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
Compare and contrast: The AP spins for the pals
Let’s take a look at the Ynet and AP versions of the same incident: AP: Assailants fired on the car of a senior Palestinian security official Saturday, wounding him, a bodyguard and a girl in intensifying factional fighting in the … Continue reading
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UNIFIL
It’s been reported that Syria’s pretty much fully rearmed Hezbollah at this point, despite the various mandates by the United Nations Security Council to disband and disarm militias not under government control blah blah blah… So, what’s UNIFIL doing about … Continue reading
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A closer look at these “crude, homemade” rockets
The AP article actually calls kassams “crude projectiles” in this story, even after identifying the wounds as such: The rocket blew through the living room and exploded in a bedroom where three children were sleeping, relatives said. Two-year-old Samir al-Masri’s … Continue reading
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What truce?
The so-called “cease-fire,” during which palestinians felt themselves perfectly able to launch kassam rockets at Israel (back into the double-digits per day), has taken another “accidental” hit on palestinians in Beit Hanoun. You remember Beit Hanoun. It’s the town where … Continue reading
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Red on red: Rising
The palestinian civil war continues in dribs and drabs, teasing us just enough to believe that Gaza will become a battlefield at no risk to the IDF. (No, I don’t think it will, but one can always hope.) Clashes between … Continue reading
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palestinian civil war watch
Ongoing. Despite the ceasefire agreement that was reached between Hamas and Fatah and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas’ call to end the fierce fighting, Palestinian sources reported Monday of continued gun battles between rival factions since the morning hours. In the … Continue reading
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Red on red
The palestinians are edging closer to civil war, and it couldn’t happen to a more deserving bunch of people. Foreign Minister Mahmoud al-Zahar’s convoy came under fire Sunday as it passed through Gaza City, and members of his Hamas movement … Continue reading
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The non-democracy of Iran
The next time someone tells you that Iran is a democratic state, show them this: LONDON, December 12 (IranMania) – About 78 Tehran City Council election candidates have withdrawn from the race, Tehran’s governor said. Vajiollah Aqataqi also told IRNA … Continue reading
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The world is noticing that Iran is a problem
First the new UN Ambassador has some tough words for them, now the EU? The European Union accused Iran on Friday of destabilizing the Middle East with its nuclear program and threats towards Israel, in a significant hardening of the … Continue reading
palestinian civil war watch
Pending: Chairman of the Hamas faction in parliament Khalil al-Haya, told a crowd of tens of thousands at a Hamas rally in Gaza Friday that “(Palestinian President Mahmoud) Abbas has declared war on Allah and on the will of the … Continue reading
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Bringing genocide charges against Ahmadinejad
A conference was held in New York to discuss just that purpose. One Jerusalem has the videos. John Bolton, Dore Gold, and Alan Dershowitz spoke.
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Red on red
The Gaza Civil War Watch escalates. Palestinian gunmen forced a Hamas commander to his knees and fatally shot him early Wednesday outside of the courthouse where he worked as an Islamic judge, escalating factional tensions in the Gaza Strip. The … Continue reading
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Wheat among the chaff
I scan the online newspapers on a regular basis, with several Google keywords helping me find the material that I write about here. I have read many small and little-known newspapers, from college papers to small-town papers to various newsletters. … Continue reading
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Iran students heckle Ahmadinejad
When Al-Jazeera tells a story like this one, it means something. Iranian students disrupted a speech by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, at a prestigious Tehran university, setting fire to his picture and heckling him. The Fars news agency, which … Continue reading
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David Duke speaks at Iran Holocaust denial conference
That pretty much says all you need to know about the “scholarship” behind yet another of Iran’s attempts to delegitimize the Jewish State. Shimon Peres called it a conference of liars. He’s right. In his opening speech, the institute’s chief, … Continue reading
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