Breaking Cat News by Georgia Dunn for February 22, 2025

Possibly the best kitten (smol cats) report ever. For the red, white and mew.

I think I’ve heard that before. But I can’t recall where… anomalous4, can you remember where I’ve heard that quote?

Sadly true, Burt. The strife has been constant, even when it was not obvious. (Not quite to the level of the Civil War (with the possible exception of WWII), but present nonetheless.)

It makes me want to cry.

According to Google AI, this whole arc is true. … OR… Google AI is a fan of BCN…

Wonderful story ark. Thank you for sharing this presentation.

On a side note: today is George Washington’s birthday!

Wonderful tribute to President Lincoln. Thank you Georgia.

Thanks for the history lesson Georgia and kittens. I knew Mr. Lincoln liked cats but I had not heard this tale. Well drawn and written.

Very lucid commentary, Burt!

GD, stick to drawing kitties and stay away from politics.

Those are some well dressed little kittens.

Hanging this one up…

So true Burt. I have a lot of friends that are probably going to lose their jobs because an unelected, unvetted, non-congressionally appointed person is being allowed to run amok with a hatchet to get rid of non-existent fraud and waste in the government.

You said it, Burt.

I love the 3rd panel! Those kittens are so cute!

Meanwhile, Back on the Nile

Puckmosis: So tell us about yourselves, young cats.

First Cat: We were sailing from Away when a freak storm arose. The ship was wrecked and we made it to shore. I don’t know if any others were safe. My name is Huy. These are my sisters, Mery and Sera.

Puck: You are most welcome here. You can stay as long as you like.

Mery: While we are here we would like to help as best we can. I can do drawing and writing.

Elvis-Anum: My scribe apprentices have all been promoted to Master Scribe, so there’s an apprenticeship open.

Mery: Thank you, I appreciate it.

Sera: This is a most delicious meal. I can do a little cooking.

Thomios: There’s always a place for an apprentice in my kitchen.

Iggy: And what about you, Huy? Do you like to make things.

Huy: Yes. On the ship I learned how to do repairs and make things in my spare time.

Iggy: Then you can join Iron Glove, Wally and Me on Burt-Ra’s team.

Huy: Love to.

Oh, “Colonel Porter.” Not Cole Porter.

The Moody Blues: The Story in Your Eyes

I’ve been thinking about our history

And I’ve decided though there’s really such concern

For there is much about our past to teach

We still can learn

…….

There is good and bad in all events

It’s all part of the story for our eyes

There is sorrow and yet there still is hope

I realize

…….

Listen to the past tell its story

Washes our worries away

We’re part of the pain and the glory

And together we can build a new day!

…….

But I’m frightened for our future

But I believe there is no need for despair

What we choose to do, we’ll make it through

If we prepare

…….

The final word is yet to be written

And the curtain still open on the stage

There is much to do, we’ll make it through

This present age!

Minor nit to pick – it was Admiral (not Colonel) David Dixon Porter who wrote about Lincoln’s intraction with the kittens. (I know – history buffs are tiresome. Sorry.)

A lovely ending to a beautiful story arc, Georgia!

Very applicable. Thank goodness these are cats and that their world for the most part stays happy and safe whatever else is going on. I am sad Lincoln week is at an end!

Tiny kitten 1860s style clothes! Squeeee!

I’ve been saying the same thing ti my two cats. I wish I were a cat more than ever these days

So, comic lovers, wondering if I should change my profile pic. One of Ollie, (nicknamed Potato, he is my namesake) Pepper, or Iggy with a beard. Help me choose!

That puts a shiver down the back!

Oh noes not bringing pawlickticks in here now.

I’ve told that to my kitties every day for the past month. Very timely quote.

That third panel is wonderful in so many ways. It makes me think of that if there are 10-gallon Stetsons for cowboys, then Lincoln had a presidential 3-kitten stovepipe. He could easily hide three of them in there, but only if they were napping …

Adorable little outfits for the kittens too!

Yes, Burt, most unfortunate.

Wait, it was Lincoln who said that?! Coulda sworn it was Garfield…

I’m not sure I agree with the statement. Thomas Jefferson made a very valid point when he observed;

“The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.”

I love this arc, but, for me, it’s also heartbreaking.

OT: repost from last night

Many thanks Georgia, maybe some teachers can learn lessons from you ‘how to!!!’

Not to take anything away from Lincoln, but today is George Washington’s birthday. Washington did more to save this country than any other person until Lincoln. We should all hold every elected official to their high standard.

Thank Cat they were saved from getting hurt on the battlefield. They’re such little angels!

The third panel made my screen blurry. So many hundreds of thousands of Men (capitalized as the BCN cats do) on both sides who didn’t come back home to the family tabbies.

The incident with the three kittens took place at the siege of Petersburg, VA, where both sides built trenches that were the forerunners of trench warfare in WW I.

Sadly true Burt, sadly true.

OT

Indeed, Thank you.

They were selling Girl Scout Cookies in the entrance to Lowe’s today, so I bought a box of Thin Mints and a package of Caramel Delights. They’ve gone up to $6 per box, so I got a Lincoln and three Washingtons back in change.

The last time I bought Girl Scout Cookies in a store lobby was on Thursday, March 12, 2020 at the end of my regular weekly shopping trip at Kroger’s. I always think of it as the last “normal” thing I did before normal changed. The next day, the state of Ohio shut down!