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: Middle East
A big hole in the desert (and in the story)
It’s been a bit disquieting to read the newspapers lately. Something big is possibly happening and little if any reporting is being done about it. Until yesterday. Yesterday’s Washington Post ran an editorial Shock Waves from Syria: Media accounts are … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Media, Syria 4 Comments
Talking to Mahmoud: Waste of time
Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, says that we should allow Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a chance to speak. He’s going to ask the tough questions, he says, and force Ahmadinejad to answer them. The event will be part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran 3 Comments
Explaining the “enemy entity” framing of Gaza
Herb Keinon tells us why the Israeli Cabinet termed Gaza an enemy entity: A source who spoke on condition of anonymity explained that the term “hostile territory” was not a legal concept but rather the description of a practical fact. … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza 4 Comments
Jimmy Carter: Iran is no threat to Israel
Well, that’s great news. Israel can forget about incidents like this one in Syria, with Iranian engineers. Israel can also forget about Iranian-funded Hezbollah missiles. Jimmy Carter has spoken. Former President Jimmy Carter said that he does not think Iran … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel Derangement Syndrome 11 Comments
Al Dura hoax about to be unmasked?
The French appellate judge asked France 2 to hand over the unedited footage of the supposed shooting death of Mohammed Al-Dura, one of the icons of the Palestinian propaganda machine. PJM PARIS….FLASH: The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, palestinian politics 5 Comments
Israel ups the ante against Hamas
Israel has declared Gaza a “hostile entity.” One might be tempted to call that a keen grasp of the obvious. One might be right. The security cabinet voted on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a hostile political entity. The … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel 4 Comments
Syrian mystery blast explained
Say, remember this post from the summer? Doing the IDF’s work for them: 15 Syrian soldiers are dead in a blast that is attributed to the heat. “There is a heat wave and temperatures reached close to 50 degrees, which … Continue reading
Posted in Syria 5 Comments
Olmert must go
Syria hosts the exiled head of Hamas, and has done so for years. Syria arms Israel’s enemies in Lebanon, and has done that for years. Syria regularly holds what is, in effect, conventions of terrorists so that they may plot … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria 6 Comments
Israel, Iran, and North Korea
Israel’s satellite technology is about to get even better. In a unique flight scheduled for liftoff from India Sept. 17-20, Israel’s first “Polaris/TecSat†military imaging radar satellite is to be launched along with India’s first military recon spacecraft. They will … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria 2 Comments
1 to 600 ratio
1 to 600 would be the ratio of Israeli missiles to Iranian missiles needed to win a war between the two. Iran says it has 600 Shihab-3 missiles aimed and primed to hit Israel if either Iran or Syria is … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel 4 Comments
Still more on the Syrian raid
Ynet says that Condoleeza Rice is coming to Israel tomorrow to say thanks for the raid on Syria. What exactly, one has to wonder, would be so important that the Secretary of State herself would be shaking the pilots’ hands … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria 4 Comments
Did Israel get its groove back?
In recent weeks Israel’s apparently carried out two spectacular raids that brings back memories of times passed. Mere Rhetoric observed And Israel specifically still needs to be able to convince its enemies that not only can it use its tanks … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Lebanon 2 Comments
More on the Syria strike
Update: Crap. I didn’t notice one of the author’s names. it’s the guy who makes crap up about Israel. Grain of salt warning is now in effect. To review one of my posts from yesterday: Exit thought: Israel’s recent successful … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria 6 Comments
A Holocaust tale, 1
Hey there, Andrew Sullivan readers. This story is turning out to be bogus. Read to the end of this post. And check out the main page while you’re here. Iran is running a TV series about the Iranian ambassadors in … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Iran 9 Comments
Palestinian laff-riot of the month
The terrorists in Gaza say they’re going to stop firing rockets at Israel. Palestinian armed groups in the Gaza Strip agreed on Sunday to stop firing rockets towards Israel, a Palestinian official told Ynet. The official said the agreement was … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Television 3 Comments