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Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 9:28am.
So I'm just walking down the street minding my own business like a norm. No, not Norm, a norm. And then I start noticing these odd posters on telephone poles, all of them only a few inches from the ground. One such pole had a few cats gathered at the poster, so I shooed them away, bent down, and took a look for myself. And got a jolt. Then I became annoyed. Buster, my cat, is running for President. Call me a censor, but I ran around town quickly removing every Buster poster I could find. Some of them had a straight-on big face shot of him. Others had the "noble statesman" profile pose, making him look like the Lion King. The lettering was very primitive, like that of a first grader, with letters turned in reverse, etc. proclaiming: "Buster 4 President!" Now Buster and his sister adopted this house on Election Day 2000 when they were lost tiny hungry kittens, so politics must be in his blood. But, we can't have him running for President. That is just nuts. For one thing, I'm getting weary of those phone calls from Huckabee and Richardson, continually asking for Buster. It is their Eddie Haskell tone that gets to me. So, this Buster campaign is now over before it really gets started. Now if you'll excuse me I have to change his litter box.
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Campaign news update:
Submitted by stevenl on Sun, 11/18/2007 - 6:51pm.So the person who is my student in puns read this post, and having been aware of Buster's recent foam-at-the-mouth Benadryl episodes had a comment. She said Buster must belong to-- get ready, gird yourself, prepare to roll your eyes and groan-- the Refoam Party.
Expressions of sympathy are welcome.
This interview was overheard
Submitted by stevenl on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 7:18am.This interview was overheard on the radio yesterday:
Reporter: Buster, exactly where do you stand on the issue of our out-of-control national deficit?
Buster: Meow.
Reporter: Do you have a plan for national health care?
Buster: Meow.
Reporter: Even members of the President's own party are distancing themselves from his administration's policy in Iraq. Do you have a solution to what appears to be turning into another Vietnam War-like quagmire?
Buster: Meow. Meow.
Reporter: Any opinion on the current crop of candidates?
Buster: [coughs up a big hairball]
Reporter: How about the current White House crew?
Buster: [licks genitals]
Reporter: What about the Patriot Act?
Buster: Meow.
Reporter: U.S. policy toward China is a touchy issue. Where do you think this problem all started?
Buster: Mao.
Refoam Party
Submitted by Sarah on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 5:03pm.Who will be Buster's vice prez? And when Buster picks his cabinet, will he choose maple or oak, 3 drawers or maybe one with glass doors?
Possible campaign slogan: Buster. He's the cat's meow.
I just got a call from a
Submitted by stevenl on Thu, 03/13/2008 - 6:29pm.Hooray for Buster!
Submitted by Chia on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 9:55am.---------
Nonviolence Includes Animals:
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"PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's address to the International Nonviolence Conference in Bethlehem"
Me too
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 12:45pm.LOL! :)
Submitted by Chia on Fri, 03/14/2008 - 1:36pm.---------
Nonviolence Includes Animals:
audio
"PETA President Ingrid E. Newkirk's address to the International Nonviolence Conference in Bethlehem"
Buster 4 Prez
Submitted by Sarah on Fri, 09/12/2008 - 11:51am.Buster's Speeches
Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 10/04/2008 - 9:56am.Post Election
Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 8:19am.Maybe he'll be appointed to
Submitted by Chia on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 1:26pm.Don't eat meat, ride a bike...that's how you can brake global warming, the head of the United Nation's Nobel Prize-winning scientific panel on climate change said...
Well
Submitted by stevenl on Sat, 11/08/2008 - 4:30pm.Generalizations
Submitted by stevenl on Mon, 12/22/2008 - 8:34pm.It finally sunk in to him that he didn't win.
He's been housebound by these snowy conditions, and I guess it has given him time to reflect.
Buster sat down next to me on the couch and said in perfect American English, "The older I get the more I realize how I am a prisoner of my own prejudices. My ability to dehumanize those I do not like or understand by making sweeping assumptions and generalizations about them is limiting my intellectual growth and trapping my soul in a joyless jail of bitterness. I guess I should call it by its right name. Fear. It is time to stop living in fear. I'll start by saying hello to a dog when the weather gets better."
I stopped eating my Marmite on toast for a second and replied, "Buster, it's OK, to use a tired expression, to 'think outside of the box.' It's not OK, however, to poop outside of the box. Like you did early this morning."
And then he laughed that weird laugh that only cats can laugh. And I suddenly realized I just had a conversation in American English with a cat. A cat I am snowbound with up here in the hills of the Coastal Range.