Reassigning the Cattle Guards in CO

Knightspirit
Knightspirit is looking forward to leaving old paradigms behind...
Joined: Jan.09.2011

Location

United States
User offline. Last seen 4 days 3 hours ago.

 

CATTLE GUARDS, THIS IS ABOUT AS GOOD AS THEM WANTING TO CHANGE THE LAW OF PHYSICS!

You will love this one, I haven't stopped 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 . The 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 President Obama out on the matter, Vice-President Joe Biden, intervened with a request that...before any 'cattle guards' were fired, they be given six months of retraining for Arizona border guards. "Times are hard," said Joe Biden, "It's only fair to the cattle guards and their families!"

And these two guys are running our country, OMG!

Passed on to you without further comment....

 

0
ChrisBowers
ChrisBowers is wishing we had the old website back so that posts were not cycled so quickly by new posts
Joined: Feb.21.2008

Location

Liberty Lake, WA
United States
User offline. Last seen 40 min 52 sec ago.
OMG!!!

Can you say, "chaotic node-itis"?

"I can feel it coming in the air tonight, hold on"

"hold on..."

Noa
Noa likes Carl Jung's quote, "Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside awakens."
Joined: Sep.19.2010

Location

France
User offline. Last seen 16 hours 19 min ago.
Cow Tale

Sorry to burst your paddy.  Snopes says that one's been around since the '60s.  http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp

Knightspirit
Knightspirit is looking forward to leaving old paradigms behind...
Joined: Jan.09.2011

Location

United States
User offline. Last seen 4 days 3 hours ago.
HA!

Funny - thanks Noa - maybe multiple administrations have tried to reassign those guards...!