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 2010
Blaming Bibi
This week’s Baltimore Jewish Times featured an article (previously mentioned here) U.S.-Israeli Ties: What’s Really Happening? by Dr. Robert O. Freedman. Over the course of the article Dr. Freedman covers much important territory; unfortunately he also lets his prejudices get … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
Tagged PM Netanyahu, President Obama
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Israel’s nuclear umbrella
While President Obama’s nuclear weapons conference takes place in Washington, some nations wanted to try to co-opt it by painting Israel as a nation that needs to be put under the control of the non-proliferation treaty—a treaty that Israel has … Continue reading
Site’s back up
Server issues with my host. They’ve (obviously) been fixed.
Never again
The modern state of Israel was created, in part, because of the world’s guilt over the Holocaust. That guilt lasted until about five minutes after Israel’s establishment, but it gave the world’s Jews the chance to stop relying on others … Continue reading
No innocent bystanders
A half year ago, Archbishop Desmond Tutu expressed a common sentiment in the Middle East. The Nobel Prize laureate spoke to Haaretz in Jerusalem as the organization The Elders concluded its tour of Israel and the West Bank. He said … Continue reading
‘a liter of sweat is equal to a drop of blood’
I originally saw this story in Viewpoint, the magazine of the National Council of Young Israel. It originally appeared at the IDF website (along with profiles of two other “handicapped” soldiers) with the title, There is no such thing as … Continue reading
U.K.’s NHS: Ten years of screwed-up organ donation lists
Can’t wait until Obamacare gets to run our healthcare! Then we, too, can have errors like this: Britain’s transplant authority said Saturday that it was investigating several hundred thousand errors in its organ donor list stretching back about a decade. … Continue reading
Posted in The One
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Point of information
The web and the news is rather annoying and/or depressing today. Expect fluffy kitty posts tomorrow.
Posted in Life
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He’s just not that into you … Israel
At the same time that the Obama administration decided to make a city planning decision into an international incident, the Palestinian Authority was preparing to honor a vicious murdereress. Palestinian Media Watch has been exposing the Palestinian Authority’s ongoing policy … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
Tagged Hamas, Hizballah, Israel
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Friday morning briefs
There’s hope for the AP yet: This is the single most balanced piece by the AP on Israel I’ve read in years. It’s about Netanyahu withdrawing from the upcoming nuclear conference in Washington to prevent Arab nations from making the … Continue reading
Briefly
Just because you’re a diplomat doesn’t mean you’re smart: Wow, is this the stupidest diplomatic incident ever, or what? A Qatari diplomat decided that the rules don’t apply to him, so he sneaked a smoke in an airplane bathroom, and … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, News Briefs, Religion, Terrorism
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Obama, Jews, Israel
A few weeks ago Daled Amos observed that Israel could well be an issue in the upcoming midterm elections. Citing a Politico article he wrote: Support for Israel, and its implications for US foreign policy, is already emerging as an … Continue reading
Imposing
Two weeks ago David Ignatius wrote: In retrospect, it seems clear that the step-by-step approach was a mistake: Constructive ambiguity, in this case, proved destructive. It allowed the Israeli right wing to perpetuate the idea that it could have it … Continue reading
Wednesday briefs
Words that bite: So you think Obama and his aides will call out Iran for this? Netanyahu “insults” the Obama administration by breathing while a bureaucratic announcement of 1,600 new apartments in Jerusalem goes out. Iran actually insults Obama. “Mr. … Continue reading
Posted in Iran, Israeli Double Standard Time, The One
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