. The secret intelligence … Continue reading
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Conversations with Tehran
The Washington Post demonstrates that its editors possess a sophistication that is absent among the editors of the New York Times with Intelligence on Iran. After noting the positive implications of the 2007 NIE, the editors write ” Tehran at … Continue reading
Fuzzy intelligence
The latest NIE reports that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons development and is likely a number of years away from being able to field a nuclear weapon. This estimate is being hailed because it takes the urgency of an … Continue reading
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Is it peace yet?
Last week the Washington Post expressed guarded optimism about the peace in the Middle East in An opening in Annapolis. THE MIDDLE EAST peace meeting in Annapolis yesterday comfortably cleared the low bar of expectations that had been set for … Continue reading
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Annapolis vs. Iran
Michael Oren sees good coming from Annapolis if you’re not looking for peace in Middle East peace through Anxiety After arguing that the conditions for peace don’t exist (or aren’t that strong) Oren writes The inability of the international community … Continue reading
Jackson’s cagey
Jackson Diehl writes in today’s Fuses in Gaza The Islamic Hamas movement, which won the 2006 legislative elections and took sole control of Gaza in June, spent the week of Annapolis quietly doing what it has been doing every week … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #143 is UP!
Haveil Havalim #143 is UP! Haveil Havalim is the Israel/Jewish blogging carnival. Among the great posts: The history of the UNRWA Asser Levy When Hebron is as distant as Lebanon How should you light? The categories are: Annapolis History Israel … Continue reading
Confronting the terrorists and aligning wtih them
via memeorandum In the afterglow of the confidence building Annapolis conference where President Bush said I have known the President for quite a while. I am convinced that he is dedicated to the formation of a Palestinian democracy that will … Continue reading
Multiple choice quiz – middle east oppression edition
Which one of these leaders said the following? A) King Abdullah said, “The Kingdom must open up its holy cities to everyone and allow all visitors to worship as they please or Saudi Arabia is finished.” B) President Bashar Assad … Continue reading
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60 years old and still premature
In a sense, today Israel is 60 years old today. The partition plan that split the portion of the Palestine Mandate that hadn’t already been lopped off to create Transjordan (now Jordan) into Jewish and Arab sections was approved today. … Continue reading
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