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
AP labels terrorist “moderate”: Yes, really
The AP doesn’t seem to think that Interpol’s definition of a terrorist should affect its calling an Iranian candidate for president, wanted in the bombing of the Buenos Aires Jewish community center that murdered 87 an injured over 100, a … Continue reading
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Parsing the Iranian Hitler’s speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called yet again for the end of Israel, and is once more pretty much ignored by the mainstream media. However, I’d like to see the speech-parsers like Juan Cole parse this bit: The website of the Iranian IRIB … Continue reading
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I’m kinda fonda Jane, I’ll missa
Earlier this month delegates from all over the world got together in Geneva for a conference on xenophobia, racial discrimination and racism. When the United States and some European nations boycotted the proceedings, Representative Barbara Lee objected: Those who supported … Continue reading
Hariri suspects freed
The BBC reported yeterday that the UN’s special tribunal investigating the assassination of Rafiq Hariri has released four Lebanese generals it had been holding as suspects in the assassination. The UN court was set up to investigate the bomb attack … Continue reading
If we would just pressure Israel we’d have peace in the Middle East
The New York Times reports that Fatah and Hamas are engaged in reconciliation talks. Fatah insists that any unity government formed will be acceptable to the international community and satisfy the conditions of the so-called quartet of Middle East peace … Continue reading
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What’s a Jewish state got to with it?
Isabel Kershner of the NY Times reports that “moderate” Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas refuses to acknowledge Israel as a Jewish state. The Palestinian Authority president, Mahmoud Abbas, on Monday dismissed a demand by Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, to recognize … Continue reading
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There is no Sadat
Stop him before he writes again. Roger Cohen’s latest column, Clinton’s Middle East Pirouette, starts off badly: The sparring between the United States and Israel has begun, and that’s a good thing. Israel’s interests are not served by an uncritical … Continue reading
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Continental divide?
Barry Rubin observes in regard to Israeli relations with Europe: Probably they are better than at any time since the early 1980s. With the end of the Palestinian intifada in 2003, Israelis withdrawal from and the Hamas takeover of the … Continue reading
Lieberman’s call for two-state solution ignored by MSM
The media have portrayed Avigdor Lieberman as a rabid anti-Arab bigot who refuses to adhere to the Two-state Solution School of Middle East Politics. So I read with interest this article in Ynet the other day, and waited for the … Continue reading
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3 arrested in Lebanon for spying for Israel
The New York Times reports that Lebanese authorities have arrested three men for spying for Israel. The arrests on Saturday were based on information from Adeeb al-Alam, a retired Lebanese general who was arrested this month and charged with spying … Continue reading
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Corruption: it’s a feature not a bug
In Gaza power plant surprising profit generator, Dion Nissenbaum notes that a recent report shows that foreign aid indirectly flows to Mahmoud Abbas’s sons. The power plant story follows another investigative piece by Entous that examined lucrative US contracts given … Continue reading
Mahmoud’s mania
The New York Times editorial on Ahmadinejad’s speech: After weighing the issue, President Obama decided not to send an American delegation to the conference. Perhaps it would have been better if his administration had been present to fight for an … Continue reading
On hate and new relations
At the end of the NY Times article on the fallout of Ahmadinejad’s speech, the paper reports: Those who supported the Obama administration’s attending the conference said their attitude was not altered by Mr. Ahmadinejad’s remarks. “It is unfortunate that … Continue reading
Jedi coppers, Wookie soldiers
Who would have thunk it? In Britain a growing number of people are declaring themselves to be adherents of the Jedi faith. About 390,000 people listed their religion as Jedi in the 2001 Census for England and Wales. In Scotland … Continue reading