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: June 2007
More on the British academic boycott
When even the Economist thinks there’s something that smells funny about the attempted academic boycott of Israel, well, there is. But in Israel many academics, on both left and right, are as mystified as they are enraged. Israel at present … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel
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Kurt Waldheim: Together with Hitler again
Former Nazi Kurt Waldheim is roasting in Hell alongside his buddy Hitler. Buh-bye, creep! Kurt Waldheim, former UN Secretary General and president of Austria died of cardiovascular failure aged 88 in Vienna on Thursday. Waldheim’s election as Austrian president was … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Holocaust
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It’s a chicken! It’s a dinosaur! It’s Chickenosaur!
No, it’s a gigantoraptor, a.k.a. Chickenosaur! One of the world’s top fossil hunters has unveiled a previously unknown gigantic, chicken-like dinosaur that may change evolutionary theory on prehistoric animals. The remains of the animal, thought to have weighed 1400 kilograms, … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous
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Really, really, REALLY good Vent
Don’t miss it. “How to Take a Life.”
War crimes and humiliation in Gazastan
When Israel does this, headlines and editors around the world scream, “HUMILIATION!” When the Palestinians do it: Not so much. If Israel did this, the world would scream, “WAR CRIMES! MASSACRE!” In all, 14 fighters and civilians were killed and … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israeli Double Standard Time
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British anti-Semitism and the House of Lords
I’m starting to see the words “at its worst level since 1936” in stories about European anti-Semitism. This is both frightening and depressing. The world just does not like the Jews. A Jewish peer has warned that anti-Semitism is at … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel
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Bad Timing of the Year Award
And the winner is: Alvaro De Soto, now (thankfully) the former UN Middle East Envoy. The United Nations’ former top Middle East envoy has sharply criticized U.S. and Israeli efforts to isolate the Hamas-led Palestinian government, saying the policy has … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, World
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Say it loud, say it proud
A street in the town I was visiting in NJ last week. The thing I love most about the sign is that it isn’t straight. You just can’t make stuff like this up. Nobody would believe you. And while I’ve … Continue reading
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Cuteness overload
You know, when Sarah told me that the twins were “graduating” from pre-school, and that the school was actually going to have a ceremony, I laughed. Loud and long. She laughed too, and it became a running joke for a … Continue reading
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We interrupt this depressing news…
… with a good news bulletin. Things are just working out very, very nicely these days. Things are going well, both homeside and jobside. And Gracieside. Okay, Tig’s still a bit of a brat, but hey, we can’t have everything. … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Al Qaeda in Gaza
Hamas has joined with Al Qaeda to rid themselves of the “secular” Fatah and turn Gaza into an Islamic state. The time for joking about both sides losing is over. This is really, really bad news for Israel, the region, … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics, Terrorism
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“We’re not Jews”
In all things victim, the Palestinians like to pretend that they’re “the new Jews.” When it comes to Israeli actions, why, the Palestinians are the Jews, the Israelis are the Nazis, or so goes the conventional wisdom in the anti-Israel, … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time
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Gracie update
All these months later, a (hopefully) next-to-last Gracie update. I have been gradually reducing her Prednisone, which was once at 10 mg a day and is now at 1.25 mg a day. No more two pills a day. Just a … Continue reading
Game on: It’s war
Abbas has let loose the hounds of Fatah. Forces loyal to Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas of Fatah were ordered Tuesday evening to defend their positions in the Gaza Strip, and counter a “coup” by rival Hamas Islamists. Hamas, stepping … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, palestinian politics
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What if they held an anti-Israel protest, and nobody showed (part 3)?
The anti-Israel contingency swore that this would be the biggest anti-Israel rally ever. Hundreds of thousands would march and shout in Washington, and the beginning of the end of the occupation would occur. Except, well, nobody showed. Billed as a … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Juvenile Scorn
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