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: January 2008
Sometimes the middle of the road is just roadkill
I’m sure that my friend Snoopy is going to hit me back hard for this, because he’s a fan of Burston. But I gotta say this. Bradley Burston’s Here’s to the ’67 borders, the new middle of the road is … Continue reading
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Stated concerns
Today we are treated to a lecture by Prof. Madeleine K. Albright, “Confidence in America.” Dr. Albright, whose most famous exploits as Secretary of State were chasing after Yasser Arafat and officially changing the designation of “rogue states” to “states … Continue reading
Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes
That Latin stuff (that could be loosely translated as “fear the gift-bearing Greeks”) does not have anything to do with the Greeks in this case. Neither does the phrase “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth” have much to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome
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One of those days
I find myself in a mood I have not been in for a long, long time. Please. Somebody cross me this week.
Posted in Evil Meryl
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President Bush’s assumed risk
From the Washington Post Friday, “With President Bush coming so soon, one would hope to see positive steps toward the Palestinian people, but instead we see the opposite,” said Jamal al-Muhaisen, governor of Nablus. While Nablus has long been considered … Continue reading
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Lazy Saturday post
I had a post written this morning, but I forgot to save it before I shut down Firefox, and I thought I published it, but I hadn’t, and so, it’s in the ether. Well, I went shopping this afternoon. Bought … Continue reading
Posted in Cats, Life
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The smuggling muddle
Headlines tell us so much. First from the Washington Post. Israeli Operations Kill 9 in Gaza Israeli forces launched military operations in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank early Thursday, hours before a Katyusha rocket fired from Gaza crashed … Continue reading
Impediments to peace
President Bush told Reuters (which then trumpeted the line as a headline) that Israeli settlement building is an “impediment” to peace. US President George W. Bush on Thursday called Israeli settlement expansion an “impediment” to the success of revived peace … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time
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The brave, brave Palestinians: Shooting soldiers in the back
The terrorist attack last week that killed two off-duty Israeli soldiers was even more cowardly than I had thought. It wasn’t just an ambush. The terrorists shot the Israelis in the back. He said the four terrorists drove up to … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Terrorism
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Crossing Rafah
Egypt Opens Crossing So Palestinians Can Return Egypt opened its main crossing into the Gaza Strip on Wednesday to allow more than 2,000 Palestinian pilgrims — including at least one official of the armed Hamas movement — to return to … Continue reading
“Occupied” ashkelon
Rocket lands near hotel in Ashkelon Rocket fired by Palestinians in northern Gaza Strip lands near hotel on Ashkelon’s beach; no injuries or damage reported in attack. Police bomb squad says rocket might have been a Katyusha, as area is … Continue reading
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The UNnecessary world body
I think the UN long ago outlived its purpose. Has it prevented any wars? Stopped any genocides? Stopped rogue nations from developing nuclear weapons? Really, has it done much other than send its peacekeepers out to rape little girls (and … Continue reading
Posted in Israeli Double Standard Time, World
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Breaking: Tom Lantos to retire
Tom Lantos, the only Holocaust survivor elected to Congress, is retiring due to illness. U.S. Rep. Tom Lantos (D-Calif.), the only Holocaust survivor elected to the U.S. Congress, is retiring because he is suffering from cancer. Lantos, one of the … Continue reading
Hamas is no longer pretending they’re not Jew haters
The IDF took out another half dozen terrorists in Gaza, including four Hamas members, who were probably one of the groups on patrol that the Times profiled. Six Hamas and Popular Resistance Committees gunmen were killed in a pre-dawn Israeli … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Gaza, Hamas
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Getting a “Clue”
Trying to find out what happened in the Middle East is often difficult. Israelly Cool! shows us again. Snapped Shot likens it to a game of Clue. The other day I noticed that a Palestinian woman had been killed. The … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
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