American Leadership at its Best

TheDoctorDonna

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From: rs11375@aol.com
To: arlevine@earthlink.net
Sent: 12/12/2010 4:17:18 P.M. Eastern Standard Time
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Subject: FW: "Joe Biden asks for 6 months of retraining for Cattle Guards!"







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





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 . 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 !!



Passed on to you without further comment...Now you do the same.

B5C

Might want to remove the emails.

Also this email is a total fabrication.
http://www.snopes.com/politics/humor/cattleguards.asp

Brian

I love Snopes, almost as much as I hate the zero-effort "Read-then-forward-as-truth" email plague

Mountains

But, but.... I read it on the internets. It *must* be true!

You might be able to say a lot of things about Joe Biden, but one thing you can't say is that he's stupid. And that's just stupid.

The funniest part of this is that it originated in 1995, and was aimed at the Clinton administration. So they're not even creative enough to come up with *new* insults to hurl at the Obama administration. Does the phrase "get a life" mean anything to anyone?

B5C

Oh I love Biden. He is like the crazy grandfather that everyone wants.

Dakini

Hasn't "American Leadership" become an oxymoron?

Mountains

No more so than it has ever been... It's always been a myth. We just had better weapons than anybody else is all it was.

Linc

I'm going to write a plugin that auto-sinks any discussion where '@aol.com' appears in the first few lines.

Chrysalid

Awww, poor cattle guards

Always the butt of everyone's jokes, them and the sneeze guards.

Fun fact - here in the UK we call them cattle grids, to avoid these unfortunate confusions. We don't have sneeze guards either as we like our salads dressed with bogies.

Mountains

Fortunately, the rest of the world hasn't warmed to the idea of the salad bar. Heaven help us if they do. In America it's a sign of a real classy restaurant. That and anything with a majority ingredient of cheese and/or ranch dressing.