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: May 2009
Jolly Roger
Roger Cohen, who has spent the last several months arguing that Iran is moderate because only 75% of its Jews chose to or were able to leave, is at it again ahead of President Obama’s meeting with Prime MInister Netanyahu. … Continue reading
Obama on Israel: Get ready for my toldjaso
It’s looking more and more like Obama is going to be pretty reasonable when he meets with Bibi today. Exhibit one: But analysts and officials in both governments said it is in neither man’s interest to have a public spat. … Continue reading
Skunk’d
Barry Rubin identifies two types of unrealistic realists This is explained by saying that the practitioners weren’t good enough–“I’m smarter or more charming than they were,” which today seems to be what President Barack Obama is saying–or didn’t try hard … Continue reading
Jewish/Israeli Blog Carnival #217
If you want to get a sense of what sorts of issues, thoughts and ideas are buzzing through the Jewish/Israeli blogosphere you need to go check out our blog carnival. It is called Haveil Havalim and is one of the … Continue reading
Obama won’t be throwing Israel under the bus, part I
Here’s where I stick my neck out and look either brilliant or moronic, but I don’t think that Obama is going to sell out Israel. Here’s another reason why: United States President Barack Obama has said he cannot tell Israel … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, The One
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Buying a gas stove
I’m buying a gas stove to replace the hated electric stove that came with my condo. I have gas heat, a gas fireplace, and an electric stove. I’ve already got a quote on what it will cost to run the … Continue reading
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Sleep is unfair
You know, it’s bad enough that I’ve been having lousy dreams and nightmares. I think it’s really, really unfair that I had a dream where I was actually speaking French to a Frenchwoman, and she had the nerve to insult … Continue reading
Posted in Meanderings
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News Snarks
Hamas is refreshing its weapons supply. Egypt opened its Gaza border for “humanitarian” purposes. I wonder if one of those is picking up the weapons cache in the Sinai that the Egyptian army found. I also wonder if the world … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Israel, News Briefs, Syria
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The UN finds another club to use on Israel: Phantom torture facility
Did you know the UN had an anti-torture committee? You’d think that maybe they’d be checking out the handiwork of places like Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, various South American dictatorships, North Korea, Cuba, Libya, and, gee, pre-2003 Iraq. But … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, United Nations
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The enema remedy – doing quite well, thank you
Since then, as that ancient Jewish story tells, each time when a Pharaoh gets sick, Jews get the enema. Sorry about that annoying habit of quoting own posts, but the quote is not mine, so… Anyhow, this time it applies … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome, Media Bias
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It’s been a busy week
Especially the last couple of days. Much driving yesterday, much working today. Things are mostly under control at work. Tig’s way of showing how much he missed me was to sleep on my legs several times throughout the night. Gracie … Continue reading
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Two state confusion
Tony Karon writes this bit of inanity in his survey of President Obama’s foreign policy challenges: Unlike Netanyahu, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas is fully committed to the two-state solution being championed by the Obama Administration. The problem, however, is … Continue reading
The world’s smallest violin for Syria
Syria’s upset: Syria’s Tishrin newspaper said U.S. policies of isolation, blockades and sanctions adopted by the former U.S. administration “have put the United States in an intractable impasse.” It said Washington can reverse this path if it stepped up its … Continue reading
Attacking Iran
Iran is supposedly preparing for an attack on its nuclear sites. Saudi daily ‘Al-Watan’ is reporting that over the past several weeks Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has deployed several mobile surface-to-air and anti-ship missile batteries in the Strait of Hormuz and … Continue reading
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