Colin Powell Meets Feline Doppelganger (Friday the 13 Black Cat Alert)

Burks County Courier Times (AP) ^ | 8/13/04 | Barry Schweid

[mingusthecat]

Colin Powell Meets Feline Doppelganger

By: BARRY SCHWEID (Fri, Aug/13/2004)

WASHINGTON - Colin Powell, the cat, met Friday with Colin Powell, the secretary of state, who heaped praise on the uneasy black feline as "the best cat in the country."

"Hey, Colin, how are you," Powell, the secretary of state, said when they were introduced in the treaty room on the seventh floor of the State Department before cameras and cat fanciers. "It's nice to have you here."

The prize-winning cat, a copper-eyed Bombay born in the Brookfield, Conn., home of Sharyn and Sig Hauck, on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, responded with a hesitant purr, and had nothing further to offer reporters, on the record or otherwise.

Colin Powell, the secretary of state, said he had been given the chance to name the recently born offspring of Colin, the cat, and had chosen Ralph Bunche, in honor of the late diplomat.

Hauck, explaining later how Colin the cat got his name, said, "We name all of our black cats after prominent African-Americans."

The cat's parents were named after musician Isaac Hayes and author Jamaica Kincaid, his grandmother after Rosa Parks, the integrationist.

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[mingusthecat]

So, this was an affirmative action moniker? Mingus demands an equal opportunity, but she's every color in the book, so what to do?

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[mingusthecat]

Meow ping

[martin_fierro]

The Viking Kitty abides.

[atomicpossum]

So, no Tupac?

[Slings and Arrows]

So, this was an affirmative action moniker? Mingus demands an equal opportunity, but she's every color in the book, so what to do?

Wash the kitty litter off thy paws, for thou standeth on holy ground.

Thou hast been a good and faithful feline. Henceforth, Mingus the Cat, thou shalt be known as Tiger Woods.

ZOT is ours, sayeth the Viking Kitties!

[Slings and Arrows]

Kitty Ping List alert!

[Freepmail me to get on or off the Kitty Ping List.]

[angcat]

He is stunning!

[Moose4]

Yawn. Livingston the Viking Kitty was named after Dr. Livingston, the famous explorer. Mainly because he'd go to the ends of the earth and brave darkest Africa for pork rinds. Yup. You heard me. The cat is addicted to low-carb snack foods.

Here he is watching TV. His favorite channel: Court TV. He thinks Scott Peterson is guilty as sin.

}:-)4

[Moose4]

Please add me to the Kitty Ping List or my cats will kill me. Thank you.

}:-)4

[Kirkwood]

Beautiful eyes. I hope they are supposed to look that big and Mr. Powell isn't squeezing too hard!

[Slings and Arrows]

Please add me to the Kitty Ping List or my cats will kill me.

Decisions, decisions...

You're on.

[lawgirl]

The prize-winning cat, a copper-eyed Bombay born in the Brookfield, Conn., home of Sharyn and Sig Hauck, on the first anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, responded with a hesitant purr, and had nothing further to offer reporters, on the record or otherwise.

I think that is hilarious!

[lawgirl]

Oh yeah add me too!

[Slings and Arrows]

You too.

[dandelion]

Gosh, what a gorgeous kitty -

Of course, nowhere near as gorgeous as our two!

[Mjaye]

Please, can't miss this ping list! Still don't know how to insert cute cat pix, though, gotta post 'en on a web site first.

[RudeJude]

Great cat!!!

[Not A Snowbird]

Beautiful kitty!

[RudeJude]

Please add me to your ping list too. I never met a cat I didn't love!

[185JHP]

Purredly optimistic, sensing the ability of the people in charge at the gathering...