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: Politics
Undressing the king
Of course, it is not about a member of the Royal family, what, are you totally bonkers? It is about the one and the only Michael Moore, the king of a new cinema genre defined by NYT as “tweaked documentary”. … Continue reading
Posted in Media Bias, Politics 1 Comment
Run, Rudy, Run
Why Rudy Giuliani is the man to watch, and the man who will have my vote next year: “You must govern in America now from a sense of perspective,†Giuliani said. “The president of the United States needs a sense … Continue reading
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Sound the bell again, professor
It is an old story, and I don’t know its source: A professor of anthropology visits a Bedouin camp to investigate this or another habit of the tribe. Feeling thirsty, he looks around for a well and finds it. Near … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Media Bias, Politics 3 Comments
Obama: Go home and grow a little
Barack Obama is showing his inexperience in the first 24 hours after announcing his candidacy for president. Now, I think it’s entirely possible Obama may make a good candidate in another four or five years, but I think he needs … Continue reading
Posted in Politics 13 Comments
Rudy’s in the race.
The only candidate worth voting for, as far as I’m concerned, and here’s the video. Part one: Part two: The money quote: HANNITY: you are then officially running to be the next president of the United States. GIULIANI: Well. We … Continue reading
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Time for the last envelope?
The excuses our current minister of defense is using to hold to the job are nothing short of pathetic: The office of Defense Minister Amir Peretz says that all major complaints should be addressed to Israel’s previous defense ministers, Shaul … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Politics 4 Comments
Hillary sings the national anthem
Someone caught Hillary Clinton singing the Star Spangled Banner on YouTube. Her voice is nothing to write home about, but what struck me as particularly amusing—in a petty sort of way—is that she got the lyrics wrong. Okay, it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in Juvenile Scorn, Politics 3 Comments
Lies the Syrians told us
On the heels of my earlier piece on the lies of the Syrian negotiator, we have this article on negotiating with Syria by one of the Bush Administration Syria advisers: The White House has been critical of renewed engagement with … Continue reading
Stupid Virginia politicians
In the year 2007, a backward-thinking man in a state that likes to think of itself as forward-thinking managed to piss off blacks and Jews during the annual legislative session. And no, he’s not from the sticks. He’s from Glen … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Politics 6 Comments
Should egalitarians support Chávez?
Asks Francisco RodrÃguez – assistant professor of economics and Latin American studies at Wesleyan University, and former chief economist of the Venezuelan National Assembly. This is really a very unusual venue that professor RodrÃguez is using – the infamous CiF. … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous, Politics 1 Comment
This has to be a joke
Senator Barack Obama, who has almost no experience whatsoever, wants to be the next president of the United States. Democratic Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois jumped in the 2008 White House race on Tuesday, promising to bring Americans together and … Continue reading
Posted in Politics 11 Comments
Liberal, conservative, or centrist?
Apparently, I’m Colin Powell. I got a 21. I’ve been saying for years I’m a centrist. Ha!
Posted in Politics 12 Comments
When your friends are asking questions
Al Bawaba, a Jordan – based publication with an English language outlet (London) is quite an anti-Israeli outfit. Even this Arabic media source feels a certain unease about the Hamas – Iran alliance. Take its article Hamas-Iran alliance—a blessing for … Continue reading
Posted in Hamas, Politics 6 Comments
Queenan against Cohen – first round
It seems that a new kind of war is looming, totally unexpected by all and sundry military experts: Queenan against Cohen. That is, Joe Queenan an American film critic vs. Sasha Baron Cohen the major piss taker on this side … Continue reading
Posted in Movies, Politics 5 Comments
George W. Bush, Super-Genius
I think we’ve all been dead wrong about the Iraq Study Group. The president is a whole lot smarter than most people give him credit for, and I’m thinking he pulled one over on just about everyone. The Iraq Study … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, World 7 Comments