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…
Author Archives: Meryl Yourish
Compare and contrast
North Korea, a nuclear-armed nation, regularly attacks its nearest neighbor for no reason whatsoever, most recently torpedoing a South Korean ship and killing dozens of sailors. North Korea, a nuclear-armed nation, regularly threatens to attack its neighbors and the United … Continue reading
Israel’s non-peaceful neighbors
The angle in all of the articles about Israel making peace with the Palestinians is that settlements are obstructing the peace process. The AP has an entire brand-new profile on “Arab East Jerusalem,” almost completely ignoring the fact that the … Continue reading
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Everybody draw Mohammed Day
Interesting takes on Everybody Draw Mohammed Day. CAIR, of course, hates it. And also utterly misses the point of the First Amendment. I will be the first to defend anyone’s right to express their opinion, no matter how offensive it … Continue reading
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Where has Meryl been all week?
Well, let’s see. I had work drop on me Friday evening that I worked on most of Sunday. Then I worked some more on it on Monday. Then I worked some more on it today, in between Verizon Hell (there … Continue reading
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Happy Monday briefs
If Israel did this, there’s be ten UN resolutions about it: Hamas beat residents out of their own homes and then razed the buildings. Why? Because Hamas says the homes were built on land the Palestinians don’t own. Hm. Double … Continue reading
No Chomsky, no peace
Noam Chomsky had to cool his heels for four hours before being told he wasn’t welcome in Israel. Jewish intellectual Noam Chomsky, one of the prominent speakers against the Israeli policy, was stopped Sunday while trying to enter Israel through … Continue reading
The joke that is the UN Human Rights Council
The latest addition to the UN Human Rights Council? Libya. Libya was elected Thursday to the United Nations Human Rights Council, over the objections of numerous NGOs that said the country was unfit to serve on the rights body. A … Continue reading
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Friday briefs, blame the Jew edition
Palestinian dies, Jews blamed: In the West Bank, Palestinians say that “settlers” shot and killed a Palestinian teenager who had been throwing stones at a passing Israeli vehicle. The fact that those stones are generally larger-than-fist-sized rocks that have injured … Continue reading
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For Jerusalem Day
I’ve been busy or otherwise engaged, but here’s my commentary on not building in “east” Jerusalem:
What’s another word for ‘briefly’?
In any other country, he’d be tried for treason: So, when a Member of the Knesset calls for an Islamic caliphate to be established in Israel and says that Jews can “manage their own matters themselves,” this is not racist, … Continue reading
An exhausting day
Sorry, folks. I ran out of gas. Not literally. That’s a quote from an old Bugs Bunny cartoon. Let’s see. Got up early, worked an hour or two, went to breakfast with the friend I was staying with in central … Continue reading
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Sunday NJ briefs
Oh, didn’t I mention I was in New Jersey? Nose to nose: This looks really neat. The Israeli embassy in New Zealand was reopened with a Maori nose-pressing ceremony. Looks like the Maoris like Israelis better than the Kiwis do. … Continue reading
Sabotaging negotiations before they begin
The Palestinians are not serious about negotations with Israel. It is evident to anyone who has followed the situation at any length, but they’re really making it easy to see that they don’t really want two states, side by side, … Continue reading
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