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
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
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Point of information
The web and the news is rather annoying and/or depressing today. Expect fluffy kitty posts tomorrow.
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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
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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
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Happy Easter to my Christian readers
I almost forgot, but not quite. Hope your [bread-filled] dinners were yummy. Sigh. Two more days of matzoh.
Sunday morning briefs
Yeah, it’s just like anti-Semitism: Some fool priest compared criticism of the Catholic Church’s reaction to priests’ sexual abuse of the children in their parishes to “collective violence” against Jews over the centuries. Yeah, because being angry about covering up … Continue reading
Fluffy Caturday post
It’s Caturday. Time to go out, sit in the sun, and watch my nephews play lacrosse. First, my girl in the sun. Next, this is as close as I got to getting a kippa on Tig. Go out and enjoy. … Continue reading
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The Passover brisket disaster
Monday night I hosted my first-ever Passover seder in my own home. I’ve been bouncing around at various friends’ houses the last few years, and haven’t led a full seder in, well, I can’t remember how long. I always helped … Continue reading
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Friday Israel briefs, terrorism edition
What part of “Death to Israel” don’t you understand? The Obama administration is indirectly talking to Hamas via “ex-US diplomats” who are talking to Hamas without official sanction. Really? Talking to the terrorist organization that swears at every opportunity it … Continue reading
Christians in Jerusalem: No riots, no attacks, no problem
Since Israel took back the eastern half of Jerusalem in 1967, the shrines of all three faiths have been open to all three faiths’ worshippers. Today, Christians from all over the world are making a pilgrimage to the Holy Land. … Continue reading
Fixing the narrative, one letter at a time
In the last week or so, I wrote a letter to the AP complaining about their one-sided version of the history of Hebron, which had a thriving Jewish community until the massacre of 1929, after which the British allowed Muslims … Continue reading
Thursday snarks
More of Obama’s outreach dividend: Hassan Nasrallah, speaking from a secure, undisclosed location, says that Israel is going to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque. Note the timing; tomorrow are Friday prayers for Muslims. Watch for riots. And oh, yeah—he thanked Syrian … Continue reading