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…
Monthly Archives: October 2006
Ohmigod it’s TRAIF!
This one’s a hoot. BERLIN (AP) – A truck spilled two tons of pigs’ heads on a road in western Germany, giving passing drivers a shock on the night before Halloween, police said Tuesday. The accident happened Monday night after … Continue reading
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UN mapping Shebaa Farms: Toldja so
Yes, I called it in my last post: The UN is working on ways to screw Israel. UNITED NATIONS, Oct 30 (Reuters) – U.N. cartographers are working at “full speed” to define where the disputed Shebaa Farms between Syria and … Continue reading
Brief Snarks
But they never hurt anyone, really: You know those “crude, home-made rockets” that the media keep on yammering about? The ones that “rarely kill or hurt anyone”? Well, turns out that over the past two years, they’ve hurt over 300 … Continue reading
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Stop the world, I want to get off
You know, I always liked the title of that play. I also always liked the title of the play “Oh Dad Poor Dad Momma’s Hung You in the Closet and I’m Feeling so Bad.” I have no idea what either … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Haveil Havalim #91 is UP!
Haveil Havalim #91 is up at Sweet Rose. Stop and read the roses.Thanks again, Meryl!
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Gracie update 14: Back for the biopsy
Well, I took Gracie to another vet today for a second opinion. I now have absolutely zero faith in my current vets. Second vet said I have to get the biopsies done, and they need to be surgical. The works, … Continue reading
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Vet question
I’m trying to find another vet that performs endoscopies in the Richmond, VA area. I know of two clinics that will charge me well over $1,000. Can’t afford that. Does anyone know how I can find out which vets in … Continue reading
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What media bias?
Count the number of times that the words “hardliner” and “Avigdor Lieberman” will be used from now until he is no longer a part of the Olmert government. I’ve never seen him described as anything but. Israel Cabinet to integrate … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel
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Carnival of the Cats #136
Carnival of the Cats #136 is celebrating Halloween with a spooktacular roundup brewed in the kettle over at Watermark, which based on the Poet’s excellent track record I’m thinking out to be the go-to place for all holiday editions at … Continue reading
This week’s SNN is up
The Robert Spencer two-parter on Shire Network News is over, but the reports on Jew-hatred continue with tales of the anti-Semitism at UC-Irvine, also featured at CampusJ. UC-Irvine, where the president of the university said—yes, really—“One person’s hate speech is … Continue reading
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The rewards of teaching
Earlier this year, the first of my first class of fourth grade students began having their Bar and Bat Mitzvahs. There’s a post sitting in the spike file of my thoughts from the first Bar Mitzvah, because I couldn’t get … Continue reading
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Good Israel news? Not sexy.
The AP sent out an article that describes a good dividend of the Hezbullah war, and it will probably not be running in your local paper. On Israeli border, a surprising optimism METULLA, Israel — For years, whenever Asher Greenberg … Continue reading
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Sunday smiles
Say hello to Peekaboo Gracie, all happy in her tissue-paper nest. (Tissue paper compliments of Sarah a.k.a. the Pumpkin Goddess.) She ate and ate and ate Saturday. It took a few hours for the steroids and anti-emetic to kick in, … Continue reading
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Gracie update 13
Minor setback today. She seemed nauseous again, and would pick up a piece of food but spit it out, or hang with her nose in the food dish and not eat. She has lost a lot of weight—at least a … Continue reading
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Hey, what happened to that post?
The one that Lair Simon posted about Jimmy Webb? I deleted it. Sorry, but it’s not suitable for my weblog. It’s over on his if you care to read it. Okay, it was there, but now it’s not. At least, … Continue reading
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