This has made the rounds before, I think. If not, here it is again.
:
A cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a remote mountainous
pasture in Alberta when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out
of a cloud of dust.
The driver, a young man in a Brioni suit, Gucci shoes, RayBan sunglasses
and YSL tie, leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If I tell you
exactly how many cows and calves you have in your herd, Will you give me
a calf?"
Bud looks at the man, obviously a yuppie, then looks at his peacefully
grazing herd and calmly answers, "Sure, Why not?"
The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell notebook computer, connects
it to his Cingular RAZR V3 cell phone, and surfs to a NASApage on the
Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite to get an exact fix on his
location which he then feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
The young man then opens the digital photo in Adobe Photoshop and
exports it to an image processing facility in Hamburg , Germany.
Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm Pilot that the image
has been processed and the data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL
database through an ODBC connected Excel spreadsheet with email on his
Blackberry and, after a few minutes, receives a response.
Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page report on his hi-tech,
miniaturized HP LaserJet printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You
have exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.
He watches the young man select one of the animals and looks on with
amusement as the young man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can tell you exactly what
your business is, will you give me back my calf?"
The young man thinks about it for a second and then says, "Okay, why
not?"
"You're a Member of Parliament for the Canadian Government", says Bud.
"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how did you guess that?"
"No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of
equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about
cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
Now give me back my dog.
On Jun 17, 5:04=A0pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 6/17/2010 3:33 PM, Robatoy wrote:
>
> > This has made the rounds before, I think. If not, here it is again.
> > "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
> > though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
> > knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth o=
f
> > equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
> > don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about
> > cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
>
> > Now give me back my dog.
>
> Last I heard, he was a Democrat ...
>
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> KarlC@ (the obvious)
They're all Repubmocrats to me. Or Demolicans? Howzabout gubmint
arseholes?
Now... about that Democrat dog..... *smirk*
Isn't that a racial joke?
Wait...? Is the gubmint a race, or is that just the meetings they brief?
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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They're all Repubmocrats to me. Or Demolicans? Howzabout gubmint
arseholes?
Now... about that Democrat dog..... *smirk*
On Jun 17, 5:04 pm, Swingman <[email protected]> wrote:
> Last I heard, he was a Democrat ...
>
> On 6/17/2010 3:33 PM, Robatoy wrote:
> > This has made the rounds before, I think. If not, here it is again.
> > "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
> > though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
> > knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of
> > equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
> > don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about
> > cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
>
> > Now give me back my dog.
>
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
> Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment
> going after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the government
> for loosing $11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox watching over
> the hen house...
That is comparing apples to oranges. Congress is legislating expenditures
and taxes. No congresscritter wanting to be reelected is going to impose
taxes, at least not yet. "They" will have to do that because expenditures
are too large, and while some can be cut, many cannot for reasons good and
bad.
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
"Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in
news:[email protected]:
>
> "Han" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>> "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment
>>> going after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the
>>> government for loosing $11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox
>>> watching over the hen house...
>>
>> That is comparing apples to oranges.
>
> Well sort'a but not totally.
>
> What I see is government going after a company that probably has more
> expertise in solving the problem than itself. The government seems to
> be wanting to "take down" the company that hopefully will be the one
> to solve the problem, if they can survive the government's actions.
>
> I see the government's actions causing BP to disappear long before BP
> can solve and clean up the problem, and guess who covers the cost
> then.
>
> The government needs to focus more on balancing it's budget than
> putting on a show that will be detrimental to all of us if it's
> actions causes BP to fall.
>
> If the government properly takes care of business many will suffer.
> If the government does not take care of business "EVERY ONE" will
> suffer. There will be suffering because of the government's reckless
> ways, that is a fact.
I see your point, but disagree. This is not a case of the governemnt
taking over the doing of the spill containment, but rather the government
pushing BP to set aside enough money to take care of its (ethical)
obligations. Discussions have been had over whether it would be
"better" for BP to declare bankruptcy and letting the courts and lawyers
take a cut of what's left before there is a payoff of legitimate claims.
I happen to believe that it is right to let BP clean up the mess, no
matter what it costs, including paying for damages caused indirectly by
the oil fouling just about everything. If BP North America and whoever
owns/operates the equipment that blew up do not have enough money, BP
worldwide should pay.
My opinion doesn't count, I know. It also is not helpful in making sure
that everyone, including the governor of Louisiana and President Obama,
do indeed all that should be done.
--
Best regards
Han
email address is invalid
On 6/19/2010 6:39 AM, Han wrote:
> "Leon"<[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment
>> going after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the government
>> for loosing $11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox watching over
>> the hen house...
>
> That is comparing apples to oranges. Congress is legislating expenditures
> and taxes. No congresscritter wanting to be reelected is going to impose
> taxes, at least not yet. "They" will have to do that because expenditures
> are too large, and while some can be cut, many cannot for reasons good and
> bad.
I think the point Leon was making is that reckless behavior, in many
cases unethical and downright criminal, is a common denominator in both
his examples.
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KarlC@ (the obvious)
"Robatoy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
> though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
> knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of
> equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
> don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about
> cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
>
> Now give me back my dog.
Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment going
after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the government for loosing
$11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox watching over the hen house...
Swingman wrote:
> On 6/19/2010 6:39 AM, Han wrote:
>> "Leon"<[email protected]> wrote in
>> news:[email protected]:
>>
>>> Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment
>>> going after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the government
>>> for loosing $11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox watching over
>>> the hen house...
>>
>> That is comparing apples to oranges. Congress is legislating
>> expenditures
>> and taxes. No congresscritter wanting to be reelected is going to impose
>> taxes, at least not yet. "They" will have to do that because
>> expenditures are too large, and while some can be cut, many cannot for
>> reasons good and bad.
>
> I think the point Leon was making is that reckless behavior, in many
> cases unethical and downright criminal, is a common denominator in both
> his examples.
>
The difference is that reckless behavior on the part of the government
results in bigger government and the people who engaged in the reckless
behavior getting even more power (Barney Frank, Chris Dodd for example)
while such behavior in the private sector gets prosecuted and people get
fired or go to jail.
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Rob Leatham
On 6/17/2010 3:33 PM, Robatoy wrote:
> This has made the rounds before, I think. If not, here it is again.
> "No guessing required." answered the cowboy. "You showed up here even
> though nobody called you; you want to get paid for an answer I already
> knew, to a question I never asked. You used millions of dollars worth of
> equipment trying to show me how much smarter than me you are; and you
> don't know a thing about how working people make a living - or about
> cows, for that matter. This is a herd of sheep. ...
>
> Now give me back my dog.
Last I heard, he was a Democrat ...
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KarlC@ (the obvious)
"Han" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> "Leon" <[email protected]> wrote in
> news:[email protected]:
>
>> Oh the irony.... Does any one else see the irony in the govvernment
>> going after BP for spilling oil while no is going after the government
>> for loosing $11,000,000,000,000.00. Talk about the fox watching over
>> the hen house...
>
> That is comparing apples to oranges.
Well sort'a but not totally.
What I see is government going after a company that probably has more
expertise in solving the problem than itself. The government seems to be
wanting to "take down" the company that hopefully will be the one to solve
the problem, if they can survive the government's actions.
I see the government's actions causing BP to disappear long before BP can
solve and clean up the problem, and guess who covers the cost then.
The government needs to focus more on balancing it's budget than putting on
a show that will be detrimental to all of us if it's actions causes BP to
fall.
If the government properly takes care of business many will suffer. If the
government does not take care of business "EVERY ONE" will suffer. There
will be suffering because of the government's reckless ways, that is a fact.