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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

CRUSTY MINGE posted:

Another Colorado Springs cop was shot last night. Makes like, four this year so far.

This is the town that shut off its street lights to save money, right?

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AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006


Someone needs to forcibly make tenured judges and poor defendants switch places at random. Holy poo poo, that level of entitlement needs to be slapped down some.

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1028099185562857472

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

LingcodKilla posted:

Well the VP can’t be all bad. Just saw him walking his dog and throwing it toys.

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President	Pet(s)
George Washington	
Sweetlips,[8] Scentwell, and Vulcan[9] (among others)[ps 1] – American Foxhounds[nb 1][10][11]
Drunkard,[8] Taster, Tipler, and Tipsy – Black and Tan Coonhounds[12]
Royal Gift – Andalusian donkey,[13] a gift from King Charles III of Spain[14]
Nelson (1763–1790) and Blueskin[15] – Horses[ps 2][16]
Snipe[nb 2] – Parrot[ps 3] – Said to have been owned by First Lady Martha Washington.[18]
Cornwallis,[19] named for General Cornwallis[19] – Greyhound
Samson, Steady, Leonidas, Traveller, Magnolia[20] – Stallions

John Adams	
Juno, Mark, and Satan[8] – Dogs[ps 2][12]
Cleopatra and Caesar[20] – Horse[ps 2]

Thomas Jefferson	
Dick – Mockingbird;[ps 3] Dick was the favorite from among at least four mockingbirds the president had while in office[21]
Bergθre and Grizzle – shepherd dogs from France, possibly Briards[12][22]
Two grizzly bear cubs,[ps 4] male & female pair, gifted from Captain Zebulon Pike[23]
Caractacus – Horse, named after Caratacus, a 1st-century British chieftain; offspring of Jefferson's mare Allycroker and a Godolphin Arabian named Young Fearnought[24]

James Madison	
Polly – Parrot, outlived both James And Dolley Madison[17]

James Monroe	
Spaniel[12][ps 4][ps 2] – Belonged to youngest daughter, Maria Monroe[25]
Sebastian – Siberian Husky

John Quincy Adams	
Silkworms[ps 4][ps 1][26] – First Lady Louisa Adams spun their silk.[27]
An Alligator – gift from the Marquis de Lafayette.[20]

Andrew Jackson	
Polly (or "Poll") – grey parrot, learned to swear (later attended Jackson's funeral but had to be removed due to loud and persistent profanity)[17]
Fighting cocks[ps 4][ps 1]
Bolivia, Emily, Lady Nashville, Sam Patch, and Truxton – Horses[ps 2] Sam Patch was named after the famous daredevil known as "The Yankee Leaper"
Martin Van Buren	
Briefly owned two tiger cubs given to him by the Sultan of Oman before Congress forced him to donate the tigers to the zoo[27][28]
William Henry Harrison	
Sukey – Durham cow[29]
Goat*

John Tyler	
Le Beau – Italian Greyhound[12]
Johnny Ty – Canary
The General – Horse[ps 2]

James K. Polk	
No known pets[28]

Zachary Taylor	
Old Whitey – Horse[ps 2]

Millard Fillmore	
Mason and Dixon – Ponies[ps 2]

Franklin Pierce	
At least two[nb 3] miniature "teacup" Japanese Chin dogs[ps 4], part of a gift exchange with Japan following the Perry Expedition[30]
Two birds from Japan,[ps 4][ps 3] which had just opened its trading posts to the United States.

James Buchanan	
Lara – Newfoundland
Punch – Toy Terrier
Eagle[ps 4][ps 3]

Abraham Lincoln	
Nanny and Nanko – goats[16]
Jack – Turkey, [16] intended as Christmas dinner, but Tad Lincoln intervened[31]
Fido – Dog,[8][12] "assassinated"[32] by a drunk with a knife, a few months after Lincoln's assassination;[33] "Fido" became a generic name for a dog because of Lincoln's famous dog[34][35]
Jip – Dog[12]
Tabby and Dixie – Cats. Lincoln once remarked that Dixie "is smarter than my whole cabinet."[36]
Horse[ps 4][ps 2]
Rabbit[ps 4][ps 2]
Old Bob – Horse

Andrew Johnson	
Fed white mice he found in his bedroom[ps 4][ps 1][28]

Ulysses S. Grant	
Butcher Boy, Cincinnati, Egypt, Jeff Davis (his wartime mount), Jennie, Julia, Mary, and St. Louis – Horses.[ps 2] Cincinnati was a thoroughbred of renowned pedigree: son of Lexington, grandson of Boston.[37]
Billy Button and Reb – Ponies[ps 2]
Faithful – Newfoundland[12]
Rosie – Dog[ps 2]

Rutherford B. Hayes	
Dot – Cocker Spaniel[12]
Hector – Newfoundland[12]
Duke – English Mastiff[12]
Grim – Greyhound[8][12]
Otis – Miniature Schnauzer[12]
Juno and Shep – Hunting dogs
Jet – Dog[ps 2]
Piccolomini – Cat[ps 2], (presumably named after the Italian general)
Siam – First Siamese cat in the United States
Miss Pussy – Siamese cat-Siam and Miss Pussy were gifts from the King of Siam.
James A. Garfield	
Kit – Horse[ps 2]
Veto[8] – Dog[ps 2]
Chester A. Arthur	
Rabbit[ps 4][ps 2]
Three horses[ps 4][ps 2]

Grover Cleveland	
Hector – Japanese Poodle[12]
Mockingbirds[ps 4][ps 3][ps 1]
Three[38] Dachshunds[12]

Benjamin Harrison	
Whiskers ("His Whiskers," or "Old Whiskers") – Goat,[16][39] kept at the White House for the president's grandchildren; may have belonged to Russell Harrison[40]
Dash – Collie[12]
Mr. Reciprocity and Mr. Protection – Opossums,[41] named from the 1896 Republican party platform,[42] which includes: "Protection and reciprocity are twin measures of Republican policy and go hand in hand."[43]

William McKinley	
Washington Post – Yellow-headed Mexican parrot; could whistle "Yankee Doodle"[17]
Valeriano Weyler and Enrique DeLome – Angora kittens; named after Spanish general Valeriano Weyler and Spanish ambassador Enrique Dupuy de Lτme
Roosters[ps 4][ps 1]

Theodore Roosevelt	
Admiral Dewey, Bishop Doane, Dr. Johnson, Father O'Grady, Fighting Bob Evans – guinea pigs[ps 2][45]; namesakes: George Dewey, William Croswell Doane, (likely John O'Grady (priest)) and Robley D. Evans
Algonquin – "Calico pony" (Shetland),[45] favored by Roosevelt's son Archie[46]
Baron Spreckle – Hen,[ps 2][45] likely named after sugar baron Claus Spreckels
Bill – lizard[ps 3][45]
Blackjack – Manchester Terrier
Eli Yale – Hyacinth macaw[45] Named after the British merchant (also College namesake)
Emily Spinach – Garter snake,[ps 3][45] so named by Roosevelt's daughter Alice because "it was as green as spinach and as thin as my Aunt Emily"[47]
Fedelity – Pony[ps 2]
Gem and Susan – Dogs[ps 2]
Jack[45] and Peter – Terriers[ps 2][12]
Jonathan Edwards – small black bear from West Virginia[45] named after the religious leader, an ancestor of Mrs. Roosevelt;[48] eventually sent to the Bronx Zoo[49]
Jonathan – Piebald rat[ps 3]
Josiah – Badger[ps 3][45][50]
Manchu – Pekingese[12][45]
Maude – Pig[45]
Peter – Rabbit[ps 3][45]
Pete – Bull Terrier,[12][45][8] exiled to Long Island "after chomping on one too many legs"[51]
Rollo – Saint Bernard
Skip – Mongrel[12][45]
Sailor Boy – Chesapeake Bay Retriever[12][45]
Tom Quartz and Slippers – Cats[ps 2], Tom Quartz was named after a cat in a Mark Twain story.[52]
Bill – Laughing hyena, gift from Emperor Menelik II of Ethiopia[53]
barn owl
One-legged rooster[45]

William Howard Taft	
Caruso – Dog,[ps 2] a gift for Taft's daughter Helen from opera singer Enrico Caruso; after a White House performance, he decided that cows were not appropriate pets for a little girl[54]
Mooly Wooly and Pauline Wayne – Cows[ps 2]
Woodrow Wilson	
Davie – Airedale Terrier[12]
Old Ike – Ram[55]
Puffins – Cat[ps 2][55]
Bruce – Bull Terrier[55]
Songbirds[ps 4][ps 3][ps 1]
Sheep,[ps 4][ps 1] to keep the White House lawn trimmed "in the most economical way"[55]

Warren G. Harding	
Laddie Boy (1920–1929) – Airedale Terrier[8][12]
Old Boy – Bulldog[12]
Petey – canary[56]

Calvin Coolidge	
Rob Roy (1922–1928) and Prudence Prim – White collies[12]
Peter Pan – Wirehair Fox Terrier,[57][12] the Coolidge's first White House dog;
Paul Pry – Airedale Terrier,[12] half-brother of Warren Harding's Laddy Boy[57]
Calamity Jane – Shetland Sheepdog[12]
Tiny Tim and Blackberry – Chow Chows[12]
Ruby Rouch – Collie[12]
Boston Beans – Boston bulldog[12]
King Cole – Belgian Sheepdog (Groenendael)[58]
Palo Alto ("Palo") – A black and white English Setter, a bird dog that Coolidge soon gave to Colonel Starling,[57] chief of the Secret Service detail in the White House[59]
Bessie – Collie
Rebecca – Raccoon,[ps 3][60][58] Rebecca was intended for a Thanksgiving feast; First Lady Grace had a tree-house built for her instead[57]
Ebeneezer – Donkey
Nip and Tuck – Canaries, both olive green in color; the Coolidge's first birds[57]
Peter Piper and Snowflake – Two more canaries; Snowflake was white[57]
Goldy – A "yellow bird"[ps 3][58][57]
Do-Funny – a trained songbird (troupial)[ps 3] from South America;[57] said to be Mrs. Coolidge's favorite bird[58]
Enoch – Goose[ps 3]
Smoky – Bobcat
Blacky, Bounder, Climber (or "Mud"), and Tiger (or "Tige") – Cats,[57][ps 2] Climber was a Maltese Angora cat; Climber and Bounder were cousins from Coolidge's home state of Vermont[58]
Tax Reduction and Budget Bureau – Lion cubs from Johannesburg, South Africa[58]
Billy – Pygmy hippopotamus
A wallaby
A duiker (a very small type of antelope)
Bruno – A black bear from Chihuahua, Mexico; Mrs. Coolidge promptly sent him to a zoo[58]
Pekin Ducks – Thirteen were received as an Easter gift; Mrs. Coolidge attempted to raise them in a White House bathroom, but eventually sent them to a zoo[58]

Herbert Hoover	
King Tut – Belgian Shepherd[61][62]
Pat – German Shepherd[61]
Big Ben and Sonnie – Fox Terriers[12][63]
Glen – Scotch Collie[12]
Yukonan – Eskimo dog[12]
Patrick – Irish Wolfhound[61]
Eaglehurst Gillette – Setter[61]
Weejie – Norwegian Elkhound[61]
Two alligators[64]

Franklin D. Roosevelt	
Fala (1940–1952) – Scottish Terrier[16]
Major – German Shepherd[61]
Meggie – Scottish Terrier[61]
Winks – Llewellyn Setter[61]
Tiny – Old English Sheepdog[61]
President – Great Dane[8][61]
Blaze – Bullmastiff[61]
Harry S. Truman	
Feller – Cocker Spaniel,[61][65] because the Trumans "preferred to be a pet-free family" he was given as a puppy to Truman's personal physician[66]
Mike – Irish Setter[61]
Dwight D. Eisenhower	
Gabby – parakeet[67]
Heidi – weimaraner[68]

John F. Kennedy	
Gaullie – Poodle[69]
Charlie – Welsh Terrier[61]
Tom Kitten – Cat[ps 2][70]
Robin – Canary[70]
Bluebell and Marybelle – Parakeets[70]
Macaroni – Pony[71]
Moe;– Doberman Pinscher[70]
Tex and Leprechaun – Ponies[70]
Billie and Debbie – Hamsters[70]
Pushinka – dog (gift of Soviet Union Premier Nikita Khrushchev, puppy of Soviet space dog Strelka)[8]
Shannon – Irish Cocker Spaniel[61]
Wolf – Dog, mix of Irish Wolfhound and Schnauzer[72]
Clipper – German Shepherd Dog[73]
Butterfly, White Tips, Blackie, and Streaker – (offspring of Pushinka and Charlie)[61]
Zsa Zsa – Rabbit
Sardar – Horse[ps 2][74]

Lyndon B. Johnson	
Him and Her – Beagles[61][75][76]
Edgar – Beagle[8][61][75][76]
Blanco – white Collie[61][75][76]
Freckles – Beagle[61]
Yuki – Mongrel dog[61][75][76]
Hamsters[ps 2]
lovebirds[ps 3][77]

Richard Nixon	
Vicki – Poodle[61][78]
Pasha – Terrier[61][78]
King Timahoe – Irish Setter[61][78][79]
Checkers[8] (1952–1964) – Cocker Spaniel[nb 5]
Gerald Ford	
Susan Ford & Shan the Siamese cat
Susan Ford, daughter of Gerald Ford, and the family's siamese cat, Shan, in 1974
Ford and Liberty in the Oval Office
Ford and Liberty in the Oval Office
Liberty (February 8, 1974–1984) – Golden Retriever[61]
Lucky – Dog*[8]
Misty – (Liberty's puppy born in the White House)
Shan – Siamese cat[80]

Jimmy Carter	
Grits – Border Collie (mix);[61][81] Given to his daughter Amy by her teacher, but quickly returned[82] after snapping at several White House visitors[8]
Lewis Brown – Afghan Hound[83]
Misty Malarky Ying Yang, daughter Amy Carter's pet – Siamese cat[60]

Ronald Reagan	
Lucky – Bouvier des Flandres[84][85][86]
Rex (December 16, 1984–August 31, 1998) – Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.[86][87]
Victory – Golden Retriever[85][86]
Peggy – Irish Setter[85][86] m
Taca – Siberian Husky[85][86]
Fuzzy – Belgian sheepdog[85][86]
Horses (El Alamein, Nancy D, Baby, Little Man, and others) at Rancho del Cielo[88][89]
Cleo and Sara - Tortoiseshell cats at Rancho del Cielo[90]

George H. W. Bush	
Millie (January 12, 1985–May 19, 1997) – Springer Spaniel.[8]
Ranger – one of Millie's puppies[61][91]

Bill Clinton	
Socks (1989–February 20, 2009) – The Clintons' cat.[39]
Buddy (August 7, 1997–January 2, 2002) – Bill's chocolate Labrador retriever[39]

George W. Bush	
Spot "Spotty" Fetcher (March 17, 1989–February 21, 2004) – female English Springer Spaniel named after Scott Fletcher; Puppy of Millie;[8] Euthanized after suffering a series of strokes.
Barney (September 30, 2000–February 1, 2013) – Scottish Terrier.[8][92]
Miss Beazley (October 28, 2004–May 17, 2014) – Scottish Terrier; Nicknamed "Beazley Weazley"; 2005 birthday gift from George to his wife.[8][92]
India "Willie" – cat (July 13, 1990–January 4, 2009)
Ofelia – Longhorn cow (lives at Bush's Prairie Chapel Ranch)

Barack Obama	
Bo[8] (born October 9, 2008) – Portuguese Water Dog.
Sunny[93][94] (born June 11, 2012) – Portuguese Water Dog.

Donald Trump	
No known pets[28]

AreWeDrunkYet
Jul 8, 2006

Nostalgia4Dogges posted:



in case ya weren't sure if this was something you should verify via google

https://twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1035348264344801282

Republicans have been playing this bullshit for decades, and seniors keep voting for them.

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