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
The Gaza War: Finally imminent
Unless this is all talk, the IDF is finally going to go into Gaza in force. Meanwhile, Defense officials revealed that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Defense Minister Ehud Barak met privately on Thursday and decided that Israel would respond … Continue reading
Chanukah: First light
As always, we have my virtual menorah: And a reprise of what I found to be a very funny Dreidel song. Yippee-ai-oh-chai-yay!
Because the anti-Israel crowd just doesn’t get it
Because the anti-Israel crowd is made up of really stupid people, and because I feel the need to channel my inner Hulk, I think it’s time once again to tell all of the tiny-brained, tiny-penised neo-Nazis, as well as the … Continue reading
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AP bias followup
The AP has edited its reprehensible headline, but the story remains an example of the anti-Israel bias typical of the world media. Gaza truce recedes as rockets hit Israel Now, the headline mentions the rocketing that caused the IDF to … Continue reading
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Biased AP headline of the day
I take it back. I’m not too tired to post, not after I saw this headline: Israel strikes Gaza day after truce expires Look at the cause-and-effect of the lead. An Israeli airstrike against a Palestinian rocket squad killed a … Continue reading
Talk amongst yourselves
I’m too tired to post anything tonight. However, for my SNN fans, I just emailed Tom my latest segment. There will be a year-end SNN podcast with a few new pieces and some of our greatest hits from 2008.
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Majel Barrett, 1932-2008
Majel Barrett has died. My favorite of all her roles—and I’m sure there will be many of you out there utterly horrified by this—was Lwaxana Troi. The intergalactic Jewish mother—what’s not to love?
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OPEC cuts can’t stop the slide
Crude oil is currently at $34.54/bbl, the lowest price in years. The OPEC cuts don’t seem to be affecting the law of supply and demand. Who knew? Dec. 19 (Bloomberg) — Crude oil headed for the second- biggest weekly decline … Continue reading
Life in Israel
Here’s something you don’t usually see in the mainstream media: The Israeli citizen’s point of view. Yesterday, Elie and I drove to the mall. A few weeks ago, we had been there to drop off something that needed to be … Continue reading
IDF to Hamas: We’re not fighting the last war
Ynet quotes a senior IDF official who says that Israel is fighting the next war, while Hamas is fighting the last one. However, officials made it clear that should Hamas and other groups continue to fire rockets and mortar shells … Continue reading
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Palin vs. Congress on pay raises
Sarah Palin said no to a pay raise. Gov. Sarah Palin didn’t ask for a pay raise and won’t accept one during her current term, a spokesman said Wednesday. […] But if the commission pushes ahead with a pay raise, … Continue reading
Pretend truce is officially over
The fantasy truce—the one where it’s okay to launch a few hundred rockets, instead of thousands—has been officially declared over by Hamas, and of course, it’s not their fault. It’s Israel’s. Hamas on Thursday declared the end of a six-month-old … Continue reading
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Europe still pays to murder Jews
The Palestinians exceeded their European budget expectations last year. Europe apparently still has absolutely no qualms about funding the murder of Jews. The international community has given 1.7 billion dollars (1.18 billion euros) in aid to the Palestinian Authority over … Continue reading
The pretend truce is over
The IDF bombed a couple of rocket labs in Gaza. Israeli aircraft conducted two nighttime air strikes against terror infrastructure in the Gaza Strip for the first time in six months, this following rocket fire on the western Negev region. … Continue reading
Free market trumps OPEC
OPEC tried. You have to give it to the oil ticks. They really tried hard to manipulate a “fair” price for oil. But they can’t beat a bear market. Oil fell to the lowest level in more than four years … Continue reading
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