Jimmy Carter’s seemingly poor judgment always seemed a little sinister to me. I though his bumbling peanut farmer act was a cover used by a Jew Hating Nazi supporter with dreams of starting some sort of sci-fi inspired global ruling class. This letter from the uncovered by the Emptyage blog seems to suggest otherwise. It’s a note Carter left for his sister-in-law Sybil explain why her cat is missing:
5/13/90
To Sybil,
Lamentably, I killed your cat while trying just to sting it. It was crouched, as usual, under one of our bird feeders & I fired from some distance with bird shot. It may ease your grief somewhat to know that the cat was buried properly with a prayer & that I’ll be glad to get you another of your choice.
I called & came by your house several times. We will be in the Dominican Republic until Thursday. I’ll see you then.
Love, Jimmy
Lamentably, Jimmy Carter seemed to think blasting a cat with shotgun full of bird shot would sting it, not send a couple of ounces of tiny metal lumps screaming into one side of the poor animal and blasting a hole outside the other. That’s pretty much how bird shot works.
Either Carter is senile (and note that this note is dated 1990) or he’s a psychopath who killed his his own families pet because it “lurked” by the bird feeder. Or was baited there by a man who put a bird feeder somewhere where he knew a cat would be!
If Carter was a teenager he’d already be labeled a potential serial killer for doing something so callous and outrageous as shooting-is-sister in law’s cat with a shotgun, burying it and running off on vacation after leaving a note. Given his record I wouldn’t say that was far off the mark, he did go on to install the Iranian regime which murders hundreds of dissidents a year, not to mention Zoroastrians, Christians and oh yeah U.S. troops serving in Iraq.
Unless he was senile then, there’s no way he thought shooting that cat with a shotgun, even if it was a .410, would “sting” it. I have two shotguns, one’s a .410 the other a 20ga, and I load #4 and sometimes #6 (both bird shot) for home defense, because at close ranges it’s still effective but doesn’t endanger the neighbors with over penetration.
But bird shot is designed to kill small animals (birds) by enveloping them in a hypervelocity cloud of lead. A cat is a small animal. So you tell me what this evil S.O.B. was thinking.
As a life long cat lover I can only hope that Bastet punishes Carter with a thousand tiny claws in the afterlife while he’s on his way to Hell. As a Republican, I just hope that this story puts some much needed “nuance” as the left says, on the anti-American, anti-Israeli positions espoused by Carter, and his love for bloodthirsty dictatorships.
h/t Hot Air