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
Parsing the Iranian Hitler’s speech
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called yet again for the end of Israel, and is once more pretty much ignored by the mainstream media. However, I’d like to see the speech-parsers like Juan Cole parse this bit: The website of the Iranian IRIB … Continue reading
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Lazy day
Since I was busy last weekend and will be busy next weekend, I decided to be lazy this weekend. Catching up on soaps, Dollhouse (wow, what an AMAZING episode, pleasepleaseplease renew it, Fox!), Being Erica (yay chick flick TV shows!) … Continue reading
FBI witch hunt charges against AIPAC staffers dropped
The case stank to high heaven from the get-go, and now the charges have been dropped. The Justice Department has informed two former employees of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee that it will be dropping charges against them for … Continue reading
Posted in Israel Derangement Syndrome 2 Comments
Not Swine Flu
Well, I was busy, and a bit out of it, but the rumors that I’m the first blogger to come down Swine Flu are completely false, and let me be the first to spread, uh, deny them. In fact, now … Continue reading
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Busy
Busy, preoccupied, and out of words at the moment. I’m sure I’ll be back tomorrow.
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Why I do the thing I do
Someone reached my site this morning with a Google search on “difference between Jews and Nazis.” That search led them to this post that I wrote in 2006. I had frankly forgotten that I wrote it. But I’m really glad … Continue reading
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AP continues its blame Israel for anti-Semitism crusade
In an article that describes government and religious persecution of Yemen’s Jews, the AP manages to blame Israel—in the lead—for Yemen’s Jew hatred. Yemen’s Jews, here and elsewhere in the country, are thought to have roots dating back nearly 3,000 … Continue reading
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Comments and registration
I’m getting spammed like crazy, and while the comments are going into the spam filter, it annoys me enough that I’ve just turned registration back on in order to comment. Which means the spammers will force me to close registration … Continue reading
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Stupid php
Okay, I’m trying to revive my programming chops to add a “next post/last post” tag to the current theme, and, well, not doing so well at it. Since I only have a few more hours to myself this afternoon, it’s … Continue reading
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Israeli security saves Italian ship from pirates
Israelis are being hired to fight off Somali pirates—and they’re succeeding. An Italian cruise ship with 1,500 people on board fended off a pirate attack far off the coast of Somalia when its Israeli private security forces exchanged fire with … Continue reading
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Lieberman’s call for two-state solution ignored by MSM
The media have portrayed Avigdor Lieberman as a rabid anti-Arab bigot who refuses to adhere to the Two-state Solution School of Middle East Politics. So I read with interest this article in Ynet the other day, and waited for the … Continue reading
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Caturday afternoon
It’s 93 degrees in Richmond today, and so we have: Cat pictures. First, we have Tig3.0 looking his best to imitate Tig 2, who was also known as The Independent Republic of Tiggerstan. Sorry, Tig3, but you’ve got a way … Continue reading
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Netanyahu to EU: F.U.
I am loving stories like this. I foresee many more of them to come. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Thursday dismissed European calls to suspend the upgrade in Israel’s relations with the European Union. “Don’t set conditions for us,” Netanyahu told … Continue reading
Gitmo prisoner’s sons killed by grenade—in their home
This is a story that doesn’t make you go “Hmm.” It makes you go, “WTF?” The two young sons of a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo died when a grenade they were playing with accidentally detonated inside their home, a human … Continue reading
Religion of tolerance vandalizes Jewish shrine—again
The famed Islamic tolerance for other religions reared its ugly face in Nablus last night, when Joseph’s Tomb—a place supposedly sacred to Islam as well as to Judaism—was vandalized. Since Nablus is in the West Bank, and there are no … Continue reading
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