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: September 2009
Where in the world is Meryl?
Here. Aaaaah. I can feel my stress melting away.
Posted in Life
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Garlasco hits the fan
The New York Times finally covers the controversy over Marc Garlasco’s hobby first reported by Mere Rhetoric and reports that he has been suspended from Human Right’s Watch. The article covers most of the aspects of Garlasco’s collecting and summed … Continue reading
Slapping the outstretched hand
Two recent observations from Barry Rubin stick out. In regard to Prince Turki’s recent up-ed in the NY Times, Rubin writes: Note also–something else nobody is going to notice–that the op-ed insults the United States as it directly contradicts Obama’s … Continue reading
J-Street: The lobby that isn’t
One of the things that struck me in the New York Times’ hagiography of J-Street is this quote: The average age of the dozen or so staff members is about 30. Ben-Ami speaks for, and to, this post-Holocaust generation. “They’re … Continue reading
Turki stuffing
A few months we had an excuse: “The ambition to bring the Saudis on board has been disappointed,” said one Western diplomat based in Riyadh, who asked not to be identified because of the delicate nature of the debate. “I … Continue reading
The “U” in UN stands for “Useless”
UNIFIL was warned ten days beforehand that Lebanese terrorists planned to fire rockets into Israel. They were even told what kind of rockets were going to be used. And so, UNIFIL took that information and warned Israel. Oh, wait. No … Continue reading
Posted in AP Media Bias, Israel, Lebanon
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Demolishing the opposition
This is where Meryl was on Saturday night: I’ll bet you thought from the headline this was a political post. Nope. I was at the Amelia County Fair, which featured a Demolition Derby tonight. This is the picture of the … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Life
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Caturday: A study in Gracie
Because both Tiggers have been the bigger clowns, the ones who stick near me like glue, and the most easily photographed, today, I bring you: Gracie. First we have Gracie waking up from a nap that she decided to take … Continue reading
Posted in Cats
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Memories of 9/11
Allah’s post is superb. All I can add is this: Eight weeks later, on November 15th, my friend, her son, and I went out to dinner at my favorite steakhouse in Montclair, NJ, twelve miles west of Manhattan. The wind … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Terrorism
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Quote of the day
Fouad Ajami in the Wall Street Journal. Eight years ago, we were visited by the furies of Arab lands. We were rudely awakened from a decade whose gurus and pundits had announced the end of ideology, of politics itself, and … Continue reading
The Goldstone commission: A kangaroo court report
In the next couple of weeks, the UN will be releasing the results of the inquiry by Richard Goldstone into what they will determine are war crimes committed by Israel in Gaza. Goldstone has been insisting that although the UN … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, Hamas, Israel Derangement Syndrome, United Nations
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When is a war crime not a war crime?
Jules Crittenden asks, “is it a war crime?” (via Instapundit) It’s a small incident in the grand scheme of things. Another Navy corpsman doing his job, working on the wounded, sometimes under fire, and dying in combat as thousands have … Continue reading
Orde Wingate
There’s a fascinating essay on the Zionism of Orde Wingate. Who was Wingate? Traveling through Komemiyut in Jerusalem, at the intersection of Jabotinsky and David Marcus, one will see Kikar Orde (known also as Kikar Wingate). There are Wingate Streets … Continue reading
Netanyahu’s visit to Russia
There is much speculation as to why the Israeli Prime Minister would visit Russia secretly, renting a private jet to keep his actions quiet. He could be discussing Iranian weapons deals with Russia, as the story says: Yedioth Ahronoth newspaper … Continue reading
When meticulous means exaggerated
Helena Cobban writes about the recent casualty figures from Israel’s war against Hamas released by PCHR and B’Tselem. I dare say that when we see the final report in English from PCHR, they too will be specific about the methodology … Continue reading