Welcome to Texas. Slow Down at Your Own Risk.
My friend Joy went up to Hempstead, Texas, this weekend. That’s a city dangerously close to Houston and to me. She was headed to a famous place called, seriously, Peckerwood Garden. Before you make a comment about that, remember that Momma is watching.
On the way there, she passed the Pattison Area Volunteer Fire Department and out front was this sign.
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The flag on top is The Gadsden flag. It wouldn’t stay still long enough for her to get a proper picture.
Joy figured that the sheep and goat thing at the bottom is probably correct. Sheep follow along behind anybody without question. Goats are mean things and have been known to traumatize people. (And if you don’t click that last link, you’re missing something very cool.)
Yes, yes, I know the sheep and goat thing comes from Matthew 25 and is meant as a stab at people who aren’t Super DeLux Brand Christians. But, if that’s what they mean, they are so screwed up because the Good Book says that those on the right will be told —
And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.
Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:
Naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.
Now when the hell has a Republican ever done that? No, seriously, tell me when.
And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.
Now you wanna tell me where it says to cut health care, arm everybody with assault weapons, hate gay people, deny public education, or cut veteran’s benefits or Medicare?
Show me that part, you asinine sheep.
Thanks to Joy for the picture and the heads up.
Actually, the hope and change thing are working out decently, in spite of the GOP: the job numbers are coming up, the economic indicators are coming up, the deficit is coming down, and my son is going to have health insurance.
I think those “sheep” are mostly just wolves in sheep’s clothing…
1I don’t think the link in this sentence is working; I am getting 404.
Goats are mean things and have been known to traumatize people.
2The Dow Jones Average has more than doubled, from 6,500 after the smoke from the Bush cratering cleared to over 15,000 now after a little more than 4 years of Obama. That kinda disproves the “Republicans are for Business” claim, doesn’t it.
3Brian, I don’t know why her embed didn’t work, but she was trying to send you to http://www.goat-trauma.org/.
4I raised goats for many years. They are not so much mean, as they have their own ideas. They are intelligent. If they approach that sign in Hempstead, they will automatically walk to the left, because they do not want to get attacked and devoured by the giant eagle perched up there. Sheep, not so much. They’ll walk right up to a bird of prey, and “for the eagle was an hungred, and sheep gave meat.”
5Interesting part of the goat-trauma site are some of their stats Their second statistic says “If a child is traumatized by a goat before age five, he/she is five times more likely to become some form of social deviant.”
6Sheep and goats behave very much alike. The biggest difference I see is that sheep produce scratchy wool and goats make fuzzy mohair. I guess that’s fitting, irritating, scratchy wingnuts or soothing, fuzzy liberals. Who are you gonna curl up with tonight?
7You would think they’d have a clue from last year’s election results that they are “THEY” and not “WE” the people.
If I had the land, I’d put up a sign across from them that said “Hope and change are working out fine for me and would sure go faster if the people over there would quit dragging their heels.”
I also got the 404 error message. But I’ve been around goats before.
8Been a card-carrying Capricorn for almost 50 years; I like Rick’s assessment a lot, but not sure about the intelligence-I can vouch for the ideas!
9Pretty sure my kids have serious issues w goat induced trauma…:D
Well, I had to fiddle with the link, but now I finally got it right. It’s worth a visit!
10Joy: You’ve discovered the root cause of Ted Cruz’ social deviancy,goat trauma!
11“But Lord we reduced your taxes!” “WELL THEN NEVER MIND.” From the abridged Republican Bible
12This surprises me some. I have an idiotic slightly older brother that terms me and people he perceives as thinking approximately like me as “sheeple”. I dont recall him having a similar nickname for his friends, although I do. I’ll forgo it’s use out of respect for all our sainted mothers.
13I will give the Repubs credit on one point: they have taken in a lot of strangers. And they usually succeed in making them stranger yet.
14What you want to bet. This group filed for “tax-exempt” status with the IRS?
Probably has it, too.
15And in the 25th Chapter of Matthew Jesus goes on to say what will happen to those who did not show compassion to those who were hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or ill or in prison, “And they will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous will enter eternal life.” (Revised English Bible)
The folks who erected the sign in Hempstead would likely identify themselves as the righteous. They are the same self-avowed biblical scholars who believe that, “God helps those who help themselves,” is in the Bible.
16Excuse me but what the hell is a sign like this doing in front of the Pattison volunteer fire department? I’m familiar with the Pattison and Brookshire area. If you know the demographics of the area you might say this has something to do with race too.
17Okay, I’m a goat. We used to raise them. I hate to say I know bunches of perfectly kind, generous Republicans who feed the hungry, visit those in prison etc. They just think it is wrong to expect the gummint to pay for it. They also tend to send kids to private schools or home school them because they don’t want their kids to hear about heretical stuff like Earth Day and birth control and all that dangerous stuff. Seriously.
18Marge, a rabid Democrat
I fell out of my chair laughing at this. You nailed it. So good to find this site.
19That IS a strange site…whoa, the crap you find of the net…a saying that hath been said before. That sign reminds me of Lester Maddox’s sign in Georgia when you entered the town of Ludowici…nasty place. The courthouse was full of spitoons and guys in coveralls, who looked straight outa “Deliverance”. We still haven’t lived that movie down! lol
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