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
The best presidential debate ever
Did you all watch the debate Wednesday night? Are you laughing at the crybabies who can’t understand why Obama did so poorly? Dana Milbank has part of the answer. Yes, Obama hasn’t been questioned harshly in a very long time, … Continue reading
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The 2012 Democratic platform
I don’t know what to think about the platform, because if you’re going to hold Barack Obama responsible for every word of it, then you have to hold Mitt Romney responsible for every word of the Republican platform. And as … Continue reading
Posted in American Scene, Israel, Politics, The One 5 Comments
I told you so: The U.S. is not abandoning Israel
Told you my bullshit detector was pegged on high over yesterday’s report that claimed if Iran didn’t attack U.S. installations, we’d stand by as they retaliated if Israel bombed their nuke sites. Reuters reports today that I was right. “It’s … Continue reading
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Tuesday civility briefs
Say, remember all that talk from the left about civility? Yeah, that’s why the head of California’s Democratic party called Paul Ryan a Nazi. Ryan told “a bold-faced lie and he doesn’t care that it was a lie. That was … Continue reading
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What the world needs now
Hal David, the man who partnered with Burt Bacharach to write so many top 40 hits, has died. This man wrote the songbook of my youth. There is not a song on this list that I cannot sing. At about … Continue reading
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Friday boy am I tired briefs
More rockets in Sderot, more yawns from the world: Rockets hit a home in Sderot today. Thankfully, no one was hurt. The AP barely notices it. But the news article (as well as the AFP) doesn’t note a single, extremely … Continue reading
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Obama is in trouble
I didn’t believe it before. But I’m starting to believe it now. Seventy-plus men walked out of the ground, overalls and hardhats covered in coal dust, and onto the risers of a stage built for a Mitt Romney speech. To … Continue reading
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The subtle media bias of a simple image
Look at this image. Pretty straightforward, right? Wrong. (Full-size image here.) Let’s dissect it, piece by piece. 1. Biden and Obama bookend Romney and Ryan. Newspaper and magazine editors know where your eye goes first. Guess which team is in … Continue reading
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An open letter to the NY Times editors
Dear New York Times editorial staff: You do realize, don’t you, that most of the people who read your paper weren’t going to vote for Romney/Ryan anyway? Seems to me you’re just wasting space going off on Ryan twice in … Continue reading
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Decoding the media line on Paul Ryan
The MSM is hating on the Ryan pick, except for William Saletan, who just hates on Republicans and pretends he might vote for Ryan in four years (shyeah, right). So let me decode what might have been: Scenario 1: Romney’s … Continue reading
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And it’s Romney-Ryan
Mitt Romney went with the more exciting choice, not the dull one, and the Obama administration is going to have to retool its opposition strategy. Paul Ryan is the VP pick. Personally, I love watching Ryan speak. He’s so cuuuuuute. … Continue reading
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This is the most disturbing news you’ll read all month
Over 100 million Americans are receiving some form of welfare from the U.S. government. Food stamps and Medicaid make up a large–and growing–chunk of the more than 100 million recipients. “Among the major means tested welfare programs, since 2000 Medicaid … Continue reading
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Monday, briefly
Awful: Looks like the piece of garbage that shot up a Sikh temple may have been a white supremacist, and thought he was killing Muslims. Because Sikhs wear turbans and many have darker skin. Asshole. Sikhism has nothing to do … Continue reading
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Wednesday I’m now part-time briefs
Yep, it’s my first day as a part-timer at Co. in NorVA, so I have more time to do things like write. And blog. Culture matters: Mitt Romney doubles down on what he said in Israel that so pissed off … Continue reading
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