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: December 2007
Ehud Barak says…
According to an article from JP: A large-scale operation in the Gaza Strip has dropped to the back burner in recent days after an assessment within the defense establishment found that the daily border raids the IDF has been conducting … Continue reading
A Hanukkah sermon
This sermon was written by Rabbi I.B. Koller, Rabbi Emeritus of Congregation B’nai Israel, Charleston, W.Va., and Rabbi Victor H. Urecki of B’nai Jacob Synagogue in Charleston, W. Va. I’ve been given permission to reprint their sermon. I think it’s … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Jews, Religion
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Eight Video Nights of Chanukah: Eighth night
The original, the one, the only: Adam Sandler and The Chanukah Song, straight from SNL.
The long Palestinian money trail
Boker Tov Boulder (as noted by Jewish Current Issues, Noah Pollak at the Corner, Mere Rhetoric and Daled Amos) collected a series of news items documenting what has been pledged to the PA over the past 3 years. It’s quite … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, palestinian politics
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The Israel-is-stealing-Christmas story season is upon us
Yes, Virginia, there is an anti-Israel bias, and this is the time of year that it becomes the most virulent. Let us take note of two amazing events in the beginning of the “Israel would make the Baby Jesus cry” … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
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Haveil Havalim #144 is UP!
I was traveling yesterday so I forgot to post that Haveil Havalim #144 (the Jewish/Israel blogging carnival) is UP at Jack’s Shack of Pancakes Latkes. If you have a post that is about Judaism or Israel feel free to submit … Continue reading
Eight Video Nights of Hanukkah: Seventh night
This one was submitted by Sarah. And now, in place of the lame Flash embed from Albino Blacksheep, Sarah found this rockin’ Chanukah video by a group that I would have rocked to during the 70s. Whoa. I’m sensing a … Continue reading
Posted in Holidays, Music, Religion
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Shas and the Saudis agree
Max Boot: What particularly concerns Gulf Arabs is the possibility that Iran could go nuclear–a concern unlikely to be erased by the ambiguous findings of the new NIE. While this NIE claims that Iran stopped its nuclear-weapons program in 2003 … Continue reading
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Pushing sexist good artwork for a friend
Chris Muir has been a friend for some time, and I love his Day By Day comic strip. He’s selling a Sam calendar, and, well, the feminist in me is standing on one shoulder screaming “SEXIST!” while on the other … Continue reading
Posted in Pop Culture
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The news
For some reason, there’s little I want to write about today. I have nothing to say about the Colorado church shootings, except to express my horror and shock. The fact that the church had an armed guard probably saved many … Continue reading
Posted in Guns
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Sunday kittyblogging
When you run out of things to say, put up cat pictures, is my motto. Okay, well, it isn’t really, but it works for me. First, Gracie in the new kitty condo. She is, of course, her usual dignified (slightly … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Eight Video Nights of Hanukkah: Sixth night
Reader chsw gave me this one, which started the trend of Chanukah/Hanukkah videos. It’s a Tom Lehrer cover with a little topping of South Park at the end.
Posted in Holidays, Music, Religion
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More Chanukah videos
Another one from Sabba Hillel, with some pretty great video.
2007: Now, with fewer Menorah vandalizations, but more anti-Semitism
Apparently, Jews are off the hit list this year. I couldn’t find many menorah-vandalizing stories at all this year. The Stony Point town hall menorah was vandalized, but that’s about all. Of course, there was the run-of-the-mill anti-Semitic vandalization of … Continue reading
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Eight Video Nights of Hanukkah: Fifth night
This one’s audio only, but so worth it. Melvin and the Chipmunks sing a Chanukah song.
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