Today is the day we honor all of our Presidents and their families — in some cases this includes some fine Presidential kitties. Here’s a list of the most well-known:
President Abraham Lincoln — Tabby and Dixie
President Rutherford B. Hayes — Siam
President Theodore Roosevelt — Slippers, a six-toed pootie
Tom Quartz, named for a pootie in Mark Twain’s Roughing It
President Calvin Coolidge — Tiger, Blackie, Bounder, Timmie, a bobcat named Smoky
President Gerald Ford — Shan Shein
President Jimmy Carter — Misty Malarky Ying Yang
President Bill Clinton — Socks
President George W. Bush — India “Willie” Bush
President Joe Biden — Willow
Some of these Presidents played with their kitties for stress relief from the stresses of the office. Well it is true that there is nothing like the antics of a silly kitty to take your mind off of weighty international problems. Isn’t that right, Buzzy? (Buzzy says yes).
This historical info is all courtesy of the 9 Lives website. Morris was very informative (you recall Morris had Presidential ambitions himself, running for President in 1988. I’m so old I remember those commercials.)
A word about the high school reunion I didn’t go to this weekend:
The videos and pics posted on FB were quite an eye opener. The class of 1970 was a bunch of fast-car party-hearty types who went off to the school parking lot at lunch every day to smoke pot. Nerd me was intimidated by them. Now they look like a collection of geriatric Young Republicans.
They have also completely re-segregated themselves. That was a class of 500 students, half of whom were POC. Not a one of them was present, either at the reunion or in any of the numerous yearbook pictures posted. How they managed to scrounge that many yearbook pictures without even one black or brown face, I don’t know. (A question was asked during the planning stage of reunion along those lines, regarding who was invited. The answer we got was “Meh. The Blacks don’t want to come to our reunion. They have their own.” LOL. Well yeah I just bet they didn’t. Want to come, that is. Sigh. )
I'm probably not being quite fair here. Not all of those folks are racists. Or Trumpists. Some of them are even Progressive. Not an easy thing to be, where they live. Oh well. The pictures were fun and I’m glad they had a good time.
Happy President’s Day all. Cuddle your Presidential Pooties and enjoy the day. Stay warm and safe.
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