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
Moral equivalence from the Economist
I know, it’s a shock. But the Economist is talking about religion, and I’ve seen several moral-equivalence raps at Israel. This is the most egregious so far: Many of the most ardent fanatics live far away from the Holy Land. … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, Religion
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Striking Iran?
James Besser reports that a new Zogby poll shows increasing support for a military strike on Iran. Last week’s poll by Zogby International came as the Bush administration ratchets up both its warlike rhetoric and its sanctions against Teheran and … Continue reading
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Britain and the Jews
Melanie Phillips’ disturbing Britian’s Anti-Semitic turn notes that: And now, in Britain and elsewhere, anti-Semitism has mutated again, its target shifting from culture to creed to race to nation. What anti-Semitism once did to Jews as people, it now does … Continue reading
Posted in Israel
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Rafsanjani the “moderate” – not wanted by Interpol
The mills of international law grind slowly, if they grind at all. Thirteen years after the bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires in which 85 people were killed, Interpol makes its first move. Despite heavy diplomatic pressure from … Continue reading
The changing Road Map narrative
The Road Map has been awakened from its moribund state and bandied about a lot lately, particularly in the wire service reports about the upcoming mideast peace conference in Annapolis. For instance, the AP writes: Israel continues to expand many … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, The Exception Clause
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The right was right
Jackson Diehl rings the alarm bells in If this peace process fails. For the next several days, Israel’s talk radio and op-ed pages converged on a single subject — but it was not Olmert’s groundbreaking speech. Instead, the buzz was … Continue reading
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The hell of Israel …
via memeorandum Thousands of Palestinians apply for Israeli citizenship In the months leading up to the upcoming Annapolis peace conference talk of a future division of the city has prompted a staggering increase in nationalization requests by Palestinians seeking to … Continue reading
The Gaza operation: Hamas is waiting
Hamas has been training with Iranians, and the battle of Gaza is going to be difficult, dangerous, and bloody. Reserve-duty paratroopers who completed a month of duty in the Gaza Strip last week say that facing militant groups such as … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel
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Bourekas
The caterer for my bat mitzvah made bourekas with a potato filling. I have a lot left over. I’ve been eating it every day since my bat mitzvah. I’m finding I cannot get enough of potato bourekas. It’s not quite … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Lair Simon’s newest thing
Oh, so this is what Lair’s doing in his spare time. He’s not blogging much, but he’s calling Nardo and leaving instructions. (Language warning: Don’t play these at work without an earpiece.) Click on the speaker to listen to them … Continue reading
Posted in Bloggers, Podcasts
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Building confidence
Wizbang’s Jay Tea asks a simple question Can anyone — ANYONE — ever cite a single example where the Palestinians were called upon to make any sort of concession or “good faith gesture” and actually kept it? Just once? It’s … Continue reading
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To die in Jerusalem, to lie in Deheishe
I was given a chance, courtesy of Deep Focus, to view the Hilla Medalia HBO documentary To Die in Jerusalem. I don’t even know whether our cable provider carries HBO (I am not much into TV lately) and the kind … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Terrorism
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Cooking rice
Given the unlikelihood of any substantial result emerging from the upcoming Annapolis summit David Brooks, in Present at Creation, asks why Secretary Rice would expend such energy in putting the darn thing together. It’s slightly unfortunate that the peace process … Continue reading
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My bat mitzvah speech
Note: It’s not the d’var Torah. I didn’t get a chance to do that one. I’d like to write it up and post it at a later date, because I have a lot to say about Chayyei Sarah. This is … Continue reading
Posted in Jews, Life, Religion
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The 10-20-30 virus
Doug‘s tagged me with a meme I’m actually interested in playing along with. Because my 50th birthday is rapidly approaching, and it’s extremely easy for me to remember what I was doing at the ages of 19, 29, and 39. … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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