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 2007
Another take on nuclear Iran
Jonathan Spyer in his article An Increasing Possibility: It is not only the scenario of an Iranian nuclear attack that is focusing concerns. Rather, there is concern that a nuclear Iran would use the “immunity” purchased by a nuclear capability … Continue reading
Muslim street smarts
James Kirchik in the LA Times writes Don’t bow to the ‘Muslim Street’ America’s firebombing of Dresden during World War II surely “angered” many Germans, and our bombing of Belgrade during the Kosovo war perturbed Serbians. Did the fact that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Television, World
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NotHous vs. Bernanke, with a dash of Ron Paul
No, this is not a typo. If you need to check, look again here. Federal agents, in a move that could have an impact on the presidential race, raided the Indiana office of the issuer of a private currency known … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Politics
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UN-helpful
Yesterday there was a conference, “Hijacking Human Rights: The Demonization of Israel by the United Nations,” in New York. The Jerusalem Post reported with a headline so obvious, it’s almost funny, US conference: UN biased against Israel. The less obvious … Continue reading
Hi-tech Israel
AOL, which, in 1998, bought the Israeli company, Mirabilis (ICQ), is buying Israeli again. When US Internet giant America Online wants to go shopping for new Internet technologies, it heads to Israel. In less than a week, the Time Warner … Continue reading
Anna-policy
Glenn Kessler reports that the current state of the Annapolis conference seems to be very up in the air. “No one seems to know what is happening,” one senior Arab envoy said last week, speaking on condition of anonymity to … Continue reading
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Haveil Havalim #141 is up
Haveil Havalim #141 is up at Yid With Lid. In honor (or fear) of the upcoming Annapolis conference it’s appropriately called the “Save Israel Edition.” Haveil Havalim is the Jewish/Israel blogging carnival.
Tough life in Gaza
Steven Erlanger catalogues the problems of life in Gaza in today’s Week in Review. Hopes were high in 2005, when Israel unilaterally withdrew its troops and 9,000 Jewish settlers, and the international community lined up to help the Palestinians make … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Shabbat shalom
I’m a bit under the weather. I’ve been napping and eating chicken soup and taking zinc lozenges, and will be going to bed early tonight. Meantime, here’s what my view was last night: Tig’s afraid of the Bedmonster again, so … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Help with my next podcast
I’ve got the subject. Here’s what I need from my readers: Audio clips of journalists, analysts, and especially military correspondents reporting the good news from Iraq. The clips don’t have to be long, just short quotes about how things are … Continue reading
Posted in Podcasts
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Israeli stock market heading for big leagues
The only country in the Middle East without oil has an economy that’s going like gangbusters, and here’s one reason why: The Israeli stock market is on a roll. Over the past five years to October 15, the Tel Aviv … Continue reading
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British anti-Semitism at the highest levels
Why am I not surprised to read this? At the end of the meeting, the Israeli official invited the Prince of Wales to visit the Jewish state for its 60th anniversary celebrations. Following the meeting, the Jewish Chronicle reported Friday, … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome
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A laugh for the day
A truly hilarious, deliberate mistranslation of an Indian pop song. Note: Absolutely NOT safe for work. And more than a little risque. Language and dirty joke warnings. Via Charles.
Posted in Humor
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Ressurection of Muhammad Al Durrah?
(An addendum to that excellent compilation by Soccer Dad.) The case of Muhammad Al Durrah, the Gazan boy allegedly killed by IDF during a stone-throwing episode and made into a symbol of Intifada, is slowly unraveling, it seems. The raw … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, Media Bias
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The Bat Mitzvah Desk Fund update
We’re tooling right along, and our Desk Fund is increasing. Thanks all who have contributed, and if you haven’t, and have a few bucks to spare, think about sparing them. Anything left over from the Desk Fund will go to … Continue reading