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
DuckDuckGo
Tired of having Google snag your searches and give them to the government? Well, I’ve just gotten rid of them and added DuckDuckGo’s search engine to my Firefox toolbar. They use https, they don’t save your data, and they don’t … Continue reading
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Yeah, about those scandals
Phony, huh? Sources now tell CNN dozens of people working for the CIA were on the ground that night, and that the agency is going to great lengths to make sure whatever it was doing, remains a secret. CNN has … Continue reading
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Friday briefs
A perfect example of Israel Derangement Syndrome: How much do people hate Israel? So much so that a simple tagged bird was carefully examined to make sure it wasn’t an Israeli spy. Yes, really. Paranoid, much? But it’s just a … Continue reading
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Sunday briefs
CNN discovers racism in the Zimmerman case: Honestly, could they be any more hypocritical? Good for you, Jo: J.K. Rowling wrote a crime novel under a pseudonym–and people loved it. The difference between its reception, and the reception of The … Continue reading
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Zimmerman verdict: Not guilty
The Zimmerman verdict is in, and he’s been found not guilty. (CBS) SANFORD, Fla. – Following nearly three weeks of testimony, a jury of six women in the George Zimmerman trial has found the former neighborhood watch volunteer not guilty … Continue reading
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The NSA national anthem
We need to update the Star-Spangled Banner. So I did. O say can you see all my data today It’s not private anymore and our pols say it’s all good We don’t care about you, says the NSA We only … Continue reading
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Happy Fourth of July
This seems more important than ever, seeing as how the last two administrations don’t believe that our forefathers were right to keep government out of our business. As Benjamin Franklin said: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain … Continue reading
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Your objective media in action
Check out the lead on this article on the Zimmerman trial: (CBS/AP) –A Florida judge has ruled that prosecutors may introduce evidence about suspected murderer George Zimmerman’s coursework in criminal justice that they say gave him knowledge of Florida’s self-defense … Continue reading
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Tuesday briefs
Words fail: Profiles of the 19 elite firefighters who died in the Arizona wildfire yesterday. The EU are the enemy: The Dutch have decided that it’s all Israel’s fault. Of course it is. … the report, entitled “Between Words and … Continue reading
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Heroes
Horrible news out of Arizona. 19 elite firefighters were killed. Nineteen firefighters – all members of an elite response team – were killed Sunday battling a fast-moving wildfire in Arizona, marking the deadliest single incident for firefighters since the Sept. … Continue reading
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Sunday briefs
Well, then you shouldn’t have said yes to the govt. so many times: The judges who allowed the NSA to spy on Americans are upset that people are calling them collaborators. Someone call a WAHmbulance. Isn’t that adorable? Kerry thinks … Continue reading
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The academic double standard
You’ll never see nationwide campus protests over this: Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng claims he is being booted from his apartment and his fellowship at New York University this month because of NYU’s kowtowing to the Chinese government. The school protests … Continue reading
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Wednesday briefs
Who you gonna call? Israel! When the Austrian UN peacekeepers want to leave Syria safely, how do they do it? They cross the border into Israel. Really, why on earth wouldn’t Israel want the UN to administer a multinational Jerusalem, … Continue reading
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My thoughts on the lack of privacy in America
I was unhappy with the lack of privacy in the U.S. BEFORE the NSA scandal broke. Sometimes I just want to go off-grid and live in the woods somewhere. But then I remember how much I hate bugs.
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Barry Rubin on why U.S. spying on U.S. citizens won’t stop terrorism
Barry Rubin tells us why the NSA spying on Americans is an utter waste of time. Read the whole thing, but this is the most salient portion: There is a fallacy behind the current intelligence strategy of the United States, … Continue reading
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