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
Time for a feel-good break
Yes, anyone who believes that Simon Cowell was in any way surprised by the talent shown here, I have a bridge in Brooklyn for sale–but this is a wonderfully touching story. And a couple of teenagers with amazing voices.
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Wednesday briefs, lynch mob version
Apparently, it’s not a lynch mentality if it’s a black lynch mob: Apparently, it’s okay for the Black Panthers to offer up a wanted dead or alive poster on George Zimmerman, plus a $10,000 reward for him.. Also for Spike … Continue reading
Tuesday news round-up
If Israel did it, the world would be outraged: Syrian troops have entered Lebanon in pursuit of rebel troops, destroying houses and shelling as they go. Where is UNIFIL? Probably making sure they’re out of range of Hezbullah. Besides, they … Continue reading
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It’s Monday, and here are the briefs
Republican ideas: More varied than Democrats. Here’s scientific proof that liberals are dumber than conservatives. (Okay, not really, but it was fun to write that, since liberals think they’re so much smarter than conservatives. This book sounds interesting enough to … Continue reading
The AP: Not just whitewashing, being flat-out wrong
I saw this two weeks ago during the midst of the rocket attacks on Israel, but forgot to point it out in a post. What’s wrong with this paragraph? Last April, Israeli killed 11 Palestinians, including four civilians, after Palestinian … Continue reading
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The important things
We had a tornado watch in Richmond yesterday, so I decided to be prepared in case I heard what sounded like a freight train again and hid in the downstairs closet. I collected a bunch of useful things, and some … Continue reading
The AP is not even trying to hide the anti-Israel bias anymore
Get a load of this anti-Israel headline, which contains a typo. Sure, it’s a typo. Right. Because it slipped right past the layers and layers of AP fact-checkers and editors, the thing that separates the journalists from the bloggers. Israel … Continue reading
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Gracie-in-a-box
Happy Caturday! Gracie is now dividing her time between the box and her bed. No, she doesn’t care that it’s full of cat toys. That seems to make it more comfortable. She’s a happy Gracie!
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Any experts on oil refineries out there?
A question just occurred to me while reading this Byron York piece on how Obama wants to be known as the Pipeline President: When the president appeared in Cushing, White House image makers positioned him in front of huge stockpiles … Continue reading
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The jihadi is dead, but don’t call him an Islamist
French police ended their siege of the building where the multiple murderer jihadi was hiding and attacked. The bastard jumped out the window after trying to take down more people with him. He failed at that, thankfully. The 31-hour standoff … Continue reading
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Kitty picture break
Because the news is atrocious this week. And of course, Princess Gracie, this time in an uncharacteristically goofy pose: There. I can feel my blood pressure going down already.
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Why not for the soldiers?
You know what thought keeps cropping up when I think of the deaths caused by the French jihadi? Why did France not have a statewide search for the murderer of three soldiers in two separate attacks? They knew it was … Continue reading
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A jihadi, not a neo-Nazi–but what’s the real difference?
French police have been in a standoff with the man they think was behind the shootings of the Jewishs school and the three soldiers. He says he’s part of al Qaeda, and this AP article does not once call the … Continue reading
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More on the French neo-Nazi murder spree
Catherine Ashton is the lowest of the low. She equated the accidental killing of civilians in Gaza, who are killed because terrorists fire their rockets near schools, hospitals, and homes, with the deliberate murder of children by French neo-Nazis. I … Continue reading
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In every generation, they come after the Jews
Some sick bastard killed three children and a rabbi at a French Jewish school. French authorities think the killings are related to the murder of French soldiers on two occasions in the last ten days. The AP thinks it’s cute … Continue reading