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: World
How soon they forget?
No, I am not angry at Brits – I am already past that point, being closer to the mood best expressed by this piece. Still, I shall never quit to wonder about this country that (go figure why!) holds, and … Continue reading
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Want a good war crime?
When you want to start carping about Israel’s war crimes, when your senses of justice, humanity and freedom are jarred by another picture of bleeding child or human entrails flung far and wide, of school building gutted by a tank … Continue reading
Czech FM to Israel: We’re telling you to lose
Tzipi Livni gave a great press conference. Read the whole thing, and I think you’ll agree. Then, buried at the end of the article (where it belongs), is this pearl of wisdom from the Czech foreign minister: The Czech foreign … Continue reading
We are… what?
At the beginning I just wanted to lift the picture from this post by Andrew Ian Dodge: But then, the whole post has to be repeated, so here it goes: Stating your objection to something Israel does is your right, … Continue reading
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Gaza war – a random selection
Several not necessarily related items that caught my attention since yesterday. If you want a blow by blow war journal, you better look elsewhere – some people do it much better. Israel Vice premier, Industry, Trade and Labor minister refrain … Continue reading
On Iranian volunteer suicide bombers
From an AP writer: Hard-line Iranian student groups have asked the government to authorize volunteers to go carry out suicide bombings in Israel in response to the Israeli assault on the Gaza Strip. But there seems to be a hitch: … Continue reading
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World reaction to the Gaza ops: The D-word is found
Yes, the D-word is being used. French President Nicolas Sarkozy accused Israel of using disproportionate violence in its attacks on the Gaza Strip Saturday. The bombardment must stop immediately, Sarkozy, whose country holds the rotating EU presidency, said in Paris. … Continue reading
OPEC cuts can’t stop the slide
Crude oil is currently at $34.54/bbl, the lowest price in years. The OPEC cuts don’t seem to be affecting the law of supply and demand. Who knew? Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil headed for the second- biggest weekly decline … Continue reading
Europe still pays to murder Jews
The Palestinians exceeded their European budget expectations last year. Europe apparently still has absolutely no qualms about funding the murder of Jews. The international community has given 1.7 billion dollars (1.18 billion euros) in aid to the Palestinian Authority over … Continue reading
The Arab culture of self-righteous fury
Jonathan Spyer has hit the nail dead-on with his analysis of the Arab reaction to the shoe-thrower at President Bush’s press conference in Iraq. This political culture sanctifies anti-Western fury, and continues, half a century after decolonization, to see the … Continue reading
British anti-Israel profs lose the fight
A big win for the good guys: The UK academics that have been leading the charge to boycott Israeli universities have given up trying to isolate Israeli academics, and only Israeli academics, because they don’t like the policies of the … Continue reading
UN to Israel: Rockets, shmockets. Feed your enemies
Unbelievable. Simply unbelievable. What other nation on earth is being told to feed, clothe, fuel, and arm its enemy by the Eurocrats? As rocket barrages fell on southern Israel Friday, European Union Commissioner for External Relations and European Neighborhood Policy … Continue reading
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Israel stands by America
The UN General Assembly, that most anti-Israel and anti-American of bodies this side of the OIC (oh, wait—the OIC is part of the UN), put forward the now-annual resolution to end the US embargo on Cuba, passed the resolution 185-3, … Continue reading
Falling oil prices: Adios, Chavez’s grand plans
Looks like the falling price of oil is getting better and better results. The same tumbling oil prices that led OPEC to slash output last week threaten to send Venezuela’s economy into a tailspin, and put an end to President … Continue reading
Is this the end of little OPEC?
Looks like the global recession, falling oil prices, and the world’s lack of funds to pay oil extortion money may contribute to the end of the world’s worst cartel. And here’s why: Saudi Arabia needs oil prices of less than … Continue reading
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