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
Tuesday crabby snarks
I am crabby today. Because I am sick. I’m going to take it out by being snarky. Oh. Wait. I do that every day. Well, I’m going to be EXTRA snarky today. Let the popular uprising begin: Awesome! Hamas didn’t … Continue reading
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Sunday Snarks
Israel, you’re goin’ down! Yeah, yeah, yeah. Khameini said that “with God’s help,” Israel would disappear. Well, then. We’ve got nothing to worry about, because I’m pretty sure God isn’t that Allah dude. The sky is falling, Jordanian style: Yet … Continue reading
Pre-Snowpocalypse 2 briefs
Frozen peace: See what peace dividends bring to Egypt? The nation’s journalist’s union punished two editors for having contact with Israel. Ew, Jew cooties! That famous Muslim tolerance for other religions: Egyptian Christians are protesting for the right to build … Continue reading
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Cairo nostalgia
David Ignatius wrote two weeks ago that the message of President Obama’s Cairo speech is as important as ever. Specifically: But in truth, the strategy that Obama proposed in Cairo is more important now than ever. Critics speak as if … Continue reading
Sniefs
The mouse that squeaked: Iran launched a research rocket into space that brings them up to the science of the 1960s. Woo-hoo! They’re number… um, let’s see. Russia, America, China, anyone else? And what’s on the rocket? A mouse, two … Continue reading
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Tuesday morning briefs
Who done it? Now Ha’aretz is saying that Mahmoud al-Mabhouh’s assassins were Arabs. Which is actually even better, because all we need is a little more of that Muslim brotherhood and Israel would be perfectly safe. Message in a bombshell: … Continue reading
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Still in with the old
Barry Rubin has read the new Fatah charter. The document was originally linked to at the Secrecy news blog. Secrecy News observes: But what is perhaps most significant is what is not in the document. The original Fatah charter (or … Continue reading
Friday briefs
Awesome! The Mossad takes out a major Hamas murderer: Looks like the man who planned the kidnapping and murder of two IDF solders (among other murders) is now receiving his 72 raisins. His brother says he was electrocuted by someone … Continue reading
Germany vs. the denier
Barry Rubin on how the administration has mis-handled its policy towards Iran: First, the administration set a September deadline for instituting higher sanctions and then, instead of following a two-track strategy of engagement plus pressure, postponed doing anything while engaged … Continue reading
Thursday pre-snow snarks
Will it snow? Won’t it snow? I don’t know. They say so. (Let it snow. I have a Jeep, and I’m here to drive it.) Europeans are big fat liars: So, they say they’re cutting trade with Iran, and yet, … Continue reading
Tuesday night snarks
Because it’s such an easy language to learn: Arab members of the World Trade Organization want Arabic to be the fourth official language of the WTO. Because three aren’t enough official languages, I suppose. And Arabic is so easy, it’s … Continue reading
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Violence against women – Lancet style
I was looking through a chart of gender ratios. Worldwide, there are about 102 men for every 100 women, but in the Gulf States, that ratio is much higher. Bahrain – 135; Qatar – 307 ; United Arab Emirates – … Continue reading
Monday afternoon snarks
From each according to his ability, to each his paycheck: The percentage of collectivist kibbutzim left in Israel is now only 28%. Nearly three-quarters of them have turned capitalist. And that number will rise by the end of the year. … Continue reading
Monday morning snarks
It’s the Chicago Way: Obama’s now trying to bribe the middle class. Hell, it worked to get him 60 votes for the Obamacare crap sandwich, why wouldn’t he think it will work on us? (P.S. to Obama: Who’s going to … Continue reading
A porous blockade
In an article about Israel’s partial closure of Gaza, Jeffrey Goldberg observes that there’s a lack of background provided by Reuters. What else is missing from this description? Israel “left” Gaza in 2005. Then what happened? Did Gaza take the … Continue reading