Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Fire the Cattle Guards

You will love this one, I haven't stop laughing yet.....

For those of you who have never traveled to the west, or southwest, cattle guards are horizontal steel rails placed at fence openings, in dug-out places in the roads adjacent to highways (sometimes across highways), to prevent cattle from crossing over that area. For some reason the cattle will not step on the "guards," probably because they fear getting their feet caught between the rails.

A few months ago, President Obama received
and was reading a report that there were over 100,000 cattle guards in Colorado .  Colorado ranchers had protested his proposed changes in grazing policies, so he ordered the Secretary of the Interior to fire half of the "cattle" guards immediately!!

Before the Secretary
of the Interior could respond and presumably try to straighten him out, Vice-President, Joe Biden, intervened with a request that.. before any "cattle" guards were fired, they be given six months of retraining.
wow.  America...  Fundamentally Transforming right before your eyes!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

You seriously posted this thinking it was true?
http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp
Of course, since this isn't Republican propoganda, I am sure it won't make it onto your website, but at least you'll know how stupid you were.

Brian Hale said...

Somebody actually called me stupid because they thought this was a real story. I knew it wasn't true, but the funniest thing is that with our current administration it is not all that unbelievable that they could come up with this. By the way, WHO made SNOPES GOD? Just because they say it isn't true, how do you really know? Any of us... on any email... HOW DO YOU KNOW ?? Check out www.slate.com lol