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: November 2006
UN moron stoned in Israel
And yes, she was asking for it. The team received an angry reaction in Sderot in southern Israel Tuesday, just after Palestinian militants from the nearby Gaza Strip fired rockets into the town. A worker at a chicken slaughtering plant … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time
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Gay rights in Israel: Yeah, we’ve got that
Israel’s Supreme Court has just ruled that the state must recognize gay marriage. That would make Israel, let’s see, um, the one and only state in the Middle East where being gay is not only not illegal, but now gays … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Religion
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An open letter to John Le Carre
I must confess that John Le Carre is one of my favorite writers. His skill, style and language put him far above the pack of thriller writers and close to the top of the craft in general. That is, in … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, World
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Obessions: My quest for music
Okay, I give up. I have looked and looked for A) a legitimate version of this song or B) a CD-quality mp3. The closest I came to it was a torrent file that, I was told, was probably no longer … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Music
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Gracie update, um, whatever: Frankenkitty no more
Gracie went to the vet this morning to have her staples removed. I’ll find out in an hour or so whether this means bellyrubs are back. She is down to a svelte ten pounds, which is probably where she should … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Haveil Havalim #94 is UP!
What’s John Conyers after? Where should the Jewish community focus its charitable efforts? And let’s not forget Zachary Baumel! Crossing the Rubicon3 has crossed into her third incarnation and hosted Haveil Havalim #94 today where you can to find out … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Snarks
Oh, look. The AP noticed that kassam rockets land on Israel almost daily, and this time, they didn’t use “crude” or “homemade” in their description. The rescue services said in a statement that one person was wounded by shrapnel and … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, World
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Human shields work – who wins?
Israel aborted planned air attacks on the homes of two militants Sunday after hundreds of Palestinians formed a human shield around the buildings in the Gaza Strip. This news run over the mass media like brush fire. Most of the … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Terrorism
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Reuters bias is so deep, they lie in new stories
Take a look at these two leads: First: MUMBAI (Nov 20, 2006): Dozens of Indians who profess Jewish ancestry were headed for Israel today, the first such group to migrate after rabbinical leaders accepted them as descendants of one of … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias
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Armenian holocaust – a little known episode
I have received the following comment to the post My genocide vs. your genocide on Meryl’s place. And as someone of Armenian descent, I should note the man who protested the massacres the most was Ambassador Henry Morgenthau, an American … Continue reading
Posted in Holocaust, Miscellaneous
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They were right
Do you remember all of the pundits on the left insisting that if President Bush went to war in Iraq, America would eventually be forced to reinstate the draft? They were right. WASHINGTON (AP) — Americans would have to sign … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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Annoying insects
Today, while talking to a friend or two, I made the following comparison: A flea is an annoyance that must be hunted down and destroyed, as are flies and mosquitoes. But a gnat? Most people ignore gnats, at most, waving … Continue reading
Posted in Meanderings
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Carnival of the Cats #139
Despite the host becoming a grandmother this weekend, Mog still has the time to pretent the Carnival of the Cats over at Mind Of Mog for its one hundred and thirty-ninth appearance. And let’s not forget the Catmodel of the … Continue reading
War crimes of the palestinians ignored
Besides the constant, indiscriminate rocket fire on civilians, which hurt yet another Israeli yesterday—and which will continue hurting and murdering Israelis, because Hamas was allowed to import weapons unchecked after the IDF left the Philadelphi Corridor—the use of civilians as … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time
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