Rather than talk about terrorist slugs like John Mica and Tom Coburn, let's turn to the day's found-cat news

Not eaten by coyotes after all: Six-year-old Willow isn't telling how she got from Colorado to NYC, or what she's been doing these last five years. But then, you know how cats are.

by Ken

So I was reading a ThinkProgress War Room report called "Dr. No Jobs":

Last month, it was Rep. John “Job Killer” Mica (R-FL) whose extreme anti-worker agenda shut down the Federal Aviation Administration. After being dogged by accusations of killing jobs thanks to a successful campaign by the Communications Workers of America (the union fighting to organize workers at Delta Airlines), Mica cried uncle and the House of Representatives passed a clean four-month FAA extension to stop the FAA from shutting down again tomorrow when the current short-term extension runs out. The House bill also includes a short-term extension of the surface transportation (“highway”) bill to keep badly-needed construction projects around the country on track.

It looked like smooth sailing for this vital bill until one of the Senate’s masters of gridlock stepped in to block the Senate from acting on the House-passed bill. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) is known as “Dr. No” due to his penchant for blocking even routine bills over various and sundry petty grievances. . . .

Of course the piece goes on to quote that slimy son of a bitch Tom Coburn's usual mental defective's "reasoning," blah-blah-blah. My position is, I don't have to sit in front of my very own computer reading that scumbag mental defective's latest crock of mentally defective scumbaggery. But actually, my attention had already been diverted back in that first paragraph. Return with me:

Mica cried uncle and the House of Representatives passed a clean four-month FAA extension to stop the FAA from shutting down again tomorrow when the current short-term extension runs out. The House bill also includes a short-term extension of the surface transportation (“highway”) bill to keep badly-needed construction projects around the country on track. [Emphasis added.]

Yes indeed, ladies and germs, we have reached the point in our experiment in quasi-democratic government where "a clean four-month extension," passed the day before blackout, is regarded as a triumph of the legislative process. Be sure to tune in four months from now. Meanwhile, we bring you the latest exercise in sociopathic irresponsibility for one of the finalists in the World's Most Worthless and Hateful Life Form competition (and against such formidable competition, just within Your Republican Party Inc.), Dr. Tom "The Butcher" Coburn.

Oh sure, by late afternoon the stench of "The Butcher" was overwhelming a lot of its GOP colleagues and the miserable sack of puke backed down, for the moment. It's only a matter of seconds, though, before the next assault from the band of anarcho-terrorists who have coopted the already-sorry dregs of the Republican Party, providing not just rampaging sociopathology but colorful cover for the completion of the conversion of the U.S. economy by the plutocratic elite to an indentured-servitude model.

Is it any wonder that I'd rather devote this evening's post to the pet-recovery news? Here's the account from local online newspaper DNAinfo:

Missing Cat Turns Up in Manhattan Five Years After Vanishing in Colorado

September 14, 2011 8:34pm | By Ben Fractenberg, DNAinfo Reporter/Producer


GRAMERCY -- Apparently it doesn't take nine lives to get from Colorado to New York City.

A cat that vanished in Colorado five years ago was found safe and sound thousands of miles away on East 20th Street on Sept. 7, thanks in part to a microchip, according to a spokesman for Animal Care & Control.

Willow, now 6-years-old, snuck out of her Boulder, Colo., home while the bathroom was being renovated, her owner, photographer Jamie Squires said Wednesday.

Five years later, she somehow ended up nearly 2,000 miles away unharmed. A passerby found her and turned her in.
"We were really surprised," Squires said. "We didn't tell our kids right away."

Squires had Animal Control send her a picture of the cat, and verify it through a microchip implanted in its skin when she was a kitten.

"It just makes sense," she said. "If I could, I would microchip my children."

Squires added she has no idea how the cat made it to the city, but suspects someone adopted it and drove it to New York at some point.

Willow is in good shape, but suffering from a cold, her owner explained.

The family is still figuring out how it is going to get her home. Squires said she may fly to New York to pick her up, or fly her back to Colorado via an animal transportation service, Pet Airways.

The Squires family was even in New York in the spring and stayed at the Plaza Hotel for a weekend.

"We had no idea at the time our cat was there, too."

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