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: Israel
Sunday night thoughts
The world is a messed-up place. People walking on the beach in California are run down by a nutjob who managed to kill some poor Italian woman on her honeymoon. America closes its embassies across the Muslim world for fear … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler – 08/02/2013 – How the Obama administration is playing Israel in the Mainstream Media
1) Targeting Israel in Syria First the sequence: a) Israeli Airstrike in Syria Targets Arms Convoy, U.S. Says by Isabel Kershner and Michael Gordon – January 30, 2013 Israeli warplanes carried out a strike deep inside Syrian territory on Wednesday, … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 08/01/2013
Will Hamas suck up to Iran to save itself? In The New Republic, Ehud Yaari explains some of the reasons Hamas is in trouble. Its Muslim Brotherhood patrons in Egypt fell from power after it alienated Iran for stopping its … Continue reading
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Your morning State Dept. knee-slapper
Secretary of State John Kerry on the upcoming peace negotations between Israel and the Palestinians: The parties have agreed here today that all of the final status issues, all of the core issues, and all other issues are all on … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/30/2013
1) John Kerry rejects a basic premise of the peace process The past two days has seen the reporting on the beginning of Israeli-Palestinian peace talks. First there was the reporting on the Israeli concession that made the talks possible. … Continue reading
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The Palestinian murderer release
Think the world is going to pat Israel on the head for releasing 104 murderers as a “confidence-building” measure? Think again. Look at the headline on the AFP story about Israeli reaction to letting 104 convicted murderers go free. Israel … Continue reading
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The stick and the stick
You know the phrase, the carrot and the stick? Well, John Kerry is using nothing but sticks against Israel. He has bullied Netanyahu into agreeing to release over 100 convicted murderers. Why? Because the Palestinians want them out. These people … Continue reading
Friday briefs
A perfect example of Israel Derangement Syndrome: How much do people hate Israel? So much so that a simple tagged bird was carefully examined to make sure it wasn’t an Israeli spy. Yes, really. Paranoid, much? But it’s just a … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/24/2013
In the peace process nothing can be said to be certain, except Israeli confidence measures and blaming Israel for failure I agree with one aspect of Jeffrey Goldberg’s, Kerry’s Mideast Fool’s Errand Ignores Reality. The title. Much of the rest … Continue reading
Wednesday briefs
YOU can’t come to MY party: Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. Everyone is invited to the new Iranian president’s inauguration except for the U.S. and, of course, the “Zionist entity”. That’s okay. There’s not going to … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/23/2013
Europe vs. Hezbollah Yesterday, the European Union’s foreign minsters voted unanimously to designate Hezbollah’s “military wing” a terrorist organization. This will give European nations the authority to disrupt the organization’s finances. The vote required unanimity and it was a long … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/22/2013 *belated*
1) The Executioners Demand Justice Perhaps one of the oddest stories appearing yesterday was Iran’s Mullahs Demand Justice for Trayvon. According to the semi-official Iranian website Press TV: “The acquittal of the murderer of the teenage African American once again … Continue reading
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Once more, with Kerry
Just a day or so ago, our newest Secretary of State was pretty sure he’d bullied Israel into releasing convicted murderers, freezing settlements, and sitting down for peace talks with the Palestinians by giving into most of the preconditions that … Continue reading
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Mideast Media Sampler 07/21/2013
1) No peace, No justice A decade ago Ahmed Jubarah walked out of jail a free man. Twenty eight years after he killed 13 people and wounded dozens more detonating an explosive laden refrigerator on a crowded Jerusalem street, Israel … Continue reading
Saturday briefs
One less Jew-hater in the world: Goodbye, Helen Thomas. You won’t be missed in my house. In the midst of all the teary memorials, let’s not forget she told Israelis to get out of “Palestine” and “go home to Germany.” … Continue reading
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