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
Anti-Semitism going mainstream
Anti-Semitism has been rising the world over, and now it seems to be going mainstream. Witness this ad campaign in New Zealand: Billboards pitching a new programme for Prime Television have been removed after complaints from the Jewish community. One … Continue reading
The media bias, lessening?
Soccer Dad points to a few bloggers who think the AP media bias against Israel may be easing. I’m not nearly as optimistic as they are, and here’s why. Watch the change in versions as the day progressed. The first … Continue reading
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AP media bias, Walt-Mearsheimer version
Astonishing. The AP managed to write an article that utterly contradicts its lead. Here’s the lead: Israeli students slam American ‘Israel Lobby’ authors Two prominent American professors, who have recently been causing an uproar with their best-selling book critical of … Continue reading
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Bombardment of Israel continues while Olmert fiddles
The daily bombardment of Israel continues. A 59-year-old Israeli woman was lightly-to-moderately wounded in the Yad Mordechai area on Thursday afternoon as Palestinian terror groups launched a barrage of mortar shells and Qassam rockets against Israeli communities near the Gaza … Continue reading
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The true obstacles to peace
The true obstacles to peace in the Middle East are not settlements. The obstacles are the thugs ruling the Arab states that refuse to ever compromise. First, Syria says Israel can forget about peace until AFTER she gives up all … Continue reading
Iraq terror attacks down 94% over last year
Check out this statistic from a story in the Guardian, a decidedly anti-war newspaper: Evidence of al-Qaida’s problems in Iraq is weighty and convincing. It has been badly hit by the fightback from the American-backed Sunni “Sons of Iraq” and … Continue reading
Bombardment of Israel continues
The daily bombardment of southern Israel continued as more Israeli civilians were injured by randomly-fired mortars. That’s two dead and eleven wounded in the last week and a half. A fire also broke out in the factory that was hit. … Continue reading
Maybe he should have tried being a father
Happy Father’s Day, Lionel Richie: It’s not easy raising a celebutante. Take it from Lionel Richie. The singer was accepting the “Icon” honor at Sunday night’s taping of the TV Land Awards, when he got applause and a laugh at … Continue reading
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Mugniyah assassination: Not Mossad?
A German magazine says that Imad Mugniyah was killed in revenge for exposing a would-be coup: An attempt to topple Syrian President Bashar Assad’s government was thwarted without the international community’s ever having noticed, German newspaper Die Welt reported Saturday, … Continue reading
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Democratically-elected govt. of PA bombards Israel
The democratically-elected government of the Palestinians fired 18 mortars and four kassam rockets at Israel today, in an attempt to prove that war means peace. That’s right, they’ve threatened that if Israel doesn’t make peace, Hamas will make war on … Continue reading
Letter from Shalit: Still not proof of life
There’s no telling when the letter was written, at least, not according to anything in the news, but Gilad Shalit’s parents did receive another letter from him. The parents of IDF soldier Gilad Shalit, who was taken prisoner by Hamas … Continue reading
Arab League to hold meeting, Israel to ignore them
The Arab League is holding an “extraordinary” meeting about Israeli expansion of Jerusalem suburbs. CAIRO, June 5 (Xinhua) — The Arab League (AL) Council has decided to hold an extraordinary meeting on June 15 to discuss the Israeli settlement activities … Continue reading
Lazy Caturday afternoon
I am all out of things to write today. Instead, I give you the zen of Tig on Afghan. Breathe in, breathe out. Breathe in, breathe out. We took a Caturday afternoon nap. Tig was just napping. I was trying … Continue reading
Proof of Shalit’s death?
Funny how Hamas hasn’t managed to fulfill its promises to Jimmy Carter, the mediator extraordinaire who went to Gaza and declared Israel to be the criminals, not Hamas. Captured IDF soldier Gilad Schalit has still not written the letter Hamas … Continue reading
“Humliating” checkpoint saves Israeli lives
Soldiers caught yet another would-be bomber at one of those “humiliating” checkpoints—in an area the Palestinians are supposed to be policing. IDF soldiers manning the Hawara checkpoint near the West Bank city of Nablus apprehended on Sunday an 18-year-old Palestinian … Continue reading
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