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…
Category Archives: American Scene
When Bill Maher says “stupid,” he means, “They don’t think like me”
Bill Maher called America a “stupid country” yesterday, and when given a chance to retract it, repeated it. (H/T: Hot Air.) WOLF BLITZER: Do you think she has a future nationally as a presidential candidate? BILL MAHER: I don’t know … Continue reading
Tuesday SNB
Mitchell reports to his master: I’m sorry, but that’s the way it looks to me. Mitchell is in Israel, talking settlements with Netanyahu, and he’s reporting back to Abbas that there’s “still a gap” in negotiations about what to freeze. … Continue reading
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Aluf: Don’t be aloof
While I don’t totally agree with his perspective, Ha’aretz columnist Aluf Benn has an excellent op-ed in the New York Times today, Why won’t Obama talk to Israel? Mr. Obama came to office determined to repair America’s broken alliances in … Continue reading
Nancy Pelosi and her negative numbers
Inspired by this report on how Nancy Pelosi simply doesn’t care what the little people think. I’m speaker of the house, you know As such I have my highs and lows The polls say people don’t like me That won’t … Continue reading
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The Gates affair
I’ve been trying to figure out a way to verbalize what I think of the arrest of Henry Louis Gates. I think that Radley Balko has essentially got his finger on the pulse of the issue. (H/T: Glenn Reynolds.) Police … Continue reading
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Monday SNB
(That’s Snark News Briefs to you, buster.) Weapons cache? What weapons cache? Lebanon is doubling down on the next war with Israel by (of course) siding with Hezbullah and insisting that the arms cache that exploded was arms “left behind … Continue reading
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Can I call myself a Southerner yet?
Last week marked my seventh anniversary as a resident of central Virginia. Since I’ve moved from New Jersey, I have done a number of things in Virginia that I never did in NJ. They are, in part: Voted for a … Continue reading
A masterful assuaging
Last year those of us Jews who didn’t support President Obama in his bid to be elected president were subjected to ridicule. If we didn’t support him it was because we were prejudiced or misinformed. This mocking didn’t just come … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Iran, Israel, Israeli Double Standard Time, Jews, Politics Tagged President Obama 1 Comment
Cap-and-trade dead in the water, for now
The massive tax that the Obama administration was pretending is a jobs program is dead in the water. And that’s a good thing, because it actually was going to regulate—that’s right, put into law—the kind of bulbs you could put … Continue reading
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Happy Fourth of July
Have a Glorious Fourth! This year, more than others, we should remember this: The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America, When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political … Continue reading
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