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 2007
Down to the wire
Well, it’s down to the wire for my bat mitzvah. The haftarah is coming along nicely, though if Elisson and I were in the same room, I think blows would have been exchanged tonight. Or books thrown. I really want … Continue reading
Posted in Religion
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Bush offers a half-billion for the “moderate” terrorists
From the Washington Post: President Bush has proposed a sixfold increase in aid to the Palestinians, including $150 million in direct cash transfers to the Palestinian Authority, in an effort to bolster the government in advance of a Middle East … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics, Politics
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Diogenes of the Middle East
In a controversial essay in the LA Jewish Journal Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky asks to Consider a divided Jerusalem. After acknowledging the controversial nature of his views and getting a few formalities out of the way, he says he seeks honesty. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Ann Coulter, liar extraordinaire
One quote from Coulter’s appearance on Hannity & Colmes last night leaped out at me: And if you’re going to go around citing all the people I have offended, Alan, I have a thousand Orthodox rabbis supporting me. Name three. … Continue reading
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Gaza switch-off and armchair generals
Seth Freedman has, in his endearingly provocative manner, slapped together another piece for CiF. As in most of his other articles, the recipe was simple: take one side of the Israeli/Palestinian strife, ignore all that is not black and white … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time
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Googling terror
Last week several bloggers noted a Guaridan story that terrorists in Gaza were using Google Earth to target locations in Israel. So when I saw this item, I thought, “Oh good, Google has responded to the concerns.” A tipster to … Continue reading
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Hamas to Israel: We’re going to keep on killing
The democratically-elected government of the Palestinian terrortories[sic] is declaring its intention to murder large numbers of Israelis and, indeed, to start an “offensive war” with Israel (like they’re not already doing that). Muhammad Deif, the commander of Hamas’ military wing, … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel
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Saudi king insults everyone’s intelligence in Britain
Saudi King Abdullah spoke to the BBC before his trip to Britain and made some amazingly hypocritical statements. Of course, the Beeb couldn’t be expected to call him on them, as the formerly great kingdom submits to the current Kingdom, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, palestinian politics
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Qassams and rights
Rights groups challenge Gaza energy cuts Human rights groups challenged Israel’s reduction of fuel supplies to Gaza and its intention to cut back on electricity, and Palestinians warned the measures could lead to a humanitarian crisis.The Israeli Supreme Court on … Continue reading
Harper Lee: All the honors
President Bush is awarding Harper Lee, author of To Kill A Mockingbird, the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Bravo, Mr. President, and Brava, Ms. Lee. From the press release: Harper Lee has made an outstanding contribution to America’s literary tradition. At … Continue reading
Posted in The Catmage Chronicles
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And we shall… investigate
Meryl just mentioned “The lack of world condemnation of the Israeli raid on an nascent Syrian nuclear plant…“, and here it comes: Mohamed ElBaradei accuses Jewish state of ‘taking the law into its own hands’, says ‘if countries have information … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Syria
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Where have all the comments gone?
It’s funny, but one of the things that I seem to have lost in the changeover from writing the HTML for this site myself to using WordPress was my regular commenters. Granted, I have regular commenters now, and some of … Continue reading
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Darth Vader in Love
Very, VERY funny. Thanks to Allahpundit. The rest are at the link.
Another day, another “protection racket” threat by Fatah
Fatah has a real good racket going on – they do the Mafia-style “threats” and no one calls them on it: The top negotiator for the Palestinian Authority, Ahmed Qureia (Abu Ala), warned on Sunday that the region would suffer … Continue reading
Apologists
In The Attempt to Kill Olmert, Barry Rubin writes Several Fatah security force officers assigned to protect Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert as he went to meet with Palestinian Authority (PA) head Mahmoud Abbas, it has just been revealed, planned … Continue reading
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