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
Enemy of my enemy?
Belgian far-rightist calls on Jews to join battle against Muslims This is one of the Haaretz headlines today. Just a reminder: Vlaams Belang is the right-wing Flemish party whose platform calls for getting tough with the Muslim population. It was … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Politics 6 Comments
Hiccups according to Carter
I have barely had time to finish that piece on Ig Nobel prize on a miraculous cure for hiccups, when my roving eye fell on the article by AP, uncritically copied by Haaretz. Very relevant to the hiccups issue, in … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Politics, Satire 7 Comments
Is there a trend or is there a trend in Londonistan?
We have been careful with the use of that …stan label. Taking into account its overuse by certain people and the BNP fascists and their ilk jumping on the bandwagon, terms like this are better left alone. However, the absurdities … Continue reading
No winners in the blame game
The flare-up around the interview Clinton gave to Chris Wallace is called a controversy for some reason. I strongly suspect that it is deliberately being made to look like one – to let the mass media have a field day. … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Terrorism 9 Comments
New era of anger management
The term anger management commonly refers to a system of psychological therapeutic techniques and exercises by which one with excessive or uncontrollable anger can control or reduce the triggers, degrees, and effects of an angered emotional state. This (and more) … Continue reading
And you thought the Cold War is over…
World marches to save Darfur, announces Independent. No, let’s not get excited – the world mentioned in that headline is not marching on the way to Sudan. Not yet, and not in the near future. It makes many people feel … Continue reading
Respect and suspect?
Reading Debkafile is a mixed pleasure. You never know where the reality starts and the pure fantasy begins with these people, and that is on top of the team being clearly partisan and peppering what is supposed to be reporting … Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Politics 5 Comments
Surprise! McKinney supporters blame the Jews
Oh, here’s a surprise. First there was a scuffle between McKinney’s bodyguards and an 11Alive news photographer, then there were remarks made to a cable network news crew, in which members of McKinney’s entourage allegedly made shocking anti-Semitic remarks. The … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Politics 5 Comments
Is it because of the oil?
Following the lead of Putin’s strange behavior and Mahmoud A.’s uninterrupted stand-up appearances all over the world, Hugo Chavez enters the scene as a competitor. “Israel has gone mad,” Chavez said. “They are massacring children, and no one knows how … Continue reading
The French connection
France wants a return to the status quo in Lebanon Continue reading
Posted in Israel, Lebanon, Politics 3 Comments
No apologies here, Pat
Pat Buchanan is, probably, the best known adversary of Israel in the Washington corridors of power. If his bio linked above is to be believed, the man is an odious mixture or saurian conservatism, racism, isolationism and a few other … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-Semitism, Israel, Lebanon, Politics 2 Comments
Hi, Vladimir Vladimirovich
Meryl expressed here her take on the latest curious opinion of president Putin on the war on Hizbullah: President Putin has suggested Israel has ulterior motives in Lebanon rather than simply the return of abducted soldiers. “We condemn any terrorist … Continue reading
It must be the echo…
Barely have I posted a diatribe on the ultimate responsibility of a sovereign, and already some people echo my sentiments. Well, let’s not be too humble – it is no less than the French FM who decided to confirm my … Continue reading
Cut expenses, NJ. Don’t raise taxes.
The NJ state shutdown Continue reading
Posted in Politics 4 Comments
The Internet is “a series of tubes”
The internet is a series of tubes Continue reading
Posted in Computers, Humor, Juvenile Scorn, Politics 47 Comments