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: April 2009
Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival Time
The 213th edition of Haveil Havalim, the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere’s weekly blog carnival is up at The Real Shaliach.
Preoccupied with occupation
Back in 2002, Efraim Karsh wrote an article “What Occupation?,” which gave a history of how Israel came to control Yehuda, Shomron and Gaza as well as the overall beneficial effects it had on the Palestinians. I recommend the whole … Continue reading
Why isn’t any journalist doing this?
A rank amateur, Elder of Ziyon (together with PT Watch) is actually doing some reporting. He’s going through the fatality list from a leading Palestinian human rights organization and showing how quite a few of the “civilians” listed at PCHR … Continue reading
Before the separation fence: A life of fear
The New York Times has a great feature. If you’re reading one article about a subject, at the end of the article are links to others that might interest you. So while reading David Brooks’ latest column on Israel, I … Continue reading
Important throwaway lines
In today’s New York Times, Isabel Kershner is keen to emphasize the different emphases of the Israeli and American governments. But one line in her short dispatch, Israel: Netanyahu Demands Recognition of Israel First, tells an untold story. Palestinian officials … Continue reading
A nice, relaxing day
Since Sarah’s out of town, I spent the day with her family. Of course. She asked me to help out by taking Jake to a bar mitzvah this morning, which entailed my picking him up after dinner last night and … Continue reading
Posted in Life
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Johann Hari – not a moonbat
Frankly, when I read about that story first at Yid With Lid‘s place, I didn’t believe in it at first. No offense to YWL intended, but even after reading the fully quoted article, then moving to the original at HuffPost, … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, World
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Happy Tigger Day!
One year ago today (technically tomorrow, but it was a Friday 52 weeks ago), I brought home my new orange goofball. Here’s how he looked on the way home: Here’s Mr. Tig today (literally): He’s been a major huggy bear … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Happy birthday to J-Street
The Washington Post sends a Happy Birthday card to J-Street, New Liberal Jewish Lobby Quickly Makes Its Mark: When a group of Jewish liberals formed a lobbying and fundraising group called J Street a year ago, they had modest hopes … Continue reading
The “cycle of violence” returns
Hamas tested Israel’s new PM. Terrorists launched a kassam rocket at Israel yesterday. Today, Israel launched a bigger rocket at Hamas. At least, that’s how the wire services will play this one out. But is that what happened? A day … Continue reading
The self-defense of Jews: Still not welcome
This is an interesting argument that’s been floating around for quite some time. The world says to Israel that it exaggerates the danger of Iran. Israel says she will take action in self-defense if necessary, even if that means striking … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Iran, Israel
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Mainstream media math on the tea parties
The AP and CNN are going with “tens of thousands” attending 800 tea parties across the nation. Atlanta police are estimating 10,000 in that city alone. Lansing, MI had 3-4,000. Madison, WI, Columbia, SC, Richmond, VA, Nashville, TN, Tampa, FL: … Continue reading
Posted in Politics
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The ever-present anti-Israel AP slant
Exhibit A: An evolution of headlines. Israel says it’s unlikely to co-operate in UN’s Gaza investigation Fairly balanced, gets the point across, no evident bias. Exhibit B: The updated story. Israel balks at UN war crimes probe of Gaza war … Continue reading
Got tired of serif fonts
Lucida. Ugh. I’ll take a simple Helvetica clone over that any day. I also need to do a bit of tweaking to make the text more readable. I don’t know why people seem to think that 100% black isn’t a … Continue reading
Obama’s meaningless withholding stimulus
My last two paychecks were mysteriously larger by about $27. As I am nowhere near the category that gets to stop paying social security taxes at a certain date during the year, I was confused—until Sarah helped me figure out … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, The One
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