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: July 2009
The president’s ear
Jeremy Ben Ami of J-Street who was at the meeting between Jewish leaders and President Obama, thought that the President was amazing. In an extremely soft interview Ben Ami recounts: One is Malcolm Hoenlein’s, and he’s said this publicly, that … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Politics
Tagged J-Street, Orthodox Union, President Obama
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Wednesday Snark News Briefs
Cognitive dissonance: A KKKer hides from the law in Israel? Okay, on a scale of one to ten, the weirdness factor here is seven hundred. I mean, really—a kluxer on the run from the law goes and hides in Israel. … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, News Briefs, palestinian politics, Religion, The One, World
Tagged Israel
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Tuesday Snarky World News Briefs (now, with politics!)
Yes, we’re going to start delineating world news from, say politics. But I haven’t much time for politics today. Oh, well. Maybe. Respect my authori-tay! Um, Kartman, call your agent. I think Manuel Zelaya is stealing your act. Here’s my … Continue reading
A masterful assuaging
Last year those of us Jews who didn’t support President Obama in his bid to be elected president were subjected to ridicule. If we didn’t support him it was because we were prejudiced or misinformed. This mocking didn’t just come … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Iran, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Jews, Politics
Tagged President Obama
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A midday visit, with pictures
Sarah and the kids were in town today so that Jake could retake a couple of parts of the test for the gifted program. He was sick and on meds when he first took the test, and didn’t score highly … Continue reading
Hamas: Israel is drugging our chewing gum
Only in the Middle East can you read these incredibly insane theories that will be taken as absolute truth by the idiots who pass along these stories. Man, we Jews are so sneaky, we’re setting up Palestinians to chew gum … Continue reading
I, for one, welcome our feline overlords
Proof positive that cats own us. Researchers at the University of Sussex have discovered that cats use a “soliciting purr” to overpower their owners and garner attention and food. Unlike regular purring, this sound incorporates a “cry”, with a similar … Continue reading
Your Monday Snark News
U.K. determined to lose Israeli arms market: The U.K. is embargoing arms to Israel, while insisting that it’s not an embargo—they’re just refusing to sell replacement parts. Luckily, Israel was smart enough to make sure that the U.K. was only … Continue reading
Pat Buchanan’s buddy charged with Nazi war crimes
Expect more outraged columns by the modern-day Lindbergh on how innocent this poor old man is. And yet, he’s being charged. German prosecutors on Monday charged suspected Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk with helping to kill about 28,000 Jews … Continue reading
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Fayyad’s facade
The Washington Post’s Howard Schneider profiles PA Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad, A Palestinian Technocrat Rises Steadily, but Questions Persist. The profile is generally positive but Schneider notes some of the problems that Fayyad faces. Here’s one: Ghassan Khatib, a Palestinian … Continue reading
Netanyahu: Two states for two peoples. Media: he doesn’t really mean it
Funny how the Israeli press is pretty sure that Benjamin Netanyahu isn’t lying when he says he would like to see Israel at peace with the Palestinians and surrounding nations, but the rest of the world media thinks he doesn’t … Continue reading
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Score one for the bulls
The bulls of Pamplona got one this year. And hurt quite a few more. A bull fatally gored a Spanish man at the San FermÃn festival in Pamplona on Friday. The 27-year old man, Daniel Jimeno Romero, was the first … Continue reading
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Caturday on Sunday
Two kitty pictures before I take off for the day. In the first, we have Mr. Tig on his new(ish) window shelf. It took him all of thirty seconds to realize that it would be a good thing to lie … Continue reading
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Hiding the French antisemitism
The main defendent in the Ilan Halimi murder was sentenced to life in prison. Youssouf Fofana, leader of the gang that mastermind Halimi’s kidnap, torture and murder, which was described by a leading police officer as the most brutal and … Continue reading
A Blog Carnival With a Movie Review
Every week the Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere produces a blog carnival that highlights the Best of The Jewish/Israeli Blogosphere. It is one of the oldest and longest running blog carnivals around. Here we are at issue number 225. You can find a list … Continue reading
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