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: September 2007
Star Trek statistics: The Red-Shirt Phenomenon
File this under: Never underestimate the power of a Trekkie to write yet another treatise on an aspect of Star Trek (TOS) that you never really thought about. This guy has analyzed the statistics on the Red-Shirt Phenomenon in Star … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Pop Culture
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A big hole in the desert (and in the story)
It’s been a bit disquieting to read the newspapers lately. Something big is possibly happening and little if any reporting is being done about it. Until yesterday. Yesterday’s Washington Post ran an editorial Shock Waves from Syria: Media accounts are … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel, Media, Syria
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Talking to Mahmoud: Waste of time
Columbia University’s president, Lee Bollinger, says that we should allow Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad a chance to speak. He’s going to ask the tough questions, he says, and force Ahmadinejad to answer them. The event will be part of the … Continue reading
Posted in Iran
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Explaining the “enemy entity” framing of Gaza
Herb Keinon tells us why the Israeli Cabinet termed Gaza an enemy entity: A source who spoke on condition of anonymity explained that the term “hostile territory” was not a legal concept but rather the description of a practical fact. … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza
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Faces of evil
Dara Mandle in Contentions Today, the New York Times makes available photographs obtained by the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum from the other side of Auschwitz: not the familiar images of starving prisoners, but new shots of vivacious German officers. … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Holocaust, Israel, Jews
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There’s a new author in town
You may have noticed (or not, as too many of you can’t tell the difference between Snoopy’s post and my posts even though he deliberately uses a different color font for blockquotes, and no, I’m not bitter, why do you … Continue reading
A whole lot of listenin’ goin’ on
The spy ships are busy, busy, busy in Israel lately. Espionage ships and aircraft have been causing disturbances in satellite company Yes’ broadcasts, Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper reported Thursday. “The disturbances began on September 6, on the day Damascus announced that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, World
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Score one for the IDF
Hamas and the PFLP have been working triple overtime to murder innocent men, women, and children, preferably in a shopping mall or on a bus. The IDF has been racing against the clock trying to get one specific terror cell … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Israel, Terrorism
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Jimmy Carter: Iran is no threat to Israel
Well, that’s great news. Israel can forget about incidents like this one in Syria, with Iranian engineers. Israel can also forget about Iranian-funded Hezbollah missiles. Jimmy Carter has spoken. Former President Jimmy Carter said that he does not think Iran … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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Al Dura hoax about to be unmasked?
The French appellate judge asked France 2 to hand over the unedited footage of the supposed shooting death of Mohammed Al-Dura, one of the icons of the Palestinian propaganda machine. PJM PARIS….FLASH: The French Appellate court trial of Phillippe Karsenty … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, palestinian politics
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The laptop, she is back!
It’s back, and they did not reformat the hard drive. The keyboard seems to be working. I’ll check the battery later, as I simply don’t want to have to reboot. But geez, it’s nice to have a 17-inch screen again. … Continue reading
Posted in Computers
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Specifics of peace
Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler’s U.S. Faces a Middle East Hungry for Peace Specifics is pretty standard fare. The Bush administration has so far failed to generate serious traction behind its latest Middle East peace effort, with the opening session … Continue reading
Israel ups the ante against Hamas
Israel has declared Gaza a “hostile entity.” One might be tempted to call that a keen grasp of the obvious. One might be right. The security cabinet voted on Wednesday to declare the Gaza Strip a hostile political entity. The … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel
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Syrian mystery blast explained
Say, remember this post from the summer? Doing the IDF’s work for them: 15 Syrian soldiers are dead in a blast that is attributed to the heat. “There is a heat wave and temperatures reached close to 50 degrees, which … Continue reading
Posted in Syria
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Democracy, whiskey, sexy
but not in Gaza For years, the seaside Flower of the Cities resort was that rare place in the Gaza Strip where the dress code did not rule out bikinis. Now, with some of its cinder-block cabanas turned into prayer … Continue reading