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
Dean Barnett, cystic fibrosis, and me
Dean Barnett died today, at the too-young age of 41. He died of complications from cystic fibrosis, a disease he’d been fighting his entire life. The world is a poorer place without him. But the thing about CF is that … Continue reading
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Falling oil prices: Adios, Chavez’s grand plans
Looks like the falling price of oil is getting better and better results. The same tumbling oil prices that led OPEC to slash output last week threaten to send Venezuela’s economy into a tailspin, and put an end to President … Continue reading
Signs of separation
Israel will be weaning the Palestinians off the Israeli power grid. A Jordanian official said Monday that the Palestinian Authority will join a regional power grid that so far links Jordan, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Libya and Turkey. Israel is … Continue reading
The AP’s lying eyes
Who are you going to trust? The AP bias or your lying eyes? Get a load of this jaw-dropping bias in the lead: Families in this village near the Iraqi border buried loved ones Monday who they said were killed … Continue reading
U.S. Special Forces land in Syria
Take a Sunday afternoon nap, and you wake up to the news that some jihadis on the Syrian/Iraqi border have been taken out. An official Syrian spokesman confirmed reports by the country’s state-run television and witnesses, who said that four … Continue reading
The Obamedia: Don’t sweat it, it’s only a few million
In an article about the Obama money machine and its fraudulent donations, the WaPo has this to say about Obama breaking his pledge to pursue public financing: One immediate result of Obama’s fundraising showing this fall is that it may … Continue reading
UPDATE: The AP media bias
I wrote my 1 p.m. post earlier today and scheduled it. Here’s the lead from the first version of the AP story about Tzipi Livni calling for new elections: Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Sunday abandoned her efforts to form … Continue reading
AP shocked at Israeli democracy
The AP never fails to disappoint. Now they’re upset that—horrors—an election might give Israelis a chance to elect someone the AP doesn’t agree with. Prime Minister-designate Tzipi Livni on Sunday abandoned her efforts to form a new coalition government and … Continue reading
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Carnival of the Jews
Three out of four of Jews are voting for Obama, but we can still read what they’re saying. Because I think I found most of the 25% that aren’t Obamatons. Haveil Havalim is here this week. Some clips: More on … Continue reading
UN Human Rights rep: Steady with the Israel-hatred
The UN is keeping up its tradition of ignoring all human rights offenses of the Arab and Muslim nations (cf: Executing gays in Iran, drug dealers in Saudi Arabia, whippings, cutting off of hands, “honor killings,” the status of women … Continue reading
And now, for a brief giggle
Typos can be so much fun. Look out for those old Israelis in their rockers. They might smush your feet.
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Stabbings, firebombings, and yeshiva burnings—in Israel
Jews are being stabbed, firebombed, and their yeshivas burned down—in Israel. Not in Europe, at least, not at this time. A fire broke out Saturday night in a hesder yeshiva (program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service) in … Continue reading
Caturday night fever
As I’ve been nursing a sore throat all day, I haven’t accomplished much. Well, except for, since I really couldn’t do anything else, backing up every single photo I’ve taken since 2002, except for the ones I lost in the … Continue reading
Joe Biden says: Pres. Obama will draw attacks
He guarantees it. Go ahead. Vote for Obama. Because that’s what America needs, a weak leader in a time of a two-front war.
“Moderate” Iranian says: Don’t gloat, guys
The pretend-moderate Iranian cleric (Snoopy’s been on the case here, here, and here) told his fellow America-haters to stop gloating about our financial crisis. Yeah, it really doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that as the West goes, so … Continue reading