Two Examples of Why I Love CBS Sunday Morning

The history of why we look at the first 100 days of a presidency, and why that might not be a good thing to judge them by. (Side Note: I guess it’s almost similar to grading an NFL team the day after a draft. You just don’t now how well the draft really is until years later after the player drafted actually played.)

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This heart warming story is about the world’s oldest man in America, who actually remembered where he was when he heard that President McKinley was shot – he was getting his first haircut. And I was quite impressed that at age 112, he doesn’t take any medication.

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Also, Steve Hartman’s stories are chicken soup for the soul.

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A 400-year-old mummified cat has been found in the walls of a house that was being renovated

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The cat, which is in recognisable shape and still has its claws and teeth, may have been placed in the walls of the house in Devon, to ward off evil spirits.

Richard Parson, a funeral director, who owns the house in Ugborough, near Plymouth, said: “The builders were stripping one of the bathrooms upstairs and this little fellow came to light.

He added: “Apparently 400 years ago people put cats behind walls to ward off witches. It clearly works as, since we have lived in the village, we have not seen sight or sound of any witches.”

Mr Parson said neighbours have told him the cat was previously found behind the wall 20 years ago, but was put back by another resident.

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